Trending Economists of all time
The 100 most-viewed economists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Ben McKenzie.
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1,444,722
Total Views (of all time)
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Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
49,194
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2
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
48,558
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3
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
47,151
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4
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
46,046
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views
5
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
45,986
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6
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
45,443
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views
7
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
37,532
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views
8
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
37,471
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9
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
34,904
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views
10
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
33,406
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11
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
33,004
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views
12
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
32,948
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13
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
31,482
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14
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
31,019
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views
15
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
26,608
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16
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
26,226
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views
17
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
26,038
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views
18
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
22,570
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19
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
20,616
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views
20
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
20,586
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views
21
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
19,497
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views
22
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
19,151
views
views
23
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965)
18,601
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views
24
Paul Volcker
American economist (1927-2019)
18,524
views
views
25
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
18,019
views
views
26
Miatta Fahnbulleh
liberian-born british economist and politician
16,011
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views
27
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
15,308
views
views
28
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
14,897
views
views
29
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
14,315
views
views
30
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
14,174
views
views
31
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
13,643
views
views
32
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
12,892
views
views
33
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
12,738
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views
34
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
12,680
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views
35
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
12,529
views
views
36
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
12,155
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views
37
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
11,881
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views
38
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
11,554
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views
39
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
11,165
views
views
40
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
10,860
views
views
41
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
10,627
views
views
42
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
10,619
views
views
43
Luciana Pedraza
Argentine actress
10,169
views
views
44
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
10,023
views
views
45
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
9,986
views
views
46
Elvira Nabiullina
Russian economist and Governor of the Bank of Russia
9,837
views
views
47
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
9,818
views
views
48
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
9,473
views
views
49
Yuan Yang
British-Chinese political, journalist
9,113
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views
50
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
9,050
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views
51
S. Venkitaramanan
Indian economist, (1931-2023)
8,973
views
views
52
Siegfried Mureșan
Romanian politician
8,928
views
views
53
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
8,853
views
views
54
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
8,846
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views
55
Tony Elumelu
Nigerian banker
8,771
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views
56
Eric Weinstein
American mathematician and venture capital director
8,766
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views
57
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
8,678
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58
Ed Davey
British politician (born 1965)
8,656
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views
59
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
8,568
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60
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
8,356
views
views
61
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
8,238
views
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62
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
8,194
views
views
63
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
8,141
views
views
64
Viktor Yushchenko
3rd President of Ukraine
8,021
views
views
65
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
7,929
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views
66
Michael O'Leary
Irish businessman, CEO of Ryanair Group
7,929
views
views
67
Elaine Chao
18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
7,799
views
views
68
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
7,786
views
views
69
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
7,749
views
views
70
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
7,565
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views
71
Subramanian Swamy
Indian politician
7,474
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views
72
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
7,378
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73
Gary Stevenson (campaigner)
British YouTuber and former financial trader
7,255
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views
74
Thabo Mbeki
President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008
7,239
views
views
75
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
7,176
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views
76
Brian Hallisay
American actor
7,165
views
views
77
Han Zheng
Vice President of the People's Republic of China
7,000
views
views
78
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
6,981
views
views
79
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
6,873
views
views
80
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
6,741
views
views
81
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
6,534
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views
82
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
6,451
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views
83
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
6,403
views
views
84
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
6,373
views
views
85
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
6,370
views
views
86
Mario Draghi
Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy
6,349
views
views
87
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
6,259
views
views
88
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist and politician
6,235
views
views
89
Chanakya
Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy.
6,148
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views
90
Yvette Cooper
British politician (born 1969)
6,118
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views
91
José Manuel Restrepo Abondano
Colombian academic and politician
5,994
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views
92
Liam Halligan
Economist, journalist, broadcaster
5,894
views
views
93
Dag Hammarskjöld
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961)
5,847
views
views
94
Klaus Schwab
German economist, founder of World Economic Forum
5,847
views
views
95
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
5,717
views
views
96
Gale Anne Hurd
American film producer and screenwriter
5,688
views
views
97
Yulia Svyrydenko
Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine
5,669
views
views
98
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
5,658
views
views
99
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
5,551
views
views
100
Ashraf Ghani
President of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2021 (17 11 2006
5,492
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