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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Gautama Buddha	—	Academics	98.3	10.0
#2	—	Socrates	Brazil	Academics	98.3	10.0
#3	—	Confucius	China	Academics	98.1	10.0
#4	—	Karl Marx	Germany	Academics	94.3	0.0
#5	—	Friedrich Nietzsche	Germany	Academics	94.3	0.0
#6	—	Isaac Newton	United Kingdom	Academics	94.2	0.0
#7	—	Plato	—	Academics	94.2	0.0
#8	—	Immanuel Kant	—	Academics	94.1	0.0
#9	—	Voltaire	France	Academics	94.0	0.0
#10	—	René Descartes	France	Academics	93.9	0.0
#11	—	Archimedes	—	Academics	93.2	0.0
#12	—	John Locke	United Kingdom	Academics	92.4	10.0
#13	—	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Switzerland	Academics	95.7	10.0
#14	—	Augustine of Hippo	—	Academics	91.0	0.0
#15	—	Adam Smith	United Kingdom	Academics	90.9	1.2
#16	—	Friedrich Engels	Germany	Academics	90.9	10.0
#17	—	Neil Armstrong	United States	Academics	90.8	0.8
#18	—	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Germany	Academics	90.5	15.0
#19	—	Pythagoras	—	Academics	90.3	2.2
#20	—	Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	Academics	89.4	10.6
#21	—	Laozi	—	Academics	88.7	0.0
#22	—	John Maynard Keynes	United Kingdom	Academics	88.4	4.9
#23	—	Pope Benedict XVI	Germany	Academics	88.2	0.5
#24	—	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	—	Academics	87.8	0.0
#25	—	Cicero	Italy	Academics	87.7	0.0
#26	—	Euclid	—	Academics	87.0	0.0
#27	—	Carl Friedrich Gauss	Germany	Academics	86.9	0.0
#28	—	Alan Turing	United Kingdom	Academics	86.5	0.7
#29	—	Blaise Pascal	France	Academics	85.9	0.0
#30	—	Avicenna	—	Academics	85.9	0.0
#31	—	Leonhard Euler	Switzerland	Academics	85.4	0.3
#32	—	Noam Chomsky	United States	Academics	84.9	0.0
#33	—	Javier Milei	Argentina	Academics	84.6	10.2
#34	—	Thales of Miletus	Turkey	Academics	84.6	9.9
#35	—	Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi	—	Academics	84.5	5.2
#36	—	Niels Bohr	—	Academics	84.0	0.0
#37	—	Yuval Noah Harari	Israel	Academics	83.8	13.3
#38	—	Johannes Kepler	Germany	Academics	83.6	0.0
#39	—	Max Planck	Germany	Academics	83.4	0.0
#40	—	Omar Khayyam	—	Academics	83.2	3.0
#41	—	Ralph Waldo Emerson	United States	Academics	83.2	10.0
#42	—	Erasmus	Netherlands	Academics	82.9	10.0
#43	—	Baruch Spinoza	Netherlands	Academics	82.7	0.1
#44	—	Søren Kierkegaard	—	Academics	82.7	1.4
#45	—	Rafael Correa	—	Academics	82.7	1.4
#46	—	Arthur Schopenhauer	—	Academics	82.4	0.3
#47	—	Mark Carney	Canada	Academics	82.3	16.2
#48	—	Antonín Dvořák	—	Academics	82.2	10.3
#49	—	Ludwig Wittgenstein	United Kingdom	Academics	81.6	0.0
#50	—	Jordan Peterson	Canada	Academics	81.3	0.0
#51	—	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	—	Academics	80.9	5.3
#52	—	Dilma Rousseff	Brazil	Academics	80.6	2.3
#53	—	Aesop	—	Academics	80.2	0.0
#54	—	David Hume	United Kingdom	Academics	79.9	1.1
#55	—	Ibn Khaldun	—	Academics	79.8	0.0
#56	—	Martin Heidegger	Germany	Academics	79.8	2.8
#57	—	Paul Krugman	United States	Academics	79.5	14.6
#58	—	Huang Xianfan	China	Academics	79.4	0.0
#59	—	David Hilbert	—	Academics	79.4	0.0
#60	—	Petrarch	Italy	Academics	79.3	0.0
#61	—	Larry Sanger	United States	Academics	79.2	18.4
#62	—	Mikhail Bakunin	—	Academics	79.1	25.0
#63	—	Al-Ghazali	—	Academics	79.0	2.4
#64	—	Henri Bergson	France	Academics	78.8	10.9
#65	—	Jane Goodall	United Kingdom	Academics	78.8	0.1
#66	—	Thomas Hobbes	United Kingdom	Academics	78.8	0.0
#67	—	Sam Harris	United States	Academics	78.3	1.6
#68	—	Montesquieu	France	Academics	78.3	0.0
#69	—	B. R. Ambedkar	India	Academics	78.3	1.3
#70	—	Lewis Carroll	United Kingdom	Academics	78.2	0.0
#71	—	Yulia Tymoshenko	—	Academics	78.2	0.0
#72	—	Denis Diderot	France	Academics	78.1	1.2
#73	—	Epicurus	—	Academics	78.0	0.9
#74	—	Umberto Eco	Italy	Academics	77.6	0.1
#75	—	Ekaterina Schulmann	—	Academics	77.4	13.6
#76	—	Democritus	—	Academics	77.3	0.0
#77	—	Henri Poincaré	France	Academics	77.2	9.5
#78	—	Michel de Montaigne	France	Academics	77.1	2.2
#79	—	Lex Fridman	United States	Academics	76.9	0.6
#80	—	John Stuart Mill	United Kingdom	Academics	76.9	0.0
#81	—	Edgar Morin	France	Academics	76.7	10.0
#82	—	Alexander Dugin	—	Academics	76.5	5.1
#83	—	Heraclitus	Turkey	Academics	76.4	0.0
#84	—	Ptolemy	—	Academics	76.2	0.0
#85	—	Peter Schiff	United States	Academics	76.2	22.7
#86	—	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Academics	76.1	25.0
#87	—	Eric Weinstein	United States	Academics	75.8	4.6
#88	—	Émile Durkheim	France	Academics	75.8	10.0
#89	—	Viktor Yushchenko	—	Academics	75.5	31.0
#90	—	Nagarjuna	—	Academics	74.7	10.0
#91	—	Alice Roberts	United Kingdom	Academics	74.7	12.4
#92	—	Viktor Yanukovych	—	Academics	74.7	15.7
#93	—	Werner Heisenberg	Germany	Academics	74.6	0.0
#94	—	Thomas More	—	Academics	74.3	0.4
#95	—	Thomas Paine	United Kingdom	Academics	74.2	0.5
#96	—	Swami Vivekananda	India	Academics	74.1	0.0
#97	—	Ada Lovelace	—	Academics	74.1	0.0
#98	—	Ram Dass	United States	Academics	74.1	0.1
#99	—	Milton Friedman	United States	Academics	73.8	0.0
#100	—	J. Robert Oppenheimer	United States	Academics	73.7	0.0

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