Famous Economists
500 people
Ancient 2
Medieval 6
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Al-Maqrizi
Egyptian historian (1364–1442)
Albertus Magnus
German-Dominican friar and saint (c. 1200–1280)
Ibn Khaldun
Arab historiographer and historian
Nicole Oresme
14th century French philosopher and bishop
Shen Kuo
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
Wang Anshi
Song Dynasty chancellor and poet (1021-1086)
Renaissance 10
Anthony van Diemen
Dutch colonial governor (1593–1645)
Antoine de Montchrestien
French economist and dramatist
Francisco de Vitoria
Spanish philosopher
Jean Bodin
French jurist, witchcraft theorist and political philosopher (1529 or 1530–1596)
Luca Pacioli
Italian father of accounting (*~1445 – †1517)
Luis de Molina
Spanish priest and writer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Thomas Gresham
English merchant and financier (c. 1519 – 1579)
Thomas Hobbes
English philosopher (1588–1679)
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Thomas Mun
English economist (1571–1641)
Enlightenment 58
Adam Ferguson
Scottish philosopher and historian; (1723-1816)
Adam Smith
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723–1790)
Alexander Hamilton
American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)
Alexander Radishchev
18th century Russian author and social critic
Alexander von Humboldt
Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer (1769-1859)
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Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde
French mathematician
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
French economist and statesman (1727–1781)
Antoine Destutt de Tracy
French philosopher (1754-1836)
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Arai Hakuseki
Japanese scholar and official (1657–1725)
Arthur Young
English writer (1741-1820)
Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Danish-German statesman and historian (1776–1831)
Bernard Mandeville
Anglo-Dutch writer and physician (1670-1733)
Carl Adolph Agardh
Swedish cleric and botanist (1785–1859)
Cesare Beccaria
jurist, philosopher and politician from Italy (1738-1794)
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
French statesman and art collector (1734-1802); his collection was sold in Paris,...
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871)
Charles Fourier
French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon
French early socialist theorist (1760-1825)
Claude-Louis Navier
French engineer and physicist (1785–1836)
Daniel Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician and physicist (1700-1782)
David Hume
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
David Ricardo
British economist and politician (1772–1823)
Erik Pontoppidan
Danish author, bishop, historian and antiquary (1698–1764)
Francis Hutcheson
Scottish philosopher (1694–1746)
François Quesnay
French economist
Friedrich List
German economist
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos
Spanish neoclassical statesman, author, philosopher (1744-1811)
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
French writer, orator and statesman (1749-1791)
James Mill
Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher (1773-1836)
Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi
Swiss economist and historian (1773-1842)
Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat de Condorcet
French philosopher, mathematician, and political scientist (1743–1794)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French statesman (1619–1683)
Jean-Baptiste Say
French economist and businessman (1767–1832)
Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière
French politician (1734-1793)
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)
Johan Fabricius
Danish zoologist (1745–1808)
Johann Heinrich von Thünen
German economist
Johann Joachim Becher
German physicist, scientific alchemist, pioneer of chemistry, scholar, courtier, and adventurer
John Bowring
4th Governor of Hong Kong; hymnwriter; translator (1792-1872)
John Law
Scottish economist and banker (1671-1729)
Josiah Warren
American social reformer, philosopher, inventor, musician, and author (1798–1874)
José María Bocanegra
Mexican politician (1787-1862)
Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński
Polish philosopher
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Kâtip Çelebi
Ottoman bibliographer, historian and geographer
Manuel Belgrano
Argentine politician and military leader
Nassau William Senior
British lawyer and economist (1790-1864)
Nicolas Fouquet
French politician (1615-1680)
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Richard Cantillon
Irish-French economist and banker
Robert Owen
Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
Samuel von Pufendorf
German philosopher (1632–1694)
Thomas Robert Malthus
British political economist (1766–1834)
Vasily Tatishchev
Russian historian (1686-1750)
William Petty
English scientist, philosopher, statistician and economist (1623-1688)
William Whewell
English philosopher and historian of science (1794–1866)
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
French academic
İbrahim Müteferrika
Ottoman polymath
19th Century 187
Adolph Wagner
German economist (1835-1917)
Aleksandar Tsankov
Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1879-1959)
Alexander Bogdanov
Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
Alexandros Koryzis
Greek politician (1885-1941)
Alfonso López Pumarejo
Colombian politician (1886-1959)
Alfred Marshall
British economist (1842–1924)
Alfred Weber
German geographer and economist (1868–1958)
Alvin Hansen
American economist (1887–1975)
Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)
Antoine Augustin Cournot
French economist and mathematician (*1801 – †1877)
Antonio Gramsci
Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, and politician (1891–1937)
António de Oliveira Salazar
Prime Minister of Portugal (1889-1970)
Armand Călinescu
Romanian politician (1893-1939)
Arnold Toynbee
British economic historian (1852–1883)
Arthur Cecil Pigou
British economist (1877-1959)
August Zaleski
Polish economist, politician, and diplomat (1883-1972)
Augusto Leguía
President of Peru (1863-1932)
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian polymath, philosopher, and social reformer (1891–1956)
Barbara Bodichon
British educationalist, artist, feminist and activist for women's rights (1827-1891)
Beatrice Webb
English sociologist, economist, socialist, and social reformer (1858–1943)
Benjamin Graham
American economist and investor (1894-1976)
Benjamin Tucker
American journalist and anarchist (1854-1939)
Bernard Mannes Baruch
American businessman (1870-1965)
Bertil Ohlin
Swedish economist and politician (1899-1979)
Béla Imrédy
Hungarian Prime Minister (1891-1946)
Carl Menger
founder of the Austrian School of economics (1840–1921)
Cecil John Rhodes
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa (1853-1902)
Charles Cooley
American sociologist (1864–1929)
Charles Dow
American journalist (1851–1902)
Charles G. Dawes
vice president of the United States from 1925 to 1929
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)
Corrado Gini
Italian statistician (1884–1965)
Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust
German politician (1809-1886)
Dadabhai Naoroji
Indian politician leader, scholar and writer (1825–1917)
Dmitri Mendeleev
Russian chemist (1834–1907)
Eduard Bernstein
German politician and theorist (1850–1932)
Edward Chamberlin
American economist (1899–1967)
Eli Heckscher
Swedish historian and economist (1879–1952)
Ellen Swallow Richards
American chemist (1842-1911)
Emily Greene Balch
American economist and writer
Ernő Gerő
former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party
Eugen Dühring
German antisemitic philosopher and economist (1833-1921)
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Austrian economist (1851-1914)
Ezra Pound
American poet and critic (1885–1972)
Ferdinand Lassalle
German jurist and socialist (1825–1864)
Ferdinand Tönnies
German sociologist, economist and philosopher (1855–1936)
Flora Tristan
French writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
Francesco Saverio Nitti
Italian economist and political figure (1868–1953)
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Irish economist (1845–1926)
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Frank Knight
American economist (1885-1972)
Franz Oppenheimer
German-Jewish physician, sociologist and political economist (1864-1943)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)
Friedrich Albert Lange
German philosopher and sociologist (1828-1875)
Friedrich Engels
German philosopher, sociologist and economist (1820–1895)
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)
Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen
German economist (1818–1888)
Friedrich von Wieser
Austrian economist (1851-1926)
Frédéric Bastiat
French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French...
Frédéric Passy
French economist and statesman (1822-1912)
Georgi Plekhanov
Russian philosopher (1856–1918)
Georgios Papandreou
Prime minister of Greece (1888–1968)
Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Indian political leader and social reformer (1866–1915)
Gottfried Feder
German economist and politician (1883-1941)
Grigori Sokolnikov
Soviet diplomat (1888-1939)
Guido von List
Austrian writer (1848-1919)
Gulzarilal Nanda
Indian politician (1898-1998)
Gunnar Myrdal
Swedish economist (1898–1987)
Gustav Cassel
Swedish economist (1866–1945)
Gustav von Schmoller
German economist (1838–1917)
Gustave de Molinari
Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist (1819–1912)
Gyula Andrássy
Hungarian statesman (1823–1890)
Gyula Károlyi
Hungarian politician (1871–1947)
Harold Innis
Canadian professor of political economy (1894–1952)
Harold Laski
British academic (1893-1950)
Harriet Martineau
English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)
Harriet Taylor Mill
British philosopher (1807–1858)
Harry Dexter White
American economist and Soviet spy (1892–1948)
Hayato Ikeda
Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964
Heinrich Brüning
German chancellor (1885-1970)
Henri Fayol
French mining engineer and executive, developer a general theory of business...
Henry George
American political economist and journalist (1839–1897)
Henry Hazlitt
American journalist & writer (1894–1993)
Henry Morgenthau Jr.
American politician (1891–1967)
Henry Sidgwick
English philosopher (1838–1900)
Herbert Spencer
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
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Hermann Heinrich Gossen
Prussian economist (1810–1858)
Hjalmar Schacht
German politician and economist (1877–1970)
Imre Nagy
Hungarian politician (1896-1958)
Ion Ghica
Romanian politician (1816–1897)
Irving Fisher
American economist and statistician (1867–1947)
István Bethlen
Hungarian politician (1874–1946)
Ivan Franko
Ukrainian poet and writer (1856–1916)
Jacob Georg Agardh
Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist (1813-1901)
Jean Monnet
French political economist regarded by as a chief architect of European unity (1888-1979)
Johan Wilhelm Rangell
Prime Minister of Finland (1894-1982)
John Atkinson Hobson
English economist, social scientist and critic of imperialism (1858-1940)
John Bates Clark
American neoclassical economist (1847–1938)
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
John Stuart Mill
British philosopher and political economist (1806–1873)
Joseph Bertrand
French mathematician (1822-1900)
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
American businessman, politician and diplomat (1888–1969)
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)
José Echegaray
Spanish playwright (1832-1916)
Juan Bautista Alberdi
Argentinian politician, lawyer and diplomat (1810–1884)
Juhan Kukk
Estonian politician (1885-1942)
Juho Vennola
Finnish economist and politician (1872-1938)
Karl August Wittfogel
German-American academic (1896–1988)
Karl Kautsky
Czech-Austrian Marxist theorist (1854–1938)
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Karl Polanyi
Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian
Kate Sheppard
prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage (1848–1934)
Knut Wicksell
Swedish economist (1851–1926)
Kurt Zadek Lewin
German-American psychologist (1890-1947)
Kálmán Tisza
Hungarian prime minister (1830-1902)
Lajos Batthyány
Hungarian politician (1807–1849)
Lajos Kossuth
Hungarian politician (1802–1894)
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
British economist (1898–1984)
Lorenz von Stein
German legal scholar (1815-1890)
Ludwig Erhard
Chancellor of West Germany (1963–1966)
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)
Luigi Einaudi
(1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
Luigi Luzzatti
Italian statesman and economist (1841-1927)
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official (1887–1977)
Léon Walras
French mathematical economist (*1834 – †1910)
Marco Minghetti
Italian politician (1818–1886)
Mary Parker Follett
American academic (1868-1933)
Max Weber
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist (1864–1920)
Michael Hainisch
President of Austria (1858–1940)
Michael Polanyi
Hungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
Michael Rostovtzeff
Russian historian of ancient history (1870–1952)
Michał Kalecki
Polish economist (1899–1970)
Mihály Károlyi
Hungarian politician, president, prime minister of Hungary and ambassador to France (1875–1955)
Milan Stojadinović
Serbian politician (1888-1961)
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
English politician, writer, and activist (1847–1929)
Nikolai Bukharin
Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
Nikolai Kondratiev
Soviet economist (1892-1938)
Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Russian writer and nihilist philosopher (1828–1889)
Nikolay Danilevsky
Russian academic (1822-1885)
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
Norman Angell
British politician (1872-1967)
Oswald Külpe
German philosopher (1862-1915)
Otto Neurath
Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)
Owen D. Young
American businessman, lawyer, diplomat (1874–1962)
Paul Lafargue
writer, journalist, literary critic and revolutionary; also known for being Karl...
Paul van Zeeland
Belgian lawyer, economist, Catholic politician and statesman (1893-1973)
Peter Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary socialist and philosopher (1842–1921)
Peter Struve
Russian journalist (1870–1944)
Piero Sraffa
Italian economist (1898–1983)
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
French engineer, sociologist and economist (1806-1882)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician, philosopher, anarchist and socialist (1809-1865)
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Indian scientist and statistician (1893–1972)
Ragnar Frisch
Norwegian economist (1895–1973)
Richard Cobden
British Radical and Liberal statesman and manufacturer (1804-1865)
Rifa'a at-Tahtawi
Egyptian scholar (1801–1873)
Risto Ryti
President of Finland (1889–1956)
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Rudolf Hilferding
German politician (1877-1941)
Rudolf Rocker
anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist (1873-1958)
Sakichi Toyoda
Japanese inventor and industrialist (1867–1930)
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the...
Sergei Bulgakov
Russian Orthodox Christian theologian, philosopher, priest and economist (1871–1944)
Sidney Webb
English socialist economist, 1859–1947 (1859–1947)
Silvio Gesell
German-Argentine economist (1862–1930)
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer (1835–1909)
Stephen Leacock
Canadian writer and economist (1869–1944)
Svetozar Marković
Serbian political activist, literary critic and philosopher (1846-1875)
Takahashi Korekiyo
Japanese politician (1854-1936)
Thorstein Veblen
American economist and sociologist (1857–1929)
Victorino de la Plaza
President of Argentina (1840–1919)
Vilfredo Pareto
Italian economist and sociologist (1848-1923)
W. E. B. Du Bois
American sociologist and activist (1868–1963)
Walter A. Shewhart
American statistical quality control expert
Walter Bagehot
British journalist, businessman, and essayist (1826-1877)
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Walter Christaller
German geographer (1893–1969)
Walter Eucken
German economist (1891–1950)
Walther Funk
German economist, Nazi politician and convicted war criminal (1890-1960)
Werner Sombart
German economist, sociologist, historian (1863-1941)
Wilhelm Röpke
German economist (1899–1966)
William Beveridge
British economist and social reformer (1879-1963)
William Graham Sumner
American sociologist (1840–1910)
William Lyon Mackenzie King
10th Prime Minister of Canada (1874–1950)
William Stanley Jevons
English economist and logician
Władysław Grabski
Polish economist, politician and academic (1874–1938)
Yevgeni Preobrazhensky
Russian economist and politician (1886–1937)
Zigfrīds Anna Meierovics
Prime Minister of Latvia (1887-1925)
Élie Ducommun
Swiss activist (1833-1906)
Émile Vandervelde
Belgian politician (1866-1938)
Modern 237
Abba P. Lerner
American economist (1903-1982)
Abhijit Banerjee
Indian American economist
Abraham Wald
American mathematician, statistician, and scientist (1902–1950)
Albert O. Hirschman
German-American economist; member of the French Resistance
Alma
French singer
Alvin Eliot Roth
American economist, professor
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (1933-)
Amy Chua
American law professor and writer (born 1962)
Ana Botín
Spanish businesswoman and banker
Anatoli Ivanishin
Russian cosmonaut
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Andre Gunder Frank
German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory...
Andreas Kaplan
German economist, dean, university rector; higher education expert; edtech; social...
Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, and sociologist
André Gorz
Austrian born French philosopher and journalist (1923-2007)
Angus Deaton
British microeconomist (born 1945)
Anna Hutsol
Ukrainian activist and founder of FEMEN
Anna Schwartz
American economist (1915–2012)
Anthony Barnes Atkinson
British economist (1944–2017)
Archduchess Adelheid of Austria
Archduchess of Austria (1914–1971)
Arthur Laffer
American economist (1940-)
Arthur Lewis
Saint Lucian economist (1915–1991)
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Arthur Melvin Okun
American economist (1928-1980)
Aušra Augustinavičiūtė
Lithuanian academic (1927–2005)
Barack Obama Sr.
economist and father of Barack Obama Jr. (1934–1982)
Ben McKenzie
American actor (born 1978)
Bengt Holmström
Finnish economist and Nobel laureate
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Benito Archundia
Mexican football referee
Benoit Mandelbrot
Polish-born, French and American mathematician (1924–2010)
Bernard Madoff
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
Bernard Maris
French economist, writer and journalist (1946-2015)
Bjørn Lomborg
Danish environmental economy author noted for his controversial views about climate...
Boualem Sansal
Algerian and French writer
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Brian Hallisay
American actor
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Indian-American mathematician (1920–2023)
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Carlo M. Cipolla
Italian economic historian (1922–2000)
Cass Sunstein
American legal scholar, writer, blogger (b. 1954)
Cecilia Rouse
American economist
Christina Romer
economist
Christopher A. Sims
American econometrician and macroeconomist (1942-2026)
Christophoros A. Pissarides
British-Cypriot economist
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Clark Gregg
American economist (1923–2000)
Claudia Goldin
American economist; Nobel prize winner
Clive Granger
British economist
Cornelius Castoriadis
Greek-French philosopher (1922–1997)
Dale T. Mortensen
American economist (1939-2014)
Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo
Zambian-born economist
Dan Ariely
Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioral economics
Dani Rodrik
Turkish economist and publicist (born 1957)
Daniel Kahneman
Israeli-American psychologist and economist (1934–2024)
Daniel McFadden
American economist
Daron Acemoğlu
Turkish-American economist and receiver of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economic sciences...
David Card
Canadian economist and university teacher (born 1956)
David D. Friedman
American economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist
David Harvey
British geographer and anthropologist
David Malpass
American economist
David Ogilvy
British advertising executive (1911-1999)
Deirdre McCloskey
American economist & academic
Doreen Massey
British social scientist and geographer
Douglas Diamond
American economist and professor of finance
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Douglas McGregor
American professor of management
Douglass North
American economist and Nobel laureate (1920–2015)
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E. F. Schumacher
British economist (1911–1977)
Edmund Phelps
American economist
Eduardo Saverin
Brazilian entrepreneur and investor, co-founder of Facebook
Edward C. Prescott
American economist (1940-2022)
Elinor Ostrom
American political economist (1933-2012)
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Eliyahu M. Goldrattmmnj
Israeli business management author and thinker (1947-2011)
Eric Lander
director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President
Eric Maskin
American Nobel laureate in economics
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
Esther Duflo
French-American economist (born 1972)
Eugene Fama
American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist and author
Farhad N. Fatkullin
interpreter, Wikimedian, Wikipedian of the year 2018
Fatih Birol
Turkish economist and energy expert
Fernando del Paso
Mexican writer (1935–2018)
Finn E. Kydland
Norwegian economist
Francis Fukuyama
American political scientist, political economist, and author
Franco Modigliani
Italian-American economist (1918–2003)
Frank P. Ramsey
British mathematician, philosopher, and economist (1903–1930)
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Frederick Irving Herzberg
American psychologist (1923-2000)
Fyodor Yurchikhin
Russian cosmonaut
Gale Anne Hurd
American film producer and screenwriter
Gary S. Becker
American economist (1930-2014)
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Geert Hofstede
Dutch psychologist (1928-2020)
George Akerlof
American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics
George Soros
Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist (born 1930)
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George Stigler
American economist (1911–1991)
Giorgio Perlasca
Italian self-appointed Spanish diplomat in Hungary who saved 5218 Jews from the...
Giovanni Arrighi
Italian economist and sociologist (1937-2009)
Gita Gopinath
Indian-American economist
Gordon Tullock
American economist (1922–2014)
Greg Mankiw
American economist
Gérard Debreu
French economist and mathematician (1921–2004)
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Austrian school economist and libertarian anarcho-capitalist philosopher
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Harry Markowitz
American economist (1927–2023)
Henry Mintzberg Storch
Canadian business theorist (born 1939)
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Herman Daly
American economist (1938–2022)
Hugh Hefner
American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)
Ilham Tohti
Uyghur economist and Human Rights activist
Immanuel Wallerstein
American sociologist and economic historian (1930–2019)
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Indira Bajramović
Roma activist and economist
Israel Kirzner
American economist
Jagdish Bhagwati
economist
James A. Robinson
British political scientist and economist (born 1960)
James Heckman
American economist
James M. Buchanan
American economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (1919–2013)
James Meade
British economist
James Mirrlees
Scottish economist (1936-2018)
James Tobin
American economist (1918–2002)
Jan Tinbergen
Dutch economist (1903–1994)
Jane Jacobs
American–Canadian journalist, author, and activist (1916–2006)
Javier Perez-Capdevila
Cuban scientist
Jean Tirole
French economist
Jeffrey Sachs
American economist (born 1954)
Jeremy Rifkin
American economist
Jesús Huerta de Soto
Spanish economist, professor, and author
Jim Rogers
American writer
Jo Nesbø
Norwegian novelist, musician and economist
Joan Robinson
English economist (1903–1983)
Joel Mokyr
American-Israeli economic historian
John C. Bogle
American investor and money manager (1929–2019)
John Forbes Nash
American mathematician and economist (1928–2015)
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John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President...
John Harsanyi
Hungarian economist (1920-2000)
John Maynard Smith
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)
John Perkins
American author
John Richard Hicks
British economist (1904-1989)
John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Jon Elster
Norwegian philosopher and political theorist
Joseph E. Stiglitz
American economist, professor, and recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics
Joshua Angrist
Israeli-American economist
Jüri Tarmak
Estonian athletics competitor (1946–2022)
Kamila Skolimowska
Polish hammer thrower
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Kaoru Ishikawa
Japanese business theorist (1915–1989)
Kenneth Arrow
American economist (1921–2017)
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Kenneth E. Boulding
British-American economist (1910-1993)
Kevin Warsh
American governor of the Federal Reserve Board
Klaus Schwab
German economist, founder of World Economic Forum
Lars Peter Hansen
American economist
Lawrence Klein
American economist (1920-2013)
Leonid Hurwicz
Polish-American economist and mathematician (1917–2008)
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician (1912-1986)
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Liliane Bettencourt
French heiress, socialite and businesswoman
Lloyd Shapley
American economist and mathematician
Maria Kaczyńska
First Lady of Poland (1942-2010)
Maurice Allais
French economist (1911–2010)
Michael Kremer
American development economist
Michael Porter
American engineer and economist
Michael Spence
American economist (born 1943)
Michel Camdessus
French economist
Milojko Spajić
Prime Minister of Montenegro since 2023
Milton Friedman
American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
Moriteru Ueshiba
3rd Doshu
Moshe Sanbar
Israeli economist (1926-2012)
Muhammad Yunus
Bangladeshi banker, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and the former Chief Adviser of Bangladesh
Murray Rothbard
American economist (1926–1995)
Myron Scholes
Canadian economist
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Lebanese-American mathematical statistician, option trader, risk analyst and author (born 1960)
Niall Ferguson
British historian
Nouriel Roubini
American economist
Oliver E. Williamson
American economist (1932–2020)
Oliver Hart
British-born American economist
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Oskar Morgenstern
Austrian economist (1902–1977)
Otto Ohlendorf
German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1907–1951)
Paul Baran
American engineer (1926–2011)
Paul Krugman
American economist (born 1953)
Paul M. Romer
American economist (born 1955)
Paul Milgrom
American economist
Paul Samuelson
American economist (1915–2009)
Peter Diamond
Nobel prize in economics winner
Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
Peter Howitt
Canadian economist (born 1946)
Peter Senge
American systems scientist
Philip H. Dybvig
American economist
Philip Kotler
American marketing author, consultant, and professor
Philippe Aghion
French economist
Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau
Dutch princess; widow of Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau
Raghuram Rajan
Indian economist and former governor of Reserve Bank of India
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Ragnar Nurkse
American-Estonian economist (1907-1959)
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Indian academic (1940-2020)
Raymond Aron
French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist (1905–1983)
Reinhard Selten
German economist (1930-2016)
Richard Posner
United States federal judge
Richard Stone
British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner (1913-1991)
Richard Thaler
American economist
Robert Aumann
Israeli-American mathematician
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Robert B. Wilson
American economist and Nobel laureate
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Robert Barro
American classical macroeconomist
Robert C. Merton
American economist (1944-)
Robert F. Engle
American economist and Nobel laureate (born 1942)
Robert Fogel
American economist and historian (1926–2013)
Robert J. Shiller
American economist
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Robert James Waller
American writer (1939-2017)
Robert Keohane
political scientist from the United States
Robert Lucas
American economist (1937–2023)
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Robert Mundell
Canadian economist (1932–2021)
Robert Solow
American economist (1924–2023)
Roger Myerson
American economist
Ronald Coase
British economist and Nobel laureate (1910–2013)
Sam Walton
American businessman (1918–1992)
Samuel P. Huntington
American political scientist (1927–2008)
Sandro Rosell
Spanish businessman
Saskia Sassen
Dutch-American sociologist
Sebastião Salgado
Brazilian photographer (1944–2025)
Seth Godin
American entrepreneur, author and public speaker (b. 1960)
Sheryl Sandberg
American technology executive, activist, and author
Simon Johnson
British-American economist (born 1963)
Simon Kuznets
Russian-born American economist and statistician (1901–1985)
Stanley Fischer
Israeli-American economist
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Tadao Horie
Japanese association football player (1913–2003)
Tatyana Kazankina
athletics competitor
Theodore Schultz
American economist (1902–1998)
Thomas J. Sargent
American economist (born 1943)
Thomas Piketty
French economist (born 1971)
Thomas Schelling
American economist (1921-2016)
Thomas Sowell
American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Tjalling Koopmans
Dutch American economist (1910–1985)
Trygve Haavelmo
Norwegian economist and econometrician
Ulrich Beck
German sociologist & scholar (1944–2015)
Vagit Alekperov
Russian businessman
Vebjørn Rodal
athletics competitor
Vernon L. Smith
American economist
W. Edwards Deming
American professor, author, and consultant (1900-1993)
Walter Block
Austrian School economist and prominent anarcho-capitalist
Warren Buffett
American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
Wassily Leontief
Russian economist (1906-1999)
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William Baumol
American economist (1922-2017)
William F. Sharpe
American economist
William Nordhaus
American economist (1941-)
William Vickrey
Canadian-American professor of economics and Nobel Laureate (1914-1996)
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Zecharia Sitchin
American-Israeli author of Azerbaijani origin (1920-2010)
Zhou Youguang
Chinese linguist, sinologist (1906–2017)