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Niall Ferguson

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Sir Niall Campbell Ferguson, ( NEEL; born 18 April 1964) is a British-American historian who is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics, New York University, a visiting professor at the New College of the Humanities, and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He was a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics for the 2023/2024 academic year and at Tsinghua University in China from 2019 to 2020. He is a co-founder of the University of Austin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Niall Ferguson is the 477th most popular historian (down from 447th in 2019), the 4,351st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,787th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Niall Ferguson ranks 477 out of 561. Before him are Miguel León-Portilla, Ji Xianlin, Benjamin Mazar, Artur Hazelius, David Abulafia, and Craterus. After him are Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Sheila Fitzpatrick, William Robertson, Robert Jay Lifton, William Dalrymple, and Walter Jens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Niall Ferguson ranks 290. Before him are Evan Stone, Éric Bernard, Heather Langenkamp, Dana Plato, Andy Bell, and Wiliame Katonivere. After him are Ivan Bella, Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, Shi Zhengli, Dieter Hecking, Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and Věra Jourová.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Niall Ferguson ranks 4,352 out of 8,785. Before him are M. R. James (1862), Howard Donald (1968), Steve McClaren (1961), Eric Stewart (1945), Andy Bell (1964), and Martin McGuinness (1950). After him are Murray Walker (1923), Evelyn Colyer (1902), Nathaniel Philip Rothschild (1971), Simeon Solomon (1840), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), and Alfred Maudslay (1850).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Niall Ferguson ranks 52. Before him are Lawrence Stone (1919), David Marshall Lang (1924), Mary Beard (1955), Stanley Morison (1889), Richard J. Evans (1947), and David Abulafia (1949). After him are Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (1931), William Robertson (1721), William Dalrymple (1965), Thomas Fuller (1608), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), and Thomas Walker Arnold (1864).

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