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The most followed academics

The academics with the biggest social audiences — ranked by total following, not fame.

  1. 1Jordan Peterson
    Jordan Peterson8.8M
  2. 2Mizanur Rahman Azhari
    Mizanur Rahman Azhari3.5M
  3. 3Mohamed Faid
    Mohamed Faid2.6M
  4. 4Ramani Durvasula
    Ramani Durvasula2.1M
  5. 5Andrej Karpathy
    Andrej Karpathy1.8M
  6. 6Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón
    Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón1.6M
  7. 7Robert Reich
    Robert Reich1.6M
  8. 8YT
    Yōichi Takahashi1.4M
  9. 9Assim al-Hakeem
    Assim al-Hakeem1.4M
  10. 10Özgür Demirtaş
    Özgür Demirtaş1.4M
  11. 11Hannah Fry
    Hannah Fry1.3M
  12. 12Ekaterina Schulmann
    Ekaterina Schulmann1.2M
  13. 13Sławomir Mentzen
    Sławomir Mentzen1.1M
  14. 14Dmitry Potapenko
    Dmitry Potapenko1.0M
  15. 15Alexei Osipov
    Alexei Osipov930K
  16. 16Javier Milei
    Javier Milei680K
  17. 17Peter Schiff
    Peter Schiff625K
  18. 18Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.574K
  19. 19Salih al-Fawzan
    Salih al-Fawzan482K
  20. 20Mikhail Veller
    Mikhail Veller374K
  21. 21Gad Saad
    Gad Saad370K
  22. 22Alexey Savvateev
    Alexey Savvateev350K
  23. 23Iryna Farion
    Iryna Farion330K
  24. 24Salman Alodah
    Salman Alodah328K
  25. 25Eric Weinstein
    Eric Weinstein318K

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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