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Annie Higgins, or Annie O'Higgins ( – August 1935), was an Irish pianist, revolutionary, and a member of the Central Branch of Cumann na mBan. Originally from Dublin, she worked as a music teacher in Carrickmacross in County Monaghan.

Reputedly on holiday in Dublin during Easter week of 1916, she became involved in the Easter Rising. Stationed initially in the Hibernian Bank on what was then Sackville Street, opposite Dublin's GPO, Higgins was later based within the GPO itself. She was sent by members of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic, with a despatch from the GPO to Monaghan, but was arrested while en route. She was jailed, initially in Armagh, before being moved to Richmond, Kilmainham, and Mountjoy gaols with Constance Markievicz, Helena Molony, Kathleen Lynn and Countess Plunkett. She was released in early June 1916.

After her release, Higgins worked as a musician and published musical arrangements for a number of Irish ballads. Together with her mother, Higgins died in a fire at her flat, above Sinn Féin's offices on Dublin's Parnell Square, in August 1935.