1940 - Today
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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Among historians, Quentin Skinner ranks 192 out of 339. Before 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.
1942 - Present
HPI: 53.09
Rank: 186
1810 - 1870
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 187
1433 - 1498
HPI: 53.03
Rank: 188
1577 - 1649
HPI: 53.00
Rank: 189
1821 - 1891
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 190
1921 - 2018
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 191
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 192
1810 - 1874
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 193
1434 - 1501
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 194
1478 - 1557
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 195
1909 - 2006
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 196
1861 - 1932
HPI: 52.60
Rank: 197
1927 - 2018
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 198
Among people born in 1940, Quentin Skinner ranks 191. Before 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.
1940 - 2019
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 185
1940 - 2020
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 186
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.80
Rank: 187
1940 - 2020
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 188
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 189
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 190
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 191
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 192
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 193
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 194
1940 - 2022
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 195
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 196
1940 - 2015
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 197
Among people born in United Kingdom, Quentin Skinner ranks 2,025 out of 7,765. Before 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).
1965 - Present
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 2,019
1882 - 1970
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 2,020
1867 - 1921
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 2,021
1980 - Present
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 2,022
1924 - 2016
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 2,023
1890 - 1967
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,024
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,025
1926 - 2018
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,026
1832 - 1915
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,027
1795 - 1842
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 2,028
1924 - 1994
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 2,029
1843 - 1929
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 2,030
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.71
Rank: 2,031
Among historians born in United Kingdom, Quentin Skinner ranks 18. Before 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).
1943 - Present
HPI: 55.08
Rank: 12
1852 - 1883
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 13
1903 - 2000
HPI: 54.57
Rank: 14
1946 - Present
HPI: 54.22
Rank: 15
1917 - 2015
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 16
1810 - 1870
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 17
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.73
Rank: 18
1909 - 2006
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 19
1080 - 1140
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 20
1506 - 1582
HPI: 52.04
Rank: 21
1516 - 1587
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 22
1948 - 2010
HPI: 51.28
Rank: 23
1912 - 2003
HPI: 50.65
Rank: 24