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List of the most influential people in History,

#5401

Andrzej Feliks Grabski

#146524

Overall Influence

1934 - 2000 (66 years)

Andrzej Feliks Grabski was a Polish historian and medievalist. He was the son of Andrzej Kazimierz Grabski. His grandfather was Władysław Grabski. He graduated from the University of Łódź in 1955.

#5402

Greg Kennedy

#167017

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Greg Kennedy is a Canadian military historian and author who currently teaches Strategic Foreign Policy at King's College London. He is also the 2002 winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History.

#5403

Philippe Vigier

#120196

Overall Influence

1924 - 1995 (71 years)

Philippe Henri Maxime Vigier was a 20th-century French historian, specialist of the French Second Republic. Selected works 1963: La Seconde République dans la région alpine, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 2 vol.1976: La Monarchie de Juillet, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, coll. Que sais-je?, 127 p.1982: La Vie quotidienne en province et à Paris pendant les journées de 1848, Paris, Hachette, 443 p.2001: La Seconde République, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, coll. Que sais-je?, 127 p.

#5404

Cheryl Ganz

#157619

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Cheryl R. Ganz , FRPSL is an American philatelist who was appointed to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2018. Family and education After her husband's death, Ganz studied United States history at University of Illinois Chicago where she earned her PhD in 2005.

#5405

Marianne Sághy

#170825

Overall Influence

1961 - 2018 (57 years)

Marianne Sághy was a Hungarian expert on the religious and social culture of Late Antiquity, with an especial focus on the cult of saints and hagiography. She was associate professor at the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, and at the Department of Medieval and Early Modern Universal History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.

#5406

Kathryn Olesko

#80366

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Kathryn Mary Olesko is an American historian of science. She is an associate professor at Georgetown University, where she is affiliated with the Science, Technology and International Affairs program in the School of Foreign Service, the Department of History, and the Department of German. Her research interests include the history of science in Germany and the history of science teaching.

#5407

Clair Wills

#84943

Overall Influence

Clair Wills, , is a British academic specialising in 20th-century British and Irish cultural history and literature. Since 2019, she has been King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. After studying at the Somerville College, Oxford, she taught at the University of Essex and Queen Mary University of London. She was then Leonard L. Milberg ’53 Chair of Irish Letters at Princeton University from 2015 to 2019, before moving to Cambridge.

#5408

Glenda Gates Riley

#146515

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (87 years)

Glenda Gates Riley is an American historian and educator best known for her works on women's history and women in the American West. She was Alexander M. Bracken Professor of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana from 1991 until she retired in 2003.

#5409

Jordi Bolòs

#176327

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Jordi Bolòs i Masclans is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida. Rural Catalan history, urban history and the landscape history has focussed his research in the study of the medieval society. He has published several historical atlases of the Carolingian counties of Besalú, Empúries-Peralada, Girona, Osona, Manresa, Urgell and Roussillon, Conflent, Vallespir and Fenouillèdes. Editor of the publication Territori i societat a l’edat mitjana.

#5410

Paul Hyer

#154607

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Paul Van Hyer was a professor of Chinese History at Brigham Young University and the founder of the Asian Studies Program at that institution. He was also a key figure in the growth of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Taiwan.

#5411

Gerhard Menk

#151956

Overall Influence

1946 - 2019 (73 years)

Gerhard Menk was a German historian and archivist. Life Born in Nisterau, after elementary school, Menk attended the Städtische Realschule in Bad Marienberg and took his Abitur at the Staatliches Neusprachliches Gymnasium Altenkirchen in spring 1966. Starting from the summer semester 1966, he studied first at the Goethe University Frankfurt, then went to Geneva for the summer semester 1969, where he studied at the University of Geneva as well as at the Graduate Institute of International Studies. Here were next to Jacques Freymond , especially the former Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jiří Hájek and Saul Friedländer his academic teachers.

#5412

Jean-Michel David

#171061

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Jean-Michel David is a French historian, a specialist of political, social and cultural history of the Roman Republic. Jean-Michel David's work particularly focusses on the history of Italy in the last two centuries BC, the study of political staff of the Roman Republic, the history of social behaviors and cultural practices and the construction of the exemplary and collective memory.

#5413

Anthony Cross

#98758

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Anthony Glenn Cross, FBA is a retired British academic and scholar of modern Russian history. He was Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge between 1985 and 2004. Early life and education Cross was born in 1936 and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1960. He then spent a year at Harvard University, where he completed the AM degree, before returning to Trinity Hall to carry out doctoral studies. His PhD was awarded in 1966.

#5414

Toby Barnard

#137389

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Toby Christopher Barnard, is emeritus fellow in history at Hertford College, University of Oxford. Life He joined the college in 1976 and retired in 2012. He was formerly lecturer in history at Royal Holloway . Barnard is a specialist in the political, social and cultural histories of Ireland and England, c. 1600–1800. His A New Anatomy of Ireland was notable for the depth of primary research that Barnard carried out to complete it. One reviewer commented that "This task of discovery and accumulation by itself is an heroic achievement." Barnard is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.

#5415

Peter Bol

#144936

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Peter Kees Bol is an American historian and sinologist. He is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University. Since 2013, he has been a Vice Provost of Harvard with oversight of HarvardX and the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching . He is the founding director of the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis, and also directs the China Historical Geographic Information System and the China Biographical Database project.

#5416

Manvel Zulalyan

#178905

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

Manvel Karapeti Zulalyan was an Armenian historian, Armenologist, an academic of Armenian Academy of Sciences, member of Presidium. Doctor of History, Professor of the Armenian State Pedagogical University, specialist on Oriental studies.

#5417

Benedicta Ward

#98929

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (92 years)

Benedicta Ward was a Church of England nun, theologian and historian. She was a member of the Anglican religious order, the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God and reader in early Christian spirituality at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. She was particularly known for her research on the Desert Fathers, popularising the collection of their writings known as the Apophthegmata Patrum. She wrote extensively on Anselm of Canterbury and Bede.

#5418

Alastair Minnis

#150565

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Alastair J. Minnis is a Northern Irish literary critic and historian of ideas who has written extensively about medieval literature, and contributed substantially to the study of late-medieval theology and philosophy. Having gained a first-class B.A. degree at the Queen's University of Belfast, he matriculated at Keble College, Oxford as a visiting graduate student, where he completed work on his Belfast Ph.D. , having been mentored by M.B. Parkes and Beryl Smalley. Following appointments at the Queen's University of Belfast and Bristol University , he was appointed Professor of Medieval Lit...

#5419

Cyril Edwards

#109922

Overall Influence

1947 - 2019 (72 years)

Cyril William Edwards was a British medievalist and translator. Teaching in London and Oxford, he published extensively on the medieval German lyric and Old High German literature, and translated four of the major Middle High German verse narratives.

#5420

Miles Larmer

#172578

Overall Influence

Miles Larmer is a former professor of African history and fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford. In 2023 he was appointed to the post of Professor of History and Director of the Center of African Studies at the University of Florida.

#5421

Hiroshi Inoue

#178953

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

#5422

Øystein Rian

#144716

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Øystein Rian is a Norwegian historian who specializes in the history of Denmark-Norway from 1536 to 1814, particularly its political, social and religious history. He was appointed associate professor at Telemark University College in 1977, and was a professor at the University of Oslo from 1993 until reaching the emeritus age in 2015. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#5423

Mike Schmeitzner

#140737

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Mike Schmeitzner is a German historian. His focus is on twentieth century German history. Schmeitzner was born in the southern part of what was then the German Democratic Republic. His 1968 birth year meant that his university-level education straddled the events that led to German reunification in the second half of 1990. He successfully completed his schooling in Dresden at the "Friedrich Engels Extended Secondary School - Dresden south" in 1987 and then, in 1987/88, worked for VEB Robotron, a large electronics manufacturing operation. He then returned to academe, studying History, German...

#5424

Germán Carrera Damas

Germán Carrera Damas

#93250

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (95 years)

Germán Carrera Damas , is a Venezuelan historian, professor and retired ambassador, author of important works of Venezuela's historiography such as El Culto a Bolívar and Una nación llamada Venezuela , among other works and essays.

#5425

Ernest Freeberg

#167816

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Ernest Freeberg is an American historian in 19th and 20th-century American culture, currently a Distinguished Humanities Professor at the University of Tennessee and previously the Lindsay Young Professor, Beaman Professor, and Head of the Department of History. In 2002, he was awarded the John H. Dunning Prize.

#5426

Paul R. Mendes-Flohr

Paul R. Mendes-Flohr

#136523

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

Paul R. Mendes-Flohr is a leading scholar of modern Jewish thought. As an intellectual historian, Mendes-Flohr specializes in 19th and 20th-century Jewish thinkers, including Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem and Leo Strauss.

#5427

Yaron Tsur

#124402

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Yaron Tsur , an historian of the Jews in the Muslim lands in the modern era, is amongst the founders of the Open University of Israel, a professor in the department of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University and a former chairperson of its graduate school of Jewish studies. He is a pioneer in the field of Digital Humanities in Israel and the founder of the "Historical jewish press" website.

#5428

José María Portillo Valdés

José María Portillo Valdés

#179058

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

José María "Txema" Portillo Valdés is a Spanish historian, professor of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country. He is an expert in the Spanish constitutional history. Biography Born in 1961. He earned a PhD in History from the University of the Basque Country , reading a dissertation in 1990 titled Monarquía y Gobierno Provincial. Poder y Constitución en las provincias exentas, 1760-1808 and supervised by . On 13 February 1998, he was one of the founders of the Foro Ermua. A lecturer at the UPV/EHU since 1988, he was subject to harassment and threats coming from the envi...

#5429

John Farley

#168398

Overall Influence

1936 - 2015 (79 years)

John Farley, born in Leicester on April 23, 1936, and died on November 10, 2015, was a Canadian science historian, author of several works and articles on the history of medicine. His work has had an influence on the sociology of scientific knowledge.

#5430

Jean-Maurice Rouquette

#74287

Overall Influence

1931 - 2019 (88 years)

Jean-Maurice Rouquette was a French historian, specializing in ancient and Romanesque Provence, and curator at the Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques. Biography Rouquette studied at Aix-Marseille University, where he was a student under Georges Duby and Jean-Rémy Palanque. He was particularly interested in paleochristian and Romanesque Provence studies. He was the curator of Musées et Monuments d’Arles from 1956 to 1996. Rouquette served as president of the Museon Arlaten Autonomous Committee, president of the Académie d'Arles, and designer and chief curator of Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques.

#5431

Bjørn Slettan

#168516

Overall Influence

1931 - 2014 (83 years)

Bjørn Slettan was a Norwegian historian. He comes from Holum, Norway. He first took a teacher's education in Kristiansand, and later the cand.philol. degree in history at the University of Oslo. He worked as a teacher for many years, but in 1991 he was appointed as an associate professor at Agder University College, as the first faculty member in history at that institution. He retired in 1998. His main work was the third volume of the history of Mandal city, published in 2006. Slettan died on 23 May 2014, at the age of 82.

#5432

Anne Borsay

#83451

Overall Influence

1954 - 2014 (60 years)

Anne Borsay was a medical historian. She was appointed as the first Chair of Medical Humanities at Swansea University in 2003, a position she held until her death in 2014. Her academic work explored the history of medical institutions and, later, the role of disabled people in the coal industry in south Wales.

#5433

Boel Berner

#128900

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Boel Berner is a Swedish sociologist, historian, and editor. Early life and education Karin Boel Christina Berner was born 3 August 1945 in Helsingborg. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Lund University in 1967, and a PhD in sociology from Lund University in 1981.

#5434

Rhoda Reddock

#81435

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Rhoda Reddock is a Trinidadian educator and social activist. She has served as founder, chair, adviser, or member of several organizations, such as the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action , the Global Fund for Women, and the Regional Advisory Committee of the Global Poosay Coalition on Women and AIDS established by UNAIDS. In 2002 she received the Seventh CARICOM Triennial Award for Women, was Trinidad and Tobago's nominee for the International Women of Courage Award in 2008, and was honoured in her country's National Honour Awards ceremony in 2012 with the Gold Medal for t...

#5435

Patrick Salmon

#174518

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Patrick Salmon is a historian of diplomatic history with a focus on Scandinavia. He is a chief historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and a visiting professor at Newcastle University. In 2001, he was a fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

#5436

Ferran Gallego

#173124

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Fernando José "Ferran" Gallego Margaleff is a Spanish historian and writer. Biography Born in Barcelona in 1953, he earned a PhD in Contemporary History. He is professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona . Author of a long list of works, he has studied the contemporary history of Spain, the Latin-American caudillismos and populisms, European fascisms, and 20th-century Germany. He is an expert in the Spanish and wider European extreme right.

#5437

Janet Beery

#52792

Overall Influence

Janet Lynn Beery is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics who serves as a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Redlands. She also served as the editor-in-chief of mathematics history journal Convergence from 2009 to 2019, and has authored a book on the mathematics of Thomas Harriot.

#5438

Sergei Beletzkiy

#124651

Overall Influence

1953 - 2022 (69 years)

Sergei Vasilevich Beletsky Сергей Васильевич Белецкий was a Russian archaeologist and historian. He was a Doctor of Historical Sciences and Leading Researcher of the Department of Slavic-Finnish Archeology for the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the USSR Academy of Sciences .

#5439

Charlotte Furth

#141279

Overall Influence

1934 - 2022 (88 years)

Charlotte Davis Furth was an American scholar of Chinese history. She was a professor at California State University, Long Beach, and at the University of Southern California. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright fellowship for her research, and published several books.

#5440

John Waiko

#145947

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

John Dademo Waiko is a Papua New Guinean historian, anthropologist, playwright and politician. Waiko was born in the village of Tabara in the Northern Province. Education He obtained a PhD in Social Sciences from the Australian National University, thus becoming the first Papua New Guinean to earn a PhD of any kind.

#5441

Rudolph Ware

#179294

Overall Influence

Rudolph T. Ware III is an historian of West Africa, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He formerly taught at the University of Michigan and before then at Northwestern University. His work aims to confront and dispel Western misconceptions about Islam. He received his Ph.D. in history in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania.

#5442

Yvette Duval

#117637

Overall Influence

1931 - 2006 (75 years)

Yvette Duval was a Moroccan-born French historian who specialised in North Africa during Antiquity and the Early African church during Late antiquity. Early years and education Yvette Duval née Benchettrit was born on 25 April 1931 in Oujda to an Algerian-Moroccan Jewish family. She was allowed to study at the local Collège de jeunes filles despite the Vichy segregation rules due to her strong academic record. Having finished her studies in Rabat, she moved to Paris where she studied first at the Lycée Fénelon and then at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles. After her graduation, s...

#5443

Richard Finn

#67780

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Richard Damian Finn, O.P. is presently Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, at Blackfriars, Oxford, and a member of the Theology Faculty and the Classics Faculty at the University of Oxford. He has previously served as Regent of Blackfriars, as well as Novice Master for the English Province of the Order of Preachers.

#5444

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda

#114830

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda is an Austrian social scientist and historian. She was the director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance and deputy chairwoman of the . Bailer-Galanda is an honorary professor of contemporary history at the University of Vienna.

#5445

Catherine Gavin

Catherine Gavin

#97238

Overall Influence

1907 - 2001 (94 years)

Catherine Irvine Gavin was a Scottish academic historian, war correspondent, and historical novelist. Early life Gavin was born in Aberdeen in 1907, and studied history and English at the University of Aberdeen, graduating with first-class honours. She completed doctoral work in 1931, with a doctoral thesis on Louis Philippe of France; her thesis was published in 1933.

#5446

Katie Holmes

#135434

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Katie Holmes is a professor of history at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2019. Bibliography Books Spaces in Her Day: Australian Women's Diaries of the 1920s and 1930s Between The Leaves: Stories Of Australian Women, Writing and Gardens

#5447

Benjamin Lawrance

#145158

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Benjamin N. Lawrance is a legal historian who works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa, with a particular focus on West Africa. Until 2017, he was the Hon. Barber B. Conable, Jr. Endowed Professor of International Studies in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He works on comparative and contemporary slavery and trafficking, citizenship, human rights, and the law of asylum and refugees. He is currently Professor of African History at the University of Arizona.

#5448

Mark Golden

#114355

Overall Influence

1948 - 2020 (72 years)

Mark Golden was a Canadian academic. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. Golden received his BA, MA, and PhD all from University of Toronto. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Research Excellence. He wrote several books on the history of childhood, sexuality and sport in the ancient world.

#5449

Stephen Haycox

#92862

Overall Influence

Stephen Walter Haycox is an emeritus professor of history at the University of Alaska Anchorage , author, and columnist for the Anchorage Daily News. He has written about the history of Alaska. He was born in the Upper Midwest and went to high school in a suburb of New York. He was a musician in the Navy and served in the Pacific. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.

#5450

P. B. Waite

#172677

Overall Influence

1922 - 2020 (98 years)

Peter Busby Waite was a Canadian historian and Dalhousie University professor. Waite was born in Toronto, Ontario in July 1922 and attended high school in Saint John, New Brunswick. He obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD degree from the University of Toronto. He served with the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, attaining the rank of Lieutenant.

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