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Ann Rutledge (Amtrak) The Ann Rutledge is a 567-mile (912 km) passenger train service operated by Amtrak running between Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri. It operates as part of the Illinois Service and Missouri Service train networks.
Ann Savage Ann Savage (born February 19, 1921 in Columbia, South Carolina as Bernice Maxine Lyon) was a motion picture actress for over forty years who is mainly remembered as the cigarette-puffing femme fatale in Detour and other Hollywood B-movies and film noirs of the 1940s. Savage and Detour co-star Tom Neal made 5 movies together.
Ann Schein Carlyss Ann Schein Carlyss was born in 1940 in White Plains, New York to a violinist mother and an attorney father. She is a Master Teacher and Concert Pianist who has performed with many conductors, including George Szell, James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Stanislaw Skrowacewski, and Sir Colin Davis.
Ann Siang Hill Ann Siang Hill (Chinese: 安详山) is a small hill, and the name of a one-way road located in Chinatown within the Outram Planning Area in Singapore. The road links Club Street and Ann Siang Road (安祥路) to South Bridge Road.
Ann Street (Manhattan) Ann Street is a 3-block long street located in the Financial District of the New York City borough of Manhattan just a few blocks from City Hall. Ann Street is famous for obscurity, shortness, rats and narrow width.
Ann Street Barry Ann Street Barry (1734 - November 29, 1801), second wife of Spranger Barry, was born in Bath, England in 1734, the daughter of an apothecary. Early in life she married an actor by the name of Dancer, and it was as Mrs Dancer that she made her first recorded appearance in 1758 as Cordelia to Spranger Barry's Lear at the Crow Street theatre.
Ann Street, Boston Ann Street, also known as the "Black Sea", was an infamous neighborhood in the North End of Boston in the 19th century. The main street and its side alleys formed a red-light district where brothels, inns, "jilt shops", and tavernsBergen 23.
Ann Street, Brisbane Ann Street runs parallel to Adelaide Street and is the northern-most street in the Brisbane CBD in Queensland, Australia. It is a major thoroughfare, running straight through the city and linking the suburb of Fortitude Valley with the Riverside Expressway.
Ann Taylor (NPR newscaster) Ann Taylor is a newscaster for National Public Radio (NPR), contributing to All Things Considered since 1989. She graduated from Chatham Hall and attended Sweet Briar College, before transferring to and graduating from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, PC (born 2 July 1947) is a British politician, and was Labour Member of Parliament for Bolton West between 1974 and 1983, then Dewsbury between 1987 and 2005. She contested Bolton North East in 1983, but lost to the Conservatives.
Ann Trindade Ann Trindade is an Principal Fellow in the History Department at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and is the author of a biography of Berengaria of Navarre.
Ann Turkel Ann Turkel (born July 16, 1946 in New York, USA) is an actress, dancer, singer, writer, producer and model. Turkel had studied at the Musical Theatre Academy with prominent acting coaches by the time she was 16.
Ann Wagner Ann Wagner is the United States Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. She was also Chair of the Missouri Republican Party for six years, from 1999 until 2005, and Co-chair of the Republican National Committee for four years.
Ann Weems Ann Weems is a noted poet and speaker and the author of Family Faith Stories, Kneeling in Bethlehem, Kneeling in Jerusalem, Psalms of Lament, Putting the Amazing Back in Grace, Reaching for Rainbows, and Searching for Shalom, all published by Westminster John Knox Press.
Ann Widdecombe Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born October 4, 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Maidstone and The Weald, a Privy Counsellor, and an outspoken supporter of traditional family values.
Ann Wigmore Ann Wigmore (1909-1993) was a holistic health practitioner, nutritionist, and whole foods advocate. With Viktoras Kulvinskas, she co-founded the Hippocrates Health Institute (rated as one of the top health resort by the International Spa Industry).
Ann Wolfe Ann Wolfe (born January 17, 1971) is a female boxer who holds the distinction of being the only person in all of boxing's history to hold world titles at four different categories simultaneously. Wolfe is also recognised by many within the sport as the hardest puncher in women's boxing.
Ann-Elen Skjelbreid Ann-Elen Skjelbreid (born September 13, 1971) is a former Norwegian biathlete from the Hålandsdal area in the Norwegian municipality of Fusa. She is the sister of Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée and is married with fellow norwegian biathlete Egil Gjelland
Ann-Margaret Carrozza Ann-Margaret Carrozza represents District 26 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of East Flushing, Douglaston, Whitestone, Little Neck and Floral Park, among other neighborhoods located in Northeast Queens.
Ann-Margret Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-born actress and singer who was born Ann-Margret Olsson in Valsjöbyn, Jämtland, Sweden. She moved to the United States when she was young and grew up in Wilmette, Illinois.
Ann-Marie MacDonald Ann-Marie MacDonald (born 1958) is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany.
Anna and the King Anna and the King is a 1999 motion picture loosely based on the story of Anna Leonowens, who was an English schoolteacher in Siam, now Thailand, in the 19th century. The picture is a remake of Anna and the King of Siam, but differs in many respects from that picture and also from the related musical, The King and I.
Anna and the King of Siam Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 book by Margaret Landon, a play and a 1946 movie directed by John Cromwell. Based on the diaries of Anna Leonowens, a British governess in the Royal Court of Siam (now modern Thailand) during the 1860s, the story mainly concerns the culture clash of the Imperialist Victorian values of the British Empire with the autocratic rule of Siam's King Mongkut.
Anna and the Moods Anna and the Moods is a computer animated movie by the Icelandic digital design and animation company CAOZ in Reykjavík. The voice of the main character Anna is performed by singer, songwriter and composer Björk.
Anna Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova (, real name А́нна Андре́евна Горе́нко) ( — March 5, 1966) was the pen name of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, the leader and the heart and soul of the St Petersburg tradition of Russian poetry for half a century.
Anna Anderson Anastasia Manahan, usually known as Anna Anderson (c. 1900—4 February 1984), was the best known of several women who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, the last monarchs of Imperial Russia.
Anna Ayala Anna Ayala (born circa 1965) is an American woman who is notorious for bringing a fraudulent tort lawsuit against a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, California, which inflicted more than US$2.5 million in losses for the corporation, leading to a felony charge of attempted grand larceny against her.
Anna Bartlett Warner Anna Bartlett Warner (August 31, 1827 – January 22, 1915) was an American writer, and author of several hymns and religious songs for children. She was born on Long Island and died in Highland Falls, New York.
Anna Belle Clement O'Brien Anna Belle Clement O'Brien (born May 6, 1923) was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives in the 89th General Assembly, from 1975 to 1977, and a Tennessee State Senator in the 90th to 96th General Assemblies, from 1977 to 1991.
Anna Bergman Anna Bergman is a Swedish actress, born 5 May 1949 in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is the daughter of famed director Ingmar Bergman and Ellen Bergman, sister to Eva, Jan and Mats Bergman and half-sister to Daniel Bergman and Linn Ullmann.
Anna Bessonova Anna Bessonova Ukrainian: Ганна Володїмїріівна Безсонова Ganna Volodymyriivna Bezsonova / Russian: Анна Владимировна Бессонова Anna Vladimirovna Biessonova is an Individual Rhythmic Gymnast born July 29, 1984 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her father is the famous Dynamo Kiev football player Vladimir Bessonov and her mother, Viktoria, was a two time world champion group rhythmic gymnast.
Anna Bligh Anna Maria Bligh (born 14 July 1960) is the Deputy Premier of Queensland, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure. She is also deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland and is generally regarded to be Premier Peter Beattie’s likely successor, which would make her Queensland’s first female Premier.
Anna Blundy Anna Blundy (born 1970 in London), is a British author and journalist, educated at City of London School for Girls and Westminster School. Every Time We Say Goodbye, her memoir of her father, the foreign correspondent David Blundy (March 21, 1945 – November 11, 1989), was published in 1998.
Anna Bolena Anna Bolena is a tragedia lirica, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Ippolito Pindemonte's Enrico VIII ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena, both tellings of the life of Anne Boleyn.
Anna Botsford Comstock Anna Botsford Comstock ( September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930 ), was a US artist, educator, conservationist, and a leader of the nature study movement, born in Otto, New York, to Marvin and Phebe Irish Botsford.
Anna Brigadere Anna Brigadere (October 1 1861– in Tērvete - June 25 1933 in Tērvete) was a writer from Latvia. She wrote comedy and drama, among which The Tale of Sprīdītis, a young boy from a Latvian peasant family and his fantastic adventures in a nearby forest.
Anna C. Verna The Honorable Anna Cibotti Verna is President (2000-present) of the Philadelphia City Council on which she has served since 1975 as the representative of the Second District, which encompasses most of South Philadelphia and as well as most of the western end of Center City. She is a Democrat and generally thought of as progressive.
Anna Colloms Anna Colloms was a teacher at Washington Irving High School in New York City during World War II. Colloms was also a member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and alleged to be a member of its underground secret apparatus, which was functioning at the time as an auxiliary to Soviet intelligence.
Anna Dahlberg Anna Dahlberg (born May 1, 1976) is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 1996. She won a gold medal in the Team Sprint (With Lina Andersson) at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turinand also finished 10th in the Individual Sprint in those same games.
Anna Deavere Smith Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University.
Anna DeForge Anna Louise DeForge (born on April 14, 1976 in Iron Mountain, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player who most recently plays for the Indiana Fever in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is the first player from the University of Nebraska to ever play in the WNBA.
Anna E. Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was the first child of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was named for her mother and grandmother, Anna Roosevelt and was usually called Anna.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (October 28, 1842 – 1932) was an orator and lecturer. An advocate for the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage, as well as a gifted teacher, Dickinson was the first woman to speak before the United States Congress.
Anna Elizabeth Klumpke Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (October 28, 1856 - 1942) was American portrait and genre painter born in San Francisco, California, United States. Her father, John Gerald Klumpke, born in Englandor Germany]was a successful and wealthy realtor in San Francisco.
Anna Eshoo Anna Georges Eshoo (born December 13, 1942) is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 14th District of California, the heart of Silicon Valley (see map).
Anna Espinosa Anna Espinosa is a fictional character from the television series Alias, initially played by Gina Torres (however see below). Born in Cuba, raised in Russia, Anna was a Soviet spy at some point, until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Anna Falchi Anna Falchi (born Anna Kristiina Palomäki on April 22,1972, in Tampere) is a Finnish-born model and film actress. Half Italian on her father's side, she was raised by her mother in Italy, where she remains relatively well-known for her modelling, and rather less so for her acting.
Anna Fotyga Anna Elżbieta Fotyga (born 12 January 1957) is a Polish economist, politician, former Member of the European Parliament and since 9 May 2006 foreign minister of Poland in the succesive cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński.
Anna Fox Anna Fox (born 1961) is British photographer. She studied at Farnham, Surrey, and first came to attention with her 1988 documentary study of London office life on the mid-1980s, Work Stations: Office Life in London, published by the left-wing Camerawork.
Anna Freud Anna Freud (December 3, 1895 - October 9, 1982) was the sixth and last child of Sigmund and Martha Freud. Born in Vienna, she followed the path of her father and contributed to the newly born field of psychoanalysis.
Anna Frithioff Anna Frithioff (born December 4, 1962) was a Swedish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 1999. She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, and had her best individual finish of 9th in the 5 km event at those same championships.
Anna Friz Anna Friz is a sound and radio artist living in Montréal and Toronto. For the past eight years she has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work.
Anna Funder Anna Funder (born 1966) is an Australian writer who grew up in Melbourne. She studied creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney, also later studying at the Free University of Berlin as the recipient of a DAAD Scholarship (German Government Academic Exchange Service Award).
Anna Golubkina Anna Semyonovna Golubkina (; January 16 1864 - September 7 1927) was a Russian impressionist sculptor. As the first Russian sculptor to receive the Paris Salon prize, she is regarded as the first female Russian sculptor of note.
Anna Gomis Anna Gomis (born October 6, 1973 in Tourcoing, France) is a wrestler who competed in the Women's Freestyle 55 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. She was named 1999 Female Wrestler of the Year by the International Wrestling Federation, and is four times world champion.
Anna Guarini Anna Guarini, Contessa Trotti, (1563 – May 3, 1598) was an Italian virtuoso singer of the late Renaissance. She was one of the most renowned singers of the age, and was one of the three concerto di donne at the Ferrara court of the d'Este family, for whom many composers wrote in a progressive style.
Anna Haining Bates Anna Haining Bates, born Anna Haining Swan (August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian from Mill Brook, New Annan, (near present-day Tatamagouche), Colchester County, Nova Scotia famed for her great height, believed to be 7 ft 5 in at the peak of her physical stature. She reportedly weighed 18 pounds (8.
Anna Harrison Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (July 25, 1775 - February 25, 1864), wife of President William Henry Harrison and the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison, was nominally First Lady of the United States during her husband's one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the White House.
Anna Haycraft Anna Haycraft was the real name of the British writer who wrote as Alice Thomas Ellis (September 9 1932 – March 8 2005). She was the author of numerous novels, and also of some non-fiction, including cookery books.
Anna Hazare Anna Hazare (born 15 January 1940 in Bhingar (Ahmednagar), India) is an Indian social activist and a recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award. He helped the poor and delinquent people of Ralegan Siddhi gain economic growth, spiritual fullfillment and education.
Anna Hedh Anna Hedh (born 18 March 1967 in Uppsala) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Anna Heilman Anna Heilman, born Hana Wajcblum (1928-), referred to in other sources as Hanka or Chana Weissman, is one of the surviving Auschwitz ex-prisoners who were in on the plot to blow up the crematoria. She, her sister Estusia, and other women smuggled gunpowder out of the Union munitions factory and passed it from insider to insider until it reached the Sonderkommando.
Anna Hingley Anna Hingley, (b 1982) became the first woman to ride across the Australian Outback on August 5 2006. The 3510 km journey was undertaken to raise Aus$100,000 for Angel Flight, an Australian charity that co-ordinates non emergency flights for financially and medically needy people.
Anna Howard Shaw Anna Howard Shaw, (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leading United States civil rights leader; a physician; and the first female Methodist minister in the United States (1880). She was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, but was brought to the United States as a small child.
Anna Chennault Anna Chennault, (Chinese name Chen Xiangmei (陳香梅), also known as Anna Chan Chennault/Anna Chen Chennault) is the widow of famous World War II aviation hero Claire Lee Chennault. She is "a very busy lady", and has had an illustrious career in her own right.
Anna Chicherova Anna Chicherova (Russian Чичерова Анна Владимировна) (born 22 July 1982) is a Russian High jumper born in Erevan. She is currently in the Russian Army Athletics Club based in Moscow where she is coached by Yevgeni Zagorulko.
Anna Christina Radziwill Anna Christina Radziwill (born Anna Krystyna Radziwiłł on August 18, 1960, in New York City) is the daughter of Lee Radziwill (younger sister to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) and the late Prince Stanislas Radziwill.
Anna Chudoba Anna Chudoba is a Polish born model who was the star of the NBC television show Average Joe: The Joes Strike Back, which aired in the summer of 2005. Anna had to choose from a bunch of "Average Joe's" or handsome suitors—in the end she chose Nathan Griffin, an Average Joe, over model/actor Rocky Fain.
Anna Ibrisagic Anna Ibrisagic (born 23 May 1967 in Sanski Most, Bosnia, Yugoslavia) is a Swedish politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Moderate Party, which is part of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Anna Jacobs Anna Jacobs (née Sherry-Anne Sheridan in 1959) grew up in Lancashire, England before emigrating in 1973 to Australia. Has so far written 16 books under this name - she has also written books, under two different names - Shannah Jay, and Sherry-Anne Jacobs.
Anna Jones Anna anchors Sky News Today, the channel's live news show from 9am - 12 midday alongside co-presenter Chris Roberts. Anna moved to Sky News after 12 years at the BBC, where most recently she anchored BBC News 24's 9-1pm strand.
Anna Karenina Anna Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy first published in periodical installments from 1875 to 1877. The novel first appeared as a serial in the periodical Ruskii Vestnik (Russian: "Русский Вестник", "Russian Messenger") -- but Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that arose in the final installment.
Anna Karenina principle The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel to describe an endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors dooms it to failure. Consequently, a successful endeavor (subject to this principle) is one in which every last one of the possible deficiencies has been avoided.
Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt assisted by her lawyer father).
Anna Kathryn Holbrook Anna Kathryn Holbrook (born April 18, 1956 in Fairbanks, Alaska) is an American soap opera actress, best known for her role as Sharlene Frame Hudson on Another World, a role she played originally from 1988 to 1991. She returned from 1993 to 1997 and again in 1999.
Anna Kingsley Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley (1793 – July 1870) was a Senegalese slave turned slaveholder and plantation owner in early 19th century Florida. She was married to Zephaniah Kingsley, her former master, and owned and managed the Kingsley Plantation in what is now Jacksonville.
Anna Komnene 'Anna Komnene' or Comnena (Greek: Άννα Κομνηνή, Anna Komnēnē; December 1, 1083 – 1153) was a Byzantine princess and scholar, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. She is one of the first known female historians, having written the Alexiad.
Anna Komu Anna Valerian Komu was once a CCM cardholder out of necessity, but has been a CHADEMA member since the introduction of multiparty politics in Tanzania. Komu had to carry a CCM card to be enrolled in a higher learning institution and to be employed later on.
Anna Kondrashova Anna Kondrashova (now Levandi; born June 30, 1965) was an ice figure-skater who represented the Soviet Union at senior international level from 1983-1988. Her career highlights included a silver medal at the 1984 World Championships in Ottawa and four bronze medals at the European Championships (1984, 1986-1988).
Anna Kuliscioff Anna Kuliscioff (or Anna Kulischov, Kulisciov; born Anija Rosenstein; cca. 1857, Moskaya, Crimea—December 27, 1925, Milan) was a Jewish Russian revolutionary, a prominent feminist, an anarchist influenced by Mikhail Bakunin, and a Marxist socialist militant; she was mainly active in Italy.
Anna LaCazio A co-founder of the group Cock Robin in the early '80s, Anna LaCazio remained with them through three albums and toured with, among others, Bryan Adams, the Bangles, and James Taylor. Unfortunately, aside from Europe, Cock Robin never became worldly famous and the group dissolved in 1990.
Anna Larina Anna Larina (January 27, 1914 - February 24, 1996) was the wife of the Bolshevik leader Nikolai Bukharin, and spent many years trying to rehabilitate her husband after he was purged by Joseph Stalin in 1938. She was the author of a memoir entitled This I Cannot Forget.
Anna Lawrence Anna Josephine Lawrence (born March 9, 1972 in Howick, New Zealand) is a former field hockey midfielder from New Zealand, who finished sixth with her national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Lawrence, educated at Diocesan School for Girls in Auckland, moved to Christchurch in 1990.
Anna LĂĽhrmann Anna LĂĽhrmann (born June 14, 1983) became the youngest-ever member of the German Parliament in 2002. She became involved in the party at thirteen and her election came after a fast career in the youth organisation GrĂĽn-Alternatives JugendbĂĽndnis.
Anna Lee (TV series) Anna Lee is a British television series produced by Brian Eastman and Carnival Films for London Weekend Television. Following a 1993 pilot, five two-hour programmes were produced in 1994, loosely based on the detective novels of Liza Cody.
Anna Leonowens Anna Leonowens (November, 1831 – January 19, 1915) is chiefly famous for being the British governess portrayed in the musical The King and I. The play, based on adaptations of her factually controversial memoirs, provides a fictionalised look at her life in the royal court of Siam (present-day Thailand).
Anna Leopoldovna Anna Leopoldovna (А́нна Леопо́льдовна) (1718 – 18 March, 1746), also known as Anna Karlovna (А́нна Ка́рловна), regent of Russia for a few months (1740 - 1741) during the minority of her baby son Ivan, was the daughter of Catherine (sister of the empress Anne) and of Charles Leopold, the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Anna Lindh Ylva Anna Maria Lindh (19 June 1957 – 11 September 2003) was a Swedish Social Democratic politician who served as Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1998 until her assassination in 2003. She previously served as Minister for the Environment from 1994 to 1998.
Anna Lindh Memorial Fund The Anna Lindh Memorial Fund (Swedish: Anna Lindhs Minnesfond) is a memorial fund started to commemorate the Swedish politician Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003. On June 18, 2004 the fund awarded journalist Amira Hass with 250,000 kronor for her reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Anna Lopatieva Anna Lopatieva is a Belarusian civic society leader born in Transnistria. She lives in Bender (also known as Tighina) and heads the Tiraspol-based diaspora-organization The Belorussian Culture which has actively petitioned Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko for assistance and protection against attempts by Moldova to put an end to Transnistrian independence.
Anna Mae Aquash Anna Mae Aquash (also Anna Mae Pictou Aquash or Anna Mae Pictou; first name also spelled Annie Mae; Indian name Naguset Eask) (b. in a small Indian village near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 27, 1945; d.
Anna Mae He Anna Mae He (, born January 28, 1999 in the United States), has been the subject of a custody battle between her Chinese biological parents, Shao-Qiang "Jack" and Qin Luo "Casey" He, and her foster parents, Jerry and Louise Baker. The case has received national media attention for years and has revolved around the claim of Jerry and Louise Baker that Jack and Casey He abandoned their rights to the child when they left her with the Bakers at birth.
Anna Maiques Anna Maiques Dern (born September 3, 1967 in Terrassa, Catalonia) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona).
Anna Maria Jopek Anna Maria Jopek (born 14 December 1970 in Warsaw) is a Polish musician and singer. She represented her country in the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest, and in 2002, she collaborated on an album with jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.
Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, (August 11, 1667 – February 18, 1743, Florence), was the last of the Medicis. In secret she had a lover called Giacomo IV Rise-Verdanté, the descendant of Giacomo (I) Rise-Verdanté, of the chivalry family Rise-Verdanté ~ Casanova (refer; Giacomo Casanova, the famous much-discussed and written about seducer, was related to the above named family).
Anna Maria Porter Anna Maria Porter (1780 - 1832), poet, novelist and sister of Jane Porter, was born in the Bailey in Durham, the posthumous child of William Porter (1735-1779), who had served as an army surgeon for 23 years. He is buried in St Oswald's church, Durham.
Anna Marly Anna Marly (), (October 30 1917 – February 15 2006), was a Russian born French singer-songwriter. She is best remembered as the composer of the Chant des Partisans, a protest song that was used as the ersatz anthem of the Free French Forces during World War II; the popularity of the Chant des Partisans was such that it was proposed as a new national anthem after the conclusion of the war.
Anna Maxwell Martin Anna Maxwell Martin (sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin) is a BAFTA award winning English actress who has won acclaim for her performances as Lyra in His Dark Materials at the Royal National Theatre and as Esther Summerson in the BBC adaptation of Bleak House (2005).
Anna Moffo The American soprano Anna Moffo (born on June 27, 1932 although some sources indicate 1930 — March 9, 2006) was an opera soprano primarily active in the 1960s. During her heyday, Moffo was much admired for the purity of her voice and her great physical beauty.
Anna Molka Ahmed Prof Anna Molka Ahmed (1917–1994) was a famous Pakistani artist and pioneer of fine arts in the country after its coming into being in 1947. She was a professor of fine arts at the University of the Punjab in Lahore.

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