Trending Economists — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed economists on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Alice Weidel. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
11,417,867
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
1,145,635
views
views
2
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
733,809
views
views
3
Ted Bundy
American serial killer (1946–1989)
501,390
views
views
4
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
376,814
views
views
5
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
309,917
views
views
6
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
309,584
views
views
7
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
295,927
views
views
8
Sahra Wagenknecht
German politician (born 1969)
293,729
views
views
9
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
257,811
views
views
10
Leif-Erik Holm
German politician
251,031
views
views
11
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
218,780
views
views
12
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
205,982
views
views
13
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
195,696
views
views
14
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
160,838
views
views
15
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
160,261
views
views
16
Ferat Koçak
German politician
146,113
views
views
17
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
143,557
views
views
18
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
137,665
views
views
19
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
135,278
views
views
20
Kevin Warsh
Chairman of the Federal Reserve since 2026
128,803
views
views
21
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
124,303
views
views
22
Magdalena Andersson
Prime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist
124,071
views
views
23
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
119,206
views
views
24
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
116,564
views
views
25
Heidi Reichinnek
German politician
111,075
views
views
26
Alexander Lukashenka
President of the Republic of Belarus
104,761
views
views
27
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
96,511
views
views
28
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
94,841
views
views
29
Hugh Hefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
94,487
views
views
30
S. Venkitaramanan
Indian economist, (1931-2023)
90,277
views
views
31
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
88,815
views
views
32
Elaine Chao
18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
88,182
views
views
33
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
88,079
views
views
34
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer (1891–1956)
87,294
views
views
35
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
86,506
views
views
36
George Shultz
American politician (1920–2021)
82,908
views
views
37
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
82,633
views
views
38
Ana Brnabić
Serbian politician, acting president of Serbia and president of the National Assembly
82,020
views
views
39
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
77,034
views
views
40
Tarō Asō
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
76,627
views
views
41
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
76,557
views
views
42
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
76,382
views
views
43
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905–1961)
75,777
views
views
44
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
75,285
views
views
45
Diana Fox
British economist and author
73,615
views
views
46
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
73,154
views
views
47
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
72,252
views
views
48
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
70,629
views
views
49
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
70,609
views
views
50
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
68,258
views
views
51
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician; Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
67,140
views
views
52
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
66,871
views
views
53
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
65,547
views
views
54
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
63,670
views
views
55
Leonid Slutsky
Russian politician (born 1968)
63,131
views
views
56
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
62,640
views
views
57
Dilma Rousseff
36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)
62,621
views
views
58
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
62,347
views
views
59
Arsène Wenger
French football manager (born 1949)
61,414
views
views
60
Bernd Lucke
German economist, professor, author (born 1962)
61,375
views
views
61
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
60,517
views
views
62
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
60,504
views
views
63
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
60,489
views
views
64
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
60,288
views
views
65
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
59,732
views
views
66
Carsten Linnemann
German economist, politician
57,079
views
views
67
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
56,864
views
views
68
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
56,800
views
views
69
Kohei Saito
Japanese philosopher, Marxist (1987-)
56,782
views
views
70
Édouard Balladur
91st Prime Minister of France (1929–2026)
56,700
views
views
71
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
56,329
views
views
72
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
56,007
views
views
73
Fabio De Masi
German politician and economist
55,764
views
views
74
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
55,218
views
views
75
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
54,407
views
views
76
Lawrence Wong
Prime Minister of Singapore since 2024
53,033
views
views
77
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
52,132
views
views
78
Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
52,021
views
views
79
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
51,507
views
views
80
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
49,976
views
views
81
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965)
49,860
views
views
82
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
49,839
views
views
83
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
48,461
views
views
84
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
47,791
views
views
85
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
47,778
views
views
86
Sanjeev Sanyal
Indian economist
47,758
views
views
87
Gustavo Petro
42rd President of Colombia 2022–2026
47,289
views
views
88
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
46,350
views
views
89
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
45,904
views
views
90
Arsen Kanokov
Russian politician
45,640
views
views
91
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
45,348
views
views
92
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
44,738
views
views
93
Grigory Yavlinsky
Russian politician and economist
44,673
views
views
94
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
43,713
views
views
95
Roland Lescure
French politician
42,528
views
views
96
Kazuo Ueda
Japanese economist (1951-)
41,821
views
views
97
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
40,754
views
views
98
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
40,732
views
views
99
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
40,556
views
views
100
Dan Ariely
Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral economics
40,097
views
views