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List of the most influential people in History,

#4101

Richard J. Finlay

#75153

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Professor Richard J. Finlay FRHistS is the current Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde and the author of a number of books, particularly on the modern history of Scotland.

#4102

Esther Eidinow

#65883

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (55 years)

Esther Eidinow is a British ancient historian and academic. She specialises in ancient Greece, particularly ancient Greek religion and magic. She has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bristol since 2017.

#4103

Roland Étienne

#63942

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Roland Étienne is a French archaeologist and historian specialising in the history of Greek archaeology, ancient architecture and Hellenistic history. Career A graduate of the École normale supérieure , Étienne taught ancient history in the Universities of Nanterre and Montpellier and conducted archaeological research in Greece and Turkey.

#4104

Daniel H. Ludlow

#78822

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

Daniel Hansen Ludlow was a professor of religion at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He was also the chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, published in 1992 by Macmillan. Biography Ludlow was raised in southern Utah County and attended public schools in such communities as Benjamin, Utah, Goshen, Utah and Spanish Fork. He studied at Utah State University where he served for two years as student body president. He then went on to receive an M.A. in education from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

#4105

Douglas Dakin

#103814

Overall Influence

1907 - 1995 (88 years)

Douglas Dakin was a British historian, academic and professor emeritus of Birkbeck College, University of London . He is especially known for his work in the Neohellenic Studies field, in which he devoted the greatest part of his study and research, especially focusing on the Greek Revolution through the mid-20th century period.

#4106

Martin Dusinberre

#99414

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (49 years)

Martin Dusinberre is a professor and the chair for global history at the University of Zurich. Before attaining this position in 2015, he was a lecturer in Modern Japanese History at Newcastle University and a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University. Next to his academic publications, which focus on the social history of modern Japan and the history of shipping and sea travel, he has written editorial pieces for Reuters, the History Workshop, and The Guardian. In 2018 he developed an exhibition in cooperation with the Johann Jacobs Museum in Zurich: "A Painting for the Emperor. Japane...

#4107

Charles Gordon Roland

#101501

Overall Influence

1933 - 2009 (76 years)

Charles "Chuck" Gordon Roland was born on January 25, 1933, in Winnipeg, Manitoba to Jack and Leona Roland. After a long and distinguished career as an author, editor, and Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine at McMaster University, Roland died at the age of 76 on June 9, 2009, in Burlington, Ontario.

#4108

Cheryl Buckley

#45170

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (69 years)

Cheryl Buckley is a British design historian whose research has focused on feminist approaches to design history. She has published on British ceramic design and fashion. Her works include the influential article "Made in Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Women and Design" and the books Potters and Paintresses and Designing Modern Britain . She is professor of fashion and design history at the University of Brighton, as of 2021, and was previously professor of design history at Northumbria University.

#4109

Jūratė Kiaupienė

#110766

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (78 years)

Jūratė Kiaupienė is a Lithuanian historian, professor, Habilitated Doctor. Education In 1969 Jūratė Kiaupienė finished her studies in History department of Vilnius University and obtain historian speciality. After finishing university she worked in Lithuanian History and Ethnography Museum, in 1972 was appointed in Lithuanian Science Academy office. Later she worked as docent in History Department of Vilnius Pedagogical University. From 1989 works in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's History Department of Lithuanian Institute of History. In 1984 Kiaupienė defended her thesis Agrariniai santykiai Žemaitijoje XVI–XVIII a, she also lectures in Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas.

#4110

Horst Ueberhorst

#76006

Overall Influence

1925 - 2010 (85 years)

Horst Ueberhorst was a German sport historian. His six-volume world sport history of over 150 countries and a total of 3,982 pages is the most comprehensive systematic collection of the development of sports in the world. The European Committee for Sport History is honoring him annually by presenting the Horst Ueberhorst Honorary Address He was professor of sport history and founding Dean of the Faculty of Sport Sciences at the Ruhr-University in Bochum. After graduation from high school and a short voluntary service in the Army, Ueberhorst studied Sport, History, Germanic Languages and Protestant Religious Studies at the University of Bonn.

#4111

Charles Townshend

#33267

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Charles Jeremy Nigel Townshend FBA is a British historian. His most prominent field of research is the history of British rule in Ireland, but is also a historian of British influence and rule in the Middle East during and after World War I, the era of Mandatory Palestine, Mandatory Iraq, and the Emirate of Transjordan.

#4112

John Henry Morgan

#46488

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

John Henry Morgan is the Karl Mannheim Professor of the History and Philosophy of Social Sciences at the Graduate Theological Foundation, where he also served as president until 2013. A prolific author, his academic work has explored the intersection of theology, philosophy, psychology and culture.

#4113

Valerie Pearl

#61793

Overall Influence

1926 - 2016 (90 years)

Valerie Louise Pearl was a British historian who was noted for her work on the English Civil War. She was the second President of New Hall, Cambridge. Life Pearl was the daughter of Cyril Bence, the former Labour Party Member of Parliament for East Dunbartonshire. She was educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, going up in 1946 and gaining a Second-Class degree in Modern History. She subsequently gained a D.Phil. for her thesis, supervised by Christopher Hill, on London and the outbreak of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1643. This was published in revised form by the Oxford University Press in 1...

#4114

Donald E. Davis

Donald E. Davis

#136811

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (89 years)

Donald E. Davis is an American writer and historian. Previously, Davis was a professor at Illinois State University. Early life and education Davis earned his bachelor's degree from San Francisco State University. He attended graduate school at Indiana University, where he obtained his MA and PhD, focusing on Russian history. Davis wrote his dissertation on Vladimir Lenin and theories of warfare, especially those of Clausewitz. At San Francisco State University, Harold H. Fisher mentored him; at Indiana University, he studied with Robert F. Byrnes and Robert H. Ferrell.

#4115

Svetlana Gorshenina

#99237

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Svetlana Gorshenina is a Soviet-born Suisse historian, art historian, historiographer and specialist on Central Asia, mainly involved in the history of Turkestan of the nineteenth to the early twentieth century and the early years of Soviet rule in the region. She is Research Professor, EUR'ORBEM . Her works appear mostly in French language.

#4116

Rosemary O'Day

#73544

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (80 years)

Rosemary O'Day is professor emeritus of history at the Open University. She was co-director of the Charles Booth Centre and is currently a consultant to the Charles Booth Archive Online project at the University of London.

#4117

Charles W. Moorman III

#73810

Overall Influence

1925 - 1996 (71 years)

Charles Wickliffe Moorman III, was an American writer, and professor at the University of Southern Mississippi from 1954 to 1990. He is notable for his writings on Middle English, medieval literature, the Arthurian legends and the mythic elements in the writings of the Inklings.

#4118

Stevie Davies

#35721

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Stevie Davies is a Welsh novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998, and is also a fellow of the Welsh Academy. Her novel The Element of Water was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001, and won the Wales Book of the Year in 2002.

#4119

Charles Ritcheson

#97315

Overall Influence

1925 - 2011 (86 years)

Charles Ray Ritcheson was an American historian, diplomat, and university administrator. Early life and education The son of Charles Frederick Ritcheson and Jewell Vaughn, Ritcheson was raised in Oklahoma and attended the University of Oklahoma. Interrupting his studies, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1945, becoming a Lieutenant, Junior Grade. When Admiral Elliott Buckmaster took command of Task Force 74 operating in the South China Seas, Ritcheson joined his staff as Signal Officer. After the end of the war, Ritcheson returned to his studies and obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and classics in 1946.

#4120

François-Xavier Guerra

#110199

Overall Influence

1942 - 2002 (60 years)

François-Xavier Guerra was a French historian born in Spain, who wrote of the Spanish Golden Age and of the history of Mexico up to and during the Mexican Revolution.

#4121

Sabetai Unguru

#64320

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (94 years)

Sabetai Unguru is an Israeli historian of mathematics and science. Biography Sabetai Unguru was born in 1931 in Podu Iloaiei, Romania. He studied philosophy, philology, history, and mathematics at the University of Iași, before immigrating to Israel in 1961. He obtained his Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970, and was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma between 1970 and 1982.

#4122

Jeffrey L. Meikle

#99544

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Jeffrey Lee Meikle is an American cultural historian and educator. Meikle is currently the Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He has generally been credited as one of the founders of the discipline of design history since his book Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925-1939 was published in 1979. The text lays out some of the central issues confronting the field.

#4123

Michael Confino

Michael Confino

#39689

Overall Influence

1926 - 2010 (84 years)

Michael Confino was a historian of 18th and 19th century Russia. Biography Confino was born in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria. He began his academic studies at the University of Sofia. He moved to Israel in 1948 and continued his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at École pratique des hautes études in Paris. Confino earned his PhD at the Sorbonne.

#4124

Gabriela Dudeková

#110325

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Gabriela Dudeková is a Slovak historian. Biography Dudeková lives and works in Bratislava, Nitra and Houston, Texas, USA. She has a degree in history from the Comenius University in Bratislava . She completed her PhD degree in 2001 with the dissertation "Social policy of Hungary in late 19th and early 20th century and the social reform work of Georg Schulpe". She prepared the Slovak part of the Comparative non-profit sector project of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Dudeková works in the Institute of Historical Studies of Slovak Academy of Sciences. She is an author of articles and papers, co-author and author of the books.

#4125

Barron H. Lerner

#40116

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Barron H. Lerner is an American member of the faculty at the New York University Langone School of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Columbia in 1986 and his Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 1996. In addition to his research, Lerner practices internal medicine and teaches medical ethics and the history of medicine.

#4126

Sébastien Fath

#57953

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (57 years)

Sébastien Fath is a French professional historian and a Ph.D at the Sorbonne University. Also trained in Sociology, he is the main French specialist in the study of Evangelical Protestantism. Author of sixteen books, he is a permanent researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research . He is a full member of the GSRL , a research team working on religion and secularism. As a social scientist and a citizen, he focuses on cross-cultural reflexion on Civil Society, Politics and Religion.

#4127

Parks M. Coble

#57722

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (79 years)

Parks M. Coble, Jr. is an academic specializing in the political, economic, social and business history of 20th century China. He is the James L. Sellers Professor of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he has taught since 1976. He has also held numerous fellowships and is an Associate-in-research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

#4128

Demetrios Constantelos

#55291

Overall Influence

1927 - 2017 (90 years)

Demetrios J. Constantelos was a Greek researcher in Byzantology and a professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Stockton University, Pomona, NJ. He was born in Spilia, Messenia, Greece. He was ordained a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in 1955 and earned a PhD in Byzantine Civilization at Rutgers University in 1965.

#4129

Tilli Tansey

#90013

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (65 years)

Elizabeth Matilda Tansey is an Emerita Professor of the history of medicine and former neurochemist, best known for her role in the Wellcome Trust's witness seminars. She previously worked at Queen Mary University of London .

#4130

Nóra Berend

#121415

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (59 years)

Nora Berend is a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Professor of European History at the Faculty of History. Her book At the Gate of Christendom was awarded the Gladstone Prize. Selected publications Berend, Nora, ed. , The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge.

#4131

Stig Jägerskiöld

#54089

Overall Influence

1911 - 1997 (86 years)

Stig Axel Fridolf Jägerskiöld was a Swedish professor in public law, international law and constitutional law. He was also a historian and a diplomat. External links Dödsfall. Stig Jägerskiöld till minne

#4132

Charles L. Dufour

#81869

Overall Influence

1903 - 1996 (93 years)

Charles L. "Pie" Dufour was an American newspaper journalist, historian, humorist, and book author from New Orleans, Louisiana who served as a columnist for the New Orleans States-Item newspaper. He wrote approximately 9700 installments of his column "Pie Dufour's A La Mode" for the States-Item and for the Sunday edition of the New Orleans Times-Picayune during his newspaper tenure, from 1949 until his retirement in 1978. He authored 20 books and approximately 50 articles for scholarly literature. Dufour's column covered diverse topics including Louisiana history, New Orleans Mardi Gras, l...

#4133

François Kersaudy

#43282

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (77 years)

François Kersaudy OBE, FRSL, is a French historian and professor of English economic terminology at the University of Paris. He is a specialist on the works of Winston Churchill. Among his books are Churchill and De Gaulle , Stratèges et Norvège 1940, les Jeux de la Guerre et du Hasard which treated the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and Vi stoler på England from 1993. His book Winston Churchill : Le pouvoir de l'imagination was awarded the Grand prix d’histoire de la Société des gens de lettres de France, and the Grand prix de la biographie politique in 2009. Author of French biographies of Mountbatten, Goering and MacArthur.

#4134

Samuel N. C. Lieu

#60995

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (75 years)

Samuel N. C. Lieu is a historian of Manichaeism and Christianity in Central Asia and China. Biography Born in Hong Kong and educated at St. Paul's College, Lieu received a BA in Ancient and Medieval History from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1969. He later moved to the University of Oxford where he completed a DPhil in Ancient History in 1981, writing a comparative study on Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China, and worked as a Junior Research Fellow in Wolfson College, Oxford . He became a Lecturer in Ancient History at University of Warwick and was eventually promoted to full professor .

#4135

Paul G. Halpern

#111706

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (88 years)

Paul G. Halpern is a retired American educator, naval historian and documentary editor. His primary focus has been the history of the Royal Navy in the period surrounding the First World War and in Naval warfare in the Mediterranean during World War I. In describing his career of achievement in publishing six volumes of edited naval documents, "The Annual Report of the Council of the Navy Records Society" noted in 2016 that "Paul Halpern has served the Society notably". "Those who have edited a similar number are a distinguished group: Sir Julian Corbett, Michael Oppenheim, Professor David Syrett, and J.

#4136

Odd-Bjørn Fure

#110969

Overall Influence

1942 - 2022 (80 years)

Odd-Bjørn Fure was a Norwegian historian and political scientist. He was born at Stadlandet, and was a brother of politician Julius Fure . His main studies were in comparative politics, but he switched field with a 1983 doctoral thesis on the history of the Norwegian labour movement between 1918 and 1920. He had not previously studied history.

#4137

Julian Goodare

#112794

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (68 years)

Julian Goodare is a professor of history at University of Edinburgh. Academic career Goodare studied at the University of Edinburgh in the 1980s, afterwards engaged as a postdoctoral fellow. He lectured at the University of Wales, and at the University of Sheffield. He returned to work at Edinburgh in 1998. He was the co-director of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft alongside Louise Yeoman. In 2019, he called for a memorial to Scotland's tortured and executed witches.

#4138

John Krige

#119200

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (84 years)

John Krige is a historian of science and technology and the Kranzberg Professor at the School of History, Technology and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. Krige is originally a physical chemist by training, earning a PhD from the University of Pretoria in the subject. After earning a PhD in philosophy at the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom in 1979, Krige's intellectual career has been in the history of science and technology, including notable efforts within the project to write the history of CERN and the European Space Agency in the 1980s and 1990s. His main foc...

#4139

Scott H. Faulring

#91446

Overall Influence

1956 - 2018 (62 years)

Scott Harry Faulring is an American historian and document editor connected with the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . He has published with both the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies and Signature Books.

#4140

Hélène d'Almeida-Topor

#76614

Overall Influence

1932 - 2020 (88 years)

Hélène d'Almeida-Topor was a French historian and university professor of contemporary history. Biography Her father, Abram Topor, was a French artist of Polish origin who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her brother, Roland Topor, was also an artist and a writer. Earning an agrégation in history and geography in 1959, d'Almeida-Topor taught in Porto-Novo, Benin from 1960 to 1970. She also taught in Lomé, Togo for several years. Subsequently, she became a lecturer at Paris-Est Créteil University. In 1987, d'Almeida-Topor defended a thesis titled "Histoire économique du Dahomey " at Paris-Sorbonne University under the supervision of Jean Ganiage.

#4141

Michael Sokal

#54688

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (25 years)

Michael Mark Sokal is an American historian and educator. He is retired professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the history of science. He received his PhD in history of science and technology from Case Western Reserve University in 1972. His research focuses on James McKeen Cattell, a prominent psychologist and scientific impresario in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the 2004-2005 president of the History of Science Society.

#4142

Helen Berry

#125261

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (56 years)

Helen Berry is a British historian and Professor of British History at the University of Exeter. She specialises in British history circa 1660 to 1800, with particular interests in social, cultural and economic history.

#4143

Anthony Bale

#93472

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (50 years)

Anthony Bale is an English medievalist. Biography He is Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck, University of London and from 2017 to 2021 was Executive Dean of the School of Arts, and has written widely on medieval Christian-Jewish relations and on medieval culture and literature. He was state educated at a comprehensive school and sixth-form college in north Staffordshire. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2011, a prize "awarded to outstanding scholars under the age of 36 who have made a substantial contribution to their field of study, are recognised at an international level, and...

#4144

Willy Dahl

#118868

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (98 years)

Willy Dahl is a Norwegian literary researcher and literary critic. Biography Born in Bergen on 26 March 1927, Dahl was a professor at the University of Trondheim from 1978, and at the University of Bergen from 1981 to 1992. He has written several books on literary history. He has been a literary critic for the newspaper Arbeiderbladet.

#4145

Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem

#75631

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (81 years)

Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem , is a Congolese historian and linguist. He is the author of several essays, studies and other publications about the history of the Congo, including the overview work L'histoire générale du Congo: De l'héritage ancien à la République démocratique.

#4146

Philip J. Ivanhoe

#16564

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (71 years)

#4147

Patricia Seed

#61397

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (76 years)

Patricia Seed is an American historian and professor in the University of California, Irvine's Department of History. She specializes in the history of cartography and navigation, and is the foremost authority on latitude as it relates to the historical use of maps in maritime exploration.

#4148

Billy Griffiths

#72576

Overall Influence

Billy Griffiths, also known as William Griffiths, is an Australian historian and writer, known for his book Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia . , he is a lecturer at Deakin University in Victoria, and Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. Griffiths won the Ernest Scott Prize in 2019.

#4149

Ronnie Ellenblum

#86276

Overall Influence

1952 - 2021 (69 years)

Ronnie Ellenblum was an Israeli professor at the department of geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, specializing in Medieval geographies, the history of the Levant in the Middle Ages, and the history of the Crusades. His latest studies deal also with environmental and climatic history, the history of Jerusalem, and the development of historic cities in general. Ellenblum headed the Vadum Iacob Research Project and was involved in the creation of several databases dealing with the history of Jerusalem ; with the maps of Jerusalem and with English translations of documents and charters of the Crusader Period.

#4150

Moses Ochonu

#75358

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (52 years)

Moses Ebe Ochonu is a Nigerian academic, historian, author and professor of African History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He has been the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in History since 2017.

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