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List of the most influential people in History,

#3201

Quintard Taylor

#106167

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

Quintard Taylor is a historian, founder of BlackPast.org, an online encyclopedia dedicated to provide public with information concerning African American history, and former professor of University of Washington.

#3202

Glenda Sluga

#62996

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (63 years)

Glenda Anna Sluga , is an Australian historian who has contributed significantly to the history of internationalism, nationalism, diplomacy, immigration, and gender, in Europe, Britain, France, Italy, Yugoslavia, and Australia.

#3203

John Bannerman

#88939

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

John Walter MacDonald Bannerman was a Scottish historian, noted for his work on Gaelic Scotland. Biography He was born in Balmaha, Stirlingshire, the son of John MacDonald Bannerman, later Lord Bannerman of Kildonan, and his wife Ray Mundell. His family was native speakers of Scottish Gaelic, and Bannerman studied Celtic languages at the University of Glasgow and completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge where he was taught by Kathleen Hughes.

#3204

Alwyn Ruddock

#84390

Overall Influence

1916 - 2005 (89 years)

Alwyn Ann Ruddock was a noted British historian of the Age of Discovery, best known for her research on the English voyages of the 15th-century explorer John Cabot. Cabot and other navigators of the time were trying to find lands to the West, such as the mythical "Isle of Brasil" or the North American lands reached by Icelanders in previous centuries.

#3205

Hugh Davis Graham

#43053

Overall Influence

1937 - 2002 (65 years)

Hugh Davis Graham was an American historian and sociologist. He was the author of several books about the civil rights movement. Early life Graham was born on September 2, 1936, in Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three sons of a Presbyterian minister. He studied history at Yale University and completed a Ph.D. in history at Stanford University in 1964.

#3206

Antonia Finnane

#60490

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Antonia Finnane is professor of Chinese History at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests have been in migration from China to Australia, particularly by Jewish refugees and in urban and cultural change in China, concentrating on consumption and clothing. Finnane retired from her teaching position at the end of 2018 following a career spanning 33 years.

#3207

Richard Cockett

#29018

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Richard Cockett is a British historian, journalist and author. He is a regional editor of The Economist, with experience in Mexico, Central America, Africa and Singapore. He was previously a senior lecturer in politics and history at Royal Holloway, University of London.

#3208

Ali Rahnema

#24808

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Ali Rahnema is an Iranian economist and historian. He is a professor of economics at the American University of Paris. Rahnema is the son of former Iranian diplomat and politician Hamid Rahnema. Education Rahnema has a BA from Lewis and Clark College, MA and MALD degrees from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, and a Doctorat de Troisième Cycle from the Université de Paris I - Sorbonne.

#3209

Hans-Joachim Lang

Hans-Joachim Lang

#48759

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (74 years)

Hans-Joachim Lang is a German journalist, historian, and adjunct professor of cultural anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies University of Tübingen. Dr. Lang researched and authored the award-winning book Die Namen der Nummern , published in 2004, which identified all of the victims murdered in the gas chamber of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp for Nazi anatomist August Hirt as part of his plan to create a pseudo-scientific Jewish skeleton collection during World War II.

#3210

Oleksiy Tolochko

Oleksiy Tolochko

#78929

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Oleksiy Petrovych Tolochko is a Ukrainian historian and medievalist, doctor of historical studies, and corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Tolochko is the director of the Centre of Kievan Rus' Studies in Kyiv, and is known for his work on textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle.

#3211

Catherine Kudlick

#85730

Overall Influence

Catherine J. Kudlick is an American historian. She is a Professor of History and director of the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. She is also an affiliated professor in the Laboratory ICT University Paris VII.

#3212

Stefan Rinke

#73079

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (60 years)

Stefan Rinke is a German historian and specialist in Latin American history. Since 2005 he has been professor at the Institute of Latin American Studies and at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin.

#3213

Partha Sarathi Chatterjee

#124490

Overall Influence

#3214

Reuven Amitai

#70711

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Reuven Amitai , also Reuven Amitai-Preiss, is an Israeli-American historian and writer, specializing in pre-modern Islamic civilization, especially Syria and Palestine during the time of the Mamluk Empire. In his 20s he moved to Israel, and became history professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. As of 2012 he is the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University.

#3215

Kimberly Kagan

#88160

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (53 years)

Kimberly Ellen Kagan is an American military historian. She founded and heads the Institute for the Study of War and has taught at West Point, Yale, Georgetown University, and American University. Kagan has published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Weekly Standard and elsewhere. In 2009, she served on Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal's strategic assessment team.

#3216

John Cannon

#82468

Overall Influence

1926 - 2012 (86 years)

John Ashton Cannon was an English historian specialising in 18th-century British politics. Cannon was born in Hertfordshire. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School where he gained a scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge, and gained his PhD at Bristol University . During his time at Bristol, he also became involved in Radio Bristol when it was first aired and was chairman from 1970 to 1974.

#3217

Krzysztof Olendzki

Krzysztof Olendzki

#41183

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (62 years)

Krzysztof Jan Olendzki is a Polish diplomat; ambassador to Tunisia and Slovenia . Life Olendzki graduated from history at the University of Warsaw . He has been studying also at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 1995, he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino.

#3218

W. F. Bynum

#64631

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (82 years)

William F. Bynum is a British emeritus professor in history of medicine. For most of his career, he has worked at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. He has frequently collaborated with British historian Roy Porter.

#3219

Klas-Göran Karlsson

Klas-Göran Karlsson

#75431

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Klas-Göran Karlsson is a professor of history at Lund University. Karlsson is an author of books on conflictology and Holocaust studies such as "The Holocaust as a Problem of Historical Culture". One of the focus areas of Karlsson's research is the topic of genocide.

#3220

Hasan Kwame Jeffries

#74812

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Hasan Kwame Jeffries is a history professor and author at Ohio State University. He is the brother of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the U.S. House Minority Leader. He is the nephew of Leonard Jeffries, a former political science professor at City College of New York.

#3221

Kate Darian-Smith

#63780

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (64 years)

Katherine Darian-Smith, is an Australian social historian and academic. She is executive dean and pro vice-chancellor at the University of Tasmania. Early life and education Katherine Darian-Smith was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1961. She is the daughter of neuroscientist Ian Darian-Smith, who became a professor at the University of Melbourne in 1972. She was educated at Kew High School and then the University of Melbourne, receiving a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1988.

#3222

Simon Payaslian

#58265

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Simon Payaslian is an Armenian-American historian, author, editor, who has held the Charles K. and Elizabeth M. Kenosian Chair in Modern Armenian History and Literature at Boston University since 2007. From 2002 to 2007 he held the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian genocide Studies and Modern Armenian History at Clark University.

#3223

Jay Rubenstein

#64545

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (58 years)

Jay Rubenstein is an American historian of the Middle Ages. Life Rubenstein grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma and attended Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota where he graduated with a B.A. in 1989. From 1989-1991 he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In recognition of this achievement, his hometown of Cushing named a street after him. In 1991 he completed an M.Phil. from Oxford, writing a thesis on the veneration of saints' relics in England after the Norman Conquest. In 1997, he received a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, working under the supervision of Professor Gerard Caspary.

#3224

Selina Todd

#60721

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Selina Todd is an English historian and writer. From 2015, she has been Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Todd's research focuses on the history of the working-class, women and feminism in modern Britain. Since 2017, Todd has also been president of the Socialist Educational Association.

#3225

Patricia Turner

#64362

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (70 years)

Patricia A. Turner is an American folklorist who documents and analyzes the stories that define the African American experience. A professor in World Arts and Cultures/Dance and African American Studies at UCLA, Turner is the author of five books on topics ranging from rumors, legends and conspiracy theories to African American quilters and images of African Americans in popular culture. She is the 2021 recipient of the Linda Dégh Lifetime Achievement Award.

#3226

Julio Cesar Pino

#67895

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Julio Cesar Pino is a former tenured Associate Professor of History at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, specializing in Latin American History and the Third World. He was fired in April 2018. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. His courses include "Comparative Third World Revolutions", Afro-Latin America, History of Women in Latin America" and "The Sixties: A Third World View."

#3227

Leonard Blussé

#78241

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Leonard Blussé is a Dutch historian concerned with the field of Asian-European relations. Blussé has a prolific written output in his field, having authored, co-authored or edited more than twenty books since 2000.

#3228

Debórah Dwork

#27756

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (61 years)

Debórah Dwork is an American historian, specializing in the history of the Holocaust. She is the Founding Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and formerly served as the Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.

#3229

Melanie Nolan

#73419

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Melanie Claire Nolan is a historian and university academic from New Zealand, specialising in labour and gender history. She is the Director of the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

#3230

Merrill G. Burlingame

Merrill G. Burlingame

#62806

Overall Influence

1901 - 1994 (93 years)

Merrill G. Burlingame was a history professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana who specialized in Montana history and the history of the American West. He was instrumental in the founding of the Museum of the Rockies and driving force behind the resurgence of the Montana Historical Society in the 1960s. In his time, he was known as "Mr. Montana History."

#3231

Hélène Miard-Delacroix

#41039

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (66 years)

Hélène Miard-Delacroix is a French historian and Germanist, specializing in the history of Germany and Franco-German relations. She is a professor at Sorbonne University. Her expertise in research on Franco-German relations and her commitment to scholarly exchange between the two countries found international recognition in 2022 with the Reimar Lüst Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for leading international scholars.

#3232

Agostino Borromeo

Agostino Borromeo

#98533

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Agostino Borromeo is an Italian professor and historian, and General Governor of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Early life and background Agostino Borromeo comes from the aristocratic House of Borromeo family. He studied political science at Sapienza University of Rome. He also completed his musical studies in piano, organ and organ composition.

#3233

Vasil Gyuzelev

#103530

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Vasil Todorov Gyuzelev is a Bulgarian historian who studies Bulgaria during the Middle Ages. Biography Gyuzelev was born in the village of Rakovski in 1936. Between 1954 and 1959 he studied history and archaeology in the Sofia University and then worked for a short time in the Museum of History in Dimitrovgrad. Gyuzelev worked in the Sofia university and served as a director of the National Museum of History between 1975 and 1977. In 1995 he became associate member and in 2003 academician of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

#3234

Ronald L. Baker

#74106

Overall Influence

1937 - 2023 (86 years)

Ronald L. Baker was an American folklorist, historian, scholar of literature and onomastics, educator, and author. Life and career Ronald Lee Baker was born June 30, 1937, in Indianapolis, Indiana. He earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Indiana State University in 1960 and received an M.A. in philosophy from the same institution in 1961. He did graduate work in English at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. In 1966, he began teaching at Indiana State University where he advanced to become professor and chair of the English Department before retirement in 2006. He atten...

#3235

Edward Peters

#79716

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Edward Murray Peters is an emeritus professor of University of Pennsylvania who specialized in the religious and political history of early Europe. He has done in-depth research regarding heresy, repression and the limits and treatment of intellectual inquiry in the low Middle Ages. He has also done deep research on historiography criticising, improving and reviewing the methods that traditional historiography has applied to the low medieval time period.

#3236

Clement Alexander Price

#52920

Overall Influence

1945 - 2014 (69 years)

Clement Alexander Price was an American historian. As the Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark, Price brought his study of the past to bear on contemporary social issues in his adopted hometown of Newark, New Jersey, and across the nation. He was the founding director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers; the vice chair of President Barack Obama's Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; the chair of Obama's transition team for the National Endowment for the Humanities; a member of the Scholarly Ad...

#3237

Gerald L. Geison

#61440

Overall Influence

1943 - 2001 (58 years)

Gerald Lynn Geison was an American historian who died at 58. Career Gerald L. Geison went on to earn a doctorate in Yale University's Department of the History of Science and Medicine in 1970 and then joined the Princeton faculty, where he was a professor in the history department and the Program in History of Science.

#3238

Polymnia Athanassiadi

#77444

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Polymnia Athanassiadi is a historian specialising in the religious and cultural history of Late Antiquity, in particular the transition from Neoplatonic to Islamic theology. Athanassiadi was a Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens.

#3239

Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist

#123105

Overall Influence

1917 - 1995 (78 years)

Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist was a Polish historian of the Ancient Era, professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw. Her husband Marian Małowist was also a historian. Life She was born into a Jewish family as the daughter of Eliasz and Dyna Bieżuński, who were both killed during World War Two, along with twenty-one close family members. In 1952 she took up the chair in Ancient History at the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw, becoming the head of the ancient history department from 1969 to 1987. For many years she was a member of the editorial board of Przegląd...

#3240

Glenn J. Ames

#64599

Overall Influence

1955 - 2010 (55 years)

Glenn Joseph Ames was born on February 3, 1955, in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Ames earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Rhode Island , and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Minnesota. In 1988, Ames joined the University of Toledo History Department and taught courses for twenty years on an array of topics including the French Revolution, European expansion to the Indian Ocean basin, and the age of absolutism. Ames joined the UT faculty as an assistant professor of history, was named associate professor in 1993, and a professor of history...

#3241

Jerry White

#69008

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Jerry White is a British historian who has specialised in the history of London. From 1997 onwards he has worked on a trilogy of books about London from 1700 to 2000. Career in local government Jerry White embarked upon a career in local government after leaving grammar school in Dorset in 1967. Between 1989 and 1995 he was the chief executive of the London Borough of Hackney. Between 1995 and 2009 he was one of the three Local Government Ombudsmen for England.

#3242

Ian McKay

#59907

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (72 years)

Ian Gordon McKay is a Canadian historian who serves as Chair of the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University. He was formerly a professor at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he taught from 1988 to 2015. During his time at Queen's, Ian supervised or co-supervised over 33 doctoral theses and 49 master's theses and cognate essays. His primary interests are Canadian cultural and political history, the economic and social history of Atlantic Canada, historical memory and tourism, and the history of liberalism, both in Canadian and transnational aspects. His long-term project is to write a comprehensive history of the Canadian left.

#3243

Nigel Saul

#95702

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Nigel Saul is a British academic who was formerly the Head of the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London . He retired in 2015 and is now Emeritus Professor. He is recognised as one of the leading experts in the history of medieval England.

#3244

Truesdell Sparhawk Brown

#104799

Overall Influence

1906 - 1992 (86 years)

Truesdell Sparhawk Brown was a classical scholar, ancient historian, and co-founder of the journal California Studies in Classical Antiquity, which became the journal Classical Antiquity. Biography Brown attended Haverford College in 1922–1923 and then transferred to Harvard University, where he received his A.B in 1928 and his M.A. in 1929. He was an instructor in ancient history at the University of Colorado from 1929 to 1932 and from 1933 to 1937 with an interruption for the academic year 1932–1933 when he studied under C. F. Lehmann-Haupt at the University of Innsbruck. Brown was an instr...

#3245

Valerie Hansen

#120161

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (67 years)

Valerie Hansen is an American historian. Career After graduating from Kent School in 1975, Harvard University in 1979 and receiving her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987, she joined Yale University in 1988 as assistant professor and became a professor in 1998. Hansen spent one year in Shanghai on a Fulbright grant from 2005–06; 2008–09 and 2011–12, teaching at Yale's joint undergraduate program with Peking University; and fall semester 2015 teaching at Yale-NUS college in Singapore.

#3246

Hannu Soikkanen

#125504

Overall Influence

1930 - 2020 (90 years)

Hannu Veli Soikkanen is a Finnish historian, PhD 1965. Soikkanen was active in the study of Finland's history 1962–66 at the University of Turku, and 1967–76 in economic and social history. Between 1976 and 1993 he was a professor in social history at Helsinki University.

#3247

R. I. Page

#46932

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

Raymond Ian Page was a British historian of Anglo-Saxon England and the Viking Age. As a renowned runologist, he specialised in the study of Anglo-Saxon runes. Biography Page was born in Sheffield in 1924, and was educated at King Edward VII School. His family circumstances required him to leave school at the age of 16. In 1942 he took a course in mechanical engineering at Rotherham Technical College, applying thereafter for a commission in the Royal Navy. After the war, on discharge from the Navy, he was able as an ex-serviceman to obtain a place as an undergraduate at the University of Sheffield.

#3248

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#35228

Overall Influence

1917 - 2008 (91 years)

Donal Conor David Dermot Donat Cruise O'Brien , often nicknamed "The Cruiser", was an Irish diplomat, politician, writer, historian and academic, who served as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1973 to 1977, a Senator for Dublin University from 1977 to 1979, a Teachta Dála for the Dublin North-East constituency from 1969 to 1977, and a Member of the European Parliament from January 1973 to March 1973.

#3249

Alexander Vucinich

#30244

Overall Influence

1914 - 2002 (88 years)

Alexander S. Vucinich was an American historian. He taught at the department of history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania from 1976 until his retirement in 1985. He also taught at San Jose State College , the University of Illinois , and the University of Texas . After his retirement he and his wife Dorothy moved to Berkeley, California, where he participated in the activities of Berkeley's Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. His field of research was the history of science and social thought in Russia and the Soviet Union.

#3250

Billie Melman

#102700

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (73 years)

Billie Melman is professor of history at Tel Aviv University, Henri Glasberg Chair in European Studies, a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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