Scholars & Educators
100 profiles · Ranked by cultural impact
Noam Chomsky
Linguist and Public Intellectual
Yuval Noah Harari
Author / Non-Fiction
Niall Ferguson
economic historian
Octavio Paz
Literature / Poetry
Carlos Fuentes
Literature / Narrative Fiction
Juan Rulfo
Literature / Narrative Fiction
Elena Poniatowska
Literature / Journalism
Mario Molina
Chemistry / Atmospheric Science
Alfonso García Robles
Political Science / Diplomacy
Rosario Castellanos
poet
José Vasconcelos
Philosophy / Education Reform
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Literature / Philosophy
Alfonso Reyes
Literature / Humanism
Samuel Ramos
Philosophy / Cultural Studies
Luis Villoro
Philosophy / Political Philosophy
Andrés Molina Enríquez
Sociology / Agrarian Studies
Guillermo Haro
Astronomy / Astrophysics
Nabor Carrillo
Physics / Nuclear Science
Albert Einstein
Physics / Theoretical Physics
Isaac Newton
Physics / Mathematics
Charles Darwin
Biology / Natural History
Marie Curie
Physics / Chemistry
Nikola Tesla
Engineering / Electrical Science
Sigmund Freud
Psychology / Psychoanalysis
Carl Jung
Psychology / Analytical Psychology
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy / Existentialism
Immanuel Kant
Philosophy / Moral Philosophy
Aristotle
Philosophy / Natural Science
Plato
Philosophy / Political Philosophy
Socrates
Philosophy / Ethics
Confucius
Philosophy / Ethics
Karl Marx
Philosophy / Political Economy
Max Weber
Sociology / Political Economy
Adam Smith
Economics / Moral Philosophy
John Maynard Keynes
Economics / Macroeconomics
Milton Friedman
Economics / Monetary Theory
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosophy / Feminist Theory
Hannah Arendt
Philosophy / Political Theory
Michel Foucault
Philosophy / Social Theory
Jacques Derrida
Philosophy / Literary Theory
Bertrand Russell
Philosophy / Mathematics
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy / Logic
Galileo Galilei
Physics / Astronomy
Leonardo da Vinci
Art / Science / Engineering
Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomy / Mathematics
René Descartes
Philosophy / Mathematics
John Locke
Philosophy / Political Theory
Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy / Enlightenment Thought
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophy / Political Theory
Voltaire
Philosophy / Literature
Thomas Hobbes
political scientist
Francis Bacon
philosopher
Isaac Asimov
biochemist
Carl Sagan
cosmologist
Richard Feynman
physicist
Sam Harris
philosopher
Jordan Peterson
clinical psychologist
Nassim Taleb
Philosophy / Statistics / Risk Theory
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalism / Social Science
Paulo Freire
teacher
Ivan Illich
Catholic priest
Frantz Fanon
Philosophy / Psychiatry
Edward Said
Literary Criticism / Postcolonial Theory
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Literature / Feminist Theory
bell hooks
philosopher
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Theoretical Physicist
Max Planck
theoretical physicist
Werner Heisenberg
Theoretical Physicist
Erwin Schrödinger
physicist
Enrico Fermi
physicist
James Clerk Maxwell
Mathematical Physicist
Michael Faraday
Experimental Physicist & Chemist
Linus Pauling
chemist
John von Neumann
Mathematician & Computer Scientist
Claude Shannon
mathematician
Ada Lovelace
mathematician
Rosalind Franklin
Chemist & X-ray Crystallographer
Jane Goodall
university teacher
Jennifer Doudna
biochemist
James Watson
biologist
Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Scientist
John Nash
Mathematician
Benoît Mandelbrot
Mathematician
Richard Dawkins
evolutionary biologist
Neil deGrasse Tyson
astrophysicist
Alexander Fleming
bacteriologist
Dmitri Mendeleev
chemist
Edward Jenner
physician
Michio Kaku
theoretical physicist
Barbara McClintock
Cytogeneticist
Lex Fridman
AI Researcher & Podcaster
Graham Hancock
Author & Alternative Historian
Andrew Huberman
Neuroscientist & Podcaster
Bret Weinstein
Evolutionary Biologist
Peter Attia
Physician & Longevity Researcher
Rhonda Patrick
Biochemist & Researcher
Tristan Harris
Tech Ethicist
Eric Weinstein
Mathematician & Managing Director
Ernest Hemingway
Author
William Faulkner
Author