Anna Wierzbicka is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University,Canberra. Brought up in Poland,she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Australia in 1972,where she has lived since. With over twenty published books,many of which have been translated into other languages,she is a prolific writer.
Ruth Lynn Deech,Baroness Deech,DBE is a British academic,lawyer,bioethicist and politician,most noted for chairing the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA),from 1994 to 2002,and as the former Principal of St Anne's College,Oxford. Deech sits as a Crossbench peer in the House of Lords (2005–) and chaired the Bar Standards Board (2009–2014).
Anne of Austria was Queen of Poland and Sweden as the first consort of King Sigismund III Vasa.
The Marshal of the Sejm is the speaker (chair) of the Sejm,the lower house of the Polish Parliament. The office traces its origins to the 15th century. In modern Poland,the full title is Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
Anna Jagiellon was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1575 to 1587.
Anna Vasa of Sweden was a Swedish princess heavily involved in the politics of that country and of Poland. She was starosta of Brodnica and Golub. The youngest child of King John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagiellon,she was close to her brother Sigismund Vasa,King of Poland (1587–1632) and King of Sweden (1592–99). Raised a Catholic,Anna converted to Lutheranism in 1584. Though she had several suitors,she remained unmarried.
Beata Maria Szydło is a Polish politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of Law and Justice (PiS),she previously served as the prime minister of Poland from 2015 to 2017. Szydło became the third woman to hold the office,after Hanna Suchocka and her immediate predecessor Ewa Kopacz. She currently is a vice-chair of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament. She is considered to have been a de iure leader of Poland,with the de facto leader being Jarosław Kaczyński,the leader of the party Szydło is a member of.
Elżbieta Barbara Witek is a Polish conservative politician of the Law and Justice party. Historian,history teacher by profession. Marshal of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland for the 8th and 9th parliamentary terms from 2019 to 2023.
Eleonore Maria Josefa of Austria was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage to King MichałKorybut Wiśniowiecki,and subsequently Duchess of Lorraine by her second marriage to Charles V,Duke of Lorraine. She acted as nominal regent of the Duchy of Lorraine during the minority of her son between 1690 and 1697.
Elżbieta Anna Polak is a Polish politician from the Civic Platform who served as the Marshal of Lubusz Voivodeship from November 2010 to October 2023.
Anna Grodzka is a Polish politician. A trans woman,she was elected to the Sejm in the 2011 Polish parliamentary elections as a candidate for the left-liberal Palikot's Movement,and was the first openly transgender Member of Parliament in Poland,and the third openly transgender member of a national parliament worldwide,after Georgina Beyer and Vladimir Luxuria (2006–2008). She was believed to be the only remaining transgender member of parliament until Nikki Sinclaire outed herself in November 2013.
Anna Kiełbasińska is a Polish sprinter who competed occasionally also in hurdling events. She won the bronze medal in the 400 metres as well as silver medals in the 4 x 100 m and 4 x 400 m relays at the 2022 European Championships. Kiełbasińska earned bronze for the 400 m at the 2023 European Indoor Championships. She won several major medals as part of Polish 4 x 400 m relay teams and also individual medals at European Under-20 and U23 Championships.
Anna Elżbieta Zalewska is a Polish politician,and former Minister of National Education,serving 2015 to 2019. Since 2007,Zalewska has been a Member of the Sejm and she has worked there until a transition to the minister.
Anna Kaplan is an Iranian-American politician from Great Neck,New York. A Democrat,she was a member of the New York State Senate,representing New York's 7th State Senate district,which runs from the North Shore to roughly the central part of Western Nassau County on Long Island. She was a member of the so-called "Long Island Six," a group of six Democrats who represent Long Island in the New York State Senate and often vote as a block. She was elected in 2018 as part of a wave of Democrats who defeated Republican incumbents and brought control of the New York Senate to the Democrats for only the third time since World War II. She lost re-election in 2022 to Jack Martins.
Anna Louise Lorck is a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She served in the New Zealand House of Representatives as the MP for Tukituki from 2020 to 2023.
Katarzyna Anna Lubnauer is a Polish politician,feminist,mathematician and academic teacher. She is a member of the Polish Parliament and a former leader of the liberal Modern (.Nowoczesna) political party. In 2023,she was appointed State Secretary in the Ministry of National Education.
Anna Maria Żukowska is a Polish politician and jurist. Since 2019,she has been a member of the Sejm. She is a member of the New Left party and leader of The Left parliamentary group.
Gabriela Anna Morawska-Stanecka is a Polish lawyer,manager and left-wing politician.
Marta Anna Wcisło is a Polish educator,politician and member of the Civic Platform. She has been a member of the Sejm since 12 November 2019 after winning 15,062 votes in the 2019 Polish parliamentary elections. In 2023 parliamentary election she was reelected receiving 68,449 votes. In the 2024 EU elections,Wcisło was elected as an MEP for Lublin constituency,with 103,740 votes.
Anna Paulina Luna is an American politician who serves in the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 13th congressional district as a member of the Republican Party.
