1920 - 2004
John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution with George R. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Maynard Smith has received more than 247,520 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). John Maynard Smith is the 359th most popular biologist (down from 346th in 2019), the 1,986th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,820th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Biologist.
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Among biologists, John Maynard Smith ranks 359 out of 844. Before him are Louis Claude Richard, Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, William Hudson, Robert Fortune, Pieter Bleeker, and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier. After him are Henrik Steffens, Francisco Hernández de Toledo, Karl Rudolphi, Theodore Gill, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and Roderick Murchison.
1754 - 1821
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 353
1763 - 1794
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 354
1730 - 1793
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 355
1812 - 1880
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 356
1819 - 1870
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 357
1756 - 1814
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 358
1920 - 2004
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 359
1773 - 1845
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 360
1515 - 1587
HPI: 63.56
Rank: 361
1771 - 1832
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 362
1837 - 1914
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 363
1793 - 1831
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 364
1792 - 1871
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 365
Among people born in 1920, John Maynard Smith ranks 159. Before him are Knut Nordahl, Pran, Milton George Henschel, Yegor Ligachyov, Jean Carmet, and Richard E. Bellman. After him are Lewis Gilbert, Marlen Haushofer, Christopher Robin Milne, Georges Marchais, Thomas Gold, and Schubert Gambetta. Among people deceased in 2004, John Maynard Smith ranks 107. Before him are Harold Shipman, Philip Abelson, Jean Lefebvre, Vasili Mitrokhin, Jesús Gil, and Shiing-Shen Chern. After him are Joe Viterelli, Jozef Lenárt, Walter Frentz, Paul Winfield, P. V. Narasimha Rao, and Naomi Shemer.
1920 - 1984
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 153
1920 - 2013
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 154
1920 - 2003
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 155
1920 - Present
HPI: 63.75
Rank: 156
1920 - 1994
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 157
1920 - 1984
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 158
1920 - 2004
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 159
1920 - 2018
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 160
1920 - 1970
HPI: 63.37
Rank: 161
1920 - 1996
HPI: 63.34
Rank: 162
1920 - 1997
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 163
1920 - 2004
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 164
1920 - 1991
HPI: 63.17
Rank: 165
1946 - 2004
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 101
1913 - 2004
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 102
1919 - 2004
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 103
1922 - 2004
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 104
1933 - 2004
HPI: 63.71
Rank: 105
1911 - 2004
HPI: 63.67
Rank: 106
1920 - 2004
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 107
1937 - 2004
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 108
1923 - 2004
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 109
1907 - 2004
HPI: 63.50
Rank: 110
1939 - 2004
HPI: 63.48
Rank: 111
1921 - 2004
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 112
1930 - 2004
HPI: 63.35
Rank: 113
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 1,986 out of 6,924. Before him are William Hartnell (1908), Aelred of Rievaulx (1110), Ernest William Brown (1866), David Gill (1843), David Knopfler (1952), and Paul Freeman (1943). After him are Peter Frampton (1950), Michael Apted (1941), Dua Lipa (1995), Æthelfrith (600), John William Draper (1811), and Thomas Beecham (1879).
1908 - 1975
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 1,980
1110 - 1167
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 1,981
1866 - 1938
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 1,982
1843 - 1914
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 1,983
1952 - Present
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 1,984
1943 - Present
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 1,985
1920 - 2004
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 1,986
1950 - Present
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 1,987
1941 - Present
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 1,988
1995 - Present
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 1,989
600 - 616
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 1,990
1811 - 1882
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 1,991
1879 - 1961
HPI: 63.57
Rank: 1,992
Among biologists born in United Kingdom, John Maynard Smith ranks 50. Before him are Edward Daniel Clarke (1769), William Aiton (1731), Nehemiah Grew (1641), George Bentham (1800), William Hudson (1730), and Robert Fortune (1812). After him are Roderick Murchison (1792), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), John Gilbert Baker (1834), Richard Henderson (1945), John Hughlings Jackson (1835), and Andrew Smith (1797).
1769 - 1822
HPI: 64.31
Rank: 44
1731 - 1793
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 45
1641 - 1712
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 46
1800 - 1884
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 47
1730 - 1793
HPI: 63.70
Rank: 48
1812 - 1880
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 49
1920 - 2004
HPI: 63.60
Rank: 50
1792 - 1871
HPI: 63.53
Rank: 51
1810 - 1888
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 52
1834 - 1920
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 53
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 54
1835 - 1911
HPI: 63.01
Rank: 55
1797 - 1872
HPI: 62.89
Rank: 56