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Simon Schama

1945 - Today

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Sir Simon Michael Schama ( SHAH-mə; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Schama has received more than 1,327,947 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Simon Schama is the 392nd most popular historian (down from 317th in 2019), the 3,863rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,232nd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Simon Schama ranks 392 out of 339. Before him are Miguel León-Portilla, Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Jens, Richard J. Evans, Sara Ashurbeyli, and Zdeněk Nejedlý. After him are Agnes Arber, George Grote, Benjamin Mazar, Samuel Eliot Morison, Rudolph Rummel, and Timothy Garton Ash.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Simon Schama ranks 409. Before him are Kees van Ierssel, Caroline Cellier, Giuseppe Wilson, Eric Stewart, Virginia Wade, and Mikhail Voronin. After him are Joseph Coutts, Wolfram Löwe, Leigh Taylor-Young, Katherine Neville, Narendra Dabholkar, and Naftali Temu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 3,863 out of 7,765. Before him are Lilian Gibbs (1870), John Negroponte (1939), David MacMillan (1968), Don McCullin (1935), Alex Turner (1986), and James Quibell (1867). After him are Ray Wilson (1934), Boz Burrell (1946), Thomas Thomson (1817), Steve Hogarth (1956), Celia Imrie (1952), and Jonathan Sacks (1948).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 42. Before him are G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Martin Gilbert (1936), Niall Ferguson (1964), Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938), William Robertson (1721), and Richard J. Evans (1947). After him are Agnes Arber (1879), George Grote (1794), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Kenneth Clark (1903), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), and Robert Service (1947).

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