List of historians

Quality:

List of historians - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of historians” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “List of historians”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4688^th place) and edited by 1499 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 994 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #101 in October 2004
• Global: #643 in October 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #123 in March 2009
• Global: #88216 in March 2009

There are 15 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) Tarihçiler listesi		42.9049
2	English (en) List of historians		41.8542
3	Indonesian (id) Daftar sejarawan		41.1366
4	Chinese (zh) 历史学家列表		38
5	Estonian (et) Ajaloolaste loend		32.1072
6	Romanian (ro) Listă de istorici		27.4225
7	German (de) Liste von Historikern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts		27.0207
8	Finnish (fi) Luettelo historioitsijoista		26.025
9	French (fr) Liste d'historiens		24.5603
10	Persian (fa) فهرست تاریخ‌نگاران		21.2702

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of historians		1 440 441
2	French (fr) Liste d'historiens		373 158
3	Japanese (ja) 歴史家の一覧		251 942
4	Chinese (zh) 历史学家列表		121 269
5	German (de) Liste von Historikern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts		58 966
6	Dutch (nl) Lijst van geschiedkundigen		58 617
7	Romanian (ro) Listă de istorici		52 321
8	Simple English (simple) List of historians		46 890
9	Persian (fa) فهرست تاریخ‌نگاران		42 458
10	Indonesian (id) Daftar sejarawan		31 594

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of historians		2 906
2	Japanese (ja) 歴史家の一覧		564
3	French (fr) Liste d'historiens		562
4	Chinese (zh) 历史学家列表		408
5	Persian (fa) فهرست تاریخ‌نگاران		195
6	Turkish (tr) Tarihçiler listesi		189
7	German (de) Liste von Historikern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts		131
8	Romanian (ro) Listă de istorici		83
9	Estonian (et) Ajaloolaste loend		76
10	Indonesian (id) Daftar sejarawan		76

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of historians		793
2	French (fr) Liste d'historiens		209
3	Japanese (ja) 歴史家の一覧		101
4	Dutch (nl) Lijst van geschiedkundigen		76
5	German (de) Liste von Historikern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts		70
6	Chinese (zh) 历史学家列表		70
7	Finnish (fi) Luettelo historioitsijoista		40
8	Romanian (ro) Listă de istorici		40
9	Simple English (simple) List of historians		37
10	Estonian (et) Ajaloolaste loend		32

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of historians		4
2	Estonian (et) Ajaloolaste loend		1
3	Dutch (nl) Lijst van geschiedkundigen		1
4	German (de) Liste von Historikern des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts		0
5	Persian (fa) فهرست تاریخ‌نگاران		0
6	Finnish (fi) Luettelo historioitsijoista		0
7	French (fr) Liste d'historiens		0
8	Indonesian (id) Daftar sejarawan		0
9	Japanese (ja) 歴史家の一覧		0
10	Romanian (ro) Listă de istorici		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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