The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

* Anna Dalassene, Byzantine regent ( d. 1102 )

* Anna Dalassene

Anna was the daughter of Alexios Charon, the imperial lieutenant in Italy, and Adriana Dalassene.

The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.

Alexios ' mother, Anna Dalassene, a lifelong enemy of the Doukas family, pressured her son to divorce the young Irene and marry Maria of Alania, the former wife of both Michael VII and Nikephoros III.

Anna Dalassene consented to this but forced Kosmas to resign immediately afterwards ; he was succeeded by Eustratios Garidas.

Anna of Russia or Anna Ioannovna () (, Moscow – ) reigned as Duchess of Courland from 1711 to 1730 and as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.

Anna Andreyevna Gorenko (; ; – March 5, 1966 ), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (, ), was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.

Anna Komnene, Latinized as Comnena (, Anna Komnēnē ; December 1, 1083 – 1153 ) was a Greek princess, scholar, doctor, hospital administrator, and the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium and Irene Doukaina.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (, by herself possibly, as in French, née Aikin ; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825 ) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and children's author.

Morena Baccarin (, born June 2, 1979 ) is a Brazilian American film and television actress best known for roles in several American science fiction television series: as Inara Serra in the series Firefly and the follow-up film Serenity ; as Adria in the series Stargate SG-1 and the follow-up film Stargate: The Ark of Truth ; and as Anna in the 2009 version of the series V. She currently co-stars as Jessica Brody in the Showtime series Homeland.

Born Faina Ipat ' evna Vakhreva (,, Fayina Ipaćjeŭna Vachrava ) in a Belarusian family which had migrated to Yekaterinburg, Russia during World War I, she was orphaned at a young age and raised by her older sister Anna.

The Twins (, 1993 ) is the 2000 novel by Tessa de Loo about the sisters Lotte and Anna, who are separated at the age of six when their father dies.

Anna (, ) or Anna the Prophetess was a biblical figure mentioned only in the Gospel of Luke.

Karin Anna Cheung (, born November 2, 1974 ) is an American actress, singer / songwriter, and artist.

Anna Jagiellon (, ; 1523 – 1596 ) was queen of Poland from 1575 to 1586.

Anna Smashnova (, ; born July 16, 1976, in Minsk, Soviet Union, now Belarus ) is a former professional tennis player from Israel.

Irene Doukaina or Ducaena (, Eirēnē Doukaina ) ( – February 19, 1123 or 1133 ) was the wife of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, and the mother of the emperor John II Komnenos and of the historian Anna Komnene.

* Anna Dalassena, Byzantine regent ( b. 1025 )

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

* 1487 – Anna of Brandenburg ( d. 1514 )

* 1846 – Anna Haining Bates, Canadian giant ( d. 1888 )

* 1985 – Anna Kendrick, American actress

* 1890 – Anna Månsdotter becomes the last woman in Sweden to be executed, for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.

* 1734 – Duchess Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria ( d. 1776 )

* 1944 – Waffen-SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant ' Anna di Stazzema.

* Anna Sofie ( 1527 – 1591 )

He married secondly to Anna Maria ( 1532 – 20 March 1568 ), daughter of Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, in 1550.

Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).

* 1561 – Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* Anna Maria of Hungary ( c. 1204 – 1237 ), wife of Tzar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria

* 1728 – Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony ( d. 1797 )

* 1958 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist ( d. 2006 )

* 1956 – Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress

* 1976 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player

* 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de ' Medici, Italian wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ( d. 1743 )

* 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey, first female to be a licensed jockey ( d. 2006 )

* 1964 – Anna Sui, American fashion designer

* 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

* 1990 – Anna Bogomazova, Russian kickboxer, professional wrestler and valet

# Anna of Prussia ( 3 July 1576 – 30 August 1625 ).

# Anna ( b. Dresden, 3 August 1478 – d. Dresden, 1479 ).