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Anna Anderson

1896 - 1984

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Anna Anderson (born Franziska Schanzkowska; 16 December 1896 – 12 February 1984) was an impostor who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia. Anastasia, the youngest daughter of the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia, Nicholas II and Alexandra, was murdered along with her parents and siblings on 17 July 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries in Yekaterinburg, Russia, but the location of her body was unknown until 2007. In 1920, Anderson was institutionalized in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt in Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Anderson has received more than 3,368,317 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Anna Anderson is the 22nd most popular celebrity (down from 18th in 2019), the 141st most popular biography from Poland (up from 634th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Celebrity.

Anna Anderson was a woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia.

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  • 64.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Anna Anderson ranks 22 out of 265. Before her are Buffalo Bill, Joseph Merrick, Tollund Man, Monica Lewinsky, Dodi Fayed, and Black Dahlia. After her are Rosalia Lombardo, Kim Kardashian, Myrtle Corbin, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Marie Duplessis, and Margaret Brown.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Anna Anderson ranks 30. Before her are Donald Winnicott, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Buenaventura Durruti, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Italo Balbo, and Ernst Udet. After her are Erich Koch, Célestin Freinet, Howard Hawks, John Dos Passos, A. J. Cronin, and Helen of Greece and Denmark. Among people deceased in 1984, Anna Anderson ranks 23. Before her are Martin Ryle, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Karl Wolff, Irwin Shaw, Sam Peckinpah, and Ahmed Sékou Touré. After her are Truman Capote, Oleg Antonov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Marvin Gaye, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, and Dmitry Ustinov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Anna Anderson ranks 141 out of 1,694. Before her are Otto Liman von Sanders (1855), Géza I of Hungary (1040), Konrad Emil Bloch (1912), Klaus von Klitzing (1943), Władysław Gomułka (1905), and Erwin von Witzleben (1881). After her are Zvi Zamir (1925), Johann Gustav Droysen (1808), Albrecht von Roon (1803), Edward Sapir (1884), Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860), and Ferdinand Cohn (1828).

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Among CELEBRITIES In Poland

Among celebrities born in Poland, Anna Anderson ranks 1. After her are Aaron Kosminski (1865), Marlene Schmidt (1937), Aneta Kręglicka (1965), and Karolina Bielawska (1999).

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