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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 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Niall Ferguson is the 447th most popular historian (down from 372nd in 2019), the 3,786th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,598th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Niall Fergusons by language

Over the past year Niall Ferguson has had the most page views in the with 391,380 views, followed by German (33,676), and Russian (13,280). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Catalan (179.67%), Southern Azerbaijani (136.97%), and Hebrew (94.17%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Niall Ferguson ranks 447 out of 561. Before him are Hugo Falcandus, Mikheil Tsereteli, Joseph Hergenröther, Martin Gilbert, Zdeněk Nejedlý, and Craterus. After him are Riane Eisler, Anton Heinrich Springer, Sirarpie Der Nersessian, David Marshall Lang, Eberhard Jäckel, and Michelle Perrot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Niall Ferguson ranks 261. Before him are Albert Dupontel, Massimo Carrera, Garret Dillahunt, Éric Bernard, Dalton Vigh, and Maynard James Keenan. After him are Fuat Oktay, Harry Lennix, Paprika Steen, Milly D'Abbraccio, Denis Zvizdić, and Kusuma Wardhani.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Niall Ferguson ranks 3,786 out of 8,785. Before him are John Peckham (1227), Ron Moody (1924), Anthony Collins (1676), Henry Baker (1698), Bob Evans (1947), and Barney Greenway (1969). After him are Ernest Payne (1884), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Beatrice Webb (1858), and Ray Wilson (1934).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Niall Ferguson ranks 45. Before him are G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), Frances Yates (1899), George Finlay (1799), and Martin Gilbert (1936). After him are David Marshall Lang (1924), Donald Nicol (1923), Richard J. Evans (1947), William Robertson (1721), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), and Catharine Macaulay (1731).

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