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The most followed academics

The academics with the biggest social audiences, ranked by total following rather than fame.

Mizanur Rahman Azhari

Academics

2nd3.5M · Followers

Jordan Peterson

Academics

1st8.8M · Followers

Mohamed Faid

Academics

3rd2.6M · Followers
Jordan Peterson tops this list.

Followers: 8.8M, ahead of Mizanur Rahman Azhari at 3.5M.

Next on the board
  1. 4thRamani DurvasulaAcademics2.1M
  2. 5thAndrej KarpathyAcademics1.9M
  3. 6thSteve TurleyAcademics1.7M
  4. 7thEduardo Sáenz de CabezónAcademics1.6M
  5. 8thRobert ReichAcademics1.6M
  6. 9thYōichi TakahashiAcademics1.4M
The rest of the list16
PlaceNameCountryCategoryFollowers
10thAssim al-HakeemAcademicsSaudi ArabiaAcademics1.4M11thÖzgür DemirtaşAcademicsTurkeyAcademics1.4M12thHannah FryAcademicsUnited KingdomAcademics1.4M13thEkaterina SchulmannAcademicsRussiaAcademics1.2M14thSławomir MentzenAcademicsPolandAcademics1.1M15thDmitry PotapenkoAcademicsRussiaAcademics1.0M16thAlexei OsipovAcademicsRussiaAcademics930K17thAdam AleksicAcademicsUnited StatesAcademics733K18thJavier MileiAcademicsArgentinaAcademics677K19thPeter SchiffAcademicsUnited StatesAcademics638K20thRobert F. Kennedy Jr.AcademicsUnited StatesAcademics574K21stSalih al-FawzanAcademicsSaudi ArabiaAcademics476K22ndArthur C. BrooksAcademicsUnited StatesAcademics410K23rdGad SaadAcademicsCanadaAcademics377K24thAlexey SavvateevAcademicsRussiaAcademics350K25thIryna FarionAcademicsUkraineAcademics330K
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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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