Researching Frederic Wakeman
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 907 people with the Wakeman surname? In that year Wakeman was ranked number 2678 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Frederic Wakeman on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Frederic Wakeman and the Wakeman Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 1550 people with the Wakeman surname in the UK? Wakeman is now ranked number 2653 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Wakeman surname in the USA? Wakeman is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Frederic Wakeman
Frederic Wakeman
Frederic Evans Wakeman, Jr. ( December 12, 1937 – September 14, 2006) was an American scholar of East Asian history and Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He served as president of the American Historical Association and of the Social Science Research Council. Jonathan D. Spence said of Wakeman that he was an evocative writer who chose, "like the novelist he really wanted to be, stories that split into different currents and swept the reader along," adding that he was "quite simply the best modern Chinese historian of the last 30 years."
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Other names that sound a bit like Wakeman
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