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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 188
Top works
- Essential Elements para Banda - Fagot Libro Numero 1 - Recursos en Linea Incluidos
- Essential Elements para Banda - Tuba Libro Numero 1 - Recursos en Linea Incluido
- Batman
- John Higgins, respondent, against the Newtown and Flushing Railroad Company, appellant
- Texas Essential Elements 2000 for Strings
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1929-07-27
- Active to
- 2022-04-09
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 772
- Total plays
- 3,937
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,620x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 51,860x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,817x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,712x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,354x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1975-05-18 ) 18 May 1975 (age 51) , Wishaw , Lanarkshire , Scotland
- Sport country
- Scotland
- Nickname
- The Wizard of Wishaw
- Professional
- 1992–present
- Highest ranking
- 1 (May 1998 – May 2000, May 2007 – May 2008, May–September 2010, December 2010 – May 2011)
- Current ranking
- 5 (as of 5 May 2026 )
- Century breaks
- 1,066 (as of 4 May 2026)
- World champion
- 1998 2007 2009 2011
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- John Higgins8x6.jpg
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- Commons category
- John Higgins
- date of birth
- 1975-05-18
- nickname
- The Wizard of Wishaw
- century breaks
- 1039
- highest break
- 147
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- name in native language
- John Higgins
Sources (8)
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~32 min read
Article
John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the all-time list of ranking event winners. He has won four World Championships, three UK Championships and two Masters titles, for a total of nine Triple Crown titles, behind only four players. He first entered the top 16 in the 1995–96 world rankings and remained there continuously for over 29 years until September 2024, setting a record for the longest uninterrupted tenure as a top-16 player. He reached the world number one position four times.
In 1994 Higgins won his first ranking event at the 1994 Grand Prix. He also won two more ranking events that season, the first teenager to win three ranking events in a single season. Higgins won his first World Championship in 1998, defeating Ken Doherty in the final. He won the UK Championship twice, in 1998 and 2000, and the 1999 Masters, before reaching the world championship final again at the 2001 World Snooker Championship, losing to Ronnie O'Sullivan. Higgins won the World Championship again in 2007 and 2009, the UK Championship in 2009 and 2010 and the Masters in 2006.