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Moses Finley

1912 - 1986

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Sir Moses Israel Finley (born Finkelstein; 20 May 1912 – 23 June 1986) was an American-born British academic and classical scholar. His prosecution by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security during the 1950s resulted in his relocation to England, where he became an English classical scholar and eventually master of Darwin College, Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moses Finley has received more than 145,444 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Moses Finley is the 11,778th most popular politician (down from 10,840th in 2019), the 4,413th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,171st in 2019) and the 289th most popular American Politician.

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  • 150k

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  • 51.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Moses Finley ranks 11,778 out of 19,576. Before him are Hendrikus Colijn, Meng Hongwei, György Klapka, Nikolai Valuev, Sobekhotep VI, and Conrad II, Duke of Carinthia. After him are Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Thomas de Maizière, Jaime Lerner, Maria Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Anatolijs Gorbunovs, and Colville Young.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Moses Finley ranks 183. Before him are Alexey Sudayev, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Romain Maes, José Iraragorri, István Örkény, and Teddy Wilson. After him are Wilfrid Sellars, Karl Deutsch, Erich Leinsdorf, Xavier Montsalvatge, Sabicas, and Arne Brustad. Among people deceased in 1986, Moses Finley ranks 131. Before him are Mary Eristavi, Adolfo Baloncieri, Mika Antić, Valerian Zorin, D. R. Kaprekar, and Teddy Wilson. After him are W. Averell Harriman, Lili Kraus, Ilmari Salminen, Keenan Wynn, Yasuzo Masumura, and Broderick Crawford.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Moses Finley ranks 4,413 out of 20,380. Before him are Jeralean Talley (1899), Teddy Wilson (1912), Patrick O'Neal (1927), Kent Nagano (1951), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), and Jason Alexander (1959). After him are Edward S. Curtis (1868), Ted Cassidy (1932), Peter Straub (1943), Arthur O'Connell (1908), Cat Power (1972), and Mercedes de Acosta (1892).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Moses Finley ranks 289. Before him are Harry Hopkins (1890), Newt Gingrich (1943), Jeannette Rankin (1880), Sanford B. Dole (1844), Schuyler Colfax (1823), and Lawrence Eagleburger (1930). After him are W. Averell Harriman (1891), Kevin McCarthy (1965), Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772), Edmund Muskie (1914), Jubal Early (1816), and Clyde Tolson (1900).

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