Academics · #20th Century

Top 100 Academics tagged #20th Century

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The most famous academics associated with 20th Century right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	new	Neil Armstrong	United States	Academics	90.8	0.8
#2	new	Alan Turing	United Kingdom	Academics	86.5	0.7
#3	new	Noam Chomsky	United States	Academics	84.9	0.0
#4	new	Niels Bohr	—	Academics	84.0	0.0
#5	new	Ludwig Wittgenstein	United Kingdom	Academics	81.6	0.0
#6	new	Jordan Peterson	Canada	Academics	81.3	0.0
#7	new	Mahmoud Ahmadinejad	—	Academics	80.9	5.3
#8	new	Dilma Rousseff	Brazil	Academics	80.6	2.3
#9	new	Martin Heidegger	Germany	Academics	79.8	2.8
#10	new	Huang Xianfan	China	Academics	79.4	0.0
#11	new	Jane Goodall	United Kingdom	Academics	78.8	0.1
#12	new	Yulia Tymoshenko	—	Academics	78.2	0.0
#13	new	Viktor Yushchenko	—	Academics	75.5	31.0
#14	new	Viktor Yanukovych	—	Academics	74.7	15.7
#15	new	Werner Heisenberg	Germany	Academics	74.6	0.0
#16	new	Milton Friedman	United States	Academics	73.8	0.0
#17	new	J. Robert Oppenheimer	United States	Academics	73.7	0.0
#18	new	Srinivasa Ramanujan	India	Academics	73.2	6.2
#19	new	Kurt Gödel	United States	Academics	73.2	15.0
#20	new	Manmohan Singh	—	Academics	73.0	3.9
#21	new	John von Neumann	—	Academics	72.7	1.6
#22	new	Karl Popper	Austria	Academics	72.6	0.2
#23	new	John Forbes Nash Jr.	United States	Academics	72.4	18.4
#24	new	Hannah Arendt	Germany	Academics	72.4	0.0
#25	new	Lee Kuan Yew	—	Academics	71.6	0.7
#26	new	Paul Dirac	United Kingdom	Academics	71.5	0.4
#27	new	Wolfgang Pauli	United States	Academics	70.9	29.6
#28	new	Jürgen Habermas	Germany	Academics	70.9	8.7
#29	new	Muhammad Yunus	—	Academics	70.8	0.8
#30	new	Theodor W. Adorno	United States	Academics	70.8	15.0
#31	new	Jens Stoltenberg	Norway	Academics	70.6	10.5
#32	new	Muhammad Iqbal	—	Academics	70.0	2.7
#33	new	Romano Prodi	Italy	Academics	69.8	23.6
#34	new	Paul Ekman	United States	Academics	69.8	0.7
#35	new	Nadia Boulanger	France	Musicians	69.0	10.0
#36	new	António de Oliveira Salazar	Portugal	Academics	68.8	16.3
#37	new	T. E. Lawrence	United Kingdom	Academics	68.5	9.2
#38	new	Friedrich Hayek	Austria	Academics	68.5	0.0
#39	new	Margaret Mead	United States	Academics	68.5	10.0
#40	new	Mario Draghi	Italy	Academics	68.0	25.0
#41	new	James Chadwick	United Kingdom	Academics	67.9	4.7
#42	new	Slavoj Žižek	—	Academics	67.8	0.9
#43	new	Paul Samuelson	United States	Academics	67.7	10.0
#44	new	Jiddu Krishnamurti	India	Academics	67.5	0.0
#45	new	Amartya Sen	India	Academics	67.2	0.0
#46	new	Jean Piaget	Switzerland	Academics	67.1	0.0
#47	new	Josef Mengele	Germany	Academics	66.7	3.2
#48	new	Paul Erdős	—	Academics	66.3	15.1
#49	new	Jacques Derrida	France	Academics	66.1	0.4
#50	new	Walter Benjamin	—	Academics	65.9	0.0
#51	new	Jean Baudrillard	France	Academics	65.6	10.0
#52	new	Gloria Macapagal Arroyo	—	Academics	65.5	4.2
#53	new	Mario Monti	Italy	Academics	65.5	26.9
#54	new	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Germany	Academics	65.2	21.5
#55	new	Ted Kaczynski	United States	Academics	65.1	2.2
#56	new	Abraham Maslow	United States	Academics	64.8	0.0
#57	new	Eugene Wigner	—	Academics	64.7	0.0
#58	new	Anders Fogh Rasmussen	—	Academics	64.7	4.6
#59	new	Emmy Noether	Germany	Academics	64.5	0.0
#60	new	Lise Meitner	Austria	Academics	64.5	0.0
#61	new	Elinor Ostrom	United States	Academics	64.1	0.0
#62	new	Hans-Georg Gadamer	Germany	Academics	63.6	15.0
#63	new	Marshall McLuhan	Canada	Academics	63.5	0.0
#64	new	Pierre Bourdieu	France	Academics	63.5	0.8
#65	new	Ludwig Erhard	Germany	Academics	63.5	0.0
#66	new	Gilles Deleuze	France	Academics	63.2	0.0
#67	new	Sergei Korolev	—	Academics	62.9	1.0
#68	new	Edward Teller	—	Academics	62.8	0.6
#69	new	Herbert Marcuse	Germany	Academics	62.7	0.0
#70	new	Lawrence Bragg	United Kingdom	Academics	62.6	0.0
#71	new	Erik Erikson	Germany	Academics	62.5	16.4
#72	new	Alfred Wegener	Germany	Academics	62.4	0.0
#73	new	Carlo Azeglio Ciampi	Italy	Academics	62.2	2.3
#74	new	Roland Barthes	France	Academics	62.2	0.0
#75	new	José Ortega y Gasset	Spain	Academics	62.1	0.0
#76	new	Shin'ichirō Tomonaga	Japan	Academics	62.0	4.9
#77	new	Emil Cioran	—	Academics	61.8	0.0
#78	new	Vivienne Westwood	United Kingdom	Academics	61.8	10.0
#79	new	John Rawls	United States	Academics	61.7	0.0
#80	new	Joseph Stiglitz	United States	Academics	61.7	0.0
#81	new	Herbert A. Simon	United States	Academics	61.6	15.2
#82	new	Lev Vygotsky	—	Academics	61.5	0.0
#83	new	Georges Lemaître	—	Academics	61.5	0.0
#84	new	Benoit Mandelbrot	—	Academics	61.4	0.5
#85	new	Gertrude B. Elion	United States	Academics	61.4	0.0
#86	new	Zygmunt Bauman	—	Academics	61.2	10.2
#87	new	Julia Kristeva	France	Academics	61.1	2.4
#88	new	Isaiah Berlin	United Kingdom	Academics	60.9	0.4
#89	new	Dian Fossey	United States	Academics	60.9	0.6
#90	new	Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden	Sweden	Academics	60.8	3.4
#91	new	Ludwig von Mises	United States	Academics	60.6	0.0
#92	new	Samuel P. Huntington	United States	Academics	60.5	0.0
#93	new	Martin Buber	Germany	Academics	60.5	0.0
#94	new	Daniel Kahneman	Israel	Academics	60.5	0.0
#95	new	Andrey Kolmogorov	—	Academics	60.5	0.9
#96	new	György Lukács	—	Academics	60.4	3.7
#97	new	Bernie Madoff	United States	Academics	60.3	0.0
#98	new	Zbigniew Brzezinski	United States	Academics	60.1	0.0
#99	new	Lyudmila Putina	—	Academics	60.1	0.7
#100	new	Stefan Banach	—	Academics	59.9	0.0