1798 - 1835
Alexander McDonnell (1798–1835), sometimes spelled MacDonnell, was an Irish chess master, who contested a series of six matches with the world's leading chess player Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais in 1834. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander McDonnell has received more than 55,022 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alexander McDonnell is the 116th most popular chess player (down from 112th in 2019), the 3,138th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,905th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Chess Player.
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Among chess players, Alexander McDonnell ranks 116 out of 374. Before him are Igor Bondarevsky, William Lombardy, Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Oscar Panno, Boris Gelfand, and Boris Kostić. After him are Wolfgang Uhlmann, Adolf Schwarz, Carlos Torre Repetto, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Wolfgang Unzicker, and Boško Abramović.
1913 - 1979
HPI: 48.26
Rank: 110
1937 - 2017
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 111
1818 - 1899
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 112
1935 - Present
HPI: 48.17
Rank: 113
1968 - Present
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 114
1887 - 1963
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 115
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 116
1935 - 2020
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 117
1836 - 1910
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 118
1904 - 1978
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 119
1800 - 1872
HPI: 47.73
Rank: 120
1925 - 2006
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 121
1951 - 2021
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 122
Among people born in 1798, Alexander McDonnell ranks 37. Before him are Charles Wilkes, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, Paolo Savi, Willibald Alexis, Karl Georg Christian von Staudt, and Karl von Holtei. After him are Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Abigail Fillmore, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Alexander Brullov, Andrea Maffei, and Eduard Friedrich Poeppig. Among people deceased in 1835, Alexander McDonnell ranks 25. Before him are Tomás de Zumalacárregui, Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Leopoldo Nobili, Franz von Paula Schrank, Rain-in-the-Face, and Ivan Martos. After him are Muthuswami Dikshitar, Thomas Hardwicke, Wenzel Müller, James Hogg, William Cobbett, and Gilbert Thomas Burnett.
1798 - 1877
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 31
1798 - 1874
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 32
1798 - 1871
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 33
1798 - 1871
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 34
1798 - 1867
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 35
1798 - 1880
HPI: 48.03
Rank: 36
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 37
1798 - 1850
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 38
1798 - 1853
HPI: 47.79
Rank: 39
1798 - 1872
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 40
1798 - 1877
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 41
1798 - 1885
HPI: 47.10
Rank: 42
1798 - 1868
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 43
1788 - 1835
HPI: 51.50
Rank: 19
1778 - 1835
HPI: 51.22
Rank: 20
1784 - 1835
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 21
1747 - 1835
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 22
1835 - 1835
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 23
1754 - 1835
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 24
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 25
1775 - 1835
HPI: 45.89
Rank: 26
1755 - 1835
HPI: 45.81
Rank: 27
1767 - 1835
HPI: 45.14
Rank: 28
1770 - 1835
HPI: 44.93
Rank: 29
1763 - 1835
HPI: 42.30
Rank: 30
1800 - 1835
HPI: 40.90
Rank: 31
Among people born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 3,138 out of 7,765. Before him are Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Charles Avison (1709), Grey Owl (1888), Dave Charlton (1936), Charles Crichton (1910), and David Murray (1909). After him are John D. Barrow (1952), Peter R. Hunt (1925), Bonnie Wright (1991), Stephen Gardiner (1497), Clare Hollingworth (1911), and Robert Kerr (1755).
1830 - 1882
HPI: 47.92
Rank: 3,132
1709 - 1770
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,133
1888 - 1938
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,134
1936 - 2013
HPI: 47.91
Rank: 3,135
1910 - 1999
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,136
1909 - 1973
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,137
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,138
1952 - 2020
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 3,139
1925 - 2002
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 3,140
1991 - Present
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 3,141
1497 - 1555
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 3,142
1911 - 2017
HPI: 47.88
Rank: 3,143
1755 - 1813
HPI: 47.87
Rank: 3,144
Among chess players born in United Kingdom, Alexander McDonnell ranks 5. Before him are Howard Staunton (1810), Joseph Henry Blackburne (1841), Michael Adams (1971), and Jonathan Penrose (1933). After him are Henry Bird (1830), Amos Burn (1848), Harry Golombek (1911), Nigel Short (1965), Fred Yates (1884), John Nunn (1955), and Raymond Keene (1948).
1810 - 1874
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 1
1841 - 1924
HPI: 54.49
Rank: 2
1971 - Present
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 3
1933 - 2021
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 4
1798 - 1835
HPI: 47.89
Rank: 5
1830 - 1908
HPI: 46.37
Rank: 6
1848 - 1925
HPI: 44.29
Rank: 7
1911 - 1995
HPI: 42.52
Rank: 8
1965 - Present
HPI: 41.41
Rank: 9
1884 - 1932
HPI: 41.15
Rank: 10
1955 - Present
HPI: 40.62
Rank: 11
1948 - Present
HPI: 36.74
Rank: 12