Fanny
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Fanny is a given name, and a pet form of Frances.
Notable people bearing this name include:
Notable people bearing this name include:
- Fanny (artist)Fanny (artist)Fanny is a musical alias of Winnipeg, Manitoba breakcore producer and Scottish expatriate, Fraser Runciman . He was signed to Winnipeg's Sublight Records in 2004, and founded his own record label, Girlcum Records, in 2006...
, an alias of breakcore artist Fraser Runciman - Fanny AdamsFanny AdamsFanny Adams was a young English girl murdered by solicitor's clerk Frederick Baker in Alton, Hampshire. The expression "sweet Fanny Adams" refers to her and has come, through British naval slang, to mean "nothing at all".-Murder:On 24 August 1867 at about 1.30 pm, Fanny's mother, Harriet Adams,...
, a 19th-century murder victim - Fanny ArdantFanny ArdantFanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce.-Early life:...
, a French actress - Fanny Blankers-KoenFanny Blankers-KoenFrancina "Fanny" Elsje Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete, best known for winning four gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. She accomplished this as a 30 year old mother of two, during a time when many disregarded women's athletics...
, a Dutch athlete - Fanny BrawneFanny BrawneFrances Brawne Lindon is most known for her betrothal to 19th-Century English Romantic poet John Keats, a fact largely unknown until 1878, when Keats' letters to her were published...
, the inamorata of poet John Keats - Fanny BriceFanny BriceFanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show...
, an American actress and singer - Fanny BurneyFanny BurneyFrances Burney , also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney...
, the nickname of Frances Burney, a novelist, diarist and playwright - Fanny CerritoFanny CerritoFanny Cerrito, originally Francesca Cerrito , was an Italian ballet dancer and choreographer.Born in Naples, she studied under Carlo Blasis and the French choreographers Jules Perrot and Arthur Saint-Léon, to the latter of whom she was married from 1845–1851. Notable roles included Ondine and a...
, the nickname of Francesca Cerrito, an Italian ballet dancer and choreographer - Fanny Jackson CoppinFanny Jackson CoppinFanny Jackson Coppin was an African American educator and missionary. Born an American slave, Fanny Jackson's freedom was purchased by her aunt at age 12. Fanny Jackson spent the rest of her youth working as a servant for author George Henry Calvert, studying at every opportunity...
, an African American educator and missionary - Fanny CradockFanny CradockPhyllis Nan Sortain Pechey , better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer who mostly worked with her then common-law husband Johnnie Cradock, adopting his surname long before they married. She was the daughter of the novelist and lyricist Archibald...
, an English restaurant critic - Fanny CrosbyFanny CrosbyFrances Jane Crosby , usually known as Fanny Crosby in the United States and by her married name, Frances van Alstyne, in the United Kingdom, was an American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. During her lifetime, she was well-known throughout the United States...
, an American lyricist - Fanny FarmerFanny FarmerFanny Farmer was an American candy manufacturer and retailer.Fanny Farmer was started in Rochester, New York by Frank O'Connor in 1919. The company was named in honor of culinary expert Fannie Farmer, who had died four years earlier....
, an American candy manufacturer and retailer - Fanny FurnerFanny FurnerFanny Furner was an activist who worked to further the rights of women and children in the early 1900s in Sydney.-Accomplishments:...
(1864–1938), an Australian activist for the rights of women and children - Fanny KaplanFanny KaplanFanny Yefimovna Kaplan , also known as Fanya Kaplan and as Dora Kaplan), was a Russian political revolutionary and an attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin.-Biography:...
, a would-be assassin of Vladimir Lenin - Fanny Kekelaokalani Young, a Hapa-Hawaiian noble woman
- Fanny KembleFanny KembleFrances Anne Kemble , was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.-Youth and acting career:...
, an English writer, actress and anti-slavery figure - Fanny LétourneauFanny LétourneauFanny Létourneau is a Canadian synchronized swimmer, who won the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games in the Women's Duet alongside Claire Carver-Dias....
, a Canadian synchronized swimmer - Fanny LúFanny LuFanny Lucía Martínez Buenaventura , known professionally as Fanny Lú, is a Colombian singer-songwriter and actress from Santiago de Cali, Colombia.-Early life:...
, a Colombian singer - Fanny MendelssohnFanny MendelssohnFanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn , later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
, a composer, pianist and sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn - Fanny von Starhemberg, the nickname of Princess Franziska von Starhemberg, an Austrian politician
- Fanny TarnowFanny TarnowFanny Tarnow was a German writer. She was born Franziska Christiane Johanna Friederike Tarnow and wrote under the pseudonyms Fanny and F.T..- Life :...
, a German writer - Fanny WesterdahlFanny WesterdahlFanny Amalia Westerdahl, also Fanny Hjortsberg , was a Swedish stage actress, who performed from 1829 to 1862. She also participated in some opera performances...
, a Swedish dramatic stage actress - Fanny (erotic), it is British slang for the female genital