1614 - 1672
John Wilkins (14 February 1614 – 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher, and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death. Wilkins is one of the few persons to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Wilkins has received more than 273,488 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. John Wilkins is the 277th most popular mathematician (up from 278th in 2019), the 1,385th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,380th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, John Wilkins ranks 277 out of 823. Before him are Seki Takakazu, Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Emil Artin, Liu Xin, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Eugenio Beltrami. After him are Adolf Hurwitz, Richard S. Hamilton, Guillaume Postel, Lorenzo Mascheroni, Vergilius of Salzburg, and Olga Ladyzhenskaya.
1642 - 1708
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 271
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 272
1898 - 1962
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 273
50 BC - 23
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 274
1911 - 2004
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 275
1835 - 1900
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 276
1614 - 1672
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 277
1859 - 1919
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 278
1943 - Present
HPI: 56.16
Rank: 279
1510 - 1581
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 280
1750 - 1800
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 281
700 - 784
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 282
1922 - 2004
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 283
Among people born in 1614, John Wilkins ranks 5. Before him are Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Franciscus Sylvius, Juan Carreño de Miranda, and Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg. After him are Henry II, Duke of Guise, Michał Boym, Hallgrímur Pétursson, Martino Martini, Henry More, Jahanara Begum, and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels. Among people deceased in 1672, John Wilkins ranks 10. Before him are Franciscus Sylvius, Peter Stuyvesant, Al-Rashid of Morocco, Marie Thérèse of France, Hümaşah Sultan, and Adriaen van de Velde. After him are Marguerite of Lorraine, Madeleine Béjart, Anne Marie Martinozzi, Pierre Séguier, François de La Mothe Le Vayer, and Marie of the Incarnation.
1614 - 1662
HPI: 60.26
Rank: 1
1614 - 1672
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 2
1614 - 1685
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 3
1614 - 1674
HPI: 56.75
Rank: 4
1614 - 1672
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 5
1614 - 1664
HPI: 55.62
Rank: 6
1614 - 1659
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 7
1614 - 1674
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 8
1614 - 1661
HPI: 54.65
Rank: 9
1614 - 1687
HPI: 54.26
Rank: 10
1614 - 1681
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 11
1614 - 1680
HPI: 52.89
Rank: 12
1614 - 1672
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 4
1612 - 1672
HPI: 58.72
Rank: 5
1631 - 1672
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 6
1667 - 1672
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 7
1634 - 1672
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 8
1636 - 1672
HPI: 56.85
Rank: 9
1614 - 1672
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 10
1615 - 1672
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 11
1615 - 1672
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 12
1637 - 1672
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 13
1588 - 1672
HPI: 53.25
Rank: 14
1588 - 1672
HPI: 50.72
Rank: 15
1599 - 1672
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 16
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Wilkins ranks 1,385 out of 7,765. Before him are Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (1770), Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837), Martin Gore (1961), Anthony Blunt (1907), Herbert Pitman (1877), and Beau Brummell (1778). After him are Charles Rolls (1877), Thomas Wyatt (1503), Ed Miliband (1969), Piers Courage (1942), Emily Watson (1967), and Victor McLaglen (1886).
1770 - 1840
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,379
1837 - 1909
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,380
1961 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,381
1907 - 1983
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,382
1877 - 1961
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 1,383
1778 - 1840
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 1,384
1614 - 1672
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 1,385
1877 - 1910
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 1,386
1503 - 1542
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 1,387
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 1,388
1942 - 1970
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 1,389
1967 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 1,390
1886 - 1959
HPI: 56.24
Rank: 1,391
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Wilkins ranks 29. Before him are John Horton Conway (1937), Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195), Robert Recorde (1512), George Atwood (1745), Thomas Simpson (1710), and William George Horner (1786). After him are John Graunt (1620), Peter Barlow (1776), William Jones (1675), Alan Baker (1939), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), and Frank P. Ramsey (1903).
1937 - 2020
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 23
1195 - 1256
HPI: 57.85
Rank: 24
1512 - 1558
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 25
1745 - 1807
HPI: 57.44
Rank: 26
1710 - 1761
HPI: 57.13
Rank: 27
1786 - 1837
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 28
1614 - 1672
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 29
1620 - 1674
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 30
1776 - 1862
HPI: 55.73
Rank: 31
1675 - 1749
HPI: 55.65
Rank: 32
1939 - 2018
HPI: 55.63
Rank: 33
1885 - 1977
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 34
1903 - 1930
HPI: 54.93
Rank: 35