Anna

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".

Contents

1 People 2 Variants 2.1 Saint Anna 2.2 Pseudonyms 2.3 Fictional characters 2.4 Groups 3 Things 4 Places

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

• Anita, Spanish hypocoristic
• Anya or Anushka in Russian

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

• Anna or Arabana tribe Australian Aborigines

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

See also: Anna, 1910, 1975, 1987, Alfred Frenzel, Ancient Rome, Animal, Anita, Ann (crater)