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Anna Leonowens

1831 - 1915

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Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards; 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist. She became well known with the publication of her memoirs, beginning with The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which chronicled her experiences in Siam (modern Thailand), as teacher to the children of the Siamese King Mongkut. Leonowens's own account was fictionalised in Margaret Landon's best-selling novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944) as well as adaptations for other media such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 musical The King and I. During the course of her life, Leonowens also lived in Western Australia, Singapore and Penang, the United States, Canada and Germany. In later life, she was a lecturer of Indology and a suffragist. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Leonowens is the 1,812th most popular writer (down from 1,686th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from India (down from 216th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Anna Leonowens ranks 1,812 out of 7,302. Before her are Minamoto no Sanetomo, Paul Goodman, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, Pierre Reverdy, and Theodore I. After her are Ted Hughes, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Álvaro Mutis, and Petros Markaris.

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Among people born in 1831, Anna Leonowens ranks 40. Before her are Ludvig Nobel, Nikolai Ge, Othniel Charles Marsh, Paul Durand-Ruel, Maurice de Hirsch, and George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. After her are Ankō Itosu, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Princess Helena of Nassau, Daniele Comboni, Wilhelm Raabe, and Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt. Among people deceased in 1915, Anna Leonowens ranks 35. Before her are Konstantin Makovsky, Edith Cavell, Julius von Payer, François Faber, Oswald Külpe, and Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia. After her are Theodor Leschetizky, I. L. Peretz, Ankō Itosu, James Murray, Sandford Fleming, and Hans Gross.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anna Leonowens ranks 265 out of 1,861. Before her are Dharmendra (1935), Rakhee Gulzar (1947), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), Kittur Chennamma (1778), Hemachandra (1089), and Murad Bakhsh (1624). After her are Ravidas (1450), Godfrey Brown (1915), Jagat Gosain (1573), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), and Lala Lajpat Rai (1865).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Anna Leonowens ranks 34. Before her are Deepak Chopra (1946), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Namdev (1270), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942). After her are Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Andal (800), Sankardev (1449), Kuvempu (1904), Dnyaneshwar (1275), and Mir Taqi Mir (1723).

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