Polybius

Polybius

male
Ancient Greek statesmen, The Histories, Hellenistic civilization, The Rise of the Roman Empire, mediterranean, mediterranean sea…Roman era historian, historian
Polybius (ca. 203-120 BC, Greek) was a Greek historian of the Mediterranean world famous for his book called "The Histories" or "The Rise of the...
Plutarch

Plutarch

male, deceased (127)
Roman era historian, oeuvre, ancient greek, Biographer, Essayist, historian
Mestrius Plutarchus, better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. Plutarch was born to a...
Simon Schama

Simon Schama

male, 64 years old (Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States)
historian, A History of Britain, Old Haberdasher, Jewish, Art historian, cbe…Historian of the French Revolution
Simon Michael Schama, CBE (born 13 February 1945) is a British professor of history and art history at Columbia University. His many works on...
Eric Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm

male, 92 years old
historian, Social construction, Labor historian, Traditions, construction, author…Marxist historian
Eric John Earnest Hobsbawm CH (born June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British Marxist historian and author. Hobsbawm was a long-standing...

William Smith

male, deceased (1793)
historian, chief justice, speaker, american revolution, lawyer, public speaking
William Smith was a lawyer, historian, speaker, loyalist, and eventually Chief Justice of the Province of New York from 1763 to 1782 and Chief...
Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson

male, 45 years old
journalist, politician, Henley-on-thames, Conservative MP, British MP, President of the Oxford Union…historian
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP (born 19 June 1964, New York), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative Party politician and...
John Keegan

John Keegan

male, 75 years old
World War I historian, Order of the British Empire, obe, Military writer, Knights Bachelor, Officer of the Order of the British Empire…Military historian, historian
Sir John Keegan OBE (born 1934) is a British military historian, lecturer and journalist. As an author he has published a number of works on the...
John Roberts

John Roberts

male, deceased (2003)
Old Tauntonian, Magdalen College, Oxford, bath, university of southampton, BBC, cbe…historian
John Morris Roberts (April 14 1928 - 30 May 2003) was a British historian, with significant published works, well known also as the author and...
Herodotus

Herodotus

male
historian, ". He is almost exclusively known for writing, Greco-Persian Wars, Black Sea, Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus, known for writing
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: "Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus") was a Greek historian from Ionia who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. 425 BC...
John Hope Franklin

John Hope Franklin

male, 94 years old
Duke University faculty, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, American, Fisk University alumni, Duke Law School Faculty, American Historical Association…historian, Historian of the United States
John Hope Franklin (born January 2, 1915) is a United States historian and past president of the American Historical Association. Professor...