Hannah (name)

Hannah spelled Hanna, Hana, Hanah, or Chana, is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin. It is derived from the root ḥ-n-n, meaning "favour" or "grace". A Dictionary of First Names attributes the name to a word meaning 'He (God) has favoured me with a child'. Anne, Ana, Ann, and other variants of the name derive from the Hellenized Hebrew: Anna (Ἅννα)

The Phoenician (Punic) name Hannibal derives from the same Canaanite root and means "My grace is Baal". In the Books of Samuel of the Hebrew Bible, Hannah is the mother of the prophet Samuel.

People

 * Hannah Caroline Aase (1883–1980), American botanist and cytologist
 * Hannah Adams (1755–1831), American author
 * Hannah Afriyie (born 1951), Ghanaian sprinter
 * Hannah Aitchison (born 1966), American tattoo artist
 * Hannah Al Rashid (born 1986), British actress, model and activist of Indonesian descent
 * Hannah Alcorn (born 1990), American voice actress
 * Hannah Aldworth (died 1778), English philanthropist
 * Hannah Allam (born 1977), Egyptian-American journalist and reporter
 * Hannah Allen (1638–1668x1708), British writer
 * Hannah Alligood, American actress
 * Hannah Alper, Canadian activist
 * Hannah Altman, American photographer
 * Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German philosopher
 * Hannah Arnold (born 1996), Filipina beauty pageant titleholder
 * Hannah Arterton (born 1989), British actor and singer
 * Hannah Atkins (1923–2010), American politician
 * Hannah Auchentaller (born 2001), Italian biathlete
 * Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo (1915–2015), Nigerian businesswoman and politician
 * Hannah Johnston Bailey (1839–1923), American Quaker teacher, activist and advocate
 * Hannah Baker, English cricketer
 * Hannah Ball (1734–1792), English Wesleyan methodist
 * Hannah Baptiste, Guyanese footballer
 * Hannah Bardell (born 1983), Scottish politician
 * Hannah Connell Barker (1844–1918), American businesswoman
 * Hannah Barnes (born 1993), British cyclist
 * Hannah Barnett-Trager (1870–1943), English writer and activist
 * Hannah Bast, German computer scientist
 * Hannah Bat Shahar (born 1944), Israeli writer
 * Hannah Battersby, American sideshow performer
 * Hannah Beachler (born 1970), American production designer
 * Hannah Beard (born 1988), English footballer
 * Hannah Beazley (born 1979), Australian politician
 * Hannah Beckerman, English author and journalist
 * Hannah Beech, American journalist
 * Hannah Bell (born 1969), Canadian politician
 * Hannah Benka-Coker (1903–1952), Sierra Leone-born educator
 * Hannah Bergstedt (born 1977), Swedish politician
 * Hannah Berry, British comics artist and writer
 * Hannah Betfort, American soccer player
 * Hannah Bilka, American ice hockey player
 * Hannah Billig (1901–1987), English medical doctor
 * Hannah Black, British artist
 * Hannah Blake (born 2000), English-born New Zealand footballer
 * Hannah Blank (born 1930), American author
 * Hannah Blilie (born 1981), American musician
 * Hannah Blore, Welsh sailor
 * Hannah Blundell (born 1994), English professional footballer
 * Hannah Blythyn (born 1979), Welsh Labour politician and Member of the Senedd for Delyn
 * Hannah Boleyn, British singer songwriter
 * Hannah Borden Palmer (1843–1940), American temperance reformer
 * Hannah Botha (1923–2007), South African actress
 * Hannah Botterman (born 1999), england international rugby union player
 * Hannah Bowley (born 1984), Australian basketball player
 * Hannah Brackenbury (1795–1873), English philanthropist
 * Hannah Brand (1754–1821), English actress, poet and playwright
 * Hannah Brandt (born 1993), American ice hockey player
 * Hannah Brewer (born 1993), Australian soccer player
 * Hannah Brier (born 1998), British sprinter
 * Hannah Britland (born 1990), British actress and model
 * Hannah Broederlow (born 1988), New Zealand netball player
 * Hannah Bromley (born 1986), New Zealand footballer
 * Hannah Bronfman (born 1987), American DJ, influencer, and entrepreneur
 * Hannah Brown (born 1994), American television personality and model
 * Hannah Brown (born 1990), British canoeist
 * Hannah Brown Skeele (1829–1901), American painter
 * Hannah Brückner (born 1958), American sociologist
 * Hannah Buckley, New Zealand ecologist
 * Hannah Buckling (born 1992), Australian water polo center back
 * Hannah Burchell (born 1995), Australian rules footballer
 * Hannah Burdon (1800–1877), English novelist
 * Hannah Burke (born 1988), English golfer
 * Hannah Burkhill, Australian synchronized swimmer
 * Hannah Button (born 1996), Australian rules footballer
 * Hannah L. Buxbaum, American academic administrator
 * Hannah Cain (born 1999), Wales international footballer
 * Hannah Callowhill Penn (1671–1727), second wife of William Penn
 * Hannah Calvert, South African water polo player
 * Hannah Campbell-Pegg (born 1982), Australian luger
 * Hannah Casey (born 1988), Irish rugby union player
 * Hannah Chadwick, American Paralympic cyclist
 * Hannah Chaplin (1865–1928), English actress, singer and dancer
 * Hannah Chapman Backhouse (1787–1850), English diarist and Quaker minister
 * Hannah Cheesman (born 1984), Canadian actress and filmmaker
 * Hannah B. Chickering (1817–1879), American prison reformer
 * Hannah Chukwu (born 2003), Hungarian squash player
 * Hannah Cifers (born 1992), American mixed martial arts fighter
 * Hannah Claesson (born 1991), Swedish footballer
 * Hannah Clark (born 1990), English cricketer
 * Hannah Clarke (1988–2020), Australian sportsperson and murder victim
 * Hannah Claus (born 1969), indigenous Canadian visual artist
 * Hannah Claydon (born 1986), English glamour model
 * Hannah Clayson Smith, American lawyer
 * Hannah Cloke, British hydrologist
 * Hannah Clothier Hull (1872–1958), American club woman, feminist and pacifist
 * Hannah Clowes (born 1991), British artistic gymnast
 * Hannah Cobb, archaeologist
 * Hannah Cockroft (born 1992), British wheelchair racer
 * Hannah Cohen, multiple people
 * Hannah Cohoon (1788–1864), American painter
 * Hannah Collin (born 1982), English tennis player
 * Hannah Collins, British contemporary artist and filmmaker
 * Hannah Conda, drag performer
 * Hannah Cooper (born 1979), Liberian hurdler
 * Hannah Cotter, New Zealand field hockey player
 * Hannah Cotton, Israeli classics professor and historian
 * Hannah Cowley, multiple people
 * Hannah Crafts, American writer and escaped slave
 * Hannah Craig (born 1983), Irish canoe slalom racer
 * Hannah Critchlow (born 1980), British scientist, writer and broadcaster
 * Hannah Cross, multiple people
 * Hannah Cullum-Sanders, Australian field hockey player
 * Hannah Cullwick (1833–1909), English diarist
 * Hannah Cunliffe (born 1996), American athlete
 * Hannah Dodd (born 1992), Australian female equestrian Paralympic
 * Hannah Dodd (born 1995), English actress
 * Hannah Dreier, American journalist
 * Hannah Duston (1657–c. 1736), Indian fighter
 * Hannah Bachman Einstein (1862–1929), American child welfare activist
 * Hannah Elias (born c. 1865), American business woman
 * Hannah Elizabeth (born 1990), English model and television personality
 * Hannah England (born 1987), British middle-distance running athlete
 * Hannah Dakota Fanning (born 1994), American actress, known as Dakota Fanning
 * Hannah Tobey Farmer (1823-1891), American philanthropist, writer, and social reformer
 * Hannah Ferguson (born 1992), American model
 * Hannah Fidell (born 1985), American film director, producer and screenwriter
 * Hannah Foster (1985–2003), British murder victim
 * Hannah Friedman (born 1986), American writer, director, and musician
 * Hannah Fry (born 1984), British mathematician
 * Hannah Gadsby (born 1978), Australian comedian
 * Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), English cookbook writer
 * Hannah Godwin (born 1995), American television personality, model and YouTuber
 * Hannah Gordon (born 1941), Scottish actress
 * Hannah Flagg Gould (1789–1864), American poet
 * Hannah Simpson Grant (1798–1883), mother of president Ulysses S. Grant
 * Hannah Green (born 1996), Australian professional golfer
 * Hannah Gross (born 1992), Canadian actress
 * Hannah Hart (born 1986), American internet personality, comedian, actress and author
 * Hannah Hampton (born 2000), English professional footballer
 * Hannah Hauxwell (1926–2018), Yorkshire Dales farmer
 * Hannah Herzsprung (born 1981), German actress
 * Hannah Höch (1889–1978), German Dada artist
 * Hannah Hodson (born 1991), American actress, journalist
 * Hannah Ild (born 1981), Estonian singer
 * Hannah Jeter (born 1990), American model and television host
 * Hannah Jones, multiple people
 * Hannah Kallem (1865–1937), Norwegian-born American army nurse
 * Hannah Kearney (born 1986), American mogul skier
 * Hannah T. King (1808–1886), British-American writer, pioneer
 * Hannah Klugman (born 2009), British professional tennis player
 * Hannah Kudjoe (1918–1986), Ghanaian activist
 * Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee (1701–1750), American colonial heiress
 * Hannah Higgins (born 1964), American writer and academic
 * Hannah Lowe (born 1976), British writer
 * Hannah Lyman (1816–1871), American educator, biographer
 * Hannah Mancini (born 1980), American-Slovenian singer
 * Hannah Marks (born 1993), American actress, writer
 * Hannah Meul (born 2001), German rock climber
 * Hannah Miley (born 1989), Scottish swimmer
 * Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956), English suffragette and socialist
 * Hannah More (1745–1833), English religious writer and philanthropist
 * Hannah Moscovitch (born 1978), Canadian playwright
 * Hannah Milhous Nixon (1885–1967), mother of U.S. president Richard Nixon
 * Hannah Miller (born 1996), American figure skater
 * Hannah Mills (born 1988), British competitive sailor
 * Hannah Ama Nyarko, Ghana politician


 * Hannah Ocuish (1774–1786), 12-year old Pequot Native American girl who was hanged for murder
 * Hannah Onslow (born 1998), English actress
 * Hannah Osborne (born 1994), New Zealand rower
 * Hannah J. Patterson (1879–1937), American suffragist and social activist
 * Hannah Peel (born 1984), Northern Irish musician


 * Hannah Pfalzgraf (born 1997), Swiss politician
 * Hannah Maynard Pickard (1812–1844), American school teacher, preceptress, author
 * Hannah Primrose (1851–1890), Countess of Rosebery
 * Hannah Murray (born 1989), English actress
 * Hannah Maynard (1834–1918), Canadian photographer
 * Hannah New (born 1984), English actress
 * Hannah Newhouse (born 1997), American professional stock car racing driver and reporter
 * Hannah Pingree (born 1976), majority leader and Speaker of the House in the Maine House of Representatives
 * Hannah Cope Plimpton, American educator and relief worker
 * Hannah Pritchard (1711–1768), English actress
 * Hannah Quinlivan (born 1993), Taiwanese actress and model
 * Hannah Reid (born 1989), English singer of London Grammar
 * Hannah Reynolds (soccer) (born 1998), American soccer player
 * Hannah Rigby (c.1794–1853), Australian convict
 * Hannah Roberts (born 2001), American BMX freestyle cyclist
 * Hannah Robertson (1724—?) Scottish autobiographer, instructional writer, and teacher
 * Hannah Robinson, British songwriter
 * Hannah Rueben (born 1994), Nigerian wrestler
 * Hannah Semer (1925–2003), Israeli journalist
 * Hannah Simone (born 1980), Canadian actress, television host, and model
 * Hannah Ann Sluss, American television personality
 * Hannah Clayson Smith, American attorney
 * Hannah Snell (1723–1792), British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier
 * Hannah Spearritt (born 1981), English singer and actress
 * Hannah Stockbauer (born 1982), German swimmer
 * Hannah Stocking (born 1992), American internet personality, comedian, model and actress
 * Hannah Storm (born 1962), American co-host of The Early Show
 * Hannah Stuelke (born c. 2004), American basketball player
 * Hannah Bluma Sultz, Lithuanian Hebrew poet
 * Hannah Swarton (1651–1708), New England colonial pioneer
 * Hannah Szenes (1921–1944), Hungarian Jew arrested during the Second World War
 * Hannah Tan (born 1981), Malaysian singer-songwriter
 * Hannah Taylor-Gordon (born 1987) English actress, Anne Frank: The Whole Story
 * Hannah Teter (born 1987), American snowboarder
 * Hannah Tompkins (1920–1995), American artist
 * Hannah Tointon (born 1987), British actress
 * Hannah Twynnoy (1669/70–1703), first British person killed by a tiger
 * Hannah Tyrrell (born 1990), Irish rugby player
 * Hannah Van Buren (1783–1819), wife of the 8th president of the US, Martin Van Buren
 * Hannah van der Westhuysen (born 1995), British actress
 * Hannah Vogt (1910–1994), German historian
 * Hannah Waddingham (born 1974), English actress
 * Hannah Wants (born 1986), British DJ and producer
 * Hannah Ware (born 1982), English actress
 * Hannah Webster Foster (1758–1840), American novelist
 * Hannah Weiner (1928–1997), American poet
 * Hannah Whelan (born 1992), British gymnast
 * Hannah Whitall Smith (1832–1911), American lay speaker and author during the Holiness movement
 * Hannah Widell (born 1975), Swedish television presenter and media-personality
 * Hannah Wilke (1940–1993), American painter, sculptor and photographer
 * Hannah Wilson (born 1989), Hong Kong swimmer
 * Hannah Witton (born 1992), English YouTuber and writer
 * Hannah Wood (born 1983), American poet and actress
 * Hannah Amelia Wright (1836–1924), American physician
 * Hannah P. Yang, American cancer epidemiologist
 * Hannah Yeoh (born 1979), Malaysian politician and lawyer
 * Hannah, Australian pop singer

Biblical figures

 * Hannah (biblical figure), the mother of Samuel from the Books of Samuel
 * Saint Anne, mother of Mary, mother of Jesus
 * Woman with seven sons, an unnamed Jewish martyr in 2 Maccabees, usually given the name Hannah
 * Anna the Prophetess, a prophetess in the Gospel of Luke, spelled Hannah in some translations

Fictional characters

 * Hannah in Arrival
 * Hannah Abbott, character in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
 * Hannah Asher, a character portrayed by Jessy Schram in the medical drama Chicago Med.
 * Hannah Baxter, semi-fictional character and protagonist of the British television series Secret Diary of a Call Girl
 * Hannah Phillips, Sid's younger sister in the 1995 3D computer-animated film Toy Story.
 * Hannah Ashworth, character portrayed by Emma Rigby on the English soap opera Hollyoaks
 * Hannah Baker, a character in the novel and Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.
 * Hannah Fleishman, character in the book Fleishman Is in Trouble and the TV adaptation. She is portrayed in the TV series by Meara Mahoney Gross.
 * Hannah Grosse in The Haunting of Bly Manor. She is portrayed by T'Nia Miller.
 * Hannah Kahnwald,a character in the German Netflix series Dark portrayed by Maja Schöne and Ella Lee,respectively.
 * Hannah McKay, character portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski on the Showtime TV series Dexter
 * Hannah Martin, character portrayed by Rebecca Ritters on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
 * Hannah Montana, alter ego of Miley Cyrus' character Miley Stewart in the television show of the same name
 * Hannah Osborne, fictional character in Hollyoaks
 * Hannah Osborne, fictional character in The Handmaid's Tale
 * Hannah Swanson, a.k.a. Hina Midorikawa, character in the anime series Glitter Force
 * Hannah Wells in American Horror Story: NYC. She is portrayed by Billie Lourd.
 * Hannah Whitehouse, a.k.a. Honoka Yukishiro, co-protagonist of the Toei anime Futari wa Pretty Cure
 * Hannah Wilson, fictional character from the Australian soap opera, Home and Away

People

 * Hanna Alström (born 1981), Swedish actress
 * Hanna Arsenych-Baran (1970–2021), Ukrainian writer of prose, novels and poetry
 * Hanna Barysiewicz (1888–2007), the oldest female resident of Belarus not registered by the Guinness Book of Records.
 * Hanna Borysivna Korsun, known professionally as Maruv, is a Ukrainian singer
 * Hanna Brooman (1809–1887), Swedish composer, translator and educator
 * Hanna Fahl (born 1978), Swedish music journalist and translator
 * Hanna Granfelt (1884–1952), Finnish opera singer
 * Hanna Grönvall (1879–1953), Swedish politician
 * Hanna Hall (born 1984), American actress
 * Hanna Hammarström (1829–1909), Swedish inventor
 * Hanna Hermansson (born 1989), Swedish runner
 * Hanna Hipp, Polish lyric mezzo-soprano
 * Hanna Holborn Gray (born 1930), American historian and professor
 * Hanna Jaff (born 1986), American born Mexican-Kurd politician, philanthropist, human rights activist, and author
 * Hanna Jaltner (born 1976), Swedish breaststroke swimmer
 * Hanna Karasiova (born 1978), Belarusian archer
 * Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (born 1989), Israeli triple jumper and long jumper
 * Hanna Lindberg (1865–1951), Swedish politician, first woman on a communal council (1910)
 * Hanna Ljungberg (born 1979), Swedish soccer player
 * Hanna Marie Barker (born 1996), American soccer player
 * Hanna Maron (1923–2014), Israeli actress
 * Hanna Neumann (1914–1971), German-born mathematician
 * Hanna Newcombe (1922–2011), Canadian peace activist
 * Hanna Pakarinen (born 1981), Finnish pop singer
 * Hanna van Recklinghausen (1332–?), Dutch banker
 * Hanna von Pestalozza (1867–1963), German writer
 * Hanna Reitsch (1912–1979), German test pilot
 * Hanna Rieber (1927–2014), Romanian-born Israeli actress
 * Hanna Rovina (1892–1980), Israeli actress and original "First Lady of Hebrew Theatre"
 * Hanna Scheuring (born 1965), Swiss actress and theatre director
 * Hanna Schygulla (born 1943), German actress and singer
 * Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877–1946), Irish feminist, wife of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington
 * Hanna Stadnik (1929–2020), Polish activist
 * Hanna Styrell (1842–1904), Swedish actress
 * Hanna Suchocka (born 1946), Prime Minister of Poland from 1992–1993
 * Hanna Wolf (1908–1999), East German historian and politician
 * Hanna Yablonska (1981–2011), Ukrainian playwright and poet

Saint and Blessed

 * Hanna Helena Chrzanowska (1902–1973), nurse and professed member of the Benedictine oblates

Fictional characters

 * Hanna (character), titular character in the film bearing her name and the TV series based on it. Portrayed by Saoirse Ronan (film) and Esmé Creed-Miles (series)
 * Hanna Marin, character from the TV and book series Pretty Little Liars and in the TV series is portrayed by Ashley Benson.
 * Hanna Jensen, fictional character from the novel Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage