Anita (given name)

Anita is a common given name for women. It has two origins. In Sanskrit name means without guile; leader.^[1] Alternatively, in Spanish, the name is a pet form of Ana, the Spanish version of Anne.

People

Given name

• Anita Álvarez de Williams (born 1931), an Anthropologist, photographer and historian
• Anita Østby (born 1972), a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party
• Anita Allen, a US Army medical service officer who competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in the modern pentathlon
• Anita Alpern (1920–2006), an assistant commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service
• Anita Alvarez (politician), the Cook County State's Attorney
• Anita Anand, a British radio presenter and journalist
• Anita Andreassen, a Norwegian mushing competitor
• Anita Apelthun Sæle (born 1951), a Norwegian politician
• Anita Arya, a former member of Lok Sabha
• Anita Asante (born 1985), an English football player
• Anita Auglend (born 1979), a Norwegian singer
• Anita Augspurg (1857–1943), a German lawyer, actor, writer and feminist
• Anita B. Brody, a judge on the United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania
• Anita Bärwirth (1918–1994), a German gymnast
• Anita Baker (born 1958), an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter
• Anita Barone (born 1964), an American actress
• Anita Berber (1899–1928), a German dancer, actress, writer, and prostitute
• Anita Berrizbeitia, a landscape theorist, teacher, and author
• Anita Best, a teacher, broadcaster, and singer from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Anita Bitri (1968–2004), a pop singer and violinist from Albania
• Anita Bitri-Prapaniku (1968–2004), a pop singer and violinist from Albania
• Anita Björk (born 1923), a Swedish actress
• Anita Błochowiak (born 1973), a Polish politician
• Anita Borg (1949–2003), an American computer scientist
• Anita Bose Pfaff (born 1942), daughter of Indian politician Subhas Chandra Bose
• Anita Brenner (1905–1974), author of children's literature and books on Mexican art and history
• Anita Briem (born 1982), an Icelandic actress
• Anita Brodén (born 1948), a Swedish Liberal People's Party politician
• Anita Brookner CBE (born 1928), an English novelist and art historian
• Anita Bryant (born 1940), an American singer
• Anita Bulath (born 1983), a Hungarian handballer
• Anita Buri (born 1978), crowned Miss Switzerland 1999
• Anita Bush (1883–1974), an American stage actress and playwright
• Anita C. Hill, a pastor at Saint Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
• Anita Calvert Lebourgeoise (1879–1940), an attorney, judge, genealogist, biographer and women's suffrage orator
• Anita Caprioli (born 1973), an Italian theatre and film actress
• Anita Carey (born 1948), an English actress
• Anita Carter (1933–1999), country music singer
• Anita Caspary (1915–2011), an American nun who founded the Immaculate Heart of Mary Community
• Anita Cerquetti (April 13, 1931), an Italian dramatic soprano
• Anita Chanda, an artist, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire of Indian parents
• Anita Chapman (born 1952), a British Paralympic archer
• Anita Christensen, (born 1971), a world champion female professional boxer
• Anita Cobby (1959–1986), a murdered Australian nurse and beauty pageant winner
• Anita Cifra (born 1989), a Hungarian handballer
• Anita Cochran (born 1967), an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer
• Anita Colby (1914–1992), an actress and model
• Anita Coleman, an American academic librarian, faculty and researcher in digital libraries
• Anita Conti née Caracotchian (1899–1997), a French explorer, photographer and oceanographer
• Anita Cornwell (born 1923), 1950s and 1960s black lesbian in the United States
• Anita Daher, a Canadian writer of juvenile and teen books
• Anita Darian, an American singer and actress who has had an active career since the 1950s
• Anita De Bauch (born 1986), an English alternative model
• Anita de Braganza (died 1977), an American socialite and heiress
• Anita DeFrantz (born 1952), an American Olympic Athlete (rowing)
• Anita Delgado, a Spanish flamenco dancer and singer from Andalusia
• Anita Desai (born 1937), an Indian novelist and Professor of Humanities at MIT
• Anita Diamant (born 1951), an American author of fiction and non-fiction books
• Anita Dobson (born 1949), an English television actress
• Anita Dolly Panek (born 1930), a Brazilian biochemist
• Anita Doreen Diggs (born 1966), an American editor, novelist, and lecturer
• Anita Doth (born 1971), a Dutch singer
• Anita Dunn, a Democratic political consultant
• Anita Ekberg (born 1931), a Swedish model and actress
• Anita Elberse, Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
• Anita Elson (1898–1985), an American dancer and singer
• Anita Fernandini de Naranjo, a Peruvian politician in the early 1960s
• Anita Finlay, a film and television actress
• Anita Görbicz (born 1983), a Hungarian handball player
• Anita Gaće (born 1983), a Croatian handballer playing on right wing position
• Anita Gale, Baroness Gale, (born 1940), a Labour Party member of the House of Lords
• Anita Galić (born 1985), a freestyle swimmer from Croatia
• Anita Ganeri, the author of the Award-winning book Horrible Geography
• Anita Gara (born 1983), a Hungarian chess woman grandmaster
• Anita Garibaldi (1821–1849), the Brazilian wife of Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi
• Anita Garvin (1907–1994), an American actress and comedienne
• Anita Gershman, an American film producer who has produced film since 1999
• Anita Gillette (Born August 16, 1936), a Tony Award-nominated American actress
• Anita Goel, a Harvard-MIT trained physicist and physician in the United States
• Anita Gradin (born 1933), a Swedish social democratic politician and former Ambassador
• Anita Guha, an Indian actress who usually played mythological characters in films
• Anita Gutwell, an Austrian film actress
• Anita Håkenstad (born 1968), a Norwegian long-distance runner
• Anita Hagen (born 1931), a former Canadian politician
• Anita Halpin (born 1944), chair of the Communist Party of Britain
• Anita Hamilton, a journalist whose career began at her college newspaper, The Dartmouth
• Anita Harding (1952–1995), a British neurologist
• Anita Harris (born 1942), an English actress, singer and entertainer
• Anita Hegerland (born 1961), a Norwegian singer
• Anita Hegh (born 1972), an Australian actor
• Anita Heiss (born 1968), a contemporary Indigenous Australian author
• Anita Hendrie (1868–1940), an American actress
• Anita Hill (born 1956), a professor at Brandeis University
• Anita Hoffman (1942–1998), a Yippie activist, writer, prankster, and ex-wife of Abbie Hoffman
• Anita Howard (athlete) (born 1969), a retired American sprinter
• Anita Howard (painter) (born 1926), a British-born painter
• Anita Huffington (born 1934), an American sculptor
• Anita Inder Singh, an international affairs analyst
• Anita Iseghohi, a Nigerian businesswoman
• Anita Jönsson (born 1947), a Swedish social democratic politician
• Anita J. Prazmowska, a Professor in International History at the London School of Economics
• Anita Johansson (figure skater) (born 1954), a former Swedish figure skater from Malmö
• Anita Johansson (politician) (born 1944), a Swedish social democratic politician
• Anita Jose, an Indian born educator, business strategist, and essayist in business management and policy
• Anita K. Blair, co-founder of the Independent Women's Forum, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy
• Anita Kanter of Santa Monica, California, was an American amateur tennis player in the 1950s
• Anita Kanwal, an Indian television actress and producer
• Anita Kanwar, an Indian film and television actor
• Anita Kazai (born 1988), a Hungarian handballer
• Anita Kelsey, a British singer-songwriter
• Anita Kerr (born 1927), an American singer, composer and music producer
• Anita Kert Ellis (born 1920), a Canadian-born American singer and actress
• Anita King (1884–1963), an American racecar driver, actress, and thoroughbred racehorse owner
• Anita Klein (born 1960), a British painter and printmaker born in Australia
• Anita Kobuss (born 1944), an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1960s
• Anita Kulcsár (1976–2005), a Hungarian handball player
• Anita Kunz (born 1956), a Canadian-born artist and illustrator
• Anita L. Allen, professor of Law and of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Anita Lallande (born 1949), a former member of the Puerto Rican Olympic swimming team
• Anita Lane, an Australian singer and songwriter
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1925), a German-born cellist and surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz
• Anita Leocádia Prestes (born 1936), a Brazilian historian
• Anita Lerche, an international singer, songwriter and composer from Denmark
• Anita Lerman (born 1944), an American politician
• Anita Linda (born 1924), a Filipino film actor
• Anita Lipnicka (born 1975), a Polish singer and songwriter
• Anita Lizana (1915–1994), a tennis player from Chile
• Anita Lo, an American chef and restaurateur
• Anita Lonsbrough MBE (born 1941), a former swimmer from Great Britain
• Anita Loos (1888–1981), an American screenwriter, playwright and author
• Anita Louise (1915–1970), an American film actress
• Anita Louise Combe, an Australian actress, singer and dancer
• Anita Louise Suazo (born 1947), a Native American potter
• Anita M. Flynn, a roboticist
• Anita Márton (born 1989), a Hungarian shot putter
• Anita Madden (born 1933), an American sportswoman
• Anita Malfatti (1889–1964), a Brazilian artist
• Anita Mann (born 1947), a choreographer, dancer and actress
• Anita Marg (born 1955), a retired East German athlete
• Anita Marks, an American radio personality and former professional football player
• Anita Martinez (born 1925), the first female Mexican-American member of the City Council of Dallas, Texas
• Anita Mason (born 1942), an English novelist
• Anita McNaught (born 1965), a United Kingdom/New Zealand freelance journalist and television presenter
• Anita Meyer (Annita Meijer) (born 1954), a Dutch singer
• Anita Miller (born 1951), a former field hockey player from the United States
• Anita Miller Smith (1893–1968), an American impressionist and regionalist painter
• Anita Moen (born 1967), a former Norwegian Cross-country skier
• Anita Mormand (born 1971), a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres
• Anita Morris (1943–1994), an American actress
• Anita Mui (1963–2003), a popular Hong Kong singer and actress
• Anita Nüssner-Kobuss (born 1935), an East German sprint canoeist
• Anita Nair, a popular Indian-English writer
• Anita Nall (born 1976), a U.S. Olympic medalist in competitive swimming
• Anita Neville MP (born 1942), a Canadian politician
• Anita Newcomb McGee (1864–1940), an American physician who worked with the United States military
• Anita North, a clay-pigeon shooter representing England
• Anita Nyberg (born 1940), a professor in the Centre for Gender Studies at Stockholm University
• Anita Nyman (born 1971), a Finnish cross country skier
• Anita O'Day (1919–2006), an American jazz singer
• Anita of Braganza (1885–1977), an American socialite and heiress who married the grandson of the King of Portugal
• Anita Ondine Smith (born 1974), an Australian-British filmmaker and transmedia storyteller
• Anita Ondine (born 1974), an Australian born writer-producer
• Anita Orlund (born 1964), a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party
• Anita Ortega, a basketball player at UCLA
• Anita Pádár, a Hungarian football midfielder
• Anita Page (1910–2008), an American film actress of the silent film era
• Anita Palermo Kelly, a former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
• Anita Pallenberg (born 1944), a model, actress and fashion designer
• Anita Parkhurst Willcox (1892–1984), an American artist, feminist and pacifist
• Anita Peabody (1925–1934), an American Champion Thoroughbred filly racehorse
• Anita Pearl (born 1987), a Hungarian pornographic actress
• Anita Perez Ferguson (born 1949), a speaker, author and international consultant
• Anita Perras, a Canadian country music singer
• Anita Phillips (born 1945), a former Australian politician
• Anita Pistone (born 1976), an Italian track and field sprint athlete
• Anita Pointer (born 1948), an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and a member of The Pointer Sisters
• Anita Pollitzer (1894–1975), an American photographer
• Anita Prazmowska, a Professor in International History at the London School of Economics
• Anita Protti, Swiss track and field athlete
• Anita Rachlis, a Canadian AIDS researcher, principal author of the HIV treatment guidelines in Canada
• Anita Raj (born 1962), a former Bollywood actress
• Anita Ramasastry, a law professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle
• Anita Rani, (Anita Nazran) (born 1977), an English Radio and TV Presenter and journalist in the UK
• Anita Rapp (born 1977), a former Norwegian footballer
• Anita Rau Badami (born 1961), an Indian-Canadian novelist
• Anita Ratnam (born 1954), an Indian classical and contemporary dancer and choreographer
• Anita Rau Badami (born 1961), an Indian-Canadian novelist
• Anita Renfroe (born 1963), an American Christian comedian from Atlanta, Georgia
• Anita Revel (born 1968), an Australian author, founding member of the Goddess Association in Australia
• Anita Rinaldi (Anita Skultety) (born 1974), a Hungarian pornographic actress and film director
• Anita Rizzuti (born 1971), a notable Norwegian amateur snooker player
• Anita Roberts (1942–2006), a molecular biologist
• Anita Roddick, DBE (1942–2007), the founder of The Body Shop, a British cosmetics company
• Anita Rollin (1981/1982) is a Sri Lankan snow boarder
• Anita Romaniuk, a Canadian politician
• Anita Sands, an Irish businesswoman, academic and public speaker, resident in New York
• Anita Sarkeesian, feminist video blogger and activist
• Anita Schätzle (born 1981), a German female freestyle wrestler
• Anita Scott Coleman (1890–1960), an American short story writer, and poet
• Anita Shapira (born 1940), an Israeli historian
• Anita Shreve (born 1946), an award winning American writer
• Anita Sidén (born 1940), a Swedish politician of the Moderate Party
• Anita Silvers, an American philosopher
• Anita Silvey, an editor and literary critic in the genre of children’s literature
• Anita Singhvi, an Indian classical singer
• Anita Skorgan (born 1958), a Norwegian singer-songwriter
• Anita Smits (born 1967), a former archer from The Netherlands
• Anita Snellman (1924–2006), a Finnish painter
• Anita Sokołowska (born 1976), a Polish theatrical, movie and television actress
• Anita Sood, a former national woman swimming champion of India
• Anita Stansfield (born 1961), an American Latter-day Saint romance novelist
• Anita Stewart (1895–1961), an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era
• Anita Stewart (culinary author) (born 1947), a Canadian culinary author and food activist
• Anita Strindberg (born 1944), a former actress and star of the Italian giallo films in the 1970s
• Anita Summers, an American educator of public policy, management, real estate and education
• Anita Thallaug (born 1938), a Norwegian actor and singer
• Anita Thigpen Perry has spearheaded health-related initiatives such as the Anita Thigpen Perry Endowment
• Anita Tijoux (born 1977), female MC of hip-hop group Makiza during the late nineties
• Anita Tomar, a female wrestler from India
• Anita Tsoy (born 1971), a Russian singer of Korean descent
• Anita Turner (born 1972), a British script editor and television producer
• Anita Ušacka (born 1952), a Latvian judge and legal academic
• Anita Utseth (born 1966), a Norwegian engineer and politician for the Centre Party
• Anita Uwagbale (now Anita Iseghohi), a former beauty queen and model from Nigeria
• Anita Valen (born 1968), a Norwegian cyclist
• Anita Vogel (born 1969), an American news reporter for the Fox News Channel
• Anita Włodarczyk (born 1985), a Polish hammer thrower
• Anita W. Addison (1952–2004), an American television and film director and producer
• Anita Waage (born 1971), a former Norwegian football player and World Champion
• Anita Wachter (born 1967), a former World Cup alpine ski racer
• Anita Wagner (born 1960), an Austrian singer
• Anita Wall (born 1940), a Swedish stage and film actress
• Anita Ward (born 1956), an African-American singer
• Anita Werner (born 1978), a Polish television journalist
• Anita West, a British actress and former television presenter
• Anita Weyermann (born 1977), a former middle distance runner from Switzerland
• Anita Wood (born 1937), a TV performer and girlfriend to Elvis Presley
• Anita Yuen, a Hong Kong film and television actress
• Anita Zucker, the first female Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company
• Gurmayum Anita Devi, a mountaineer from Indian state of Manipur
• J. Anita Stup (born 1945), a former member of the Maryland House of Delegates
• Jagat and Anita Nanjappa, a well-known couple in the sport of motor racing in India
• Princess Anita of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven-van Eijk, wife of HH Prince Pieter-Christiaan of Orange-Nassau
• Quezon-Villa Anita, a member of the National Basketball Conference
• Siw Anita Andersen (born 1966), a Norwegian actress and comedian from Oslo

Surname

• Vurnon Anita (born 1989), a Dutch footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Ajax

Fictional characters

• Anita Blake, the protagonist of Laurell K. Hamilton's novel series Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter
• Anita (Darkstalkers), a videogame character and follower of Donovan Baine
• Anita Hailey (Shiho Miyano), a character in the manga/anime Case Closed
• Anita Santos, a character on the ABC daytime drama All My Children
• Anita Van Buren, a character on the television crime drama Law & Order portrayed by S. Epatha Merkerson
• Anita, a comic book character in the works of Italian artist Guido Crepax
• Anita, a character in the musical West Side Story
• Anita, a recurring character in the British sit-com dinnerladies

See also

• Amita
• Annette
• Anna
• Annie
• Anya
• Annika

References