Anica () is a female
given name
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used among
Romanians
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,
Serbs
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,
Slovenes
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,
Croats
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, etc. It is derived from
Anna
Anna may refer to:
People Surname and given name
* Anna (name)
Mononym
* Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke
* Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654)
* Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773)
* Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th c ...
. A regional variant of this name is Ance (Lithuanian), and it is closely related to the names
Anicka,
Anika and
Anka. Notable people with the name include:
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Anica Bošković
Anica Bošković (born 1714 in Republic of Ragusa – died 13 August 1804 in Ragusa) was a Ragusan writer. She wrote a pastoral song and translated from the Italian language. Christian themes permeate her work. Hers was one of the first impor ...
(1714–1804), Ragusan writer
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Anica Černej
Anica Černej (3 April 1900, in Čadram, Oplotnica – 3 May 1944, in Neubrandenburg) was a Slovene teacher, author and poet. She wrote poems for children, youth and adults, lectured on youth literature, and published a biography of a children's ...
(1900–1944), Slovene author and poet
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Anica Dobra
Anica Dobra ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Добра; born 3 June 1963) is a Serbian film and theatre actress.
Early life and education
Dobra was born on 3 June 1963, in Belgrade, where she completed primary education before moving to Frankfurt on Ma ...
(born 1963), Serbian film actress
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Anica Kovač
Anica Kovač (; , ; born 3 March 1976) is a Croatian former model and beauty pageant titleholder best known for being the First Runner-up in the Miss World 1995 competition and for her marriage to the Croatian football player Robert Kovač.
Kova ...
née Martinović, Croatian model, Miss Croatia 1995
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Anica Neto
Anica Manuel João Neto a.k.a. Nequita (born December 27, 1972) is a former Angolan handball player. Neto was a member of the Angola women's handball team and represented her country in three different Olympic tournaments, namely in 1996, 2000 an ...
(born 1972), Angolan handball player
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Anica Nonveiller
Anica Lazin Nonveiller (Serbian Cyrillic: Аница Лазин Нонвеје; born 1957) is a Serbian Canadian journalist, writer and producer. She is the sister of a Parisian theatre director Miloš Lazin. In 1991 she was fired from a state-own ...
(born 1957), Serbian-born Canadian journalist, writer and producer
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Anica Savić Rebac
Anica Savić-Rebac ( sr-Cyrl, Аница Савић-Ребац; 4 October 1892 — 7 October 1953) was a Serbian writer, classical philologist, translator, professor at the University of Belgrade. She wrote a number of essays and books about Njego ...
(1892–1953), Serbian writer, classical philologist and translator
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Anica Mrose Rissi
Anica Mrose Rissi is an American author of children's books and young adult novels. Her first book, ''Anna, Banana, and the Friendship Split'', was published by Simon & Schuster in 2015. Her nonfiction pieces have been published by the ''New York ...
, American author
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