484 BC - 425 BC
Herodotus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. Herodotus was the first writer to perform systematic investigation of historical events. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herodotus has received more than 6,310,921 page views. His biography is available in 133 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 128 in 2019). Herodotus is the most popular historian, the most popular biography from Turkey (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Historian.
Herodotus is most famous for his work "The Histories", which is a narrative of the wars between the Greeks and the Persians.
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Among historians, Herodotus ranks 1 out of 339. After him are Ibn Khaldun, Thucydides, Xenophon, Tacitus, Livy, Sima Qian, Josephus, Polybius, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Diodorus Siculus.
484 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 89.51
Rank: 1
1332 - 1406
HPI: 80.75
Rank: 2
460 BC - 397 BC
HPI: 80.13
Rank: 3
430 BC - 354 BC
HPI: 78.85
Rank: 4
54 - 120
HPI: 78.34
Rank: 5
59 BC - 17
HPI: 78.27
Rank: 6
145 BC - 86 BC
HPI: 77.97
Rank: 7
37 - 100
HPI: 77.56
Rank: 8
208 BC - 126 BC
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 9
70 - 126
HPI: 74.53
Rank: 10
1805 - 1859
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 11
90 BC - 30 BC
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 12
Among people born in 484 BC, Herodotus ranks 1. Among people deceased in 425 BC, Herodotus ranks 1. After him are Zeno of Elea and Achilles Painter.
484 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 89.51
Rank: 1
490 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 2
470 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 3
Among people born in Turkey, Herodotus ranks 1 out of 1,301. After him are Paul the Apostle (5), Suleiman the Magnificent (1494), Thales of Miletus (-623), Saint Nicholas (270), Osman I (1254), Selim II (1524), Saint George (280), Ahmed I (1590), Mehmed the Conqueror (1432), Heraclitus (-535), and Murad III (1546).
484 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 89.51
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5 - 66
HPI: 89.29
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1494 - 1566
HPI: 88.38
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623 BC - 546 BC
HPI: 87.23
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270 - 342
HPI: 85.95
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1254 - 1327
HPI: 85.24
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1524 - 1574
HPI: 84.70
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280 - 303
HPI: 84.03
Rank: 8
1590 - 1617
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 9
1432 - 1481
HPI: 83.37
Rank: 10
535 BC - 470 BC
HPI: 82.80
Rank: 11
1546 - 1595
HPI: 82.69
Rank: 12
Among historians born in Turkey, Herodotus ranks 1. After him are Hecataeus of Miletus (-550), Cassius Dio (155), Arrian (89), Ali ibn al-Athir (1160), Niketas Choniates (1155), Socrates of Constantinople (380), Libanius (314), Eutropius (320), Ephorus (-400), George Kedrenos (1100), and Eunapius (349).
484 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 89.51
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550 BC - 476 BC
HPI: 71.56
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155 - 235
HPI: 71.41
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89 - 175
HPI: 68.85
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1160 - 1233
HPI: 65.40
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1155 - 1217
HPI: 65.33
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380 - 440
HPI: 64.26
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314 - 393
HPI: 63.16
Rank: 8
320 - 400
HPI: 60.69
Rank: 9
400 BC - 330 BC
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 10
1100 - 1100
HPI: 58.18
Rank: 11
349 - 420
HPI: 57.70
Rank: 12