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John Lennox

1943 - Today

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John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician, bioethicist, and Christian apologist originally from Northern Ireland. He has written many books on religion, ethics, the relationship between science and God (like his books, Has Science Buried God and Can Science Explain Everything), and has had public debates with atheists including Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Lennox earned his first doctorate from the University of Cambridge, then earned a second and third doctorate from the University of Oxford and Cardiff University, respectively. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Lennox has received more than 1,088,649 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). John Lennox is the 668th most popular mathematician (down from 591st in 2019), the 3,118th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,856th in 2019) and the 65th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, John Lennox ranks 668 out of 1,004. Before him are Saunders Mac Lane, Đuro Kurepa, Arnaud Denjoy, Kenneth Appel, Pierre-Louis Lions, and Johan Jensen. After him are Theodosius of Bithynia, Tommaso Ceva, Sofya Yanovskaya, Max Newman, Ian Stewart, and Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, John Lennox ranks 399. Before him are Hwang Sok-yong, Juan Giménez, Jaak Panksepp, Tony Joe White, Peter Sinfield, and Janet Margolin. After him are Androulla Vassiliou, James L. Elliot, Butler Lampson, Perry Christie, Sharon Gless, and Cilla Black.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Lennox ranks 3,118 out of 8,785. Before him are Florence Green (1901), Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899), Alec McCowen (1925), Don McCullin (1935), Edith Evans (1888), and Henry Travers (1874). After him are Everard Home (1756), William Nicholson (1753), Anton Lesser (1952), William Froude (1810), Ben Barnes (1981), and Alexander Bain (1810).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Lennox ranks 65. Before him are Edward Arthur Milne (1896), William Whiston (1667), John Pell (1611), Robert Simson (1687), David Gregory (1659), and Thomas Digges (1546). After him are Max Newman (1897), Ian Stewart (1945), John Cairncross (1913), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Henry Dudeney (1857), and Lewis Fry Richardson (1881).

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