Trending Economists this year
The 100 most-viewed economists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Alexander Hamilton.
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Ranked
3,079,014
Total Views (this year)
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1
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757β1804)
104,259
views
views
2
Sepp Blatter
8th President of the International Federation of Association Football
95,767
views
views
3
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
94,982
views
views
4
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870β1924)
91,077
views
views
5
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818β1883)
90,595
views
views
6
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706β1790)
85,393
views
views
7
Pedro SΓ‘nchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
80,167
views
views
8
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
76,136
views
views
9
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931β2022)
73,141
views
views
10
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
71,218
views
views
11
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
66,283
views
views
12
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
66,067
views
views
13
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
65,935
views
views
14
Zanny Minton Beddoes
British journalist
64,473
views
views
15
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891β1956)
62,785
views
views
16
Elaine Chao
18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
60,663
views
views
17
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938β2021)
58,887
views
views
18
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
52,969
views
views
19
S. Venkitaramanan
Indian economist, (1931-2023)
47,135
views
views
20
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
45,831
views
views
21
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
41,708
views
views
22
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (1926β2026)
41,192
views
views
23
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888β1969)
40,945
views
views
24
Recep Tayyip ErdoΔan
President of Turkey since 2014
39,320
views
views
25
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
37,715
views
views
26
Gary Stevenson (campaigner)
British YouTuber and former financial trader
33,179
views
views
27
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912β2005)
32,664
views
views
28
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928β2015)
31,820
views
views
29
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
30,374
views
views
30
Yvette Cooper
British politician (born 1969)
29,752
views
views
31
Miatta Fahnbulleh
liberian-born british economist and politician
28,029
views
views
32
Lisa D. Cook
American economist (1964-)
28,016
views
views
33
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
26,949
views
views
34
Queen MΓ‘xima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
26,650
views
views
35
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868β1963)
26,365
views
views
36
KristrΓΊn MjΓΆll FrostadΓ³ttir
Icelandic politician
26,314
views
views
37
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835β1919)
26,023
views
views
38
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903β1957)
26,013
views
views
39
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871β1919)
25,896
views
views
40
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
25,620
views
views
41
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
25,575
views
views
42
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
25,269
views
views
43
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
25,044
views
views
44
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
24,922
views
views
45
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934β1982)
24,615
views
views
46
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
24,425
views
views
47
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
24,401
views
views
48
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723β1790)
23,111
views
views
49
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965)
22,974
views
views
50
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
22,606
views
views
51
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820β1895)
22,562
views
views
52
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883β1946)
22,382
views
views
53
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
22,077
views
views
54
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885β1972)
21,817
views
views
55
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
21,777
views
views
56
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918β1992)
20,743
views
views
57
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912β2006)
20,574
views
views
58
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946β)
20,041
views
views
59
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
19,462
views
views
60
AntΓ³nio de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
19,268
views
views
61
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891β1937)
18,340
views
views
62
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
18,103
views
views
63
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
17,858
views
views
64
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
17,508
views
views
65
Santiago PeΓ±a Palacios
President of Paraguay since 2023
17,202
views
views
66
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
16,515
views
views
67
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791β1871)
16,269
views
views
68
Brian Hallisay
American actor
16,194
views
views
69
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
15,727
views
views
70
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864β1920)
15,606
views
views
71
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
15,170
views
views
72
Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
14,944
views
views
73
Mateusz Morawiecki
17th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
14,881
views
views
74
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
14,201
views
views
75
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957β2026)
13,898
views
views
76
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
13,640
views
views
77
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588β1679)
13,632
views
views
78
Subramanian Swamy
Indian politician
13,520
views
views
79
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806β1873)
13,367
views
views
80
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946β2013)
13,351
views
views
81
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929β2019)
13,099
views
views
82
Jo NesbΓΈ
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
13,020
views
views
83
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877β1970)
12,643
views
views
84
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899β1992)
12,643
views
views
85
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
12,590
views
views
86
John Horam
British politician (born 1939)
12,376
views
views
87
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748β1832)
12,231
views
views
88
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
12,213
views
views
89
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Kshama Sawant
American politician and economist
12,200
views
views
90
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
11,880
views
views
91
Ian Bremmer
American political scientist
11,863
views
views
92
Chanakya
Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy.
11,781
views
views
93
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
11,335
views
views
94
Gale Anne Hurd
American film producer and screenwriter
11,271
views
views
95
Luciana Pedraza
Argentine actress
11,136
views
views
96
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934β2024)
11,078
views
views
97
Klaus Schwab
German economist, founder of World Economic Forum
11,032
views
views
98
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
10,972
views
views
99
Alassane Ouattara
President of Ivory Coast (2010βpresent)
10,956
views
views
100
Saadia Zahidi
economist
10,817
views
views
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