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The educators with an audience far past the classroom — the teachers and explainers who made learning something millions choose to watch. 814 tracked, ordered by real public-attention signals: how often the world searches them, reads their Wikipedia, and follows them, updated every day.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Quintilian	Spain	Educators	64.2	25.0
#2	—	Bill Nye	United States	Educators	61.1	10.9
#3	—	Fukuzawa Yukichi	Japan	Educators	57.7	0.8
#4	—	Bayazid Bastami	—	Educators	57.7	6.3
#5	—	A. J. Ayer	United Kingdom	Educators	57.6	15.0
#6	—	Mariela Castro Espín	—	Educators	57.2	10.1
#7	—	Kurt Hahn	Germany	Educators	56.2	5.3
#8	—	Michael Sandel	United States	Educators	55.3	0.0
#9	—	Francisco Ferrer	Spain	Educators	55.3	2.5
#10	—	László Polgár	—	Educators	55.2	2.7
#11	—	Anton Makarenko	—	Educators	55.1	0.0
#12	—	Ursula Ledóchowska	Austria	Educators	54.8	10.0
#13	—	Liviu Librescu	United States	Educators	54.6	0.0
#14	—	Hermann Ebbinghaus	Germany	Educators	54.5	0.0
#15	—	Karl Haushofer	Germany	Educators	54.5	0.0
#16	—	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn	Germany	Educators	54.4	0.0
#17	—	Guy Gilbert	France	Educators	54.4	15.0
#18	—	Ilya Ulyanov	—	Educators	54.2	0.0
#19	—	Katharine Drexel	United States	Educators	54.2	13.4
#20	—	Maria Ulyanova	—	Educators	54.1	0.0
#21	—	Henryk Górecki	—	Educators	54.0	0.0
#22	—	Pedro Zamora	United States	Educators	53.9	10.7
#23	—	Vilayanur S. Ramachandran	India	Educators	53.7	0.7
#24	—	Fatmir Sejdiu	—	Educators	53.6	2.5
#25	—	Jan Patočka	—	Educators	53.4	0.5
#26	—	Dorothy Height	United States	Educators	53.3	2.3
#27	—	John Holt	United States	Educators	53.2	15.8
#28	—	A. S. Neill	United Kingdom	Educators	53.2	0.0
#29	—	Marina Semyonova	—	Educators	53.2	2.8
#30	—	Célestin Freinet	France	Educators	53.1	0.0
#31	—	Olave Baden-Powell	United Kingdom	Educators	53.0	2.3
#32	—	Simón Rodríguez	Spain	Educators	52.9	1.0
#33	—	Robert Sobukwe	South Africa	Educators	52.9	3.5
#34	—	Georg Michael Anton Kerschensteiner	—	Educators	52.8	2.2
#35	—	Roza Shanina	—	Educators	52.8	0.0
#36	—	Avram Hershko	—	Educators	52.6	0.0
#37	—	Adolph Diesterweg	—	Educators	52.6	0.0
#38	—	Konstantin Ushinsky	—	Educators	52.5	0.0
#39	—	Minnie Vautrin	United States	Educators	52.4	6.3
#40	—	Richard Davis	United States	Educators	52.4	17.1
#41	—	Harold Garfinkel	United States	Educators	52.3	0.0
#42	—	Arina Rodionovna	—	Educators	52.3	0.2
#43	—	Vincent of Beauvais	—	Educators	52.3	0.0
#44	—	BB Benjamin Bloom	United States	Educators	52.3	0.0
#45	—	Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde	Germany	Educators	52.1	19.9
#46	—	Joseph Calasanz	—	Educators	52.0	0.0
#47	—	Charles-Michel de l'Épée	France	Educators	51.8	0.0
#48	—	Eduard Spranger	Germany	Educators	51.8	0.0
#49	—	Alberto Manzi	—	Educators	51.7	21.1
#50	—	Jaime Escalante	—	Educators	51.6	1.0
#51	—	Nurit Peled-Elhanan	Israel	Educators	51.6	2.2
#52	—	František Tomášek	—	Educators	51.5	11.7
#53	—	Kim Seong-su	South Korea	Educators	51.4	0.0
#54	—	Vittorino da Feltre	—	Educators	51.4	0.4
#55	—	Maggie Aderin	United Kingdom	Educators	51.4	0.0
#56	—	Karolina Lanckorońska	—	Educators	51.4	15.0
#57	—	Helen Parkhurst	United States	Educators	51.3	15.4
#58	—	RC Ron Clark	United States	Educators	51.3	0.0
#59	—	Angelo Soliman	—	Educators	51.0	2.5
#60	—	Robert J. Carney	Canada	Educators	51.0	12.1
#61	—	Ahmad Dahlan	—	Educators	51.0	0.0
#62	—	Amir Pnueli	Israel	Educators	51.0	0.0
#63	—	DA David Ausubel	United States	Educators	50.9	0.0
#64	—	WC Winston Chang	—	Educators	50.9	2.6
#65	—	Ovide Decroly	—	Educators	50.9	0.0
#66	—	Olga Lepeshinskaya	—	Educators	50.8	0.0
#67	—	Loris Malaguzzi	Italy	Educators	50.6	3.2
#68	—	Slava Zaitsev	—	Educators	50.6	0.0
#69	—	Robert Nisbet	United States	Educators	50.6	3.2
#70	—	Koen Lenaerts	—	Educators	50.5	5.0
#71	—	Reuven Feuerstein	—	Educators	50.1	3.8
#72	—	Victor Skumin	—	Educators	50.0	0.0
#73	—	Fredy Hirsch	—	Educators	50.0	1.5
#74	—	Mary Roy	India	Educators	50.0	0.0
#75	—	Katrin Apel	Germany	Educators	49.9	4.5
#76	—	Ivan Betskoy	—	Educators	49.9	2.6
#77	—	Adin Steinsaltz	Israel	Educators	49.9	0.3
#78	—	Juan Pablo Bonet	Spain	Educators	49.8	19.3
#79	—	Sébastien Faure	France	Educators	49.8	0.0
#80	—	Bose Ogulu	Nigeria	Educators	49.8	24.0
#81	—	Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths	—	Educators	49.8	0.0
#82	—	DA David A. Kolb	United States	Educators	49.8	0.0
#83	—	James Samuel Coleman	United States	Educators	49.6	0.0
#84	—	François de La Chaise	France	Educators	49.5	0.0
#85	—	Yajima Kajiko	Japan	Educators	49.4	4.9
#86	—	Lina Morgenstern	—	Educators	49.3	13.8
#87	—	Georgi Lozanov	—	Educators	49.3	0.9
#88	—	Père Jacques	France	Educators	49.3	13.7
#89	—	Alexandra Danilova	United States	Educators	49.2	0.0
#90	—	Rosa Sensat	Spain	Educators	49.2	0.0
#91	—	Georges Hébert	France	Educators	49.2	0.0
#92	—	Maria Grzegorzewska	—	Educators	49.2	3.4
#93	—	Rajendra Singh	India	Educators	49.1	2.4
#94	—	Johannes Sturm	—	Educators	49.1	0.0
#95	—	Hilly Tropper	Israel	Educators	49.1	0.0
#96	—	Emily Davies	—	Educators	49.0	0.4
#97	—	Olha Petliura	—	Educators	49.0	10.0
#98	—	SH Samuel Hartlib	—	Educators	49.0	16.2
#99	—	Takeko Kujō	Japan	Educators	49.0	4.5
#100	—	Yui Shōsetsu	Japan	Educators	48.9	0.7

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