List of countries by number of Fields Medallists
This article includes a list of countries by number of Fields Medal winners. That is, a list of countries ranked by their Fields Medalists.
The figures include all Fields Medals awarded up to and including 13 October 2016 by their country of birth and citizenship at the time of the announcement of the award.
Rank |
Country |
number of Fields Medal winners |
Fields Medal winners |
|---|---|---|---|
1 |
| |
13 |
Curtis T. McMullen, John G. Thompson, David Mumford, Charles Fefferman, Daniel Quillen, William Thurston, Michael Freedman, Edward Witten, Jesse Douglas, Paul Cohen, Stephen Smale, John Milnor, MANJUL Bhargava |
2 |
" | |
12 |
Laurent Lafforgue, Cédric Villani, Alain Connes, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Laurent Schwartz, Jean-Pierre Serre, René Thom, Ngo Bao Chau, Artur Avila, Wendelin Werner, Alexander Grothendieck |
3 |
| |
8 |
Maxim Kontsevich, Vladimir Voevodsky, Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman, Stanislav Smirnov, Sergei Novikov, Grigory Margulis, Efim Zelmanov |
4 |
| |
6 |
Richard Borcherds, Timothy Gowers, Alan Baker, Simon Donaldson, Michael Atiyah, Klaus Roth |
6 |
" | |
3 |
Heisuke Hironaka, Shigefumi Mori, Kunihiko Kodaira |
7 |
" | |
2 |
Pierre Deligne, Jean Bourgain |
5 |
" | |
1 |
Gerd Faltings |
8 |
" | |
1 |
Atle Selberg |
9 |
" | |
1 |
Lars Hörmander |
10 |
" | |
1 |
Lars Ahlfors |
11 |
" | |
1 |
Enrico Bombieri |
12 |
" | |
1 |
Elon Lindenstrauss |
13 |
" | |
1 |
Maryam Mirzakhani |
14 |
;" | |
1 |
Martin Hairer |
15 |
;" | |
1 |
Martin Hairer |
16 |
" | |
1 |
Terence Tao |
17 |
| |
1 |
Vladimir Drinfeld |
18 |
| |
1 |
Vaughan Jones |
19 |
" | |
1 |
Shing-Tung Yau |
20 |
" | |
1 |
Artur Avila |
21 |
" | |
1 |
Ngo Bao Chau |