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Anne Sullivan

1866 - 1936

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Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. She received her education as a student of the Perkins School for the Blind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anne Sullivan has received more than 3,054,489 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Anne Sullivan is the 338th most popular philosopher (down from 302nd in 2019), the 861st most popular biography from United States (down from 789th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Philosopher.

Anne Sullivan is most famous for being Helen Keller's tutor.

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  • 63.61

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Anne Sullivan ranks 338 out of 1,267. Before her are Justus Lipsius, Asanga, Thrasymachus, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, A. S. Neill, and Lev Shestov. After her are David Strauss, Guan Zhong, Aenesidemus, Francisco de Vitoria, Shahab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi, and Uriel da Costa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1866, Anne Sullivan ranks 20. Before her are Aleksandr Ulyanov, Charles Nicolle, Ferruccio Busoni, Jacinto Benavente, Beatrix Potter, and Lev Shestov. After her are Ramsay MacDonald, Nathan Söderblom, Emilio De Bono, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ambroise Vollard, and Léon Bakst. Among people deceased in 1936, Anne Sullivan ranks 34. Before her are Charles Nicolle, Andrija Mohorovičić, Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, Róbert Bárány, Moritz Schlick, and Robert E. Howard. After her are Georg Michaelis, Karl Pearson, Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, Nikolai Ostrovsky, Georgy Chicherin, and Julius Schreck.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anne Sullivan ranks 861 out of 20,380. Before her are Bing Crosby (1903), Powers Boothe (1948), Harriet Tubman (1820), Benedict Arnold (1741), Robert Ludlum (1927), and Aaron T. Beck (1921). After her are Susan B. Anthony (1820), Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868), Thomas Harris (1940), Neal Cassady (1926), Theodore Schultz (1902), and Glenn T. Seaborg (1912).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Anne Sullivan ranks 5. Before her are John Rawls (1921), George Herbert Mead (1863), Robert Nozick (1938), and Judith Butler (1956). After her are Richard Rorty (1931), John Searle (1932), Hilary Putnam (1926), Ronald Dworkin (1931), Nelson Goodman (1906), Martha Nussbaum (1947), and Daniel Dennett (1942).

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