Trending Economists this week
The 100 most-viewed economists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Kevin Warsh.
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651,351
Total Views (this week)
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Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
42,541
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2
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
25,287
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3
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
24,731
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4
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
22,595
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5
Sepp Blatter
8th President of the International Federation of Association Football
20,835
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views
6
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
16,158
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7
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
15,660
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8
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
15,514
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9
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
15,463
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views
10
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
15,065
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views
11
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
14,129
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12
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
14,103
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views
13
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
13,581
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14
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
13,149
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views
15
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
11,952
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views
16
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
11,931
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views
17
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
11,852
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views
18
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
10,713
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views
19
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
9,916
views
views
20
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
9,703
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views
21
Diana Fox
British economist and author
9,266
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views
22
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
7,818
views
views
23
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
7,394
views
views
24
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
7,074
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views
25
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
7,044
views
views
26
Alassane Ouattara
President of Ivory Coast (2010–present)
6,848
views
views
27
S. Venkitaramanan
Indian economist, (1931-2023)
6,847
views
views
28
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
6,448
views
views
29
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
6,436
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views
30
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
6,140
views
views
31
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
5,703
views
views
32
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
5,565
views
views
33
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
5,477
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views
34
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
5,343
views
views
35
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
5,022
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views
36
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
4,999
views
views
37
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
4,860
views
views
38
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
4,752
views
views
39
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
4,621
views
views
40
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
4,550
views
views
41
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
4,538
views
views
42
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
4,496
views
views
43
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
4,431
views
views
44
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
4,402
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views
45
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
4,323
views
views
46
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
4,287
views
views
47
Elvira Nabiullina
Russian economist and Governor of the Bank of Russia
4,231
views
views
48
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
4,022
views
views
49
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
3,936
views
views
50
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
3,921
views
views
51
Michael O'Leary
Irish businessman, CEO of Ryanair Group
3,921
views
views
52
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
3,853
views
views
53
Ian Bremmer
American political scientist
3,819
views
views
54
Mario Draghi
Italian economist, academic, banker and politician; former prime minister of Italy
3,791
views
views
55
Elaine Chao
18th United States Secretary of Transportation and 24th United States Secretary of Labor
3,739
views
views
56
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965)
3,719
views
views
57
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
3,717
views
views
58
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
3,676
views
views
59
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
3,598
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views
60
Michael Meeropol
American economist
3,577
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views
61
Yvette Cooper
British politician
3,573
views
views
62
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
3,567
views
views
63
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
3,544
views
views
64
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
3,514
views
views
65
Luciana Pedraza
Argentine actress
3,394
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views
66
Eric Weinstein
American mathematician and venture capital director
3,385
views
views
67
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
3,384
views
views
68
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
3,349
views
views
69
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
3,300
views
views
70
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
3,241
views
views
71
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
3,204
views
views
72
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
3,166
views
views
73
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
3,123
views
views
74
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
3,080
views
views
75
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
3,057
views
views
76
Thabo Mbeki
President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008
3,051
views
views
77
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
3,036
views
views
78
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
2,979
views
views
79
Christine Lagarde
President of the European Central Bank
2,938
views
views
80
Brian Hallisay
American actor
2,916
views
views
81
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
2,878
views
views
82
Santiago Peña Palacios
President of Paraguay since 2023
2,841
views
views
83
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
2,823
views
views
84
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
2,599
views
views
85
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
2,560
views
views
86
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
2,533
views
views
87
Miatta Fahnbulleh
liberian-born british economist and politician
2,526
views
views
88
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
2,524
views
views
89
Viktor Yushchenko
3rd President of Ukraine
2,517
views
views
90
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
2,485
views
views
91
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
2,433
views
views
92
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
2,391
views
views
93
Yanis Varoufakis
Greek economist and politician
2,384
views
views
94
Paul Krugman
American economist (born 1953)
2,342
views
views
95
Dilma Rousseff
36th President of Brazil (2011-2016), 3rd President of the New Development Bank (BRICS)
2,325
views
views
96
Chanakya
4th-century BCE Indian statesman and philosopher
2,281
views
views
97
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
2,272
views
views
98
Jim O'Neill
British economist (born 1957)
2,271
views
views
99
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Peruvian politician and economist; Prime Minister (2005–06), President (2016–18)
2,251
views
views
100
George Shultz
American politician (1920–2021)
2,232
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