# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anne-bonny
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:44:57.709Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/anne-bonny"
name: "Anne Bonny"
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description: "One of the vanishingly rare women documented among Golden Age pirates, and the details of her life are almost all smoke. What's certain: she sailed under John Rackham, fought when his crew was captured, and walked out of history while her crewmates hanged."
tagline: "Female pirate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Female_pirate_Anne_Bonny.jpg"
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birthDate: "1697"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  The standard biography comes from Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 General History of the Pyrates — illegitimate daughter of an Irish attorney, raised in Carolina, married a sailor — but there's little proof any of it happened that way. What's confirmed begins in the Bahamas, where she met the pirate John Rackham. In August 1720 she joined his crew alongside another woman, Mary Read, and together they stole the sloop William from Nassau harbor. For two months they raided merchant ships across the West Indies until former privateer Jonathan Barnet ran them down near Jamaica in October. The men were tried and hanged. Bonny and Read both claimed pregnancy, buying a stay of execution. Read died in jail by April 1721. Bonny likely walked free and lived until December 1733, vanishing as quietly as she'd arrived.