HISTORIAN

William H. McNeill

1917 - 2016

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William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) was an American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward, first postulated in The Rise of the West (1963). He was the Robert A. Millikan Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught from 1947 until his retirement in 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William H. McNeill has received more than 10,482 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. William H. McNeill is the 303rd most popular historian (down from 223rd in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Canada (down from 176th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Historian.

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  • 51.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, William H. McNeill ranks 303 out of 561. Before him are Filippo Baldinucci, Jean Delumeau, Stéphane Courtois, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Lyubomir Miletich, and Wilhelm von Bode. After him are Léon Poliakov, Hermann Conring, Marsyas of Pella, Joan Wallach Scott, A. J. P. Taylor, and Gerda Lerner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, William H. McNeill ranks 180. Before him are André Waterkeyn, Yuri Lyubimov, Ilse Steppat, Tetyana Yablonska, Luigi Poggi, and Steno. After him are Musine Kokalari, Otto Glória, Christiane Rochefort, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, Oliver Tambo, and Ann Rutherford. Among people deceased in 2016, William H. McNeill ranks 232. Before him are Vladimir Zeldin, Doris Roberts, Juan Mujica, Sigge Parling, Manuel Velázquez, and Steven Hill. After him are Nate Thurmond, Zoltán Kocsis, Kigeli V of Rwanda, Alphons Egli, Miruts Yifter, and Nicole Courcel.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, William H. McNeill ranks 230 out of 1,622. Before him are Josephine Crowell (1859), Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914), Robert D. Hare (1934), Debbi Wilkes (1946), August Schellenberg (1936), and John Murray (1841). After him are Mazo de la Roche (1879), Marie Dressler (1868), Colleen Dewhurst (1924), Gaëtan Dugas (1952), Michael Ontkean (1946), and R. Murray Schafer (1933).

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Among HISTORIANS In Canada

Among historians born in Canada, William H. McNeill ranks 1. 

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