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any person.
a person of some importance:
If you’re anybody, you’ll receive an invitation.
anybody’s guess, a matter of conjecture:
It’s anybody’s guess why she quit.
Historical Examples

Woman, groaned Joseph Stagg, it doesnt matter whose fault it isor if its anybodys fault.
Carolyn of the Corners Ruth Belmore Endicott

The point is not his seeing or not seeing, nor anybodys seeing or not seeing.
The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee

She didnt see for her part how anybodys heart could stand it.
The Minister’s Wooing Harriet Beecher Stowe

Half-way down, it was kind of neck and neck, and anybodys race and nobodys.
A Horse’s Tale Mark Twain

Suzanne; she is a good child, on my honor, and incapable of tearing a hair from anybodys head, I dont care whose.
Brother Jacques (Novels of Paul de Kock, Volume XVII) Charles Paul de Kock

And another thing you must remember,you must not stand in anybodys way.
Meg, of Valencia Myra Williams Jarrell

The contempt alone is not genuine, but assumed to meet ours or anybodys.
Cradock Nowell, Vol. 3 (of 3) Richard Doddridge Blackmore

I dont say it is your fault; I dont say it is anybodys fault.
The Angel of Pain E. F. Benson

It was anybodys job, if he woke up, to crawl out and throw more wood on the fire, and Joe twice did this.
Boy Scouts in Glacier Park Walter Prichard Eaton

There was not a smile on anybodys face, and all was silence.
Twenty Years in Europe Samuel H. M. Byers

pronoun
any person; anyone
(usually used with a negative or a question) a person of any importance: he isn’t anybody in this town
noun (pl) -bodies
(often preceded by just) any person at random; no matter who
n.

c.1300, ani-bodi, from any + body. One-word form is attested by 1826. Phrase anybody’s game (or race, etc.) is from 1840.