1902 - 1994
Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher, academic and social commentator. One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification. According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Popper has received more than 3,689,215 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Karl Popper is the 51st most popular philosopher (down from 47th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Austria and the 2nd most popular Austrian Philosopher.
Karl Popper is most famous for his idea of falsification. He argued that for a theory to be scientific, it must be falsifiable, or capable of being proven false.
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Among philosophers, Karl Popper ranks 51 out of 1,081. Before him are Origen, Al-Farabi, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Amos Comenius, Zeno of Elea, and Empedocles. After him are Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Lucretius, Plotinus, Henri Bergson, and Anaxagoras.
185 - 254
HPI: 80.17
Rank: 45
872 - 951
HPI: 80.09
Rank: 46
1889 - 1951
HPI: 79.92
Rank: 47
1592 - 1670
HPI: 79.89
Rank: 48
490 BC - 425 BC
HPI: 79.57
Rank: 49
490 BC - 430 BC
HPI: 79.37
Rank: 50
1902 - 1994
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 51
1926 - 1984
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 52
1906 - 1975
HPI: 79.24
Rank: 53
94 BC - 55 BC
HPI: 79.18
Rank: 54
203 - 270
HPI: 78.80
Rank: 55
1859 - 1941
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 56
500 BC - 428 BC
HPI: 78.41
Rank: 57
Among people born in 1902, Karl Popper ranks 1. After him are Charles Lindbergh, Ruhollah Khomeini, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Georgy Malenkov, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Talcott Parsons, and Halldór Laxness. Among people deceased in 1994, Karl Popper ranks 2. Before him is Kim Il-sung. After him are Richard Nixon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Charles Bukowski, Erik Erikson, Erich Honecker, Elias Canetti, Eugène Ionesco, Linus Pauling, Ayrton Senna, and Burt Lancaster.
1902 - 1994
HPI: 79.32
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1902 - 1974
HPI: 78.02
Rank: 2
1902 - 1989
HPI: 77.83
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1902 - 1994
HPI: 75.72
Rank: 4
1902 - 1987
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 5
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 6
1902 - 2003
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 7
1902 - 1988
HPI: 73.08
Rank: 8
1902 - 1968
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 9
1902 - 1991
HPI: 72.32
Rank: 10
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 11
1902 - 1998
HPI: 70.93
Rank: 12
1912 - 1994
HPI: 81.37
Rank: 1
1902 - 1994
HPI: 79.32
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1913 - 1994
HPI: 79.02
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1929 - 1994
HPI: 76.56
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1920 - 1994
HPI: 76.52
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1902 - 1994
HPI: 75.72
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1912 - 1994
HPI: 74.49
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1905 - 1994
HPI: 74.04
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1909 - 1994
HPI: 73.96
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1901 - 1994
HPI: 73.87
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1960 - 1994
HPI: 73.38
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1913 - 1994
HPI: 70.44
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Among people born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 14 out of 1,237. Before him are Maria Theresa (1717), Franz Liszt (1811), Gustav Klimt (1862), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889), Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863). After him are Stefan Zweig (1881), Erwin Schrödinger (1887), Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1685), Alfred Adler (1870), Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459), and Charles I of Austria (1887).
1717 - 1780
HPI: 84.31
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1811 - 1886
HPI: 82.13
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1862 - 1918
HPI: 81.01
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1889 - 1951
HPI: 79.92
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1947 - Present
HPI: 79.50
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1863 - 1914
HPI: 79.42
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1902 - 1994
HPI: 79.32
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1881 - 1942
HPI: 78.92
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1887 - 1961
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 16
1685 - 1740
HPI: 78.70
Rank: 17
1870 - 1937
HPI: 78.40
Rank: 18
1459 - 1519
HPI: 78.25
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1887 - 1922
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 20
Among philosophers born in Austria, Karl Popper ranks 2. Before him are Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889). After him are Martin Buber (1878), Paul Feyerabend (1924), Josef Breuer (1842), Ivan Illich (1926), Otto Weininger (1880), Alfred Schütz (1899), Otto Neurath (1882), André Gorz (1923), Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757), and Jean Améry (1912).
1889 - 1951
HPI: 79.92
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1902 - 1994
HPI: 79.32
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1878 - 1965
HPI: 71.12
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1924 - 1994
HPI: 67.20
Rank: 4
1842 - 1925
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 5
1926 - 2002
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 6
1880 - 1903
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 7
1899 - 1959
HPI: 63.42
Rank: 8
1882 - 1945
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 9
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 10
1757 - 1823
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 11
1912 - 1978
HPI: 56.97
Rank: 12