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The 100 most-viewed economists on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Benjamin Netanyahu. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
6,488,129
Total Views (all time)
Country
🌍 Global
1
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
388,885
views
views
2
Ted Bundy
American serial killer (1946–1989)
360,423
views
views
3
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
236,905
views
views
4
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
234,977
views
views
5
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
200,105
views
views
6
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
163,876
views
views
7
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
158,964
views
views
8
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
155,896
views
views
9
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
152,938
views
views
10
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
146,528
views
views
11
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
140,152
views
views
12
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
134,303
views
views
13
Dilma Rousseff
36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)
128,465
views
views
14
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
120,003
views
views
15
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
116,032
views
views
16
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
82,845
views
views
17
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
79,999
views
views
18
Robert Hall
American economist
75,951
views
views
19
Hugh Hefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
75,497
views
views
20
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
74,068
views
views
21
Montse Mínguez García
Spanish politician
71,432
views
views
22
Fernando Haddad
Brazilian politician, 51st mayor of São Paulo (2013–2017) and former Brazilian Finance Minister
71,292
views
views
23
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
70,578
views
views
24
Michael Dean Woodford
American economist
70,544
views
views
25
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
68,838
views
views
26
Ana Brnabić
Serbian politician, acting president of Serbia and president of the National Assembly
68,665
views
views
27
Alexander Lukashenka
President of the Republic of Belarus
67,251
views
views
28
Jean Drèze
Belgian-Indian economist
67,033
views
views
29
Xosé Manuel Beiras
Spanish politician and economist
64,513
views
views
30
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
64,036
views
views
31
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
62,119
views
views
32
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
61,299
views
views
33
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
59,170
views
views
34
Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
58,548
views
views
35
Arsène Wenger
French football manager (born 1949)
52,762
views
views
36
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
51,712
views
views
37
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
51,135
views
views
38
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
50,454
views
views
39
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
47,789
views
views
40
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
47,119
views
views
41
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer (1891–1956)
46,380
views
views
42
Andrea Kdolsky
Austrian physician and politician
45,979
views
views
43
Sahra Wagenknecht
German politician (born 1969)
45,652
views
views
44
Irene H. Butter
German-born American economist, Holocaust survivor (1930-2026)
45,570
views
views
45
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
44,765
views
views
46
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
44,141
views
views
47
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
43,484
views
views
48
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
41,926
views
views
49
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
41,868
views
views
50
George Shultz
American politician (1920–2021)
41,659
views
views
51
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
41,058
views
views
52
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
39,869
views
views
53
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
39,855
views
views
54
Tarō Asō
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
39,381
views
views
55
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
39,348
views
views
56
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
39,316
views
views
57
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
39,153
views
views
58
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician; Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
37,666
views
views
59
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
37,477
views
views
60
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
36,186
views
views
61
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
35,752
views
views
62
Gustavo Petro
42rd President of Colombia 2022–2026
35,626
views
views
63
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
34,838
views
views
64
Miatta Fahnbulleh
liberian-born british economist and politician
34,411
views
views
65
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
34,290
views
views
66
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
33,957
views
views
67
Tomás Gómez Franco
Spanish politician
33,740
views
views
68
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
33,562
views
views
69
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
33,438
views
views
70
José Serra
Brazilian politician (born 1942)
33,431
views
views
71
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
33,371
views
views
72
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
33,189
views
views
73
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
33,186
views
views
74
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
32,825
views
views
75
Ferat Koçak
German politician
32,593
views
views
76
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
32,500
views
views
77
Viktor Yushchenko
3rd President of Ukraine
31,016
views
views
78
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
30,530
views
views
79
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
29,931
views
views
80
Markus Marterbauer
Austrian economist
29,766
views
views
81
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
French economist
29,646
views
views
82
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
29,131
views
views
83
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
28,488
views
views
84
Bernd Baumann
German politician
28,111
views
views
85
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
27,812
views
views
86
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
27,684
views
views
87
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
27,475
views
views
88
Thomas Piketty
French economist (born 1971)
27,443
views
views
89
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
27,309
views
views
90
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
27,189
views
views
91
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Jeffrey Garten
American journalist
26,856
views
views
92
Akhmad Kadyrov
Chechen politician and Islamic religious leader (1951–2004)
26,739
views
views
93
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769–1859)
26,737
views
views
94
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
26,476
views
views
95
Isabella M. Weber
German economist
26,260
views
views
96
Heidi Reichinnek
German politician
26,063
views
views
97
Carsten Linnemann
German economist, politician
26,058
views
views
98
Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian politician, former Prime Minister
25,870
views
views
99
Eduardo Campos
Brazilian economist and politician (1965–2014)
25,730
views
views
100
Brian Hallisay
American actor
25,266
views
views