List of men by number of sons, daughters, and wives
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Tegmark | |||||
| Juergen Schmidhuber | |||||
| Marcus Hutter | |||||
| Richard Stallman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0? | |
| Linus Torvalds | |||||
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [9][10] |
| Eric Weinstein | 1? | 1? | 2? | 1? | [11] |
| Joe Rogan | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | [12] |
| Sam Harris | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | [13] |
| George Carlin | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | [14] |
| Elon Musk | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | [15] |
| Francis Crick | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | [16] |
| James Watson | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | [17] |
| Richard Feynman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | [18] |
| Charles Darwin | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1 | [19] |
| Eliezer Yudkowsky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Carl Shulman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Carl Sagan | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 | [20] |
| Kurt Gödel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | [21] |
| Charles Spearman | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1? | [22] |
| Charles Pierce | |||||
| Claude Shannon | |||||
| Arthur Jensen | |||||
| Fisher (are there two?) | |||||
| George Boole | |||||
| George Boolos | |||||
| Judea Pearl | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | [23] |
| John Horton Conway | 3 | 4 | 7 | 3? | [24] |
| Terence Tao | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [25] |
| Tim Gowers | 5 | 2 | [26] | ||
| David Hilbert | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | [27] |
| John von Neumann | |||||
| Paul Dirac | |||||
| Enrico Fermi | |||||
| George Pólya | |||||
| Peter Norvig | 2 | 1? | [28] | ||
| John McCarthy | |||||
| Ray Solomonoff | |||||
| Stuart Russell | |||||
| Bertrand Russell | |||||
| Albert Einstein | |||||
| Georg Cantor | 6 | 1 | [29] | ||
| Richard Dedekind | |||||
| Weierstrass | |||||
| Bolzano | |||||
| Alfred Tarski | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [30] |
| Michael Spivak | |||||
| Paul Halmos | |||||
| Leo Szilard | |||||
| Hans Bethe | |||||
| Niels Bohr | |||||
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | [31] |
References
- ↑ https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/q2rCMHNXazALgQpGH/conditions-for-mesa-optimization/comment/RmSHZc5us9ah3eqBm
- ↑ 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
- ↑ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invention-artificial-intelligence-nick-bostrom "Even Bostrom’s marriage is largely mediated by technology. His wife, Susan, has a Ph.D. in the sociology of medicine and a bright, down-to-earth manner. (“She teases me about the Terminator and the robot army,” he told me.) They met thirteen years ago, and for all but six months they have lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic, even after the recent birth of their son. The arrangement is voluntary: she prefers Montreal; his work keeps him at Oxford. They Skype several times a day, and he directs as much international travel as possible through Canada, so they can meet in non-digital form."
- ↑ https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/nick-bostrom-on-whether-we-live-in-a-matrix-simulation.html "I have a son now who’s just reaching the age where he can play computer games. So I play a little bit with him. I’ve seen footage. I haven’t played them, but I know of them."
- ↑ 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."
