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Anne Lister

1791 - 1840

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Anne Lister (3 April 1791 – 22 September 1840) was an English diarist, famous for revelations for which she was dubbed "the first modern lesbian." Lister was from a minor landowning family at Shibden in Calderdale, West Riding of Yorkshire, and had several lesbian love affairs from her schooldays onwards, often on long trips abroad. Muscular and androgynous in appearance, dressed only in black, and highly educated, she was later known, generally unkindly, as "Gentleman Jack". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Lister has received more than 4,204,511 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Anne Lister is the 6,714th most popular politician (up from 8,683rd in 2019), the 1,324th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,832nd in 2019) and the 221st most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Anne Lister ranks 6,714 out of 19,576. Before her are Zhong Ding, Alexander Orlov, Juan María Bordaberry, Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence, Maria Miloslavskaya, and Martina. After her are Arnuwanda II, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Muhammad al-Badr, Charles Curtis, and Welf II, Duke of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1791, Anne Lister ranks 21. Before her are Jan Svatopluk Presl, István Széchenyi, Minh Mạng, Félix Savart, Alexandros Mavrokordatos, and Friedrich Parrot. After her are Friedrich von Gärtner, Ferdinand Hérold, Sergey Aksakov, Henryk Dembiński, Jan Václav Voříšek, and Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas. Among people deceased in 1840, Anne Lister ranks 19. Before her are Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, Maria Beatrice of Savoy, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol, Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Carl Ludvig Engel. After her are Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Crown Princess of Prussia, Beau Brummell, Francisco de Paula Santander, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, and Pierre Dupont de l'Étang.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anne Lister ranks 1,324 out of 8,785. Before her are Alice Keppel (1868), Edward Bach (1886), Arthur Machen (1863), Adrian Smith (1957), Tom Simpson (1937), and Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451). After her are Tom Pryce (1949), Josiah Wedgwood (1730), Charles Frederick Worth (1825), Ian Anderson (1947), Martin Gore (1961), and Geraldine McEwan (1932).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Anne Lister ranks 221. Before her are Alexander I of Scotland (1078), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Joan of Kent (1328), Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (1870), Fletcher Christian (1764), and Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (1451). After her are Blanche of Lancaster (1345), Horace Walpole (1717), George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784), Jeremy Corbyn (1949), Reginald Johnston (1874), and Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810).

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