1916 - 1997
Hans Jürgen Eysenck (; 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 700,090 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Hans Eysenck is the 30th most popular psychologist (up from 32nd in 2019), the 314th most popular biography from Germany (up from 380th in 2019) and the 5th 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 30 out of 182. Before him are Melanie Klein, Daniel Kahneman, Gustav Fechner, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Irvin D. Yalom, and Alfred Binet. After him are Paul Ekman, Karen Horney, Gordon Allport, Jerome Bruner, Alfred Kinsey, and Princess Marie Bonaparte.
1882 - 1960
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 24
1934 - Present
HPI: 76.97
Rank: 25
1801 - 1887
HPI: 76.92
Rank: 26
1850 - 1909
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 27
1931 - Present
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 28
1857 - 1911
HPI: 76.07
Rank: 29
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 30
1934 - Present
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 31
1885 - 1952
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 32
1897 - 1967
HPI: 75.25
Rank: 33
1915 - 2016
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 34
1894 - 1956
HPI: 75.06
Rank: 35
1882 - 1962
HPI: 74.86
Rank: 36
Among people born in 1916, Hans Eysenck ranks 12. Before him are Francis Crick, Elena Ceaușescu, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Harold Wilson, and Aldo Moro. After him are Claude Shannon, Ahmed Ben Bella, Herbert A. Simon, Ferruccio Lamborghini, João Havelange, and Yehudi Menuhin. Among people deceased in 1997, Hans Eysenck ranks 14. Before him are Toshiro Mifune, Gianni Versace, Victor Vasarely, Mobutu Sese Seko, Roy Lichtenstein, and Anton LaVey. After him are Sviatoslav Richter, Paulo Freire, The Notorious B.I.G., William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Bảo Đại.
1916 - 2004
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 6
1916 - 1989
HPI: 78.50
Rank: 7
1916 - 1982
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 8
1916 - 1974
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 9
1916 - 1995
HPI: 77.40
Rank: 10
1916 - 1978
HPI: 77.28
Rank: 11
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 12
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 13
1916 - 2012
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 14
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 15
1916 - 1993
HPI: 75.53
Rank: 16
1916 - 2016
HPI: 75.02
Rank: 17
1916 - 1999
HPI: 74.57
Rank: 18
1920 - 1997
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 8
1946 - 1997
HPI: 78.68
Rank: 9
1906 - 1997
HPI: 78.57
Rank: 10
1930 - 1997
HPI: 78.44
Rank: 11
1923 - 1997
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 12
1930 - 1997
HPI: 76.30
Rank: 13
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 14
1915 - 1997
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 15
1921 - 1997
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 16
1972 - 1997
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 17
1914 - 1997
HPI: 74.87
Rank: 18
1926 - 1997
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 19
1913 - 1997
HPI: 74.13
Rank: 20
Among people born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 314 out of 5,289. Before him are Hans Zimmer (1957), Baldur von Schirach (1907), Heinrich Müller (1900), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Christian III of Denmark (1503), and Otto Lilienthal (1848). After him are Fritz Sauckel (1894), Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486), Emil Kraepelin (1856), Peter Behrens (1868), Sophie Scholl (1921), and Valdemar I of Denmark (1131).
1957 - Present
HPI: 76.06
Rank: 308
1907 - 1974
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 309
1900 - 1945
HPI: 76.04
Rank: 310
1928 - 2007
HPI: 76.01
Rank: 311
1503 - 1559
HPI: 76.00
Rank: 312
1848 - 1896
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 313
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 314
1894 - 1946
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 315
1486 - 1535
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 316
1856 - 1926
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 317
1868 - 1940
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 318
1921 - 1943
HPI: 75.85
Rank: 319
1131 - 1182
HPI: 75.82
Rank: 320
Among psychologists born in Germany, Hans Eysenck ranks 5. Before him are Erich Fromm (1900), Erik Erikson (1902), Wilhelm Wundt (1832), and Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850). After him are Karen Horney (1885), Fritz Perls (1893), Ernst Kretschmer (1888), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), William Stern (1871), Karl Abraham (1877), and Kurt Koffka (1886).
1900 - 1980
HPI: 83.41
Rank: 1
1902 - 1994
HPI: 81.41
Rank: 2
1832 - 1920
HPI: 81.02
Rank: 3
1850 - 1909
HPI: 76.59
Rank: 4
1916 - 1997
HPI: 75.90
Rank: 5
1885 - 1952
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 6
1893 - 1970
HPI: 71.58
Rank: 7
1888 - 1964
HPI: 71.56
Rank: 8
1795 - 1878
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 9
1871 - 1938
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 10
1877 - 1925
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 11
1886 - 1941
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 12