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Cynthia Lennon

1939 - 2015

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Cynthia Lennon (née Powell; 10 September 1939 – 1 April 2015) was a British artist and author, and the first wife of John Lennon. Born in Blackpool and raised in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula, Powell attended the Liverpool College of Art, where Lennon was also a student. Powell and Lennon started a relationship after meeting in a calligraphy class. When Lennon was performing in Hamburg with the Beatles, Powell rented his bedroom at 251 Menlove Avenue in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton from his aunt and legal guardian, Mimi Smith. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Cynthia Lennon is the 409th most popular companion (up from 414th in 2019), the 1,279th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,165th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Companion.

Cynthia Lennon is most famous for being the first wife of the Beatles' frontman, John Lennon.

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Among companions, Cynthia Lennon ranks 409 out of 784. Before her are Lucrezia de' Medici, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Sophie of Pomerania, Dulce of Aragon, Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary, and Anna Porphyrogenita. After her are Beatrice of Castile, Irene Doukaina, Anabella Drummond, Violant of Aragon, Princess Anastasia of Montenegro, and Princess Helen of Serbia.

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Among people born in 1939, Cynthia Lennon ranks 96. Before her are Eugene Fama, Yoshinobu Ishii, Boris Kolker, Nobuyuki Oishi, Peter Bogdanovich, and Guntis Ulmanis. After her are Lucia Popp, Amarildo Tavares da Silveira, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Paul Hogan, Alan Baker, and Claudio Magris. Among people deceased in 2015, Cynthia Lennon ranks 84. Before her are Gabriele Ferzetti, Rod Taylor, Ben E. King, Joshua Fishman, Dettmar Cramer, and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld. After her are Ruth Rendell, Licio Gelli, Jin Youzhi, Árpád Göncz, Tadahiko Ueda, and Geraldine McEwan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Cynthia Lennon ranks 1,279 out of 8,785. Before her are John Fisher (1469), John Berger (1926), Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1914), Allan Pinkerton (1819), Imelda Staunton (1956), and Rob Roy MacGregor (1671). After her are Dirk Bogarde (1921), James Paul Moody (1887), Joseph Bell (1837), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), Orlando Bloom (1977), and Ian Stewart (1938).

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Among COMPANIONS In United Kingdom

Among companions born in United Kingdom, Cynthia Lennon ranks 40. Before her are Charles Lightoller (1874), Lilian, Princess of Réthy (1916), Anne Hyde (1637), Matilda of Scotland (1080), Eadgyth (910), and Judith of Flanders (844). After her are Anabella Drummond (1350), Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar (940), Princess Marie of Orléans (1865), Mary de Bohun (1369), Jane Boleyn, Viscountess Rochford (1505), and Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736).

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