30th most famous person in the world!

Stephen Hawking was an influential English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, known for his groundbreaking work on black holes and his best-selling book ‘A Brief History of Time.’ He served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge and made significant contributions to our understanding of the universe.

This is based on winning 51 head-to-head matchups with other famous people, but also losing 17 head-to-head matchups.

Most recently Stephen Hawking lost a matchup to Yukio Mishima (#1859) voted by someone from United Kingdom.