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List of the most influential people in History,

#2551

Dario Biocca

#43284

Overall Influence

Dario Biocca is a professor of European history at John Cabot University. He also teaches at the University of Perugia, Italy and has been Coordinatore at Scuola di giornalismo Radiotelevisivo . He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and has taught at various institutions in the US and Italy.

#2552

Remi Nadeau

#67927

Overall Influence

1920 - 2016 (96 years)

Remi A. Nadeau was an American historian. He earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born in Los Angeles, Remi Allen Nadeau was the son of the late Marguerite and Remi E. Nadeau and the great-great grandson of "old" Remi Nadeau from the 1870s – known as the "King of the Desert Freighters." Remi Allen was a fifth generation Californian, a well-known historian and author, a descendant of one of California's pioneers. He was husband to his wife Margaret, and father to their three children. He died on June 6, 2016, in Sant...

#2553

Mary Maples Dunn

#31940

Overall Influence

1931 - 2017 (86 years)

Mary Maples Dunn was an American historian. She served as the eighth president of Smith College for ten years beginning in 1985. Dunn was also the director of the Schlesinger Library from 1995 to 2000. She was acting president of Radcliffe College when it merged with Harvard University, and she became the acting dean of the newly created Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study after the merger.

#2554

Inga Clendinnen

Inga Clendinnen

#40838

Overall Influence

1934 - 2016 (82 years)

Inga Clendinnen, was an Australian author, historian, anthropologist, and academic. Her work focused on social history, and the history of cultural encounters. She was an authority on Aztec civilisation and pre-Columbian ritual human sacrifice. She also wrote about the Holocaust and on first contacts between Indigenous Australians and white explorers. At her death, she was an Emeritus Scholar at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

#2555

Olga Ulianova

#71984

Overall Influence

1963 - 2016 (53 years)

Olga Viktorovna Ulianova Ольга Викторовна Ульянова was a Russian historian, born in the Soviet Union, naturalized Chilean. She specialized in contemporary history, Cold War, Chilean communism and the international non-state networks.

#2556

Michael Prestwich

#76786

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Michael Charles Prestwich OBE is an English historian, specialising on the history of medieval England, in particular the reign of Edward I. He is retired, having been Professor of History at Durham University and Head of the Department of History until 2007.

#2557

Richard Bonney

#70660

Overall Influence

1947 - 2017 (70 years)

Richard Bonney was an English historian and priest. He was appointed Lecturer in European History at the University of Reading in 1971 and Professor of Modern History at the University of Leicester in 1984, a post from which he retired in 2006. He was the founder of the Society for the Study of French History in the UK and the founding Editor of its Journal, French History, between 1987 and 2001.* He is Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques for services to French culture.

#2558

Robert Orsi

#51310

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Robert Anthony Orsi is a scholar of American history and Catholic studies who is the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair professor at Northwestern University. Biography Orsi was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City. He majored in religion and sociology at Trinity College in Connecticut and graduated salutatorian in 1975, receiving both a Danforth and Watson Scholarship. He attended graduate school in religion at Yale University where his prize-winning dissertation formed the basis of his first book, The Madonna of 115th Street.

#2559

Teofilo Ruiz

#79354

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Teofilo F. Ruiz is a Cuban-American medieval historian and professor currently at University of California, Los Angeles . In 2012, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by former President Barack Obama. He is consistently rated as one of the most popular professors at UCLA, and has published many books as well as dozens of articles in scholarly journals as well as reviews and smaller articles.

#2560

Debora Hammond

#14541

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Debora Hammond is an American historian of science, former Provost and Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at the Sonoma State University. She is known as author of the 2003 book The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems Theory, and as 2005–06 President of International Society for the Systems Sciences.

#2561

Andrii Portnov

#51618

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Andrii Portnov is a Ukrainian historian, essayist, and editor. He is the chair professor of entangled history of Ukraine at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt . and a director of the PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe. He specializes in Polish-Russian-Ukrainian history and memory studies.

#2562

Henryk Samsonowicz

#47873

Overall Influence

1930 - 2021 (91 years)

Henryk Bohdan Samsonowicz was a Polish historian specializing in medieval Poland, prolific writer, and professor of the University of Warsaw. In 1989–1990, he was the minister of education in the government of prime minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

#2563

Brooks D. Simpson

Brooks D. Simpson

#48513

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Brooks Donohue Simpson is an American historian and an ASU Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University, specializing in American political and military history, especially the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras and the American presidency.

#2564

Walter Bartel

#53676

Overall Influence

1904 - 1992 (88 years)

Walter Bartel was a German communist resistance fighter, historian and university professor. Life Born in Fürstenberg/Havel, Bartel grew up in a working-class family. Wilhelm Bartel, his father, worked in forestry.

#2565

Leandro Karnal

#72962

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Leandro Karnal is a Brazilian television personality and former university professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas until 2019. Karnal has publications on the subject of History, focusing on the History of the Americas and the History of Religion. He was born in São Leopoldo, and became known in Brazil for his work on popularizing philosophy for the masses; he lectures around the country. In 2020, he became co-host of CNN Tonight, a nightly commentary program at CNN Brasil.

#2566

Peter Hoffmann

#36481

Overall Influence

1930 - 2023 (93 years)

Peter C. W. Hoffmann was a German-Canadian historian who was the William Kingsford Professor in the Department of History at McGill University. His principal area of research dealt with the German resistance against Nazism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lived in Canada and in Germany.

#2567

Patricia Clavin

#60391

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Patricia M. Clavin, is a British historian and academic, who specialises in international relations, economic crises, and twentieth-century history. She is Professor of International History at the University of Oxford, and a fellow and tutor in history at Jesus College, Oxford.

#2568

Iaroslav Lebedynsky

#63328

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Iaroslav Lebedynsky, born in Paris in 1960, is a French historian of Ukrainian origin, a specialist in ancient warrior cultures of the steppe and the Caucasus, and a prolific author in that field. He has also translated seven books on history or languages of this region into French.

#2569

Karine Chemla

#30954

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Karine Chemla is a French historian of mathematics and sinologist who works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique . She is also a senior fellow at the New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

#2570

Barbara Stern Burstin

#78561

Overall Influence

Barbara Stern Burstin is an adjunct professor in the history departments at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. She has published several books and articles relating to the Holocaust and the history of Jews in Pittsburgh.

#2571

Jerome Lee Shneidman

#63674

Overall Influence

1929 - 2008 (79 years)

Jerome Lee Shneidman was an American historian of medieval and early American history. His academic contributions were predominantly in the fields of medieval history, psychohistory, and early American history.

#2572

Christopher Whatley

#77478

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Christopher Allan Whatley, OBE, FRHistS, FRSE, is a well-known and widely published Scottish historian. He has been Professor of Scottish History at the University of Dundee since 1997. He is a prominent opponent of Scottish independence and chaired the inaugural meeting of the local Better Together campaign in Dundee during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.

#2573

Stanley Chodorow

#107135

Overall Influence

Stanley Chodorow is a historian and former academic administrator who was Vice President of Academic Affairs at Questia Media . Prior to that, he was at the University of California, San Diego from 1968 to 1994, first as a professor of history and later a dean. In 1994, he left UCSD to become Provost at the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained until 1997. He received his BA from Cornell University, and his PhD from Cornell's Department of History in 1968. He has since returned to UCSD where he has lectured in the humanities, the "Making of the Modern World", and in culture, art, and ...

#2574

Alexander Saxton

#29362

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Alexander Plaisted Saxton was an American historian, novelist, and university professor. He was the author of the pioneering Indispensable Enemy , one of the founding texts in Asian American studies.

#2575

Malcolm Yapp

#102072

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Malcolm Edward Yapp is a British historian, professor emeritus of modern history of Western Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Works 'Two British historians of Persia', in Bernard Lewis & Peter Malcolm Holt, eds., Historians of the Middle East, 1962. War, technology and society in the Middle East, 1975. Political identity in South Asia, 1979.Chingis Khan and the Mongol Empire, 1980.Strategies of British India: Britain, Iran, and Afghanistan, 1798–1850, 1980.The making of the modern Near East, 1792–1923, 1987.'Europe in the Turkish mirror', Past and Present, 137 , pp. 134–55.The Near East since the First World War: a History to 1995, 1991.

#2576

Gwyn A. Williams

Gwyn A. Williams

#62207

Overall Influence

1925 - 1995 (70 years)

Gwyn Alfred "Alf" Williams was a Welsh historian particularly known for his work on Antonio Gramsci and Francisco Goya as well as on Welsh history. Life Williams was born in the iron town of Dowlais situated above the industrial town of Merthyr Tydfil. He attended the Cyfarthfa Grammar School and later read history at University College Wales, Aberystwyth. During World War II, he joined the British Army and fought in Normandy. Williams received his doctorate for a dissertation later published as Medieval London: from commune to capital. Gwyn Alf Williams was a Communist, a member of the Young...

#2577

Aviel Roshwald

#62002

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Aviel Roshwald is an American historian and Professor of history at Georgetown University. He received his B.A from the University of Minnesota in 1980, and his PhD from Harvard University in 1987. As a scholar of nationalism, Roshwald is noted for his belief that nations and nationalism already existed in the ancient world.

#2578

Sudhir Hazareesingh

Sudhir Hazareesingh

#68494

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Sudhir Hazareesingh, GCSK, is a British-Mauritian historian. He has been a fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford since 1990. Most of his work relates to modern political history from 1850; including the history of contemporary France as well as Napoleon, the Republic and Charles de Gaulle.

#2579

Charles Capper

#78457

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

Charles Capper was an American historian known for his work on Transcendentalism and his biographies of Margaret Fuller. Life Capper graduated from Johns Hopkins University and UC Berkeley with an M.A. and Ph.D. in history. From 1986 until 2001, he was a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since 2001 he has been Professor of History at Boston University. In 1993, his first book, Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life, won the Bancroft Prize. Seven editions of his volume The American Intellectual Tradition, co-edited with David Hollinger, have been published.

#2580

Louis Galambos

#79007

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Louis Paul Galambos is an American historian known for his contributions to business history. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of History and editor of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower at Johns Hopkins University, where he has worked since 1971. He previously served as an Assistant Professor , Associate Professor , and Professor at Rice University. He also served as a Professor at Rutgers University.

#2581

W. H. Oliver

#42539

Overall Influence

1925 - 2015 (90 years)

William Hosking Oliver , commonly known as W. H. Oliver but also known as Bill Oliver, was an eminent New Zealand historian and a poet. From 1983, Oliver led the development of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.

#2582

Bayyinah Bello

#65758

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Bayyinah Bello is a historian with expertise in Haitian and Pan-African history. She is also well known for being a teacher, writer and humanitarian worker, who in her earlier career spent 15 years living and travelling in West Africa, including four years in Nigeria, as well as in Benin, Togo, and other countries in the region.

#2583

Patrick Manning

#97635

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Patrick Manning is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, Emeritus, at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also president of the World History Network, Inc., a nonprofit corporation fostering research in world history. A specialist in world history and African history, his current research addresses global historiography, early human history, migration in world history, the African diaspora, and the demography of African slavery.

#2584

Jörg Echternkamp

#78656

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Jörg Echternkamp is a German military historian, who specialises in the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. He is a lecturer in modern history at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and a research director at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Army

#2585

Carl J. Richard

#79615

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Carl J. Richard is a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He specializes in early American history and U.S. intellectual history. He has published several books over the years. He received a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1988.

#2586

Chase F. Robinson

#66462

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Chase F. Robinson is an American historian of Islam, who is currently Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution. Prior to assuming this role, he served as President and Distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center at City University of New York. He was formerly a fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford from 1993 until 2008. Robinson received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Fluent in French, he spent his junior year of high school at School Year Ab...

#2587

Harold Bolitho

#63440

Overall Influence

1939 - 2010 (71 years)

Harold Bolitho was an Australian academic, historian, author and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. The name Bolitho is of Cornish origin.

#2588

Jacob Soll

#10619

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Jacob Soll is an American university professor and professor of philosophy, history and accounting at the University of Southern California. Soll's work examines the mechanics of politics, statecraft and economics by dissecting the various elements of how modern states and political systems succeed and fail. He studies the philosophies of political and economic freedom with a focus on the relationship of the individual to the state.

#2589

Erwin Oberländer

#91148

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Erwin Oberländer is a German historian and expert on Eastern European history. He is Professor Emeritus of Eastern European History at the University of Mainz. He is also a former President of the German Association of Historians of Eastern Europe, and was appointed by the Latvian government as a foreign member of the Commission of the Historians of Latvia, which was tasked with studying crimes against humanity in Latvia during the Soviet and Nazi occupations.

#2590

Bruce Campbell

#96836

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Bruce Mortimer Stanley Campbell, FBA, MRIA, MAE, FRHistS, FAcSS is a British economic historian. From 1995 to 2014, he was Professor of Medieval Economic History at Queen's University Belfast, where he remains an emeritus professor.

#2591

John Grenville

#56847

Overall Influence

1928 - 2011 (83 years)

John Ashley Soames Grenville was a historian of the modern world. Biography John Grenville was born Hans Guhrauer in Berlin, Germany on 11 January 1928. In 1939, he escaped the Holocaust via Kindertransport with his brothers Julian and Walter, leaving his mother to join his father who had already fled to England. He officially changed his name in 1949 to John Ashley Soames Grenville upon receiving British citizenship. The persecution of the Jews progressed faster than his father had anticipated and his mother died in Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

#2592

Ruth Rosen

#46804

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Ruth Rosen is a historian of gender and society, a journalist, and a Professor Emerita at University of California Davis. She is the editor of The Maimie Papers, a New York Times Notable Book in 1978; the author of The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1982; and the author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America , a Book of the Month and Quality Paperback Selection; Los Angeles Times Best Books published in 2000; Finalist for Non-Fiction Award for Bay Area Reviewers Association.

#2593

Charles-Robert Ageron

#62362

Overall Influence

1923 - 2008 (85 years)

Charles-Robert Ageron was a French historian specializing in colonial Algeria. He was born on 6 November 1923 in Lyon and died on 3 September 2008 in Kremlin-Bicêtre. Education and career Born in Lyon, teacher of history, he taught at the Gautier high school in Algiers from 1947, then at the Lakanal high school in Sceaux from 1957. He was a research associate at CNRS from 1959 to 1961. He became assistant and then associate professor at the Sorbonne University, where he taught until 1969. At the same time in 1968, led by Charles-André Julien, he presented his thesis on the situation of Muslim...

#2594

Selwyn Cudjoe

#23430

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Selwyn Cudjoe is a Trinidadian academic, scholar, historian, essayist and editor who is Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. He was also the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and the Marion Butler McClean Professor in the History of Ideas at Wellesley. Cudjoe's particular expertise is Caribbean literature and Caribbean intellectual history, and he teaches courses on the African-American literary tradition, African literature, black women writers, and Caribbean literature.

#2595

David Day

#60917

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

David Andrew Day is an Australian historian, academic, and author. Academic career The son of a weather forecaster with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, Day grew up in Melbourne and Charleville, Queensland before commencing accounting studies in which he performed poorly owing to his political activity, which included protesting against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. After a short period of work, Day returned to his studies and graduated with first-class Honours in History and Political Science from the University of Melbourne and was awarded a PhD from the University of Cambr...

#2596

Peter Stansky

#63165

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Peter David Lyman Stansky is an American historian specializing in modern British history. Works Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s England Since 1867: Continuity and Change Gladstone: A Progress in Politics William Morris Redesigning the World: William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World Another Book that Never Was From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper includes bibliography of writings 1954–1998Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil Journey to the Frontier: Ju...

#2597

David Hey

#64630

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

David G. Hey was an English historian, and was an authority on surnames and the local history of Yorkshire. Hey was the president of the British Association for Local History, and was a published author of several books on local history and the derivation of surnames.

#2598

Hillel Cohen

#52994

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Hillel Cohen-Bar is an Israeli scholar who studies and writes about Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine/Israel. He is an associated professor at the Department of Islam and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel at that university.

#2599

Odd S. Lovoll

#52182

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Odd Sverre Lovoll is a Norwegian-American author, historian and educator. Background Odd Sverre Lovoll was born in Sande, in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. He immigrated to the United States in 1946 and is a naturalized United States citizen. Lovoll received his education both in Norway and in the United States, passing university exams at the University of Bergen in 1961 and at the University of Oslo in 1966 and 1967. Lovoll graduated from the University of North Dakota and from the University of Minnesota .

#2600

Madhavan K. Palat

#87619

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Madhavan Kezhkepat Palat is an Indian historian, scholar of modern world, and political commentator. He is an expert on European and Russian history. In an academic career extending over nearly five decades, he has played a seminal role in promoting understanding of Russian history, culture, literature, and society in India.

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