1914 - 2010
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Gardner has received more than 870,263 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Martin Gardner is the 1,395th most popular writer (up from 1,437th in 2019), the 1,778th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,740th in 2019) and the 168th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Martin Gardner ranks 1,395 out of 5,755. Before him are Pehr Henrik Ling, Hieronymus of Cardia, Marcus Garvey, Lord Alfred Douglas, A. E. van Vogt, and Philippe Soupault. After him are Colin Dexter, Matthew Lewis, Gavrila Derzhavin, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Sadegh Hedayat, and Ida Tarbell.
1776 - 1839
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,389
390 BC - 250 BC
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 1,390
1887 - 1940
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,391
1870 - 1945
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,392
1912 - 2000
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 1,393
1897 - 1990
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,394
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,395
1930 - 2017
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 1,396
1775 - 1818
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,397
1743 - 1816
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,398
1769 - 1838
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,399
1903 - 1951
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,400
1857 - 1944
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,401
Among people born in 1914, Martin Gardner ranks 66. Before him are Unity Mitford, Kurt Franz, Creighton Abrams, Lina Bo Bardi, Edward T. Hall, and Jean-Pierre Vernant. After him are Pierre Balmain, Demetrios I of Constantinople, Carlo Maria Giulini, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Asger Jorn, and Lazar Koliševski. Among people deceased in 2010, Martin Gardner ranks 55. Before him are Ryszard Kaczorowski, Mario Monicelli, Francisco Varallo, Enzo Bearzot, Juliet Anderson, and Bent Larsen. After him are Hwang Jang-yop, Antony Flew, James Black, Israel Tal, Solomon Burke, and Milka Planinc.
1914 - 1948
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 60
1914 - 1998
HPI: 58.47
Rank: 61
1914 - 1974
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 62
1914 - 1992
HPI: 58.38
Rank: 63
1914 - 2009
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 64
1914 - 2007
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 65
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 66
1914 - 1982
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 67
1914 - 1991
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 68
1914 - 2005
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 69
1914 - 1971
HPI: 58.04
Rank: 70
1914 - 1973
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 71
1914 - 2000
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 72
1919 - 2010
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 49
1915 - 2010
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 50
1910 - 2010
HPI: 58.82
Rank: 51
1927 - 2010
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 52
1938 - 2010
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 53
1935 - 2010
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 54
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 55
1923 - 2010
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 56
1923 - 2010
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 57
1924 - 2010
HPI: 58.00
Rank: 58
1924 - 2010
HPI: 57.95
Rank: 59
1936 - 2010
HPI: 57.91
Rank: 60
1924 - 2010
HPI: 57.89
Rank: 61
Among people born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 1,778 out of 18,182. Before him are Axl Rose (1962), Steven Chu (1948), Johnny Ramone (1948), Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954), Michael Massee (1952), and Owen Wilson (1968). After him are Jeffrey Dean Morgan (1966), George Chakiris (1934), Matthew Broderick (1962), Melinda Gates (1964), Walt Whitman Rostow (1916), and Lady Bird Johnson (1912).
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,772
1948 - Present
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,773
1948 - 2004
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 1,774
1954 - 1990
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 1,775
1952 - 2016
HPI: 58.29
Rank: 1,776
1968 - Present
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,777
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 1,778
1966 - Present
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 1,779
1934 - Present
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 1,780
1962 - Present
HPI: 58.26
Rank: 1,781
1964 - Present
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,782
1916 - 2003
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,783
1912 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 1,784
Among writers born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 168. Before him are James Oliver Curwood (1878), Edward Albee (1928), Norman Mailer (1923), Diana Gabaldon (1952), James Patterson (1947), and Thornton Wilder (1897). After him are Ida Tarbell (1857), Ira Levin (1929), Dorothy Parker (1893), Tom Wolfe (1930), Rick Riordan (1964), and Philip José Farmer (1918).
1878 - 1927
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 162
1928 - 2016
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 163
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 164
1952 - Present
HPI: 58.50
Rank: 165
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.45
Rank: 166
1897 - 1975
HPI: 58.36
Rank: 167
1914 - 2010
HPI: 58.28
Rank: 168
1857 - 1944
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 169
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 170
1893 - 1967
HPI: 58.01
Rank: 171
1930 - 2018
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 172
1964 - Present
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 173
1918 - 2009
HPI: 57.92
Rank: 174