Adam Smith
1723–1790
Scottish founder of modern economics and author of The Wealth of Nations.
Adam Smith (1723–1790) was an economist and philosopher, born in Kirkcaldy and died in Edinburgh.
- Known as
- Economist and philosopher
- Category
- Thinkers
- Born
- 1723, Kirkcaldy
- Died
- 1790, Edinburgh
Age of Enlightenment
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
- David Hume 1711–1776, philosopher
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778, philosopher
Alive at the same time as Adam Smith
- Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
- John Wesley 1703–1791, religious leader
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab 1703–1792, religious leader
- Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790, statesman and inventor
- David Hume 1711–1776, philosopher
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712–1778, philosopher
- Frederick the Great 1712–1786, king
- Denis Diderot 1713–1784, philosopher
- Immanuel Kant 1724–1804, philosopher
- Casanova 1725–1798, adventurer
- Edmund Burke 1729–1797, political thinker
- Catherine the Great 1729–1796, empress
Portrait: Etching created by Cadell and Davies (1811), John Horsburgh (1828) or R.C. Bell , Public domain.
