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Anne Marie Staub

Anne Marie Staub (1914–2012) was a French biochemist at the Institut Pasteur who worked on early antihistamines with Daniel Bovet in 1937 and led Salmonella immunochemistry research.

Anne Marie Waters

Anne Marie Waters (born 1977), Irish-born British anti-Islam activist; founder and leader of the far-right party For Britain, Sharia Watch UK founder, 2017 UKIP leadership runner-up, rejoined UKIP in 2023.

Anne McCaffrey

Anne Inez McCaffrey (1926–2011) was an American-born Irish science fiction writer, creator of the Dragonriders of Pern series and the first woman to win both a Hugo and a Nebula Award.

Anne McClain

Anne McClain, also known as Anne Charlotte McClain, is a NASA astronaut and Army colonel who flew to the International Space Station in 2018 and commanded a 2025 mission.

Anne McLaren

Anne McLaren (1927 to 2007) was a British reproductive biologist whose 1958 mouse embryo culture and transfer experiments laid the experimental foundations for human IVF.

Anne Meara

Anne Meara (1929-2015), American actress, comedian, and playwright, half of the comedy duo Stiller and Meara with husband Jerry Stiller; four Emmy nominations, a 1993 Tony nomination for Anna Christie, and a 1984 WGA Award for The Other Woman.

Anne Mills

Anne Mills is a British health economist at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a world authority on financing health systems in low- and middle-income countries.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow, was an American aviator and author, the wife of Charles Lindbergh, and the bestselling author of Gift from the Sea (1955).

Anne Mulcahy

Anne Mulcahy, born in 1952, is an American business executive who was CEO of Xerox from 2001 to 2009, credited with rescuing the company from a liquidity crisis.

Anne Murray

Anne Murray (Morna Anne Murray, born 1945, Springhill, Nova Scotia) is Canada's original country-pop crossover singer; "Snowbird" made her the first Canadian woman with a US gold record, and she won four Grammys and billions of streams.

Anne Neville

Anne Neville (1456–1485), queen consort of England as wife of Richard III, daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker; earlier wife of Edward of Westminster; crowned 6 July 1483; died 16 March 1485.

Anne O'Garra

Anne O'Garra, born 1954 in Gibraltar, is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London known for establishing the immunosuppressive functions of interleukin-10 and tuberculosis research.

Anne of Austria

Anne of Austria (Anne d'Autriche, 1601-1666), Spanish-born queen consort of Louis XIII of France and regent for Louis XIV 1643-1651, governed with Mazarin through the Fronde.

Anne of Avonlea

Anne of Avonlea is L.M. Montgomery's 1909 novel, the first sequel to Anne of Green Gables, following Anne Shirley from 16 to 18 as a teacher, also the title of the 1987 CBC and Disney Channel sequel film based on three Anne novels.

Anne of Brittany

Anne of Brittany (Anne de Bretagne) was Duchess of Brittany and twice queen of France, through marriage to Charles VIII and then Louis XII, until her death in 1514.

Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves (1515–1557), fourth wife of Henry VIII, married him in January 1540; the marriage was annulled that July. She became the "king's sister", outlived the other wives, and is known from Holbein's 1539 Louvre portrait.

Anne of Denmark

Anne (Anna) of Denmark, 1574–1619, queen consort of James VI and I; married 1589, sponsored the Queen's Masques of 1604–1611 and acted as political agent and cultural patron.

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel published by L.C. Page, Boston, about orphan Anne Shirley at the Cuthbert farm on Prince Edward Island; an instant bestseller in about 20 languages, tied to the Cavendish, PEI Green Gables site.

Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)

Anne of Green Gables (1985) is Kevin Sullivan's four-hour Canadian CBC miniseries starring Megan Follows as Anne Shirley, with Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth; highest-rated CBC drama, first Canadian Peabody winner.

Anne of the Island

Anne of the Island (1915) is L.M. Montgomery's third Anne of Green Gables novel, following Anne Shirley through Redmond College in Kingsport, rejected proposals, and her engagement to Gilbert Blythe.

Anne of the Thousand Days

Anne of the Thousand Days is a 1969 Hal B. Wallis historical drama directed by Charles Jarrott, adapted from Maxwell Anderson's 1948 Broadway play, starring Richard Burton as Henry VIII and Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn; it received ten Oscar nominations and won Best Costume Design.

Anne Osborn Krueger

Anne Osborn Krueger is an American economist whose 1974 paper introduced rent-seeking into trade policy; she was the IMF's First Deputy Managing Director from 2001 to 2006.

Anne Osbourn

Anne Osbourn is a plant biologist at the John Innes Centre in Norwich known for discovering that plant natural product genes are clustered in genomes.

Anne Ottenbrite

Anne Ottenbrite-Muylaert (born 1966) is a Canadian swimmer who at Los Angeles 1984 became the first Canadian woman to win Olympic swimming gold, taking 200m breaststroke gold, 100m silver, and relay bronze.

Anne Parillaud

Anne Parillaud (born 1960, Paris) is a French actress best known as the assassin in Luc Besson's Nikita (1990), winning the 1991 César for Best Actress; later films include Innocent Blood and The Man in the Iron Mask, plus the 2021 novel Les Abusés.

Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse

Anne Parsons, Countess of Rosse (née Messel; 1902–1992), London-born social figure, mother of Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, and wife of the 6th Earl of Rosse of Birr Castle.

Anne Perring

Anne Elizabeth Perring is an American atmospheric chemist who measures aerosols like black carbon and wildfire smoke from research aircraft, and received a 2014 PECASE award.

Anne Perry

Anne Perry (Juliet Marion Hulme, 1938-2023) was a British crime novelist of the Victorian Pitt and Monk detective series, convicted of the 1954 Parker-Hulme murder in New Zealand and unmasked in 1994.

Anne Puel

Anne Puel is a French immunologist and Inserm research director at the Imagine Institute in Paris, known for finding genetic causes of severe fungal infections.

Anne R. Somers

Anne R. Somers, also known as Anne Ramsey Somers, was an American health policy analyst and long-term care scholar who helped shape the 1965 Medicare legislation.