List of Famous people named Anna

Anna Stainer-Knittel was an Austrian portrait and flower painter. An incident from her life served as the basis for the novel Die Geier-Wally by Wilhelmine von Hillern; an early example of feminist literature.

Anna Makino is a J-pop singer, and an original member of the group Super Monkey's. She was born in Okinawa, Japan. She made her debut as a solo J-pop singer on 22 January 1987, aged 15. Her first song "Love Song Sagashite" was adopted for the promotion song of a video game Dragon Quest II, having a NES/Famicom synth version on the load screen. She released another single, "Hitomi ha genkina Sky Blue". She stayed in Tokyo, going to dance school and appearing in musicals for a year before returning to Okinawa to teach at the Okinawa Actors' School, where her father, founder Masayuki Makino was president.

Anna Schnidenwind, was one of the last people in Germany and in Europe confirmed to have been executed in public for witchcraft.

Anna Vladimirovna Chicherova is a Russian high jumper. She was the gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 World Championships in Athletics and originally was awarded a bronze medal in the event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was also runner-up at the World Championships in 2007 and 2009, and bronze medalist in 2013 and 2015.

Anna van der Breggen is a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam SD Worx. She won the gold medal in the women's road race at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and has won the Giro d'Italia Femminile on three occasions. In 2018, and 2020, she won the women's road race at the UCI Road World Championships.

Anna Rupprecht is a German ski jumper. She made her Continental Cup debut in the 2008/09 season, and her World Cup debut in the 2011/12 season. Her best individual result is a third place in Lillehammer on 2 December 2016, but her season was cut short after suffering an ACL injury in Nizhny Tagil, on 11 December.

Anna Halprin helped pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as a breaker of the rules of modern dance. Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and her students Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer, redefined dance in postwar America. In the 1950s, she established the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art. Being able to freely explore the capabilities of her own body, she created a systematic way of moving using kinesthetic awareness. Many of her works since have been based on scores, including Planetary Dance, 1987, and Myths in the 1960s which gave a score to the audience, making them performers as well.

Anna Ferrer is the president of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation (FVF) and executive director of the FVF in India. FVF has helped 3.5 million Indians out of poverty, focusing on women.

Anna Petrovna Kern was a Russian socialite and memoirist, best known as the addressee of what is probably the best known love poem in the Russian language, written by Aleksandr Pushkin in 1825.

Anna Emilie Strohsahl, born Franze was a German politician (SPD) and the first female city councillor ("Ratsmann") in Cuxhaven City Parliament. Protesting the Nazi seizure of power, she left Cuxhaven Council in May 1933, together with the whole SPD group.