Anya

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Anya is the Russian form of Anna which means "gracious". Some notable people with the name Anya are:

• Anya Corke, Woman Grandmaster and the top female chess player in Hong Kong
• Anya Gallaccio, British artist
• Anya Kamenetz, a freelance writer
• Anya Lahiri, a British singer
• Anya Major, an athlete and model
• Anya Monzikova, a Russian-American model on Deal or No Deal
• Anya Mullen, daughter of Larry Mullen (drummer for the band U2)
• Anya Schiffrin, an international business professor at Columbia University
• Anya Seton, author of historical romances
• Anya Taranda, an American model
• Anya Teixeira, a street photographer
• Anya Vorobyova, daughter of Yuri Vorobyov
• Anya (born 1976), Taiwanese actress [1]

Contents 1 In fiction 2 Different spelling 3 Others 4 In music

[edit] In fiction

• Anya (musical), a 1965 Broadway musical
• Anya Amasova, a Soviet spy played by Barbara Bach in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me
• Anya Jenkins, a thousand-year-old vengeance demon from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Anya, an alchemist in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction
• Anya, Princess Ann played by Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday
• Anya (Star Trek), a character in the Star Trek universe
• Anya is a character in the Arthurian novel The Pendragon
• Anya, Princess Anastasia's name as an orphan in Anastasia (1997 film)

[edit] Different spelling

• Ania Williams, a fictional character in the British Soap Opera Family Affairs

• Aine is the Irish spelling of the name; Irish for "Ann" and pronounced Awn-ya

• The spelling Anja is common in German, Swedish and Dutch. (for example Anja Pärson)

[edit] Others

• Anya, the combined oral contraceptive pill
• Ikechi Anya, a professional footballer

[edit] In music

• "Anya", a song by Deep Purple from their 1993 album The Battle Rages On