Fanny (name)

Fanny is a given name. It is also a pet form of Frances, and the Yiddish name Faiga also a form of Myfanwy.

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