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Anna or Anne or Ann is a popular given name. It is derived from the Hebrew name "Hannah" which means grace, charm, mercy. The word is also a feminine form of the Latin word for "year".
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People
There are a number of people whose first name and the most significant name was Anna or Anne:
- Anna was the sister of Dido in Roman mythology and later literature. Ovid identified her with Anna Perenna in one account.
- Anna is an alternate name for Morgause of Arthurian legend
- Anna Perenna, the Roman goddess
- Saint Anne (or Santa Ana), known by tradition as the mother of The Virgin Mary, and grandmother of Jesus
- Anna, from the Gospel of Luke 2:36, a "prophetess", "daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher"
- Anna, a king of East Anglia
- Anna or Anne was the name of numerous queens, including:
- Queen Anne I of the United Kingdom
- Queen Anne of Brittany
- Queen Consort Anna of Austria
- Empress Anna of Russia
- Anna Marek (Anna), a Polish porn star
Variants
Saint Anna
The form "Saint Anna" (Santa Ana in Spanish, sometimes Santana) is also used in names, for example for Antonio López de Santa Anna, a Mexican soldier-statesman.
Pseudonyms
- the codename of Alfred Frenzel, a Czechoslovakian spy
- Annadurai, famous South Indian leader
Fictional characters
- Anna or Ti'ana, a fictional character in the Myst games
- Anna Kyōyama, a fictional character that appeared in Butsu Zone, Itako no Anna, and Shaman King
- Anne Shirley is a fictional character of the works Anne of Green Gables amongst others, and is very popular in Japan.
- Anna is the main character in the book Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn.
- Anna Karenina is the main character in a novel with the same name by Leo Tolstoy.
Groups
Things
- Anna, a 1987 film
- Anna dog, the only animal with a portrait at Johns Hopkins University
- Anna, an Indian coin issued in 1910
- Anna potatoes
- Anna, a song off Bad Company's 1975 album, Straight Shooter
- Anna, a Finnish women's magazine published by Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet
Places
- Ann, a lunar crater
- Anna, Illinois
- Anna, Ohio
- Anna, Texas
- Ann Township, Minnesota