Difference between revisions of "List of men by number of sons, daughters, and wives"
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| − | | Charles Spearman || | + | | Charles Spearman || 0 || 3 || 3 || 1? || <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spearman "He had three daughters along with one son, who died early on in 1941 in Crete." I'm excluding the son.</ref> |
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Revision as of 06:11, 28 March 2020
This is a list of men along with their number of sons, daughters, and wives. For children, only biological children who survive past infancy are counted. 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 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1 | [16] |
| Eliezer Yudkowsky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Carl Shulman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Carl Sagan | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | [17] |
| Kurt Gödel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | [18] |
| Charles Spearman | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1? | [19] |
| Charles Pierce | |||||
| Claude Shannon | |||||
| Arthur Jensen | |||||
| Fisher (are there two?) | |||||
| George Boole | |||||
| George Boolos | |||||
| Judea Pearl | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | [20] |
| John Horton Conway | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3? | [21] |
| Terence Tao | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [22] |
| Tim Gowers | 5 | 2 | [23] | ||
| David Hilbert | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [24] |
| John von Neumann | |||||
| Paul Dirac | |||||
| Enrico Fermi | |||||
| George Pólya | |||||
| Peter Norvig | 2 | 1? | [25] | ||
| John McCarthy | |||||
| Ray Solomonoff | |||||
| Stuart Russell | |||||
| Bertrand Russell | |||||
| Albert Einstein | |||||
| Georg Cantor | 6 | 1 | [26] | ||
| Richard Dedekind | |||||
| Weierstrass | |||||
| Bolzano | |||||
| Alfred Tarski | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [27] |
| Michael Spivak | |||||
| Paul Halmos | |||||
| Leo Szilard | |||||
| Hans Bethe | |||||
| Niels Bohr | |||||
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [28] |
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 Not counting Mary and Charles, since they died as infants. This does include Annie, who died at age 10.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
- ↑ https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Kurt_G%C3%B6del -- this seems to be copied from Wikipedia, but I can't find the "They had no children" on the Wikipedia version. The Wikipedia article doesn't mention any kids though, so I'm going to assume there weren't any.
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spearman "He had three daughters along with one son, who died early on in 1941 in Crete." I'm excluding the son.
- ↑ 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]"
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer "Oppenheimer's ranch in New Mexico was then inherited by their son Peter, and the beach property was inherited by their daughter Katherine "Toni" Oppenheimer Silber."
