title: Ans (given name)
text: # Ans (given name)
  
  Ans is a Dutch feminine given name, a short form of either Anna or Johanna. People with the name include:
  
  * Ans van den Berg (1873–1942), Dutch painter
  * Ans Bouwmeester (fl. 1980s), Dutch Paralympic athlete
  * Ans Dekker (born 1955), Dutch artistic gymnast
  * Ans van Dijk (1905–1948), Dutch-Jewish collaborator with Nazi Germany
  * Ans Dresden-Polak (1906–1943), Dutch-Jewish gymnast and holocaust victim
  * Ans van Gerwen (born 1951), Dutch artistic gymnast
  * Ans Gravesteijn (born 1951), Dutch rower
  * Ans van Kemenade (born 1954), Dutch professor of English linguistics
  * Ans Koning (1922–2006), Dutch javelin thrower
  * Ans Luttge-Deetman (1867-1952), Dutch painter
  * Ans Markus (born 1947), Dutch painter
  * Ans Panhorst-Niesink (1918–2010), Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
  * Ans Schut (born 1944), Dutch speed skater
  * Ans Timmermans (1919–1958), Dutch swimmer
  * Ans Westra (1936–2023), Dutch-born New Zealand photographer
  * Ans Wortel (1929–1996), Dutch painter, poet and writer
  * Ans Woud, a pseudonym of Setske de Haan (1889–1948), Dutch children's writer
  