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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 142,861 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Jonathan Riley-Smith is the 376th most popular historian, the 3,661st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 39th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 376 out of 339. Before him are Craterus, Nikolaus Pevsner, Niall Ferguson, H. A. R. Gibb, Daniel Pipes, and Constantine Paparrigopoulos. After him are Anton Heinrich Springer, Marsyas of Pella, William Robertson, Benny Morris, Timofey Granovsky, and Simon Janashia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 381. Before him are Jon Sobrino, Urs Widmer, Paula Prentiss, Betty Cuthbert, Klaus Töpfer, and Aleksei Petrenko. After him are Carlos Lapetra, Heinz Strehl, James Gunn, Reni Santoni, Michael Murphy, and Dolores Hart. Among people deceased in 2016, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 338. Before him are Heinrich Schiff, Peter Maxwell Davies, Halfdan T. Mahler, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Malick Sidibé, and Solomon W. Golomb. After him are Motiur Rahman Nizami, Geydar Dzhemal, Rune Larsson, Kimbo Slice, Lothar Späth, and James Joseph Dresnok.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 3,661 out of 7,765. Before him are Leonard Meredith (1882), Helen Shapiro (1946), Charles Williams (1886), Roger of Wendover (1200), Michael Heseltine (1933), and Alan Brown (1919). After him are Gordon Haskell (1946), David Arnold (1962), Ray Reardon (1932), Patrick Malahide (1945), Henry Lincoln (1930), and James Sowerby (1757).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Jonathan Riley-Smith ranks 39. Before him are David Marshall Lang (1924), Frances Yates (1899), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Martin Gilbert (1936), and Niall Ferguson (1964). After him are William Robertson (1721), Richard J. Evans (1947), Simon Schama (1945), Agnes Arber (1879), George Grote (1794), and Timothy Garton Ash (1955).

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