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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his pen name Voltaire (, ; ), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially of the Catholic Church) and of slavery, Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state.

H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)

Oswald Spengler
German historian and philosopher (1880-1936)
Yuval Noah Harari
Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers
Arnold J. Toynbee
British historian (1889–1975)
Eric Hobsbawm
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer (1917–2012)
Will Durant
American historian, philosopher and writer (1885–1981)

Pitirim Sorokin
Russian sociologist (1889-1968)

David Graeber
American anthropologist and anarchist (1961-2020)

Leo Strauss
History of Political Philosophy scholar (1899-1973)

Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist

Immanuel Wallerstein
American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)

Lewis Mumford
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology and literary critic (1895-1990)
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Austrian art historian (1909–2001)
Niall Ferguson
British historian
Eric Voegelin
American philosopher (1901–1985)
Andre Gunder Frank
German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984 (1929–2005)
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Dutch-American historian, journalist, illustrator, and author (1882-1944)
Rutger Bregman
Dutch journalist, writer and historian
William Hardy McNeill
Canadian historian and writer (1917–2016)
Ariel Durant
Russian-Jewish American writer
Christopher Dawson
British historian (1889–1970)
Carroll Quigley
American historian (1910–1977)
Michael Mann
British American sociologist
Kenneth Pomeranz
American historian, sinologist, and university teacher (born 1958)
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
British historian

David Christian
American historian
John Robert McNeill
American environmental historian, Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, US
Benjamin Z. Kedar
Israeli historian
David Wengrow
British archaeologist
Marshall Hodgson
American historian (1922–1968)
Pyotr Kudryavtsev
Writer And Historian (1816–1858)
Christopher Alan Bayly
British historian (1945–2015)
Cynthia Stokes Brown
American historian (born 1938)
Geoffrey Barraclough
British historian (1904–1984)
L. S. Stavrianos
Canadian historian
Louis R. Gottschalk
American historian
Patrick Manning
American historian
Lauren Benton
American historian

Jerry H. Bentley
World history professor (1949-2012)