1926 - Today
Werner Michael Blumenthal (born January 3, 1926) is a German-American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979. At age thirteen, Blumenthal barely escaped Nazi Germany with his Jewish family in 1939. He was forced to spend World War II living in the ghetto of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, China, until 1947. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. Michael Blumenthal has received more than 231,284 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). W. Michael Blumenthal is the 313th most popular economist (down from 283rd in 2019), the 4,367th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,050th in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Economist.
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Among economists, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 313 out of 315. Before him are Fischer Black, Rose Friedman, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Abdi Farah Shirdon, Henryk Grossman, and James Wilson. After him are Abel Aganbegyan, Armen Alchian, Ester Boserup, Pedro Solbes, John Lipsky, and Anthony Downs.
1938 - 1995
HPI: 45.28
Rank: 307
1910 - 2009
HPI: 45.16
Rank: 308
1951 - Present
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 309
1958 - Present
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 310
1881 - 1950
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 311
1805 - 1860
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 312
1926 - Present
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 313
1932 - Present
HPI: 44.69
Rank: 314
1914 - 2013
HPI: 44.66
Rank: 315
1910 - 1999
HPI: 44.64
Rank: 316
1942 - 2023
HPI: 44.53
Rank: 317
1947 - Present
HPI: 44.35
Rank: 318
1930 - 2021
HPI: 44.15
Rank: 319
Among people born in 1926, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 349. Before him are Pino Dordoni, Efraín Sánchez, Bernard Nathanson, Jan Zwartkruis, Irene Camber, and Egisto Pandolfini. After him are Li Han-hsiang, Beatriz Segall, Roberto Lippi, Ralph Abernathy, Ede Király, and Tom Tryon.
1926 - 1998
HPI: 45.25
Rank: 343
1926 - 2020
HPI: 45.12
Rank: 344
1926 - 2011
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 345
1926 - 2013
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 346
1926 - Present
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 347
1926 - 2019
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 348
1926 - Present
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 349
1926 - 1996
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 350
1926 - 2018
HPI: 44.84
Rank: 351
1926 - 2011
HPI: 44.79
Rank: 352
1926 - 1990
HPI: 44.76
Rank: 353
1926 - 2009
HPI: 44.75
Rank: 354
1926 - 1991
HPI: 44.72
Rank: 355
Among people born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 4,367 out of 6,142. Before him are Shantel (1968), Ralph Giordano (1923), Wilhelm Brinkmann (1910), Wilhelm Baumann (1912), Yıldıray Baştürk (1978), and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927). After him are Karl-Friedrich Haas (1931), Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826), Wolfram Löwe (1945), Wolfgang Dremmler (1954), Christoph Höhne (1941), and Werner Krämer (1940).
1968 - Present
HPI: 45.04
Rank: 4,361
1923 - 2014
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 4,362
1910 - 1991
HPI: 45.03
Rank: 4,363
1912 - 1990
HPI: 45.02
Rank: 4,364
1978 - Present
HPI: 45.01
Rank: 4,365
1927 - 2013
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 4,366
1926 - Present
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 4,367
1931 - 2021
HPI: 44.98
Rank: 4,368
1826 - 1886
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 4,369
1945 - Present
HPI: 44.97
Rank: 4,370
1954 - Present
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 4,371
1941 - Present
HPI: 44.96
Rank: 4,372
1940 - 2010
HPI: 44.95
Rank: 4,373
Among economists born in Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal ranks 34. Before him are Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Theodore Levitt (1925), Jörg Meuthen (1961), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Karl Knies (1821), and Alice Salomon (1872). After him are Andreas Kaplan (1977) and Ludwig Lachmann (1906).
1842 - 1926
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 28
1925 - 2006
HPI: 50.04
Rank: 29
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.73
Rank: 30
1837 - 1914
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 31
1821 - 1898
HPI: 47.42
Rank: 32
1872 - 1948
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 33
1926 - Present
HPI: 44.99
Rank: 34
1977 - Present
HPI: 43.06
Rank: 35
1906 - 1990
HPI: 42.92
Rank: 36