Discover the most famous 20th century mathematicians including Alexander Grothendieck, Andre Weil, Kurt Godel, Alan Turing, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann and many more. This list of mathematicians born in 20th century includes people from USA, France, UK, India, France, Russia and many more countries.
Alan Turing23 June 1912, British
Mathematician
John Forbes Nash Jr.13 June 1928, American
Mathematician
Katherine Johnson26 August 1918, American
Mathematician
John von Neumann28 December 1903, Hungarian, American
Mathematician
Shakuntala Devi04 November 1929, Indian
Human Computer
Tom Lehrer09 April 1928, American
American musician
Paul Dirac08 August 1902, British
Physicist
Kurt Gödel28 April 1906, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
James Harris Simons1938 AD, American
Mathematicians & Hedge Fund Manager
Alexander Grothendieck28 March 1928, French
Mathematician
Manjul Bhargava08 August 1974, American
Mathematician
Eugene Wigner17 November 1902, American
Physicist & Mathematician
Lord Kelvin26 June 1824, British
Mathematician, Physicist
Richard Dedekind06 October 1831, German
Mathematician
Leonid Kantorovich19 January 1912, Russian, Russian
Economist
Herbert A. Hauptman14 February 1917, American
Mathematician
Felix Christian Klein25 April 1849, German
Mathematician
Andre Weil06 May 1906, French
Mathematician
Jonas Kubilius27 July 1921, Lithuanian
Mathematician
Marvin Minsky09 August 1927, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
Freeman Dyson15 December 1923, British, American
Mathematician, Theoretical physicist, Nuclear
Donald Knuth10 January 1938, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Historian of
Roger Penrose08 August 1931, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Writer, Philosopher,
Claude Shannon30 April 1916, American
Mathematician, Cryptographer, Computer scientist,
Maryam Mirzakhani03 May 1977, Iranian
mathematician, topologist, university teacher
Edsger W. Dijkstra11 May 1930, Dutch
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Andrew Wiles11 April 1953, British, American
Mathematician, University teacher
Ronald Fisher17 February 1890, British
Mathematician, Geneticist, Statistician
Stephen Wolfram29 August 1959, British
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist,
Edward Witten26 August 1951, American
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher,
David Berlinski1942 AD, American
philosopher, mathematician, university teacher
George Dantzig08 November 1914, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Statistician
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Benoit Mandelbrot20 November 1924, French, Polish, American
Mathematician, Economist, Professor, Scientist,
Norbert Wiener26 November 1894, American
Mathematician, Autobiographer, University teacher,
Shing-Tung Yau04 April 1949, American
Mathematician, University teacher
Willard Van Orman Quine25 June 1908, American
Mathematician, Analytic philosopher, Philosopher
Cédric Villani05 October 1973, French
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher
Martin Gardner21 October 1914, American
Mathematician, Writer, Journalist, Literary
Fred Hoyle24 June 1915, British
Screenwriter, Astronomer, Writer, Physicist,
Hilary Putnam31 July 1926, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
Bruce Schneier15 January 1963, American
Cryptographer, Mathematician, Computer scientist
Leslie Lamport07 February 1941, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Programmer,
John Horton Conway26 December 1937, British
Mathematician, University teacher, Computer
Andrey Kolmogorov25 April 1903, Russian
Mathematician
John Lennox07 November 1943, Irish, British
mathematician, philosopher of science, university
Akshay Venkatesh21 November 1981, Australian, Indian
Mathematician, University teacher
Stanislaw Ulam13 April 1909, Polish, Ukrainian, American
Mathematician
Alonzo Church14 June 1903, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
Edgar F. Codd19 August 1923, British, American
Computer scientist, Mathematician, University
Michael Atiyah22 April 1929, British
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Edward O. Thorp14 August 1932, American
Mathematician, Writer, University teacher
Adi Shamir06 July 1952, Israeli
Mathematician, Cryptologist, Computer scientist
Harish-Chandra11 October 1924, Indian
mathematician, physicist, university teacher
Peter Scholze11 December 1987, German
Mathematician, University teacher
Hermann Weyl09 November 1885, German, American
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher, University
Daniel J. Bernstein29 October 1971, American
Mathematician, Cryptologist, Programmer,
Shiing-Shen Chern26 October 1911, Chinese
Mathematician, University teacher
Jef Raskin09 March 1943, American
Programmer, Computer scientist, Writer, University
Fred Brooks19 April 1931, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Whitfield Diffie05 June 1944, American
Cryptographer, Mathematician, Computer scientist
Erik Demaine28 February 1981, Canadian
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
Alfred Tarski14 January 1901, Polish, American
Mathematician, Philosopher
Eric W. Weisstein18 March 1969, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Non-fiction writer
Seymour Papert29 February 1928, American, South African
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Educator,
Edward Norton Lorenz23 May 1917, American
Mathematician, Meteorologist, University teacher
Marcus du Sautoy26 August 1965, British
Mathematician, Academic, University teacher,
Robert Axelrod27 May 1943, American
Mathematician, Professor, Political scientist
John Backus03 December 1924, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist
Jacob Bronowski18 January 1908, British
Mathematician, Poet, Non-fiction writer
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi09 December 1920, Italian
Economist, Politician, Banker
Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov23 December 1943, French
Mathematician, University teacher
Leonard Kleinrock13 June 1934, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Patent
Natan Sharansky20 January 1948, Israeli
Politician, Writer, Mathematician, Human rights
Narendra Karmarkar1957 AD, American
Mathematician, Scientist
Frank P. Ramsey22 February 1903, British
Mathematician, Philosopher, Economist
Lotfi A. Zadeh04 February 1921, Azerbaijani, American
Mathematician, Engineer, Professor, Scientist,
Mark Adler03 April 1959, American
Mathematician, Physicist, Computer scientist
Allen Newell19 March 1927, American
Psychologist, Computer scientist, Mathematician,
Stefan Banach30 March 1892, Polish
Mathematician, University teacher
Alan Sokal24 January 1955, American
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher
Peter Shor14 August 1959, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
Stephen Smale15 July 1930, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, University
Gerald Jay Sussman08 February 1947, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Leonard Adleman31 December 1945, American
Computer scientist, Mathematician, Cryptographer,
Robert Aumann08 June 1930, German, Israeli, American
Mathematician, Economist, Educationist, University
Haskell Curry12 September 1900, American
Mathematician, Philosopher, University teacher,
Arthur T. Benjamin19 March 1961, American
Mathematician
Richard Hamming11 February 1915, American
Mathematician, Computer scientist, Engineer,
Rudolf E. Kálmán19 May 1930, American
Mathematician, Engineer, University teacher
John Milnor20 February 1931, American
Mathematician, Topologist, University teacher
Alexander Friedmann16 June 1888, Russian
Mathematician, Physicist
Raymond Smullyan25 May 1919, American
Mathematician, Pianist, Philosopher, University
Jean-Pierre Serre15 September 1926, French
Mathematician, Topologist, Professor
Persi Diaconis31 January 1945, American
Mathematician, Statistician, Stage magician
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan02 January 1940, Indian
Mathematician, University teacher
Steven Strogatz13 August 1959, American
Mathematician, Physicist, University teacher