201 BC - Today
Manetho (; Koinē Greek: Μανέθων Manéthōn, gen.: Μανέθωνος) is believed to have been an Egyptian priest from Sebennytos (Coptic: Ϫⲉⲙⲛⲟⲩϯ, romanized: Čemnouti) who lived in the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the early third century BC, during the Hellenistic period. He authored the Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt) in Greek, a major chronological source for the reigns of the kings of ancient Egypt. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manetho has received more than 619,098 page views. His biography is available in 58 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Manetho is the 14th most popular historian (up from 18th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 52nd in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Historian.
Manetho is most famous for his Aegyptiaca, which is a history of Egypt.
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Among historians, Manetho ranks 14 out of 339. Before him are Josephus, Polybius, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, Diodorus Siculus, and Thomas Kuhn. After him are Hecataeus of Miletus, Procopius, Cassius Dio, Arnold J. Toynbee, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Mircea Eliade.
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
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 13
201 BC - Present
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 14
550 BC - 476 BC
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 15
500 - 560
HPI: 71.55
Rank: 16
155 - 235
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 17
1889 - 1975
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 18
1717 - 1768
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 19
1907 - 1986
HPI: 71.05
Rank: 20
Among people born in 201 BC, Manetho ranks 1. After him are Eucleidas, Adherbal, and Sextus Julius Caesar.
201 BC - Present
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 1
201 BC - 222 BC
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 2
201 BC - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 3
201 BC - Present
HPI: 45.70
Rank: 4
Among people born in Egypt, Manetho ranks 48 out of 582. Before him are Ahmose I (-1560), Ay (-1380), Thutmose I (-1600), Ptolemy XIV of Egypt (-60), Umm Kulthum (1898), and Khufu (-2700). After him are Smenkhkare (-1400), Farouk of Egypt (1920), Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921), Moses in Islam (-1392), Boutros Boutros-Ghali (1922), and Cleopatra I Syra (-204).
1560 BC - 1525 BC
HPI: 72.87
Rank: 42
1380 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 72.74
Rank: 43
1600 BC - 1493 BC
HPI: 72.58
Rank: 44
60 BC - 44 BC
HPI: 72.29
Rank: 45
1898 - 1975
HPI: 72.22
Rank: 46
2700 BC - 2570 BC
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 47
201 BC - Present
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 48
1400 BC - 1334 BC
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 49
1920 - 1965
HPI: 71.25
Rank: 50
1921 - 2013
HPI: 71.11
Rank: 51
1392 BC - 1272 BC
HPI: 70.95
Rank: 52
1922 - 2016
HPI: 70.79
Rank: 53
204 BC - 176 BC
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 54
Among historians born in Egypt, Manetho ranks 1. After him are Eric Hobsbawm (1917), Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani (1372), Theophylact Simocatta (580), Al-Maqrizi (1364), Yahya of Antioch (980), Al-Nuwayri (1279), Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1754), and H. A. R. Gibb (1895).
201 BC - Present
HPI: 72.06
Rank: 1
1917 - 2012
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 2
1372 - 1449
HPI: 65.50
Rank: 3
580 - 630
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 4
1364 - 1442
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 5
980 - 1066
HPI: 50.78
Rank: 6
1279 - 1333
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 7
1754 - 1822
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 8
1895 - 1971
HPI: 45.99
Rank: 9