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Anne R. Traum

Anne R. Traum, born 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2022, appointed by President Biden.

Anne Ramsey

Anne Ramsey (born Anne Mobley, 1929-1988), American character actress known as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies and Oscar-nominated Momma in Throw Momma from the Train; distinct from actress Anne Ramsay.

Anne Reid

Anne Reid (born 28 May 1935, Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English actress known for Valerie Barlow in Coronation Street, Jean in Dinnerladies, Celia in Last Tango in Halifax, and her BAFTA-nominated lead in The Mother (2003).

Anne Renée

Anne Renée, stage name of Manon Kirouac (born 1950, Laval, Quebec), Canadian French-pop singer famed in 1970s Quebec for "Un amour d'adolescent"; first wife of impresario René Angélil (married 1973), distinct from singer Anna Renae.

Anne Revere

Anne Revere (1903–1990), American character actress, descendant of Paul Revere; Oscar for National Velvet (1944), three nominations, Tony for Toys in the Attic, blacklisted 1951 after refusing to answer HUAC.

Anne Rice

Anne Rice (1941–2021), born Howard Allen O'Brien, American Gothic novelist, author of Interview with the Vampire (1976) and the 13-book Vampire Chronicles, the Mayfair Witches trilogy, and erotica as Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure.

Anne Ridley

Anne J. Ridley is a British cell biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at the University of Bristol, known for her pioneering work on Rho GTPases in cell migration.

Anne Robinson

Anne Robinson, born Anne Josephine Robinson in 1944, is a British television presenter known for hosting the BBC quiz show The Weakest Link from 2000 to 2012.

Anne S. Robinson

Anne S. Robinson, also known as Anne Skaja Robinson, is an American chemical engineer whose research spans membrane-protein folding and antibody production in mammalian cell cultures.

Anne Salmond

Anne Salmond is a New Zealand anthropologist and historian, Distinguished Professor of Māori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland, who has studied Māori society and early Māori–European contact for over fifty years.

Anne Schedeen

Anne Schedeen (Luanne Ruth Schedeen), American actress (1949–2026), played Kate Tanner, the mother on NBC's ALF (1986–1990, 100+ episodes); earlier Paper Dolls; died June 14, 2026, age 77.

Anne Schuchat

Anne Schuchat is an American internist and epidemiologist whose CDC career spanned 1988 to 2021; her group B strep guidelines are credited with saving 100,000 newborns.

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton (Anne Gray Harvey, 1928–1974), American confessional poet of mental illness and family life; Pulitzer Prize 1967 for Live or Die; studied under Robert Lowell with Sylvia Plath at Boston University.

Anne Shirley

Anne Shirley is the red-haired orphan heroine of L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables (赤毛のアン) and its sequels, mistakenly sent to Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert on Prince Edward Island, later adapted into films, the 1985 miniseries, Anne with an E, and a 2025 anime.

Anne Shirley (actress)

Anne Shirley (actress), born Dawn Evelyeen Paris, also known as Dawn O'Day, American film actress who took her name from Anne of Green Gables (1934), Oscar-nominated for Stella Dallas, retired 1944.

Anne Shirley (アン・シャーリー) (2025 TV series)

Anne Shirley (アン・シャーリー) is a 2025 24-episode anime adaptation of Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series (Muraoka Hanako translation) by The Answer Studio, aired on NHK E-tele from April 5, 2025, adapting three novels with Hiroshi Kawamata directing and Honoka Inoue voicing Anne.

Anne Sinclair

Anne Sinclair, born 1948 in New York, French-American journalist, granddaughter of art dealer Paul Rosenberg, host of TF1's 7 sur 7 (1984-1997), ex-wife of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Huffington Post France editorial director.

Anne Smith

Anne Rosemary Smith (1941-1993), British middle-distance runner, set the first ratified IAAF women's mile world record (4:37.0) and inaugural 1500 m record (4:17.3) in 1967, ran the 800 m at Tokyo 1964, and later represented New Zealand.

Anne Sofie von Otter

Anne Sofie von Otter (born 1955, Stockholm) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano famous for trouser roles like Octavian, over 60 albums with Deutsche Grammophon, and crossover discs with Elvis Costello and ABBA's Benny Andersson; 2015 Grammy for Douce France.

Anne Stallybrass

Anne Stallybrass (Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass, 1938–2021), English actress trained at the Royal Academy of Music; known for Jane Seymour in The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Anne Onedin in The Onedin Line, and Heartbeat's Eileen Reynolds.

Anne Stanley

Anne Stanley is an Australian Labor Party politician, the Federal Member for Werriwa since 2016 and a Government Whip in the House of Representatives who advocates for multicultural media.

Anne Stava

Anne Stava is an American Democratic politician who has represented the 81st district in the Illinois House of Representatives since 2019, after serving on the Naperville Board of Fire and Police.

Anne Stone (anthropological geneticist)

Anne C. Stone is an anthropological geneticist and Regents Professor at Arizona State University, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, known for showing that pre-Columbian tuberculosis in the Americas came from seals.

Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan (1866-1936), also Anne Sullivan Macy, American teacher who taught deafblind Helen Keller to communicate by fingerspelling from March 1887, served nearly 50 years as her companion, interpreter, and editor, and graduated valedictorian from Perkins School for the Blind.

Anne Summers

Anne Summers, born Ann Fairhurst Cooper in 1945, is an Australian feminist author and journalist whose 1975 book Damned Whores and God's Police became a landmark of Australian feminism.

Anne Takesian

Anne E. Takesian is an auditory neuroscientist at Mass Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School who studies how auditory cortex circuits reorganize after hearing loss.

Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner

Anne Tennant, Baroness Glenconner (Lady Anne Coke, born July 1932) is a British aristocrat, maid of honour at Elizabeth II's 1953 coronation, and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret 1971-2002, author of the bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting.

Anne Tønnessen

Anne Tønnessen, Norwegian footballer (born 1974), center-back, 68 caps for Norway 1996-2004. Won Olympic gold at Sydney 2000 despite a concussion; initially denied the medal, awarded it a month later after her mother's letter to the IOC.

Anne Treisman

Anne Treisman (1935–2018) was a British-born cognitive psychologist and Princeton professor who developed feature integration theory and filter attenuation theory, winning the National Medal of Science in 2013.

Anne Tybjærg‐Hansen

Anne Tybjærg-Hansen is a Danish clinical biochemist and cardiovascular geneticist, Chief Physician at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, known for genetic studies of lipoproteins and heart disease, winning the 2018 Anitschkow Prize.