Historian celebrities
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Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS (born 8 June 1939) is a British-Polish historian noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland and the United Kingdom. He is widely regarded as one of the preeminent historians of Central and East
Dawid (David) Wdowiński (1896–1970) was a psychiatrist and doctor of neurology in the Second Polish Republic. After the 1939 invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, he became a political leader of the Jewish resistance organization called Żydowski Zw
Gershom Gorenberg is an American-born Israeli historian, journalist and blogger, specializing in Middle Eastern politics and the interaction of religion and politics. He is currently a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, a monthly America
Edgar Faure (18 August 1908 – 30 March 1988) was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.
Anita Leocádia Prestes (born 27 November 1936 in Berlin) is a Brazilian historian. She is the daughter of militant communists Olga Benário Prestes and Luís Carlos Prestes.
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr.; November 20, 1917 – June 28, 2010) was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Sena
William Thomas Walsh (September 11, 1891 – January 22, 1949), born in Waterbury, Connecticut, was an historian, educator and author; he was also an accomplished violinist. His educational background included a B.A. from Yale University (1913) and an
Moshe “Misha” Lewin (pronounced “Luh-VENE,” November 7, 1921 – August 14, 2010) was a scholar of Russian and Soviet history. Lewin was a major figure in the school of Soviet studies which emerged in the 1960s.
Anna Komnene, Latinized as Comnena (Greek: , Anna Komnene; December 1, 1083–1153) was a Byzantine princess and scholar, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. She wrote the Alexiad, an account of her father’s reign
Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch (6 July 1886 – 16 June 1944) was a French historian who cofounded the highly influential Annales School of French social history. Bloch was a quintessential modernist. An assimilated Alsatian Jew from an academic family
Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy (Maria Gabriella Giuseppa Aldegonda Adelaide Ludovica Felicita Gennara; born 24 February 1940) is a Savoyard princess and noted historian of Italy. She is the middle daughter of Italy’s last king, Umberto II, and Mar
Jim Holliday (1948 – December 15, 2004) was an American pornographic film director, critic, and historian. He was a founder and previously the honorary historian of the X-Rated Critics Organization.