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Alexander Hamilton

1755 - 1804

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Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755, or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency. Born out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant. He pursued his education in New York City where, despite his young age, he was a prolific and widely read pamphleteer advocating for the American revolutionary cause, though an anonymous one. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Hamilton has received more than 53,359,875 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Alexander Hamilton is the 31st most popular economist (up from 43rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Saint Kitts and Nevis and the most popular Kittian and Nevisian Economist.

Alexander Hamilton is most famous for being one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first Secretary of the Treasury.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.60

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Alexander Hamilton ranks 31 out of 315. Before him are Simon Kuznets, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, William Petty, Carl Menger, Barack Obama Sr., and Klaus Schwab. After him are Ronald Coase, Gunnar Myrdal, Léon Walras, Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Graham, and Elinor Ostrom.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1755, Alexander Hamilton ranks 6. Before him are Marie Antoinette, Louis XVIII of France, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Samuel Hahnemann, and Axel von Fersen the Younger. After him are Paul Barras, James Parkinson, Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, François Joseph Lefebvre, and Georges Couthon. Among people deceased in 1804, Alexander Hamilton ranks 5. Before him are Immanuel Kant, Joseph Priestley, Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, and Jacques Necker. After him are Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Pierre Méchain, Wolfgang von Kempelen, Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien, Princess Carolina of Parma, Jean-Charles Pichegru, and Jazzar Pasha.

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In Saint Kitts and Nevis

Among people born in Saint Kitts and Nevis, Alexander Hamilton ranks 1 out of 10. After him are Cuthbert Sebastian (1921), Joan Armatrading (1950), Tapley Seaton (1950), Denzil Douglas (1953), Timothy Harris (1964), Kim Collins (1976), Clement Arrindell (1931), Edmund Wickham Lawrence (1932), and Keith Gumbs (1972).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Saint Kitts and Nevis

Among economists born in Saint Kitts and Nevis, Alexander Hamilton ranks 1. 

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