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Quentin Skinner

1940 - Today

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Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Quentin Skinner has received more than 352,005 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Quentin Skinner is the 192nd most popular historian (up from 207th in 2019), the 2,025th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,228th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Historian.

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  • 350k

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  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Quentin Skinner ranks 192 out of 339Before him are Edward Luttwak, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, Mirkhvand, Gerardus Vossius, Ferdinand Gregorovius, and Walter Laqueur. After him are Abraham Geiger, Constantine Lascaris, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, W. Montgomery Watt, Frederick Jackson Turner, and Lyudmila Alexeyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Quentin Skinner ranks 191Before him are René Auberjonois, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Sandro Munari, Samuel Little, Chip Taylor, and Gérard Larrousse. After him are Nasser Al-Sabah, Fouad Twal, Hanako, Princess Hitachi, Just Jaeckin, Agostino Vallini, and Saud bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Quentin Skinner ranks 2,025 out of 7,765Before him are Eddie Irvine (1965), Hugh Dowding (1882), William Speirs Bruce (1867), Charlie Hunnam (1980), Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia (1924), and Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890). After him are David C. H. Austin (1926), Arthur Hughes (1832), Thomas Arnold (1795), Billy Wright (1924), Frederick Abberline (1843), and George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (1946).

Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Quentin Skinner ranks 18Before him are Ian Kershaw (1943), Arnold Toynbee (1852), Steven Runciman (1903), Antony Beevor (1946), Robert Conquest (1917), and Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810). After him are W. Montgomery Watt (1909), William of Malmesbury (1080), George Buchanan (1506), John Foxe (1516), Tony Judt (1948), and Christopher Hill (1912).