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William Dalrymple

1965 - Today

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William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple (born 20 March 1965) is a Scottish historian, art historian, curator, broadcaster, critic and author. Dalrymple's books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Wolfson History Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuściński, the Arthur Ross Medal of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. He has been five times long-listed and once shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Cundill History Prize. The BBC television documentary on his pilgrimage to the source of the river Ganges, "Shiva's Matted Locks", one of three episodes of his Indian Journeys series, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2024). William Dalrymple is the 482nd most popular historian (up from 560th in 2024), the 4,445th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 7,254th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, William Dalrymple ranks 482 out of 561. Before him are Craterus, Niall Ferguson, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Sheila Fitzpatrick, William Robertson, and Robert Jay Lifton. After him are Walter Jens, Thomas Fuller, Lothrop Stoddard, Simon Janashia, Timofey Granovsky, and Aleks Buda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, William Dalrymple ranks 307. Before him are Miquel Soler, Christine Lambrecht, Jonas Åkerlund, Rui Barros, Toumani Diabaté, and Santiago Segura. After him are Pat Cash, Péricles Chamusca, Mick Foley, Paul Heyman, Kevin Dillon, and Luc Alphand.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Dalrymple ranks 4,446 out of 8,785. Before him are Charlie Cox (1982), Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter (1430), John Blackley (1948), William Tenn (1920), Hector Boece (1465), and Val McDermid (1955). After him are Gemma Arterton (1986), Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin (1645), Thomas Fuller (1608), John Ogdon (1937), Anna Massey (1937), and Estelle (1980).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, William Dalrymple ranks 55. Before him 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). After him are Thomas Fuller (1608), Frederic G. Kenyon (1863), Thomas Walker Arnold (1864), Robert Service (1947), William of Newburgh (1130), and Mark Mazower (1958).

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