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Ann Curtis

Ann CurtisBorn: Mar. 6, 1926Swimming won 2 gold medals and 1 silver in 1948 Olympics; set 4 world and 18 U.S. records during career; 1st woman and swimmer to win Sullivan Award (1944). Larry…

Ann Reinking

Ann Reinking was a well-known Broadway dancer and choreographer, best known as a leading acolyte of the style and techniques of Broadway legend Bob Fosse. Ann Reinking got her first break dancing in…

Ann Landers

Name at birth: Esther Pauline FriedmanAnn Landers dispensed advice to readers in a daily column that ran for five decades in more than 1,200 U.S. newspapers. A wife and mother with no journalism…

Ann Curry

Ann Curry is the newswoman who was eased out of her high-profile role as co-host of the Today show in 2012, barely a year after taking the job. She had been a reporter and news anchor for the NBC…

Anne Heche

Despite her many fine performances, actress Anne Heche remains better known as the former lover of comedian Ellen DeGeneres, for her highly publicized mental breakdown in 2000, and for the fiery…

Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway is the busy star who won a best supporting actress Oscar in 2013 for her role in the film Les Miserables. Anne Hathaway first broke through in the 2001 Disney comedy The Princess…

Anne Frank

Name at birth: Annelies Marie FrankAnne Frank is the best-known victim of the Jewish genocide known as the Holocaust, which was ordered by Germany's Adolf Hitler during World War II. When German…

Anne Fadiman

Anne Fadiman won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, her 1997 report on the medical and cultural struggles of an immigrant Hmong family living in…

Anne Bradstreet

Name at birth: Anne DudleyAnne Bradstreet emigrated to Massachusetts with her father and her husband in 1630. Her husband later became a governor of the colony, while Anne wrote poetry and raised…

Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn was the second wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of the future Queen Elizabeth I. A former lady-in-waiting for Henry's sister Mary Tudor, Anne Boleyn married the king in 1533…