1550 - 1617
John Napier of Merchiston (; 1 February 1550 – 4 April 1617), nicknamed Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Napier has received more than 1,362,354 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). John Napier is the 30th most popular mathematician (down from 29th in 2019), the 116th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 115th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Mathematician.
John Napier is most famous for inventing logarithms. He was a Scottish mathematician who was born in 1550 and died in 1617.
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Among mathematicians, John Napier ranks 30 out of 823. Before him are Luca Pacioli, David Hilbert, Évariste Galois, Pope Sylvester II, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and François Viète. After him are Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Georg Cantor, Gerolamo Cardano, George Boole, Kurt Gödel, and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet.
1445 - 1517
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 24
1862 - 1943
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 25
1811 - 1832
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 26
938 - 1003
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 27
1887 - 1920
HPI: 74.93
Rank: 28
1540 - 1603
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 29
1550 - 1617
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 30
1789 - 1857
HPI: 74.05
Rank: 31
1845 - 1918
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 32
1501 - 1576
HPI: 73.52
Rank: 33
1815 - 1864
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 34
1906 - 1978
HPI: 72.89
Rank: 35
1805 - 1859
HPI: 72.67
Rank: 36
Among people born in 1550, John Napier ranks 3. Before him are Safiye Sultan and Charles IX of France. After him are Willem Barentsz, Charles IX of Sweden, Henry I, Duke of Guise, Camillus de Lellis, Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Jang-geum, John Davis, Karin Månsdotter, and Stanislaus Kostka. Among people deceased in 1617, John Napier ranks 3. Before him are Ahmed I and Pocahontas. After him are Rose of Lima, Francisco Suárez, Concino Concini, Emperor Go-Yōzei, Hendrik Goltzius, David Fabricius, 4th Dalai Lama, Fausto Veranzio, and Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
1550 - 1619
HPI: 76.95
Rank: 1
1550 - 1574
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 2
1550 - 1617
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 3
1550 - 1597
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 4
1550 - 1611
HPI: 71.17
Rank: 5
1550 - 1588
HPI: 67.38
Rank: 6
1550 - 1614
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 7
1550 - 1604
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 8
1550 - Present
HPI: 64.35
Rank: 9
1550 - 1605
HPI: 63.18
Rank: 10
1550 - 1612
HPI: 60.14
Rank: 11
1550 - 1568
HPI: 59.92
Rank: 12
1590 - 1617
HPI: 83.59
Rank: 1
1595 - 1617
HPI: 81.18
Rank: 2
1550 - 1617
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 3
1586 - 1617
HPI: 65.88
Rank: 4
1548 - 1617
HPI: 65.33
Rank: 5
1575 - 1617
HPI: 63.59
Rank: 6
1571 - 1617
HPI: 62.46
Rank: 7
1558 - 1617
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 8
1564 - 1617
HPI: 59.90
Rank: 9
1589 - 1617
HPI: 59.83
Rank: 10
1551 - 1617
HPI: 57.06
Rank: 11
1546 - 1617
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 12
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Napier ranks 116 out of 7,765. Before him are Elizabeth of York (1466), Aldous Huxley (1894), George III of the United Kingdom (1738), Victoria, Princess Royal (1840), Emily Brontë (1818), and Charles I of England (1600). After him are James II of England (1633), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Edward Elgar (1857), Catherine Howard (1523), Brian May (1947), and Mick Jagger (1943).
1466 - 1503
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 110
1894 - 1963
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 111
1738 - 1820
HPI: 74.34
Rank: 112
1840 - 1901
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 113
1818 - 1848
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 114
1600 - 1649
HPI: 74.22
Rank: 115
1550 - 1617
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 116
1633 - 1701
HPI: 74.04
Rank: 117
1955 - Present
HPI: 74.02
Rank: 118
1857 - 1934
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 119
1523 - 1542
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 120
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 121
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.82
Rank: 122
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Napier ranks 2. Before him are Bertrand Russell (1872). After him are George Boole (1815), Ada Lovelace (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), Joan Clarke (1917), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Couch Adams (1819), John Wallis (1616), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), and Andrew Wiles (1953).
1872 - 1970
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 1
1550 - 1617
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 2
1815 - 1864
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 3
1815 - 1852
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 4
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 5
1917 - 1996
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 6
1560 - 1621
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 7
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 8
1616 - 1703
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 9
1877 - 1947
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 10
1631 - 1677
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 11
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 12