Anna Elizabeth Rude (September 3, 1876[1] – June 20, 1960) was an American physician and suffragist, based in California.

She graduated from the state normal school (now San Jose State University) in San Jose in 1895,[2] and earned a medical degree at Cooper Medical College (now Stanford University School of Medicine).

[3] Rude testified at a 1920 Senate hearing on maternal and infant health, and worked for passage of the Sheppard-Towner Act.

[12] From the late 1920s into the 1940s,[13][14][15] she was director of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Hygiene in the Los Angeles County Health Department.

[18] While Rude was at the Children's Bureau, she wrote articles for the American Journal of Public Health[19][20] and JAMA.