List of men by number of sons, daughters, and wives

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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
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Bob Dylan
Dominic Cummings 1 0 1 1 [1]
Steven Pinker 0 0 0 3 [2][3]
Steve Hsu
Cédric Villani
Ted Kaczynski
Haruki Murakami 0 0 0 1 [4][5]
Kenzaburo Oe
Grigori Perelman
Misha Gromov
Vladimir Arnold
Richard S. Sutton 0? 0? 0? 0? [6]
Raymond Smullyan 0 0 0 2 [7][8]
Alonzo Church 1 2 3 1 [9]
Emil Post 0 1 1 1 [10]
Peter Smith
Michael Sipser
Scott Aaronson
Eric Drexler
Paolo Aluffi
Derek Parfit 0 0 0 1 [11][12]
Keith Frankish
Michael Huemer
Franz Kafka
Brian Kernighan
Dennis Ritchie
(add other bell labs people)
E. T. Jaynes
Robert Aumann 5 2 [13]
Andrew Ng
Geoffrey Hinton
Yann LeCun
Sheldon Axler
Serge Lang
Milton Friedman
David Friedman
Murray Rothbard 0? 0? 0? 1 [14]
John Stillwell
Donald Knuth 1 1 2 1 [15]
Geoffrey Miller
Richard Wrangham
Tooby and Cosmides
James Joyce
David Foster Wallace
Joseph Henrich
Paul Graham
Mark Zuckerberg
Bill Gates
Max Tegmark
Juergen Schmidhuber
Marcus Hutter
Richard Stallman 0 0 0 0?
Linus Torvalds 0 3 3 1 [16]
Noam Chomsky 1 2 3 2 [17]
Gwern Branwen 0 0 0 0
Wei Dai 0? 1? 1? 1 [18]
Terry A. Davis 0 0 0 0
Marvin Minsky 1 2 3 1 [19][20]
Isaac Asimov 1 1 2 2 [21]
Bryan Caplan 3 1 4 1
Robin Hanson 2 0 2 1 [22]
David Chalmers 0? 0? 0? 1? [23]
Daniel Dennett 1 1 2 1 [24]
Richard Dawkins 0 1 1 3 [25]
Nick Bostrom 1 0 1 1 [26][27]
Eric Weinstein 1? 1? 2? 1? [28]
Joe Rogan 0 2 2 1 [29]
Sam Harris 0 2 2 1 [30]
George Carlin 0 1 1 2 [31]
Elon Musk 5 0 5 2 [32]
Francis Crick 1 2 3 2 [33]
James Watson 2 0 2 1 [34]
Richard Feynman 1 0 1 3 [35]
Charles Darwin 5 3 8 1 [36]
Eliezer Yudkowsky 0 0 0 1
Carl Shulman 0 0 0 1
Carl Sagan 4 1 5 3 [37]
Kurt Gödel 0 0 0 1 [38]
Charles Spearman 0 3 3 1? [39]
Charles Pierce
Claude Shannon 2 1 3 2 [40]
Arthur Jensen
Fisher (are there two?)
George Boole
George Boolos
Judea Pearl 1 2 3 1 [41]
John Horton Conway 3 4 7 3? [42]
Terence Tao 1 1 2 1 [43]
Tim Gowers 5 2 [44]
David Hilbert 1 0 1 1 [45]
John von Neumann
Paul Dirac
Enrico Fermi
George Pólya
Peter Norvig 2 1? [46]
John McCarthy
Ray Solomonoff
Stuart Russell
Bertrand Russell
Gottlob Frege 0 0 0 1 [47][48]
Wittgenstein
Albert Einstein
Georg Cantor 6 1 [49]
Richard Dedekind
Weierstrass
Bolzano
Alfred Tarski 1 1 2 1 [50]
Michael Spivak
Paul Halmos
Leo Szilard
Hans Bethe
Niels Bohr
J. Robert Oppenheimer 1 1 2 1 [51]

References

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Cummings#Personal_life
  2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker "Pinker married Nancy Etcoff in 1980 and they divorced in 1992; he married Ilavenil Subbiah in 1995 and they too divorced.[12] His third wife, whom he married in 2007, is the novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein.[13] He has two stepdaughters: the novelist Yael Goldstein Love and the poet Danielle Blau."
  3. ↑ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/417341/steven-pinker-tests-new-genetic-screen/ "Pinker, who has no children, discovered that both he and his wife, novelist Rebecca Goldstein, carry a genetic mutation linked to familial dysautonomia, a rare nervous system disorder. That means that if the couple had children, each would have had a 25 percent chance of inheriting the disease-causing mutation from both parents and therefore developing the disease. (Familial dysautonomia is a so-called Mendelian disease, which means that people who carry only one copy of the mutation, like Pinker and his wife, are not at risk.)"
  4. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3600566/Tales-of-the-unexpected.html "He was still at university in Tokyo when, in 1971, he married a fellow student, Yoko Takahashi." "At the age of 54, he no longer feels the urge to travel the world. He and Yoko have no children - they were out of the question when the couple were running the jazz club and when he began writing, but Murakami seems to have had reservations about the idea anyway. 'I can't have children,' he told an interviewer in 1984. 'I simply don't have the confidence my parents' generation had after the war that the world would continue to improve. '"
  5. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/14/haruki-murakami-1q84 "Myself, I don't have any kids. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I'd had children. I cannot imagine it. I'm not so happy as a kid, and I don't know if I could be happy as a father. I have no idea."
  6. ↑ I spent some time searching, but I couldn't find any information. Either he is hiding his personal life very well or he does not have any wife/kids.
  7. ↑ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/02/20/raymond-smullyan-logician-obituary/ "Smullyan’s first marriage was dissolved. His second wife, Blanche, a Belgian-born pianist, died in 2006. He is survived by a stepson."
  8. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/raymond-smullyan-dead-puzzle-creator.html "Professor Smullyan is survived by his stepson, Jack Kotik; six step-grandchildren; and 16 step-great-grandchildren. His wife Blanche, a Belgian-born pianist and music educator, died in 2006. His first marriage ended in divorce."
  9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church#Life "He married Mary Julia Kuczinski in 1925. The couple had three children, Alonzo Church, Jr. (1929), Mary Ann (1933) and Mildred (1938)."
  10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Leon_Post#Life "Post married Gertrude Singer in 1929, with whom he had a daughter, Phyllis Goodman."
  11. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/world/derek-parfit-philosopher-who-explored-identity-and-moral-choice-dies-at-74.html "In addition to his wife, Mr. Parfit is survived by his sister, Theodora Ooms." -- no mention of kids
  12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Parfit "Spouse(s): Janet Radcliffe Richards (m. 2010)"
  13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aumann#Personal_life
  14. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard
  15. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Personal_life
  16. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Personal_life "Tove and Linus were later married and have three daughters, two of whom were born in the United States."
  17. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Personal_life
  18. ↑ https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/q2rCMHNXazALgQpGH/conditions-for-mesa-optimization/comment/RmSHZc5us9ah3eqBm
  19. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
  20. ↑ 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."
  21. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov "They had two children, David (born 1951) and Robyn Joan (born 1955)."
  22. ↑ http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html "I have a wife Peggy, and sons Tommy and Andy."
  23. ↑ http://consc.net/bio/ "My partner, Claudia Passos Ferreira"; no mention of kids
  24. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett#Personal_life
  25. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins
  26. ↑ 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."
  27. ↑ 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."
  28. ↑ son: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1032358803927265280 ; daughter: https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/1094976363595948033
  29. ↑ 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]"
  30. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris
  31. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin#Personal_life
  32. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Family
  33. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Crick#Personal_life
  34. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watson#Personal_life
  35. ↑ 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."
  36. ↑ 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.
  37. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
  38. ↑ 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.
  39. ↑ 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.
  40. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon#Personal_life
  41. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea_Pearl
  42. ↑ http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Conway.html
  43. ↑ 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]"
  44. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Gowers#Personal_life
  45. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hilbert#Personal_life
  46. ↑ http://www.norvig.com/resume.html
  47. ↑ http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Frege.html "Frege had married Margarete Lieseberg but they never had any children. Frege and his wife did adopt a son, Alfred, who went on to become an engineer, but after Frege's wife died in 1904 he seemed to sink more deeply into himself."
  48. ↑ https://www.iep.utm.edu/frege/ "Sometime after the publication of the Begriffsschrift, Frege was married to Margaret Lieseburg (1856-1905). They had at least two children, who unfortunately died young. Years later they adopted a son, Alfred. However, little else is known about Frege’s family life."
  49. ↑ 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."
  50. ↑ 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]"
  51. ↑ 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."
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