I don't know about the most famous, but I first suggest you follow the these economists on Researchgate (order random):

• William Barnett
• Jane M Binner
• Victor J Valcarcel
• Makram El-Shagi
• Ryan Mattson
• Apostolos Serletis
• James L. Swofford
• Many others I am forgetting, apologies all

Next, here is a long, but not exhaustive list of publications in the area. I suggest the reading these publications on the basic construction of a monetary aggregate:

• Anderson, R.; Jones, B. & Nesmith, T. (1997), 'Building new monetary services indexes: Concepts, methods, and data', Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 53--82.
• Anderson, R. G. & Jones, B. E. (2011), 'A Comprehensive Revision of the US Monetary Services (Divisia) Indexes', Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review 93(5), 325--59.
• Barnett, W. A. (2012), Getting it wrong: How faulty monetary statistics undermine the Fed, the financial system, and the economy, The MIT Press.
• Barnett, W. A. (1980), 'Economic Monetary Aggregates: An Application of Index Number and Aggregation Theory', Journal of Econometrics 14(1), 11--48.
• Barnett, W. A. & Serletis, A. (2000), The Theory of Monetary Aggregation. Contributions to Economic Analysis, Amsterdam: Elsevier.
• Barnett, W. A.; Liu, J.; Mattson, R. S. & van den Noort, J. (2013), 'The new CFS Divisia monetary aggregates: Design, construction, and data sources', Open Economies Review 24(1), 101--124.

For a more advanced view on the construction of a monetary aggregate see:

• Barnett, W. A.; Keating, J. W. & Chae, U. (2006), 'The Discounted Economic Stock of Money with VAR Forecasting', Annals of Finance 2(3), 229--258.
• Barnett, W. A.; Keating, J. W. & Kelly, L. J. (2008), 'Toward a bias corrected currency equivalent index', Economics Letters 100(3), 448--451.
• Belongia, M. T. & Binner, J. M. (2000), Divisia monetary aggregates: Theory and practice, Palgrave.
• Belongia, M. T. & Ireland, P. N. (2012), 'The Barnett critique after three decades: a new Keynesian analysis', Technical report, National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Binner, J. M.; Chaudhry, S.; Kelly, L. & Swofford, J. L. (2018), '“Risky” monetary aggregates for the UK and US', Journal of International Money and Finance 89, 127--138.
• El-shagi, M.; Kelly, L. J. & others (2014), 'Liquidity in the liquidity crisis: evidence from Divisia monetary aggregates in Germany and the European crisis countries', Economics Bulletin 34(1), 63--72.
• Kelly, L.; Binner, J. M.; Chang, C. L. & Tseng, Y. H. (2014), 'Monetary policy in Taiwan: the implications of liquidity', Lee, D. and Gregoriou, G., Handbook of Asian Finance: Financial Markets and Sovereign Wealth Funds 1, 221--237.

For analysis using monetary aggregates see:

• El Shagi, M. & Kelly, L. (Forthcoming), 'What can we learn from country level liquidity in the EMU', Journal of Financial Stability.
• Fisher, P.; Hudson, S. & Pradhan, M. (1993), 'Divisia indices for money: an appraisal of theory and practice', Technical report, Bank of England.
• Drake, L. & Chrystal, K. A. (1994), 'Company-sector money demand: new evidence on the existence of a stable long-run relationship for the United Kingdom', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 26(3), 479--494.
• Drake, L. & Chrystal, K. A. (1997), 'Personal sector money demand in the UK', Oxford Economic Papers 49(2), 188--206.
• Gazely, A. M. & Binner, J. M. (2000), 'The application of neural networks to the Divisia index debate: evidence from three countries', Applied Economics 32(12), 1607--1615.
• Kelly, L. J. (2009), The stock of money and why you should care'Measurement Error: Consequences, Applications and Solutions', Emerald Group Publishing Limited, , pp. 237--250.
• Kelly, L. J. (2009), The stock of money and why you should care'Measurement Error: Consequences, Applications and Solutions', Emerald Group Publishing Limited, , pp. 237--250.
• Kelly, L. J. (2011), 'The current stock of money: an aggregation theoretic measure of narrowly defined money', Applied Economics Letters 18(7), 659--664.
• Kelly, L. J. (2011), 'The current stock of money: an aggregation theoretic measure of narrowly defined money', Applied Economics Letters 18(7), 659--664.
• Kelly, L. J.; Barnett, W. A. & Keating, J. W. (2011), 'Rethinking the liquidity puzzle: Application of a new measure of the economic money stock', Journal of Banking & Finance 35(4), 768--774.
• El-shagi, M.; Kelly, L. J. & others (2014), 'Liquidity in the liquidity crisis: evidence from Divisia monetary aggregates in Germany and the European crisis countries', Economics Bulletin 34(1), 63--72.
• El-shagi, M.; Kelly, L. J. & others (2014), 'Liquidity in the liquidity crisis: evidence from Divisia monetary aggregates in Germany and the European crisis countries', Economics Bulletin 34(1), 63--72.
• Kelly, L.; Binner, J. M.; Chang, C. L. & Tseng, Y. H. (2014), 'Monetary policy in Taiwan: the implications of liquidity', Lee, D. and Gregoriou, G., Handbook of Asian Finance: Financial Markets and Sovereign Wealth Funds 1, 221--237.
• El-Shagi, M.; Giesen, S. & Kelly, L. J. (2015), 'The quantity theory revisited: A new structural approach', Macroeconomic Dynamics 19(1), 58--78.
• El-Shagi, M. & Kelly, L. J. (2017), 'For they know not what they do: an analysis of monetary policy during the Great Moderation', Applied Economics Letters 24(10), 717--721.
• Keating, J. W.; Kelly, L. J.; Smith, A. L. & Valcarcel, V. J. (2019), 'A model of monetary policy shocks for financial crises and normal conditions', Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 51(1), 227--259.