1877 - 1947
Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics. G. H. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of G. H. Hardy has received more than 1,721,019 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). G. H. Hardy is the 71st most popular mathematician (up from 79th in 2019), the 306th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 327th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Mathematician.
G. H. Hardy is most famous for his work in pure mathematics. He was one of the few mathematicians to have ever reached the rank of a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first mathematician to be knighted.
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Among mathematicians, G. H. Hardy ranks 71 out of 828. Before him are Claude Shannon, Hermann Minkowski, Urbain Le Verrier, August Ferdinand Möbius, Friedrich Bessel, and Émilie du Châtelet. After him are Gaspard Monge, Richard Dedekind, Siméon Denis Poisson, Andrey Kolmogorov, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Benoit Mandelbrot.
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 65
1864 - 1909
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 66
1811 - 1877
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 67
1790 - 1868
HPI: 75.73
Rank: 68
1784 - 1846
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 69
1706 - 1749
HPI: 75.63
Rank: 70
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 71
1746 - 1818
HPI: 75.48
Rank: 72
1831 - 1916
HPI: 75.43
Rank: 73
1781 - 1840
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 74
1903 - 1987
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 75
1728 - 1777
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 76
1924 - 2010
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 77
Among people born in 1877, G. H. Hardy ranks 6. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Hjalmar Schacht, and Wilhelm Frick. After him are Frederick Soddy, Charles Glover Barkla, Edgar Cayce, Muhammad Iqbal, Francis William Aston, and Joan Gamper. Among people deceased in 1947, G. H. Hardy ranks 17. Before him are Jozef Tiso, Raoul Wallenberg, Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, George II of Greece, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ettore Bugatti. After him are Black Dahlia, Anton Denikin, Halford Mackinder, Karl Mannheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Pierre Bonnard.
1877 - 1962
HPI: 85.91
Rank: 1
1877 - 1927
HPI: 81.01
Rank: 2
1877 - 1926
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 3
1877 - 1970
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 4
1877 - 1946
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 5
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 6
1877 - 1956
HPI: 75.22
Rank: 7
1877 - 1944
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 8
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.84
Rank: 9
1877 - 1938
HPI: 74.36
Rank: 10
1877 - 1945
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 11
1877 - 1930
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 12
1887 - 1947
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 11
1912 - 1947
HPI: 76.94
Rank: 12
1906 - 1947
HPI: 76.77
Rank: 13
1890 - 1947
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 14
1861 - 1947
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 15
1881 - 1947
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 16
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 17
1924 - 1947
HPI: 75.07
Rank: 18
1872 - 1947
HPI: 74.67
Rank: 19
1861 - 1947
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 20
1893 - 1947
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 21
1892 - 1947
HPI: 74.31
Rank: 22
1867 - 1947
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 23
Among people born in United Kingdom, G. H. Hardy ranks 306 out of 6,924. Before him are Jane Goodall (1934), Richard Trevithick (1771), Jacqueline Bisset (1944), Syd Barrett (1946), Joseph Merrick (1862), and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901). After him are Patrick Stewart (1940), Jeremy Irons (1948), Eadweard Muybridge (1830), Ken Miles (1918), Angela Lansbury (1925), and Joseph Lister (1827).
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 300
1771 - 1833
HPI: 75.67
Rank: 301
1944 - Present
HPI: 75.62
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1946 - 2006
HPI: 75.61
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1862 - 1890
HPI: 75.57
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1901 - 2004
HPI: 75.55
Rank: 305
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 306
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 307
1948 - Present
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 308
1830 - 1904
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 309
1918 - 1966
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 310
1925 - Present
HPI: 75.39
Rank: 311
1827 - 1912
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 312
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, G. H. Hardy ranks 6. Before him are Bertrand Russell (1872), John Napier (1550), Ada Lovelace (1815), George Boole (1815), and Alfred North Whitehead (1861). After him are Isaac Barrow (1631), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Couch Adams (1819), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), and John Horton Conway (1937).
1872 - 1970
HPI: 84.90
Rank: 1
1550 - 1617
HPI: 80.25
Rank: 2
1815 - 1852
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 3
1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 4
1861 - 1947
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 5
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 6
1631 - 1677
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 7
1560 - 1621
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 8
1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 9
1616 - 1703
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 10
1685 - 1731
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 11
1937 - 2020
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 12