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Clifford Edmund Bosworth

1928 - 2015

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Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA (29 December 1928 – 28 February 2015) was an English historian and Orientalist, specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clifford Edmund Bosworth has received more than 92,968 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Clifford Edmund Bosworth is the 300th most popular historian (up from 360th in 2019), the 2,543rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,459th in 2019) and the 27th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 93k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Clifford Edmund Bosworths by language

Over the past year Clifford Edmund Bosworth has had the most page views in the with 12,167 views, followed by Persian (4,076), and Russian (2,010). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (111.80%), Turkish (85.30%), and Azerbaijani (62.83%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Clifford Edmund Bosworth ranks 300 out of 561. Before him are Élisabeth Roudinesco, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Kurt Aland, Filippo Baldinucci, Jean Delumeau, and Stéphane Courtois. After him are Lyubomir Miletich, Wilhelm von Bode, William H. McNeill, Léon Poliakov, Hermann Conring, and Marsyas of Pella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Clifford Edmund Bosworth ranks 287. Before him are Tahir Salahov, Mitchell Ryan, Ian Bannen, Arthur Melvin Okun, Elio Sgreccia, and Bill Mollison. After him are Dick Miller, Pedro Casaldáliga, Frank Frazetta, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Umberto Maglioli, and Bob Crane. Among people deceased in 2015, Clifford Edmund Bosworth ranks 196. Before him are Gerald Götting, Ahmed Chalabi, Patachou, Wan Li, Slavko Avsenik, and Frances Oldham Kelsey. After him are Beau Biden, Daevid Allen, Charb, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Z'Dar, and Ján Chryzostom Korec.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clifford Edmund Bosworth ranks 2,543 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Blyth (1810), Edwin Arnold (1832), Gordon Jackson (1923), Barry Jackson (1938), Leslie Stephen (1832), and John Thaw (1942). After him are Dominic Purcell (1970), Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers (1878), Edith Durham (1863), Blanche of England (1392), Philip Stone (1924), and Simon Le Bon (1958).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Clifford Edmund Bosworth ranks 27. Before him are Gerald of Wales (1146), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Quentin Skinner (1940), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Christopher Hill (1912), and George Buchanan (1506). After him are A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Paul Kennedy (1945), John Keegan (1934), Francis Godwin (1562), and Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931).

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