HISTORIAN

Jan Morris

1926 - 2020

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Catharine Jan Morris (born James Humphry Morris; 2 October 1926 – 20 November 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She was known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–1978), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York City. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Morris has received more than 1,037,508 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Jan Morris is the 530th most popular historian (down from 439th in 2019), the 5,358th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,029th in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Historian.

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  • 49.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jan Morris ranks 530 out of 561. Before her are Hugh N. Kennedy, Edward Duyker, Edward Augustus Freeman, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Richard Taruskin, and James H. Billington. After her are Griselda Pollock, Elaine Pagels, John Komlos, Richard Bauckham, Mary Ritter Beard, and Iain Pears.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Jan Morris ranks 496. Before her are Rawya Ateya, Bob Sweikert, Don Messick, John Clellon Holmes, Rashidi Kawawa, and Aldo Tarlao. After her are Kenneth Williams, June Haver, Pat Flaherty, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Paul Burke, and Cathy Downs. Among people deceased in 2020, Jan Morris ranks 688. Before her are Jan Kowalczyk, Naya Rivera, Hadi Dahane, Yuko Takeuchi, Danny Hodge, and Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet. After her are Aleksandr Kabanov, Tomás Herrera Martínez, Saufatu Sopoanga, Ellis Marsalis Jr., Timothy Ray Brown, and Dimitar Largov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jan Morris ranks 5,358 out of 8,785. Before her are Marianne Jean-Baptiste (1967), Clare Higgins (1955), Shaun Evans (1980), Polly Samson (1962), Steve O'Rourke (1940), and Mark Drakeford (1954). After her are Justin Wilson (1978), Alesha Dixon (1978), Sajid Javid (1969), Alan Mullery (1941), George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews (1962), and Anne Reid (1935).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Jan Morris ranks 70. Before her are Lawrence Stone (1919), Mark Mazower (1958), David Abulafia (1949), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823), and Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938). After her are Richard Bauckham (1946), Iain Pears (1955), Warren Treadgold (1949), Stephen Turnbull (1948), Peter Heather (1960), and Adrian Goldsworthy (1969).

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