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Everyone the internet links to Academics, ordered by the spotlight they hold. 434 tracked, ranked on measured visibility — search interest, encyclopedic footprint, press, and social audience — not opinion, and rebuilt daily.

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Gautama Buddha

The people the world most associates with Academics right now, concentrated in France, Germany, United States — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

#AcademicsTop 100Updated dailyHow fame is measured

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Gautama Buddha	—	Academics	98.3	10.0
#2	—	Socrates	Brazil	Academics	98.3	10.0
#3	—	Aristotle	—	Scientists	98.3	10.0
#4	—	Confucius	China	Academics	98.1	10.0
#5	—	Karl Marx	Germany	Academics	94.3	0.0
#6	—	Friedrich Nietzsche	Germany	Academics	94.3	0.0
#7	—	Plato	—	Academics	94.2	0.0
#8	—	Sigmund Freud	Austria	Writers	94.1	0.0
#9	—	Immanuel Kant	—	Academics	94.1	0.0
#10	—	René Descartes	France	Academics	93.9	0.0
#11	—	John Locke	United Kingdom	Academics	92.4	10.0
#12	—	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Switzerland	Academics	95.7	10.0
#13	—	Augustine of Hippo	—	Academics	91.0	0.0
#14	—	Herodotus	Turkey	Writers	91.0	8.8
#15	—	Friedrich Engels	Germany	Academics	90.9	10.0
#16	—	Adam Smith	United Kingdom	Academics	90.9	1.2
#17	—	Niccolò Machiavelli	—	Writers	90.9	0.0
#18	—	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Germany	Academics	90.5	15.0
#19	—	Pythagoras	—	Academics	90.3	2.2
#20	—	Laozi	—	Academics	88.7	0.0
#21	—	Thomas Aquinas	Italy	Actors	92.8	10.0
#22	—	John Maynard Keynes	United Kingdom	Academics	88.4	4.9
#23	—	Avicenna	—	Academics	85.9	0.0
#24	—	Noam Chomsky	United States	Academics	84.9	0.0
#25	—	Thales of Miletus	Turkey	Academics	84.6	9.9
#26	—	Seneca the Younger	—	Writers	84.0	15.0
#27	—	Max Weber	Germany	Lawyers	82.9	1.4
#28	—	Erasmus	Netherlands	Academics	82.9	10.0
#29	—	Baruch Spinoza	Netherlands	Academics	82.7	0.1
#30	—	Søren Kierkegaard	—	Academics	82.7	1.4
#31	—	Arthur Schopenhauer	—	Academics	82.4	0.3
#32	—	Ludwig Wittgenstein	United Kingdom	Academics	81.6	0.0
#33	—	Jordan Peterson	Canada	Academics	81.3	0.0
#34	—	Tacitus	—	Writers	80.5	10.0
#35	—	David Hume	United Kingdom	Academics	79.9	1.1
#36	—	Ibn Khaldun	—	Academics	79.8	0.0
#37	—	Martin Heidegger	Germany	Academics	79.8	2.8
#38	—	Thucydides	—	Writers	79.2	10.0
#39	—	Mikhail Bakunin	—	Academics	79.1	25.0
#40	—	Al-Ghazali	—	Academics	79.0	2.4
#41	—	Plutarch	—	Writers	78.9	0.0
#42	—	Henri Bergson	France	Academics	78.8	10.9
#43	—	Jane Goodall	United Kingdom	Academics	78.8	0.1
#44	—	Thomas Hobbes	United Kingdom	Academics	78.8	0.0
#45	—	Montesquieu	France	Academics	78.3	0.0
#46	—	Carl Jung	Switzerland	Writers	78.0	0.1
#47	—	Epicurus	—	Academics	78.0	0.9
#48	—	Democritus	—	Academics	77.3	0.0
#49	—	Michel de Montaigne	France	Academics	77.1	2.2
#50	—	Chanakya	—	Writers	77.0	2.5
#51	—	John Stuart Mill	United Kingdom	Academics	76.9	0.0
#52	—	Heraclitus	Turkey	Academics	76.4	0.0
#53	—	Émile Durkheim	France	Academics	75.8	10.0
#54	—	Sima Qian	China	Writers	75.3	0.3
#55	—	Nagarjuna	—	Academics	74.7	10.0
#56	—	Thomas More	—	Academics	74.3	0.4
#57	—	Swami Vivekananda	India	Academics	74.1	0.0
#58	—	Livy	Italy	Writers	73.8	1.7
#59	—	Milton Friedman	United States	Academics	73.8	0.0
#60	—	Averroes	Spain	Academics	73.6	0.9
#61	—	Auguste Comte	France	Academics	73.2	0.0
#62	—	Karl Popper	Austria	Academics	72.6	0.2
#63	—	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Germany	Academics	72.5	15.0
#64	—	Anaxagoras	Turkey	Academics	72.4	10.0
#65	—	Hannah Arendt	Germany	Academics	72.4	0.0
#66	—	Herbert Spencer	United Kingdom	Academics	72.4	0.8
#67	—	Michel Foucault	France	Academics	72.3	0.0
#68	—	Ludwig Feuerbach	Germany	Academics	72.2	15.0
#69	—	Xenophon	—	Writers	72.2	0.3
#70	—	Pliny the Elder	—	Writers	72.0	0.0
#71	—	Carl von Clausewitz	Germany	Business Professionals	71.9	16.0
#72	—	Antonio Gramsci	Italy	Academics	71.8	0.0
#73	—	Diogenes	Turkey	Academics	71.7	0.4
#74	—	Lucretius	Italy	Writers	71.7	1.4
#75	—	Alexis de Tocqueville	France	Academics	71.7	3.0
#76	—	Empedocles	Italy	Doctors	71.5	15.0
#77	—	Thomas Robert Malthus	United Kingdom	Academics	71.1	15.0
#78	—	William James	United States	Academics	71.0	0.0
#79	—	Theodor Mommsen	Germany	Lawyers	71.0	0.0
#80	—	Zhu Xi	China	Writers	70.9	0.0
#81	—	Jürgen Habermas	Germany	Academics	70.9	8.7
#82	—	Theodor W. Adorno	United States	Academics	70.8	15.0
#83	—	Epictetus	Turkey	Academics	70.8	0.0
#84	—	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	France	Academics	70.8	15.0
#85	—	Peter Abelard	France	Actors	70.2	20.1
#86	—	Edmund Husserl	—	Academics	70.2	15.6
#87	—	Johann Gottfried Herder	—	Academics	69.9	25.0
#88	—	Paul Ekman	United States	Academics	69.8	0.7
#89	—	Mencius	—	Academics	69.0	0.0
#90	—	Xenophanes	Turkey	Academics	69.0	13.9
#91	—	Zeno of Elea	Italy	Academics	68.7	15.0
#92	1	Zhuang Zhou	China	Academics	68.6	5.1
#93	1	John Amos Comenius	—	Academics	68.6	6.7
#94	—	Friedrich Hayek	Austria	Academics	68.5	0.0
#95	—	Alexander Hamilton	United States	Academics	68.5	0.6
#96	—	Margaret Mead	United States	Academics	68.5	10.0
#97	—	Parmenides	Italy	Academics	68.5	0.0
#98	—	Ramakrishna	India	Academics	68.4	0.0
#99	—	Alfred Adler	Austria	Academics	68.3	0.5
#100	—	Erich Fromm	Germany	Academics	68.0	1.0