Given name •
Fanny Adams (1859–1867), English murder victim •
Fanny Alving (1874–1955), Swedish poet and novelist •
Fanny Ardant (born 1949), French actress •
Fanny Arden (1859–1955), New Zealand artist •
Fanny Altendorfer, Austrian luger who competed in the late 1920s •
Fanny Balbuk (1840–1906), prominent Noongar Whadjuk woman who lived in Perth, Western Australia •
Fanny Bastien (born 1961), French actress •
Fanny Amelia Bayfield (died 1891), English-born Canadian artist and educator •
Fanny de Beauharnais (1737–1813), French lady of letters and salon holder, born Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard •
Fanny Bendixen (1820–1899), hotelier and saloon keeper during the gold-rush period in British Columbia •
Fanny Blood (1758–1785), English illustrator and educator and longtime friend of Mary Wollstonecraft •
Fanny Yarborough Bickett (1870–1941), American social worker and political hostess •
Fanny Blankers-Koen (1918–2004), Dutch track and field athlete, Olympic and world champion and world record holder •
Fanny Blomé (born 1989), Swedish model and beauty pageant titleholder •
Fanny Bornedal (born 2000), Danish actress •
Fanny Bouvet (born 1994), French diver •
Fanny Brennan (1921–2001), French-American surrealist painter •
Fanny Britt (born 1977), Canadian playwright and translator living in Quebec •
Fanny Brownbill (1890–1948), Australian pioneering politician •
Fanny Buitrago (born 1943), Colombian fiction writer and playwright •
Fanny Cadeo (born 1970), Italian showgirl, model, television personality and singer •
Fanny Calder (1838–1923), promoter of education in domestic subjects in Liverpool •
Fanny Cano (1944–1983), Mexican actress and producer •
Fanny Carby (1925–2002), British actress •
Fanny Hallock Carpenter (1854–1939), American lawyer and clubwoman •
Fanny Carlsen, German screenwriter of the silent era •
Fanny Carrió (fl. 1879–1949), Uruguayan liberal feminist •
Fanny DuBois Chase (1828–1902), American social reformer and author •
Fanny Charrin (1781–1854), French portrait painter specializing in miniatures •
Fanny Chmelar (born 1985), German alpine skier •
Fanny Chollet (born 1991), Swiss pilot •
Fanny Churberg (1845–1892), Finnish landscape painter •
Fanny Clamagirand (born 1984), French classical violinist •
Fanny Clar (1875–1944), French journalist, writer and socialist •
Fanny Colonna (1934–2014), French-Algerian sociologist and anthropologist •
Fanny Jackson Coppin (1837–1913), African-American educator and missionary •
Fanny Corbaux (1812–1883), British painter and biblical commentator •
Fanny Cornforth (1835–1909), model and mistress of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, real name thought to be Sarah Cox •
Fanny Corri-Paltoni, English operatic soprano active in Europe between 1818 and 1835 •
Fanny Cory (1877–1972), American artist and illustrator best known for her comic strip
Little Miss Muffet •
Fanny Cottençon (born 1957), French actress •
Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer •
Fanny Curtis (1908–2003), American sportswoman •
Fanny Currey (1848–1917), Irish horticulturalist and watercolour painter •
Fanny Davenport (1850–1898), Anglo-American stage actress •
Fanny Vining Davenport (1829–1891), English actress •
Fanny Davies (1861–1934), British pianist •
Fanny Deakin (1883–1968), English politician •
Fanny Deberghes (born 1994), French swimmer •
Fanny Murdaugh Downing (1831–1894), American author and poet •
Fanny Duberly (1829–1903), English soldier's wife who wrote a journal of her experiences •
Fanny Eagles (1836–1907), British Anglican deaconess •
Fanny Edelman (1911–2011), Argentine politician •
Fanny Carter Edson (1887–1952), American petroleum geologist •
Fanny Elssler (1810–1884), Austrian ballerina •
Fanny Elsta (1899–1978), Norwegian opera singer •
Fanny Fields (1880–1961), American singer, dancer and comic entertainer •
Fanny Fischer (born 1986), German sprint canoer •
Fanny Furner (1864–1938), Australian activist for the rights of women and children •
Fanny Garrido (1846–1917), Spanish writer •
Fanny Gjörup (1961–2001), Swedish actress •
Fanny Chambers Gooch (1842–1913), American author •
Fanny Good (1860–1950), New Zealand artist •
Fanny Grattan Guinness (1831–1898), British writer, evangelist and trainer of missionaries •
Fanny Hausmann (1818–1853), Slovenian writer and poet •
Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), German composer and pianist, sister of composer Felix Mendelssohn •
Fanny Herrero (born 1974), French television screenwriter •
Fanny Hertz (1830–1908), British educationalist and feminist •
Fanny Hjelm (1858–1944), Swedish visual artist •
Fanny Holland (1847–1931), English singer and comic actress •
Fanny Howe (1940–2025), American poet, novelist and short story writer •
Fanny Ingvoldstad (1857–1935), Norwegian painter • Fanny Jacques-André-Coquin (born 1987), stage name
Fanny J, French singer •
Fanny Kaplan (1890–1918), Russian attempted assassin of Vladimir Lenin, born Feiga Haimovna Roytblat •
Fanny Kekelaokalani (1806–1880), member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and mother of a Queen consort •
Fanny Ketter (born 1996), Swedish actress •
Fanny Lam Christie (born 1952), Hong Kong sculptor •
Fanny E. Lacy (–1869), British writer and activist •
Fanny Lång (born 1996), Swedish footballer •
Fanny Langdon (1864–1899), American zoologist •
Fanny Law (born 1953), Hong Kong civil servant •
Fanny Létourneau (born 1979), Canadian synchronized swimmer •
Fanny Lewald (1811–1889), German author and feminist •
Fanny López Jiménez (born 1970), Mexican archaeologist •
Fanny Loy (1917-unknown), Argentine actress, dancer and singer •
Fanny Peabody Mason (1864–1948), American heiress, philanthropist •
Fanny Mikey (c. 1930–2008), Argentine-born Colombian actress, theatre producer and entrepreneur •
Fanny Mills (1860–1899), British-American circus performer •
Fanny E. Minot (1847–1919), American public worker •
Fanny Moser (baroness) (1848–1925), Swiss noblewoman •
Fanny Moser (scientist) (1872–1953), Swiss-German zoologist •
Fanny Murray (1729–1778), English courtesan •
Fanny Östlund (born 1997), Swedish tennis player •
Fanny Bury Palliser (1805–1878), English writer on art and lace •
Fanny Purdy Palmer (1839–1923), American author, lecturer and activist •
Fanny Peltier (born 1997), French sprinter •
Fanny Addison Pitt (1847–1937), English actress •
Fanny Runnells Poole (1863–1940), American writer and book reviewer •
Fanny Puyesky (1939–2010), Uruguayan lawyer, writer and dramatist known as "the first feminist" of Uruguay •
Fanny Ramos (born 1995), French kickboxer •
Fanny Raoul (1771–1833), French feminist writer, journalist, philosopher and essayist •
Fanny Rinne (born 1980), German field hockey player • Fanny Rosenfeld, also known as
Bobbie Rosenfeld (1904–1969), Canadian multi-sport athlete •
Fanny Rozet (1881–1958), French sculptor •
Fanny Rubio (born 1949), Spanish academic •
Fanny Rush, British portrait painter •
Fanny Searls (1851–1939), American doctor and botanical collector •
Fanny Sidney (born 1987), French actress, director and screenwriter •
Fanny Smith (born 1992), Swiss freestyle skier •
Fanny Cochrane Smith (1834–1905), Aboriginal Tasmanian considered the last fluent speaker of the Flinders Island lingua franca and thus the Tasmanian languages •
Fanny Bixby Spencer (1879–1930), American philanthropist and antiwar writer •
Fanny Stål (1821–1889), Swedish pianist •
Fanny Stollár (born 1998), Hungarian tennis player •
Fanny Sunesson (born 1967), Swedish golf caddie •
Fanny Tenret (born 1990), French footballer •
Fanny Tercy (1782–1851), French historical novelist •
Fanny Thibout (1907–1998), Belgian dancer and folklorist •
Fanny Vágó (born 1991), Hungarian footballer •
Fanny Valette (born 1986), French actress •
Fanny Waterman (1920–2020), English musician, founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition •
Fanny Westerdahl (1817–1873), Swedish dramatic stage actress
Pet form of Frances •
Fanny Alger (1817–1889), American alleged first plural wife of Latter Day Saints founder Joseph Smith •
Fanny Allen (1784–1819), first woman from New England to become a Catholic nun •
Fanny Blood (1758–1785), English illustrator and educator, and longtime friend of Mary Wollstonecraft •
Fanny Brawne (1800–1865), engaged to poet John Keats •
Fanny Brough (1852–1914), British stage actress •
Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist, diarist and playwright •
Fanny Chamberlain (1825–1905), American First Lady of Maine •
Fanny Crosby (1820–1915), American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist and composer •
Fanny Durack (1889–1956), Australian swimmer •
Fanny Fitzwilliam (1801–1854), English stage actress and theatre manager • Fanny Hamlin (born 1987), also known as
Faye (musician), Swedish former singer, songwriter, and model •
Fanny Imlay (1794–1816), illegitimate daughter of the British writer and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft •
Fanny Kemble (1809–1893), English actress, writer and anti-slavery figure •
Fanny Knight (1793–1882), English niece and correspondent of the novelist Jane Austen •
Frances Nelson (1761–1831), wife of Admiral Horatio Nelson •
Frances Sargent Osgood (1811–1850), American poet •
Fanny Parkes (1794–1875), Welsh travel writer •
Fanny Rowe (1913–1988), English stage, film and television actress •
Fanny Steers (1797–1861), English watercolourist, landscapist, author and composer •
Fanny Stevenson (1840–1914), wife of writer Robert Louis Stevenson •
Frances Wimperis (1840–1925), New Zealand artist
Pet form of Francesca •
Fanny Cerrito (1817–1909), Italian ballet dancer and choreographer
Pet form of Francisca •
Fanny Anitùa (1887–1969), Mexican contralto opera singer
Pet form of Françoise •
Fanny Dillon (1785–1836), French noblewoman •
Fanny Geefs (1807–1883), Belgian painter of Irish descent •
Fanny Mosselman (1808–1880), Belgian noble and salonist •
Fanny Krumpholtz Pittar (1781–1862), Bohemian harpist and composer
Pet form of Franziska •
Fanny von Arnstein (1758–1818), Austrian socialite and salonnière •
Fanny Elssler (1810–1884), Austrian ballerina •
Fanny Hausmann (1818–1853), Slovenian writer and poet of German origin •
Fanny Schreck (1877–1951), German actress •
Fanny von Starhemberg (1875–1943), Austrian politician •
Fanny Tarnow (1779–1862), German writer born
Pen name •
Fanny Cradock, English restaurant critic, television cook and writer Phyllis Pechey (1909–1994) •
Fanny Fern, Sara Willis (1811–1872), American newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist and author of children's stories
Stage name •
Fanny Brice, American comedian, actress and singer Fania Borach (1891–1951) •
Fanny Heldy, Belgian operatic soprano born Marguerite Virginie Emma Clémentine Deceuninck (1888–1973) •
Fanny Lu, Colombian singer-songwriter and actress Lucía Martínez Buenaventura (born 1973) •
Fanny Lumsden, Australian country music singer and songwriter Edwina Lumsden (born 1986) ==Men==