Fanny

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Fanny is a given name—a pet form of Frances, which in turn is the female form of Francis— and a place name.

People commonly known solely by the given name Fanny include:

Fanny was a 1970s all women rock band led by June Millington.
Fanny is a fictional character in the fighting game Guilty Gear.
Fanny is the first name of a girl often used in segments on the children's television show Sesame Street
Fanny Blankers-Koen was a Dutch athlete.
Fanny Brice
Fanny Cradock
Fanny Crosby
Fanny Hill, (fictional) character in an erotic novel by John Cleland.
Fanny, Being The True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones is the title of a novel by Erica Jong. (1980)
Fanny is an alias of breakcore artist Frasier Runciman.
Fanny Lú is a Colombian singer.

Plays and films known as 'Fanny' include:

Fanny is a play by S.N. Behrman, Joshua Logan and Harold Rome based from the plays Fanny, Marius and César by Marcel Pagnol.
Fanny is a 1922 Mexican silent film written by Eduardo Urriola and directed by Manuel Sánchez Valtierra
Fanny is a 1932 French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Marc Allégret
Fanny is a 1933 Italian film written by Alessandro De Stefani & Raffaello Matarazzo and directed by Mario Almirante
Fanny is a 1961 film by Julius J. Epstein based on the play Fanny (1961)
Fany (aka "Fanny") is a 1995 Czech film written by Jiří Hubac and directed by Karel Kachyňa
Fanny is a 2000 made-for-TV French film written by Marcel Pagnol and directed by Nicolas Ribowski

Poetry:

Fanny, (1819), a poem by Fitz-Greene Halleck

Places known as Fanny include:

Fanny, West Virginia, USA

Other uses include:

Fanny, a chiefly American slang term referring to the buttocks, also used in New Zealand.
Fanny, British slang for vagina.
FANY, (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) pronounced "Fanny" were female army nurses in Britain from 1907 onwards, and may be the link between the word and the slang usage.

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