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Anna can refer to a variety of things. Anna or
Anne or Ann is a popular given name.

==Places==
* Ann (crater)|Ann, a lunar crater
* Anna, Illinois
* Anna, Ohio
* Anna, Texas
* Ann Township, Minnesota

==Things==
* The word Anna is a feminine form of the Latin
word for "year".
* Anna potatoes
* Anna (coin)|Anna, an Indian coin issued in 1910.
* Anna (film)|Anna, a 1987 film
* Anna (dog)|Anna dog, the only animal with a
portrait at Johns Hopkins University
* Anna (song)|Anna, a song off Bad Company's 1975
album, Straight Shooter (album)|Straight Shooter
* Anna (magazine)|Anna, a Finnish women's magazine
published by Yhtyneet Kuvalehdet

==People==
Anna or Anne or Ann is a popular given name. It is
derived from the Hebrew language|Hebrew name
"Hannah" which means grace, charm, mercy. There
are a number of people whose first name and the
most significant name was Anna or Anne:

* Anna was the sister of Dido in Roman mythology
and later literature. Ovid identified her with
Anna Perenna in one account.
* Anna is an alternate name for Morgause of
Arthurian legend
* Anna Perenna, the Ancient Rome|Roman goddess
* Saint Anne (or Santa Ana), known by tradition as
the mother of The Virgin Mary, and grandmother of
Jesus
* Anna (Bible)|Anna, from the Gospel of Luke 2:36,
a "prophetess", "daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe
of Asher"
* Anna of East Anglia|Anna, a king of East Anglia
* Anna or Queen Anne|Anne was the name of numerous
queens, including:
** Queen Anne of Great Britain
** Queen Anne of Brittany
** Queen Consort Anna of Austria
** Empress Anna of Russia
* Anna Marek (Anna), a Polish porn star

==Variants==
*Anita, Spanish hypocoristic
*Anya or Annushka in Russian

===Saint Anna===
The form "Saint Anna" (Santa Ana in Spanish,
sometimes Santana) is also used in names, for
example for Antonio LÃ³pez de Santa Anna, a
Mexico|Mexican soldier-statesman.

===Pseudonyms===
* the codename of Alfred Frenzel, a
Czechoslovakian spy
* Annadurai, famous South Indian leader

===Fictional characters===
* Ti'ana (Myst)|Anna or Ti'ana, a fictional
character in the Myst games
* Anna Kyoyama|Anna Kyōyama, a fictional
character that appeared in Butsu Zone, Itako no
Anna, and Shaman King
* Anne Shirley is a fictional character of the
works Anne of Green Gables amongst others, and is
very popular in Japan.
* Anna_(Mister God)|Anna is the main character in
the book Mister God, This Is Anna by Fynn.
* Anna Karenina is the main character in a novel
with the same name by Leo Tolstoy.
* Anna Roma is a comic character in the Anna's
Incense comic series Li'l Anna Roma.

==Groups==
* Arabana|Anna or Arabana tribe Australian
Aborigines

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