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Frédéric Passy

1822 - 1912

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Frédéric Passy (20 May 1822 – 12 June 1912) was a French economist and pacifist who was a founding member of several peace societies and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He was also an author and politician, sitting in the Chamber of Deputies from 1881 until 1889. He was a joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 for his work in the European peace movement. Born in Paris to a prominent Catholic and Orléanist family, Passy was surrounded by military veterans and politicians. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frédéric Passy is the 9th most popular economist (up from 11th in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from France (up from 267th in 2019) and the most popular French Economist.

Frédéric Passy was a French economist and pacifist. He is most famous for being one of the founders of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Frédéric Passy ranks 9 out of 414Before him are John Maynard Keynes, David Ricardo, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Stuart Mill, Herbert A. Simon, and Friedrich Hayek. After him are Vilfredo Pareto, Milton Friedman, François Quesnay, Joseph Schumpeter, Mario Draghi, and George Shultz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Frédéric Passy ranks 5Before him are Louis Pasteur, Ulysses S. Grant, Gregor Mendel, and Heinrich Schliemann. After him are Rudolf Clausius, César Franck, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Francis Galton, Rutherford B. Hayes, Alexander Mackenzie, and Prince Napoléon Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1912, Frédéric Passy ranks 7Before him are Emperor Meiji, Henri Poincaré, Joseph Lister, Robert Falcon Scott, August Strindberg, and Thomas Andrews. After him are Auguste Beernaert, Jules Massenet, Bram Stoker, Edward Smith, Frederick VIII of Denmark, and Karl May.

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In France

Among people born in France, Frédéric Passy ranks 219 out of 6,770Before him are Erik Satie (1866), Pope Sylvester II (938), Charles the Bold (1433), Jacques Cousteau (1910), Jeanne Calment (1875), and Henri Rousseau (1844). After him are Louis XI of France (1423), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Carloman I (751), Brigitte Macron (1953), Henry Cavendish (1731), and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805).

Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Frédéric Passy ranks 1After him are Vilfredo Pareto (1848), François Quesnay (1694), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Maurice Allais (1911), Léon Walras (1834), Jacques Delors (1925), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), Gérard Debreu (1921), and Jean-Claude Trichet (1942).