Trending Linguists in Brazil — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (Portuguese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Machado de Assis. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
141,908
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
21,323
views
views
2
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
10,716
views
views
3
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
8,165
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
7,080
views
views
5
Conceição Evaristo
Brazilian writer
6,783
views
views
6
Monteiro Lobato
Brazilian writer (1882–1948)
6,108
views
views
7
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
6,020
views
views
8
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
5,573
views
views
9
Graciliano Ramos
Brazilian writer and mayor (1892-1953)
4,587
views
views
10
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
3,249
views
views
11
Olavo Bilac
Brazilian poet, journalist and translator (1865–1918)
3,191
views
views
12
Erico Verissimo
Brazilian writer (1905–1975)
3,129
views
views
13
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
3,114
views
views
14
Joseph of Anchieta
Spanish Jesuit missionary (1534-1597)
3,111
views
views
15
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
2,252
views
views
16
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
2,223
views
views
17
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira
Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer (1910–1989)
2,149
views
views
18
Luís da Câmara Cascudo
Brazilian academic (1898–1986)
1,532
views
views
19
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
1,525
views
views
20
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
1,489
views
views
21
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
1,444
views
views
22
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
1,351
views
views
23
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
1,342
views
views
24
Flávio Arns
Brazilian politician
1,311
views
views
25
Millôr Fernandes
Brazilian cartoonist, humorist and playwright (1923–2012)
995
views
views
26
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
991
views
views
27
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
901
views
views
28
Marina Colasanti
Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist (1937–2025)
885
views
views
29
Lya Luft
Brazilian writer (1938–2021)
858
views
views
30
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
815
views
views
31
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
777
views
views
32
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
770
views
views
33
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
763
views
views
34
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
763
views
views
35
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
679
views
views
36
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
676
views
views
37
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
599
views
views
38
Luiz Alberto Teixeira Sayão
Brazilian hebraist, linguist, professor e baptist pastor
595
views
views
39
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
589
views
views
40
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
582
views
views
41
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
581
views
views
42
Antônio Houaiss
Brazilian lexicographer (1915-1999)
553
views
views
43
Jane Hawking
British author
543
views
views
44
Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos
German-Portuguese academic and art collector (1851–1925)
524
views
views
45
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
523
views
views
46
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
519
views
views
47
Marcos Bagno
Brazilian linguist and writer
506
views
views
48
Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Portuguese writer and translator
490
views
views
49
João de Barros
Portuguese historian (1496 – 1570)
486
views
views
50
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
482
views
views
51
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
476
views
views
52
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
473
views
views
53
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
461
views
views
54
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
454
views
views
55
Evanildo Bechara
Brazilian teacher
438
views
views
56
Haroldo de Campos
Brazilian poet and artist, part of Noigandres (1929–2003)
426
views
views
57
Bartolomé Mitre
president of Argentina (1821-1906), writer, politician
401
views
views
58
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
389
views
views
59
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
389
views
views
60
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
372
views
views
61
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
368
views
views
62
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
367
views
views
63
Paulo Rónai
Brazilian translator (1907–1992)
366
views
views
64
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
362
views
views
65
Cristovão Tezza
Brazilian novelist
345
views
views
66
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
331
views
views
67
Luiz Tatit
Brazilian singer and linguist
328
views
views
68
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
318
views
views
69
Henrique Feist
Portuguese actor and director
312
views
views
70
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
311
views
views
71
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro
Brazilian philologist and lexicographer
296
views
views
72
Jorge de Sena
poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor (1919–1978)
296
views
views
73
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
293
views
views
74
António Feliciano de Castilho
Portuguese writer (1800–1875)
292
views
views
75
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
292
views
views
76
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
291
views
views
77
Lucia Santaella
researcher and professor from Brazil
288
views
views
78
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
287
views
views
79
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
285
views
views
80
Hipólito da Costa
Brazilian journalist and diplomat (1774-1823)
284
views
views
81
José Leite de Vasconcelos
Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and author (1858–1941)
282
views
views
82
Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
278
views
views
83
Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)
276
views
views
84
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
270
views
views
85
José Oiticica
Brazilian writer (1882-1957)
268
views
views
86
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
267
views
views
87
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
265
views
views
88
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
264
views
views
89
Júlio Ribeiro
Brazilian grammarian
263
views
views
90
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
259
views
views
91
Murilo Ramos Krieger
Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and primate of Brazil
258
views
views
92
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
256
views
views
93
Erich Auerbach
German philologist (1892-1957)
248
views
views
94
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
247
views
views
95
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
239
views
views
96
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
238
views
views
97
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
235
views
views
98
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
234
views
views
99
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
232
views
views
100
Cristina Peri Rossi
Uruguayan writer (born 1941)
226
views
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