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Anna Kaas was a Danish lady in waiting serving Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James VI and I.
She was a member of the Danish Kaas family and a relation of the politician Niels Kaas. She came to Scotland in May 1590 in the household of Anne of Denmark. She may been the queen's personal maid and a lifetime servant of the queen.
In 1603, when Anne of Denmmark came to England at the Union of the Crowns, it was said that she had only brought two aristocratic Scottish women with her. Dudley Carleton wrote that the queen said she not been allowed more than two Danish attendants when she came to Scotland in 1590, to refuse various aristocrats who wished to join her. The remark refers to Anna and Sophie Kaas and Cathrina Schinkel, her principal attendants in 1590.
At first, in Scotland, Anna Kass was accompanied by Sophie Kaas, perhaps her sister, who was a connection of Breide Rantzau. Sophie was listed in a roll of the queen's household in 1591. She is identified as Sophie Eriksdatter Kaas, a daughter of Erik Kaas of Gjelskov and Anna Emmiksen, and a maid of honour to Anne of Denmark. Sophie Kaas intended to marry a Scottish courtier but he died before the wedding, and she returned to Denmark. Some older genealogies state that Sophie Kaas married the diplomat Andrew Sinclair, but his bride was her sister, Kirsten Eriksdatter Kaas.