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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. Quentin Skinner is the 248th most popular historian (down from 192nd in 2019), the 2,256th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,020th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Quentin Skinners by language

Over the past year Quentin Skinner has had the most page views in the with 36,919 views, followed by French (4,333), and Spanish (4,091). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Estonian (32.76%), Polish (24.50%), and Persian (17.59%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Quentin Skinner ranks 248 out of 561Before him are Saul Friedländer, Krste Misirkov, Gerardus Vossius, Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Vakhushti of Kartli, and Yahya of Antioch. After him are Fritz Fischer, Festus, İlber Ortaylı, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Arno Peters, and Lyudmila Alexeyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Quentin Skinner ranks 226Before him are Angela Carter, Silvio Marzolini, Ken Jenkins, Clive Sinclair, Aracy Balabanian, and Kishin Shinoyama. After him are Hiroshi Katayama, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Larry Hankin, Peter Mutharika, Gösta Pettersson, and Yozhef Sabo.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Quentin Skinner ranks 2,256 out of 8,785Before him are Rio Ferdinand (1978), W. V. D. Hodge (1903), Carl Palmer (1950), Limahl (1958), Ken Robinson (1950), and John Chadwick (1920). After him are John Glen (1932), John Vanbrugh (1664), Margaret of England (1240), David Mumford (1937), Mark Rylance (1960), and Maud Watson (1864).

Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Quentin Skinner ranks 23Before him are William of Malmesbury (1080), Robert Conquest (1917), Tony Judt (1948), John Foxe (1516), Gerald of Wales (1146), and Timothy Garton Ash (1955). After 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).