1841 - 1911
Samuel Loyd (January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911), was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. Loyd was born in Philadelphia but raised in New York City. As a chess composer, he authored a number of chess problems, often with interesting themes. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sam Loyd has received more than 114,026 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Sam Loyd is the 210th most popular mathematician (up from 231st in 2019), the 1,604th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,609th in 2019) and the 9th most popular American Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Sam Loyd ranks 210 out of 828. Before him are Emil Artin, Édouard Lucas, S. R. Ranganathan, Giovanni Ceva, Gilles de Roberval, and Theodorus of Cyrene. After him are Seymour Papert, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Lars Ahlfors, Mary Jackson, Paolo Ruffini, and Xu Guangqi.
1898 - 1962
HPI: 68.38
Rank: 204
1842 - 1891
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 205
1892 - 1972
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 206
1647 - 1734
HPI: 68.24
Rank: 207
1602 - 1675
HPI: 68.23
Rank: 208
465 BC - 398 BC
HPI: 68.22
Rank: 209
1841 - 1911
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 210
1928 - 2016
HPI: 68.16
Rank: 211
1849 - 1917
HPI: 68.10
Rank: 212
1907 - 1996
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 213
1921 - 2005
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 214
1765 - 1822
HPI: 68.05
Rank: 215
1562 - 1633
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 216
Among people born in 1841, Sam Loyd ranks 24. Before him are Clément Ader, Emmanuel Chabrier, Ahmed ‘Urabi, Ferdinand Buisson, Armand Guillaumin, and Victor D'Hondt. After him are Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, Annie Chapman, Julius von Payer, Louis Le Prince, Ybyrai Altynsarin, and Hermann Carl Vogel. Among people deceased in 1911, Sam Loyd ranks 20. Before him are Ahmed ‘Urabi, Edward Whymper, Laura Marx, Valentin Serov, Theodor Escherich, and Johan Svendsen. After him are Joseph Dalton Hooker, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Jack Daniel, Jules Brunet, and George Johnstone Stoney.
1841 - 1925
HPI: 69.74
Rank: 18
1841 - 1894
HPI: 69.64
Rank: 19
1841 - 1911
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 20
1841 - 1932
HPI: 69.01
Rank: 21
1841 - 1927
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 22
1841 - 1902
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 23
1841 - 1911
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 24
1841 - 1934
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 25
1841 - 1888
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 26
1841 - 1915
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 27
1841 - 1890
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 28
1841 - 1889
HPI: 66.22
Rank: 29
1841 - 1907
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 30
1841 - 1911
HPI: 69.54
Rank: 14
1840 - 1911
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 15
1845 - 1911
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 16
1865 - 1911
HPI: 69.35
Rank: 17
1857 - 1911
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 18
1840 - 1911
HPI: 68.79
Rank: 19
1841 - 1911
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 20
1817 - 1911
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 21
1836 - 1911
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 22
1843 - 1911
HPI: 67.68
Rank: 23
1850 - 1911
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 24
1838 - 1911
HPI: 66.90
Rank: 25
1826 - 1911
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 26
Among people born in United States, Sam Loyd ranks 1,604 out of 15,968. Before him are Doc Holliday (1851), Marvin Minsky (1927), Henry Heimlich (1920), Jeffrey Dahmer (1960), William Standish Knowles (1917), and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897). After him are Charles G. Dawes (1865), Ornette Coleman (1930), John Backus (1924), Burt Bacharach (1928), Harold Ramis (1944), and Grace Zabriskie (1941).
1851 - 1887
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 1,598
1927 - 2016
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 1,599
1920 - 2016
HPI: 68.21
Rank: 1,600
1960 - 1994
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 1,601
1917 - 2012
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 1,602
1897 - 1941
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 1,603
1841 - 1911
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 1,604
1865 - 1951
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 1,605
1930 - 2015
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 1,606
1924 - 2007
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 1,607
1928 - Present
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 1,608
1944 - 2014
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 1,609
1941 - Present
HPI: 68.18
Rank: 1,610
Among mathematicians born in United States, Sam Loyd ranks 9. Before him are Norbert Wiener (1894), Claude Shannon (1916), Katherine Johnson (1918), Edward Norton Lorenz (1917), Alonzo Church (1903), and Herbert A. Hauptman (1917). After him are Mary Jackson (1921), Lloyd Shapley (1923), Karen Uhlenbeck (1942), Paul Cohen (1934), John G. Thompson (1932), and Raymond Smullyan (1919).
1894 - 1964
HPI: 76.79
Rank: 3
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 4
1918 - 2020
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 5
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 6
1903 - 1995
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 7
1917 - 2011
HPI: 68.83
Rank: 8
1841 - 1911
HPI: 68.19
Rank: 9
1921 - 2005
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 10
1923 - 2016
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 11
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 12
1934 - 2007
HPI: 66.33
Rank: 13
1932 - Present
HPI: 66.13
Rank: 14
1919 - 2017
HPI: 65.39
Rank: 15