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Anne Lister

1791 - 1840

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Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian". Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire. She had several lesbian love affairs from her schooldays onwards, often on long trips abroad; muscular and androgynous in appearance, always dressed in black and highly educated, she was later known—generally unkindly—as "Gentleman Jack". Her final significant relationship was with Ann Walker, to whom she was notionally married in Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, which is now celebrated as the birthplace of lesbian marriage in Britain. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Lister is the 9,456th most popular politician (down from 6,713th in 2019), the 2,103rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,325th in 2019) and the 336th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anne Lister ranks 9,456 out of 19,576. Before her are Charles, Duke of Guise, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Galindo Aznárez II, Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Giselbert of Luxembourg, and Johannes Vares. After her are Gaston Eyskens, André Marty, Hussein Onn, Giovanni Dandolo, John III, Duke of Bavaria, and Francisco Sagasti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Anne Lister ranks 28. Before her are George Peacock, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, Ferdinand Hérold, William Elford Leach, Henryk Dembiński, and Sergey Aksakov. After her are Friedrich von Gärtner, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Jan Václav Voříšek, Theodor Körner, Louis Visconti, and Václav Hanka. Among people deceased in 1840, Anne Lister ranks 29. Before her are Marcellin Champagnat, Nicholas Aylward Vigors, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, and Constantine Samuel Rafinesque. After her are Pierre Dupont de l'Étang, Franz Meyen, Karl Otfried Müller, Carl Blechen, Frances Burney, and John Cockerill.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Lister ranks 2,103 out of 8,785. Before her are Oswald of Northumbria (604), James Ferguson (1710), Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924), Reginald Doherty (1872), Matthew Festing (1949), and Jason Isaacs (1963). After her are Eric Campbell (1880), John Flaxman (1755), Sigfrid of Sweden (1000), Joseph Paxton (1803), Stephen Baxter (1957), and Ian Hill (1952).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Anne Lister ranks 336. Before her are Jeremy Thorpe (1929), John Hume (1937), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), William Hamilton (1730), Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862), and Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924). After her are Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751), Caratacus (15), Donald Maclean (1913), Rædwald of East Anglia (550), Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847), and Ian Khama (1953).

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