The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Lebanon
This page contains a list of the greatest Lebanese Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 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 48.30, 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Lebanese historians born between 1886 and 1886. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lebanese historians include Philip K. Hitti.
