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Richard N. Frye

1920 - 2014

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Richard Nelson Frye (January 10, 1920 – March 27, 2014) was an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest were Iranian philology and the history of Iran and Central Asia before 1000 CE. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to a family of immigrants from Sweden, "Freij" had four children, his second marriage being to a scholar, who teaches at Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard N. Frye has received more than 95,796 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard N. Frye is the 325th most popular historian (down from 251st in 2019), the 5,734th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,920th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Richard N. Frye ranks 325 out of 339Before her are Marin Drinov, Philip K. Hitti, Michael Aris, Jérôme Carcopino, Dino Compagni, and Henrik Gabriel Porthan. After her are Heinrich Gelzer, Nicholas Adontz, Gerhard Ritter, Jacob Talmon, Fenestella, and Andrea Riccardi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Richard N. Frye ranks 264Before her are Robert Leckie, Heleno de Freitas, I. A. L. Diamond, Franjo Mihalić, Henry Eriksson, and Bruno Ruffo. After her are Gordon Gould, Georges Balandier, Ted Fujita, Frances Ames, Julian Jaynes, and Alfredo II. Among people deceased in 2014, Richard N. Frye ranks 252Before her are Knut Nystedt, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, William Guarnere, Brian Hart, Joep Lange, and Ferdinando Terruzzi. After her are Mary Stewart, Sandra Bem, Takako Doi, Billie Whitelaw, Francesco Marchisano, and Joachim Fuchsberger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard N. Frye ranks 5,734 out of 18,182Before her are Jack Irons (1962), Virginia Dare (1587), John Wesley Powell (1834), Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), Tom Wopat (1951), and Florence Ballard (1943). After her are Barbara Walters (1929), Abraham Polonsky (1910), Edgar Leonard (1881), Gabrielle Carteris (1961), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), and Tiny Sandford (1894).

Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Richard N. Frye ranks 21Before her are Donald Keene (1922), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), Drew Gilpin Faust (1947), Daniel J. Boorstin (1914), Stephen E. Ambrose (1936), and Lothrop Stoddard (1883). After her are Efraim Zuroff (1948), Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917), Daniel Pipes (1949), Christopher Lasch (1932), Carl Benjamin Boyer (1906), and Stephen Greenblatt (1943).