Macmillan Publishers

international publishing company
Organization publishing_house Q2108217
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Summary

Macmillan Publishers is a publishing house[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of publishing house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,596 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Publishers Association Limited[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: academic publisher[5]
  • Founder: Daniel Macmillan[6], Alexander Macmillan[7]
  • Headquarters location: London[8]
  • Has organizational division: Macmillan Audio[9]
  • Child organization or unit: St. Martin's Press[10], Palgrave Macmillan[11], Flatiron Books[12], Tor Publishing Group[13]
  • Commons category: Macmillan Publishers Ltd.[14]
  • Industry: publishing[15]
  • Archives at: British Library[16], William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections[17]
  • Inception: 1843[18]
  • Parent organization or unit: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group[19]
  • Official website: https://us.macmillan.com[20]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Macmillan Publishers books[21]
  • Product or material produced: software[22]
  • Described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23]
  • Replaced by: Wiley[24]
  • Legal form: private company limited by shares[25]
  • Native label: Macmillan Publishers[26]
  • Different from: Macmillan Inc.[27]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject University of Toronto Libraries/Canadian Business Archives[28], Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[29], WikiProject Black Bibliography Project[30]
  • Social media followers: 22,279[31], 19,880[32], 25,142[33], 26,506[34]

Why It Matters

Macmillan Publishers has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [3] ↑ . publishers.org.uk. Retrieved . publishers.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . searcharchives.bl.uk. Retrieved . searcharchives.bl.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16h ago · Robert.Allen · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gnd id → 16282130-X, 83757-X
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  2. 21d ago · Frettie · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  4. 18w ago · הנדב הנכון · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Native label → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Macmillan Publishers'}
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  5. 23w ago · Yirba · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Macmillan Publishers books
    Instance of → —
    Industry → publishing
    Legal form → private company limited by shares
    + 32 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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