1933 - 1984
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing the experiment. After earning a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University, he taught at Yale, Harvard, and then for most of his career as a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, until his death in 1984. Milgram gained notoriety for his obedience experiment conducted in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University in 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stanley Milgram has received more than 1,613,232 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Stanley Milgram is the 48th most popular psychologist (up from 55th in 2019), the 668th most popular biography from United States (up from 759th in 2019) and the 19th most popular American Psychologist.
Stanley Milgram was a psychologist who conducted the Milgram experiment in 1961. The experiment was designed to test how much people would obey an authority figure, even if they were told to do something that conflicted with their morals.
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Among psychologists, Stanley Milgram ranks 48 out of 183. Before him are Donald Winnicott, Alfred Kinsey, Elton Mayo, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Philip Zimbardo, and Max Wertheimer. After him are Geert Hofstede, Solomon Asch, Fritz Perls, Raymond Cattell, Sabina Spielrein, and Alexander Luria.
1896 - 1971
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 42
1894 - 1956
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 43
1880 - 1949
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 44
1882 - 1962
HPI: 65.43
Rank: 45
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 46
1880 - 1943
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 47
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 48
1928 - 2020
HPI: 64.40
Rank: 49
1907 - 1996
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 50
1893 - 1970
HPI: 64.21
Rank: 51
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 52
1885 - 1942
HPI: 64.03
Rank: 53
1902 - 1977
HPI: 63.98
Rank: 54
Among people born in 1933, Stanley Milgram ranks 35. Before him are Wilbur Smith, Richard Rogers, Kim Novak, Philip Zimbardo, Álvaro Siza Vieira, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After him are Steven Weinberg, John Barry, Oliver Sacks, Gian Maria Volonté, Bernardo Provenzano, and Gene Wilder. Among people deceased in 1984, Stanley Milgram ranks 17. Before him are Truman Capote, Ed Gein, Alfred Kastler, Julio Cortázar, Tigran Petrosian, and Mohamed Naguib. After him are Dmitry Ustinov, Anna Anderson, Karl Wolff, Marvin Gaye, Oleg Antonov, and Pyotr Kapitsa.
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 29
1933 - 2021
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 30
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.52
Rank: 31
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 32
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 33
1933 - 2020
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 34
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 35
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 36
1933 - 2011
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 37
1933 - 2015
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 38
1933 - 1994
HPI: 64.26
Rank: 39
1933 - 2016
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 40
1933 - 2016
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 41
1924 - 1984
HPI: 68.75
Rank: 11
1906 - 1984
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 12
1902 - 1984
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 13
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 14
1929 - 1984
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 15
1901 - 1984
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 16
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
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1908 - 1984
HPI: 64.13
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1896 - 1984
HPI: 64.09
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1900 - 1984
HPI: 64.04
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1939 - 1984
HPI: 64.03
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1906 - 1984
HPI: 63.99
Rank: 22
1894 - 1984
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 23
Among people born in United States, Stanley Milgram ranks 668 out of 18,182. Before him are Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933), Carl Barks (1901), Joseph McCarthy (1908), Jim Jarmusch (1953), Nancy Reagan (1921), and Frances McDormand (1957). After him are Michio Kaku (1947), Bob Beamon (1946), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Steven Weinberg (1933), and Sidney Lumet (1924).
1933 - 2020
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 662
1901 - 2000
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 663
1908 - 1957
HPI: 64.75
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1953 - Present
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 665
1921 - 2016
HPI: 64.71
Rank: 666
1957 - Present
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 667
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 668
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.69
Rank: 669
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 670
1839 - 1913
HPI: 64.67
Rank: 671
1929 - 2019
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 672
1933 - 2021
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 673
1924 - 2011
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 674
Among psychologists born in United States, Stanley Milgram ranks 19. Before him are Milton H. Erickson (1901), Gordon Allport (1897), Albert Ellis (1913), Aaron T. Beck (1921), Alfred Kinsey (1894), and Philip Zimbardo (1933). After him are Martin Seligman (1942), Leon Festinger (1919), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Edward C. Tolman (1886), Timothy Leary (1920), and Frederick Herzberg (1923).
1901 - 1980
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 13
1897 - 1967
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 14
1913 - 2007
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 15
1921 - 2021
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 16
1894 - 1956
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 17
1933 - Present
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 18
1933 - 1984
HPI: 64.70
Rank: 19
1942 - Present
HPI: 63.80
Rank: 20
1919 - 1989
HPI: 63.00
Rank: 21
1913 - 1994
HPI: 62.84
Rank: 22
1886 - 1959
HPI: 62.74
Rank: 23
1920 - 1996
HPI: 62.45
Rank: 24
1923 - 2000
HPI: 62.20
Rank: 25