1916 - 2016
Halil İnalcık (7 September 1916 – 25 July 2016) was a Turkish historian. His highly influential research centered on social and economic approaches to the Ottoman Empire. His academic career started at Ankara University, where he completed his PhD and worked between 1940 and 1972. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halil İnalcık has received more than 214,328 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Halil İnalcık is the 201st most popular historian (down from 168th in 2019), the 806th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 719th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Turkish Historian.
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Among historians, Halil İnalcık ranks 201 out of 339. Before him are Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, W. Montgomery Watt, Frederick Jackson Turner, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Yitzhak Arad, and Henri Maspero. After him are Antiochus of Syracuse, Krste Misirkov, Sigfried Giedion, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Vasily Klyuchevsky, and Fritz Fischer.
1478 - 1557
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 195
1909 - 2006
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 196
1861 - 1932
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 197
1927 - 2018
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 198
1926 - 2021
HPI: 52.52
Rank: 199
1883 - 1945
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 200
1916 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 201
450 BC - 450 BC
HPI: 52.41
Rank: 202
1874 - 1926
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 203
1888 - 1968
HPI: 52.38
Rank: 204
1894 - 1956
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 205
1841 - 1911
HPI: 52.29
Rank: 206
1908 - 1999
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 207
Among people born in 1916, Halil İnalcık ranks 121. Before him are Walter Cronkite, Harold Robbins, Sangoulé Lamizana, Ruth Handler, Ramón José Velásquez, and Morris West. After him are Jackie Gleason, Iosif Shklovsky, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Charlie Christian, David White, and Jurij Brězan. Among people deceased in 2016, Halil İnalcık ranks 181. Before him are Zdravko Tolimir, Franciszek Macharski, Scotty Moore, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Paul Kantner, and Louis Pilot. After him are Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Frank Sinatra Jr., Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, David Huddleston, Georges Cottier, and Qahhor Mahkamov.
1916 - 2009
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 115
1916 - 1997
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 116
1916 - 2005
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 117
1916 - 2002
HPI: 52.97
Rank: 118
1916 - 2014
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 119
1916 - 1999
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 120
1916 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 121
1916 - 1987
HPI: 52.26
Rank: 122
1916 - 1985
HPI: 52.16
Rank: 123
1916 - 1959
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 124
1916 - 1942
HPI: 51.97
Rank: 125
1916 - 1990
HPI: 51.87
Rank: 126
1916 - 2006
HPI: 51.85
Rank: 127
1948 - 2016
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 175
1927 - 2016
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 176
1931 - 2016
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 177
1936 - 2016
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 178
1941 - 2016
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 179
1940 - 2016
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 180
1916 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 181
1928 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 182
1944 - 2016
HPI: 52.37
Rank: 183
1923 - 2016
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 184
1930 - 2016
HPI: 52.24
Rank: 185
1922 - 2016
HPI: 52.12
Rank: 186
1932 - 2016
HPI: 51.89
Rank: 187
Among people born in Turkey, Halil İnalcık ranks 806 out of 1,301. Before him are Alexander of Jerusalem (200), Benjamin I of Constantinople (1871), Metin Oktay (1936), Constantine I, Prince of Armenia (1035), Sertab Erener (1964), and Alexios Apokaukos (1250). After him are Ariarathes V of Cappadocia (-200), Marcia Euphemia (500), Zeno of Tarsus (-250), Mustafa Denizli (1949), Adile Naşit (1930), and Fatma Aliye Topuz (1862).
200 - 251
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 800
1871 - 1946
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 801
1936 - 1991
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 802
1035 - 1102
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 803
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 804
1250 - 1345
HPI: 52.47
Rank: 805
1916 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 806
200 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 807
500 - 401
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 808
250 BC - 200 BC
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 809
1949 - Present
HPI: 52.22
Rank: 810
1930 - 1987
HPI: 52.21
Rank: 811
1862 - 1936
HPI: 52.20
Rank: 812
Among historians born in Turkey, Halil İnalcık ranks 21. Before him are John Kinnamos (1143), Matthew of Edessa (1100), Philostorgius (368), Agatharchides (-208), Michael Attaleiates (1021), and Constantine Lascaris (1434). After him are Charles Barbier de Meynard (1826), Taner Akçam (1953), Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896), and Constantine Paparrigopoulos (1815).
1143 - 1185
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 15
1100 - 1144
HPI: 54.94
Rank: 16
368 - 439
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 17
208 BC - Present
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 18
1021 - 1080
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 19
1434 - 1501
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 20
1916 - 2016
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 21
1826 - 1908
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 22
1953 - Present
HPI: 46.80
Rank: 23
1896 - 1989
HPI: 46.17
Rank: 24
1815 - 1891
HPI: 45.88
Rank: 25