List of men by number of sons, daughters, and wives
This is a list of men along with their number of biological sons, biological daughters, and wives. I make absolutely no claims about how these men were chosen to be on this list.
Name | Sons | Daughters | Children (sons + daughters) | Wives | Sources |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gwern Branwen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Wei Dai | 0? | 1? | 1? | 1 | |
Terry A. Davis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Marvin Minsky | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | [1][2] |
Isaac Asimov | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | [3] |
Bryan Caplan | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |
Robin Hanson | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | [4] |
David Chalmers | 0? | 0? | 0? | 1? | [5] |
Daniel Dennett | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [6] |
Richard Dawkins | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | [7] |
Nick Bostrom | |||||
Eric Weinstein | 1? | 1? | 2? | 1? | [8] |
Joe Rogan | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | [9] |
Sam Harris | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | [10] |
George Carlin | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | [11] |
Elon Musk | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | [12] |
Francis Crick | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | [13] |
James Watson | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | [14] |
Richard Feynman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | [15] |
Charles Darwin (TODO: remove the kids who died early?) | 6 | 4 | 10 | 1 | [16] |
Eliezer Yudkowsky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Carl Shulman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Carl Sagan | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | [17] |
Kurt Godel | |||||
Charles Spearman | |||||
Arthur Jensen | |||||
George Boole | |||||
George Boolos | |||||
Judea Pearl | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | [18] |
John Horton Conway | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3? | [19] |
Terence Tao | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [20] |
Tim Gowers | 5 | 2 | [21] | ||
David Hilbert | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [22] |
John von Neumann | |||||
Paul Dirac | |||||
Enrico Fermi | |||||
George Pólya | |||||
Peter Norvig | 2 | 1? | [23] | ||
John McCarthy | |||||
Ray Solomonoff | |||||
Stuart Russell | |||||
Bertrand Russell | |||||
Albert Einstein | |||||
Georg Cantor | 6 | 1 | [24] | ||
Richard Dedekind | |||||
Weierstrass | |||||
Bolzano | |||||
Alfred Tarski | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [25] |
Michael Spivak | |||||
Paul Halmos | |||||
Leo Szilard | |||||
Hans Bethe | |||||
Niels Bohr | |||||
Robert Oppenheimer |
References
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
- ↑ http://news.mit.edu/2016/marvin-minsky-obituary-0125 "Minsky is survived by his wife, Gloria Rudisch Minsky, MD, and three children: Henry, Juliana, and Margaret Minsky."
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov "They had two children, David (born 1951) and Robyn Joan (born 1955)."
- ↑ http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html "I have a wife Peggy, and sons Tommy and Andy."
- ↑ http://consc.net/bio/ "My partner, Claudia Passos Ferreira"; no mention of kids
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett#Personal_life
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
- ↑ son: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1032358803927265280 ; daughter: https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1094976363595948033
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rogan "They have two daughters; the first was born in 2008[31] and the second in 2010.[52] Rogan is also a stepfather to Ditzel's daughter from a previous relationship.[67]"
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin#Personal_life
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Family
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick#Personal_life
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Personal_life
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Personal_and_political_life "They had a son, Carl, in 1962, and adopted a daughter, Michelle, in 1968."
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin#Children
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl
- ↑ http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao#Family "Tao's wife, Laura, is an electrical engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[11][12] They live with their son William and daughter Madeleine in Los Angeles, California.[13]"
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Gowers#Personal_life
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert#Personal_life
- ↑ http://www.norvig.com/resume.html
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor#Teacher_and_researcher "In 1874, Cantor married Vally Guttmann. They had six children, the last (Rudolph) born in 1886."
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tarski#Life "In 1929 Tarski married fellow teacher Maria Witkowska, a Pole of Catholic background. She had worked as a courier for the army in the Polish–Soviet War. They had two children; a son Jan who became a physicist, and a daughter Ina who married the mathematician Andrzej Ehrenfeucht.[13]"