1841 - 1902
Victor Joseph Auguste D'Hondt (Dutch: [ˈvɪktɔr ˈtɔnt]; 20 November 1841 – 30 May 1901) was a Belgian lawyer and jurist of civil law at Ghent University. He devised a procedure, the D'Hondt method, which he first described in 1878, for allocating seats to candidates in party-list proportional representation elections. The method has been adopted by a number of countries, including Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Fiji, Finland, Israel, Japan, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Slovenia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Iceland, Uruguay and Wales. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor D'Hondt has received more than 54,213 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Victor D'Hondt is the 148th most popular mathematician (up from 203rd in 2019), the 119th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 168th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Mathematician.
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Among mathematicians, Victor D'Hondt ranks 148 out of 823. Before him are Sophus Lie, James Joseph Sylvester, Felix Hausdorff, Stanislaw Ulam, Aleksandr Lyapunov, and Jakob Steiner. After him are James Gregory, Harald Bohr, Nicomachus, Hermann Grassmann, Zoia Ceaușescu, and Gabriel Lamé.
1842 - 1899
HPI: 61.67
Rank: 142
1814 - 1897
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 143
1868 - 1942
HPI: 61.57
Rank: 144
1909 - 1984
HPI: 61.50
Rank: 145
1857 - 1918
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 146
1796 - 1863
HPI: 61.38
Rank: 147
1841 - 1902
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 148
1638 - 1675
HPI: 61.33
Rank: 149
1887 - 1951
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 150
60 - 120
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 151
1809 - 1877
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 152
1949 - 2006
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 153
1795 - 1870
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 154
Among people born in 1841, Victor D'Hondt ranks 19. Before him are Félix Faure, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Armand Fallières, and Emmanuel Chabrier. After him are Armand Guillaumin, Ferdinand Buisson, Ahmed ‘Urabi, Clément Ader, Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, and Louis Le Prince. Among people deceased in 1902, Victor D'Hondt ranks 12. Before him are Maria Goretti, Marie Henriette of Austria, Samuel Butler, James Tissot, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Francis, Duke of Cádiz. After him are Ion Ivanovici, Albert of Saxony, Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria, Henryk Siemiradzki, Albert Bierstadt, and John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton.
1841 - 1899
HPI: 65.68
Rank: 13
1841 - 1921
HPI: 65.67
Rank: 14
1841 - 1925
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 15
1841 - 1912
HPI: 63.45
Rank: 16
1841 - 1931
HPI: 62.36
Rank: 17
1841 - 1894
HPI: 61.42
Rank: 18
1841 - 1902
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 19
1841 - 1927
HPI: 60.44
Rank: 20
1841 - 1932
HPI: 59.89
Rank: 21
1841 - 1911
HPI: 59.77
Rank: 22
1841 - 1925
HPI: 59.41
Rank: 23
1841 - 1934
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 24
1841 - 1890
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 25
1890 - 1902
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 6
1836 - 1902
HPI: 65.15
Rank: 7
1835 - 1902
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 8
1836 - 1902
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 9
1840 - 1902
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 10
1822 - 1902
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 11
1841 - 1902
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 12
1845 - 1902
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 13
1828 - 1902
HPI: 61.29
Rank: 14
1870 - 1902
HPI: 58.43
Rank: 15
1843 - 1902
HPI: 57.78
Rank: 16
1830 - 1902
HPI: 57.38
Rank: 17
1834 - 1902
HPI: 56.66
Rank: 18
Among people born in Belgium, Victor D'Hondt ranks 119 out of 1,019. Before him are Jacob Obrecht (1457), Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (1724), Henri, Count of Paris (1933), Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg (1240), Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787), and Louis, Prince Napoléon (1914). After him are Paul Deschanel (1855), Siger of Brabant (1240), Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876), Ermengarde of Hesbaye (778), Morris (1923), and Marguerite Porete (1250).
1457 - 1505
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 113
1724 - 1799
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 114
1933 - 2019
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 115
1240 - 1288
HPI: 61.73
Rank: 116
1787 - 1862
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 117
1914 - 1997
HPI: 61.47
Rank: 118
1841 - 1902
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 119
1855 - 1922
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 120
1240 - 1284
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 121
1876 - 1942
HPI: 61.35
Rank: 122
778 - 818
HPI: 61.25
Rank: 123
1923 - 2001
HPI: 61.24
Rank: 124
1250 - 1310
HPI: 61.15
Rank: 125
Among mathematicians born in Belgium, Victor D'Hondt ranks 2. Before him are Simon Stevin (1548). After him are Eugène Charles Catalan (1814), Pierre Deligne (1944), Jacques Tits (1930), Adriaan van Roomen (1561), Pierre François Verhulst (1804), Grégoire de Saint-Vincent (1584), Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin (1866), David Ruelle (1935), Elias M. Stein (1931), and Jean Bourgain (1954).
1548 - 1620
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 1
1841 - 1902
HPI: 61.37
Rank: 2
1814 - 1894
HPI: 56.67
Rank: 3
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 4
1930 - 2021
HPI: 52.94
Rank: 5
1561 - 1615
HPI: 52.51
Rank: 6
1804 - 1849
HPI: 52.18
Rank: 7
1584 - 1667
HPI: 51.52
Rank: 8
1866 - 1962
HPI: 49.46
Rank: 9
1935 - Present
HPI: 48.51
Rank: 10
1931 - 2018
HPI: 48.19
Rank: 11
1954 - 2018
HPI: 47.57
Rank: 12