1913 - 1995
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 1,631,162 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John Cairncross is the 543rd most popular mathematician (down from 535th in 2019), the 2,629th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,526th in 2019) and the 58th most popular British Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, John Cairncross ranks 543 out of 823. Before him are Bhāskara I, Boris Delaunay, Simon von Stampfer, Pingala, Harold Hotelling, and Dmitri Egorov. After him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, August Leopold Crelle, Martin Kutta, Richard Montague, Sylvestre François Lacroix, and Giovanni Battista Zupi.
600 - 680
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 537
1890 - 1980
HPI: 50.11
Rank: 538
1790 - 1864
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 539
150 BC - Present
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 540
1895 - 1973
HPI: 50.01
Rank: 541
1869 - 1931
HPI: 49.98
Rank: 542
1913 - 1995
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 543
1842 - 1929
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 544
1780 - 1855
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 545
1867 - 1944
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 546
1930 - 1971
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 547
1765 - 1843
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 548
1589 - 1667
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 549
Among people born in 1913, John Cairncross ranks 173. Before him are Yaşar Doğu, Georges Candilis, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, Gisela Mauermayer, John Kitzmiller, and Teodoro Fernández. After him are Vasco Pratolini, Salvador Artigas, Mark Robson, Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, Vince Lombardi, and Ljuba Welitsch. Among people deceased in 1995, John Cairncross ranks 155. Before him are Ioannis Alevras, Kukrit Pramoj, Jesús Garay, Pál Kovács, Alexander Kaidanovsky, and Gisela Mauermayer. After him are Sergio Bertoni, Werner Liebrich, Ingo Schwichtenberg, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Eva Gabor, and Katarina Taikon.
1913 - 1961
HPI: 50.63
Rank: 167
1913 - 1995
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 168
1913 - 2011
HPI: 50.53
Rank: 169
1913 - 1995
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 170
1913 - 1965
HPI: 50.06
Rank: 171
1913 - 1996
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 172
1913 - 1995
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 173
1913 - 1991
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 174
1913 - 1997
HPI: 49.88
Rank: 175
1913 - 1978
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 176
1913 - 2008
HPI: 49.75
Rank: 177
1913 - 1970
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 178
1913 - 1996
HPI: 49.66
Rank: 179
1912 - 1995
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 149
1911 - 1995
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 150
1930 - 1995
HPI: 50.31
Rank: 151
1912 - 1995
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 152
1946 - 1995
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 153
1913 - 1995
HPI: 50.14
Rank: 154
1913 - 1995
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 155
1915 - 1995
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 156
1927 - 1995
HPI: 49.87
Rank: 157
1965 - 1995
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 158
1918 - 1995
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 159
1919 - 1995
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 160
1932 - 1995
HPI: 49.55
Rank: 161
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 2,629 out of 7,765. Before him are Ralph Erskine (1914), Frances Burney (1752), Stephen Daldry (1960), Andrew Lang (1844), Jonathan Edwards (1966), and Cara Delevingne (1992). After him are Sam Claflin (1986), Edwin Landseer (1802), Anne of York (1475), Jeffrey Tate (1943), Sally Potter (1949), and Julian Sands (1958).
1914 - 2005
HPI: 49.95
Rank: 2,623
1752 - 1840
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 2,624
1960 - Present
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 2,625
1844 - 1912
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 2,626
1966 - Present
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 2,627
1992 - Present
HPI: 49.94
Rank: 2,628
1913 - 1995
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 2,629
1986 - Present
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 2,630
1802 - 1873
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 2,631
1475 - 1511
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 2,632
1943 - 2017
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 2,633
1949 - Present
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 2,634
1958 - 2023
HPI: 49.90
Rank: 2,635
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Cairncross ranks 58. Before him are William Kingdon Clifford (1845), Henry Dudeney (1857), G. I. Taylor (1886), Egon Pearson (1895), Mary Cartwright (1900), and Sydney Chapman (1888). After him are Ian Stewart (1945), Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907), William Burnside (1852), Edmund Gunter (1581), John Lennox (1943), and Joseph Raphson (1648).
1845 - 1879
HPI: 50.82
Rank: 52
1857 - 1930
HPI: 50.68
Rank: 53
1886 - 1975
HPI: 50.60
Rank: 54
1895 - 1980
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 55
1900 - 1998
HPI: 50.27
Rank: 56
1888 - 1970
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 57
1913 - 1995
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 58
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 59
1907 - 2003
HPI: 49.65
Rank: 60
1852 - 1927
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 61
1581 - 1626
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 62
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 63
1648 - 1715
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 64