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Jonathan Riley-Smith

1938 - 2016

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Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith (27 June 1938 – 13 September 2016) was a historian of the Crusades, and, between 1994 and 2005, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jonathan Riley-Smith has received more than 153,192 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Jonathan Riley-Smith is the 527th most popular historian (down from 376th in 2019), the 5,273rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,653rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 527 out of 561. Before him are Richard G. Hovannisian, David Abulafia, Gregory Areshian, Hugh N. Kennedy, Edward Duyker, and Edward Augustus Freeman. After him are Richard Taruskin, James H. Billington, Jan Morris, Griselda Pollock, Elaine Pagels, and John Komlos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 553. Before him are Peter Jennings, Sultan Rahi, Salvatore Morale, Achim Müller, Robert Hughes, and Nikolai Manoshin. After him are Jack Jones, Neil Abercrombie, Mary Jo Catlett, Johnny Tillotson, Ryszard Parulski, and Kathy Kirby. Among people deceased in 2016, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 509. Before him are Anatoli Isayev, Terry Wogan, Tommy Kono, Fyvush Finkel, Yngve Brodd, and Riki Sorsa. After him are Jo Cox, Lou Pearlman, Igor Sergun, Poul Pedersen, William Schallert, and Reinhard Häfner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 5,273 out of 8,785. Before him are Donald Burgess (1933), Calvert Vaux (1824), Jeremy Hunt (1966), Donald Dewar (1937), George Goulding (1884), and Barbara Pym (1913). After him are Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (1993), Nigel Short (1965), Helen Bannerman (1862), Fiona May (1969), Alfred Domett (1811), and Nicholas Galitzine (1994).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 69. Before him are Mary Beard (1955), Lawrence Stone (1919), Mark Mazower (1958), David Abulafia (1949), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), and Edward Augustus Freeman (1823). After him are Jan Morris (1926), Richard Bauckham (1946), Iain Pears (1955), Warren Treadgold (1949), Stephen Turnbull (1948), and Peter Heather (1960).

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