Trending Economists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed economists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ben McKenzie.
100
Ranked
1,143,424
Total Views (this year)
1
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
57,519
views
views
2
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
46,105
views
views
3
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
39,368
views
views
4
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
37,184
views
views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
36,821
views
views
6
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
35,913
views
views
7
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
32,461
views
views
8
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
31,121
views
views
9
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
30,304
views
views
10
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
24,402
views
views
11
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
23,527
views
views
12
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
19,174
views
views
13
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
18,767
views
views
14
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
17,941
views
views
15
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
17,433
views
views
16
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
16,451
views
views
17
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
15,835
views
views
18
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
13,998
views
views
19
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
13,965
views
views
20
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
13,648
views
views
21
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
13,643
views
views
22
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
13,488
views
views
23
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
13,460
views
views
24
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
13,316
views
views
25
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
13,159
views
views
26
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
12,890
views
views
27
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
12,878
views
views
28
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
12,845
views
views
29
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
11,854
views
views
30
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
11,433
views
views
31
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
11,308
views
views
32
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
11,182
views
views
33
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
10,974
views
views
34
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
10,392
views
views
35
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
9,963
views
views
36
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
9,887
views
views
37
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
9,529
views
views
38
Yvette Cooper
British politician
9,354
views
views
39
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
9,339
views
views
40
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
9,334
views
views
41
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
9,310
views
views
42
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
9,206
views
views
43
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
8,945
views
views
44
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
8,939
views
views
45
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
8,937
views
views
46
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
8,889
views
views
47
Eric Weinstein
American mathematician and venture capital director
8,652
views
views
48
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
7,996
views
views
49
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
7,911
views
views
50
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
7,895
views
views
51
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
7,788
views
views
52
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
7,730
views
views
53
Alex Salmond
Alba Party leader and First Minister of Scotland 2007–2014 (1954–2024)
7,720
views
views
54
Dave Brat
American economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College
7,580
views
views
55
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
7,552
views
views
56
Alassane Ouattara
President of Ivory Coast (2010–present)
7,276
views
views
57
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
7,139
views
views
58
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
7,006
views
views
59
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu
Turkish policitian (born 1948)
6,883
views
views
60
Brian Hallisay
American actor
6,701
views
views
61
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
6,587
views
views
62
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
6,579
views
views
63
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
6,565
views
views
64
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
6,458
views
views
65
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
6,325
views
views
66
Subramanian Swamy
Indian politician
6,141
views
views
67
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
6,095
views
views
68
Sepp Blatter
8th President of the International Federation of Association Football
5,943
views
views
69
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
5,900
views
views
70
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
5,762
views
views
71
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
5,667
views
views
72
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
5,575
views
views
73
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
5,562
views
views
74
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
5,444
views
views
75
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
5,363
views
views
76
Diana Fox
British economist and author
5,332
views
views
77
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
5,311
views
views
78
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
5,298
views
views
79
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
5,270
views
views
80
Guy Standing
British economist
5,191
views
views
81
S. Venkitaramanan
Indian economist, (1931-2023)
5,189
views
views
82
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
5,172
views
views
83
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
5,114
views
views
84
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
5,043
views
views
85
Paul Volcker
American economist (1927-2019)
4,871
views
views
86
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
4,867
views
views
87
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
4,813
views
views
88
Larry Kudlow
American television host and financial analyst (born 1947)
4,805
views
views
89
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
4,799
views
views
90
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
4,771
views
views
91
Sonali Deraniyagala
Sri Lankan writer
4,690
views
views
92
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
4,658
views
views
93
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
4,572
views
views
94
Niall Ferguson
British historian
4,557
views
views
95
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
4,511
views
views
96
Chanakya
4th-century BCE Indian statesman and philosopher
4,504
views
views
97
Torsten Bell
British Member of Parliament and economist
4,493
views
views
98
Benigno Aquino III
president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016
4,487
views
views
99
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
4,470
views
views
100
Luciana Pedraza
Argentine actress
4,450
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