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68 answers are accepted for “Name a Fields medalist”. Jesse Douglas is the rarest Fields medalist in this ranking, with 7,058 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary). Lars Hörmander is the second-rarest with 8,346 monthly Wikipedia views, 1.18× the figure for Jesse Douglas. Terence Tao is the most common Fields medalist in this ranking, with 664,256 monthly Wikipedia views, 94.1× the figure for the rarest. Combined monthly Wikipedia views across the 68 answers: 4,340,103. Jesse Douglas is 0.2% of that total. 14 answers are Epic or Legendary: Jesse Douglas (Legendary), Lars Hörmander (Legendary), Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Legendary), and 11 more.
Quick answer Rarest
Jesse Douglas
Legendary
7,058 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 1.000
Most common
Terence Tao
Common
664,256 monthly Wikipedia views
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Rarity 0.000
Monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10).
Ranked answers 68 answers to “Name a Fields medalist”, rarest first. A rarity of 1 is the rarest answer in this
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Rank Answer Tier Rarity Monthly Wikipedia views 1 Jesse Douglas on Wikipedia Legendary 1.000 7,058 2 Lars Hörmander on Wikipedia Legendary 0.985 8,346 3 Jean-Christophe Yoccoz on Wikipedia Legendary 0.970 8,683 4 Alan Baker on Wikipedia Legendary 0.955 9,166 5 Efim Zelmanov on Wikipedia Legendary 0.940 9,757 6 John G. Thompson on Wikipedia Epic 0.925 10,291 7 Atle Selberg on Wikipedia Epic 0.910 10,484 8 Laurent Lafforgue on Wikipedia Epic 0.896 10,498 9 Sergei Novikov on Wikipedia Epic 0.881 10,660 10 Enrico Bombieri on Wikipedia Epic 0.866 10,995 11 Andrei Okounkov on Wikipedia Epic 0.851 11,465 12 Daniel Quillen on Wikipedia Epic 0.836 11,498 13 Shigefumi Mori on Wikipedia Epic 0.821 11,563 14 Klaus Roth on Wikipedia Epic 0.806 12,054 15 Vaughan Jones on Wikipedia Rare 0.791 12,274 16 Pierre-Louis Lions on Wikipedia Rare 0.776 12,495 17 Kunihiko Kodaira on Wikipedia Rare 0.761 13,208 18 Curtis T. McMullen on Wikipedia Rare 0.746 14,435 19 Vladimir Drinfeld on Wikipedia Rare 0.731 14,523 20 René Thom on Wikipedia Rare 0.716 14,634 21 Grigory Margulis on Wikipedia Rare 0.701 14,695 22 Lars Ahlfors on Wikipedia Rare 0.687 14,834 23 Wendelin Werner on Wikipedia Rare 0.672 14,864 24 Elon Lindenstrauss on Wikipedia Rare 0.657 15,397 25 Stanislav Smirnov on Wikipedia Rare 0.642 17,454 26 Paul Cohen on Wikipedia Rare 0.627 19,684 27 David Mumford on Wikipedia Rare 0.612 19,827 28 Alain Connes on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.597 19,989 29 Simon Donaldson on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.582 20,527 30 Jean Bourgain on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.567 20,931 31 Richard Borcherds on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.552 21,475 32 Michael Freedman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.537 21,981 33 Vladimir Voevodsky on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.522 22,588 34 Artur Avila on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.507 24,183 35 Laurent Schwartz on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.493 26,613 36 Stephen Smale on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.478 27,037 37 Heisuke Hironaka on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.463 27,195 38 Caucher Birkar on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.448 27,259 39 Charles Fefferman on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.433 28,718 40 John Milnor on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.418 28,749 41 Maxim Kontsevich on Wikipedia Uncommon 0.403 28,957 42 Alessio Figalli on Wikipedia Familiar 0.388 31,306 43 William Thurston on Wikipedia Familiar 0.373 33,131 44 Hugo Duminil-Copin on Wikipedia Familiar 0.358 33,621 45 Pierre Deligne on Wikipedia Familiar 0.343 35,256 46 Martin Hairer on Wikipedia Familiar 0.328 41,079 47 Ngô Bảo Châu on Wikipedia Familiar 0.313 41,775 48 Michael Atiyah on Wikipedia Familiar 0.299 46,206 49 James Maynard on Wikipedia Familiar 0.284 56,465 50 Timothy Gowers on Wikipedia Familiar 0.269 58,132 51 Cédric Villani on Wikipedia Familiar 0.254 59,173 52 Akshay Venkatesh on Wikipedia Familiar 0.239 61,747 53 June Huh on Wikipedia Familiar 0.224 65,096 54 Jean-Pierre Serre on Wikipedia Familiar 0.209 68,755 55 Maryna Viazovska on Wikipedia Common 0.194 77,856 56 Shing-Tung Yau on Wikipedia Common 0.179 82,710 57 Manjul Bhargava on Wikipedia Common 0.164 96,186 58 Gerd Faltings on Wikipedia Common 0.149 100,615 59 Peter Scholze on Wikipedia Common 0.134 125,513 60 Yu Deng on Wikipedia Common 0.119 130,359 61 John Pardon on Wikipedia Common 0.104 139,736 62 Jacob Tsimerman on Wikipedia Common 0.090 183,496 63 Edward Witten on Wikipedia Common 0.075 195,223 64 Alexander Grothendieck on Wikipedia Common 0.060 199,457 65 Maryam Mirzakhani on Wikipedia Common 0.045 226,842 66 Hong Wang on Wikipedia Common 0.030 333,405 67 Grigori Perelman on Wikipedia Common 0.015 465,663 68 Terence Tao on Wikipedia Common 0.000 664,256
FAQ What is the rarest Fields medalist? Jesse Douglas is the rarest Fields medalist in this ranking, with 7,058 monthly Wikipedia views (rarity 1.000, Legendary).
How many Fields medalists are there? There are 68 Fields medalists in this ranking, from Jesse Douglas (rarest) to Terence Tao (most common).
What is the most common Fields medalist? Terence Tao is the most common Fields medalist in this ranking, with 664,256 monthly Wikipedia views (Common).
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Sources Recorded source: Wikidata + Wikipedia pageviews (2026-10). The answer list is compiled from Wikidata (CC0), and the view counts are monthly English Wikipedia pageviews. Rarity is the percentile of the popularity figure inside this prompt: 1 is the rarest and 0 is the most common. Linked names open the English Wikipedia article stored on that answer.