# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anna-ruling
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:56:08.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anna-ruling"
name: "Anna Rüling"
slug: "anna-ruling"
description: "Theodora \"Theo\" Anna Sprüngli, better known under the pseudonym Anna Rüling, was a German journalist whose speech in 1904 was the first political speech to address the problems faced by lesbians. One of the first modern women to come out as homosexual, she has been described as \"the first known lesbian activist\"."
tagline: "German journalist and LGBT activist, speaker of the world's first lesbian political speech (1880–1953)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Anna_Rueling.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1880-08-15"
deathDate: "1953-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.140821333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "انا رولنگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "انا رولينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_R%C3%BCling"
    title: "Anna Rüling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_R%C3%BCling"
    title: "Anna Rüling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_R%C3%BCling"
    title: "Anna Rüling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Anna_Spr%C3%BCngli"
    title: "Theo Anna Sprüngli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_R%C3%BCling"
    title: "Anna Rüling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6145724"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump