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Anne Sullivan

1866 - 1936

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Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind. Soon after graduation at age 20, she became a teacher to Keller. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anne Sullivan is the 346th most popular philosopher (down from 338th in 2019), the 1,124th most popular biography from United States (down from 861st in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Philosopher.

Anne Sullivan is most famous for being Helen Keller's tutor.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anne Sullivan ranks 346 out of 1,267. Before her are Johann Georg Hamann, Hunayn ibn Ishaq, Nachmanides, David Strauss, Louis Couturat, and Rudolf Otto. After her are Justus Lipsius, Antonio Negri, Crates of Thebes, Pompeia Plotina, Aristoxenus, and Robert Nozick.

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Among people born in 1866, Anne Sullivan ranks 22. Before her are Aby Warburg, Princess Viktoria of Prussia, Lev Shestov, Nathan Söderblom, Antoine Meillet, and Ferruccio Busoni. After her are Ramsay MacDonald, Lizzie Magie, Léon Bakst, Butch Cassidy, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, and Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria. Among people deceased in 1936, Anne Sullivan ranks 35. Before her are Buenaventura Durruti, Andrija Mohorovičić, Moritz Schlick, Antoine Meillet, Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri, and Georg Michaelis. After her are Nikolai Ostrovsky, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Georgy Chicherin, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Robert E. Howard, and Heinrich Rickert.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Sullivan ranks 1,124 out of 20,380. Before her are Benjamin Guggenheim (1865), Martin Seligman (1942), Gena Rowlands (1930), Dickinson W. Richards (1895), Dashiell Hammett (1894), and Kenneth Arrow (1921). After her are Charley Patton (1891), David Fincher (1962), Mahershala Ali (1974), George H. Hitchings (1905), Karl Barry Sharpless (1941), and Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Anne Sullivan ranks 8. Before her are John Rawls (1921), George Herbert Mead (1863), Donald Davidson (1917), Pat Robertson (1930), Judith Butler (1956), and John Searle (1932). After her are Robert Nozick (1938), Richard Rorty (1931), Hilary Putnam (1926), Michael J. Sandel (1953), Daniel Dennett (1942), and Martha Nussbaum (1947).

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