1930 - 2014
Gary Stanley Becker (; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago, and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics.Becker was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1992 and received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Becker their favorite living economist over the age of 60, followed by Kenneth Arrow and Robert Solow. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Becker has received more than 885,380 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). Gary Becker is the 42nd most popular economist, the 564th most popular biography from United States (up from 647th in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Economist.
Gary Becker was an American economist and a professor at the University of Chicago. He is most famous for applying economic principles to other social sciences, such as sociology, criminology, and family studies.
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Among economists, Gary Becker ranks 42 out of 315. Before him are Benjamin Graham, Elinor Ostrom, Wassily Leontief, Ragnar Frisch, Thorstein Veblen, and Friedrich List. After him are Jacques Attali, Jan Tinbergen, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Frédéric Bastiat, John Hicks, and Bernard Mandeville.
1894 - 1976
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 36
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 37
1906 - 1999
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 38
1895 - 1973
HPI: 65.92
Rank: 39
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 40
1789 - 1846
HPI: 65.87
Rank: 41
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 42
1943 - Present
HPI: 65.65
Rank: 43
1903 - 1994
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 44
1949 - Present
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 45
1801 - 1850
HPI: 65.17
Rank: 46
1904 - 1989
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 47
1670 - 1733
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 48
Among people born in 1930, Gary Becker ranks 33. Before him are Ion Iliescu, Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tu Youyou, Harold Pinter, and Immanuel Wallerstein. After him are Bernie Ecclestone, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Biljana Plavšić, Robert Wagner, Carlos Menem, and Hugh Everett III. Among people deceased in 2014, Gary Becker ranks 24. Before him are Alexander Grothendieck, Paco de Lucía, Lauren Bacall, Nadine Gordimer, Richard Kiel, and Queen Fabiola of Belgium. After him are Alain Resnais, Virna Lisi, Louis Zamperini, H. R. Giger, Adolfo Suárez, and Martin Lewis Perl.
1930 - Present
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 27
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 28
1930 - 2002
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 29
1930 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 30
1930 - 2008
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 31
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 32
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 33
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 34
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.25
Rank: 35
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.18
Rank: 36
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.05
Rank: 37
1930 - 2021
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 38
1930 - 1982
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 39
1928 - 2014
HPI: 67.05
Rank: 18
1947 - 2014
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 19
1924 - 2014
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 20
1923 - 2014
HPI: 66.39
Rank: 21
1939 - 2014
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 22
1928 - 2014
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 23
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 24
1922 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 25
1936 - 2014
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 26
1917 - 2014
HPI: 65.41
Rank: 27
1940 - 2014
HPI: 65.07
Rank: 28
1932 - 2014
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 29
1927 - 2014
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 30
Among people born in United States, Gary Becker ranks 564 out of 18,182. Before him are Dean Martin (1917), Farrah Fawcett (1947), Theodore William Richards (1868), Doris Day (1922), Boris Johnson (1964), and Gene Kelly (1912). After him are Martin Landau (1928), Harold Lloyd (1893), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Gwen Stefani (1969), William P. Murphy (1892), and Henry Mancini (1924).
1917 - 1995
HPI: 65.83
Rank: 558
1947 - 2009
HPI: 65.80
Rank: 559
1868 - 1928
HPI: 65.79
Rank: 560
1922 - 2019
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 561
1964 - Present
HPI: 65.74
Rank: 562
1912 - 1996
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 563
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 564
1928 - 2017
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 565
1893 - 1971
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 566
1894 - 1956
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 567
1969 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 568
1892 - 1987
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 569
1924 - 1994
HPI: 65.69
Rank: 570
Among economists born in United States, Gary Becker ranks 8. Before him are Paul Samuelson (1915), Michael Porter (1947), Joseph Stiglitz (1943), Herbert A. Simon (1916), Elinor Ostrom (1933), and Thorstein Veblen (1857). After him are Douglass North (1920), Kenneth Arrow (1921), W. Edwards Deming (1900), Irving Fisher (1867), Robert Solow (1924), and Theodore Schultz (1902).
1915 - 2009
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 2
1947 - Present
HPI: 68.85
Rank: 3
1943 - Present
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 4
1916 - 2001
HPI: 68.42
Rank: 5
1933 - 2012
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 6
1857 - 1929
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 7
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 8
1920 - 2015
HPI: 64.82
Rank: 9
1921 - 2017
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 10
1900 - 1993
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 11
1867 - 1947
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 12
1924 - 2023
HPI: 63.66
Rank: 13
1902 - 1998
HPI: 63.63
Rank: 14