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Paul Kennedy

1945 - Today

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Paul Michael Kennedy (born 17 June 1945) is a British historian specialising in the history of international relations, economic power and grand strategy. He is on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and many foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Kennedy has received more than 343,012 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Kennedy is the 337th most popular historian (down from 291st in 2019), the 2,866th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,754th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Paul Kennedy ranks 337 out of 561. Before him are Stephen E. Ambrose, Alain Besançon, Nicholas Adontz, Mykhailo Maksymovych, Walter Burkert, and Edward Granville Browne. After him are Israel Gutman, Timothy D. Snyder, Benny Morris, John King Fairbank, Ronald Syme, and Heinrich Zimmer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Paul Kennedy ranks 337. Before him are Nils Torvalds, Geoff Emerick, Nuruddin Farah, Modestas Paulauskas, Sam Anderson, and Ken Walsh. After him are Zygmunt Maszczyk, Faina Melnik, Roberta Bondar, Pakalitha Mosisili, Gianni Amelio, and Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Paul Kennedy ranks 2,866 out of 8,785. Before him are Edward Granville Browne (1862), John Biscoe (1794), Johnny Claes (1916), Tom Ellis (1978), Alexander Neckam (1157), and Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400). After him are James David Forbes (1809), Mary Norton (1903), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Eleanor Hibbert (1906), Cara Delevingne (1992), and Jenson Button (1980).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Paul Kennedy ranks 30. Before him are Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Christopher Hill (1912), George Buchanan (1506), Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928), A. J. P. Taylor (1906), and Edward Granville Browne (1862). After him are John Keegan (1934), Francis Godwin (1562), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), Agnes Arber (1879), and Stanley Morison (1889).

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