Isaac Newton	Archimedes	Carl Gauss	Leonhard Euler	Bernhard Riemann	Henri Poincaré
J.-L. Lagrange	Euclid	David Hilbert	G.W. Leibniz	Alex. Grothendieck	Pierre de Fermat

The Greatest Mathematicians of the Past
ranked in approximate order of "greatness."
To qualify, the mathematician must be born before 1930 and his work must have
breadth, depth, and historical importance.
 

 

Isaac Newton Archimedes Carl F. Gauss Leonhard Euler Bernhard Riemann		Henri Poincaré Joseph-Louis Lagrange Euclid of Alexandria David Hilbert Gottfried W. Leibniz		Alexandre Grothendieck Pierre de Fermat Évariste Galois John von Neumann René Descartes
Karl W. T. Weierstrass Srinivasa Ramanujan Hermann K. H. Weyl Peter G. L. Dirichlet Niels Abel		Georg Cantor Carl G. J. Jacobi Brahmagupta Augustin Cauchy Arthur Cayley		Emmy Noether Pythagoras of Samos Aryabhata Leonardo `Fibonacci' William R. Hamilton
At some point a longer list will become a List of Great Mathematicians rather than a List of Greatest Mathematicians. I've expanded my original List of Thirty to an even Hundred, but you may prefer to reduce it to a Top Seventy, Top Sixty, Top Fifty, Top Forty or Top Thirty list, or even Top Twenty, Top Fifteen or Top Ten List.
Apollonius of Perga Charles Hermite Pierre-Simon Laplace Carl Ludwig Siegel Johannes Kepler		Diophantus of Alexandria Muhammed al-Khowârizmi Kurt Gödel Richard Dedekind Felix Christian Klein		Bháscara (II) Áchárya Blaise Pascal Élie Cartan Archytas of Tarentum Godfrey H. Hardy
Alhazen ibn al-Haytham Jean le Rond d'Alembert F.E.J. Émile Borel Julius Plücker Hipparchus of Nicaea		Andrey N. Kolmogorov Joseph Liouville Eudoxus of Cnidus F. Gotthold Eisenstein Jacob Bernoulli		Stefan Banach Jacques Hadamard Giuseppe Peano Panini of Shalatula André Weil
Jean-Pierre Serre Jakob Steiner Marius Sophus Lie F. L. Gottlob Frege François Viète		Christiaan Huygens M. E. Camille Jordan Joseph Fourier Bonaventura Cavalieri Hermann G. Grassmann		Albert Einstein James C. Maxwell Girolamo Cardano Aristotle Galileo Galilei
Einstein, Maxwell, Cardano, etc. are among the greatest applied mathematicians in history, but lack the importance as pure mathematicians to qualify for The Top 70. Nevertheless I'd want to include them in any longer list, so I've tucked these ambiguous cases into the #71-#75 slots.
Michael F. Atiyah Atle Selberg Alfred Tarski Gaspard Monge L.E.J. Brouwer		Liu Hui Alan M. Turing Jean-Victor Poncelet John E. Littlewood Shiing-Shen Chern		James J. Sylvester Henri Léon Lebesgue Johann Bernoulli Ernst E. Kummer Johann H. Lambert
George Pólya Felix Hausdorff George D. Birkhoff Pafnuti Chebyshev Adrien M. Legendre		John F. Nash, Jr. Siméon-Denis Poisson John Wallis Omar al-Khayyám Thales of Miletus
This is primarily a list of Greatest Mathematicians of the Past, but I use 1930 birth as an arbitrary cutoff, and one of the "Top 100" (Jean-Pierre Serre) is still alive as of 2019. Click here for a longer List of 200 including many more 20th-century mathematicians.)