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Trending Academics on Fame.am — sorted by momentum score. Snapshot: 2026-06-02. Top: Martin Heidegger.

Category: Academics
Sorted by: Momentum score
Top person: Martin Heidegger
Snapshot date: 2026-06-02

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#14	new	Martin Heidegger	Germany	Academics	54.0	18.0
#70	new	Milarepa	—	Academics	36.0	16.2
#33	new	Bede	—	Academics	44.8	16.1
#45	new	Edmund Husserl	—	Academics	41.9	15.7
#67	new	Apollonius of Tyana	—	Academics	37.0	15.7
#38	new	Marc Bloch	France	Academics	43.6	15.3
#8	new	Alexander Hamilton	United States	Academics	60.7	12.3
#7	new	Augustine of Hippo	—	Academics	62.1	11.9
#43	new	Alfred Adler	Austria	Academics	42.1	11.9
#20	new	Rudolf Steiner	—	Academics	50.0	11.0
#163	new	William of Tyre	—	Academics	25.4	10.6
#29	new	Friedrich Hayek	Austria	Academics	46.1	10.6
#18	new	Erasmus	—	Academics	50.4	10.5
#4	new	Niccolò Machiavelli Writing	—	Academics	65.1	10.4
#10	new	Confucius	—	Academics	60.2	10.2
#15	new	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	—	Academics	51.6	10.1
#50	new	Ludwig von Mises	United States	Academics	39.9	10.1
#2	new	Socrates Writing	Brazil	Academics	67.5	10.0
#3	new	Aristotle Directing	—	Academics	66.3	10.0
#6	new	Immanuel Kant	—	Academics	62.2	10.0
#9	new	Friedrich Nietzsche	—	Academics	60.7	10.0
#11	new	René Descartes	France	Academics	59.0	10.0
#12	new	Thucydides	—	Academics	57.8	10.0
#24	new	Josephus	—	Academics	46.5	10.0
#62	new	Benjamin Constant	Switzerland	Academics	37.8	10.0
#74	new	Wilhelm Wundt	Germany	Academics	35.3	10.0
#170	new	Julien Offray de La Mettrie	France	Academics	24.7	9.1
#23	new	Mario Draghi	Italy	Academics	47.4	8.0
#77	new	Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab	—	Academics	34.7	6.3
#63	new	Herbert A. Simon	United States	Academics	37.5	6.2
#78	new	Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite	—	Academics	34.7	6.0
#66	new	David Ricardo	—	Academics	37.2	5.6
#117	new	Ernst Cassirer	—	Academics	29.1	5.3
#39	new	Athanasius of Alexandria	—	Academics	43.2	5.0
#152	new	Noah Webster	United States	Academics	26.1	4.3
#73	new	Chrysippus	—	Academics	35.6	4.2
#125	new	Gregory of Nazianzus	—	Academics	28.6	4.1
#190	new	James George Frazer	United Kingdom	Academics	22.2	3.7
#32	new	Milton Friedman	United States	Academics	45.2	3.7
#84	new	Padmasambhava	—	Academics	33.3	3.7
#172	new	Thomas Babington Macaulay	—	Academics	24.6	3.5
#75	new	José Ortega y Gasset	Spain	Academics	35.1	3.5
#55	new	Mikhail Bakunin	—	Academics	39.4	3.4
#61	new	William of Ockham	—	Academics	37.9	3.3
#191	new	Wilhelm Dilthey	—	Academics	21.9	3.3
#76	new	Ram Mohan Roy	—	Academics	34.9	3.0
#98	new	Maurice Merleau-Ponty	France	Academics	32.1	3.0
#17	new	Hannah Arendt	—	Academics	51.1	2.9
#47	new	Carl Schmitt	Germany	Academics	41.5	2.7
#107	new	Eric Hobsbawm	United Kingdom	Academics	31.0	2.7
#56	new	Jeremy Bentham	—	Academics	39.2	2.7
#89	new	Kabir	—	Academics	32.9	2.6
#179	new	Ernst Bloch	Germany	Academics	23.7	2.4
#58	new	Julius Evola	Italy	Academics	38.4	2.4
#161	new	Fernand Braudel	France	Academics	25.6	2.3
#149	new	Clement of Alexandria	—	Academics	26.1	2.3
#60	new	Bodhidharma	—	Academics	38.0	2.3
#159	new	John of Damascus	—	Academics	25.7	2.1
#119	new	Ibn Taymiyyah	—	Academics	28.9	2.0
#52	new	William James Sidis	United States	Academics	39.8	2.0
#150	new	Isaiah Berlin	United Kingdom	Academics	26.1	2.0
#69	new	Carl von Clausewitz	—	Academics	36.1	1.9
#165	new	Cassius Dio	—	Academics	25.4	1.8
#109	new	Heinrich Schliemann	—	Academics	30.7	1.8
#151	new	Karl Kautsky	—	Academics	26.1	1.7
#148	new	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Germany	Academics	26.2	1.7
#144	new	Sima Qian	—	Academics	26.7	1.7
#90	new	Henri Bergson	France	Academics	32.8	1.7
#105	new	Howard Carter	United Kingdom	Academics	31.3	1.7
#36	new	Søren Kierkegaard	—	Academics	43.8	1.5
#26	new	Diogenes	—	Academics	46.3	1.5
#35	new	Thomas More	—	Academics	44.2	1.4
#1	new	Karl Marx Acting	—	Academics	69.3	1.4
#71	new	Epictetus	—	Academics	35.7	1.3
#116	new	Joseph Schumpeter	—	Academics	29.3	1.3
#49	new	Slavoj Žižek	—	Academics	40.5	1.2
#135	new	Anna Freud	United Kingdom	Academics	27.4	1.2
#64	new	Thales of Miletus	—	Academics	37.5	1.2
#96	new	Meister Eckhart	Germany	Academics	32.2	1.2
#137	new	Polybius	—	Academics	27.2	1.2
#182	new	Mencius	—	Academics	23.4	1.1
#31	new	Thomas Aquinas	—	Academics	45.7	1.1
#157	new	Peter Abelard	—	Academics	25.8	1.0
#102	new	William James	United States	Academics	31.7	1.0
#199	new	Duns Scotus	—	Academics	21.3	1.0
#196	new	Zeno of Elea	—	Academics	21.5	1.0
#155	new	Herbert Spencer	—	Academics	25.9	0.9
#154	new	Mircea Eliade	—	Academics	26.1	0.9
#181	new	Emmanuel Levinas	France	Academics	23.5	0.8
#177	new	Martin Buber	Germany	Academics	23.8	0.8
#51	new	Friedrich Engels	—	Academics	39.9	0.7
#126	new	Miguel de Unamuno	Spain	Academics	28.5	0.7
#21	new	Pythagoras	—	Academics	49.6	0.7
#104	new	Daniel Kahneman	Israel	Academics	31.3	0.7
#16	new	Gautama Buddha	—	Academics	51.2	0.7
#167	new	Adam Weishaupt	—	Academics	25.2	0.6
#176	new	Zhuang Zhou	—	Academics	24.0	0.6
#81	new	Pierre Bourdieu	France	Academics	34.3	0.6
#68	new	David Hume	—	Academics	36.3	0.6
#27	new	Jordan Peterson	Canada	Academics	46.3	0.6