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Anna Leonowens

1831 - 1915

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Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards; 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist. She became well known with the publication of her memoirs, beginning with The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which chronicled her experiences in Siam (modern Thailand), as teacher to the children of the Siamese King Mongkut. Leonowens's own account was fictionalised in Margaret Landon's best-selling novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944), as well as adaptations for other media such as Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1951 musical The King and I. During the course of her life, Leonowens also lived in Western Australia, Singapore and Penang, the United States, Canada and Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Leonowens has received more than 1,393,706 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Anna Leonowens is the 1,406th most popular writer (up from 1,581st in 2019), the 163rd most popular biography from India (down from 162nd in 2019) and the 30th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Anna Leonowens ranks 1,406 out of 5,755. Before her are Sadegh Hedayat, Ida Tarbell, Ausiàs March, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, Josef Čapek, and Robert Faurisson. After her are Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Johanna Schopenhauer, Thoinot Arbeau, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Agrippa d'Aubigné, and Aharon Appelfeld.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Anna Leonowens ranks 28. Before her are Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Victorien Sardou, Ilya Ulyanov, Isabella Bird, and Constantin Meunier. After her are Othniel Charles Marsh, Paul Durand-Ruel, Nikolai Ge, Peter Nicolai Arbo, Nadezhda von Meck, and George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Among people deceased in 1915, Anna Leonowens ranks 21. Before her are Armand Peugeot, Sergei Taneyev, Émile Waldteufel, Edith Cavell, Saitō Hajime, and Arthur Auwers. After her are James Murray, Julius von Payer, Konstantin Makovsky, Anton von Werner, Remy de Gourmont, and Karl Goldmark.

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In India

Among people born in India, Anna Leonowens ranks 163 out of 1,493. Before her are Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah I (1671), Jayadeva (1170), Sambhaji (1657), Subramania Bharati (1882), Bahadur Shah I (1643), and M. Visvesvaraya (1861). After her are Sai Baba of Shirdi (1835), Krishnadevaraya (1471), Birsa Munda (1875), Vikramaditya (-102), Siraj ud-Daulah (1733), and Morarji Desai (1896).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Anna Leonowens ranks 30. Before her are Vidyapati (1352), Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551), Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Mahadevi Varma (1907), and Subramania Bharati (1882). After her are Kuvempu (1904), Andal (800), Deepak Chopra (1946), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942), and Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907).

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