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100 Notable alumni of London School of Economics and Political Science

Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees

London School of Economics and Political Science is ranked #154 in the world and #16 in United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from London School of Economics and Political Science sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with London School of Economics and Political Science won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Ramón Tamames

1. Ramón Tamames

1933-. (aged 93)
university teacher economist politician
Ramón Tamames Gómez is a Spanish economist and former politician.
Ronald Coase

2. Ronald Coase

1910-2013 (aged 103)
historian economist university teacher writer
Ronald Harry Coase was a British economist and author. Coase was educated at the London School of Economics, where he was a member of the faculty until 1951. He was the Clifton R. Musser Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Law School, where he arrived in 1964 and remained for the rest of his life. He received the...
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Edwina Currie

3. Edwina Currie

1946-. (aged 80)
writer novelist diarist politician
Edwina Currie is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two years, resigning in 1988 during the salmonella-in-eggs controversy.
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Ralph Brown

4. Ralph Brown

1928-2013 (aged 85)
sculptor
Ralph William John Brown is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron (a.k.a. "85") in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom...
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Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon

5. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon

1896-1974 (aged 78)
lawyer politician
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement and India's foreign relations. He was among the major architects of Indian foreign policy, was India's first High Commissioner to United Kingdom and later India's Defence Minister.
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Jim McGreevey

6. Jim McGreevey

1957-. (aged 69)
lobbyist politician
James Edward McGreevey is an American politician who served as the 52nd governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004 amidst a sex scandal. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first openly gay person to serve as a state governor in the nation's history.
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Shami Chakrabarti

7. Shami Chakrabarti

1969-. (aged 57)
human rights defender barrister lawyer politician
Sharmishta Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti CBE PC is a British politician, barrister, and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party, she served as the director of Liberty, a major advocacy group which promotes civil liberties and human rights, from 2003 to 2016. From 2016 to 2020, she served as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales.
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James O'Brien

8. James O'Brien

1972-. (aged 54)
writer journalist television presenter radio personality
James O'Brien is a British journalist, writer, and presenter on radio and television. Since 2004, he has hosted a weekday morning phone-in discussion for talk station LBC. He has also presented podcasts, been an occasional presenter for BBC's Newsnight, and published several non-fiction books, including the bestselling How They Broke Britain in 2023.
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Mat Osman

9. Mat Osman

1967-. (aged 59)
guitarist songwriter
Mathew David Osman is an English musician and author, best known as the bassist in the rock band Suede. Osman and singer Brett Anderson are the only remaining founding members left in Suede, and perform along with drummer Simon Gilbert, who has appeared on many Suede albums. Osman is also a writer; he has written two novels and contributed to...
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Alfonso López Pumarejo

10. Alfonso López Pumarejo

1886-1959 (aged 73)
politician Palace janitor diplomat journalist economist
Alfonso López Pumarejo was a Colombian journalist, economist, politician, and diplomat who served as the 16th and 18th president of Colombia, serving from 1934 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1945. He is the second Colombian president to serve two non-consecutive terms and the second Colombian president to resign from office after Rafael Núñez in 1888.
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Kitty Carlisle

11. Kitty Carlisle

1910-2007 (aged 97)
musician film actor stage actor television actor actor
Kitty Carlisle Hart was an American stage and screen actress, opera singer, television personality and spokesperson for the arts. She was the leading lady in the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera (1935) and was a regular panelist on the television game show To Tell The Truth (1956–1978). She served 20 years on the New York State Council...
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Park Won-soon

12. Park Won-soon

1956-2020 (aged 64)
lawyer politician
Park Won-soon was a South Korean politician, activist, and lawyer. He was the longest-serving mayor of Seoul, from 2011 until his death in July 2020. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea, he was first elected in 2011 and won re-election in 2014 and 2018. He died by suicide in July 2020 following allegations of sexual harassment.
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Arthur Lewis

13. Arthur Lewis

1915-1991 (aged 76)
university teacher researcher economist
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis remains the only black person to have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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Maurice Bishop

14. Maurice Bishop

1944-1983 (aged 39)
politician
Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian revolutionary, politician and the leader of the New JEWEL Movement (NJM), a party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and true black liberation. The NJM came to power on 13 March 1979 and ushered in the Grenada revolution and installed the People's Revolutionary Government which removed Prime Minister Eric Gairy from office. Bishop...
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Mark Kirk

15. Mark Kirk

1959-. (aged 67)
congressional staff lawyer military officer politician
Mark Steven Kirk is an American retired politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Illinois from 2010 to 2017, and as the United States representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district from 2001 to 2010. A member of the Republican Party, Kirk describes himself as socially liberal and fiscally conservative. As of 2025, he is the last...
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Rosa DeLauro

16. Rosa DeLauro

1943-. (aged 83)
campaign manager congressional staff chief executive officer politician
Rosa Luisa DeLauro is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in New Haven and includes most of its suburbs. DeLauro has been the dean of Connecticut's congressional delegation since 2013 upon the retirement of Senator Joe Lieberman.
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Bret Stephens

17. Bret Stephens

1973-. (aged 53)
pundit columnist journalist
Bret Louis Stephens is an American conservative columnist. He has been an opinion columnist for The New York Times and a senior contributor to NBC News since 2017. Since 2021, he has been the inaugural editor-in-chief of SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations.
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Arnon Milchan

18. Arnon Milchan

1944-. (aged 82)
entrepreneur film producer spy art collector screenwriter
Arnon Milchan is an Israeli billionaire businessman, film producer and former spy. He has been involved in over 130 full-length motion pictures and is the founder of production company Regency Enterprises. Regency's film credits include 12 Years a Slave, JFK, Heat, Fight Club, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Milchan has earned two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture,...
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Ron Moody

19. Ron Moody

1924-2015 (aged 91)
composer film actor stage actor television actor actor
Ron Moody was an English actor, composer, singer and writer. He was best known for his portrayal of Fagin in Oliver! (1968) and its 1983 Broadway revival. Moody earned a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for the film, as well as a Tony Award nomination for the stage production. Other notable projects include The Mouse on the...
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Moshe Sharett

20. Moshe Sharett

1894-1965 (aged 71)
translator diplomat politician zionist
Moshe Sharett was an Israeli politician who was Prime Minister of Israel from 1954 to 1955 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1956. He signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence and was a principal negotiator in the cease-fire agreements that concluded the Israeli War of Independence. Beginning in 1933, he headed the political department of the Jewish Agency....
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Brune Poirson

21. Brune Poirson

1982-. (aged 44)
politician
Brune Poirson is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who served as Secretary of State to the Minister of Ecological and Solidary Transition in the government of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe from 2017 until 2020.
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan

22. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

1927-2003 (aged 76)
writer sociologist military personnel teacher politician
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American politician, diplomat and social scientist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, and as the United States' ambassador to India and to the United Nations.
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Celina Jade

23. Celina Jade

1985-. (aged 41)
singer model television actor actor film actor
Celina Jade is a Hong Kong and American actress, singer, songwriter, model, and martial artist. She is nominated as one of four of the greatest beauties in Hong Kong besides Carol Cheng, Lydia Shum and Amy Yip. She is the first Hong Konger of European descent to win this title.
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Seiji Kihara

24. Seiji Kihara

1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Seiji Kihara is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party. A former Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and former State Minister for Foreign Affairs (Third Abe Cabinet) and former Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, he currently serves as a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature).
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Karthika Nair

25. Karthika Nair

1992-. (aged 34)
model author actor creator
Karthika Nair is a former Indian actress who primarily worked down South in all language films. She made her debut in the 2009 Telugu film Josh, opposite Naga Chaitanya. She rose to fame starring in her second and her first successful Tamil film Ko, opposite Jiiva and Piaa Bajpai. She found further success in the Malayalam film Proprietors: Kammath &...
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Janet Napolitano

26. Janet Napolitano

1957-. (aged 69)
lawyer politician
Janet Ann Napolitano is an American politician and lawyer. She is on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley since 2015.
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Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

27. Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

1983-. (aged 43)
model
Elettra-Ingrid Rossellini Wiedemann is an American food editor, writer, fashion model, and socialite. She is the daughter of Italian actress and model Isabella Rossellini and Jonathan Wiedemann, an American. Her maternal grandparents were Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian film director Roberto Rossellini.
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Parakala Prabhakar

28. Parakala Prabhakar

1959-. (aged 67)
politician
Parakala Prabhakar is an Indian economist and political commentator. He served as communication advisor in the Government of Andhra Pradesh from July 2014 to June 2018. For several years, he presented current affairs discussion programme on Telugu television channels, such as Pratidhwani on ETV2 and Namaste Andhra Pradesh on NTV.
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Charles Saatchi

29. Charles Saatchi

1943-. (aged 83)
art collector entrepreneur art dealer gallerist
Charles Saatchi is an Iraqi-British businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. The brothers led the business, the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s, until they left the agency in 1995. In the same year, the brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi.
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Paul Volcker

30. Paul Volcker

1927-2019 (aged 92)
banker economist politician
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist who served as the 12th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. During his tenure as chairman, Volcker was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, with measures known as the Volcker shock. He previously served...
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John Stonehouse

31. John Stonehouse

1925-1988 (aged 63)
spy novelist politician
John Thomson Stonehouse was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, businessman and minister who was a member of the Cabinet under Prime Minister Harold Wilson. He is remembered for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974. It is alleged that Stonehouse had been an agent for Czechoslovak military intelligence.
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Yvette Cooper

32. Yvette Cooper

1969-. (aged 57)
researcher economist writer politician journalist
Yvette Cooper is a British politician who has served as Foreign Secretary since September 2025, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2024 to 2025. A member of the Labour Party, Cooper has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley, previously Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford, since 1997.
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Tony Fernandes

33. Tony Fernandes

1964-. (aged 62)
entrepreneur
Tan Sri Dato' Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes is a Malaysian entrepreneur. He is the founder of Tune Air Sdn. Bhd., which took over the first Malaysian budget airline, AirAsia. Fernandes turned AirAsia, a failing government-linked commercial airline, into a highly successful budget airline public-listed company. He has since founded the Tune Group of companies. Until 2021, he was the owner...
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China Miéville

34. China Miéville

1972-. (aged 54)
academic fantasy author writer anthropologist political scientist
China Tom Miéville FRSL is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as "weird fiction", and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called New Weird.
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Cherie Blair

35. Cherie Blair

1954-. (aged 72)
historian barrister politician
Cherie, Lady Blair, also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is an English barrister and writer. She is the spouse of former British prime minister Tony Blair.
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Jomo Kenyatta

36. Jomo Kenyatta

1893-1978 (aged 85)
journalist politician
Jomo Kenyatta CGH was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the British Empire into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and...
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Ruth Porat

37. Ruth Porat

1957-. (aged 69)
financier
Ruth Porat is a British-American business executive who is the president and chief investment officer of Alphabet and its subsidiary Google LLC and prior to that was the chief financial officer of the same companies from 2015 to 2024. Prior to joining Google, Porat was the executive vice president & chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley from January 2010 to...
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Tharman Shanmugaratnam

38. Tharman Shanmugaratnam

1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Tharman Shanmugaratnam PPA is a Singaporean politician and economist who has been the current and ninth President of Singapore since 2023.
Nate Silver

39. Nate Silver

1978-. (aged 48)
statistician poker player journalist
Nathaniel Read Silver is an American statistician, political analyst, author, sports gambler, and poker player who analyzes baseball, basketball, football, and elections. He is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and held the position of editor-in-chief there, along with being a special correspondent for ABC News until May 2023. Since departing FiveThirtyEight, Silver has been publishing in his online newsletter Silver Bulletin...
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Jo Swinson

40. Jo Swinson

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Joanne Kate Swinson CBE FRSA is a Scottish former politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from July to December 2019. Swinson was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Dunbartonshire from 2005 to 2015 and 2017 to 2019. In September 2020, Swinson became Director of Partners for a New Economy (P4NE).
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Kim Campbell

41. Kim Campbell

1976-. (aged 50)
aircraft pilot military officer
Avril Phaedra Douglas "Kim" Campbell is a Canadian politician who was the 19th prime minister of Canada from June to November 1993. Campbell is the first and only female prime minister of Canada. Prior to becoming the final Progressive Conservative (PC) prime minister, she was also the first woman to serve as minister of justice in Canadian history and the...
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K. R. Narayanan

42. K. R. Narayanan

1920-2005 (aged 85)
diplomat politician
Kocheril Raman Narayanan was an Indian diplomat, academician, and statesman who served as the president of India from 1997 to 2002 and vice president of India from 1992 to 1997.
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Valerie Plame

43. Valerie Plame

1963-. (aged 63)
spy writer
Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer, spy, novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post. She described this period and the media firestorm that ensued...
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Ed Miliband

44. Ed Miliband

1969-. (aged 57)
podcaster politician
Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero since July 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. Miliband was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2010 to 2015. Alongside his brother, David Miliband, he served in the...
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Rachel Reeves

45. Rachel Reeves

1979-. (aged 47)
politician economist
Rachel Jane Reeves is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West and Pudsey, formerly Leeds West, since 2010. She held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2010 and 2015 and from 2020 to 2024.
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Christiana Figueres

46. Christiana Figueres

1956-. (aged 70)
climate activist politician diplomat podcaster economist
Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in July 2010, six months after the failed COP15 in Copenhagen. During the next six years she worked to rebuild the global climate change negotiating process, leading to...
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Anne Applebaum

47. Anne Applebaum

1964-. (aged 62)
writer columnist historian non-fiction writer journalist
Anne Elizabeth Applebaum is an American journalist and historian. She has written about the history of Communism and the development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe. She became a Polish citizen in 2013.
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Naomi Klein

48. Naomi Klein

1970-. (aged 56)
economist documentary filmmaker climate activist sociologist journalist
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses, support of ecofeminism and organized labour, and criticism of corporate globalization, fascism and capitalism. In 2021, Klein took up the UBC Professorship in Climate Justice, joining the University of British Columbia's Department of Geography. She has been the co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice...
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Eric Garcetti

49. Eric Garcetti

1971-. (aged 55)
climate activist professor naval officer television actor actor
Eric Michael Garcetti is an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to India from 2023 to 2025. He was the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles from 2013 until 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in the 2013 election, and re-elected in 2017. A former member of the Los Angeles City...
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Kwame Nkrumah

50. Kwame Nkrumah

1909-1972 (aged 63)
politician university teacher writer diplomat lecturer
Francis Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. He was then the first prime minister and then the president of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966. An influential advocate of Pan-Africanism, Nkrumah was a founding member of the Organization...
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Anthony Kennedy

51. Anthony Kennedy

1936-. (aged 90)
politician university teacher lawyer judge jurist
Anthony McLeod Kennedy is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and sworn in on February 18, 1988. After the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor in 2006, he was...
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Juan Manuel Santos

52. Juan Manuel Santos

1951-. (aged 75)
economist lawyer journalist politician
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón GColIH GCB GColL ODB is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Soha Ali Khan

53. Soha Ali Khan

1978-. (aged 48)
actor film actor
Soha Ali Khan Pataudi Khemu is an Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali, and English films. She is the younger daughter of veteran actress Sharmila Tagore and former India cricket captain Mansoor Ali Khan, of Bhopal, and the younger sister of actor Saif Ali Khan. She started her acting career with the romantic comedy film Dil Maange More...
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Michael Lewis

54. Michael Lewis

1960-. (aged 66)
journalist writer
Michael Monroe Lewis is an American author and financial journalist. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 2009, writing mostly on business, finance, and economics. He is known for his nonfiction work, particularly his coverage of financial crises and behavioral finance.
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Todd Boehly

55. Todd Boehly

1973-. (aged 53)
business executive philanthropist investor businessperson
Todd Boehly is an American businessman and head of Eldridge Industries, a holding company headquartered in Miami, Florida. He is the company's co-founder, chairman, chief executive officer and controlling member, as well as chairman of asset manager Eldridge. He is also the co-controlling owner and chairman of Premier League football club Chelsea, and co-owner of Ligue 1 football club Strasbourg...
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Daron Acemoğlu

56. Daron Acemoğlu

1967-. (aged 59)
university teacher author economist
Kamer Daron Acemoğlu is a Turkish-American economist of Armenian descent who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1993, where he is currently the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics, and was named an Institute Professor at MIT in 2019. His primary research fields include political economy, development economics, and labor economics. He received the John Bates...
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Jon Ossoff

57. Jon Ossoff

1987-. (aged 39)
investigative journalist film producer chief executive officer politician
Thomas Jonathan Ossoff is an American politician who has served as the senior United States senator from Georgia since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the youngest incumbent U.S. senator. Before his election to Congress, he was a documentary and investigative filmmaker.
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Feroze Gandhi

58. Feroze Gandhi

1912-1960 (aged 48)
journalist politician
Feroze Jehangir Gandhi was an Indian independence activist, politician and journalist. He served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower house of Indian parliament. He published The National Herald and The Navjivan newspapers. His wife, Indira Gandhi (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of...
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Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

59. Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

1982-. (aged 44)
politician merchant businessperson jockey poet
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is an Emirati royal and politician who has been the Crown Prince of Dubai since 2008. He is the Minister of Defence of the UAE since 14 July 2024. He served as deputy ruler of Dubai from 2006 to 2008. He is popularly known as Fazza (Arabic: فزاع), the name under which...
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Lee Kuan Yew

60. Lee Kuan Yew

1923-2015 (aged 92)
politician lawyer autobiographer statesperson philosopher
Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK, often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and barrister who was the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. A founding father of the modern Singaporean state, his authoritarian political leadership transformed post-independence Singapore into a highly developed country and one of the four Asian Tigers.
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Tarō Asō

61. Tarō Asō

1940-. (aged 86)
economist entrepreneur diplomat politician
Tarō Asō is a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), he also served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance from 2012 to 2021. He was the longest-serving Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in Japanese history, having previously served as Minister for...
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David Rockefeller

62. David Rockefeller

1915-2017 (aged 102)
entrepreneur art collector banker writer commissioned armed forces officers
David Rockefeller was an American economist and investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the Rockefeller family from 2004 until his death in 2017. Rockefeller was the fifth son and youngest child of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, and a grandson of John D....
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Tsai Ing-wen

63. Tsai Ing-wen

1956-. (aged 70)
jurist lawyer university teacher politician
Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the seventh president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she intermittently served as chair of the DPP from 2008 to 2012, 2014 to 2018, and 2020 to 2022. She was the first woman to hold the presidency...
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Monica Lewinsky

64. Monica Lewinsky

1973-. (aged 53)
social psychologist businessperson entrepreneur designer psychologist
Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American activist. She became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. president Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton's impeachment) became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal.
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George Soros

65. George Soros

1930-. (aged 96)
writer entrepreneur business magnate philosopher investor
George Soros is a Hungarian-American investor and philanthropist. As of May 2025, he has a net worth of US$7.2 billion, having donated more than $32 billion to the Open Society Foundations, of which $15 billion has already been distributed, representing 64% of his original fortune. In 2020, Forbes called Soros the "most generous giver" in terms of percentage of net...
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Mick Jagger

66. Mick Jagger

1943-. (aged 83)
composer singer-songwriter actor guitarist film producer
Sir Michael Philip Jagger is an English musician, songwriter, and film producer. He is the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones. Jagger has co-written most of the band's songs with lead guitarist Keith Richards; their songwriting partnership is one of the most successful in rock music history. His career has spanned more than six...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr

67. Robert F. Kennedy Jr

1954-. (aged 72)
anti-vaccine activist university teacher biographer jurist radio personality
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr., is an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist serving as the 26th United States secretary of health and human services since 2025. A member of the prominent Kennedy family, he is a son of Senator and U.S. attorney general Robert F. Kennedy and a nephew...
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B. R. Ambedkar

68. B. R. Ambedkar

1891-1956 (aged 65)
professor scholar jurist freedom fighter newspaper editor
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau. Ambedkar served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru. He later renounced Hinduism...
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Yang Jiechi

69. Yang Jiechi

1950-. (aged 76)
diplomat politician
Yang Jiechi is a Chinese senior diplomat and retired politician. He served as director of the Chinese Communist Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission from 2013 and 2022, State Councilor from 2013 to 2018, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China from 2007 to 2013.
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Stelios Haji-Ioannou

70. Stelios Haji-Ioannou

1967-. (aged 59)
businessperson
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur. Born into a wealthy ship-owning family, he is best known for founding the low-cost airline easyJet and the Stelmar shipping line with start-up funds provided by his father, Loucas. EasyJet's foundation in 1995 marked the beginning of a series of ventures marketed under the "easy" brand, managed by easyGroup and chaired by...
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Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens

71. Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens

1938-. (aged 88)
university teacher politician writer adviser sociologist
Anthony Giddens, Baron Giddens MAE is an English sociologist who is known for his theory of structuration and his holistic view of modern societies. He is considered to be one of the most prominent modern sociologists and is the author of at least 34 books, published in at least 29 languages, issuing on average more than one book every year....
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Varun Gandhi

72. Varun Gandhi

1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Feroze Varun Gandhi is an Indian politician who has been a three time Member of Parliament for Lok Sabha from the Pilibhit constituency. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and was inducted into Rajnath Singh's team in March 2012 as General Secretary. He belongs to the Nehru–Gandhi family, which has occupied a prominent place in the politics...
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Maajid Nawaz

73. Maajid Nawaz

1977-. (aged 49)
essayist politician writer human rights defender political activist
Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist and former radio presenter. He was the founding chairman of the think tank Quilliam. Until January 2022, he was the host of an LBC radio show on Saturdays and Sundays. Born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, to a British Pakistani family, Nawaz is a former member of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir. His membership led...
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Kumar Mangalam Birla

74. Kumar Mangalam Birla

1967-. (aged 59)
business magnate entrepreneur chief executive officer accountant
Kumar Mangalam Birla is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, one of the largest conglomerates in India. He is the chancellor of the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani and former chairman of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. In 2023, Birla received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian honour in India.
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Martin Lewis

75. Martin Lewis

1972-. (aged 54)
television presenter actor journalist
Martin Steven Lewis CBE is an English campaigning journalist, broadcaster, author and charity founder. Lewis founded the website MoneySavingExpert.com. He sold the website in 2012 to the Moneysupermarket.com group for up to £87 million. Lewis is currently a presenter for ITV, on the morning shows Good Morning Britain and This Morning since 2007. He also presents The Martin Lewis Money...
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Nick Bostrom

76. Nick Bostrom

1973-. (aged 53)
university teacher philosopher
Nick Bostrom is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. He was the founding director of the later defunct Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and has become Principal Researcher at the Macrostrategy Research Initiative.
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Giorgos Papandreou

77. Giorgos Papandreou

1952-. (aged 74)
diplomat sociologist politician
George Andreas Papandreou is an American-born Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011. He is currently serving as an MP for PASOK-Kinima Allagis.
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Maria Pevchikh

78. Maria Pevchikh

1987-. (aged 39)
author YouTuber activist executive producer investigative journalist
Maria Konstantinovna Pevchikh is a Russian investigative journalist and anti-corruption activist who has served as the chairwoman of the board of directors of the Anti-Corruption Foundation since March 2023. Pevchikh is known for exposing high-level corruption in Russia.
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Zygmunt Bauman

79. Zygmunt Bauman

1925-2017 (aged 92)
opinion journalist university teacher writer philosopher sociologist
Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later, he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and...
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Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway

80. Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway

1973-. (aged 53)
heir apparent
Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway is the heir apparent to the Norwegian throne. He is the only son of King Harald V and Queen Sonja.
Romano Prodi

81. Romano Prodi

1939-. (aged 87)
economist businessperson university teacher politician
Romano Prodi OMRI is an Italian politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004 and twice as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1996 to 1998, and again from 2006 to 2008. Prodi is considered the founder of the Italian centre-left and one of the most prominent figures of the Second Republic. He is often nicknamed...
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Carlo Cottarelli

82. Carlo Cottarelli

1954-. (aged 72)
economist
Carlo Cottarelli is an Italian economist and former director of the International Monetary Fund.
Bronisław Malinowski

83. Bronisław Malinowski

1884-1942 (aged 58)
photographer anthropologist ethnographer university teacher ethnologist
Bronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
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Ursula von der Leyen

84. Ursula von der Leyen

1958-. (aged 68)
physician equestrian politician
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician and physician who has served as President of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding positions in Angela Merkel's cabinet, most recently as Federal Minister for Defence. She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated...
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Steffen Seibert

85. Steffen Seibert

1960-. (aged 66)
publicist news presenter journalist
Steffen Rüdiger Seibert is a German journalist and former television host who serves as German Ambassador to Israel. He previously served as head of the German Federal Government's Press and Information Office and as the German government's spokesperson from 2010 to 2021. During his tenure, Seibert was officially ranked as a Secretary of State.
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Annalena Baerbock

86. Annalena Baerbock

1980-. (aged 46)
jurist politician
Annalena Charlotte Alma Baerbock is a German diplomat and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens party. She served as Germany's minister for foreign affairs from 2021 to 2025. She has served as President of the United Nations General Assembly during its 80th session since 9 September 2025.
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Heinrich Brüning

87. Heinrich Brüning

1885-1970 (aged 85)
economist politician university teacher trade unionist
Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932.
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Talcott Parsons

88. Talcott Parsons

1902-1979 (aged 77)
university teacher sociologist biologist
Talcott Parsons was an American sociologist of the classical tradition, best known for his social action theory and structural functionalism. Parsons is considered one of the most influential figures in sociology in the 20th century. After earning a PhD in economics, he served on the faculty at Harvard University from 1927 to 1973. In 1930, he was among the first...
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Roland Lescure

89. Roland Lescure

1966-. (aged 60)
corporate administrative and commercial executive economist politician cadres de la fonction publique
Roland Lescure is a French and Canadian banker and politician who served as Minister Delegate for Industry in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Élisabeth Borne and Gabriel Attal from 2022 to 2024.
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Pierre Trudeau

90. Pierre Trudeau

1919-2000 (aged 81)
lawyer writer jurist law professor teacher
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was a Canadian politician and lawyer who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984. Between his non-consecutive terms as prime minister, he served as the leader of the Official Opposition from 1979 to 1980.
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Érik Orsenna

91. Érik Orsenna

1947-. (aged 79)
writer academic economist politician
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po"), Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member...
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Alexander Stubb

92. Alexander Stubb

1968-. (aged 58)
writer diplomat university teacher politician
Cai-Göran Alexander Stubb is the president of Finland, having taken office in 2024. He previously served as prime minister of Finland from 2014 to 2015.
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Thomas Piketty

93. Thomas Piketty

1971-. (aged 55)
economist research fellow writer
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is a professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, associate chair at the Paris School of Economics (PSE) and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE).
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Lucie Castets

94. Lucie Castets

1987-. (aged 39)
politician spokesperson activist official research associate professor in France
Lucie Castets is a French civil servant and economist. Associated with the Socialist Party, Castets was nominated by the New Popular Front (NFP) to serve as Prime Minister of France in the aftermath of the 2024 legislative election, but her candidacy was rejected by president Emmanuel Macron.
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Margrethe II of Denmark

95. Margrethe II of Denmark

1940-. (aged 86)
monarch painter textile artist screenwriter
Margrethe II is a member of the Danish royal family who reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024. Having reigned for exactly 52 years, she is the second-longest-reigning Danish monarch after Christian IV.
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Mia Mottley

96. Mia Mottley

1965-. (aged 61)
politician
Mia Amor Mottley is a Barbadian politician and lawyer who has served as the eighth prime minister of Barbados since 2018 and as Leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the first woman to hold both positions. Having overseen the abolition of the Barbadian monarchy, she is the first prime minister of the Barbadian republic.
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Mwai Kibaki

97. Mwai Kibaki

1931-2022 (aged 91)
minister economist politician
Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki CGH was a Kenyan politician who served as the third President of Kenya from December 2002 until April 2013. He served in various leadership positions in Kenya's government including being the longest serving Member of Parliament (MP) in Kenya from 1963 to 2013. He was the fourth Vice-President of Kenya for ten years from 1978 to...
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Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi

98. Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi

1972-2026 (aged 54)
engineer military personnel politician architect
Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi was a Libyan political figure. He was the second son of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his second wife Safia Farkash. He was a part of his father's inner circle, performing public relations and diplomatic roles on his behalf.
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Mikie Sherrill

99. Mikie Sherrill

1972-. (aged 54)
naval officer helicopter pilot politician prosecutor
Rebecca Michelle Sherrill is an American politician, former naval officer, and former federal prosecutor serving since 2026 as the 57th governor of New Jersey. A member of the Democratic Party, she was elected governor in 2025, defeating Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli. Sherrill is New Jersey's second female governor (after Christine Todd Whitman) and first female Democratic governor, as well as...
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Minouche Shafik

100. Minouche Shafik

1962-. (aged 64)
economist
Nemat Talaat Shafik, Baroness Shafik, commonly known as Minouche Shafik, is a British-American academic and economist. She served as the president and vice chancellor of the London School of Economics from 2017 to 2023, and then as the 20th president of Columbia University from July 2023 to August 2024. She was appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor to the UK...
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