58.2% of matchups won
974 matchups
Elo 1641
tracked 2025/05/29 → 2026/06/10
mission: Advance knowledge across disciplines · Science and humanities · philosophers
Public sentiment
how often it gets picked, by matchup framing57%
picked as helping wellbeing
881 matchups
68%
picked as hurting wellbeing
93 matchups
On balance people see it as hurting.
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Rating over time
Elo, 7-day average · history as of 2026-06-09Related
Similar people
01
Avicenna
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50.0% wins · Persian polymath, physician and philosopher (c. 980–1037)
02
Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
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51.5% wins · 9th-century Persian mathematician and astronomer
03
Ibn Khaldun
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57.5% wins · Arab historiographer and historian (1332–1406)
04
Alcuin
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57.3% wins · 8th-century Northumbrian scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher
05
Al-Ghazali
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53.8% wins · Persian Sunni Muslim scholar and mystic (c.1058–1111)
Known for
- Father of Comparative Religion
- Father of modern geodesy
- Pioneer of Indology
- First anthropologist
- Influential in astronomy
Based on 974 head-to-head matchups from Mic Check's global survey; ratings use Elo (1500 = neutral start). Latest data 2026/06/10. Full rankings ·
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