1760 - 1825
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760 – 19 May 1825), better known as Henri de Saint-Simon (French: [ɑ̃ʁi də sɛ̃ simɔ̃]), 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 was 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 564,939 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri de Saint-Simon is the 103rd most popular philosopher (up from 126th in 2019), the 202nd most popular biography from France (up from 245th in 2019) and the 11th 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 103 out of 1,081. Before him are Zhuang Zhou, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Roland Barthes, Ibn Taymiyyah, Theophrastus, and Wilhelm von Humboldt. After him are Jacques Derrida, Aristippus, Joseph Priestley, Friedrich Fröbel, Philo, and Pyrrho.
369 BC - 286 BC
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 97
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 98
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 99
1263 - 1328
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 100
371 BC - 287 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 101
1767 - 1835
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 102
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 103
1930 - 2004
HPI: 73.60
Rank: 104
434 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 105
1733 - 1804
HPI: 73.42
Rank: 106
1782 - 1852
HPI: 73.34
Rank: 107
15 BC - 45
HPI: 73.19
Rank: 108
365 BC - 275 BC
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 109
Among people born in 1760, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 3. Before him are Hokusai and Pope Leo XII. After him are Luigi Cherubini, Jiaqing Emperor, François-Noël Babeuf, Camille Desmoulins, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, Alexandre de Beauharnais, Johan Gadolin, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, and Jan Ladislav Dussek. 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, Pauline Bonaparte, Henry Fuseli, Jean Paul, Dmitry Bortniansky, Laskarina Bouboulina, and Vivant Denon.
1760 - 1849
HPI: 80.12
Rank: 1
1760 - 1829
HPI: 75.21
Rank: 2
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 3
1760 - 1842
HPI: 69.58
Rank: 4
1760 - 1820
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 5
1760 - 1797
HPI: 68.03
Rank: 6
1760 - 1794
HPI: 68.02
Rank: 7
1760 - 1836
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 8
1760 - 1794
HPI: 64.09
Rank: 9
1760 - 1852
HPI: 63.23
Rank: 10
1760 - 1831
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 11
1760 - 1812
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 12
1748 - 1825
HPI: 78.96
Rank: 1
1777 - 1825
HPI: 78.54
Rank: 2
1750 - 1825
HPI: 78.00
Rank: 3
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 4
1756 - 1825
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 5
1751 - 1825
HPI: 71.21
Rank: 6
1780 - 1825
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 7
1741 - 1825
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 8
1763 - 1825
HPI: 66.38
Rank: 9
1751 - 1825
HPI: 60.79
Rank: 10
1771 - 1825
HPI: 60.76
Rank: 11
1747 - 1825
HPI: 59.40
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 202 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean Racine (1639), Georges Pompidou (1911), Jacques de Molay (1243), Pope Clement VI (1291), Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou (1113), and François Truffaut (1932). After him are Henri Rousseau (1844), Léon Foucault (1819), Richard II of England (1367), Nicéphore Niépce (1765), Georges Méliès (1861), and Charles IV of France (1294).
1639 - 1699
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 196
1911 - 1974
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 197
1243 - 1314
HPI: 73.75
Rank: 198
1291 - 1352
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 199
1113 - 1151
HPI: 73.72
Rank: 200
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 201
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 202
1844 - 1910
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 203
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 204
1367 - 1400
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 205
1765 - 1833
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 206
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 207
1294 - 1328
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 208
Among philosophers born in France, Henri de Saint-Simon ranks 11. Before him are Michel Foucault (1926), Henri Bergson (1859), Peter Abelard (1079), Jean Bodin (1530), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), and Roland Barthes (1915). After him are Charles Fourier (1772), Gilles Deleuze (1925), Simone Weil (1909), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Paul Ricœur (1913).
1926 - 1984
HPI: 79.32
Rank: 5
1859 - 1941
HPI: 78.59
Rank: 6
1079 - 1142
HPI: 76.98
Rank: 7
1530 - 1596
HPI: 75.37
Rank: 8
1809 - 1865
HPI: 74.09
Rank: 9
1915 - 1980
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 10
1760 - 1825
HPI: 73.62
Rank: 11
1772 - 1837
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 12
1925 - 1995
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 13
1909 - 1943
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 14
1929 - 2007
HPI: 70.57
Rank: 15
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 16
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.69
Rank: 17