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John Keegan

1934 - 2012

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Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan (15 May 1934 – 2 August 2012) was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Keegan has received more than 597,170 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. John Keegan is the 349th most popular historian (down from 282nd in 2019), the 3,034th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,684th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 600k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, John Keegan ranks 349 out of 561. Before him are Heinrich Zimmer, Ernest Fenollosa, Girolamo Mei, Jérôme Carcopino, Fernão Lopes, and William H. Prescott. After him are Robert Darnton, Ernest Labrousse, Jacob Talmon, Stanley G. Payne, Ernest Lavisse, and Helene Ahrweiler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, John Keegan ranks 294. Before him are Paul Josef Cordes, Lester R. Brown, Sugathakumari, Anne Haney, Piet Dankert, and Claudio Scimone. After him are Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Galina Bystrova, Stanley G. Payne, Settela Steinbach, Hamit Kaplan, and Joanna Moore. Among people deceased in 2012, John Keegan ranks 246. Before him are Moshe Sanbar, Mike Wallace, Susanne Lothar, Armand Penverne, Sergio Livingstone, and Paul Kurtz. After him are Isuzu Yamada, Txillardegi, Vladimir Krutov, Maeve Binchy, Carmen Basilio, and Rafael Lesmes.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Keegan ranks 3,034 out of 8,785. Before him are Billie Whitelaw (1932), Fred Pentland (1883), David Almond (1951), Martin McDonagh (1970), Stephen Wolfram (1959), and Anthony Harvey (1930). After him are Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823), Naveen Andrews (1969), Patrick Doyle (1953), Jean Shrimpton (1942), Ruth Belville (1854), and Edward Hardwicke (1932).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, John Keegan ranks 31. Before him are Christopher Hill (1912), George Buchanan (1506), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Edward Granville Browne (1862), and Paul Kennedy (1945). After him are Francis Godwin (1562), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), Agnes Arber (1879), Stanley Morison (1889), and Thomas Fuller (1608).

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