Anne of Austria, queen consort of France, was married to the 14-year-old Louis XIII and later mothered Louis XIV.
1601-1666
Anne of Cleves was the fourth wife of Henry VIII. She briefly served as queen of England.
1515-1557
Anne Bancroft was an Oscar Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress famous for her roles in The Miracle Worker and The Graduate. She was married to comedian and film director Mel Brooks.
1931-2005
Annette Bening is an Oscar-nominated actress known for films like The Grifters, Bugsy, American Beauty and The Kids Are All Right.
1958-
Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, served as queen of England in the 1530s. She was executed on charges of incest, witchcraft, adultery and conspiracy against the king.
1501-1536
Anne Bradstreet was a 17th century writer who is credited as being one of the first English poets in the colonies.
1612-1672
Anne Brontë, sister of fellow writers Emily and Charlotte, penned the classic 19th century novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
1820-1849
Anne Frank is a Jewish girl that had to go into hiding during World War II. She is best known for the diary that she kept, which continues to touch people today.
1929-1945
1556-1623
American actress Anne Hathaway has starred in films like The Devil Wears Prada, Becoming Jane, Love and Other Drugs, and Les Miserables.
1982-
Actress Anne Heche got her start on the soap opera Another World. She is known for dating comedian Ellen DeGeneres, and for starring in the series Men in Trees.
1969-
Anne Hutchinson was a Puritan woman who spread her own interpretations of the Bible, leading to the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1591-1643
Writer and aviation pioneer Anne Morrow Lindbergh was married to aviator Charles Lindbergh. The couple’s child was kidnapped for ransom and murdered in 1932.
1906-2001
Anne Moody is an African-American author whose writings about her personal and political struggles during the American Civil Rights Movement became classic.
1940-
Anne Rice wrote supernatural novels. Her most famous series was Vampire Chronicles, which included the book Interview with the Vampire.
1941-
Poet Anne Sexton wrote the collections To Bedlam and Part Way Back, as well as Live or Die, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. She committed suicide in 1974.
1928-1974
Anne Sullivan was a teacher who, at age 21, taught Helen Keller, who was deaf, mute, and blind, how to communicate and read Braille.
1866-1936
Anne Tyler is an American novelist best known for writing The Accidental Tourist (1985) which was made into a movie in 1988 starring William Hurt and Geena Davis.
1941-