Gentle Annie

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Gentle Annie can refer to:

  • "Gentle Annie", an American song composed by Stephen Foster in 1856 with a popular parody version widely known in Australia
  • Gentle Annie a song unrelated to the Stephen Foster song or its Australian parody, sung by the late Tommy Makem.
  • Gentle Annie, a 1944 movie directed by Andrew Martin, starring James Craig and Donna Reed.
  • Gentle Annie (washing machine), a motorized electric washing machine, manufactured in New Zealand by Fisher and Paykel.
  • Gentle Annie (howitzer), a German howitzer that fired on Australian troops at Bailluel, France, in March and April of 1918.
  • The fictional Annie Protheroe of W.S. Gilbert's The Bab Ballads
  • Gentle Annie (musician), a street musician who lived in Sydney, Australia, in the 1860s and was known for singing the Stephen Foster song of the same name.
  • Anann, a Celtic goddess of fertility and cattle, known for culling the weak.
  • Cenchrus longispinus, or spiny burr grass, an introduced invasive weed of Australia and New Zealand
  • Francis Joseph Bayldon (1872–1948), Australian master mariner and nautical instructor
  • Alfred Jefferis Turner (1861-1947), pediatrician and entomologist and first medical Superintendent of the Brisbane Children's Hospital
  • Anna Etheridge, a nurse for the 2nd Michigan Regiment in the American Civil War
  • Annie Stafford, noted Chicago sex worker and participant in the Chicago Prostitute War of 1857.