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Ankokuji Ekei

Ankokuji Ekei (安国寺恵瓊) was a Rinzai Zen priest and Mōri diplomat who served Toyotomi Hideyoshi and was beheaded after the battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

Ankona Capital Partners

Ankona Capital Partners is a Southern California venture capital firm based in Newport Beach, founded in 2019, which invests $5–15 million in early growth-stage B2B software companies.

Ankorstore

Ankorstore is a Paris-based B2B wholesale marketplace connecting independent retailers with brands across Europe, founded in November 2019 by four French e-commerce entrepreneurs and valued at €1.75 billion in 2022.

Anlamani

Anlamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who ruled in the late seventh century BC, succeeding his father Senkamanisken before his brother Aspelta.

Anlo Kingdom

The Anlo Kingdom, also called the Anlo-Ewe state, was a pre-colonial Ewe-speaking polity on the coast of southeastern Ghana, centered on Anloga and Keta and ruled by the Awoamefia.

Ann Atwater

Ann Atwater (1935–2016) was a Durham, North Carolina civil rights and housing activist who co-chaired the 1971 school desegregation charrette with Klansman C.P. Ellis, converting him into a lifelong friend and civil rights ally.

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter (born 1961) is an American conservative columnist, lawyer, and author of thirteen New York Times bestsellers starting with High Crimes and Misdemeanors (1998); distinguished from other pundits by her 1996 MSNBC debut and her influence on Trump's 2016 immigration platform.

Ann Curry

Ann Curry, born in 1956 in Agana, Guam, is an American broadcast journalist who was NBC's Today show news anchor from 1997 and co-anchor until her 2012 departure.

Ann D. Montgomery

Ann D. Montgomery (born 1949) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Minnesota, appointed by President Clinton in 1996.

Ann Dunham

Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995), American economic anthropologist and mother of Barack Obama; PhD from University of Hawaii, 1,043-page dissertation on Javanese blacksmithing, Ford Foundation and Bank Rakyat Indonesia microfinance consultant.

Ann Eliza Young

Ann Eliza Young, born Ann Eliza Webb (1844-1917), was a plural wife of Brigham Young who divorced him, sued for alimony, lectured against polygamy, and wrote Wife No. 19.

Ann Johnson

Ann Johnson is an American Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Houston's 134th district, elected in 2020 and a former human trafficking prosecutor.

Ann Kaplan Mulholland

Ann Kaplan Mulholland is a Canadian entrepreneur and reality-television personality who founded iFinance Canada in 1996, sold it in 2022, and now runs Lympne Castle in Kent.

Ann L. Aiken

Ann L. Aiken, born 1951 in Salem, Oregon, is a United States district judge in Oregon since 1998, chief judge from 2009 to 2016, and in senior status since 2023.

Ann M. Donnelly

Ann Marie Donnelly, born in 1959, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York since 2015.

Ann M. M. Allen

Ann M. M. Allen, full name Ann Marie McIff Allen, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Utah since 2024.

Ann Michael Maye

Ann Michael Maye (née Hudson, born 2003) is an American social media personality, wife of New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye, and creator of the viral Bakemas baking series on TikTok.

Ann Millner

Ann Millner is an American politician and Republican member of the Utah Senate, representing District 18 since 2015 and previously president of Weber State University.

Ann Miura-Ko

Ann Miura-Ko is a venture capitalist and co-founding partner of Floodgate, a seed-stage firm in Menlo Park, California, best known for backing Lyft, Refinery29, and Starkware.

Ann Putnam

Ann Putnam Jr. was a twelve-year-old girl of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a chief accuser in the 1692 Salem witch trials who apologized publicly in 1706.

Ann Rest

Ann Rest is an American Democratic-Farmer-Laborer politician who has represented Minnesota Senate District 43 since 2001 and serves as President pro tempore of the Senate, chairing its Taxes Committee.

Ann Richards

Ann Richards (Dorothy Ann Willis Richards, 1933–2006), Democratic Texas State Treasurer 1983–1991 and governor of Texas 1991–1995, the state's first woman governor since 1924, defeated Clayton Williams in 1990 and lost to George W. Bush in 1994.

Ann Rockefeller Roberts

Ann Rockefeller Roberts (1934–2024), eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, was a Native American rights activist, founder of the Fund of the Four Directions, first funder of Women's World Banking, and author of Mr. Rockefeller's Roads.

Ann Romney

Ann Romney, wife of 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, is an American campaigner diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in 1998 and treated for stage-zero breast cancer in 2008.

Ann Selzer

J. Ann Selzer, Iowa pollster and president of Selzer & Company, ran the Des Moines Register Iowa Poll from 1987 to 2024, famed for accuracy until her final 2024 poll showing Harris +3 missed Trump's 13-point win by 16 points; she then retired from election polling.

Ann Wagner

Ann Wagner is an American Republican politician who has represented Missouri's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House since 2013, after serving as ambassador to Luxembourg.

Ann Widdecombe

Ann Widdecombe (1947–2026), British Conservative MP for Maidstone 1987–2010, junior minister under John Major, later Strictly Come Dancing contestant, Brexit Party MEP for South West England 2019–2020, and Reform UK spokeswoman, killed at Haytor, Devon in July 2026.

Ann Williams (Illinois politician)

Ann M. Williams is an American politician and attorney serving as a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives from Chicago's 11th district, where she is an Assistant Majority Leader.

Ann Woodward

Ann Woodward (Ann Eden Woodward, born Evangeline Crowell) was a New York socialite who fatally shot her husband, William Woodward Jr., in 1955, claiming she mistook him for a burglar.

Anna Abeytia

Anna Abeytia is an American politician and Democratic member of the Arizona House of Representatives from District 24, elected in 2024 after serving as President of the Cartwright School District Governing Board.