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The 20 most popular Philosophers in United Kingdom

This curated ranking covers the 20 largest philosophers in United Kingdom, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Socrates, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1.8M people. Across all 20 entries the average audience size is 178k, and the largest, Socrates, reaches around 862k people in United Kingdom. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with each philosopher, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United Kingdom and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 20, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United Kingdom. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United Kingdom, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United Kingdom. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Socrates 862k 42.1 58.2% Philosopher
2 Karl Marx 495k 44.4 44.8% Philosopher
3 Sigmund Freud 428k 45.4 74.0% Philosopher
4 Plato 360k 41.1 67.5% Philosopher
5 Aristotle 342k 43.8 51.3% Philosopher
6 Voltaire 231k 40.1 82.6% Philosopher
7 Fyodor Dostoyevsky 166k 35.6 51.2% Philosopher
8 Immanuel Kant 154k 44.1 55.2% Philosopher
9 Friedrich Nietzsche 141k 46.0 64.5% Philosopher
10 Michel Foucault 93k 43.7 72.1% Philosopher
11 Leo Tolstoy 70k 38.2 67.0% Philosopher
12 Rudolf Steiner 58k 45.0 73.8% Philosopher
13 William James 46k 49.6 67.4% Philosopher
14 Helena Blavatsky 31k 50.6 74.8% Philosopher
15 Daniel Dennett 23k 39.6 53.3% Philosopher
16 William Lane Craig 21k 46.4 18.9% Philosopher
17 Ken Wilber 9.7k 41.7 63.0% Philosopher
18 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 9.6k 33.2 73.6% Philosopher
19 Herbert Spencer 8.8k 27.4 100.0% Philosopher
20 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 5.6k 23.3 0.0% Philosopher

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular philosophers compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United Kingdom and ranks each philosopher by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest philosopher in United Kingdom?

Socrates currently leads with an estimated audience of 862k people in United Kingdom.

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