Historian

Simon Schama

British University Professor of Art History and History

1945 - today

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His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Schama is the 531st most popular historian (down from 499th in 2024), the 5,236th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,468th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Historian.

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Simon Schama's biography spans 24 Wikipedia language editions and earns a Historical Popularity Index of 52.07.

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Among Historians

Among historians, Simon Schama ranks 531 out of 579. Before him are R. H. Tawney, Orlando Figes, Andreas Maislinger, Alessandro Barbero, Horace Engdahl, and Djibril Tamsir Niane. After him are Carroll Quigley, Richard Hofstadter, Jan Morris, Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa, Francis Parkman, and Romila Thapar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Simon Schama ranks 617. Before him are Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, Georg Volkert, Bjarni Tryggvason, Shatrughan Sinha, Susan Haack, and Uri Rosenthal. After him are Gianfranco Bedin, Javed Akhtar, Millie Hughes-Fulford, David Marr, Baudilio Jáuregui, and Gülsün Sağlamer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 5,236 out of 9,870. Before him are John of Worcester (1100), Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873), Ewan MacColl (1915), Jemima Kirke (1985), Alex Jennings (1957), and Duffy (1984). After him are Thomas Baines (1820), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Alex Miller (1949), John Pulman (1923), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), and Neil Innes (1944).

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Among Historians In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 68. Before him are William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), N. G. L. Hammond (1907), Richard Overy (1947), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), George Grote (1794), and Orlando Figes (1959). After him are Jan Morris (1926), Richard Bauckham (1946), Warren Treadgold (1949), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823), Iain Pears (1955), and Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938).

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