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
635,775
Total Views (this year)
1
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
46,154
views
views
2
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
24,228
views
views
3
Vladimir Lenin
founding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
20,838
views
views
4
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
19,586
views
views
5
Mark Carney
24th prime minister of Canada since 2025
19,112
views
views
6
Benjamin Franklin
American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
19,021
views
views
7
Mikhail Gorbachev
leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
17,788
views
views
8
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
17,277
views
views
9
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
13,442
views
views
10
James Callaghan
former prime minister of the United Kingdom (1912–2005)
13,424
views
views
11
Javier Milei
economist, politician and president of Argentina since 2023
12,727
views
views
12
Arsène Wenger
French football manager
12,037
views
views
13
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
10,898
views
views
14
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
10,479
views
views
15
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
10,293
views
views
16
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
10,214
views
views
17
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
8,584
views
views
18
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
queen consort of the Netherlands (born 1971)
8,251
views
views
19
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
President of Turkey since 2014
8,156
views
views
20
Jiang Xueqin
Chinese-Canadian educator known for geopolitical predictions
7,597
views
views
21
Yvette Cooper
British politician
7,403
views
views
22
Dave Brat
American economist and professor at Randolph–Macon College
7,168
views
views
23
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
7,142
views
views
24
Alan Greenspan
American economist and financial advisor (born 1926)
6,946
views
views
25
Gustavo Petro
34th President of Colombia since 2022
6,838
views
views
26
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
6,694
views
views
27
Larry Fink
American Billionaire Business Person and Board Member, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock
6,573
views
views
28
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
6,237
views
views
29
Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain since 2018
6,179
views
views
30
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
6,178
views
views
31
Robert Reich
American political economist (1946–)
6,080
views
views
32
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
6,068
views
views
33
Elizabeth Warren
American politician (born 1949)
6,008
views
views
34
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
5,963
views
views
35
Manmohan Singh
Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politician
5,955
views
views
36
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
5,868
views
views
37
Janet Yellen
78th United States Secretary of the Treasury
5,481
views
views
38
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
5,469
views
views
39
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
5,291
views
views
40
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
5,240
views
views
41
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
5,143
views
views
42
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
5,083
views
views
43
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
4,945
views
views
44
Alexander Lukashenko
President of the Republic of Belarus
4,943
views
views
45
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
4,846
views
views
46
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
4,829
views
views
47
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
4,799
views
views
48
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
4,612
views
views
49
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
4,532
views
views
50
Robert McNamara
American businessman and Secretary of Defense (1916-2009)
4,518
views
views
51
Scott Adams
American cartoonist and author (1957–2026)
4,399
views
views
52
Nathaniel Philip Rothschild
British-born Canadian financier (born 1971)
4,213
views
views
53
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
4,064
views
views
54
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
4,028
views
views
55
Brian Hallisay
American actor
3,951
views
views
56
Alice Weidel
German politician (born 1979), AfD
3,816
views
views
57
Alex Salmond
Alba Party leader and First Minister of Scotland 2007–2014 (1954–2024)
3,790
views
views
58
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
3,386
views
views
59
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
3,373
views
views
60
Ben Bernanke
American economist (born 1953)
3,368
views
views
61
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
3,351
views
views
62
Kofi Annan
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
3,351
views
views
63
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
3,330
views
views
64
Viktor Yanukovych
President of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014
3,282
views
views
65
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)
3,189
views
views
66
Diana Fox
British economist and author
3,182
views
views
67
Rinat Akhmetov
Ukrainian businessman
3,170
views
views
68
Paul Volcker
American economist (1927-2019)
3,161
views
views
69
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
3,146
views
views
70
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
3,134
views
views
71
Rachel Reeves
British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
3,102
views
views
72
Stephen Harper
22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015
3,089
views
views
73
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
3,068
views
views
74
Subramanian Swamy
Indian politician
3,051
views
views
75
Boris Berezovsky
Russian oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician (1946–2013)
3,031
views
views
76
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
2,991
views
views
77
Eric Weinstein
American mathematician and venture capital director
2,961
views
views
78
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
2,936
views
views
79
Guy Standing
British economist
2,921
views
views
80
Jeremy Bentham Rollweiser
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
2,906
views
views
81
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
2,858
views
views
82
Petro Poroshenko
5th President of Ukraine
2,783
views
views
83
Sergei Shoigu
Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
2,760
views
views
84
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
2,729
views
views
85
Ian Bremmer
American political scientist
2,689
views
views
86
Ed Davey
British politician (born 1965)
2,639
views
views
87
Mikhail Mishustin
Russian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
2,627
views
views
88
Niall Ferguson
British historian
2,601
views
views
89
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
2,596
views
views
90
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
2,590
views
views
91
Larry Kudlow
American television host and financial analyst (born 1947)
2,584
views
views
92
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
2,576
views
views
93
Luciana Pedraza
Argentine actress
2,567
views
views
94
Junichiro Koizumi
Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006
2,563
views
views
95
Sepp Blatter
8th President of the International Federation of Association Football
2,543
views
views
96
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
2,509
views
views
97
Chanakya
4th-century BCE Indian statesman and philosopher
2,488
views
views
98
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
2,461
views
views
99
Kevin Hassett
American economist (born 1962)
2,380
views
views
100
David Miliband
British politician (born 1965)
2,355
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