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Top people for #Philosophy

The most-searched, most-followed people in Philosophy. 629 tracked, ordered by real public-attention signals: how often the world searches them, reads their Wikipedia, and follows them, updated every day.

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

#PhilosophyTop 100Updated dailyHow fame is measured

629 tracked

#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	—	Gautama Buddha	—	Academics	98.3	10.0
#2	—	Socrates	Brazil	Academics	98.3	10.0
#3	—	Confucius	China	Academics	98.1	10.0
#4	—	Friedrich Nietzsche	Germany	Academics	94.3	0.0
#5	—	Plato	—	Academics	94.2	0.0
#6	1	Sigmund Freud	Austria	Writers	94.1	0.0
#7	1	Immanuel Kant	—	Academics	94.1	0.0
#8	—	Voltaire	France	Academics	94.0	0.0
#9	—	René Descartes	France	Academics	93.9	0.0
#10	—	John Locke	United Kingdom	Academics	92.4	10.0
#11	—	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Switzerland	Academics	95.7	10.0
#12	—	Augustine of Hippo	—	Academics	91.0	0.0
#13	—	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Germany	Academics	90.5	15.0
#14	—	Laozi	—	Academics	88.7	0.0
#15	—	Pope Benedict XVI	Germany	Academics	88.2	0.5
#16	—	Cicero	Italy	Academics	87.7	0.0
#17	—	Avicenna	—	Academics	85.9	0.0
#18	—	Noam Chomsky	United States	Academics	84.9	0.0
#19	—	Ralph Waldo Emerson	United States	Academics	83.2	10.0
#20	—	Erasmus	Netherlands	Academics	82.9	10.0
#21	—	Baruch Spinoza	Netherlands	Academics	82.7	0.1
#22	—	Søren Kierkegaard	—	Academics	82.7	1.4
#23	—	Arthur Schopenhauer	—	Academics	82.4	0.3
#24	—	Aesop	—	Academics	80.2	0.0
#25	—	David Hume	United Kingdom	Academics	79.9	1.1
#26	—	Martin Heidegger	Germany	Academics	79.8	2.8
#27	—	Petrarch	Italy	Academics	79.3	0.0
#28	—	Mikhail Bakunin	—	Academics	79.1	25.0
#29	—	Al-Ghazali	—	Academics	79.0	2.4
#30	—	Henri Bergson	France	Academics	78.8	10.9
#31	—	Montesquieu	France	Academics	78.3	0.0
#32	—	Denis Diderot	France	Academics	78.1	1.2
#33	—	Epicurus	—	Academics	78.0	0.9
#34	—	Umberto Eco	Italy	Academics	77.6	0.1
#35	—	Democritus	—	Academics	77.3	0.0
#36	—	Michel de Montaigne	France	Academics	77.1	2.2
#37	—	John Stuart Mill	United Kingdom	Academics	76.9	0.0
#38	—	Heraclitus	Turkey	Academics	76.4	0.0
#39	—	Émile Durkheim	France	Academics	75.8	10.0
#40	—	Nagarjuna	—	Academics	74.7	10.0
#41	—	Thomas More	—	Academics	74.3	0.4
#42	—	Thomas Paine	United Kingdom	Academics	74.2	0.5
#43	—	Swami Vivekananda	India	Academics	74.1	0.0
#44	—	Averroes	Spain	Academics	73.6	0.9
#45	—	Auguste Comte	France	Academics	73.2	0.0
#46	—	Maimonides	Spain	Academics	72.7	10.0
#47	—	Karl Popper	Austria	Academics	72.6	0.2
#48	—	Jean le Rond d'Alembert	France	Academics	72.5	11.0
#49	—	Johann Gottlieb Fichte	Germany	Academics	72.5	15.0
#50	—	Hannah Arendt	Germany	Academics	72.4	0.0
#51	—	Herbert Spencer	United Kingdom	Academics	72.4	0.8
#52	—	Mary Wollstonecraft	United Kingdom	Academics	72.3	0.0
#53	—	Ludwig Feuerbach	Germany	Academics	72.2	15.0
#54	—	Antonio Gramsci	Italy	Academics	71.8	0.0
#55	—	Diogenes	Turkey	Academics	71.7	0.4
#56	—	Alexis de Tocqueville	France	Academics	71.7	3.0
#57	—	Lee Kuan Yew	—	Academics	71.6	0.7
#58	—	William James	United States	Academics	71.0	0.0
#59	—	Al-Biruni	—	Academics	71.0	4.2
#60	—	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing	Germany	Musicians	71.0	15.0
#61	—	Jürgen Habermas	Germany	Academics	70.9	8.7
#62	—	Theodor W. Adorno	United States	Academics	70.8	15.0
#63	—	Epictetus	Turkey	Academics	70.8	0.0
#64	—	Muhammad Iqbal	—	Academics	70.0	2.7
#65	—	Johann Gottfried Herder	—	Academics	69.9	25.0
#66	—	George Soros	United States	Investors	69.8	2.3
#67	—	Mencius	—	Academics	69.0	0.0
#68	—	Xenophanes	Turkey	Academics	69.0	13.9
#69	—	Zeno of Elea	Italy	Academics	68.7	15.0
#70	—	Zhuang Zhou	China	Academics	68.6	5.1
#71	—	John Amos Comenius	—	Academics	68.6	6.7
#72	—	Parmenides	Italy	Academics	68.5	0.0
#73	—	Ramakrishna	India	Academics	68.4	0.0
#74	—	Anaximander	Turkey	Academics	68.0	0.0
#75	—	John Dewey	United States	Academics	68.0	0.0
#76	—	Slavoj Žižek	—	Academics	67.8	0.9
#77	—	George Berkeley	—	Academics	67.6	0.0
#78	1	Anselm of Canterbury	Italy	Academics	67.5	15.0
#79	1	Jiddu Krishnamurti	India	Academics	67.5	0.0
#80	—	Antisthenes	—	Academics	67.3	25.0
#81	—	Al-Farabi	—	Academics	67.2	2.8
#82	—	Anaximenes of Miletus	Turkey	Academics	67.1	15.0
#83	—	Jean Piaget	Switzerland	Academics	67.1	0.0
#84	—	Ferdinand de Saussure	Switzerland	Writers	67.0	0.0
#85	—	Protagoras	—	Academics	66.9	0.0
#86	—	B. F. Skinner	United States	Academics	66.7	10.0
#87	—	Jeremy Bentham	United Kingdom	Academics	66.7	0.0
#88	—	Rudolf Christoph Eucken	Germany	Academics	66.6	2.9
#89	—	Plotinus	—	Academics	66.6	0.0
#90	—	Stanisław Lem	—	Academics	66.5	0.1
#91	—	Jacques Derrida	France	Academics	66.1	0.4
#92	—	Walter Benjamin	—	Academics	65.9	0.0
#93	—	Jean-François Champollion	France	Writers	65.9	15.0
#94	—	Claude Lévi-Strauss	France	Academics	65.7	0.0
#95	—	Jean Baudrillard	France	Academics	65.6	10.0
#96	—	William of Ockham	United Kingdom	Academics	65.4	0.1
#97	—	Simone Weil	France	Academics	65.2	0.0
#98	—	Alfred North Whitehead	United Kingdom	Academics	65.2	0.0
#99	—	Leon Battista Alberti	Italy	Academics	65.2	5.5
#100	—	Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Germany	Academics	65.2	21.5