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Revision as of 06:13, 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
Richard Stallman 0 0 0 0?
Noam Chomsky
Gwern Branwen 0 0 0 0
Wei Dai 0? 1? 1? 1 [1]
Terry A. Davis 0 0 0 0
Marvin Minsky 1 2 3 1 [2][3]
Isaac Asimov 1 1 2 2 [4]
Bryan Caplan 3 1 4 1
Robin Hanson 2 0 2 1 [5]
David Chalmers 0? 0? 0? 1? [6]
Daniel Dennett 1 1 2 1 [7]
Richard Dawkins 0 1 1 3 [8]
Nick Bostrom
Eric Weinstein 1? 1? 2? 1? [9]
Joe Rogan 0 2 2 1 [10]
Sam Harris 0 2 2 1 [11]
George Carlin 0 1 1 2 [12]
Elon Musk 5 0 5 2 [13]
Francis Crick 1 2 3 2 [14]
James Watson 2 0 2 1 [15]
Richard Feynman 1 0 1 3 [16]
Charles Darwin 5 3 8 1 [17]
Eliezer Yudkowsky 0 0 0 1
Carl Shulman 0 0 0 1
Carl Sagan 4 1 5 3 [18]
Kurt Gödel 0 0 0 1 [19]
Charles Spearman 0 3 3 1? [20]
Charles Pierce
Claude Shannon
Arthur Jensen
Fisher (are there two?)
George Boole
George Boolos
Judea Pearl 1 2 3 1 [21]
John Horton Conway 3 4 7 3? [22]
Terence Tao 1 1 2 1 [23]
Tim Gowers 5 2 [24]
David Hilbert 1 0 1 1 [25]
John von Neumann
Paul Dirac
Enrico Fermi
George Pólya
Peter Norvig 2 1? [26]
John McCarthy
Ray Solomonoff
Stuart Russell
Bertrand Russell
Albert Einstein
Georg Cantor 6 1 [27]
Richard Dedekind
Weierstrass
Bolzano
Alfred Tarski 1 1 2 1 [28]
Michael Spivak
Paul Halmos
Leo Szilard
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1 1 2 1 [29]

References

  1. https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/q2rCMHNXazALgQpGH/conditions-for-mesa-optimization/comment/RmSHZc5us9ah3eqBm
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
  3. 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."
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov "They had two children, David (born 1951) and Robyn Joan (born 1955)."
  5. http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html "I have a wife Peggy, and sons Tommy and Andy."
  6. http://consc.net/bio/ "My partner, Claudia Passos Ferreira"; no mention of kids
  7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett#Personal_life
  8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
  9. son: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1032358803927265280 ; daughter: https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1094976363595948033
  10. 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]"
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin#Personal_life
  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Family
  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick#Personal_life
  15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Personal_life
  16. 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."
  17. 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.
  18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl
  22. http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html
  23. 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]"
  24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Gowers#Personal_life
  25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert#Personal_life
  26. http://www.norvig.com/resume.html
  27. 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."
  28. 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]"
  29. 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."