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John Cairncross

1913 - 1995

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John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent, he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Cairncross has received more than 1,735,246 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. John Cairncross is the 675th most popular mathematician (down from 541st in 2019), the 3,154th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,623rd in 2019) and the 68th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Cairncross ranks 675 out of 1,004. Before him are Theodosius of Bithynia, Tommaso Ceva, Sofya Yanovskaya, Max Newman, Ian Stewart, and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt. After him are E. T. Whittaker, Henry Dudeney, Vladimir Drinfeld, Alfréd Rényi, Georges de Rham, and Bernt Michael Holmboe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, John Cairncross ranks 227. Before him are Harry Andersson, Frankie Laine, Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, Vince Lombardi, Barrington Moore Jr., and Severino Varela. After him are Arne Nyberg, Masayoshi Ito, Andre DeToth, Per Borten, Milivoj Ašner, and Ferenc Csik. Among people deceased in 1995, John Cairncross ranks 203. Before him are Rick Aviles, Mary Wickes, Maksim Tank, Alexander Knox, István Bárány, and Severino Varela. After him are Robert Stephens, Albrecht Unsöld, Vladislav Listyev, Doug McClure, Vic Buckingham, and Nanni Loy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 3,154 out of 8,785. Before him are Philip Reeve (1966), Cilla Black (1943), Mark Hughes (1963), Lawrence Oates (1880), John Sims (1749), and Francis Godwin (1562). After him are E. T. Whittaker (1873), Henry Dudeney (1857), Roy Harper (1941), Una Stubbs (1937), James Milner (1986), and Kathleen McKane Godfree (1896).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 68. Before him are Robert Simson (1687), David Gregory (1659), Thomas Digges (1546), John Lennox (1943), Max Newman (1897), and Ian Stewart (1945). After him are E. T. Whittaker (1873), Henry Dudeney (1857), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Lady Byron (1792), James Ivory (1765), and David Cox (1924).

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