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Top people for #History

The names that come up when the conversation turns to History. 219 tracked, ordered by real public-attention signals: how often the world searches them, reads their Wikipedia, and follows them, updated every day.

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Julius Caesar

The people the world most associates with History right now, concentrated in France, Germany, United Kingdom — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

#HistoryTop 100Updated dailyHow fame is measured

219 tracked

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Julius Caesar	Italy	Writers	94.4	0.0
#2	—	Herodotus	Turkey	Writers	91.0	8.8
#3	—	Tacitus	—	Writers	80.5	10.0
#4	—	Ibn Khaldun	—	Academics	79.8	0.0
#5	—	Huang Xianfan	China	Academics	79.4	0.0
#6	—	Thucydides	—	Writers	79.2	10.0
#7	—	Sima Qian	China	Writers	75.3	0.3
#8	—	Livy	Italy	Writers	73.8	1.7
#9	—	Pierre de Coubertin	France	Writers	73.4	11.1
#10	—	Michel Foucault	France	Academics	72.3	0.0
#11	—	Xenophon	—	Writers	72.2	0.3
#12	—	Strabo	—	Writers	68.7	0.0
#13	—	W. E. B. Du Bois	United States	Writers	67.1	5.1
#14	—	Muhammad al-Idrisi	Spain	Scientists	66.7	17.7
#15	—	Edward Gibbon	United Kingdom	Writers	66.3	0.0
#16	—	Ptolemy I Soter	—	Writers	65.3	15.1
#17	—	Polybius	—	Writers	64.7	0.0
#18	—	Sallust	Italy	Writers	64.6	10.0
#19	—	Prosper Mérimée	France	Academics	64.4	0.0
#20	—	Oswald Spengler	Germany	Writers	63.4	0.0
#21	—	Diodorus Siculus	Italy	Writers	62.9	0.4
#22	—	Arnold J. Toynbee	United Kingdom	Writers	62.4	1.8
#23	—	Al-Masudi	—	Writers	61.4	18.2
#24	—	Erich Raeder	Germany	Writers	61.2	15.0
#25	—	Diogenes Laërtius	—	Writers	60.6	15.0
#26	—	Cassius Dio	Turkey	Writers	59.7	0.3
#27	—	Fernand Braudel	France	Writers	59.6	2.4
#28	—	J Jordanes	—	Writers	59.6	9.0
#29	—	Marc Bloch	France	Writers	59.3	2.7
#30	—	AA Abd Allah ibn Abbas	—	Writers	59.3	2.5
#31	—	Arrian	—	Writers	59.1	10.7
#32	—	Ammianus Marcellinus	Turkey	Writers	58.8	0.2
#33	—	Al-Tabari	—	Writers	58.7	2.5
#34	—	Lyudmila Pavlichenko	—	Writers	58.6	0.2
#35	—	Jacob Burckhardt	Switzerland	Writers	58.6	15.1
#36	—	Jules Michelet	France	Writers	58.5	0.0
#37	—	Thomas Babington Macaulay	United Kingdom	Writers	58.4	0.3
#38	—	Abraham Ortelius	—	Scientists	58.3	3.2
#39	—	Mircea Eliade	United States	Academics	58.2	0.0
#40	—	Leopold von Ranke	Germany	Writers	58.2	0.0
#41	—	Quintus Curtius Rufus	—	Writers	58.2	1.4
#42	—	Vuk Karadžić	Turkey	Writers	58.1	2.4
#43	—	Dimitrie Cantemir	—	Academics	57.6	12.6
#44	—	P Procopius	Israel	Writers	57.5	0.0
#45	—	Lucien Febvre	France	Writers	57.4	13.6
#46	—	Rashid-al-Din Hamadani	—	Writers	57.3	6.4
#47	—	Anna Komnene	—	Writers	57.1	0.0
#48	—	Roman Jakobson	United States	Writers	56.4	0.0
#49	—	Johan Huizinga	Netherlands	Writers	56.1	2.1
#50	—	Saxo Grammaticus	—	Writers	56.1	0.3
#51	—	Cornelius Nepos	Italy	Writers	56.0	3.3
#52	—	Johann Joachim Winckelmann	Germany	Academics	55.9	0.0
#53	—	Appian	Egypt	Writers	55.8	0.0
#54	—	Einhard	Germany	Writers	55.8	7.7
#55	—	Dionysius of Halicarnassus	Turkey	Writers	55.7	0.0
#56	—	Jacques Le Goff	France	Writers	55.7	1.7
#57	—	Ibn Kathir	—	Writers	55.6	0.4
#58	—	Manetho	—	Writers	55.6	0.0
#59	—	HO Hecataeus of Miletus	Turkey	Writers	55.1	0.0
#60	—	Demetrius Vikelas	—	Writers	55.1	10.5
#61	—	Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet	France	Writers	54.8	0.0
#62	—	William of Tyre	—	Writers	54.5	0.5
#63	—	AI Ali ibn al-Athir	Turkey	Writers	54.5	1.2
#64	—	Lewis H. Morgan	United States	Academics	54.4	0.0
#65	—	Ibn Ishaq	—	Writers	54.2	0.3
#66	—	A Al-Baladhuri	—	Writers	54.0	1.6
#67	—	Christian Lous Lange	Norway	Writers	53.9	3.1
#68	—	Wilfrid Voynich	United States	Writers	53.9	1.2
#69	—	Marcus Velleius Paterculus	Italy	Writers	53.8	0.0
#70	—	Orosius	—	Writers	53.6	0.0
#71	—	Z Zosimus	—	Writers	53.3	0.0
#72	—	Paul the Deacon	—	Writers	53.3	0.0
#73	—	Khaled al-Asaad	—	Academics	53.2	0.0
#74	—	Aurelius Victor	—	Writers	53.2	2.1
#75	—	AO Apollodorus of Athens	—	Writers	53.2	0.1
#76	—	Theophanes the Confessor	—	Writers	52.8	0.0
#77	—	Theodore Roosevelt	United States	Scientists	88.2	1.6
#78	—	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	84.3	15.0
#79	—	Donald Tusk	—	Politicians	83.8	10.0
#80	—	H. G. Wells	United Kingdom	Writers	81.5	0.6
#81	—	Plutarch	—	Writers	78.9	0.0
#82	—	Mark Rutte	Netherlands	Politicians	77.1	5.8
#83	—	Thomas More	—	Academics	74.3	0.4
#84	—	Helmut Kohl	Germany	Politicians	72.5	0.0
#85	—	Hannah Arendt	Germany	Academics	72.4	0.0
#86	—	Mary Wollstonecraft	United Kingdom	Academics	72.3	0.0
#87	—	Pliny the Elder	—	Writers	72.0	0.0
#88	—	Jerome	—	Actors	72.0	7.7
#89	—	Claudius	—	Politicians	68.5	0.0
#90	—	Cato the Elder	Italy	Writers	67.4	0.0
#91	—	Pope Benedict XIV	Italy	Lawyers	67.3	15.0
#92	—	William Ramsay	United Kingdom	Scientists	66.5	10.0
#93	—	Muhammad al-Bukhari	—	Writers	65.4	17.2
#94	—	Thor Heyerdahl	Norway	Scientists	65.3	3.8
#95	—	Josephus	—	Writers	64.8	0.0
#96	—	François-René de Chateaubriand	France	Politicians	64.4	0.0
#97	—	Suetonius	—	Writers	64.4	0.0
#98	—	Snorri Sturluson	—	Writers	64.3	6.1
#99	—	Giambattista Vico	Italy	Academics	63.8	15.0
#100	—	Franjo Tuđman	—	Politicians	63.7	15.8