The Most Famous
POLITICAL SCIENTISTS from United Kingdom
This page contains a list of the greatest British Political Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 46 Political Scientists, 1 of which were born in United Kingdom. This makes United Kingdom the birth place of the 10th most number of Political Scientists behind Ukraine, and Netherlands.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary British Political Scientists of all time. This list of famous British Political Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Leonard Hobhouse (1864 - 1929)
With an HPI of 51.52, Leonard Hobhouse is the most famous British Political Scientist. His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, FBA (8 September 1864 – 21 June 1929) was an English liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establishment of sociology as an academic discipline; in 1907 he shared, with Edward Westermarck, the distinction of being the first professor of sociology to be appointed in the United Kingdom, at the University of London. He was also the founder and first editor of The Sociological Review. His sister was Emily Hobhouse, the British welfare activist.
2. Pippa Norris (b. 1953)
With an HPI of 34.92, Pippa Norris is the 2nd most famous British Political Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Pippa Norris (born 10 July 1953) is a British American political scientist specializing in comparative politics. She is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, and she has served as the Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Electoral Integrity Project.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as British political scientists born between 1864 and 1953. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living British political scientists include Pippa Norris. The most famous deceased British political scientists include Leonard Hobhouse. As of April 2024, 1 new British political scientists have been added to Pantheon including Pippa Norris.
