The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Lebanon
This page contains a list of the greatest Lebanese Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 1 of which were born in Lebanon. This makes Lebanon the birth place of the 53rd most number of Historians behind Portugal and North Macedonia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lebanese Historians of all time. This list of famous Lebanese Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Philip K. Hitti (1886 - 1978)
With an HPI of 48.17, Philip K. Hitti is the most famous Lebanese Historian. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Philip Khuri Hitti (Arabic: فيليب خوري حتي; 22 June 1886 – 24 December 1978) was a Lebanese-American professor and scholar at Princeton and Harvard University, and authority on Arab and Middle Eastern history, Islam, and Semitic languages. He almost single-handedly created the discipline of Arabic studies in the United States. His grandniece was the now deceased NASA astronaut and schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as historians born between 1886 and 1886. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Philip K. Hitti. As of April 2022, 1 new historians have been added to Pantheon including Philip K. Hitti.
