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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Ranked
552,273
Total Views (this month)
1
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
42,349
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views
2
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
19,745
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views
3
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
17,961
views
views
4
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
17,647
views
views
5
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
16,592
views
views
6
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
16,274
views
views
7
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
14,871
views
views
8
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
13,947
views
views
9
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
12,367
views
views
10
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
12,105
views
views
11
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
11,888
views
views
12
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
11,048
views
views
13
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
10,458
views
views
14
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
9,397
views
views
15
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
9,067
views
views
16
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
8,844
views
views
17
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
8,239
views
views
18
Dave Brat
American economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College
7,069
views
views
19
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
6,768
views
views
20
Yvette Cooper
British politician
6,720
views
views
21
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
6,702
views
views
22
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
6,326
views
views
23
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
6,145
views
views
24
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
5,984
views
views
25
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
5,931
views
views
26
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
5,667
views
views
27
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
5,625
views
views
28
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
5,401
views
views
29
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
5,256
views
views
30
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
5,225
views
views
31
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
5,166
views
views
32
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
4,994
views
views
33
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
4,842
views
views
34
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
4,816
views
views
35
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
4,754
views
views
36
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
4,705
views
views
37
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
4,656
views
views
38
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
4,598
views
views
39
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
4,531
views
views
40
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
4,463
views
views
41
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
4,343
views
views
42
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
4,309
views
views
43
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
4,287
views
views
44
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
4,210
views
views
45
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
4,139
views
views
46
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
3,940
views
views
47
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
3,875
views
views
48
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
3,716
views
views
49
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
3,707
views
views
50
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
3,700
views
views
51
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
3,700
views
views
52
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
3,660
views
views
53
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
3,657
views
views
54
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
3,530
views
views
55
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
3,472
views
views
56
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
3,445
views
views
57
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
3,245
views
views
58
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
3,221
views
views
59
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
3,014
views
views
60
Brian Hallisay
American actor
3,008
views
views
61
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
2,993
views
views
62
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
2,980
views
views
63
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
2,928
views
views
64
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
2,920
views
views
65
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
2,910
views
views
66
Liliane Bettencourt
French heiress, socialite and businesswoman
2,903
views
views
67
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
2,884
views
views
68
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
2,803
views
views
69
Paul Volcker
American economist (1927-2019)
2,754
views
views
70
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
2,747
views
views
71
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
2,718
views
views
72
Rinat Akhmetov
Ukrainian businessman
2,639
views
views
73
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
2,607
views
views
74
Diana Fox
British economist and author
2,579
views
views
75
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946-2013)
2,575
views
views
76
Ian Bremmer
American political scientist
2,552
views
views
77
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
2,544
views
views
78
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
2,521
views
views
79
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
2,471
views
views
80
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
2,434
views
views
81
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
2,415
views
views
82
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
2,412
views
views
83
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
2,408
views
views
84
Larry Kudlow
American television host and financial analyst (born 1947)
2,322
views
views
85
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
2,314
views
views
86
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
2,314
views
views
87
Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982)
2,305
views
views
88
Robert Skidelsky
British economist and author (1939–2026)
2,268
views
views
89
Ed Davey
British politician (born 1965)
2,254
views
views
90
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
2,248
views
views
91
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
2,243
views
views
92
Viktor Yushchenko
3rd President of Ukraine
2,201
views
views
93
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
2,194
views
views
94
Li Keqiang
Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2013 to 2023
2,182
views
views
95
Subramanian Swamy
Indian politician
2,105
views
views
96
Andrei Belousov
Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation
2,084
views
views
97
Niall Ferguson
British historian
2,080
views
views
98
Guy Standing
British economist
2,061
views
views
99
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
2,042
views
views
100
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
2,038
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