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Trending Economists this month

The 100 most-viewed economists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ben McKenzie.

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1
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
📚 19 citations Person
42,349
views
2
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
📚 52 citations Person
19,745
views
3
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
📚 63 citations Person
17,961
views
4
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
📚 42 citations Person
17,647
views
5
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
📚 38 citations Person
16,592
views
6
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
📚 36 citations Person
16,274
views
7
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
📚 57 citations Person
14,871
views
8
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
📚 25 citations Person
13,947
views
9
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
📚 56 citations Person
12,367
views
10
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
📚 24 citations Person
12,105
views
11
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
📚 47 citations Person
11,888
views
12
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
📚 20 citations Person
11,048
views
13
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
📚 28 citations Person
10,458
views
14
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
📚 32 citations Person
9,397
views
15
Bernard Madoff
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
📚 12 citations Person
9,067
views
16
Pedro Sánchez
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
📚 37 citations Person
8,844
views
17
B. R. Ambedkar
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
📚 93 citations Person
8,239
views
18
Dave Brat
Dave Brat
American economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College
📚 8 citations Person
7,069
views
19
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
📚 25 citations Person
6,768
views
20
Yvette Cooper
British politician
📚 21 citations Person
6,720
views
21
W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
📚 46 citations Person
6,702
views
22
Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
📚 26 citations Person
6,326
views
23
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
📚 43 citations Person
6,145
views
24
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
📚 3 citations Person
5,984
views
25
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
📚 8 citations Person
5,931
views
26
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
📚 9 citations Person
5,667
views
27
Cecil John Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
📚 16 citations Person
5,625
views
28
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
📚 37 citations Person
5,401
views
29
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
📚 16 citations Person
5,256
views
30
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
📚 29 citations Person
5,225
views
31
Gustavo Petro
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
📚 23 citations Person
5,166
views
32
Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
📚 28 citations Person
4,994
views
33
Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
📚 39 citations Person
4,842
views
34
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
📚 40 citations Person
4,816
views
35
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
📚 33 citations Person
4,754
views
36
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
📚 43 citations Person
4,705
views
37
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
📚 28 citations Person
4,656
views
38
Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
📚 37 citations Person
4,598
views
39
António de Oliveira Salazar
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
📚 21 citations Person
4,531
views
40
Barack Obama Sr.
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
📚 8 citations Person
4,463
views
41
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
📚 52 citations Person
4,343
views
42
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
📚 40 citations Person
4,309
views
43
Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
📚 41 citations Person
4,287
views
44
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
📚 18 citations Person
4,210
views
45
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
📚 24 citations Person
4,139
views
46
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
📚 22 citations Person
3,940
views
47
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
📚 17 citations Person
3,875
views
48
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
📚 33 citations Person
3,716
views
49
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
📚 17 citations Person
3,707
views
50
Robert McNamara
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
📚 25 citations Person
3,700
views
51
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
📚 25 citations Person
3,700
views
52
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
📚 10 citations Person
3,660
views
53
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
📚 23 citations Person
3,657
views
54
Max Weber
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
📚 58 citations Person
3,530
views
55
Sam Walton
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
📚 17 citations Person
3,472
views
56
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
📚 44 citations Person
3,445
views
57
Hjalmar Schacht
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
📚 27 citations Person
3,245
views
58
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
📚 55 citations Person
3,221
views
59
Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
📚 26 citations Person
3,014
views
60
Brian Hallisay
American actor
📚 6 citations Person
3,008
views
61
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
📚 23 citations Person
2,993
views
62
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
📚 4 citations Person
2,980
views
63
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
📚 37 citations Person
2,928
views
64
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
📚 37 citations Person
2,920
views
65
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
📚 8 citations Person
2,910
views
66
Liliane Bettencourt
French heiress, socialite and businesswoman
📚 17 citations Person
2,903
views
67
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
📚 8 citations Person
2,884
views
68
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
📚 56 citations Person
2,803
views
69
Paul Volcker
Paul Volcker
American economist (1927-2019)
📚 18 citations Person
2,754
views
70
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
📚 26 citations Person
2,747
views
71
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
📚 41 citations Person
2,718
views
72
Rinat Akhmetov
Ukrainian businessman
📚 14 citations Person
2,639
views
73
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
📚 55 citations Person
2,607
views
74
Diana Fox
Diana Fox
British economist and author
📚 4 citations Person
2,579
views
75
Boris Berezovsky
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
📚 13 citations Person
2,575
views
76
Ian Bremmer
American political scientist
📚 18 citations Person
2,552
views
77
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
📚 43 citations Person
2,544
views
78
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
📚 34 citations Person
2,521
views
79
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
📚 18 citations Person
2,471
views
80
Nikolai Bukharin
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
📚 16 citations Person
2,434
views
81
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
📚 27 citations Person
2,415
views
82
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
📚 32 citations Person
2,412
views
83
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
📚 8 citations Person
2,408
views
84
Larry Kudlow
American television host and financial analyst (born 1947)
📚 6 citations Person
2,322
views
85
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
📚 25 citations Person
2,314
views
86
Christine Lagarde
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
📚 37 citations Person
2,314
views
87
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
📚 48 citations Person
2,305
views
88
Robert Skidelsky
British economist and author (1939–2026)
📚 15 citations Person
2,268
views
89
Ed Davey
British politician (born 1965)
📚 17 citations Person
2,254
views
90
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
📚 14 citations Person
2,248
views
91
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
📚 76 citations Person
2,243
views
92
Viktor Yushchenko
3rd President of Ukraine
📚 14 citations Person
2,201
views
93
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
📚 57 citations Person
2,194
views
94
Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang
Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2023
📚 17 citations Person
2,182
views
95
Subramanian Swamy
Indian politician
📚 10 citations Person
2,105
views
96
Andrei Belousov
Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
📚 5 citations Person
2,084
views
97
Niall Ferguson
British historian
📚 30 citations Person
2,080
views
98
Guy Standing
British economist
📚 12 citations Person
2,061
views
99
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
📚 28 citations Person
2,042
views
100
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
📚 26 citations Person
2,038
views