Study
The most followed academics
The academics with the biggest social audiences — ranked by total following, not fame.
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Jordan Peterson8.8M - 2
Lex Fridman5.0M - 3
Ramani Durvasula2.1M - 4
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Assim al-Hakeem1.4M - 5
Özgür Demirtaş1.4M - 6
Ekaterina Schulmann1.2M - 7
Sławomir Mentzen1.1M - 8
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Sam Harris859K - 9
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Yuval Noah Harari843K - 10
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Javier Milei680K - 11
Peter Schiff625K - 12
Zaghloul El-Naggar498K - 13
David A. Sinclair460K - 14
Ram Dass358K - 15
Alexey Savvateev350K - 16
Eric Weinstein318K - 17
Charles Hoskinson313K - 18
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Arthur C. Brooks308K - 19
Antonio Escohotado298K - 20
Nevzat Tarhan283K - 21
Wolf-Dieter Storl281K - 22
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Alessandro Orsini210K - 23
Scott Adams207K - 24
Malcolm Nance174K - 25
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Yulia Tymoshenko159K
Ranked by total sourced social following — the largest audience on record per person, drawn mainly from YouTube where we source reliably.
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