1920 - 2018
Ehsan Yarshater (Persian: احسان يارشاطر, April 3, 1920 – September 1, 2018) was an Iranian historian and linguist who specialized in Iranology. He was the founder and director of The Center for Iranian Studies, and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He was the first Persian full-time professor at a U.S. university since World War II.He was one of the 40 editors of the Encyclopædia Iranica, with articles by 300 authors from various academic institutions. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ehsan Yarshater has received more than 121,940 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Ehsan Yarshater is the 348th most popular historian (down from 275th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Iran (down from 300th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Historian.
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Among historians, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 348 out of 339. Before him are Mikhail Artamonov, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Américo Castro, G. M. Trevelyan, Andreas Alföldi, and Aron Gurevich. After him are Boris Chicherin, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Martin Gilbert, Craterus, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Niall Ferguson.
1898 - 1972
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 342
1928 - 2015
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 343
1885 - 1972
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 344
1876 - 1962
HPI: 46.56
Rank: 345
1895 - 1981
HPI: 46.45
Rank: 346
1924 - 2006
HPI: 46.43
Rank: 347
1920 - 2018
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 348
1828 - Present
HPI: 46.29
Rank: 349
1896 - 1989
HPI: 46.17
Rank: 350
1936 - 2015
HPI: 46.15
Rank: 351
320 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 46.12
Rank: 352
1902 - 1983
HPI: 46.12
Rank: 353
1964 - Present
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 354
Among people born in 1920, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 293. Before him are Anton Malatinský, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Thomas Sebeok, Jacques Noël, Robert Lamoureux, and Roy Jenkins. After him are Irving Kristol, Eugênio Sales, Gesualdo Bufalino, Fyodor Abramov, Sverre Farstad, and Franca Valeri. Among people deceased in 2018, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 298. Before him are Mrinal Sen, Oleg Anofriyev, Gianfranco Parolini, Aureliano Bolognesi, Roberto Suazo Córdova, and XXXTentacion. After him are Shuhrat Abbosov, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, Ferenc Kósa, Dariush Shayegan, Chuck McCann, and John Julius Norwich.
1920 - 1992
HPI: 46.68
Rank: 287
1920 - 1999
HPI: 46.56
Rank: 288
1920 - 2001
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 289
1920 - 2004
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 290
1920 - 2011
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 291
1920 - 2003
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 292
1920 - 2018
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 293
1920 - 2009
HPI: 46.39
Rank: 294
1920 - 2012
HPI: 46.39
Rank: 295
1920 - 1996
HPI: 46.34
Rank: 296
1920 - 1983
HPI: 46.26
Rank: 297
1920 - 1978
HPI: 46.26
Rank: 298
1920 - 2020
HPI: 46.26
Rank: 299
1923 - 2018
HPI: 46.66
Rank: 292
1930 - 2018
HPI: 46.64
Rank: 293
1930 - 2018
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 294
1930 - 2018
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 295
1927 - 2018
HPI: 46.56
Rank: 296
1998 - 2018
HPI: 46.44
Rank: 297
1920 - 2018
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 298
1931 - 2018
HPI: 46.39
Rank: 299
1948 - 2018
HPI: 46.38
Rank: 300
1937 - 2018
HPI: 46.34
Rank: 301
1935 - 2018
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 302
1934 - 2018
HPI: 46.31
Rank: 303
1929 - 2018
HPI: 46.24
Rank: 304
Among people born in Iran, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 336 out of 528. Before him are Ali Mansur (1895), Sardar Azmoun (1995), Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (1961), Hadi Khosroshahi (1939), Hassan Habibi (1937), and Alenush Terian (1921). After him are Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel (1945), Dariush Shayegan (1935), Mohammad Mirmohammadi (1948), Navid Negahban (1968), Hossein Salami (1960), and Darius Khondji (1955).
1895 - 1974
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 330
1995 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 331
1961 - Present
HPI: 46.91
Rank: 332
1939 - 2020
HPI: 46.74
Rank: 333
1937 - 2013
HPI: 46.73
Rank: 334
1921 - 2011
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 335
1920 - 2018
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 336
1945 - Present
HPI: 46.35
Rank: 337
1935 - 2018
HPI: 46.33
Rank: 338
1948 - 2020
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 339
1968 - Present
HPI: 46.20
Rank: 340
1960 - Present
HPI: 45.56
Rank: 341
1955 - Present
HPI: 45.54
Rank: 342
Among historians born in Iran, Ehsan Yarshater ranks 4. Before him are Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (897), Ibn al-Faqih (null), and Ahmad Kasravi (1890).
897 - 967
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 1
HPI: 53.75
Rank: 2
1890 - 1946
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 3
1920 - 2018
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 4