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Richard Sennett

1943 - Today

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Richard Sennett (born 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and former University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Sennett has received more than 332,953 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Richard Sennett is the 113th most popular historian (up from 117th in 2019), the 1,910th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,230th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Richard Sennett ranks 113 out of 561. Before him are Reinhart Koselleck, Golo Mann, Paul Veyne, René Grousset, Árni Magnússon, and August Ludwig von Schlözer. After him are Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Thomas Buckle, Richard Pipes, Leo the Deacon, Hayden White, and Ibn Hibban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Richard Sennett ranks 136. Before him are Wallace Shawn, Köbi Kuhn, Hervé Villechaize, Luis Carlos Galán, Ken Norton, and Robbie Robertson. After him are Masafumi Hara, Jack Bruce, Lin Shaye, Peter Sauber, Robert Lefkowitz, and R. L. Stine.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Sennett ranks 1,910 out of 20,380. Before him are Winsor McCay (1867), Jerry Stiller (1927), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), John Dickson Carr (1906), Johns Hopkins (1795), and Richard Rodgers (1902). After him are Daryl Hannah (1960), Bernard Baruch (1870), Elizabeth Bishop (1911), Lady Bird Johnson (1912), Ben Shapiro (1984), and Jeffery Deaver (1950).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Richard Sennett ranks 4. Before him are Thomas Kuhn (1922), Jared Diamond (1937), and Donna Haraway (1944). After him are Natalie Zemon Davis (1928), Hayden White (1928), Barbara W. Tuchman (1912), Howard Zinn (1922), Frederick Jackson Turner (1861), Linda Nochlin (1931), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Deborah Lipstadt (1947).

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