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Anna is a form of the name "Anne," belonging to Anne Boleyn, one of Henry VIII wives.
-- PssycatDoll  11/4/2005
A famous bearer in the Netherlands is Anna van Lippe-Biesterfeld van Vollenhoven. She's is the daughter of prince Maurits and princess Marilene of Orange-Nassau. Actually her full name is: Anastasia Margriet Josephine. Her parents are still in the line of the Dutch throne.
-- Anonymous User  11/16/2005
Anna Maria Pierangeli (1932-1971) was an Italian actress who adopted Pier Angeli as her stage name.
-- alberto  11/17/2005
Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 – September 26, 1973) was an Italian actress who won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1955 movie "The Rose Tattoo" and was again nominated for her role in the 1957 movie "Wild is the Wind." She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
-- AndrewJKD  12/21/2005
Another famous Anna was Anna Akhmatova, the Russian poet.
-- Anonymous User  12/25/2005
Anna Kornicova is a famous tennis player.
-- Anonymous User  3/7/2006
Eleanor Roosevelt's first name was actually Anna, after her mother. She used her middle name exclusively.
-- elizabeth hamlet  3/26/2006
Actress Anna Popplewell, who played in a number of movies including The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, is a famous bearer of this name. She definitely is graceful and lives up to her name.
-- Wunderkind_Princess  4/8/2006
A sister of Carthaginian queen Dido; Anna Perenna, an Italian goddess.
-- antiquitas  4/18/2006
Anna Nalick is the singer of the great song "2 AM".
-- claraelizabethann  4/19/2006
Anna Mae Bullock, who was born on 26th November 1938, in Nutbush, Tennessee, is the great singer known as Tina Turner.
-- iva_toneva  5/9/2006
The very famous Greek singer Anna Vissi. She's the best singer in the world and she deserved to win the Eurovision song contest in Athens - May 20 2006.
-- Keira_111  5/22/2006
Famous bearers:
Anna Geislerová, Anna Kulovaná - Czech actresses
Anna Kurnikova - Russian tennis player.
-- Maggie_Simpson  7/24/2006
Anna is a character (sort of) in Namco's game "Tales of Symphonia". She's Lloyd Irving's deceased mother.
-- Dark Whysper  11/15/2006
In Finland, Anne Shirley (Anne of the Green Gables) bears the name Anna. Don't ask me why.
-- Yippal  1/7/2007
Famous bearer is Anna Belknap who plays detective Lindsay Monroe on CSI:New York. Great actress.
-- Anonymous User  1/14/2007
Michail Baryshnikov & Lisa Rinehart have a daughter Anna Baryshnikova.
-- Karcoolka  4/23/2007
Although it was not her real name she just went by it, a famous bearer was the late Anna Nicole Smith.
-- Jassie  5/7/2007
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy. Anna is one of the main characters. It's a good book. I read it in high school.
-- Anonymous User  5/10/2007
Anna was Eleanor Roosevelt's first name. It was also her mother's name and her daughter's name.
-- Anonymous User  6/14/2007
Czech actors Jiří Dvořák & Barbora Munzarová have a daughter Anna Dvořáková.
-- Karcoolka  7/9/2007
Also Anne Frank. Her real name was Annalise but in German (she was born at 7:30 in Frankfurt) the pronunciation of Anne is Anna.
-- memory3945  7/23/2007
Famous bearer is Anna Sundstrand (a member of PLAY, a Swedish pop group of four girls).
-- ShizukoChan  7/27/2007
Anna Anderson was the best known of several women who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Tsarina Alexandra of Russia.
-- writers_block2006  9/14/2007
In the movie "Saving Sarah Cain" Sarah's niece is named Anna May.
-- Anonymous User  9/8/2008
The main character of the book my Sister's Keeper goes by Anna, although her real name is Andromeda.
-- Rachelgirl1989  9/14/2008
Actors Igor Chmela and Jana Janěková have a daughter Anna Chmelová.
-- Emilie007  9/15/2008
Anna Mae He (born January 28, 1999 in the United States), was the subject of a custody battle between her Chinese biological parents, Shaoqiang (Jack) He and Qin Luo "Casey" He, and her foster parents, Jerry and Louise Baker. The case received national media attention for years and revolved around the claim of Jerry and Louise Baker that Jack and Casey He abandoned their rights to the child when they signed a temporary custody order. In the end, she was given back to the Hes who moved back to China with Anna Mae, her younger brother Andy, and younger sister Aveta to avoid being deported.

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Mae_He
-- Anonymous User  1/8/2009
Anna Kyouyama - a main character in the anime "Shaman King".
-- cherry_ai_222  4/2/2009
Anna Wintour is the Editor-In-Chief of Vogue magazine.
-- emily  8/16/2009
Musician Felix Slováček and actress Dagmar Patrasová have a daughter Anna Julie Slováčková.
-- MaggieSimpson  1/24/2010
Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna Romanov (1795-1865), daughter of Emperor Paul I of Russia and later Queen of the Netherlands.
-- CarolinW  3/21/2010

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