The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Réunion
This page contains a list of the greatest Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 1 of which were born in Réunion. This makes Réunion the birth place of the 41st most number of Economists behind Lebanon, and Finland.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Economists of all time. This list of famous Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Raymond Barre (1924 - 2007)
With an HPI of 56.47, Raymond Barre is the most famous Economist. His biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.
Raymond Octave Joseph Barre (French: [ʁɛmɔ̃ baʁ]; 12 April 1924 – 25 August 2007) was a French politician and economist. He was a Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs under three presidents (Rey, Malfatti and Mansholt). He later served as Prime Minister under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981. As a candidate for the presidency in 1988, he came in third and was eliminated in the first round. He was born in Saint-Denis, on the French island of Réunion, and then still a colony (it became an overseas department in 1946).
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as economists born between 1924 and 1924. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased economists include Raymond Barre.
