With 339 biographies, Historians are the 37th most common occupation in Pantheon, behind Chess Players, Hockey Players, and Inventors.
Pantheon has 462 people classified as historians born between 2650 BC and 1982. Of these 462, 75 (16.23%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living historians include Jared Diamond, Carlo Ginzburg, and Donna Haraway. The most famous deceased historians include Herodotus, Ibn Khaldun, and Thucydides. As of April 2022, 115 new historians have been added to Pantheon including Joannes Zonaras, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Ibn Hibban.
1937 - Present
HPI: 65.30
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.10
1944 - Present
HPI: 60.58
1976 - Present
HPI: 60.30
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.64
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.42
1931 - Present
HPI: 55.88
1939 - Present
HPI: 55.64
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.08
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.22
1947 - Present
HPI: 53.76
1945 - Present
HPI: 53.71
484 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 89.51
1332 - 1406
HPI: 80.75
460 BC - 397 BC
HPI: 80.13
430 BC - 354 BC
HPI: 78.85
54 - 120
HPI: 78.34
59 BC - 17
HPI: 78.27
145 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 77.97
37 - 100
HPI: 77.56
208 BC - 126 BC
HPI: 75.67
70 - 126
HPI: 74.53
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
90 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 73.70
1074 - 1130
HPI: 61.80
1895 - 1963
HPI: 55.07
883 - 965
HPI: 54.90
1457 - 1526
HPI: 54.84
1910 - 2012
HPI: 54.12
610 - 642
HPI: 53.70
1916 - 2002
HPI: 53.48
1810 - 1870
HPI: 53.05
1433 - 1498
HPI: 53.03
1478 - 1557
HPI: 52.68
1926 - 2021
HPI: 52.52
1883 - 1945
HPI: 52.46
Most historians were born in United Kingdom (62), Germany (54), and France (52). By city, the most common birth places were Paris (10), London (9), and New York City (8).The most common death places of historians were United States (52), France (45), and United Kingdom (45). By city, these were Paris (22), London (12), and Rome (10).
The earliest biographies classified as historians in Pantheon are Herodotus, Hecataeus of Miletus, and Cangjie. The concentration of historians was largest during the Radio & Film Era, which lasted from 1900 to 1949. Some birth or death locations for earlier historians are unknown, which may account for timeline differences below.
Which Historians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Historians since 1700.
Historians are found within the Humanities domain which also includes Writers, Philosophers, Linguists, Journalists, and Critics.