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List of the most influential people in History,

#801

Konrad Jarausch

#26072

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Konrad H. Jarausch is a German-American historian and the Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The focus of his work has been German history, with his earlier work being on Hitler's rise to power, and his later work more concerned with East Germany, re-unification and cultural democratization. He is the son of a German soldier and considered a critic of the Third Reich.

#802

André Vauchez

#36232

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

André Vauchez FBA is a French medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome. His thesis, defended in 1978, was published in English as Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages in 1987 and has become a standard reference work.

#803

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

#34512

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is an American historian and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her scholarship and teaching forwarded the emergence of U.S. women's history in the 1960s and 1970s, helped to inspire new research on Southern labor history and the long civil rights movement, and encouraged the use of oral history sources in historical research. She is the author of Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching; Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World and Sisters and Rebels: The...

#804

Julian T. Jackson

#12324

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Julian Timothy Jackson is a British historian who is a fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. He is a professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London, he is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France.

#805

Stansfield Turner

Stansfield Turner

#3014

Overall Influence

1923 - 2018 (95 years)

Stansfield Turner was an admiral in the United States Navy who served as President of the Naval War College , commander of the United States Second Fleet , Supreme Allied Commander NATO Southern Europe , and was Director of Central Intelligence under the Carter administration. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford and the United States Naval Academy, Turner served for more than 30 years in the Navy, commanding warships, a carrier group, and NATO's military forces in southern Europe, among other commands.

#806

Richard Cobb

#17073

Overall Influence

1917 - 1996 (79 years)

Richard Charles Cobb was a British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford. He was the author of numerous influential works about the history of France, particularly the French Revolution. Cobb meticulously researched the Revolutionary era from a ground-level view sometimes described as "history from below".

#807

Akbar Muhammad

#30600

Overall Influence

Akbar Muhammad was an associate Professor Emeritus of history and Africana studies at Binghamton University in New York. He specialized in African history, West African social history, as well as the study of Islam in Africa and the Americas. He is the co-editor of Racism, Sexism, and the World-System, along with Joan Smith, Jane Collins, and Terrence K. Hopkins. His own writings focused on slavery in Muslim Africa, Muslims in the United States, and integration in Nigeria through the use of education. He holds a notable role in the history of the Nation of Islam.

#808

Peter Baldwin

#11982

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Peter Baldwin is a research professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University, and a philanthropist. Academic career He was educated at Harvard , and Yale . He has written several books on the comparative history of Europe and America.

#809

Yu Ying-shih

#10532

Overall Influence

1930 - 2021 (91 years)

Yu Ying-shih was a Chinese-born American historian, sinologist, and the Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He was known for his mastery of sources for Chinese history and philosophy, his ability to synthesize them on a wide range of topics, and for his advocacy for a new Confucianism. He was a tenured professor at Harvard University and Yale University before his time at Princeton.

#810

Uwe Walter

#50671

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Uwe Walter is a German ancient historian. Walter studied history, Latin and Greek at Göttingen und Erlangen from 1983. In 1992 he received a doctorate from Göttingen with a work on citizen rights in Archaic Greece. He subsequently completed a teaching certificate and was employed until 1997 in the school system. In that year he was appointed as a senior instructor in the faculty of the department of ancient history at the Institute for Ancient World Studies at the University of Cologne. In 2001 he received a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and he was habilitated in 2003 at Colonge with a work on the Historical culture of the Roman Republic.

#811

Michel Rouche

#49254

Overall Influence

1934 - 2021 (87 years)

Michel Rouche was a French historian and academic. He specialized in the history of Gaul during the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages. Biography Rouche earned an agrégation in history in 1959 and subsequently taught at the in Compiègne. He earned a doctorate in history from Paris-Sorbonne University in 1976 and became a professor at Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III, the Institut Catholique de Paris, and Paris-Sorbonne University.

#812

Ernest R. May

#22274

Overall Influence

1928 - 2009 (81 years)

Ernest Richard May was an American historian of international relations, whose 14 published books include analyses of American involvement in World War I and the causes of the Fall of France during World War II. His 1997 book The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis became the primary sources of the 2000 film Thirteen Days starring Kevin Costner that viewed the Missile Crisis from the perspective of American political leaders. He served on the 9/11 commission and highlighted the failures of the government intelligence agencies. May taught full-time on the faculty of Harvard University for 55 years, until his death.

#813

Gordon H. Chang

#31341

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Gordon Hsiao-shu Chang is an American historian and writer. He is a professor and vice provost at Stanford University. Early life and education Born in British Hong Kong, Chang earned a degree in history from Princeton University. Chang earned his PhD in history from Stanford University.

#814

Clarence E. Walker

#21251

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Clarence Earl Walker is an American historian and Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from San Francisco State University and a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley.

#815

Benjamin Stora

#8315

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Benjamin Stora is a French historian, expert on North Africa, who is widely considered one of the world's leading authorities on Algerian history. He was born in a Jewish family that left the country following its War of Independence in 1962. Stora holds two PhDs and a Doctorate of the State . His books and articles have been translated into several languages, including English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Russian, and Vietnamese.

#816

Mary Frances Berry

Mary Frances Berry

#16804

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Mary Frances Berry is an American historian, writer, lawyer, activist and professor who focuses on U.S. constitutional and legal, African-American history. Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought where she teaches American legal history at the Department of History, School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Previously, Berry was provost of the College of Behavioral and Social Science at University of Maryland, College Park, and was the first African American chancellor...

#817

M. G. S. Narayanan

M. G. S. Narayanan

#30980

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Muttayil Govindamenon Sankara Narayanan, commonly known as M. G. S. Narayanan is an Indian historian, academic and political commentator. He headed the Department of History at Calicut University from 1976 to 1990. and served as the Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research.

#818

Nicole Hemmer

#14715

Overall Influence

Nicole Hemmer is an American historian. She is an is an associate professor of history and director of the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Center for the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. She specializes in the history of conservative media in the United States from the 1940s to the present, and the role of right-wing media in American electoral politics. She is particularly involved in public communication that aims to provide historical context for contemporary events in American politics. Hemmer has been a regular columnist or an editor of historical series at print media outlets like The Washington Post, U.S.

#819

Craig Benjamin

#37722

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Craig G. Benjamin is an Australian-American historian who is professor of history in the Frederik J. Meijer Honors College at Grand Valley State University, where he teaches East Asian civilization, big history, ancient Central Asian history, and world history historiography. In 2014 and 2015 he served as president of the World History Association.

#820

Brison D. Gooch

#29194

Overall Influence

1925 - 2014 (89 years)

Brison D. Gooch was an American historian specializing in 19th century European history, especially Belgium and France. He was author of numerous monographs, and especially wrote undergraduate oriented textbooks.

#821

Peter Calvocoressi

#11095

Overall Influence

1912 - 2010 (98 years)

Peter John Ambrose Calvocoressi was a British lawyer, Liberal politician, historian, and publisher. He served as an intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II. Early years Calvocoressi was born in Karachi, British India , to a family of Greek origins from the island of Chios. His mother, Irene , was descended from one of the founders of Ralli Brothers, who were prominent Greek families of Chios who came to London at the time of the Greek Diaspora. When he was three months old, the family moved to Liverpool, England.

#822

Ann D. Gordon

#24001

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Ann Dexter Gordon is an American research professor in the department of history at Rutgers University and editor of the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, a survey of more than 14,000 papers relating to the pair of 19th century women's rights activists. She is also the editor of the multi-volume work, Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and has authored a number of other books about the history of the women's suffrage movement. She worked with popular historian Ken Burns on his 1999 book and appears in his documentary film about Stanton and Anthony.

#823

Song Jiang

#6968

Overall Influence

Song Jiang was a Chinese historical figure who led an armed rebellion against the ruling Song Dynasty in the early 12th century. His band marauded over a region straddling the present-day Chinese provinces of Shandong and Henan. They eventually surrendered to the Imperial Court. The historical Song Jiang was turned into a fictional character in Water Margin, which became one of the four famous Classic Chinese Novels. He is the central figure in the book, and the leader of the 108 Heroes who come together as bandits in Shandong's Liangshan Marsh.

#824

Mary Fulbrook

#14377

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Mary Jean Alexandra Fulbrook, is a British academic and historian. Since 1995, she has been Professor of German History at University College London. She is a noted researcher in a wide range of fields, including religion and society in early modern Europe, the German dictatorships of the twentieth century, Europe after the Holocaust, and historiography and social theory.

#825

Mark Juergensmeyer

Mark Juergensmeyer

#4782

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Mark Juergensmeyer is an American sociologist and scholar specialized in global studies and religious studies, and a writer best known for his studies on comparative religion, religious violence, and global religion. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow and Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College.

#826

Ichisada Miyazaki

#21034

Overall Influence

1901 - 1995 (94 years)

Ichisada Miyazaki was a Japanese historian specializing in Chinese history. He represents the second generation of the Kyoto school founded by his teacher Naitō Konan . Early life Miyazaki is the second son of a primary school teacher who dwelled in Iiyama in the northeast of Nagano Prefecture. He finished his studies at Akitsu Elementary School . He became a student of Iiyama junior high school. In third year, he attended a school excursion for a week. This is the first time he visited Kyoto. They returned to Nagano through Nara and Osaka.

#827

Lothar Gall

#11888

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Lothar Gall is a German historian known as "one of German liberalism's primary historians". He was professor of history at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1975 until his retirement in 2005. Gall's doctoral thesis examined the political thought of Benjamin Constant, and its influence in Vormärz Germany. His next book was a regional study of liberalism in Baden between 1848 and 1871. This informed an influential 1975 article about the effects of the 1848 revolution upon German liberalism: Gall argued that the revolution transformed liberalism from a constitutional movement committed to a classless society of burghers to an economically bourgeois ideology committed to free-market capitalism.

#828

Karl-Ludwig Elvers

#52819

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Dr. Karl-Ludwig Gotthard Elvers is a German historian. After school and high school in Berlin, Elvers studied Latin and history at the Free University Berlin. In 1988 he passed his state examination, and in 1992 became research assistant at the Commission for Ancient History. Then he moved to the Ruhr University Bochum, where he has taught since 1994 as a teacher in higher education employment. In 1993 his doctorate at the University of Berlin was a thesis on history in Cicero's speeches and aspects of the late Republican understanding of history.

#829

Boris Rankov

#38825

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Nikolas Boris Rankov is a British professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a former rower and current umpire. Early life, education and family Rankov was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, the only son of Radoslav and Helga Rankov. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School , then subsequently Corpus Christi College, Oxford .

#830

Jay Winter

#26396

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Jay Murray Winter is an American historian. He is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, where he focuses his research on World War I and its impact on the 20th century. His other interests include remembrance of war in the 20th century, such as memorial and mourning sites, European population decline, the causes and institutions of war, British popular culture in the era of the First World War and the Armenian genocide of 1915. He is completing a biography of René Cassin.

#831

Yitzhak Arad

#10621

Overall Influence

1926 - 2021 (95 years)

Yitzhak Arad was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust. Names He was born Icchak Rudnicki, later adopting the Hebrew surname Arad . During World War II, he was known as Tolya in the underground and among the partisans.

#832

Adolfo Gilly

#12140

Overall Influence

1928 - 2023 (95 years)

Adolfo Atilio Gilly Malvagni was an Argentine-born Mexican historian and author of various books on the history of and politics of Mexico and Latin America. He served as Professor of History and Political Science at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City, where he taught from 1979. He was well known for his prolific articles in La Jornada, a major Mexico City newspaper. His research particularly focused on globalization and the Zapatista movement centered in the southeastern state of Chiapas.

#833

James Chace

#19780

Overall Influence

1931 - 2004 (73 years)

James Clarke Chace was an American historian, writing on American diplomacy and statecraft. His 12 books include the critically acclaimed Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World , the definitive biography of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. In a debate during the 2000 presidential primary, George W. Bush referred to Chace's Acheson as one of the books he was reading at the time.

#834

Angelos Chaniotis

#22392

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Angelos Chaniotis is a Greek historian and Classics scholar, known for original and wide-ranging research in the cultural, religious, legal and economic history of the Hellenistic period and the Byzantine Empire. His research interests also include the history of Crete and Greek epigraphy. Chaniotis is a Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

#835

Joanne B. Freeman

Joanne B. Freeman

#36416

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Joanne B. Freeman is a U.S. historian and tenured Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Having researched Alexander Hamilton both independently and collaboratively with mentors and peers for more than forty years, she is regarded as a leading expert on his life and legacy. Freeman has published two books as well as articles and op-eds in newspapers including The New York Times, magazines such as The Atlantic and Slate and numerous academic journals referencing the U.S. Founding Father. In addition to her many public lectures on Hamilton, outside of her regular student ...

#836

Natalya Yakovenko

Natalya Yakovenko

#53551

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Natalya Nykolayivna Yakovenko is a Ukrainian historian , specialist in Latin language, and professor of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Biography Historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences , Professor. Graduated from the Classics Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Lviv University . In 1970-1981 she worked as a senior researcher at the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, in 1981-1987 she was a lecturer at Kyiv University, in 1987-1991 she was a senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in 1991-...

#837

R. F. Foster

#12465

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Robert Fitzroy 'Roy' Foster , publishing as R. F. Foster, is an Irish historian and academic. He was the Carroll Professor of Irish History from 1991 until 2016 at Hertford College, Oxford. Early life Foster was born on 16 January 1949 in Waterford, to two teachers: Betty Foster , a primary teacher, and 'Fef' Foster, a teacher of Irish. His father, Fef, was a native of Drung, a tiny hamlet and parish located between Cavan Town and Cootehill in County Cavan. Roy attended Newtown School in Waterford, a multi-denominational school that was founded as a Quaker school in the late 18th century. He won a scholarship to attend St.

#838

Richard Breitman

#23495

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Richard David Breitman, born in 1947, is an American historian best known for his study of the Holocaust. Richard Breitman is an American historian who has written extensively on modern German history, the Holocaust, American immigration and refugee policy, and intelligence during and after World War II. He has spent his career in the history department at American University in Washington, D.C., from which he retired as distinguished professor emeritus in 2015. He has written or co-authored twelve books and served for twenty-five years as editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a scholarly ...

#839

Gabriel Camps

#18475

Overall Influence

1927 - 2002 (75 years)

Gabriel Camps was a French archaeologist and social anthropologist, the founder of the Encyclopédie berbère and is considered a prestigious scholar on the history of the Berber people. Biography Gabriel Camps was born in Misserghin, French Algeria. He attended secondary school in Oran, and studied later in Algiers. In 1961, he graduated from Algiers University with a PhD thesis about the protohistorical monuments and burial rites of Berber people, called Aux origines de la Berbérie. Monuments et rites funéraires protohistoriques, as well as with a second thesis on the Numidian king Masinissa.

#840

John M. Merriman

#23245

Overall Influence

1946 - 2022 (76 years)

John Mustard Merriman was an American historian specializing in modern French history. He was a Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. Early life and education Merriman was born on June 15, 1946, in Battle Creek, Michigan. His mother, Sally Mustard, was a portrait and landscape painter. He did not know his father, Robert Merriman, who was divorced from his mother when John was 2. He grew up in Portland, Oregon, where he attended a Jesuit all-boys secondary school, although he did not consider himself religious. He attended the University of Michigan, where he obtained his B.A.

#841

Bruce Mazlish

#10415

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

Bruce Mazlish was an American historian who was a professor in the Department of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work focused on historiography and philosophy of history, history of science and technology, artificial intelligence, history of the social sciences, the two cultures and bridging the humanities and sciences , revolution, psychohistory, history of globalization and the history of global citizenship. He worked to build the latter two fields of inquiry into a public intellectual movement, through initiatives such as the New Global History conferences.

#842

T. H. Breen

#39785

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Timothy H. Breen is currently the William Smith Mason Professor of American History Emeritus at Northwestern University and a James Marsh Professor at Large at the University of Vermont. He is the founding director of the Kaplan Humanities Center and the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern. Breen is a specialist on the American Revolution. He studies the history of early America with a special interest in political thought, material culture, and cultural anthropology. Breen has published multiple books and over 60 articles. In 2010 he released his latest book, American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People.

#843

Joel H. Silbey

#18860

Overall Influence

1933 - 2018 (85 years)

Joel Henry Silbey was an American historian. Joel H. Silbey was born on August 16, 1933, to parents Sidney R. and Estelle Silbey. He attended Brooklyn College in his hometown, graduating in 1955, before pursuing graduate study at the University of Iowa, earning his master's and doctoral degrees in 1956 and 1963, respectively. He taught at San Francisco State College, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Maryland before joining the Cornell University faculty in 1966. Two years later, Silbey became a full professor and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was appointed President White Professor of History in 1986, serving until retirement in 2002.

#844

David Hardiman

#46216

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

David Hardiman is a historian of modern India and a founding member of the subaltern studies group. Born in Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Hardiman was brought up in England where he graduated from the London School of Economics in 1970 and received his D.Phil. in South Asian History from the University of Sussex in 1975. He is an Emeritus professor of the Department of History at the University of Warwick.

#845

Benjamin Mazar

#7269

Overall Influence

1906 - 1995 (89 years)

Benjamin Mazar was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the region's biblical links. He is known for his excavations at the most significant biblical site in Israel: south and south west of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. In 1932 he conducted the first archaeological excavation under Jewish auspices in Israel at Beit She'arim and in 1948 was the first archaeologist to receive a permit granted by the new State of Israel . M...

#846

Steven Pincus

#23544

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Steven Pincus is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History at the University of Chicago, where he specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British and European history. Education and career In 1990, Pincus received a PhD in history from Harvard University. He is a prominent scholar of Early Modern British history, and his work has focused on the 17th century, in particular the Glorious Revolution and English foreign policy. His book 1688: The First Modern Revolution has been praised as providing "a new understanding of the origins of the modern, liberal state." The Economist named it as one of the best books on history published in 2009.

#847

Alonzo Hamby

#20615

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Alonzo L. Hamby is an American historian and academic. He is distinguished professor of history emeritus at Ohio University and the recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, a Harry S. Truman Library Institute Senior Fellowship, a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship, and the Ohio Academy of History Distinguished Service Award.

#848

Arthur S. Link

#11419

Overall Influence

1920 - 1998 (78 years)

Arthur Stanley Link was an American historian and educator, known as the leading authority on U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Early life Born in New Market, Virginia, 50 miles from Wilson's birthplace, in Staunton, Virginia, to a Lutheran minister of German descent, Link graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a B.A. in 1941 and a Ph.D. in 1945. He got inspired to look into the career of Woodrow Wilson career by Fletcher Green, one of his professors.

#849

Randall Balmer

#11863

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Randall Herbert Balmer is an American historian of American religion. He taught at Barnard College and Columbia University for twenty-seven years before moving to Dartmouth College in 2012, where he was named the Mandel Family Professor in the Arts & Sciences. He is also an Episcopal priest. He earned his PhD from Princeton University in 1985. He has been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and at Rutgers, Princeton, Drew University, Emory University, Yale and Northwestern universities and at Union Theological Seminary, where he was also adjunct professor of church history. He has also taught in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

#850

Eric McKitrick

#29496

Overall Influence

1920 - 2002 (82 years)

Eric Louis McKitrick was an American historian, best known for The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800 with Stanley Elkins, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1994. Life McKitrick was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1949, an M.A. in 1951, and a Ph.D. in 1959. He taught at the University of Chicago and at Rutgers University's Douglass College in the 1950s, and Columbia University from 1960 to 1989 before retiring as an emeritus professor of history. In 1973–74 he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institution...

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