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Mary Beard

1955 - Today

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Dame Winifred Mary Beard (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature. Beard is the classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, for which she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Beard is the 460th most popular historian (up from 510th in 2019), the 4,185th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,762nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Mary Beard ranks 460 out of 561. Before her are Alain Besançon, Helene Ahrweiler, Lawrence Stone, David Marshall Lang, Michael Aris, and Charles Homer Haskins. After her are Aron Gurevich, Anvar Chingizoglu, Eadmer, Mikhail Artamonov, Herwig Wolfram, and Irina Antonova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Mary Beard ranks 347. Before her are Leyla Yunus, Julian Richings, Sahiba Gafarova, José Daniel Valencia, Avraham Burg, and Glynis Barber. After her are Bill Condon, Kevin Conroy, Linda Watson, Serge Telle, Dawood Ibrahim, and William Kentridge.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Beard ranks 4,186 out of 8,785. Before her are Jack Beresford (1899), Lily James (1989), Granville Bantock (1868), Mary Moser (1744), Christopher Cazenove (1943), and Bruno Heller (1960). After her are Bob Houghton (1947), Alan Bennett (1934), Christopher Cradock (1862), Bill Moggridge (1943), Benjamin Glazer (1887), and Norman Hunter (1943).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Mary Beard ranks 48. Before her are G. M. Trevelyan (1876), Arthur Smith Woodward (1864), Donald Nicol (1923), Martin Gilbert (1936), Lawrence Stone (1919), and David Marshall Lang (1924). After her are Stanley Morison (1889), Richard J. Evans (1947), David Abulafia (1949), Niall Ferguson (1964), Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), and William Robertson (1721).

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