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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. He is a Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University.Schama first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simon Schama has received more than 1,316,673 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Simon Schama is the 499th most popular historian (down from 392nd in 2019), the 4,468th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,855th in 2019) and the 60th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Simon Schamas by language

Over the past year Simon Schama has had the most page views in the with 152,293 views, followed by Dutch (7,532), and Spanish (4,125). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (78.19%), Slovak (66.08%), and Egyptian Arabic (54.25%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Simon Schama ranks 499 out of 561. Before him are Christopher Clark, Stephen F. Cohen, Walter Jens, Jacques Barzun, Cyril Mango, and Stephen Greenblatt. After him are Alessandro Barbero, Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok, Horace Engdahl, Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa, Robert Service, and Rainer Zitelmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Simon Schama ranks 532. Before him are Benoît Lamy, Dan Harrington, Jörg Drehmel, Aldo Poy, Rainer Brüderle, and Li Dong-woon. After him are Manuel Chaves, Susan Tyrrell, Paola Pigni, Javed Akhtar, Claude Barthélemy, and Ray Jackendoff.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 4,468 out of 8,785. Before him are John Dill (1881), Steve McQueen (1969), Pauline Baynes (1922), David Mitchell (1969), Alan Ayckbourn (1939), and Howard Jones (1955). After him are George Galloway (1954), Monty Norman (1928), Charles Williams (1886), Andy Mackay (1946), Paul Graham (1964), and Chris Craft (1939).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 60. Before him are Richard Overy (1947), Kenneth Clark (1903), Henry James Sumner Maine (1822), Orlando Figes (1959), H. J. R. Murray (1868), and George Grote (1794). After him are Robert Service (1947), A. H. M. Jones (1904), Mary Beard (1955), Lawrence Stone (1919), Mark Mazower (1958), and David Abulafia (1949).

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