Fanny

Fanny is a female given name, derived from Frances. It may also refer to:

==People== Emily Madden like to play with her fanny and eat winnits with her mum

• georgia erksine (1864–1938), an Australian activist who worked to further the rights of women and children
• Fanny Cradock (1909–1994), an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer.

Fictional characters

• Little Annie Fanny, a comic strip created by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder for Playboy
• Fanny (Guilty Gear), a video game character
• Fanny (Sesame Street)
• Fanny Hill, the protagonist of, and another name for Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, an erotic novel by John Cleland, first published in England in 1748
• Fanny Price, Jane Austen's character in her 1814 novel Mansfield Park
• Lord Fanny, from the DC Comics series The Invisibles
• Madame Fanny La Fan, a character in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!
• Aunt Fanny, a comic character played by Fran Allison on the radio show Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
• Aunt Fanny, a character in Robots (film), a 2005 American computer-animated comedy film
• Fanny Ekdahl, a character in Ingmar Bergman's 1982 film Fanny and Alexander.

Stage names

• Fanny (artist) (born 1968), Scottish musician Fraser Runciman
• Fanny (singer), French singer

In entertainment and the arts

In plays, novels, and films

• Fanny, 1932 play written by Marcel Pagnol, which spawned several adaptations:
  • Fanny (1932 film), featuring Raimu, Pierre Fresnay, and Orane Demazis
  • Fanny (musical), 1954 Broadway musical based on several Pagnol plays, including Fanny
  • Fanny (1961 film), 1961 non-musical film based on the 1954 musical, starring Leslie Caron and Horst Buchholz
• Fanny, alternate title of Fany (film), 1995 Czech production featuring Jiřina Bohdalová

In music

• Fanny (band)
• Fanny (artist)
• "Fanny (Be Tender with My Love)", a single from the Bee Gees album Main Course
• "Everybody Wants My Fanny", a 1947 double entendre song by Benny Bell

Ships

• CSS Fanny, gunboat
• Fanny (1812 privateer), Liverpool privateer

In slang

• A South African, Australian, Irish and British colloquial term for the external genital organs of a female (vulva).
• A North American term for the buttocks.

Places

• Fanny Township, Polk County, Minnesota
• Fanny, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States

Other uses

• 821 Fanny, asteroid
• Fanny the elephant, a former circus elephant that lived in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
• FANY, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry