Fanny (name)

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

Poetry:

• Fanny (poem), an 1819 poem by Fitz-Greene Halleck

Places known as Fanny include:

• Fanny, West Virginia, USA

Fanny, is slang which may refer to the

• buttocks (in the US and sometimes in New Zealand)
• vulva (in the UK, Australia and other places)

Abreviations

• 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.