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Mary Beard

1955 - Today

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Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Beard has received more than 51,064 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mary Beard is the 510th most popular historian (down from 430th in 2019), the 4,763rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,685th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 51k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Mary Beard ranks 510 out of 561. Before her are Robert Service, Rainer Zitelmann, Robert Kagan, Walter Rodney, Carroll Quigley, and A. H. M. Jones. After her are Vasily Struve, Lawrence Stone, Mark Mazower, Drew Gilpin Faust, Albrecht Weber, and Ivan Charota.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Mary Beard ranks 429. Before her are Mihovil Nakić, Topper Headon, Muricy Ramalho, Tony Woodcock, Steve Ovett, and William H. McRaven. After her are Connie Sellecca, Mohammad Rabbani, Claudio Sulser, Roma Maffia, Pier Ferdinando Casini, and Ole von Beust.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Beard ranks 4,763 out of 8,785. Before her are Dave Gibbons (1949), Nicollette Sheridan (1963), Mina Loy (1882), Arnold Jackson (1891), Jim Lea (1949), and Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend (1674). After her are Juliet Stevenson (1956), Heather Angel (1909), C. H. Dodd (1884), Robert Smirke (1780), Balfour Stewart (1828), and Dorothy Manley (1927).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Mary Beard ranks 63. Before her are Orlando Figes (1959), H. J. R. Murray (1868), George Grote (1794), Simon Schama (1945), Robert Service (1947), and A. H. M. Jones (1904). After her are Lawrence Stone (1919), Mark Mazower (1958), David Abulafia (1949), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823), and Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938).

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