1947 - Today
John Joseph Mearsheimer (; born December 14, 1947) is an American political scientist and international relations scholar who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Mearsheimer has received more than 2,091,652 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). John Mearsheimer is the 21st most popular political scientist (up from 22nd in 2019), the 3,628th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,307th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Political Scientist.
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Among political scientists, John Mearsheimer ranks 21 out of 29. Before him are Aleksandr Dugin, David Easton, Muhammad Asad, Robert D. Putnam, Arend Lijphart, and Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut. After him are Leonard Hobhouse, William Graham Sumner, Norman Finkelstein, Robert Keohane, Graham Allison, and Olivier Roy.
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.59
Rank: 15
1917 - 2014
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 16
1900 - 1992
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 17
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 18
1936 - Present
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 19
1772 - 1840
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 20
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 21
1864 - 1929
HPI: 50.46
Rank: 22
1840 - 1910
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 23
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 24
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 25
1940 - Present
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 26
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.47
Rank: 27
Among people born in 1947, John Mearsheimer ranks 232. Before him are Sergio Badilla Castillo, Mitsuo Tsukahara, Brian Herbert, Sogyal Rinpoche, Kōzō Okamoto, and James Dyson. After him are Massiel, Somchai Wongsawat, Co Adriaanse, Anwar Ibrahim, Alan Guth, and Karol Dobiaš.
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.56
Rank: 226
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.53
Rank: 227
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.49
Rank: 228
1947 - 2019
HPI: 52.44
Rank: 229
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.36
Rank: 230
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 231
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 232
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.31
Rank: 233
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 234
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 235
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.27
Rank: 236
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.17
Rank: 237
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 238
Among people born in United States, John Mearsheimer ranks 3,628 out of 18,182. Before him are Don Nelson (1940), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Gore Verbinski (1964), Michael Jai White (1967), Michael Gazzaniga (1939), and Crawford Long (1815). After him are David Blaine (1973), Gil Amelio (1943), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), Henry Kuttner (1915), David Eddings (1931), and Harold E. Varmus (1939).
1940 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 3,622
1959 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 3,623
1964 - Present
HPI: 52.34
Rank: 3,624
1967 - Present
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 3,625
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 3,626
1815 - 1878
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,627
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,628
1973 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,629
1943 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,630
1805 - 1852
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,631
1915 - 1958
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,632
1931 - 2009
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,633
1939 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 3,634
Among political scientists born in United States, John Mearsheimer ranks 8. Before him are Francis Fukuyama (1952), Harold Lasswell (1902), Robert A. Dahl (1915), Gene Sharp (1928), Joseph Nye (1937), and Robert D. Putnam (1941). After him are William Graham Sumner (1840), Norman Finkelstein (1953), Robert Keohane (1941), Graham Allison (1940), James Flynn (1934), and Cass Sunstein (1954).
1952 - Present
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 2
1902 - 1978
HPI: 65.19
Rank: 3
1915 - 2014
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 4
1928 - 2018
HPI: 59.58
Rank: 5
1937 - Present
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 6
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.42
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 52.32
Rank: 8
1840 - 1910
HPI: 50.28
Rank: 9
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.13
Rank: 10
1941 - Present
HPI: 50.09
Rank: 11
1940 - Present
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 12
1934 - 2020
HPI: 39.96
Rank: 13
1954 - Present
HPI: 39.45
Rank: 14