Trending Economists of all time
The 100 most-viewed economists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ben McKenzie.
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1,277,074
Total Views (of all time)
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1
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
49,194
views
views
2
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870β1924)
44,667
views
views
3
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
44,239
views
views
4
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
43,113
views
views
5
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
39,534
views
views
6
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
37,831
views
views
7
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
37,532
views
views
8
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
35,404
views
views
9
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931β2022)
33,993
views
views
10
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757β1804)
33,406
views
views
11
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
24,883
views
views
12
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938β2021)
24,276
views
views
13
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891β1956)
21,933
views
views
14
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
21,840
views
views
15
Shamika Ravi
Indian economist
20,893
views
views
16
Recep Tayyip ErdoΔan
President of Turkey since 2014
19,388
views
views
17
Ian Bremmer
American political scientist
18,297
views
views
18
Paul Krugman
American economist (born 1953)
18,234
views
views
19
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
18,019
views
views
20
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
17,394
views
views
21
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868β1963)
16,077
views
views
22
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946β)
15,094
views
views
23
Pedro SΓ‘nchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
14,516
views
views
24
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
14,174
views
views
25
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835β1919)
14,094
views
views
26
JosΓ© Manuel Restrepo Abondano
Colombian academic and politician
13,676
views
views
27
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
13,643
views
views
28
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
13,136
views
views
29
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
13,082
views
views
30
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
12,680
views
views
31
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888β1969)
12,529
views
views
32
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
11,881
views
views
33
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928β2015)
11,554
views
views
34
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912β2005)
11,057
views
views
35
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871β1919)
10,993
views
views
36
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
10,860
views
views
37
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
10,684
views
views
38
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934β1982)
10,488
views
views
39
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912β2006)
10,038
views
views
40
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
10,023
views
views
41
Queen MΓ‘xima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
9,915
views
views
42
AntΓ³nio de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
9,903
views
views
43
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
9,899
views
views
44
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885β1972)
9,571
views
views
45
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929β2019)
9,423
views
views
46
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
9,099
views
views
47
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918β1992)
9,050
views
views
48
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
8,853
views
views
49
Eric Weinstein
American mathematician and venture capital director
8,766
views
views
50
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723β1790)
8,678
views
views
51
Brian Hallisay
American actor
8,618
views
views
52
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
8,530
views
views
53
Bill Browder
American-born British businessman and political activist (born 1964)
8,405
views
views
54
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
8,386
views
views
55
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820β1895)
8,356
views
views
56
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005β06), President (2016β18)
8,204
views
views
57
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883β1946)
8,141
views
views
58
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
8,057
views
views
59
Muhammad Chatib Basri
Indonesian economist and politician
8,001
views
views
60
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
7,929
views
views
61
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist and politician
7,848
views
views
62
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
7,583
views
views
63
Subramanian Swamy
Indian politician
7,474
views
views
64
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
7,404
views
views
65
Guy Standing
British economist
7,383
views
views
66
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
7,378
views
views
67
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
7,176
views
views
68
Han Zheng
Vice President of the People's Republic of China
7,000
views
views
69
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588β1679)
6,999
views
views
70
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
6,741
views
views
71
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864β1920)
6,738
views
views
72
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748β1832)
6,667
views
views
73
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
6,410
views
views
74
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891β1937)
6,373
views
views
75
Samira Nawa
Danish politician
6,363
views
views
76
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
6,259
views
views
77
Sonali Deraniyagala
Sri Lankan writer
6,184
views
views
78
Luciana Pedraza
Argentine actress
6,150
views
views
79
Chanakya
4th-century BCE Indian statesman and philosopher
6,122
views
views
80
Yvette Cooper
British politician
6,118
views
views
81
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
6,037
views
views
82
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888β1938)
6,000
views
views
83
Mariana Mazzucato
Italian-American economist, professor (University College London)
5,987
views
views
84
Liam Halligan
Economist, journalist, broadcaster
5,894
views
views
85
Kevin Hassett
American economist (born 1962)
5,834
views
views
86
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino politician, president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
5,735
views
views
87
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877β1970)
5,717
views
views
88
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934β2024)
5,618
views
views
89
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806β1873)
5,551
views
views
90
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
5,430
views
views
91
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
5,385
views
views
92
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791β1871)
5,357
views
views
93
Gabriel Zucman
French economist
5,336
views
views
94
Jay Bhattacharya
18th director of the National Institutes of Health
5,322
views
views
95
Dag HammarskjΓΆld
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961)
5,307
views
views
96
Ashraf Ghani
President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021 (17 11 2006
5,299
views
views
97
William Lyon Mackenzie King
10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874β1950)
5,264
views
views
98
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
5,183
views
views
99
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
5,170
views
views
100
Klaus Schwab
German economist, founder of World Economic Forum
5,145
views
views
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