Famous Historians

The list Famous Historians includes Ruth Goodman, Otto Frank, Victor Kugler, Adrian Brown and One-Four-Three. The list consists of 18,520 members.

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Ruth Goodman

British freelance historian

Overview: Ruth Ellen Goodman (born 5 October 1963) is a British freelance historian of the early modern period, specialising in offering advice to museums and heritage attractions. She is a specialist in British ...

Date of birth: 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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British women television presenters 89T

Women television presenters 1,280T

People educated at Fearnhill School 6T
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Suzannah Lipscomb

British historian and television presenter

Overview: Suzannah Rebecca Gabriella Lipscomb FRHistS FHEA (born 7 December 1978) is a British historian, academic, and television presenter who has written and appeared in a number of television and radio pro ...

Date of birth: 7 December 1978

Age: 45

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Fellows of the Higher Education Academy 53T

British women historians 594T

Academics of the University of Roehampton 33T
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Klaus Biesenbach

German art historian

Overview: Klaus Biesenbach, born in Bergisch Gladbach, West Germany, is the director of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and former director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large at The Museum ...

Date of birth: 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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German male non-fiction writers 2,538T

American art curators 363T

German male writers 4,579T
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Peter Ginn

British archaeologist

Overview: Peter Ginn is a British archaeologist, best known as a presenter of the BBC educational television documentary series (2005–2014) known as the BBC historic farm series. Ginn and Ruth Goodman were the only ...

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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21st-century archaeologists 110T

British archaeologists 456T

People from Banbury 89T
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Otto Frank

German-born father of Anne and Margot Frank

Overview: Otto Heinrich Frank (12 May 1889 – 19 August 1980) was a German businessman who later became a resident of the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was the father of Anne and Margot Frank and husband ...

Date of birth: 12 May 1889

Date of death: 19 August 1980

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: German

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the Netherlands 41T

Jewish concentration camp survivors 104T

German Jewish military personnel of World War I 30T
6.

Diane Disney

Elder child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney (1933–2013)

Overview: Diane Marie Disney-Miller (December 18, 1933 – November 19, 2013) was the only biological child of Walt Disney and his wife Lillian Bounds Disney. Diane co-founded the Walt Disney Family Museum alongside ...

Date of birth: 18 December 1933

Date of death: 19 November 2013

Age: 79 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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Disney family 14T

Wine merchants 126T

2013 deaths 9,814T
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Lucy Worsley

British, Historian

Overview: Lucy Worsley OBE (born 18 December 1973) is a British historian, author, curator, and television presenter. She is Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces but is best known as a presenter of BBC Television ...

Date of birth: 18 December 1973

Age: 50

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: Mark Hines (Married)

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English women historians 135T

British writers with disabilities 147T

British women curators 110T
8.

Tim Naftali

Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

Overview: Timothy Naftali is a Canadian-American historian who is clinical associate professor of public service at New York University. He has written four books, two of them co-authored with Alexander Fursenko ...

Date of birth: 31 January 1962

Age: 62

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Academics from Montreal 71T

Canadian male non-fiction writers 791T

Gay academics 123T
9.

Princess Maria Gabriella Of Savoy

Princess of Savoy

Overview: Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (Maria Gabriella Giuseppa Aldegonda Adelaide Ludovica Felicita Gennara; born 24 February 1940) is the middle daughter of Italy's last king, Umberto II, and Marie José ...

Date of birth: 24 February 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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Italian women historians 24T

21st-century Italian historians 85T

Princesses of Savoy 86T
10.

Victor Kugler

Austrian Righteous Among the Nations

Overview: Victor Kugler (5 June 1900, Hohenelbe/Vrchlabí – 16 December 1981, Toronto) was one of the people who helped hide Anne Frank and her family and friends during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. In ...

Date of birth: 5 June 1900

Date of death: 16 December 1981

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Amersfoort concentration camp survivors 4T

Austrian people of German Bohemian descent 145T

German Bohemian people 381T
11.

Keith Skinner

British actor, crime historian and writer

Overview: Keith Skinner (born 1949) is a British actor and crime historian and author.

Date of birth: 30 November 1948

Age: 75

Nationality: English

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Historians of Jack the Ripper 22T

Non-fiction books about Jack the Ripper 15T

English male writers 2,739T
12.

One-Four-Three

American, Historian

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Geraldine Taylor

Missionary in China and Author

Overview: Mary Geraldine Guinness (Chinese: 金樂婷; 25 December 1865 – 6 June 1949), often known as Mrs. Howard Taylor, was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and author of many missionary ...

Date of birth: 25 December 1865

Date of death: 6 June 1949

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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Protestant missionaries in China 167T

English Protestant missionaries 119T

British women historians 481T
14.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

American biographer

Overview: Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist and political commentator.

Date of birth: 4 January 1943

Age: 81

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

Partner: Richard N. Goodwin (Married)

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20th-century American women journalists 548T

21st-century American women journalists 319T

21st-century American memoirists 463T
15.

David Halberstam

American writer, journalist and historian (1934–2007)

Overview: David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 – April 23, 2007) was an American writer, journalist, and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media ...

Date of birth: 10 April 1934

Date of death: 23 April 2007

Age: 73 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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Historians from Connecticut 119T

American war correspondents of the Vietnam War 44T

Historians from New York (state) 771T
16.

Janina Ramirez

British, Historian

Overview: Janina Sara Maria Ramirez (née Maleczek; 7 July 1980), sometimes credited as Nina Ramirez, is a British art and cultural historian and TV presenter, based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. She specialises ...

Date of birth: 7 July 1980

Age: 44

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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British women art historians 138T

Women from Dubai 10T

21st-century English historians 146T
17.

Albert Étienne Jean Baptiste Terrien De La Couperie

Sinologist

Overview: Albert Étienne Jean-Baptiste Terrien de Lacouperie (23 November 1844 – 11 October 1894) was a French orientalist, specialising in comparative philology. He published a number of books on early Asian ...

Date of birth: 23 November 1844

Date of death: 11 October 1894

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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19th-century British male writers 668T

French male non-fiction writers 2,066T

Chinese numismatics 13T
18.

Susan Weber Soros

American historian

Overview: Susan Weber (born 1954) is an American historian. She is the founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) for studies in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture affiliated with ...

Date of birth: 1954

Age: 70

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Female

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Historians from New York (state) 493T

Soros family 7T

American women historians 946T
19.

Alex Langlands

British archaeologist and historian (born 1977)

Overview: Alex Langlands is a British archaeologist and historian, also known for his work as a presenter of educational documentary series on British television.

Date of birth: 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: British

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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21st-century archaeologists 110T

British archaeologists 456T

British historians 1,193T
20.

Burl Barer

American writer

Overview: Burl Barer (born 1947 in Walla Walla, Washington) is an American author, literary historian and radio host. He is best known for his writings about the character Simon Templar.

Date of birth: 8 August 1947

Age: 77

Nationality: American

Occupation: Historian

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male writers 6,911T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T