J.K. Rowling's mother, Anne Rowling, was born in 1945.
Anne Rowling was born Anne Volant in 1945 and died in 1990 at the age of 45 after suffering from multiple sclerosis. Her death occurred while Rowling was a young adult and is widely recognized as an important event in Rowling’s personal life. Rowling later connected the emotional experience of loss with some of the themes that appear in her writing.
The family background is sometimes reported imprecisely because Rowling’s biography includes several dates involving her parents, her birth, and the start of the Harry Potter manuscript. Anne’s birth year is a distinct fact from the year of her death and from the year Rowling began writing the first novel.
The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at the University of Edinburgh was named in her memory. It opened in 2013 and supports research and clinical care relating to neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis. The clinic’s name therefore links Rowling’s family history with a later medical initiative.