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Anne E. Tattersfield

Anne E. Tattersfield, born in 1940, is a British respiratory physician and asthma researcher who was Professor of Respiratory Medicine at Nottingham from 1984 to 2005.

Anne E. Thompson

Anne Elise Thompson, born 1934, is an American jurist and senior US district judge for the District of New Jersey, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Anne Eichmann

Anne Eichmann is a French-American vascular biologist, Ensign Professor at Yale since 2010, known for work on vascular patterning, blood-brain barrier control, and lacteal zippering against obesity.

Anne Enright

Anne Enright is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and essayist who won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering and was the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.

Anne Ephrussi

Anne Ephrussi, born 1955 in Paris, is a French developmental and molecular biologist known for her work on mRNA localization and translational control in Drosophila.

Anne Fazioli-Khiari

Anne Fazioli-Khiari is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of G2 Venture Partners, overseeing operations, fundraising, and compliance after a finance career at JPMorgan and BrightSource Energy.

Anne Ferguson (judge)

Anne Ferguson, Australian judge, twelfth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2017-2025), first solicitor and second woman in the role; wrote the Pell appeal majority, led pandemic court digitization and the sexual harassment review.

Anne Ferguson-Smith

Anne Ferguson-Smith (Anne C. Ferguson-Smith) is a developmental geneticist and epigeneticist, Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at Cambridge and BBSRC Executive Chair from 2024, known for genomic imprinting.

Anne Francis

Anne Francis (1930-2011), American actress, Altaira in Forbidden Planet (1956) and title detective of Honey West (1965-66); Golden Globe winner, Emmy nominee.

Anne Frank

Anne Frank (Annelies Marie Frank, 1929-1945), German-born Jewish diarist who hid 761 days in Amsterdam's Secret Annex, was arrested 4 August 1944, and died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen; her diary, published 1947 as Het Achterhuis, is authenticated by forensic investigation.

Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House (Anne Frank Stichting) is an independent Amsterdam non-profit, founded 3 May 1957 with Otto Frank, running the museum at Prinsengracht 263 where Anne Frank hid, opened 1960, with about 1.2 million annual visitors, research, education, and traveling exhibitions.

Anne Garrett Audain

Anne Garrett Audain (Anne Audain, born 1955, Auckland) is a New Zealand distance runner, three-time Olympian, 1982 Commonwealth 3000m gold medallist, ratified 5000m world record-holder (15:13.22), and pioneer of women's professional running.

Anne Geddes

Anne Geddes (born 1956) is an Australian, New York-based photographer famous for staged baby portraits in flowerpots, cabbages, and flowers. Her 1996 book Down in the Garden became a New York Times bestseller; books sold over 19 million copies; first retrospective held in Tübingen, 2025.

Anne Gerwig

Anne Gerwig is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 93rd district, who previously served as mayor of Wellington.

Anne Graham Lotz

Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham, is an American evangelist who founded AnGeL Ministries in Raleigh, North Carolina, and chaired the National Day of Prayer Task Force in 2016.

Anne Greenough

Anne Greenough is a British neonatologist and clinical respiratory physiologist, Professor of Neonatology at King's College London, best known for the UKOS trial of high-frequency ventilation in preterm infants.

Anne Gwynne

Anne Gwynne (Marguerite Gwynne Trice, 1918-2003), American actress and WWII pin-up, Universal Pictures scream queen of 1940s B horror films including Black Friday, Weird Woman, and House of Frankenstein.

Anne H. Ehrlich

Anne Howland Ehrlich, born 1933, is an American conservation biologist at Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology who coauthored more than a dozen books with her husband Paul R. Ehrlich.

Anne Hammons Aunins

Anne Hammons Aunins is an American chemical engineer and biopharmaceutical manufacturing leader elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026, who led Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine program after a Merck career including Gardasil.

Anne Haney

Anne Haney (Anne Ryan Thomas, 1934-2001), American character actress who began acting in her mid-40s; known as Mrs. Sellner in Mrs. Doubtfire, Greta in Liar Liar, and Judge Travelini on L.A. Law.

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway (Anne Jacqueline Hathaway), American actress born 1982 in Brooklyn, star of The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, and Oscar-winning Fantine in Les Misérables; Emmy winner and UN goodwill ambassador with five films released in 2026.

Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)

Anne Hathaway (c. 1556–1623), also recorded as Agnes, was William Shakespeare's wife, married November 1582 when he was 18 and she 26; mother of Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet, and recipient of the second-best bed bequest.

Anne Heche

Anne Heche (1969–2022), American actress, Daytime Emmy winner for Another World, star of Donnie Brasco, Six Days Seven Nights, and Psycho; Ellen DeGeneres's partner 1997–2000; died after a 2022 Los Angeles car crash.

Anne Hegerty

Anne Hegerty (Anne Solway Hegerty, born 1958), "the Governess", is a British quizzer and TV personality; chaser on ITV's The Chase since 2010, first female chaser in any version, also on Beat the Chasers, The Chase Australia and New Zealand, and an autism advocate.

Anne Heggtveit

Anne Heggtveit (Heggtveit Hamilton), born January 11, 1939, Ottawa, Canadian alpine skier; first Canadian Olympic skiing gold, women's slalom, Squaw Valley 1960, by record 3.3 seconds; FIS slalom and combined world champion; Lou Marsh Trophy 1960.

Anne Helm

Anne Helm (Anne Isabel Helm, born 1938, Toronto) is a Canadian-born actress, Holly Jones in Elvis Presley's Follow That Dream (1962), also The Magic Sword, General Hospital's Mary Briggs, later children's author as Annie Helm; distinct from the German voice actress born 1986.

Anne Henning

Anne Henning (Anne Elizabeth Henning, born 1955) is an American former speed skater, 1972 Olympic 500 m gold and 1,000 m bronze medalist from Northbrook, Illinois, and holder of multiple 500 m and 1,000 m world records before retiring at 16.

Anne Hidalgo

Anne Hidalgo, Socialist mayor of Paris 2014–2026 and the city's first female mayor: bike lanes, Seine-bank pedestrianization, social housing, the 2024 Olympics, record debt, and succession by Emmanuel Grégoire.

Anne Holton

Anne Holton (born 1958) is a Virginia lawyer, judge, and education official; daughter of Governor Linwood Holton, wife of Senator Tim Kaine, she served as Virginia Secretary of Education 2014–2016, Board of Education member 2017–2025, and now sits on the Richmond School Board.

Anne Houdusse

Anne Houdusse (Anne Houdusse-Juillé) is a French structural biologist who heads a CNRS team at Institut Curie in Paris, known for her structural work on myosin VI.