Trending Economists in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed economists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Benjamin Netanyahu. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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11,653,742
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Benjamin Netanyahu
Prime Minister of Israel (born 1949), (1996–1999; 2009–2021; 2022–present)
786,846
views
views
2
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
564,413
views
views
3
Ted Bundy
American serial killer (1946–1989)
553,071
views
views
4
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
505,655
views
views
5
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
335,523
views
views
6
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
327,126
views
views
7
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818–1883)
309,327
views
views
8
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
288,219
views
views
9
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
269,533
views
views
10
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
259,515
views
views
11
S. Venkitaramanan
Indian economist, (1931-2023)
253,874
views
views
12
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
240,308
views
views
13
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
198,955
views
views
14
Kevin Warsh
Chairman of the Federal Reserve since 2026
194,069
views
views
15
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
189,588
views
views
16
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
187,451
views
views
17
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
174,508
views
views
18
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian jurist, economist, and social reformer (1891–1956)
158,118
views
views
19
Hugh Hefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
143,789
views
views
20
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
134,623
views
views
21
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
129,841
views
views
22
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
128,212
views
views
23
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
122,802
views
views
24
Elaine Chao
18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
122,696
views
views
25
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
117,320
views
views
26
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
106,792
views
views
27
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
105,688
views
views
28
Diana Fox
British economist and author
104,802
views
views
29
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
103,304
views
views
30
Sepp Blatter
8th President of the International Federation of Association Football
97,810
views
views
31
George Shultz
American politician (1920–2021)
96,133
views
views
32
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
93,832
views
views
33
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
93,088
views
views
34
Magdalena Andersson
Prime Minister of Sweden from 2021 to 2022, Swedish politician and economist
92,821
views
views
35
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
92,232
views
views
36
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
89,179
views
views
37
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
87,641
views
views
38
Arsène Wenger
French football manager (born 1949)
86,931
views
views
39
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
85,926
views
views
40
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
85,901
views
views
41
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
84,026
views
views
42
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
81,790
views
views
43
Lawrence Wong
Prime Minister of Singapore since 2024
80,657
views
views
44
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
79,952
views
views
45
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
78,268
views
views
46
Alexander Lukashenka
President of the Republic of Belarus
78,106
views
views
47
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
77,917
views
views
48
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
77,047
views
views
49
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
76,764
views
views
50
Kristrún Mjöll Frostadóttir
Icelandic politician
76,013
views
views
51
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (1926–2026)
75,665
views
views
52
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
74,006
views
views
53
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
73,436
views
views
54
Sahra Wagenknecht
German politician (born 1969)
73,031
views
views
55
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
72,257
views
views
56
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
71,958
views
views
57
Guy Standing
British labour economist (born 1948)
69,183
views
views
58
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965)
66,173
views
views
59
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
65,833
views
views
60
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
64,625
views
views
61
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
64,238
views
views
62
Kwame Nkrumah
Ghanaian politician (1909–1972)
63,037
views
views
63
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
62,214
views
views
64
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
62,214
views
views
65
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
60,785
views
views
66
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
60,397
views
views
67
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
59,624
views
views
68
Big Cass
American professional wrestler and actor
57,379
views
views
69
Sanjeev Sanyal
Indian economist
56,274
views
views
70
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
56,191
views
views
71
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
55,817
views
views
72
Ana Brnabić
Serbian politician, acting president of Serbia and president of the National Assembly
54,686
views
views
73
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
54,149
views
views
74
Yvette Cooper
British politician (born 1969)
53,266
views
views
75
Brian Hallisay
American actor
53,075
views
views
76
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
52,358
views
views
77
Gustavo Petro
42rd President of Colombia 2022–2026
52,321
views
views
78
Annie Lowrey
American journalist
52,172
views
views
79
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
52,157
views
views
80
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
51,670
views
views
81
Luciana Pedraza
Argentine actress
51,019
views
views
82
Peter Navarro
American economist and author, Trump advisor (born 1949)
50,860
views
views
83
Ashraf Ghani
President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021
48,795
views
views
84
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
48,775
views
views
85
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
48,083
views
views
86
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
46,997
views
views
87
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
46,731
views
views
88
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905–1961)
46,563
views
views
89
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
46,359
views
views
90
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
45,957
views
views
91
Dan Ariely
Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral economics
45,491
views
views
92
Hakainde Hichilema
7th President of Zambia
44,314
views
views
93
Daron Acemoğlu
Turkish-American economist and receiver of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economic sciences (born 1967)
44,152
views
views
94
Samia Suluhu Hassan
President of Tanzania since 2021
43,543
views
views
95
Petro Poroshenko
President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019
42,832
views
views
96
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Greek politician, prime Minister of Greece, President of New Democracy party
42,252
views
views
97
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician; Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
42,048
views
views
98
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
40,427
views
views
99
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
40,333
views
views
100
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
40,018
views
views