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Elaine Pagels

1943 - Today

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Elaine Pagels, née Hiesey (born February 13, 1943), is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elaine Pagels has received more than 471,525 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Elaine Pagels is the 434th most popular historian (down from 327th in 2019), the 10,283rd most popular biography from United States (down from 9,488th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Elaine Pagels ranks 434 out of 339. Before her are Richard Hofstadter, Anvar Chingizoglu, Mary Beard, Iain Pears, Mark Mazower, and Avi Shlaim. After her are Walter Rodney, Griselda Pollock, Wendy Beckett, Mary Ritter Beard, Jan Morris, and Andreas Maislinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Elaine Pagels ranks 573. Before her are Yoshisada Shimizu, Pete Quaife, Phyllis Somerville, Lynn Burke, Ben Cardin, and Edmund Bruggmann. After her are Guillermo Yávar, Mihály Hesz, Silvia Cartwright, Mariann Fischer Boel, Ben Jipcho, and Denílson Custódio Machado.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elaine Pagels ranks 10,283 out of 18,182. Before her are William Barr (1950), David Eigenberg (1964), George Follmer (1934), Clint Howard (1959), Ja Rule (1976), and Ray Collins (1889). After her are Nichkhun (1988), Joel Goldsmith (1957), Nathaniel Lyon (1818), Noname Jane (1977), Virginia Fox (1902), and Hal Hartley (1959).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Elaine Pagels ranks 38. Before her are Christopher Browning (1944), Carroll Quigley (1910), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), Stephen F. Cohen (1938), and Richard Hofstadter (1916). After her are Mary Ritter Beard (1876), James H. Billington (1929), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), Francis Parkman (1823), Allan Lichtman (1947), and Bernard Bailyn (1922).

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