Society and history

Anna Anderson

Anna Anderson, also known as Franziska Schanzkowska, was the most famous woman to claim to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia; a 1994 DNA test proved she was not.

Oct 10, 2026

Anna B. Eckstein (Anna Bernhardine Eckstein, 1868–1947) was a German-born pacifist and Boston educator whose World Petition gathered six million signatures by 1914, earning a 1913 Nobel Peace Prize nomination.

Anna Bansode

Anna Bansode is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party who serves as Deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, elected unanimously in March 2025.

Anna Caballero

Anna M. Caballero is an American Democratic politician in the California State Senate since 2016, previously Mayor of Salinas and a member of the State Assembly.

Anna Cavazzini

Anna Cavazzini is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019 and chairs its internal market committee.

Anna Chapman

Anna Chapman, born Anna Kuschenko, Russian SVR illegal arrested in Manhattan 2010 in Operation Ghost Stories, swapped at Vienna for four prisoners including Skripal, later Russian TV personality.

Anna Creek Station

Anna Creek Station, South Australia's largest cattle station, 15,746 sq km east of Coober Pedy; established 1863, Kidman holdings 1935, Williams Cattle Company since 2016, about 17,000 cattle.

Anna Dalassene

Anna Dalassene (Ἄννα Δαλασσηνή) was a Byzantine aristocrat who governed the empire's civil administration as regent for her son, Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, from 1081 to about 1095.

Anna dePeyster

Anna dePeyster, born Anna Maria Torv and known as Anna Murdoch, was a British and Australian journalist and novelist, Rupert Murdoch's second wife from 1967 to 1999.

Anna Eshoo

Anna Georges Eshoo (born 1942) is a retired American Democratic politician, U.S. Representative for California's 14th, 18th, and 16th districts from 1993 to 2025, former San Mateo County supervisor, Energy and Commerce member, and AI Caucus co-chair.

Anna Eskamani

Anna Eskamani is an American Democratic politician and former member of the Florida House of Representatives, first elected in 2018 to represent the 42nd district.

Sep 19, 2026

Anna Fang

Anna Fang (方爱之) is a Chinese venture capitalist, founding partner and CEO of ZhenFund, the Beijing early-stage fund she co-founded in 2011, who topped Forbes' 2022 Midas Seed List.

Anna Filosofova

Anna Filosofova (Анна Философова), née Dyagileva, 1837 to 1912, was a Russian feminist leader who founded women's charities, the Bestuzhev Courses, and chaired the 1908 Women's Congress.

Anna Freud

Anna Freud (1895–1982), Austrian-born British psychoanalyst, daughter of Sigmund Freud, founder of child psychoanalysis, author of The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and founder of the Hampstead Clinic, now the Anna Freud Centre.

Anna Golladay

Anna Golladay is an American Democratic politician and nominee for the U.S. House in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District in 2026, campaigning on rural health care, campaign finance, and voting rights.

Anna H. Chen, Ph.D

Anna H. Chen is an American life-sciences venture capitalist and Partner at Frazier Life Sciences in Palo Alto, whose biotech investments include Lengo Therapeutics, acquired in 2021, and SanReno Therapeutics.

Anna Harris Stein

Anna Harris Stein, First Lady of North Carolina since January 1, 2025, wife of Governor Josh Stein; UNC-trained attorney and former NC Division of Public Health legal specialist focused on substance policy and prison reentry.

Anna Hazare

Anna Hazare (Kisan Baburao Hazare, born 1940) is an Indian Gandhian social activist from Ralegan Siddhi, Maharashtra, whose 2011 hunger strikes against corruption led to the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013.

Oct 22, 2026

Anna Incident

The Anna Incident (Anna no Hen) was a political purge at the Heian court in 969, in which Minamoto no Takaakira was accused of plotting rebellion and demoted to Kyushu.

Anna J. Brown

Anna J. Brown, born 1952 in Portland, Oregon, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the District of Oregon since 2017.

Anna J. Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964), born enslaved in Raleigh, NC, was an educator, Black feminist author of A Voice from the South (1892), M Street High School principal, and 1925 Sorbonne PhD, fourth African American woman doctorate holder.

Anna Jagiellon

Anna Jagiellon (Anna Jagiellonka, 1523–1596) was a Jagiellonian princess elected Queen/King of Poland in 1575 alongside husband Stephen Báthory, the Commonwealth's first female ruler, later orchestrating Sigismund III Vasa's election.

Anna Kelles

Anna Kelles is an American politician and public health scientist serving in the New York State Assembly since 2021, known for passing New York's cryptocurrency mining moratorium.

Anna Kelly (spokesperson)

Anna Kelly is the White House deputy press secretary under President Donald Trump, appointed January 24, 2025 after serving as National Press Secretary for the Republican National Committee and communications director in Wisconsin Republican politics; a former beauty pageant winner with a master's degree in political management, she has been reported as an early favorite to succeed Katie Zacharia as press secretary.

Anna Khachiyan (Анна Леонидовна Хачиян)

Anna Khachiyan (Анна Леонидовна Хачиян), born 1985 in Moscow, is a New York-based American cultural critic and co-host, with Dasha Nekrasova, of the Red Scare podcast.

Anna Komnene

Anna Komnene (Ἄννα Κομνηνή; 1083 to c. 1153) was a Byzantine princess and historian, eldest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, known for the Alexiad, a history of her father's reign.

Anna Kooiman

Anna Brooks Kooiman (born 1984) is an American news anchor, formerly Fox & Friends Weekend co-host (2011-2016), then Network Ten panelist in Sydney, now NewsNation weekend anchor since 2024.

Anna Leopoldovna

Anna Leopoldovna (Анна Леопольдовна), born 1718, was regent of the Russian Empire for her infant son Ivan VI from 1740 to 1741, overthrown in a coup by Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great.

Anna Lührmann

Anna Lührmann (born 1983) is a German Green politician and political scientist: Bundestag member 2002–2009 and from 2021, Minister of State for European Affairs and Climate 2021–2025, and former V-Dem Institute researcher on autocratization and democracy aid.