




The Most Famous
Mathematicians from Ireland
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Mathematicians. The pantheon dataset contains 1,004 Mathematicians, 6 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 28th most number of Mathematicians behind Sweden and Iraq.
Top 6 Irish Mathematicians
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Mathematicians of all time. This list of famous Irish Mathematicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
1819 - 1903
HPI 77.6551 langsSir George Stokes, 1st Baronet was a physicist and mathematician. He is most famous for his work in fluid dynamics and his theory of...Read moreShow less
Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet was a physicist and mathematician. He is most famous for his work in fluid dynamics and his theory of viscosity.
- #2

Vergilius of Salzburg
700 - 784
HPI 66.2524 langsIrish churchman, astronomer, bishop of Salzburg
- #3

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker
1620 - 1684
HPI 57.8224 langsEnglish mathematician
- #4

George Salmon
1819 - 1904
HPI 55.4322 langsIrish mathematician and Anglican theologian (1819–1904)
- #5

Alicia Boole Stott
1860 - 1940
HPI 55.2022 langsIrish-English mathematician
- #6

Henry John Stephen Smith
1826 - 1883
HPI 49.7116 langsBritish mathematician (1826-1883)
Overlapping Lives
Which Mathematicians were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 4 most globally memorable Mathematicians since 1700.
