The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Australia
This page contains a list of the greatest Australian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 3 of which were born in Australia. This makes Australia the birth place of the 35th most number of Historians behind Sweden, and Azerbaijan.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Australian Historians of all time. This list of famous Australian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sheila Fitzpatrick (b. 1941)
With an HPI of 55.71, Sheila Fitzpatrick is the most famous Australian Historian. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Sheila Mary Fitzpatrick (born June 4, 1941) is an Australian historian, whose main subjects are history of the Soviet Union and history of modern Russia, especially the Stalin era and the Great Purges, of which she proposes a "history from below", and is part of the "revisionist school" of Communist historiography. She has also critically reviewed the concept of totalitarianism and highlighted the differences between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in debates about comparison of Nazism and Stalinism. Fitzpatrick is professor at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne), honorary professor at the University of Sydney, and Distinguished Service Professor Emerita at the University of Chicago. Prior to this, she taught Soviet history at the University of Texas at Austin and was the Bernadotte Everly Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. She is considered a founder of the field of Soviet social history.
2. Christopher Clark (b. 1960)
With an HPI of 52.72, Christopher Clark is the 2nd most famous Australian Historian. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Sir Christopher Munro Clark (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In the 2015 Birthday Honours, he was knighted for his services to Anglo-German relations.
3. Edward Duyker (b. 1955)
With an HPI of 50.31, Edward Duyker is the 3rd most famous Australian Historian. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.
Edward Duyker (born 21 March 1955) is an Australian historian, biographer and author born in Melbourne. Edward Duyker's books include several ethno-histories – Tribal Guerrillas (1987), The Dutch in Australia (1987) and Of the Star and the Key: Mauritius, Mauritians and Australia (1988) – and numerous books dealing with early Australian exploration and natural science, among them biographies of Daniel Solander, Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, Jacques Labillardière, François Péron and Jules Dumont d'Urville.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Australian historians born between 1941 and 1960. Of these 3, 3 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Australian historians include Sheila Fitzpatrick, Christopher Clark, and Edward Duyker. As of April 2024, 2 new Australian historians have been added to Pantheon including Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Christopher Clark.
Living Australian Historians
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Sheila Fitzpatrick
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.71
Christopher Clark
1960 - Present
HPI: 52.72
Edward Duyker
1955 - Present
HPI: 50.31
