1933 - Today
Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈɔmort:o ˈʃen]; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and measures of well-being of countries. He is currently Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amartya Sen has received more than 3,885,330 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Amartya Sen is the 22nd most popular economist (down from 21st in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from India (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Indian Economist.
Amartya Sen is a Nobel Prize-winning economist who is most famous for his work on the causes of famine. He argues that famines are not caused by food shortages, but by a lack of democracy and freedom.
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Among economists, Amartya Sen ranks 22 out of 315. Before him are Philip Kotler, Paul Samuelson, Jean-Baptiste Say, Henri Fayol, Barack Obama Sr., and Herbert A. Simon. After him are Frédéric Passy, Joseph Stiglitz, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, William Petty, Simon Kuznets, and Ronald Coase.
1931 - Present
HPI: 76.93
Rank: 16
1915 - 2009
HPI: 76.63
Rank: 17
1767 - 1832
HPI: 76.52
Rank: 18
1841 - 1925
HPI: 76.32
Rank: 19
1936 - 1982
HPI: 76.02
Rank: 20
1916 - 2001
HPI: 75.79
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 22
1822 - 1912
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 23
1943 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 24
1727 - 1781
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 25
1623 - 1687
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 26
1901 - 1985
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 27
1910 - 2013
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 28
Among people born in 1933, Amartya Sen ranks 19. Before him are Lina Medina, Just Fontaine, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jalal Talabani, Philip Roth, and Tinto Brass. After him are Francisco Gento, Susan Sontag, Arno Allan Penzias, Elinor Ostrom, Costa-Gavras, and Corazon Aquino.
1933 - Present
HPI: 77.16
Rank: 13
1933 - Present
HPI: 76.72
Rank: 14
1933 - 2020
HPI: 76.43
Rank: 15
1933 - 2017
HPI: 76.25
Rank: 16
1933 - 2018
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 17
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 18
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 19
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.26
Rank: 20
1933 - 2004
HPI: 74.66
Rank: 21
1933 - Present
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 22
1933 - 2012
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 23
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.98
Rank: 24
1933 - 2009
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 25
Among people born in India, Amartya Sen ranks 36 out of 1,227. Before him are Alauddin Khalji (1266), C. V. Raman (1888), Salman Khan (1965), Mahavira (-599), Aishwarya Rai (1973), and Jahangir (1569). After him are William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), Aryabhata (476), Swami Vivekananda (1863), Bhāskara II (1114), Tulsidas (1532), and Valmiki (-80).
1266 - 1316
HPI: 75.89
Rank: 30
1888 - 1970
HPI: 75.84
Rank: 31
1965 - Present
HPI: 75.83
Rank: 32
599 BC - 527 BC
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 33
1973 - Present
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 34
1569 - 1627
HPI: 75.70
Rank: 35
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 36
1811 - 1863
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 37
476 - 550
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 38
1863 - 1902
HPI: 75.13
Rank: 39
1114 - 1185
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 40
1532 - 1623
HPI: 74.76
Rank: 41
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 74.70
Rank: 42
Among economists born in India, Amartya Sen ranks 1. After him are Mahbub ul Haq (1934), Abhijit Banerjee (1961), Jagdish Bhagwati (1934), Raghuram Rajan (1963), and Gita Gopinath (1971).
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.68
Rank: 1
1934 - 1998
HPI: 61.53
Rank: 2
1961 - Present
HPI: 61.02
Rank: 3
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 4
1963 - Present
HPI: 49.69
Rank: 5
1971 - Present
HPI: 48.60
Rank: 6