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Annie Rauwerda

Annie Rauwerda (born 1999) is an American writer, comedian, and Wikipedia editor from Grand Rapids, Michigan, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, the Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok accounts sharing odd Wikipedia entries; 2022 Wikimedian of the Year in the media category.

Annie Ross

Annie Ross (Annabelle Macauley Allan Short, 1930–2020), British-American jazz singer and actress of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross; vocalese pioneer, 1952 recording "Twisted", NEA Jazz Master 2010.

Annie Shapero

Annie Shapero is an Australian actress known as Alysanne 'Black Aly' Blackwood in House of the Dragon season 3, Anna Moore in The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Jenny in Red Skies; also in Saccharine and Vought Rising.

Annie Speirs

Annie Speirs (Annie Coupe Speirs-Coombe, 1889–1926), Liverpool swimmer; won gold in the women's 4×100 m freestyle relay at Stockholm 1912 in world record time 5:52.8 and was fifth in the 100 m freestyle.

Annie Sprinkle

Annie Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg, 1954) is an American performance artist, sexologist, and former sex worker (1973–1995, 200+ adult films) known for Post Porn Modernist, the Public Cervix Announcement, and founding the Ecosex Movement with Beth Stephens.

Annie Timmermans

Annie Timmermans, also known as Ans Timmermans (Anna Petronella Timmermans-Ineke, 1919-1958), Dutch freestyle swimmer; 1934 world record and European gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, 12th in the 400 m freestyle at the 1936 Berlin Olympics; died in a car accident in Parkdale, Melbourne.

Annie van der Vegt

Annie van der Vegt (Anna Maria van der Vegt) was a Dutch gymnast who won gold in the women's team event at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics.

Annie Wersching

Annie Wersching (Anne Marie Wersching, 1977-2023) was an American actress from St. Louis: Renee Walker on 24, Borg Queen on Star Trek: Picard, and the voice of Tess in The Last of Us; she died of cancer in Los Angeles at 45.

Annie Wilkes

Annie Wilkes, also Anne Marie Wilkes, is the psychotic former nurse and self-described number one fan who imprisons author Paul Sheldon in Stephen King's 1987 novel Misery; Kathy Bates won a Best Actress Oscar playing her in the 1990 film.

Annie-Flore Batchiellilys

Annie-Flore Batchiellilys is a Gabonese singer, composer, and acoustic guitarist born in 1967 in Tchibanga, known for adapting Bapunu traditional music and named a senator of Gabon's Transition in 2023.

Annie's Song

"Annie's Song" is a 1974 John Denver love song for his wife Annie Martell, written in ten minutes on a ski lift for the album Back Home Again; it topped the US Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart.

Annihilation

Annihilation, also called particle-antiparticle annihilation, is the process in which a particle and its antiparticle collide and both are destroyed, their mass converted into photons and pions.

Annihilation (comics)

Annihilation is Marvel Comics' 2006 cosmic crossover written by Keith Giffen, in which Annihilus' Negative Zone Annihilation Wave devastates space, decimates the Nova Corps, and revives Marvel's cosmic line.

Annihilation (film)

Annihilation (2018) is a sci-fi film written and directed by Alex Garland, adapted from Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach novel, starring Natalie Portman as biologist Lena exploring the mutating zone Area X; 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, $11 million opening.

Annihilation (VanderMeer novel)

Annihilation (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer, first volume of the Southern Reach trilogy, follows a twelfth expedition of four women into the mysterious Area X; Nebula Award winner, adapted by Alex Garland in 2018.

Annihilation of Caste

Annihilation of Caste is B. R. Ambedkar's 1936 undelivered presidential address to the Jat-Pat-Todak Mandal of Lahore, self-published after the invitation was revoked, arguing caste can end only by discarding the Shastras' authority.

Annihilation radiation

Annihilation radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when a particle and its antiparticle annihilate, most commonly two 511 keV photons from electron-positron annihilation, the basis of PET imaging.

Annihilationism

Annihilationism is the Christian doctrine that the unsaved are ultimately destroyed rather than tormented forever, tied to conditional immortality and taught formally by Seventh-day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Annihilator (band)

Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band founded in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1984 by Jeff Waters, its sole constant member, best known for Alice in Hell (1989).

Annihilus

Annihilus, the Living Death That Walks, is a Marvel Comics insectoid tyrant of the Negative Zone, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1968) and wielding the life-sustaining Cosmic Control Rod; he led the Annihilation Wave in the 2006 Annihilation event.

Annik Honoré

Annik Honoré, also known as Annik Honore, Belgian journalist and music promoter (1957–2014) who booked Joy Division's first concerts outside the UK at Brussels's Plan K and co-founded Factory Benelux and Les Disques du Crépuscule with Michel Duval.

Annika Dries

Annika Dries, American water polo center (born 1992, La Jolla, California), 2012 Olympic gold medalist with Team USA, three-time Stanford NCAA champion, two-time Cutino Award winner, 2026 USA Water Polo Hall of Fame inductee, now a UCLA Health internal medicine resident.

Annika Lurz

Annika Lurz, née Liebs, German swimmer born 1979 in Karlsruhe; 2006 world-record 4x100m and 4x200m freestyle relays, 2007 world silver 200m freestyle, 2008 Olympian for SV Würzburg 05.

Annika Rosengren

Annika Rosengren is a Swedish cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Gothenburg, known for landmark studies of type 1 diabetes and heart disease.

Annika Sörenstam

Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer born 1970 in Bro, dominated women's golf 1995-2008: 72 LPGA wins, 10 majors, the only LPGA 59 (2001), 2003 Colonial PGA Tour appearance, Hall of Famer.

Annika Wedderkopp

Annika Wedderkopp (stage name Annika), Danish actress and singer born 2004 in Gentofte; child star of The Hunt (2012), TikTok breakthrough, debut album AW topped Danish charts, P3 Prisen winner.

Annike Krahn

Annike Krahn (born 1985, Bochum) is a German former defender, 137-time international, World Cup 2007 and Euro 2009/2013 winner, Olympic gold 2016 and bronze 2008; now VfL Bochum women's football director.

Anning Lin

Anning Lin (林安宁) is a biochemist who studies JNK, NF-κB, and TNFα cell signaling, and has been founding dean of Nanjing University's Institute of Modern Biology since 2020.

Anniston and Tinsley Price

Anniston and Tinsley Price are identical twin American actresses who shared the role of Judith Grimes on The Walking Dead and played Holly Wheeler in Stranger Things.

Anniversaries

Anniversaries, Jahrestage in German, is a four-volume novel by the German writer Uwe Johnson, published 1970 to 1983 and regarded as his principal work. It follows Gesine Cresspahl through one year in New York.