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Niall Ferguson

1964 - Today

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Niall Campbell Ferguson FRSE (; born 18 April 1964) is a Scottish–American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. Ferguson writes and lectures on international history, economic history, financial history and the history of the British Empire and American imperialism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Niall Ferguson has received more than 3,347,956 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Niall Ferguson is the 372nd most popular historian (down from 289th in 2019), the 3,606th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,331st in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Historian.

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  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Niall Ferguson ranks 372 out of 339. Before him are Mikheil Tsereteli, Boris Chicherin, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Martin Gilbert, Craterus, and Nikolaus Pevsner. After him are H. A. R. Gibb, Daniel Pipes, Constantine Paparrigopoulos, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Anton Heinrich Springer, and Marsyas of Pella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Niall Ferguson ranks 240. Before him are Esbjörn Svensson, Ursula Karven, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Vivica A. Fox, Sven Väth, and Arsen Avakov. After him are Paprika Steen, Keiji Fujiwara, Zach Galligan, Sergei Loznitsa, Sebastian Roché, and Sebastiano Rossi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Niall Ferguson ranks 3,606 out of 7,765. Before him are Ray Lankester (1847), George Coulouris (1903), Reginald Owen (1887), William Townsend Aiton (1766), George Larner (1875), and Peter Whitehead (1914). After him are Peter Perez Burdett (1734), Hanif Kureishi (1954), Geoff Nicholls (1948), Mary Ure (1933), Mary F. Lyon (1925), and Ewen Bremner (1972).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Niall Ferguson ranks 38. Before him are Thomas Fuller (1608), David Marshall Lang (1924), Frances Yates (1899), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), G. M. Trevelyan (1876), and Martin Gilbert (1936). After him are Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938), William Robertson (1721), Richard J. Evans (1947), Simon Schama (1945), Agnes Arber (1879), and George Grote (1794).

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