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Yuval Noah Harari

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Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי [juˈval ˈnoaχ haˈʁaʁi]; born 1976) is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He currently serves as professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestseller, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) is based on his lectures to an undergraduate world history class. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuval Noah Harari has received more than 6,550,941 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Yuval Noah Harari is the 91st most popular historian (down from 82nd in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from Israel (down from 113th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Israeli Historian.

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian and author who is most famous for his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

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  • 6.6M

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  • 65.71

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  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Yuval Noah Harari ranks 91 out of 561. Before him are Julius Wellhausen, Erich Auerbach, George Ostrogorsky, Al-Waqidi, Hermann Alexander Diels, and Timaeus. After him are George Kedrenos, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani, Vasily Bartold, Tyrannius Rufinus, Shoqan Walikhanov, and Christoph Cellarius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1976, Yuval Noah Harari ranks 15. Before him are Chester Bennington, Michael Ballack, Judit Polgár, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Patrick Vieira. After him are Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Alessandro Nesta, Colin Farrell, Diane Kruger, Ryan Reynolds, and Audrey Tautou.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yuval Noah Harari ranks 131 out of 466. Before him are Al-Maqdisi (945), Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (1167), Amos Gitai (1950), Al-Afdal Shahanshah (1066), Ali Hassan Salameh (1940), and Yigael Yadin (1917). After him are Mariam Baouardy (1846), Yael Dayan (1939), Saint Petronilla (50), Antiochus of Ascalon (-130), Arieh Warshel (1940), and Simeon of Jerusalem (100).

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Among HISTORIANS In Israel

Among historians born in Israel, Yuval Noah Harari ranks 4. Before him are Josephus (37), William of Tyre (1130), and Procopius (500). After him are Sextus Julius Africanus (160), Tom Segev (1945), and Benny Morris (1948).

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