1940 - Today
Saul Aaron Kripke (; born November 13, 1940) is an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. He is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and emeritus professor at Princeton University. Since the 1960s, Kripke has been a central figure in a number of fields related to mathematical logic, modal logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, metaphysics, epistemology, and recursion theory. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saul Kripke has received more than 738,114 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Saul Kripke is the 523rd most popular philosopher (up from 539th in 2019), the 1,806th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,826th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Philosopher.
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Among philosophers, Saul Kripke ranks 523 out of 1,081. Before him are André Gorz, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Zou Yan, Karl Korsch, Guillaume Budé, and Antony Flew. After him are Carl Stumpf, Arthur Danto, Gorakhnath, Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Hegesias of Cyrene, and Huiyuan.
1923 - 2007
HPI: 58.25
Rank: 517
25 - 95
HPI: 58.23
Rank: 518
305 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 519
1886 - 1961
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 520
1467 - 1540
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 521
1923 - 2010
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 522
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 523
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 524
1924 - 2013
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 525
1100 - 1200
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 526
1667 - 1733
HPI: 58.08
Rank: 527
400 BC - 300 BC
HPI: 58.07
Rank: 528
334 - 416
HPI: 58.02
Rank: 529
Among people born in 1940, Saul Kripke ranks 107. Before him are Edward C. Prescott, Fabrizio De André, Sepp Piontek, Shozo Tsugitani, Toshihide Maskawa, and Elke Sommer. After him are Jerzy Buzek, Mate Boban, Rudi Dutschke, Jimmy Greaves, Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy, and Ali Hassan Salameh.
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 101
1940 - 1999
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 102
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 103
1940 - 1978
HPI: 58.52
Rank: 104
1940 - 2021
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 105
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 106
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 107
1940 - Present
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 108
1940 - 1997
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 109
1940 - 1979
HPI: 57.99
Rank: 110
1940 - 2021
HPI: 57.97
Rank: 111
1940 - Present
HPI: 57.94
Rank: 112
1940 - 1979
HPI: 57.82
Rank: 113
Among people born in United States, Saul Kripke ranks 1,806 out of 18,182. Before him are Billy Dee Williams (1937), Venus Williams (1980), Henry Norris Russell (1877), Robert C. Merton (1944), Mitt Romney (1947), and Ralph Macchio (1961). After him are Arthur Danto (1924), Robert Moog (1934), Ira Levin (1929), Stephen Sondheim (1930), Isaac Hayes (1942), and Don Rosa (1951).
1937 - Present
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,800
1980 - Present
HPI: 58.17
Rank: 1,801
1877 - 1957
HPI: 58.16
Rank: 1,802
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,803
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.15
Rank: 1,804
1961 - Present
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 1,805
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 1,806
1924 - 2013
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 1,807
1934 - 2005
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,808
1929 - 2007
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,809
1930 - 2021
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,810
1942 - 2008
HPI: 58.12
Rank: 1,811
1951 - Present
HPI: 58.11
Rank: 1,812
Among philosophers born in United States, Saul Kripke ranks 17. Before him are Willard Van Orman Quine (1908), Nelson Goodman (1906), Martha Nussbaum (1947), Kenneth Waltz (1924), Tom Regan (1938), and Murray Bookchin (1921). After him are Arthur Danto (1924), Charles W. Morris (1903), Jonathan Edwards (1703), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892), Mary Parker Follett (1868), and Jerry Fodor (1935).
1908 - 2000
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 11
1906 - 1998
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 12
1947 - Present
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 13
1924 - 2013
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 14
1938 - 2017
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 15
1921 - 2006
HPI: 58.42
Rank: 16
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.14
Rank: 17
1924 - 2013
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 18
1903 - 1979
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 19
1703 - 1758
HPI: 57.80
Rank: 20
1892 - 1971
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 21
1868 - 1933
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 22
1935 - 2017
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 23