| 100% | KRUGMAN | 7 | Nobel-winning economist who wrote "Fuzzy Math" |
| 55% | HARRY | 5 | ___ Markowitz, American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990 |
| 51% | MUHAMMADYUNUS | 13 | Social entrepreneur and economist who was the first Bangladeshi to win the Nobel Peace Prize: 2 wds. |
| 50% | ADAMSMITH | 9 | Economist who wrote about an "invisible hand" |
| 49% | EVECURIE | 8 | Journalist who wrote a biography on her Nobel-winning mother, Marie |
| 49% | VEBLEN | 6 | Economist who wrote "The Theory of the Leisure Class" |
| 47% | MALTHUS | 7 | Economist who wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population," 1798 |
| 47% | KEYNES | 6 | Economist who wrote “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” |
| 45% | TONI | 4 | Nobel-winning author ___ Morrison who wrote "Beloved" |
| 45% | ALICEMUNRO | 10 | Short-story author who announced her retirement from writing in 2013, the same year she won the Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 43% | OSTER | 5 | Economist Emily who wrote "Cribsheet" |
| 42% | CURIE | 5 | Marie who won two Nobel Prizes |
| 42% | TERESA | 6 | Mother who won a Nobel Prize |
| 42% | KLEIN | 5 | Nobel-winning economist Lawrence |
| 42% | MEADE | 5 | Nobel-winning economist James |
| 42% | SEN | 3 | Nobel-winning economist Amartya |
| 42% | MERTON | 6 | Nobel-winning economist Robert |
| 42% | SPENCE | 6 | Superlawyer Gerry who wrote "How to Argue and Win Every Time" |
| 41% | SADAT | 5 | President who won a Nobel Peace Prize |
| 41% | DIRAC | 5 | Paul who won a Nobel in Physics |
| 41% | CELA | 4 | Spanish novelist who won a 1989 Nobel |
| 41% | HESSE | 5 | Hermann who won a Nobel for Literature |
| 41% | TAGORE | 6 | Bengali who won the 1913 Literature Nobel |
| 41% | ERNEST | 6 | Hemingway who won a Nobel in Literature |
| 41% | CURIE | 5 | Marie who won the Nobel Prize twice |
| 41% | TERESA | 6 | Mother who won the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 41% | TUTU | 4 | Anglican who won the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 41% | CURIE | 5 | Scientist Marie who won two Nobel prizes |
| 41% | MARIE | 5 | Madame Curie who won two Nobel Prizes |
| 41% | ELIAS | 5 | Nobel laureate Canetti, who wrote “Crowds and Power” |