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Anne Bonny

1702 - 1782

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Anne Bonny (late 17th century – disappeared after 28 November 1720), sometimes Ann Fulford, was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the few female pirates in recorded history. What little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates. Bonny was born in Ireland at an unknown date, and later moved to London and then to the Province of Carolina. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Bonny has received more than 4,791,029 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Anne Bonny is the 5th most popular pirate (up from 6th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Irish Pirate.

Anne Bonny was a pirate who was born in Ireland and moved to America. She was one of the most famous female pirates of all time.

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Anne Bonny ranks 5 out of 25Before her are Hayreddin Barbarossa, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, and Eric of Pomerania. After her are Bartholomew Roberts, Calico Jack, Mary Read, D. B. Cooper, William Kidd, François l'Olonnais, and Sextus Pompey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1702, Anne Bonny ranks 1After her are Emperor Nakamikado, Thomas Bayes, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Maria Clementina Sobieska, Muhammad Shah, Legall de Kermeur, Sava Petrović, William Fermor, Louis George, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Francesco Zuccarelli, and Jack Sheppard. Among people deceased in 1782, Anne Bonny ranks 4Before her are Daniel Bernoulli, Farinelli, and Johann Christian Bach. After her are Pietro Metastasio, Jacques de Vaucanson, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Taksin, Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Anna Göldi, and Sophie of France.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Anne Bonny ranks 18 out of 501Before her are Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769), William Rowan Hamilton (1805), Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819), Francis Bacon (1909), John Scotus Eriugena (810), and Richard Harris (1930). After her are W. B. Yeats (1865), Ernest Shackleton (1874), Laurence Sterne (1713), Enya (1961), Michael Collins (1890), and Columbanus (540).

Among PIRATES In Ireland

Among pirates born in Ireland, Anne Bonny ranks 1After her are Edward England (1685) and Grace O'Malley (1530).