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Top 100 Writers tagged #History

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The most famous writers associated with History right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Voltaire	France	Writers	88.8	0.0
#2	new	Alexander Pushkin	—	Writers	88.6	0.7
#3	new	J. R. R. Tolkien	United Kingdom	Writers	87.7	14.0
#4	new	Herodotus	Turkey	Writers	86.8	8.8
#5	new	Friedrich Schiller	Germany	Writers	84.8	12.0
#6	new	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	—	Writers	81.9	15.0
#7	new	Arthur Conan Doyle	United Kingdom	Writers	81.6	0.0
#8	new	H. G. Wells	United Kingdom	Writers	79.9	0.6
#9	new	Ibn Khaldun	—	Writers	79.8	1.5
#10	new	Nikolai Gogol	—	Writers	79.5	2.4
#11	new	Tacitus	—	Writers	79.2	10.0
#12	new	Walter Scott	United Kingdom	Writers	78.5	14.5
#13	new	Huang Xianfan	China	Writers	78.4	0.0
#14	new	Thucydides	—	Writers	78.2	10.0
#15	new	Umberto Eco	Italy	Writers	77.1	0.1
#16	new	Stefan Zweig	Austria	Writers	76.7	16.3
#17	new	Sima Qian	China	Writers	75.3	0.3
#18	new	Romain Rolland	France	Writers	74.5	0.0
#19	new	Livy	Italy	Writers	73.8	1.7
#20	new	Mary Wollstonecraft	United Kingdom	Writers	72.3	0.0
#21	new	Pliny the Elder	—	Writers	72.0	0.0
#22	new	Carl von Clausewitz	Germany	Writers	71.9	16.0
#23	new	Alexis de Tocqueville	France	Writers	71.7	3.0
#24	new	Zhu Xi	China	Writers	70.9	0.0
#25	new	Jean Racine	France	Writers	70.7	1.3
#26	new	Josephus	—	Writers	68.2	5.7
#27	new	Juvenal	Italy	Writers	68.2	1.2
#28	new	Alphonse de Lamartine	France	Writers	66.7	0.0
#29	new	Edward Gibbon	United Kingdom	Writers	66.3	0.0
#30	new	Pliny the Younger	Italy	Writers	65.8	0.5
#31	new	Bede	United Kingdom	Writers	65.1	2.8
#32	new	Polybius	—	Writers	64.7	0.0
#33	new	Sallust	Italy	Writers	64.6	10.0
#34	new	François-René de Chateaubriand	France	Writers	64.4	0.0
#35	new	Prosper Mérimée	France	Writers	64.4	0.0
#36	new	Snorri Sturluson	—	Writers	64.3	6.1
#37	new	Suetonius	—	Writers	64.1	0.4
#38	new	Oswald Spengler	Germany	Writers	63.4	0.0
#39	new	Diodorus Siculus	Italy	Writers	62.9	0.4
#40	new	Arnold J. Toynbee	United Kingdom	Writers	62.4	1.8
#41	new	Ghalib	India	Writers	62.1	1.7
#42	new	Louis Aragon	France	Writers	61.8	0.0
#43	new	Friedrich Schlegel	Germany	Writers	61.7	15.0
#44	new	Bartolomé de las Casas	Spain	Writers	61.6	10.0
#45	new	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	France	Writers	61.6	1.3
#46	new	Al-Masudi	—	Writers	61.4	18.2
#47	new	Erich Raeder	Germany	Writers	61.2	15.0
#48	new	Diogenes Laërtius	—	Writers	60.6	15.0
#49	new	Gertrude Bell	United Kingdom	Writers	60.4	7.4
#50	new	Alfonso X of Castile	Spain	Writers	60.1	0.4
#51	new	Constantine VII	—	Writers	59.7	3.2
#52	new	Fernand Braudel	France	Writers	59.6	2.4
#53	new	J Jordanes	—	Writers	59.6	9.0
#54	new	Hippolyte Taine	France	Writers	59.5	0.3
#55	new	AA Abd Allah ibn Abbas	—	Writers	59.3	2.5
#56	new	Arrian	—	Writers	59.1	10.7
#57	new	Helmuth von Moltke the Elder	Germany	Writers	59.1	0.5
#58	new	André Maurois	France	Writers	58.9	0.0
#59	new	Ammianus Marcellinus	Turkey	Writers	58.8	0.2
#60	new	Lyudmila Pavlichenko	—	Writers	58.6	0.2
#61	new	Jacob Burckhardt	Switzerland	Writers	58.6	15.1
#62	new	Jules Michelet	France	Writers	58.5	0.0
#63	new	Thomas Babington Macaulay	United Kingdom	Writers	58.4	0.3
#64	new	Mircea Eliade	United States	Writers	58.2	0.0
#65	new	Leopold von Ranke	Germany	Writers	58.2	0.0
#66	new	Quintus Curtius Rufus	—	Writers	58.2	1.4
#67	new	Evliya Çelebi	Turkey	Writers	57.6	2.3
#68	new	P Procopius	Israel	Writers	57.5	0.0
#69	new	Ennius	Italy	Writers	57.5	0.0
#70	new	Lucien Febvre	France	Writers	57.4	13.6
#71	new	Anna Komnene	—	Writers	57.1	0.0
#72	new	Marc Bloch	France	Writers	57.0	0.0
#73	new	Leopold von Sacher-Masoch	—	Writers	56.7	0.1
#74	new	Johan Huizinga	Netherlands	Writers	56.1	2.1
#75	new	Gregory of Tours	France	Writers	56.1	2.1
#76	new	Saxo Grammaticus	—	Writers	56.1	0.3
#77	new	Al-Jahiz	—	Writers	56.0	1.5
#78	new	Cornelius Nepos	Italy	Writers	56.0	3.3
#79	new	Johann Joachim Winckelmann	Germany	Writers	55.9	0.0
#80	new	Appian	Egypt	Writers	55.8	0.0
#81	new	Wilhelm Dilthey	Germany	Writers	55.8	1.5
#82	new	Einhard	Germany	Writers	55.8	7.7
#83	new	Dionysius of Halicarnassus	Turkey	Writers	55.7	0.0
#84	new	Jacques Le Goff	France	Writers	55.7	1.7
#85	new	Ibn Kathir	—	Writers	55.6	0.4
#86	new	Manetho	—	Writers	55.6	0.0
#87	new	Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus	—	Writers	55.5	2.5
#88	new	Erwin Panofsky	Germany	Writers	55.4	1.6
#89	new	Adam of Bremen	Germany	Writers	55.4	3.8
#90	new	Ibn Hazm	Spain	Writers	55.1	0.0
#91	new	HO Hecataeus of Miletus	Turkey	Writers	55.1	0.0
#92	new	Demetrius Vikelas	—	Writers	55.1	10.5
#93	new	Claudius Aelianus	Italy	Writers	55.0	1.7
#94	new	Juba II	—	Writers	54.8	0.2
#95	new	AI Ali ibn al-Athir	Turkey	Writers	54.5	1.2
#96	new	Madame de La Fayette	France	Writers	54.3	0.0
#97	new	Suger	France	Writers	54.3	0.0
#98	new	Ibn Ishaq	—	Writers	54.2	0.3
#99	new	A Al-Baladhuri	—	Writers	54.0	1.6
#100	new	Wilfrid Voynich	United States	Writers	53.9	1.2