1800 - 1859
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-General between 1846 and 1848, who by his Minute on Indian Education of February 1835 was primarily responsible for the introduction of Western institutional education to India. India's Macaulayism, by which indigenous Indian educational and vocational customs were repressed, included the replacement of the Persian language by the English language as the official language of instruction in all schools, and the training of English-speaking Indians as teachers. Macaulay's Minute on Indian Education contended that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia... Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Babington Macaulay has received more than 1,097,753 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Thomas Babington Macaulay is the 130th most popular historian (up from 135th in 2019), the 1,516th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,495th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Historian.
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Among historians, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 130 out of 341. Before him are Norman Davies, John Kinnamos, Wilhelm Worringer, Guibert of Nogent, Michael Rostovtzeff, and Philostorgius. After him are Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Charles Diehl, Richard Pipes, Anthony Blunt, Marin Barleti, and Michael Attaleiates.
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 124
1143 - 1185
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 125
1881 - 1965
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 126
1055 - 1124
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 127
1870 - 1952
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 128
368 - 439
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 129
1800 - 1859
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 130
1563 - 1611
HPI: 65.46
Rank: 131
1859 - 1944
HPI: 65.42
Rank: 132
1923 - 2018
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 133
1907 - 1983
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 134
1450 - 1513
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 135
1021 - 1080
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 136
Among people born in 1800, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 25. Before him are Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Evangelos Zappas, Princess Elisabeth of Savoy, John Nelson Darby, and Jean-Jacques Ampère. After him are Mustafa Reşid Pasha, Jakob Lorber, Henri Milne-Edwards, Charles Rogier, Ányos Jedlik, and Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1859, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 26. Before him are John Austin, Robert Stephenson, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Abd al-Rahman of Morocco, Louis Poinsot, and Karl Baedeker. After him are Yoshida Shōin, Zygmunt Krasiński, Princess Anna of Saxony, Carl Adolph Agardh, Sergey Aksakov, and Nana Sahib.
1800 - 1852
HPI: 66.88
Rank: 19
1800 - 1873
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 20
1800 - 1865
HPI: 66.52
Rank: 21
1800 - 1856
HPI: 66.24
Rank: 22
1800 - 1882
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 23
1800 - 1864
HPI: 65.96
Rank: 24
1800 - 1859
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 25
1800 - 1858
HPI: 65.45
Rank: 26
1800 - 1864
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 27
1800 - 1885
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 28
1800 - 1885
HPI: 64.81
Rank: 29
1800 - 1895
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 30
1800 - 1882
HPI: 64.04
Rank: 31
1790 - 1859
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 20
1803 - 1859
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 21
1786 - 1859
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 22
1779 - 1859
HPI: 66.04
Rank: 23
1777 - 1859
HPI: 65.75
Rank: 24
1801 - 1859
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 25
1800 - 1859
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 26
1830 - 1859
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 27
1812 - 1859
HPI: 64.75
Rank: 28
1836 - 1859
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 29
1785 - 1859
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 30
1791 - 1859
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 31
1824 - 1859
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 32
Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 1,516 out of 6,924. Before him are Cuthbert (635), Warren Hastings (1732), Malcolm Lowry (1909), Spencer Perceval (1762), Sandford Fleming (1827), and Emma Darwin (1808). After him are Martin Rees (1942), Roger Williamson (1948), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), Jack Hawkins (1910), Peter Lawford (1923), and Richard Aldington (1892).
635 - 687
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 1,510
1732 - 1818
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 1,511
1909 - 1957
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 1,512
1762 - 1812
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 1,513
1827 - 1915
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 1,514
1808 - 1896
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 1,515
1800 - 1859
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 1,516
1942 - Present
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 1,517
1948 - 1973
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 1,518
1838 - 1926
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 1,519
1910 - 1973
HPI: 65.62
Rank: 1,520
1923 - 1984
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 1,521
1892 - 1962
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 1,522
Among historians born in United Kingdom, Thomas Babington Macaulay ranks 11. Before him are Henry Thomas Buckle (1821), E. P. Thompson (1924), C. Northcote Parkinson (1909), Peter Burke (1937), Steven Runciman (1903), and Norman Davies (1939). After him are Anthony Blunt (1907), Ian Kershaw (1943), Antony Beevor (1946), Robert Conquest (1917), Arnold Toynbee (1852), and W. Montgomery Watt (1909).
1821 - 1862
HPI: 67.54
Rank: 5
1924 - 1993
HPI: 67.06
Rank: 6
1909 - 1993
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 7
1937 - Present
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 8
1903 - 2000
HPI: 66.10
Rank: 9
1939 - Present
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 10
1800 - 1859
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 11
1907 - 1983
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 12
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.03
Rank: 13
1946 - Present
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 14
1917 - 2015
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 15
1852 - 1883
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 16
1909 - 2006
HPI: 63.14
Rank: 17