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Annie Londonderry

1870 - 1947

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Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world. After having completed her travel, albeit mostly by ship, she built a media career around engagement with popular conception of what it was to be female. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Annie Londonderry is the 189th most popular explorer (up from 280th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 80th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Annie Londonderry ranks 189 out of 498. Before her are Niccolò de' Conti, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Matthew Flinders, John Marshall, Hanno the Navigator, and James Bruce. After her are Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, Alexander Mackenzie, Johann Anton Güldenstädt, Gaspar Corte-Real, Simon Fraser, and Alexander Andreyevich Baranov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, Annie Londonderry ranks 64. Before her are Florent Schmitt, François Georges-Picot, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Alexandre Benois, Archduchess Margarethe Klementine of Austria, and Herbert Kilpin. After her are David Riazanov, Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Guillaume Lekeu, Elizabeth Hesselblad, Vladimir Purishkevich, and Géza Maróczy. Among people deceased in 1947, Annie Londonderry ranks 84. Before her are Helmuth von Pannwitz, Nicholas Murray Butler, Heinrich Schwarz, Hugh Lofting, Arthur Machen, and William Moulton Marston. After her are Elisabeth von Gutmann, Ian Hamilton, Wolfgang Borchert, Alice Keppel, Osami Nagano, and William C. Durant.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Annie Londonderry ranks 40 out of 323. Before her are Friedrich Zander (1887), Wolfgang Lüth (1913), Oswald Külpe (1862), Frederick Casimir Kettler (1650), Wilhelm Kettler (1574), and Raimonds Pauls (1936). After her are Jānis Lūsis (1939), Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745), Solomon Mikhoels (1890), Paul Walden (1863), Jukums Vācietis (1873), and Daina Taimiņa (1954).

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Among EXPLORERS In Latvia

Among explorers born in Latvia, Annie Londonderry ranks 1. After her are Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745), and Matvei Gedenshtrom (1780).

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