Fanny
Diminutive of Frances, English from Latin
"from France; free man"
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Variation of Euphemia
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Famous People Named Fanny
- Fanny Brice (born Fania Borach)American actress/comedian
- Frances "Fanny" BurneyEnglish novelist
- Fanny Bullock WorkmanAmerican geographer and explorer
- Fanny MendelssohnGerman composer; sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn
- Frances Jane "Fanny" CrosbyAmerican blind composer of more than 8,000 hymns
- Francina Elsje "Fanny" BlankersKoen, Dutch track athlete
- Sarah "Fanny" Durackfirst Australian female to win a swimming Olympic gold medal
- Frances "Fanny" Imlaydaughter feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft; half,sister of novelist Mary Shelley
- Fanny RaskSwedish ice hockey player
- Fanny Cradock (born Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey)English restaurant critic and TV personality
The name Fanny in Pop Culture
- Fanny Pricecharacter in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"
- Fanny Davilowmother of Gwendolen in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
- Fanny "Fan" Keithyounger sister of Millie Keith in "A Life of Faith" series
- Fanny Hillfictional heroine of her own letters to a friend, "describing her sexual experiences in chaste language in pornographic tour de force subject of many legal trials since its publication" (1748)
- Fanny Pricecharacter in "Of Human Bondage" (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham
- Fannycharacter in Enid Blyton's "Faraway Tree" series (in some modern reprints she is now named Frannie because of Fanny's unpleasant connotations)
- Aunt Fannycharacter in Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" series
- Fanny Dashwoodcharacter in 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen
- Fanny Redlettscharacter in Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate"
- Fanny Fulbright aka Numbuh 86character on animated series "Codename: Kids Next Door
- Aunt Fannycharacter in the movie "Robots"
- FannyBritish slang for the vagina
- FannyAmerican slang for the buttocks
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