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Simon Schama

1945 - Today

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Sir Simon Michael Schama ( SHAH-mə; born 13 February 1945) is an English historian and television presenter. He specialises in art history, Dutch history, Jewish history, and French history. He is a professor of history and art history at Columbia University. Schama first came to public attention with his history of the French Revolution titled Citizens, published in 1989. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Simon Schama is the 522nd most popular historian (down from 499th in 2024), the 5,204th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,468th in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Simon Schama ranks 522 out of 561. Before him are R. H. Tawney, Orlando Figes, Andreas Maislinger, Alessandro Barbero, Horace Engdahl, and Djibril Tamsir Niane. After him are Carroll Quigley, Richard Hofstadter, Jan Morris, Cezaria Jędrzejewiczowa, Francis Parkman, and Romila Thapar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Simon Schama ranks 599. Before him are Ousmane Issoufi Maïga, Georg Volkert, Bjarni Tryggvason, Shatrughan Sinha, Susan Haack, and Uri Rosenthal. After him are Gianfranco Bedin, Javed Akhtar, Millie Hughes-Fulford, David Marr, Baudilio Jáuregui, and Gülsün Sağlamer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 5,208 out of 8,785. Before him are James D'Arcy (1975), Robert Jameson (1774), John of Worcester (1100), Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard (1873), Ewan MacColl (1915), Jemima Kirke (1985), Alex Jennings (1957), and Duffy (1984). After him are Thomas Baines (1820), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Alex Miller (1949), and John Pulman (1923).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, Simon Schama ranks 68. Before him are William Mitchell Ramsay (1851), N. G. L. Hammond (1907), Richard Overy (1947), Hugh N. Kennedy (1947), George Grote (1794), and Orlando Figes (1959). After him are Jan Morris (1926), Richard Bauckham (1946), Warren Treadgold (1949), Edward Augustus Freeman (1823), Iain Pears (1955), and Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938).

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