Famous People with Name Annie

Annie Jump Cannon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Annie Jump Cannon: was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures.In 1894 Annie became a member of Pickering’s women, the women hired by Harvard Observatory director Edward Pickering to complete the Draper Catalog mapping and defining all the stars in the sky.Anna Draper, the widow of Henry Draper a wealthy physician and amateur astronomer, set up a fund to support the work. Pickering made the Henry Draper Catalog a long term project to obtain the optical spectra of as many stars as possible, also to index and classify stars by spectra. Measurements were hard enough, the development of a reasonable classification was as much as a problem in theory as fact accumulation.

Annie Finch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Annie Finch: is an American poet, librettist, and critic, translator, and editor of poetry. She is known for her attention to a variety of poetic forms, her focus on earth-based spirituality, and her interest in the traditions of women's poetry. She is the author of f

Annie Lemay            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Annie Lemay: a Canadian curler from Gatineau, Quebec. She currently plays second for Marie-France Larouche.Lemay has won five provincial titles. At the 1999 and 2000 Tournament of Hearts, she played second for Janique Berthelot. In 2000 she moved to the Larouche team

Annie Louise Cary            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Annie Louise Cary: was an American singer.She was born in Wayne, Maine, and studied in Milan. She made her debut as an operatic contralto in Copenhagen in 1868. She had a successful European career for several years, singing in Stockholm, Paris and London, and made her firs

Annie Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Annie Clark: is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter who performs under the moniker St. Vincent. She was a member of The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens' touring band.