Gentle Annie

Gentle Annie may refer to:

  • "Gentle Annie" (song), an 1856 American song composed by Stephen Foster, and a popular Australian parody version
  • "Gentle Annie" (Tommy Makem song), a song by Tommy Makem
  • Gentle Annie (film), a 1944 American film
  • Gentle Annie, a novel by MacKinlay Kantor; basis for the film
  • Anann or Gentle Annie, a Celtic goddess
  • Cenchrus longispinus or Gentle Annie, a species of grass
  • Gentle Annie Road, a road near Taihape, New Zealand
  • Gentle Annie Summit, an elevation near Tiniroto, New Zealand

People nicknamed "Gentle Annie":

  • Francis Joseph Bayldon (1872–1948), Australian master mariner and nautical instructor
  • Anna Etheridge (1839 – 1913), Union nurse during the American Civil War
  • Alfred Jefferis Turner (1861-1947), Australian pediatrician and entomologist

Famous quotes containing the words gentle and/or annie:

    They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    Annie Laurie
    Gie’d me her promise true;
    Gie’d me her promise true,
    Which ne’er forgot will be;
    And for bonnie Annie Laurie
    I’d lay me doune and dee.
    William Douglas (1672?–1748)