Ann Daniels (born 1964 or 1965) is a British polar explorer and motivational speaker. She and her team-mate were the first women to reach both the North Pole and South Pole as part of all-women teams, in 2002. Daniels was born Bradford, England, and grew up there, with four older brothers. Her father was an insurance salesman, her mother a secretary. She worked for NatWest, achieving promotion to assistant bank manager, a post which she gave up in 1994, when her triplets were born. She first reached the North Pole on in the 1997 , and has been there at least six times in all.