1947 - Today
Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a post-revisionist British historian, academic, and author who has written extensively on the history of the Soviet Union, particularly the era from the October Revolution to Stalin's death. He was until 2013 a professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is best known for his biographies of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Service has received more than 21,019 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Robert Service is the 407th most popular historian (down from 320th in 2019), the 4,220th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,271st in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Historian.
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Among historians, Robert Service ranks 407 out of 339. Before him are Kenneth Clark, Alfred W. Crosby, Hermann Oldenberg, Arthur Smith Woodward, Florian Cajori, and Christopher Browning. After him are Carroll Quigley, Donald Nicol, Abd-al-Razzāq Samarqandī, William of Newburgh, Robert Jay Lifton, and Albrecht Weber.
1903 - 1983
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 401
1931 - 2018
HPI: 44.50
Rank: 402
1854 - 1920
HPI: 44.43
Rank: 403
1864 - 1944
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 404
1859 - 1930
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 405
1944 - Present
HPI: 44.13
Rank: 406
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 407
1910 - 1977
HPI: 43.74
Rank: 408
1923 - 2003
HPI: 43.64
Rank: 409
1413 - 1482
HPI: 43.55
Rank: 410
1130 - 1190
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 411
1926 - Present
HPI: 43.36
Rank: 412
1825 - 1901
HPI: 43.29
Rank: 413
Among people born in 1947, Robert Service ranks 566. Before him are Glenn Cornick, Gennadiy Seleznyov, Giora Spiegel, Grethe Kausland, Theodore Long, and Laura Nyro. After him are Randy Edelman, Ephraïm Inoni, Peter Osgood, Rustam Kazakov, Nikolai Volkoff, and Assata Shakur.
1947 - 2014
HPI: 43.99
Rank: 560
1947 - 2015
HPI: 43.95
Rank: 561
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.95
Rank: 562
1947 - 2007
HPI: 43.94
Rank: 563
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.94
Rank: 564
1947 - 1997
HPI: 43.93
Rank: 565
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 566
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 567
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.81
Rank: 568
1947 - 2006
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 569
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 570
1947 - 2018
HPI: 43.80
Rank: 571
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.79
Rank: 572
Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Service ranks 4,220 out of 7,765. Before him are John Marston (1576), William T. Stearn (1911), Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford (1946), Charles Townshend (1725), John of Worcester (1100), and Moira Shearer (1926). After him are Emily Ratajkowski (1991), Gia Scala (1934), Phil Neal (1951), Ronald Rawson (1892), Jon Amiel (1948), and Sheila Hancock (1933).
1576 - 1634
HPI: 43.92
Rank: 4,214
1911 - 2001
HPI: 43.91
Rank: 4,215
1946 - Present
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 4,216
1725 - 1767
HPI: 43.90
Rank: 4,217
1100 - 1200
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 4,218
1926 - 2006
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 4,219
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 4,220
1991 - Present
HPI: 43.88
Rank: 4,221
1934 - 1972
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 4,222
1951 - Present
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 4,223
1892 - 1952
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 4,224
1948 - Present
HPI: 43.87
Rank: 4,225
1933 - Present
HPI: 43.86
Rank: 4,226
Among historians born in United Kingdom, Robert Service ranks 48. Before him are Simon Schama (1945), Agnes Arber (1879), George Grote (1794), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Kenneth Clark (1903), and Arthur Smith Woodward (1864). After him are Donald Nicol (1923), William of Newburgh (1130), Orlando Figes (1959), Lawrence Stone (1919), Richard Overy (1947), and Mary Beard (1955).
1945 - Present
HPI: 45.19
Rank: 42
1879 - 1960
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 43
1794 - 1871
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 44
1955 - Present
HPI: 44.81
Rank: 45
1903 - 1983
HPI: 44.61
Rank: 46
1864 - 1944
HPI: 44.41
Rank: 47
1947 - Present
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 48
1923 - 2003
HPI: 43.64
Rank: 49
1130 - 1190
HPI: 43.48
Rank: 50
1959 - Present
HPI: 43.10
Rank: 51
1919 - 1999
HPI: 42.29
Rank: 52
1947 - Present
HPI: 42.25
Rank: 53
1955 - Present
HPI: 41.96
Rank: 54