Trending Economists this year
The 100 most-viewed economists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ben McKenzie.
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Ranked
855,093
Total Views (this year)
1
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
47,746
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2
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
33,031
views
views
3
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
29,972
views
views
4
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
27,584
views
views
5
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
26,537
views
views
6
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
23,080
views
views
7
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
22,119
views
views
8
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
21,366
views
views
9
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
20,025
views
views
10
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
19,153
views
views
11
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
18,618
views
views
12
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
16,190
views
views
13
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
14,631
views
views
14
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
14,205
views
views
15
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
13,807
views
views
16
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
13,334
views
views
17
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
11,483
views
views
18
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
11,449
views
views
19
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
10,954
views
views
20
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
10,585
views
views
21
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,423
views
views
22
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
9,291
views
views
23
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
9,229
views
views
24
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
9,162
views
views
25
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
8,718
views
views
26
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
8,709
views
views
27
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
8,679
views
views
28
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
8,604
views
views
29
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
8,153
views
views
30
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
7,972
views
views
31
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
7,755
views
views
32
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
7,752
views
views
33
Yvette Cooper
British politician
7,553
views
views
34
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
7,434
views
views
35
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
7,417
views
views
36
Dave Brat
American economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College
7,170
views
views
37
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
7,154
views
views
38
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
7,126
views
views
39
Stepan Kubiv
Ukrainian central banker
7,036
views
views
40
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
6,630
views
views
41
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
6,625
views
views
42
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
6,605
views
views
43
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
6,541
views
views
44
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
6,419
views
views
45
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
6,299
views
views
46
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
6,289
views
views
47
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
6,267
views
views
48
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
6,188
views
views
49
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
6,003
views
views
50
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
5,847
views
views
51
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
5,763
views
views
52
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
5,594
views
views
53
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
5,578
views
views
54
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
5,576
views
views
55
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
5,541
views
views
56
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
5,490
views
views
57
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
5,340
views
views
58
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
5,242
views
views
59
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
5,208
views
views
60
François Villeroy de Galhau
French official
5,130
views
views
61
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
4,990
views
views
62
Li Keqiang
Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2023
4,942
views
views
63
Sepp Blatter
8th President of the International Federation of Association Football
4,930
views
views
64
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
4,904
views
views
65
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
4,896
views
views
66
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
4,877
views
views
67
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
4,797
views
views
68
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
4,694
views
views
69
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
4,654
views
views
70
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
4,622
views
views
71
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
4,619
views
views
72
Brian Hallisay
American actor
4,570
views
views
73
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
4,560
views
views
74
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
4,558
views
views
75
Andrei Belousov
Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
4,542
views
views
76
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
4,527
views
views
77
Liliane Bettencourt
French heiress, socialite and businesswoman
4,513
views
views
78
Rinat Akhmetov
Ukrainian businessman
4,430
views
views
79
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
4,387
views
views
80
Pedro Francke
Peruvian economist
4,317
views
views
81
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
4,291
views
views
82
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
4,109
views
views
83
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
4,090
views
views
84
Roland Lescure
French politician
4,069
views
views
85
José Manuel Restrepo Abondano
Colombian academic and politician
4,030
views
views
86
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
3,968
views
views
87
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
3,946
views
views
88
Tarō Asō
Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009
3,932
views
views
89
Viktor Yushchenko
3rd President of Ukraine
3,903
views
views
90
Alex Salmond
Alba Party leader and First Minister of Scotland 2007–2014 (1954–2024)
3,854
views
views
91
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
3,828
views
views
92
Han Zheng
Vice President of the People's Republic of China
3,817
views
views
93
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
3,743
views
views
94
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
3,700
views
views
95
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
3,659
views
views
96
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
3,598
views
views
97
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
3,516
views
views
98
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
3,500
views
views
99
Dilma Rousseff
36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)
3,421
views
views
100
Paul Volcker
American economist (1927-2019)
3,409
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