The Most Famous

Historians from Spain

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This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 7 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 15th most number of Historians behind Iraq and Netherlands.

Top 7 Spanish Historians

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Historians of all time. This list of famous Spanish Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés

    Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés

    1478 - 1557

    HPI 60.7917 langs

    Spanish naturalist and historian (1478–1557)

  2. #2
    Photo of Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi

    Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi

    1213 - 1286

    HPI 60.7517 langs

    Arab geographer, historian and poet (1213–1286)

  3. #4
    Photo of Ibn Hayyan

    Ibn Hayyan

    987 - 1076

    HPI 60.5319 langs

    Al-Andalus Arab historian (987–1075)

  4. #5
    Photo of Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot

    Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot

    1952 - 2024

    HPI 60.2822 langs

    Spanish cardinal, Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue (1952–2024)

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