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Top 100 Academics tagged #Literature

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The most famous academics associated with Literature 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	Gautama Buddha	—	Academics	98.3	10.0
#2	new	Socrates	Brazil	Academics	98.3	10.0
#3	new	Confucius	China	Academics	98.1	10.0
#4	new	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Switzerland	Academics	95.7	10.0
#5	new	Friedrich Nietzsche	Germany	Academics	94.3	0.0
#6	new	Plato	—	Academics	94.2	0.0
#7	new	Immanuel Kant	—	Academics	94.1	0.0
#8	new	Voltaire	France	Academics	94.0	0.0
#9	new	René Descartes	France	Academics	93.9	0.0
#10	new	John Locke	United Kingdom	Academics	92.4	10.0
#11	new	Augustine of Hippo	—	Academics	91.0	0.0
#12	new	Adam Smith	United Kingdom	Academics	90.9	1.2
#13	new	Friedrich Engels	Germany	Academics	90.9	10.0
#14	new	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Germany	Academics	90.5	15.0
#15	new	Pythagoras	—	Academics	90.3	2.2
#16	new	Bertrand Russell	United Kingdom	Academics	89.4	10.6
#17	new	Laozi	—	Academics	88.7	0.0
#18	new	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	—	Academics	87.8	0.0
#19	new	Cicero	Italy	Academics	87.7	0.0
#20	new	Euclid	—	Academics	87.0	0.0
#21	new	Blaise Pascal	France	Academics	85.9	0.0
#22	new	Leonhard Euler	Switzerland	Academics	85.4	0.3
#23	new	Noam Chomsky	United States	Academics	84.9	0.0
#24	new	Thales of Miletus	Turkey	Academics	84.6	9.9
#25	new	Johannes Kepler	Germany	Academics	83.6	0.0
#26	new	Omar Khayyam	—	Academics	83.2	3.0
#27	new	Ralph Waldo Emerson	United States	Academics	83.2	10.0
#28	new	Erasmus	Netherlands	Academics	82.9	10.0
#29	new	Søren Kierkegaard	—	Academics	82.7	1.4
#30	new	Arthur Schopenhauer	—	Academics	82.4	0.3
#31	new	Jordan Peterson	Canada	Academics	81.3	0.0
#32	new	Aesop	—	Academics	80.2	0.0
#33	new	David Hume	United Kingdom	Academics	79.9	1.1
#34	new	Ibn Khaldun	—	Academics	79.8	0.0
#35	new	Petrarch	Italy	Academics	79.3	0.0
#36	new	Mikhail Bakunin	—	Academics	79.1	25.0
#37	new	Henri Bergson	France	Academics	78.8	10.9
#38	new	Jane Goodall	United Kingdom	Academics	78.8	0.1
#39	new	Thomas Hobbes	United Kingdom	Academics	78.8	0.0
#40	new	Montesquieu	France	Academics	78.3	0.0
#41	new	B. R. Ambedkar	India	Academics	78.3	1.3
#42	new	Lewis Carroll	United Kingdom	Academics	78.2	0.0
#43	new	Denis Diderot	France	Academics	78.1	1.2
#44	new	Epicurus	—	Academics	78.0	0.9
#45	new	Umberto Eco	Italy	Academics	77.6	0.1
#46	new	Henri Poincaré	France	Academics	77.2	9.5
#47	new	Michel de Montaigne	France	Academics	77.1	2.2
#48	new	John Stuart Mill	United Kingdom	Academics	76.9	0.0
#49	new	Heraclitus	Turkey	Academics	76.4	0.0
#50	new	Ptolemy	—	Academics	76.2	0.0
#51	new	Pierre-Simon Laplace	France	Academics	76.1	25.0
#52	new	Nagarjuna	—	Academics	74.7	10.0
#53	new	Thomas Paine	United Kingdom	Academics	74.2	0.5
#54	new	Swami Vivekananda	India	Academics	74.1	0.0
#55	new	Ada Lovelace	—	Academics	74.1	0.0
#56	new	Averroes	Spain	Academics	73.6	0.9
#57	new	Auguste Comte	France	Academics	73.2	0.0
#58	new	Maimonides	Spain	Academics	72.7	10.0
#59	new	Karl Popper	Austria	Academics	72.6	0.2
#60	new	Nostradamus	France	Academics	72.5	1.2
#61	new	Jean le Rond d'Alembert	France	Academics	72.5	11.0
#62	new	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Germany	Academics	72.5	15.0
#63	new	Anaxagoras	Turkey	Academics	72.4	10.0
#64	new	Hannah Arendt	Germany	Academics	72.4	0.0
#65	new	Joseph Fourier	France	Academics	72.4	0.0
#66	new	Charles Babbage	United Kingdom	Academics	72.4	3.9
#67	new	Herbert Spencer	United Kingdom	Academics	72.4	0.8
#68	new	Adam Mickiewicz	—	Academics	72.3	0.0
#69	new	Mary Wollstonecraft	United Kingdom	Academics	72.3	0.0
#70	new	Michel Foucault	France	Academics	72.3	0.0
#71	new	Ludwig Feuerbach	Germany	Academics	72.2	15.0
#72	new	Antonio Gramsci	Italy	Academics	71.8	0.0
#73	new	Alexis de Tocqueville	France	Academics	71.7	3.0
#74	new	Thomas Robert Malthus	United Kingdom	Academics	71.1	15.0
#75	new	Hypatia	Egypt	Academics	71.1	0.7
#76	new	William James	United States	Academics	71.0	0.0
#77	new	Alfred Russel Wallace	United Kingdom	Academics	71.0	9.9
#78	new	Theodor W. Adorno	United States	Academics	70.8	15.0
#79	new	Epictetus	Turkey	Academics	70.8	0.0
#80	new	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	France	Academics	70.8	15.0
#81	new	Muhammad Iqbal	—	Academics	70.0	2.7
#82	new	Johann Gottfried Herder	—	Academics	69.9	25.0
#83	new	Mencius	—	Academics	69.0	0.0
#84	new	Xenophanes	Turkey	Academics	69.0	13.9
#85	new	Konstantin Tsiolkovsky	—	Academics	68.8	2.2
#86	new	Zeno of Elea	Italy	Academics	68.7	15.0
#87	new	Eratosthenes	—	Academics	68.6	0.5
#88	new	Zhuang Zhou	China	Academics	68.6	5.1
#89	new	John Amos Comenius	—	Academics	68.6	6.7
#90	new	T. E. Lawrence	United Kingdom	Academics	68.5	9.2
#91	new	Alexander Hamilton	United States	Academics	68.5	0.6
#92	new	Margaret Mead	United States	Academics	68.5	10.0
#93	new	Parmenides	Italy	Academics	68.5	0.0
#94	new	Erich Fromm	Germany	Academics	68.0	1.0
#95	new	Anaximander	Turkey	Academics	68.0	0.0
#96	new	John Dewey	United States	Academics	68.0	0.0
#97	new	Paul Samuelson	United States	Academics	67.7	10.0
#98	new	George Berkeley	—	Academics	67.6	0.0
#99	new	Anselm of Canterbury	Italy	Academics	67.5	15.0
#100	new	Jiddu Krishnamurti	India	Academics	67.5	0.0