1916 - 1997
Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( EYE-zenk; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology. At the time of his death, Eysenck was the most frequently cited living psychologist in the peer-reviewed scientific journal literature.Eysenck's research purported to show that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Eysenck has received more than 853,670 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Hans Eysenck is the 36th most popular psychologist (down from 30th in 2019), the 396th most popular biography from Germany (down from 314th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Psychologist.
Hans Eysenck was a psychologist who is most famous for his work on personality and intelligence.
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Among psychologists, Hans Eysenck ranks 36 out of 183. Before him are Karen Horney, Jerome Bruner, Paul Ekman, Howard Gardner, Milton H. Erickson, and Gordon Allport. After him are John Bowlby, Hermann Rorschach, Eric Berne, Albert Ellis, Aaron T. Beck, and Donald Winnicott.
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 30
1915 - 2016
HPI: 68.13
Rank: 31
1934 - Present
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 32
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 33
1901 - 1980
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 34
1897 - 1967
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 35
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 36
1907 - 1990
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 37
1884 - 1922
HPI: 66.49
Rank: 38
1910 - 1970
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 39
1913 - 2007
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 40
1921 - 2021
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 41
1896 - 1971
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 42
Among people born in 1916, Hans Eysenck ranks 18. Before him are Claude Shannon, Harold Wilson, Ahmed Ben Bella, Herbert A. Simon, João Havelange, and Ferruccio Lamborghini. After him are Yehudi Menuhin, Maurice Wilkins, Camilo José Cela, Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Robert McNamara, and Frederick Chapman Robbins. Among people deceased in 1997, Hans Eysenck ranks 17. Before him are Victor Vasarely, Anton LaVey, Paulo Freire, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Bohumil Hrabal, and The Notorious B.I.G.. After him are Isaiah Berlin, William S. Burroughs, Sviatoslav Richter, Melvin Calvin, Robert Mitchum, and Allen Ginsberg.
1916 - 2001
HPI: 69.89
Rank: 12
1916 - 1995
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 13
1916 - 2012
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 14
1916 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 15
1916 - 2016
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 16
1916 - 1993
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 17
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 18
1916 - 1999
HPI: 66.98
Rank: 19
1916 - 2004
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 20
1916 - 2002
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 21
1916 - 2010
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 22
1916 - 2009
HPI: 64.23
Rank: 23
1916 - 2003
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 24
1906 - 1997
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 11
1930 - 1997
HPI: 68.87
Rank: 12
1921 - 1997
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 13
1959 - 1997
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 14
1914 - 1997
HPI: 67.47
Rank: 15
1972 - 1997
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 16
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 17
1909 - 1997
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 18
1914 - 1997
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 19
1915 - 1997
HPI: 66.63
Rank: 20
1911 - 1997
HPI: 66.42
Rank: 21
1917 - 1997
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 22
1926 - 1997
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 23
Among people born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 396 out of 6,142. Before him are Leo von Caprivi (1831), Louise Mountbatten (1889), Richard Dedekind (1831), Ernst Thälmann (1886), Harald zur Hausen (1936), and Ernst Busch (1885). After him are Joachim Peiper (1915), Hans Lippershey (1570), Walter Schellenberg (1910), Robert Ley (1890), Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1784), and Klaus Meine (1948).
1831 - 1899
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 390
1889 - 1965
HPI: 67.34
Rank: 391
1831 - 1916
HPI: 67.33
Rank: 392
1886 - 1944
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 393
1936 - 2023
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 394
1885 - 1945
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 395
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 396
1915 - 1976
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 397
1570 - 1619
HPI: 67.25
Rank: 398
1910 - 1952
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 399
1890 - 1945
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 400
1784 - 1844
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 401
1948 - Present
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 402
Among psychologists born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 6. Before him are Wilhelm Wundt (1832), Erich Fromm (1900), Erik Erikson (1902), Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850), and Karen Horney (1885). After him are Fritz Perls (1893), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Kurt Koffka (1886), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Karl Abraham (1877), and William Stern (1871).
1832 - 1920
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 1
1900 - 1980
HPI: 77.25
Rank: 2
1902 - 1994
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 3
1850 - 1909
HPI: 69.05
Rank: 4
1885 - 1952
HPI: 68.66
Rank: 5
1916 - 1997
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 6
1893 - 1970
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 7
1888 - 1964
HPI: 62.23
Rank: 8
1886 - 1941
HPI: 61.55
Rank: 9
1795 - 1878
HPI: 61.46
Rank: 10
1877 - 1925
HPI: 61.19
Rank: 11
1871 - 1938
HPI: 60.60
Rank: 12