1914 - 2010
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Gardner has received more than 556,408 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Martin Gardner is the 1,437th most popular writer (down from 1,253rd in 2019), the 1,741st most popular biography from United States (down from 1,422nd in 2019) and the 167th most popular American Writer.
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Among writers, Martin Gardner ranks 1,437 out of 5,794. Before him are Gottfried August Bürger, Louise Labé, Stéphane Hessel, César Vallejo, Wayne Dyer, and Yevgenia Ginzburg. After him are Li Qingzhao, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Madame d'Aulnoy, Sadegh Hedayat, and Gampopa.
1747 - 1794
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 1,431
1524 - 1566
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,432
1917 - 2013
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,433
1892 - 1938
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,434
1940 - 2015
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,435
1904 - 1977
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,436
1914 - 2010
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,437
1084 - 1155
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 1,438
718 - 790
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 1,439
1866 - 1941
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 1,440
1651 - 1705
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 1,441
1903 - 1951
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 1,442
1079 - 1153
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 1,443
Among people born in 1914, Martin Gardner ranks 65. Before him are Creighton Abrams, Agostino Casaroli, Koichi Oita, Lazar Koliševski, Francisco da Costa Gomes, and Shapour Bakhtiar. After him are William Vickrey, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Yakov Zeldovich, Lina Bo Bardi, Akira Nozawa, and James Van Allen. Among people deceased in 2010, Martin Gardner ranks 53. Before him are Francisco Varallo, Erich Segal, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Juliet Anderson, Bekim Fehmiu, and Patricia Neal. After him are Anton Geesink, Raymond Franz, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Maria Kaczyńska, Carlos Andrés Pérez, and Ryszard Kaczorowski.
1914 - 1974
HPI: 68.15
Rank: 59
1914 - 1998
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 60
1914 - 1996
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 61
1914 - 2000
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 62
1914 - 2001
HPI: 67.82
Rank: 63
1914 - 1991
HPI: 67.81
Rank: 64
1914 - 2010
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 65
1914 - 1996
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 66
1914 - 1971
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 67
1914 - 1987
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 68
1914 - 1992
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 69
1914 - 2000
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 70
1914 - 2006
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 71
1910 - 2010
HPI: 68.44
Rank: 47
1937 - 2010
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 48
1925 - 2010
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 49
1938 - 2010
HPI: 68.11
Rank: 50
1936 - 2010
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 51
1926 - 2010
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 52
1914 - 2010
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 53
1934 - 2010
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 54
1922 - 2010
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 55
1935 - 2010
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 56
1942 - 2010
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 57
1922 - 2010
HPI: 67.45
Rank: 58
1919 - 2010
HPI: 67.44
Rank: 59
Among people born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 1,741 out of 15,968. Before him are Madeleine Stowe (1958), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), John Frankenheimer (1930), Walker Evans (1903), Patricia Neal (1926), and Wayne Dyer (1940). After him are Robert Smithson (1938), Jennifer Garner (1972), Cy Twombly (1928), Eddie Constantine (1913), James McKeen Cattell (1860), and Raymond Franz (1922).
1958 - Present
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 1,735
1918 - 1984
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 1,736
1930 - 2002
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 1,737
1903 - 1975
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 1,738
1926 - 2010
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 1,739
1940 - 2015
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,740
1914 - 2010
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,741
1938 - 1973
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 1,742
1972 - Present
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 1,743
1928 - 2011
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 1,744
1913 - 1993
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 1,745
1860 - 1944
HPI: 67.77
Rank: 1,746
1922 - 2010
HPI: 67.76
Rank: 1,747
Among writers born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 167. Before him are Jack Vance (1916), Ira Levin (1929), James Patterson (1947), Henry Steel Olcott (1832), Edward Albee (1928), and Wayne Dyer (1940). After him are Jim Thompson (1906), Bob Woodward (1943), Nicholas Sparks (1965), Philip José Farmer (1918), Jane Jacobs (1916), and Samuel R. Delany (1942).
1916 - 2013
HPI: 68.12
Rank: 161
1929 - 2007
HPI: 68.08
Rank: 162
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 163
1832 - 1907
HPI: 67.99
Rank: 164
1928 - 2016
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 165
1940 - 2015
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 166
1914 - 2010
HPI: 67.79
Rank: 167
1906 - 1977
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 168
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.65
Rank: 169
1965 - Present
HPI: 67.57
Rank: 170
1918 - 2009
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 171
1916 - 2006
HPI: 67.50
Rank: 172
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.49
Rank: 173