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Anne C. Conway

Anne C. Conway is an American jurist, a senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1991.

Anne Case

Anne Case is an American economist and Princeton professor emerita who, with Angus Deaton, documented rising midlife mortality in 2015, work that coined the term "deaths of despair."

Anne Catherine Emmerich

Anne Catherine Emmerich (Anna Katharina Emmerick) was a German Augustinian nun and mystic, beatified in 2004, whose recorded visions inspired the search for Mary's house at Ephesus.

Anne Chew

Anne Chew is a geneticist and biotechnology executive who co-founded Tmunity Therapeutics, a Philadelphia cell-therapy company spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2015.

Anne Chow

Anne Chow is a retired American business executive who served as CEO of AT&T Business from 2019 to 2022, the first woman of color CEO in AT&T's history.

Anne Cox Chambers

Anne Cox Chambers, born Anne Beau Cox, was an American media heiress who owned Cox Enterprises and served as United States ambassador to Belgium from 1977 to 1981.

Anne Curzan

Anne Curzan is an American linguist at the University of Michigan who served as dean of its College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 2019 to 2024.

Anne Diamond

Anne Diamond (Anne Margaret Diamond) is an English broadcaster born 1954, TV-am breakfast TV pioneer with Nick Owen, Back to Sleep cot death campaigner credited with saving about 20,000 lives, OBE 2023, now on GB News.

Anne Dias-Griffin

Anne Dias-Griffin, born Anne Dias in Strasbourg, France, is a French-American hedge fund manager who founded Aragon Global Management in 2001 and runs it as CEO.

Anne Dinning

Anne Dinning is a computer scientist and managing director who chairs the executive committee of the D. E. Shaw group, which she joined in 1990.

Anne Dwane

Anne Dwane is an American venture capitalist, cofounder and partner at the early-stage firm Village Global, known for a network-driven seed investing model and previously CEO of Zinch.

Anne E. Lopez

Anne E. Lopez is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving as Attorney General of Hawaii, previously chief operating officer and general counsel of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation.

Anne E. Thompson

Anne Elise Thompson, born 1934, is an American jurist and senior US district judge for the District of New Jersey, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979.

Anne Fazioli-Khiari

Anne Fazioli-Khiari is a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of G2 Venture Partners, overseeing operations, fundraising, and compliance after a finance career at JPMorgan and BrightSource Energy.

Anne Ferguson (judge)

Anne Ferguson, Australian judge, twelfth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria (2017-2025), first solicitor and second woman in the role; wrote the Pell appeal majority, led pandemic court digitization and the sexual harassment review.

Anne Frank

Anne Frank (Annelies Marie Frank, 1929-1945), German-born Jewish diarist who hid 761 days in Amsterdam's Secret Annex, was arrested 4 August 1944, and died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen; her diary, published 1947 as Het Achterhuis, is authenticated by forensic investigation.

Anne Frank House

The Anne Frank House (Anne Frank Stichting) is an independent Amsterdam non-profit, founded 3 May 1957 with Otto Frank, running the museum at Prinsengracht 263 where Anne Frank hid, opened 1960, with about 1.2 million annual visitors, research, education, and traveling exhibitions.

Anne Gerwig

Anne Gerwig is an American politician and Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 93rd district, who previously served as mayor of Wellington.

Anne Graham Lotz

Anne Graham Lotz, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham, is an American evangelist who founded AnGeL Ministries in Raleigh, North Carolina, and chaired the National Day of Prayer Task Force in 2016.

Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)

Anne Hathaway (c. 1556–1623), also recorded as Agnes, was William Shakespeare's wife, married November 1582 when he was 18 and she 26; mother of Susanna, Judith, and Hamnet, and recipient of the second-best bed bequest.

Anne Hidalgo

Anne Hidalgo, Socialist mayor of Paris 2014–2026 and the city's first female mayor: bike lanes, Seine-bank pedestrianization, social housing, the 2024 Olympics, record debt, and succession by Emmanuel Grégoire.

Anne Holton

Anne Holton (born 1958) is a Virginia lawyer, judge, and education official; daughter of Governor Linwood Holton, wife of Senator Tim Kaine, she served as Virginia Secretary of Education 2014–2016, Board of Education member 2017–2025, and now sits on the Richmond School Board.

Anne Hutchinson

Anne Hutchinson, born Anne Marbury, was a Puritan religious teacher in Boston whose meetings made her the central figure of the Antinomian Controversy, ending in banishment and excommunication.

Anne Hwang

Anne Hwang (born 1975) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Central District of California since 2024, after serving on the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Anne Hyde

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (1637-1671), daughter of Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon; secretly married James, Duke of York, in 1660; mother of queens Mary II and Anne; converted to Catholicism in 1670.

Anne M. Nardacci

Anne Marie Nardacci, born 1977 in Albany, New York, is a US district judge for the Northern District of New York, appointed by President Biden in 2022.

Anne Mactavish

Anne L. Mactavish is a Canadian judge, first Chairperson of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (1998), Federal Court judge (2003), and Federal Court of Appeal judge (2019), known for Afghan detainee and First Nations child welfare rulings.

Anne Marie d'Orléans

Anne Marie d'Orléans (1669-1728), niece of Louis XIV, married Victor Amadeus II of Savoy in 1684, served as regent of Savoy, and was crowned queen of Sicily in 1713 and queen of Sardinia in 1720.

Anne Marie Hochhalter

Anne Marie Hochhalter, Columbine High School shooting survivor paralyzed in the April 20, 1999 attack; forgave Sue Klebold in a 2016 letter; died February 16, 2025 of sepsis, ruled a homicide, raising Columbine's death toll to 14.

Anne Marie Waters

Anne Marie Waters (born 1977), Irish-born British anti-Islam activist; founder and leader of the far-right party For Britain, Sharia Watch UK founder, 2017 UKIP leadership runner-up, rejoined UKIP in 2023.