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Anna Maria Bernini

Anna Maria Bernini is an Italian politician of Forza Italia and Minister of University and Research since 2022, a lawyer and law teacher known for the semestre filtro medical school admission reform.

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici

Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (1667–1743), Electress Palatine, last of the grand ducal Medici line; daughter of Cosimo III, widow of Johann Wilhelm of Neuburg, signer of the 1737 Family Pact keeping the Medici art collections in Florence.

Anna Maria Żukowska

Anna Maria Żukowska is a Polish politician of the Nowa Lewica (New Left) party, leader of The Left parliamentary club in the Sejm since December 2023.

Anna Milik Jeter

Anna Milik Jeter is an American diagnostics executive who co-founded AOA Dx in 2020, serving as Chief Regulatory Officer of the Denver-based ovarian cancer blood test company.

Anna Mok

Anna Mok is an American business executive who spent 34 years as a Deloitte partner, its first Chinese-American woman partner, and co-founded and leads Ascend, North America's largest Pan-Asian professional nonprofit.

Anna of Kashin

Anna of Kashin (Анна Кашинская), a Russian princess who married Mikhail of Tver and became a nun, was canonized in 1649, de-canonized in 1677, and restored in 1909.

Anna of Kiev

Anna of Kiev, also called Anna Yaroslavna, was a princess of Kievan Rus' who became queen of France as the wife of King Henry I in 1051.

Anna of Russia (Анна Иоанновна)

Anna of Russia (Анна Иоанновна; Anna Ivanovna, 1693–1740) was empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740, daughter of co-tsar Ivan V and niece of Peter the Great.

Anna Pankratova

Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova (Анна Панкратова; 1897–1957) was a Soviet historian of the working-class movement, born in Odessa, who won the Stalin Prize in 1946 and edited Voprosy istorii from 1953.

Anna Paulina Luna

Anna Paulina Luna, born Anna Paulina Mayerhofer (1989), is a Republican US House member for Florida's 13th District since 2023, an Air Force veteran, former Turning Point USA Hispanic-engagement director, Freedom Caucus member, and chair of the federal-declassification task force.

Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Степановна Политковская)

Anna Politkovskaya (Анна Степановна Политковская, 1958–2006), Russian investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta who reported Chechen war abuses, was murdered in Moscow on 7 October 2006; five men convicted, no mastermind identified.

Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen (born 1953) is an American journalist and novelist, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her New York Times column "Public & Private," later a bestselling author of novels including One True Thing and Black and Blue.

Anna Roosevelt Halsted

Anna Roosevelt Halsted (1906-1975), also Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, was FDR's only daughter, a Seattle Post-Intelligencer editor, White House assistant and hostess, Yalta attendee, and Arizona Times publisher.

Anna Sorokin (Анна Сорокина)

Anna Sorokin (Анна Сорокина), alias Anna Delvey, Russian-born German con artist who posed as a wealthy heiress in New York 2013–2017, defrauding banks and hotels of over $275,000; convicted 2019, sentenced 4–12 years, subject of Netflix's Inventing Anna.

Anna Soubry

Anna Soubry, British barrister and former Conservative MP for Broxtowe (2010-2019), minister at Health, Defence, and Business, who defected to lead Change UK and lost her seat in December 2019.

Anna Sporrer

Anna Sporrer is an Austrian Social Democratic politician and jurist who served as Vice President of the Administrative Court before becoming Federal Minister for Justice in 2025.

Anna St. John

Anna St. John (Anna Elizabeth Wagner St. John, born 1979) is a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2026, confirmed 51-45, formerly president of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, and a 2026 Fifth Circuit nominee.

Anna Strong (spy)

Anna Smith Strong (1740–1812), also called Nancy, Setauket Long Island woman named as a Culper Spy Ring member in the American Revolution, famed for the clothesline signal story and the disputed Agent 355 identification.

Anna Stubblefield

Anna Stubblefield, Rutgers philosophy professor, was convicted in 2015 of sexually assaulting nonspeaking man D.J. after claiming consent via facilitated communication; convictions overturned 2017, later pled to lesser offense.

Anna Tenje

Anna Tenje is a Swedish Moderate Party politician who serves as Minister for Older People and Social Security, presenting elderly care budgets and a national dementia strategy.

Anna Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (born 1952), American anthropologist at UC Santa Cruz, pioneer of multispecies ethnography; author of Friction (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015) on the matsutake mushroom trade; Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus; led AURA and Feral Atlas.

Anna University (அண்ணா பல்கலைக்கழகம்)

Anna University (அண்ணா பல்கலைக்கழகம்) is a state public university in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, established 4 September 1978 and named after C.N. Annadurai. Formed from CEG (1794), ACT, MIT, and SAP, it affiliates ~494 engineering colleges and holds NAAC A++ and NIRF top-tier rankings.

Anna Vasa of Sweden

Anna Vasa of Sweden, known in Polish as Anna Wazówna (1568–1625), was a Swedish princess, scholar, and trusted adviser to her brother, King Sigismund III of Poland.

Anna Walentynowicz

Anna Walentynowicz, born Anna Lubczyk, was a Polish shipyard worker and dissident known as the mother of Solidarity; her 1980 dismissal sparked the Gdańsk strike that founded the trade union.

Anna Wintour

Anna Wintour, Dame Anna Wintour, is a British-born magazine editor who edited American Vogue from 1988 to 2025 and is Condé Nast's chief content officer.

Anna Żabska

Anna Żabska is a Polish lawyer and local-government official appointed Voivode of Lower Silesian Voivodeship in 2024, after leading cultural and tourism institutions in Wałbrzych.

Anna-Kaisa Ikonen

Anna-Kaisa Ikonen, born in 1977 in Tampere, is a Finnish National Coalition Party politician who has served as Minister of Local and Regional Government since 2023 and twice served as Mayor of Tampere.

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka (1923–2014), Polish philosopher and student of Roman Ingarden, founded the phenomenology of life and the human creative condition and led the World Phenomenology Institute and the Analecta Husserliana series.

Anna's Archive

Anna's Archive, launched 2022 by pseudonymous 'Anna', is an open-source shadow-library search engine indexing LibGen, Z-Library, Sci-Hub, Internet Archive and DuXiu records, distributing files via torrents; it faced 2026 US default judgments including $322 million for Spotify scraping.

Annabelle (doll)

Annabelle is a mass-produced Knickerbocker Raggedy Ann doll, not the porcelain film prop, that Ed and Lorraine Warren said was demonically possessed after a 1970 Connecticut nursing-student case. It sat in their Monroe, Connecticut Occult Museum, inspired the Conjuring films, and skeptics found no independent evidence of any haunting.