Famous People with Name Anne

Anne McCarty Braden            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne McCarty Braden: was an American advocate of racial equality. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in rigidly segregated Anniston, Alabama, Braden grew up in a middle class family that accepted southern racial mores whole-heartedly. A devout Episcopalian, Braden was bothered by racial segregation, but never questioned it until her college years at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia. After working on newspapers in Anniston and Birmingham, she returned to Kentucky as a young adult to write for the Louisville Times. There, she met and in 1948 married fellow newspaperman Carl Braden, a left-wing trade unionist. She became a supporter of the civil rights movement at a time when it was unpopular among southern whites.

Anne Inez McCaffrey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Inez McCaffrey: is an American science fiction author best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series.Anne was educated at Stuart Hall, an all-girl boarding school in Staunton, Virginia. She then went to Montclair High School, Montclair, New Jersey, and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College majoring in Slavonic Languages and Literature in 1947. She married in 1950 and has three children: Alec Anthony, born in 1952, Todd, born in 1956, and Georgeanne, born in 1959. She was divorced in 1970, after which she emigrated to Ireland.

Anne Fadiman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Fadiman: Fadiman's 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Researched in California, it examined a generational Hmong family with a child with epilepsy, and their cultural, linguistic and medical struggles in America.

Anne Wiggins Brown            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Wiggins Brown: created the role of Bess in George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess in 1935. She was also a radio and concert star.In 2000 she was awarded Norway's Council of Cultures Honorary Award.

Anne Sexton            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anne Sexton: was an American poet and writer.sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life near Boston, Massachusetts. In 1945, Sexton began attending a boarding school, Rogers Hall, in Lowell, Massachusetts. For a time as a young woman, she modeled at Boston's Hart Agency. Although she was already engaged to someone else, in August 1948 she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton, known as "Kayo." The couple drove from Massachusetts to North Carolina, where the legal marrying age was 18. Before their divorce in the early 1970s, she had two children with Kayo: Linda Gray Sexton, later a novelist and memoirist, and Joyce Sexton. Controversy was stirred with the posthumous public release of tapes recorded during Sexton's psychotherapy (and thus subject to doctor-patient confidentiality), in which Sexton revealed the attempted incestuous rape of her daughter her daughter.[1] In this case the crime is confirmed by her duaghter, although no legal action was ever taken.

Vanessa Anne Hudgens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vanessa Anne Hudgens: is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut in 2003 and appeared in the Hollywood films Thirteen and Thunderbirds, before reaching fame in the 2006 hit Disney Channel film High School Musical series. Hudgens also began a music career and released her debut album, entitled V, in 2006. In 2007, Hudgens became the spokesperson for Neutrogena. She will also be in the upcoming movie Rock On. Her sophomore album, Identified, will be released July 1, 2008.