1500 - 1567
Gómez Pereira (1500–1567) was a Spanish philosopher, doctor, and natural humanist from Medina del Campo. Pereira worked hard to dispel medieval concepts of medicine and proposed the application of empirical methods; as for his philosophy, it is of the standard direction and his reasonings are a clear precedent of René Descartes. He was the first to propose the famous "Cogito ergo sum", in 1554, commonly attributed to Descartes. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gómez Pereira has received more than 23,320 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gómez Pereira is the 1,048th most popular philosopher (down from 976th in 2019), the 1,315th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,160th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Spanish Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Gómez Pereira ranks 1,048 out of 1,081. Before him are Phan Thanh Giản, Ivan Kireyevsky, Sopater of Apamea, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Nana Asmaʼu, and Azmi Bishara. After him are Isidore of Alexandria, Richard Posner, Sandra Harding, Martin Chemnitz, Bernard Lonergan, and Seyla Benhabib.
1796 - 1867
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 1,042
1806 - 1856
HPI: 47.60
Rank: 1,043
242 - 325
HPI: 47.59
Rank: 1,044
1787 - 1851
HPI: 47.55
Rank: 1,045
1793 - 1864
HPI: 47.53
Rank: 1,046
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 1,047
1500 - 1567
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,048
450 - 520
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,049
1939 - Present
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,050
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 1,051
1522 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 1,052
1904 - 1984
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 1,053
1950 - Present
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 1,054
Among people born in 1500, Gómez Pereira ranks 48. Before him are Georg Pencz, Pedro Reinel, Caupolicán, Ligier Richier, Lope de Rueda, and Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón. After him are Nicholas Ridley and Abd al-Samad. Among people deceased in 1567, Gómez Pereira ranks 12. Before him are Michael Stifel, Marin Držić, Girolamo Priuli, Marie of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Juan Bautista de Toledo, and Ligier Richier.
1500 - 1550
HPI: 51.19
Rank: 42
1500 - 1542
HPI: 51.08
Rank: 43
1500 - 1558
HPI: 50.64
Rank: 44
1500 - 1567
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 45
1500 - 1565
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 46
1500 - 1529
HPI: 47.71
Rank: 47
1500 - 1567
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 48
1500 - 1555
HPI: 46.39
Rank: 49
1500 - 1593
HPI: 40.51
Rank: 50
1487 - 1567
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 6
1508 - 1567
HPI: 56.59
Rank: 7
1486 - 1567
HPI: 54.25
Rank: 8
1519 - 1567
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 9
1515 - 1567
HPI: 50.57
Rank: 10
1500 - 1567
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 11
1500 - 1567
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 12
Among people born in Spain, Gómez Pereira ranks 1,315 out of 2,932. Before him are Eduardo Pondal (1835), Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot (1952), José Berraondo (1878), Amparo Rivelles (1925), José Araquistáin (1937), and Belén Rueda (1965). After him are Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (1951), Josep Maria Mauri (1941), Ramón Encinas (1893), Antonia San Juan (1961), Iago Aspas (1987), and Mariano García Remón (1950).
1835 - 1917
HPI: 47.38
Rank: 1,309
1952 - Present
HPI: 47.37
Rank: 1,310
1878 - 1950
HPI: 47.36
Rank: 1,311
1925 - 2013
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 1,312
1937 - Present
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 1,313
1965 - Present
HPI: 47.30
Rank: 1,314
1500 - 1567
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,315
1951 - 2019
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 1,316
1941 - Present
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 1,317
1893 - 1967
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 1,318
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 1,319
1987 - Present
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 1,320
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 1,321
Among philosophers born in Spain, Gómez Pereira ranks 32. Before him are Lubna of Córdoba (922), Bahya ibn Paquda (1050), Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro (1676), Fernando Savater (1947), Ramiro Ledesma Ramos (1905), and Dominicus Gundissalinus (1115). After him are Julián Marías (1914).
922 - 984
HPI: 52.57
Rank: 26
1050 - 1120
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 27
1676 - 1764
HPI: 51.54
Rank: 28
1947 - Present
HPI: 51.09
Rank: 29
1905 - 1936
HPI: 50.48
Rank: 30
1115 - 1190
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 31
1500 - 1567
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 32
1914 - 2005
HPI: 46.74
Rank: 33