List of countries by number of Fields Medalists

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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 03 August 2018 by their country of birth and citizenship at the time of the announcement of the award.

Rank Country Fields medals (#) Fields medalists (2018)
1  United States 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  France 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  Russia 8 Maxim Kontsevich, Vladimir Voevodsky, Andrei Okounkov, Grigori Perelman(Refused), Stanislav Smirnov, Sergei Novikov, Grigory Margulis, Efim Zelmanov
4  United Kingdom 7 Richard Borcherds, Timothy Gowers, Alan Baker, Simon Donaldson, Michael Atiyah, Klaus Roth, Caucher Birkar[n 1]
5  Germany 5 Gerd Faltings, Klaus Roth, Peter Scholze, Alexander Grothendieck, Wendelin Werner
6  Japan 3 Heisuke Hironaka, Shigefumi Mori, Kunihiko Kodaira
7  Belgium 2 Pierre Deligne, Jean Bourgain
7  Italy 2 Enrico Bombieri, Alessio Figalli
7  Australia 2 Terence Tao, Akshay Venkatesh
7  Iran 2 Maryam Mirzakhani, Caucher Birkar[n 1]
11  China 1 Shing-Tung Yau[n 2]
11  Sweden 1 Lars Hörmander
11  Finland 1 Lars Ahlfors
11  Israel 1 Elon Lindenstrauss
11  Austria 1 Martin Hairer[n 3]
11   Switzerland 1 Martin Hairer[n 3]
11  Ukraine 1 Vladimir Drinfeld
11  New Zealand 1 Vaughan Jones
11  Brazil 1 Artur Avila
11  Vietnam 1 Ngô Bảo Châu
11  Canada 1 Manjul Bhargava
11  Norway 1 Atle Selberg
11  India 1 Akshay Venkatesh

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  1. ^ a b Caucher Birkar was born in a Kurdish village in Iran and attended the University of Tehran but sought political asylum and now has British citizenship.
  2. ^ Shing-Tung Yau was born in the People's Republic of China, but had Hong Kong residency at the time of the award. (He had no passport since he had never acquired any kind of British nationality, and used a Hong Kong Certificate of Identity for travel.)
  3. ^ a b Martin Hairer was born in Switzerland, but has Austrian citizenship.

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