Top 10 Greatest Historians

The Top Ten
1 Leonard Maltin
2 Mark Harris
3 Jerry Beck
4 Michael Lynch
5 Herodotus

He is regarded as the father of western history, which makes him deserving to go to the top of the list...

The father of History.

6 Adrian Goldsworthy
7 James Reid

Never before has a historian been so erudite, the man uses Kinder Buenos to feed his love for the topic of Somerset and Northumberland during Edwards reign.

8 Mike Loades
9 Plutarch
10 Charles Bettelheim

The Newcomers

? Simon Elliott
? Nicola Tallis
The Contenders
11 Peter Connolly
12 Thucydides
13 Orlando Figes
14 Leopold von Ranke
15 Edward Gibbon
16 Stephen Smith
17 Peter Bart
18 Howard Zinn
19 Voltaire François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation ...read more.
20 Zhou Enlai
21 Victor Davis Hanson
22 James M. McPherson
23 David McCullough
24 Li Minqi
25 Kate Williams
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