1760 - 1825
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]; 17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), was a French political, economic and socialist theorist and businessman whose thought had a substantial influence on politics, economics, sociology and the philosophy of science. He is a younger relative of the famous memoirist the Duc de Saint-Simon. Saint-Simon created a political and economic ideology known as Saint-Simonianism that claimed that the needs of an industrial class, which he also referred to as the working class, needed to be recognized and fulfilled to have an effective society and an efficient economy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri de Saint-Simon has received more than 377,758 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Henri de Saint-Simon is the 126th most popular philosopher (up from 128th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from France (up from 248th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Philosopher.
Henri de Saint-Simon is most famous for his ideas of technocracy, where the economy would be controlled by a select group of scientists and engineers.
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Among philosophers, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 126 out of 1,089. Before him are Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Wycliffe, Duns Scotus, Giambattista Vico, Marsilio Ficino, and Oswald Spengler. After him are Martin Buber, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Joseph Priestley, Herbert Marcuse, Ramon Llull, and Al-Tabari.
1900 - 2002
HPI: 79.09
Rank: 120
1324 - 1384
HPI: 79.05
Rank: 121
1265 - 1308
HPI: 78.90
Rank: 122
1668 - 1744
HPI: 78.82
Rank: 123
1433 - 1499
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 124
1880 - 1936
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 125
1760 - 1825
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 126
1878 - 1965
HPI: 78.74
Rank: 127
1703 - 1792
HPI: 78.67
Rank: 128
1733 - 1804
HPI: 78.62
Rank: 129
1898 - 1979
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 130
1232 - 1316
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 131
839 - 923
HPI: 78.52
Rank: 132
Among people born in 1760, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 3. Before him are Hokusai and Pope Leo XII. After him are Jiaqing Emperor, Luigi Cherubini, François-Noël Babeuf, Camille Desmoulins, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Johan Gadolin, Alexandre de Beauharnais, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein. Among people deceased in 1825, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 4. Before him are Jacques-Louis David, Alexander I of Russia, and Antonio Salieri. After him are Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies, Henry Fuseli, Jean Paul, Pauline Bonaparte, Laskarina Bouboulina, Dmitry Bortniansky, and Vivant Denon.
1760 - 1849
HPI: 84.97
Rank: 1
1760 - 1829
HPI: 81.03
Rank: 2
1760 - 1825
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 3
1760 - 1820
HPI: 77.14
Rank: 4
1760 - 1842
HPI: 76.55
Rank: 5
1760 - 1797
HPI: 76.03
Rank: 6
1760 - 1794
HPI: 75.71
Rank: 7
1760 - 1836
HPI: 74.44
Rank: 8
1760 - 1852
HPI: 71.81
Rank: 9
1760 - 1794
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 10
1760 - 1831
HPI: 70.27
Rank: 11
1760 - 1836
HPI: 69.16
Rank: 12
1748 - 1825
HPI: 83.90
Rank: 1
1777 - 1825
HPI: 83.26
Rank: 2
1750 - 1825
HPI: 82.96
Rank: 3
1760 - 1825
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 4
1756 - 1825
HPI: 76.76
Rank: 5
1751 - 1825
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 6
1741 - 1825
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 7
1763 - 1825
HPI: 74.50
Rank: 8
1780 - 1825
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 9
1771 - 1825
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 10
1751 - 1825
HPI: 68.92
Rank: 11
1747 - 1825
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 245 out of 5,234. Before him are Oscar I of Sweden (1799), Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732), Pope Leo IX (1002), Madame du Barry (1743), Berthe Morisot (1841), and Philip I of France (1052). After him are François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Charlotte Corday (1768), Paul Signac (1863), Zinedine Zidane (1972), Georges de La Tour (1593), and Philip the Good (1396).
1799 - 1859
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 239
1732 - 1806
HPI: 78.92
Rank: 240
1002 - 1054
HPI: 78.83
Rank: 241
1743 - 1793
HPI: 78.83
Rank: 242
1841 - 1895
HPI: 78.81
Rank: 243
1052 - 1108
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 244
1760 - 1825
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 245
1613 - 1680
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 246
1768 - 1793
HPI: 78.73
Rank: 247
1863 - 1935
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 248
1972 - Present
HPI: 78.66
Rank: 249
1593 - 1652
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 250
1396 - 1467
HPI: 78.64
Rank: 251
Among philosophers born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 13. Before him are Peter Abelard (1079), Jean Bodin (1530), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Roland Barthes (1915), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Charles Fourier (1772). After him are Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Simone Weil (1909), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), and Paul Ricœur (1913).
1079 - 1142
HPI: 82.84
Rank: 7
1530 - 1596
HPI: 80.87
Rank: 8
1809 - 1865
HPI: 80.58
Rank: 9
1915 - 1980
HPI: 80.06
Rank: 10
1925 - 1995
HPI: 79.66
Rank: 11
1772 - 1837
HPI: 79.09
Rank: 12
1760 - 1825
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 13
1908 - 1961
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 14
1929 - 2007
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 15
1909 - 1943
HPI: 77.72
Rank: 16
1743 - 1794
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 17
1715 - 1771
HPI: 77.00
Rank: 18
1913 - 2005
HPI: 76.99
Rank: 19