The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 1 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 47th most number of Historians behind Serbia and Slovenia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Canadian Historians of all time. This list of famous Canadian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. William H. McNeill (1917 - 2016)
With an HPI of 51.86, William H. McNeill is the most famous Canadian Historian. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) was an American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West (1963). He was the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1987.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as historians born between 1917 and 1917. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include William H. McNeill.
