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W. Montgomery Watt

1909 - 2006

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William Montgomery Watt (14 March 1909 – 24 October 2006) was a Scottish Orientalist, historian, academic, and Anglican priest. From 1964 to 1979, he was Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Edinburgh. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Montgomery Watt has received more than 125,816 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. W. Montgomery Watt is the 196th most popular historian (down from 192nd in 2019), the 2,050th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,102nd in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Historian.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

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  • 52.62

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, W. Montgomery Watt ranks 196 out of 339. Before him are Ferdinand Gregorovius, Walter Laqueur, Quentin Skinner, Abraham Geiger, Constantine Lascaris, and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés. After him are Frederick Jackson Turner, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Yitzhak Arad, Henri Maspero, Halil İnalcık, and Antiochus of Syracuse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, W. Montgomery Watt ranks 143. Before him are Sylvère Maes, Hermann Lang, Laxmi Prasad Devkota, Johannes Willebrands, Stephen Cole Kleene, and Colonel Tom Parker. After him are Burl Ives, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Marion Dönhoff, Géza Toldi, Bernhard Grzimek, and Claude Cahen. Among people deceased in 2006, W. Montgomery Watt ranks 137. Before him are Dennis Weaver, Mickey Spillane, Ferenc Szusza, George Koval, John Profumo, and Johannes Willebrands. After him are Peter Boyle, Paul Gleason, Rudi Carrell, Gerard Reve, David Gemmell, and Shigeru Kayano.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, W. Montgomery Watt ranks 2,050 out of 7,765. Before him are Michael Powell (1905), Gordon Milne (1937), Michael Dummett (1925), James Glaisher (1809), Paul Nurse (1949), and William Cullen (1710). After him are Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Jimmy Savile (1926), Mike Rutherford (1950), Ken Aston (1915), Ernest William Brown (1866), and Nigel Hawthorne (1929).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, W. Montgomery Watt ranks 19. Before him are Arnold Toynbee (1852), Steven Runciman (1903), Antony Beevor (1946), Robert Conquest (1917), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), and Quentin Skinner (1940). After him are William of Malmesbury (1080), George Buchanan (1506), John Foxe (1516), Tony Judt (1948), Christopher Hill (1912), and Edward Granville Browne (1862).

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