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There is a BeeGees song titled Fanny (be tender).
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Fanny Kekuʻiapoiwa Kailikulani Leleoili Kulua Kekelaokalani Young Naʻea (1806 – 1880) was a Hawaiian high chiefess and a member of the royal family of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and mother of Queen Emma of Hawaii. She was sometimes referred to as 'Pane', the Hawaiian version of Fanny.
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Fanny Crowne is a character in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World.
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Fanny Margaretta Holcroft (1780–1844) was an English novelist, dramatist, and translator whose work aligned with the progressive tumult of the revolutionary period. She was the daughter of writer Thomas Holcroft.
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Let's not forget about Fanny Brice from Funny Girl!
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Fanny from BFB...
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Fanny is used in the first Italian translation of 'Harry Potter' instead of Fawkes to call the phoenix. It is used in the film series too.
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Fanny De Aguiar is a Swedish singer.
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Fanny Blomé is born 1989 in Norrköping. She is a Swedish model and the former Miss Earth Sweden titleholder. She was succeeding Ivana Gagula in October 2008 and represented Sweden in one of the worlds' three biggest international contests, Miss Earth. The beauty pageant which has focus on environment took place in the Philippines. Fanny was one of two Swedish citizens in the Miss Earth 2008 pageant, alongside Miss Kosovo, Yllka Berisha. Miss Blomé was one of few blondes in the contest.
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This name is beautiful... I don't care what people say about it!
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Fanny Neguesha is a Belgian model and media personality, daughter of Congolese-Rwandan mother and an Italian father. In 2010, Neguesha began her career as a model in France with the agency Lixya.
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Fanny Bright was mentioned in the song "Jingle Bells."
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Fanny is the name of the wicked older sister in most English translations of Charles Perrault's fairy tale Diamonds and Toads. (She is called Fanchon in the original French version.)
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In Henry James's novel The Golden Bowl, there is a character named Fanny Assingham. (No kidding!)
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Famous bearers: Fanny, main female character of Marcel Pagnol's 1932 "Trilogie Marseillaise". And Fanny Ardant, French actress born in 1949.
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Fanny Fulbright (a.k.a Numbuh 86) is a fictional character in Codename: Kids Next Door.
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There is an old Irish air called Fanny Power, named after a woman who's first name was Fanny and surname was Power. At the time the word Fanny wasn't used as it is now, but it is still kind of funny.
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Fanny Ardant is a French actress.
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Francesca Klingenschoen, referred to as 'Aunt Fanny', from the Cat Who series by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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Fanny Burney great English novelist.
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Fanny Mendelsohn the sister of the great German composer Felix Mendelsohn but also a great musician in her own right.
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Fanny Dashwood is the selfish half-sister-in-law of Elinor and Marianne in Jane Austen's -Sense and Sensibility-. Miss Austen also used this name for both the heroine and her mother in -Mansfield Park-. (I believe Jane Austen had a niece with this name.)
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In "Mansfield Park," by Jane Austen, the heroine's name is Fanny Price. Good book, terrible name. Poor girl.
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"Fanny and Alexander" is a famous Ingmar Bergman film, won Oscars.
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Let's not all forget "Sweet Fanny Adams". A young girl who was brutally murdered in 1867. People have used this expression to the present day.
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Fanny J. Crosby was a prolific hymn writer of the 1800's.
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