Fanny (name)
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Fanny is a given name. It is also a pet form of Frances, and a form of Myfanwy.
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People
Given name
- Fanny Adams (1859-1867), English murder victim
- Fanny Ardant (born 1949), French actress
- Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918-2004), Dutch track and field athlete, Olympic and world champion and world record holder
- Fanny Brice (1891-1951), stage name for the American comedian, actress and singer
- Fanny Brownbill (1890-1948), Australian pioneering politician
- Fanny Cano (1944-1983), Mexican actress and producer
- Fanny Chmelar (born 1985), German alpine skier
- Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837-1913), African-American educator and missionary
- Fanny Cory (1877–1972), artist and illustrator best known for her comic strip Little Miss Muffet
- Fanny Cottençon (born 1957), French actress
- Fanny Davenport (1850-1898), Anglo-American stage actress
- Fanny Davies (1861–1934), British pianist
- Fanny Elssler (1810-1884), Austrian ballerina
- Fanny Farmer, American candy manufacturer and retailer
- Fanny Fischer (born 1986), German sprint canoer
- Fanny Furner (1864–1938), Australian activist for the rights of women and children
- Fanny Holland (1847-1931), English singer and comic actress
- Fanny Howe (born 1940), American poet, novelist, and short story writer
- Fanny Kaplan (1890-1918), would-be assassin of Vladimir Lenin
- Fanny Kekelaokalani (1806–1880), a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and mother of a Queen consort
- Fanny Law (born 1953), Hong Kong former civil servant
- Fanny Létourneau (born 1979), Canadian synchronized swimmer
- Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), German author and feminist
- Fanny Lu (born 1973), Colombian singer-songwriter and actress
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847), composer, pianist and sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Fanny Murray (1729-1778), English courtesan
- Fanny Rinne (born 1980), German field hockey player
- Fanny Sidney (born 1987), French actress
- Fanny Smith (born 1992), Swiss freestyle skier
- Fanny Stål (1821-1889), Swedish pianist
- Fanny Vágó (born 1991), Hungarian footballer
- Fanny Westerdahl (1817-1873), Swedish dramatic stage actress
Pet form of Frances
- Fanny Allen (1784-1819), first woman from New England to become a Catholic nun
- Fanny Brawne (1800-1865), engaged to poet John Keats
- Fanny Brough (1852-1914), British stage actress
- Frances Burney (1752-1840), English novelist, diarist and playwright
- Fanny Crosby (1820-1915), American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist and composer
- Fanny Durack (1889-1956), Australian swimmer
- Fanny Fitzwilliam (1801-1854), English stage actress and theatre manager
- Fanny Imlay (1794-1816), illegitimate daughter of the British writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft
- Fanny Kemble (1809-1893), English actress, writer and anti-slavery figure
- Frances Nelson (1761-1831), wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson
- Fanny Stevenson (1840-1914), wife of writer Robert Louis Stevenson
Other
- Baroness Franziska Fanny von Arnstein (1758-1818), a leader of society in Vienna, born Vögele Itzig
- Fanny de Beauharnais (1737-1813), French lady of letters and salon-holder born Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard
- Fanny Cerrito (1817-1909), Italian ballet dancer and choreographer born Francesca Cerrito
- Fanny Cornforth (1835-c. 1906), model and mistress of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, real name thought to be Sarah Cox
- Fanny Cradock (1909-1994), English restaurant critic born Phyllis Nan Sortain
- Fanny Fern (1811-1872), pen name of Sara Willis, American newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories
- Fanny Heldy (1888-1973), Belgian operatic soprano born Marguerite Virginie Emma Clémentine Deceuninck
- Princess Fanny von Starhemberg (1875-1943), Austrian politician born Franziska Gräfin von Larisch-Mönnich
- Fanny Tarnow (1779-1862), German writer born Franziska Christiane Johanna Friederike Tarnow
- Frederick Fanny Walden (1888-1949), English footballer and cricketer
Fictional characters
- Fanny Chenal, played by Marion Cotillard in the 2006 film A Good Year
- Fanny Hill, the protagonist of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, an erotic novel by John Cleland
- Fanny Price, heroine of Jane Austen's 1814 novel Mansfield Park
- Fanny (Guilty Gear), a video game character
- Fanny (Sesame Street)
- Lord Fanny, from the DC Comics series The Invisibles
- Madame Fanny La Fan, in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
- Aunt Fanny, a comic character played by Fran Allison on the radio show Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
- Aunt Fanny, in Robots, a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film
- Aunt Fanny, in Enid Blyton's The Famous Five
- Fanny Ekdahl, in Ingmar Bergman's 1982 film Fanny and Alexander
- Fanny Birden, in Keyes Daniel's novel Flowers for Algernon
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