List of Famous people named Anna
Anna Vyakhireva
Anna Viktorovna Vyakhireva is a Russian female handballer for Rostov-Don and the Russian national team.
Anna Ohmiya
Anna Ohmiya is a Japanese curler from Sapporo.
Anna Walentynowicz
Anna Walentynowicz was a Polish free trade union activist and co-founder of Solidarity, the first non-communist trade union in the Eastern Bloc. Her firing from her job at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk in August 1980 was the event that ignited the strike at the shipyard, set off a wave of strikes across Poland, and quickly paralyzed the Baltic coast. The Interfactory Strike Committee (MKS) based in the Gdańsk shipyard eventually transformed itself into Solidarity; by September, more than one million workers were on strike in support of the 21 demands of MKS, making it the largest strike ever.
Anna Pavlova
Anna Anatolyevna Pavlova is a Russian-born artistic gymnast who won two bronze medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and represented Russia in other international competitions. In 2002 she had won the Russian National Championships.
Anna Gorshkova
Anna Andreyevna Gorshkova is a Russian actress and model, who made her debut as Polina Penkova in the 2003 soap opera Bednaya Nastya.
Anna Galiena
Anna Galiena is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in Le Mari de la coiffeuse, Jamón, jamón, Being Human and Senso '45.
Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. After living in Mexico City (1941–47) and West Berlin (1947-50), Anna Seghers eventually settled in the GDR. The pseudonym Anna Seghers was apparently based on the surname of the Dutch painter and printmaker Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers or Segers.
Anna Shchetinina
Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina was a Soviet merchant marine sailor who became the world's first woman to serve as a captain of an ocean-going vessel.
Anna Eskamani
Anna Vishkaee Eskamani is an American politician who is the member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 47th district in Orange County. She is the first Iranian American in the Florida legislature. A Democrat, she supports legal access to abortion, gun control, funding for public education, and environmental regulations such as a ban on plastic bags. She has worked for Planned Parenthood.
Anna Ryder Richardson
Anna Caroline Ryder Richardson is a British interior designer and television presenter. She is known for being a designer on the BBC shows Changing Rooms and the subject of Chaos at the Zoo, which documents her former ownership of Manor House Wildlife Park in Pembrokeshire.