1933 - Today
Amartya Kumar Sen (Bengali: [ˈɔmortːo 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 a 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 5,527,760 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Amartya Sen is the 21st most popular economist (up from 22nd in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from India (up from 36th 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 21 out of 315. Before him are Philip Kotler, Ludwig von Mises, Mario Draghi, Jean-Baptiste Say, Paul Samuelson, and Henri Fayol. After him are John Law, Michael Porter, Joseph Stiglitz, Herbert A. Simon, Simon Kuznets, and Anne Robert Jacques Turgot.
1931 - Present
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 15
1881 - 1973
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 16
1947 - Present
HPI: 70.28
Rank: 17
1767 - 1832
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 18
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 19
1841 - 1925
HPI: 69.84
Rank: 20
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 21
1671 - 1729
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 22
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 23
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 24
1916 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 25
1901 - 1985
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 26
1727 - 1781
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 27
Among people born in 1933, Amartya Sen ranks 14. Before him are Michael Caine, Yoko Ono, Charles K. Kao, James Brown, Francisco Gento, and Nina Simone. After him are Claudio Abbado, Abolhassan Banisadr, Tinto Brass, Philip Roth, Jalal Talabani, and Susan Sontag.
1933 - Present
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 8
1933 - Present
HPI: 72.14
Rank: 9
1933 - 2018
HPI: 71.90
Rank: 10
1933 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 11
1933 - 2022
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 12
1933 - 2003
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 13
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 14
1933 - 2014
HPI: 69.65
Rank: 15
1933 - 2021
HPI: 69.61
Rank: 16
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.49
Rank: 17
1933 - 2018
HPI: 69.03
Rank: 18
1933 - 2017
HPI: 68.93
Rank: 19
1933 - 2004
HPI: 68.67
Rank: 20
Among people born in India, Amartya Sen ranks 35 out of 1,493. Before him are Adi Shankara (788), Valmiki (-80), Aryabhata (476), Aurangzeb (1618), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888), and Padmasambhava (717). After him are Mahavira (-599), Julie Christie (1940), Rani of Jhansi (1828), Jahangir (1569), Brahmagupta (598), and Tulsidas (1532).
788 - 820
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 29
80 BC - 2 BC
HPI: 70.44
Rank: 30
476 - 550
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 31
1618 - 1707
HPI: 70.25
Rank: 32
1888 - 1975
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 33
717 - 762
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 34
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 35
599 BC - 527 BC
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 36
1940 - Present
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 37
1828 - 1858
HPI: 68.91
Rank: 38
1569 - 1627
HPI: 68.69
Rank: 39
598 - 670
HPI: 68.55
Rank: 40
1532 - 1623
HPI: 68.26
Rank: 41
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), Gita Gopinath (1971), and Kshama Sawant (1973).
1933 - Present
HPI: 69.78
Rank: 1
1934 - 1998
HPI: 51.27
Rank: 2
1961 - Present
HPI: 46.08
Rank: 3
1934 - Present
HPI: 42.49
Rank: 4
1963 - Present
HPI: 35.77
Rank: 5
1971 - Present
HPI: 34.15
Rank: 6
1973 - Present
HPI: 18.97
Rank: 7