Anna (atau Onna) adalah Raja Anglia Timur dari awal 640-an hingga kematiannya pada 653 atau 654. Keponakan Rædwald, raja Anglia Timur pertama yang dibuktikan dalam sejarah, Anna naik takhta setelah kematian Sigeberht dan Ecgric dalam pertempuran melawan Penda, penguasa pagan dari kerajaan tetangga Mercia. Tidak banyak yang diketahui tentang pemerintahannya karena kurangnya dokumentasi, tetapi tampaknya ia bersaing terus-menerus dengan Penda. Pada 645, Anna disambut di istananya Cenwalh, Raja Wessex, diusir dari kerajaannya oleh Penda. Cenwalh masuk Kristen selama tinggal di Anglia Timur dan mendorong Kristenisasi rakyatnya setelah kembali ke Wessex pada 648. Pada 651, Penda menyerang biara Anglia Timur di Cnobheresburg dan memaksa Anna ke pengasingan. Tak lama setelah dia kembali, pada 653 atau 654, dia dihadapkan dengan serangan Penda lainnya dan terbunuh bersama putranya Jurmin saat menghadapi Mercia di Bulcamp, dekat Blythburgh. Saudaranya Æthelhere menggantikannya sebagai pemimpin Anglia Timur. Dia meninggalkan citra penguasa yang saleh, khususnya karena ketiga putrinya Seaxburh, Æthelthryth dan Æthelburh masuk ordo dan dianggap sebagai orang kudus.

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Anna 1 di Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England An episode of Time Team (Series 16, Episode 13 – Skeletons in the Shed: Blythburgh, Suffolk, first broadcast on 29 March 2009), at http://www.channel4.com, in which the historical association of the village of Blythburgh with Anna is explored. Southern England in the Eighth Century (Peta). Maps of Anglo-Saxon England. University of Cambridge (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic). Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 15 March 2012. Diakses tanggal 6 June 2011. Information about the Blythburgh writing-tablet, now at the British Museum (in London), can be found at the museum's website Diarsipkan 2012-10-22 di Wayback Machine..