1. Inca Garcilaso (1539)

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Also known as El Inca, he is an important historian and scholar of Peruvian culture.

2. James Mill (1773)

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Most famous for his three-volume work The History of British India, this late 18th and early 19th-century political philosopher and historian also penned Elements of Political Economy (a work largely...

3. Simonas Daukantas (1793)

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Writer, ethnographer, and historian who was a key figure in the Lithuanian national revival. His works include an 1838 history of Lithuania and several collections of Samogitian and Lithuanian folk...

4. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay is a famous Historian, who was born on October 25, 1800 in United Kingdom. A prominent British politician of the 19th Century, he also wrote numerous influential...

5. Peter Andreas Munch (1810)

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Peter Andreas Munch is a famous Historian, who was born on December 15, 1810 in Norway. Norwegian historian, scholar, and co-founder of the Norwegian Nationalist School of Historiography. In 1970,...

6. Edward Eggleston (1837)

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Edward Eggleston is a famous Historian, who was born on December 10, 1837 in United States. An American fiction writer and historian, he is known for such novels as The...

7. Molly Elliot Seawell (1860)

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Molly Elliot Seawell is a famous Historian, who was born on October 23, 1860 in United States. An American historian and the author of more than ten books, she published...

8. Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862)

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Albert Jeremiah Beveridge is a famous Historian, who was born on October 6, 1862 in United States. United States senator from Indiana from 1899 until 1911 who was influential in...

9. Grace Raymond Hebard (1861)

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Grace Raymond Hebard is a famous Historian, who was born on July 2, 1861 in United States. A turn-of-the-century American historian, suffragist, scholar, and writer, she is best known for...

10. Pierre De Coubertin (1863)

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Pierre De Coubertin is a famous Historian, who was born on January 1, 1863 in France. French academic and historian who founded the International Olympic Committee and helped establish the...

11. GM Trevelyan (1876)

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GM Trevelyan is a famous Historian, who was born on February 16, 1876 in United Kingdom. English historian and Whig Party promoter. He penned numerous historical works, including England in...

12. Charles A. Beard (1874)

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Charles A. Beard is a famous Historian, who was born on November 27, 1874 in United States. Influential historian who emphasized the impact of social and economic forces on the...

13. Carter G. Woodson (1875)

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Carter G. Woodson is a famous Historian, who was born on December 19, 1875 in United States. African American author, historian, and journalist who founded the Association for the Study...

14. Joaquin Torres Garcia (1874)

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Joaquin Torres Garcia is a famous Historian, who was born on July 28, 1874 in Uruguay. Uruguayan artist and art theorist who established the Constructive Universalism movement. A fire at...

15. Samuel Eliot Morison (1887)

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Samuel Eliot Morison is a famous Historian, who was born on July 9, 1887 in United States. A respected American war historian, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Admiral of...

16. Theodore C. Blegen (1891)

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Theodore C. Blegen is a famous Historian, who was born on July 16, 1891 in United States. A renowned twentieth-century historian, he is especially known for his work on the...

17. Fritz Fischer (1908)

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Professor known as the most important German historian of the 20th century.

18. Douglass Adair (1912)

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A noted historical scholar, he published several influential works on the subject of America's Founding Fathers. His areas of expertise include the authorship of the Federalist Papers, the history of...

19. Barbara Tuchman (1912)

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American author and historian whose World War I-themed work, The Guns of August, won the Pulitzer Prize. Her other award-winning books include A Distant Mirror and Stilwell and the American...

20. Daniel Boorstin (1914)

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An influential American historian, he is known for The Americans trilogy and The Discoverers, both of which emphasized the role of individuals in bringing about significant historical events. He was...

21. David Fitzgerald (1964)

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David Fitzgerald is a famous Historian, who was born on December 26, 1964 in United States. Writer, historian, speaker, and vocal proponent of atheism. He served on the boards of...

22. Jose Hermano Saraiva (1919)

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Jose Hermano Saraiva is a famous Historian, who was born on October 3, 1919 in Portugal. Portuguese historian and jurist who served as Minister of Education and ambassador to Brazil....

23. William Beasley (1919)

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Remembered for his John K. Fairbank Prize-winning work The Meiji Restoration (1972) and for his widely-read work The Modern History of Japan (later re-titled The Rise of Modern Japan), this...

24. Townsend Hoopes (1922)

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An influential twentieth-century historian, he wrote the first detailed account of President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision to de-escalate the Vietnam War. During the late 1960s, he served as Under Secretary of...

25. RoseMarie Said Zahlan (1937)

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RoseMarie Said Zahlan is a famous Historian, who was born on August 20, 1937 in Egypt. Palestinian-American historian and author who wrote historical books and newspaper and magazine articles. Her...

26. Stephen Jay Gould (1941)

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Stephen Jay Gould is a famous Historian, who was born on September 10, 1941 in United States. An American author, science historian, evolutionary biologist, and paleontologist, he is best known...

27. Yuval Noah Harari (1976)

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Historian who has earned worldwide acclaim for his 2014 New York Times best-selling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. In 2018, he gave a keynote speech about the future...

28. Masood Ali Khan (1947)

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Masood Ali Khan is a famous Historian, who was born on March 15, 1947 in India. Indian nonfiction author and historian known for his work on issues affecting Indian practitioners...

29. Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943)

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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a famous Historian, who was born on January 4, 1943 in United States. An American historian, political commentator, and biographer, she is best known for her...

30. Suzannah Lipscomb (1978)

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Historian grown popular as a presenter for historical programs like Hidden Killers of the Tudor Home, Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home, and Bloody Tales. She is especially known for...

31. A. J. P. Taylor (1906)

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Alan John Percivale A. J. P. Taylor FBA was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster he became well known...

32. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917)

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33. Jerome Chen (Unknow)

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Jerome Ch'en FRSC is a noted Chinese historian. He was a Chinese history professor at the York University in Toronto Canada from 1971 to 1987. Jerome Ch'en was the...

34. Christian Meier (historian) (1929)

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Christian Meier is a German historian and professor emeritus of ancient history at the University of Munich. In 2002 Meier was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art. He...

35. Gilbert R. Tredway (1922)

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Gilbert Riley Tredway is a retired historian from Indiana and Kentucky who has authored two books relating to the American Civil War.

36. Timothy J. G. Harris (1958)

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Timothy J. G. Harris is an historian of Later Stuart Britain.

37. Fidel Villarroel (1929)

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Villarroel is a multi-awarded Spanish historian writer filipinologist biographer political commentator Master Theologian of the Dominican Order and member of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. A recipient of the...

38. Jacques Lafaye (1930)

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Professor Jacques Lafaye is a French historian who from the early 1960s has written influentially on cultural and religious Spanish and Latin American history.

39. Karen Yuzbashyan (1927)

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Karen Yuzbashyan was an Armenian historian-orientalist and expert on medieval Byzantine-Armenian relations.

40. Jerzy Michalski (1924)

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Jerzy Michalski was a Polish historian specializing in the 18th and 19th centuries. He was a professor of the Institutenof History at the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of numerous...

41. Jorge Basadre (1903)

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Jorge Basadre Grohmann was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country. He served during two different administrations as Minister of Education and...

42. John Torrey Morse (Unknow)

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John Torrey Morse was an American historian and biographer.

43. Erwin Oberländer (1937)

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Erwin Oberländer is a German historian and expert on Eastern European history.

44. Ivan Kamenec (1938)

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Ivan Kamenec is a Slovak historian.

45. André Vauchez (1938)

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André Vauchez is a French medievalist specialising in the history of Christian spirituality. He has studied at the École normale supérieure and the École française de Rome.

46. Walerian Krasiński (1795)

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Count Walerian Skorobohaty Krasiński or Valerian Krasinski was a Polish Calvinist politician nationalist and historian. Krasinski was a Polish aristocrat in exile after the November Uprising 1830 during the Austrian...

47. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn (1941)

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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn is an American historian and author. She focuses on early African-American history and African-American women's history. She is a faculty member of Morgan State University.

48. Sara Alpern (1942)

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Sara Alpern Tarlow known as Sara Alpern is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University known for her specialization in women's studies.

49. Grover Furr (1944)

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Grover Carr Furr III is an American professor and author of books and articles in Russian and English on Soviet history under the period of Joseph Stalin particularly relating to...

50. Nikol Aghbalian (1875)

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Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian was an Armenian public figure and historian of literature the editor of Horizon paper. He studied at Moscow State University then in Lausanne and Sorbonne worked as...