Trending Linguists in Brazil — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Portuguese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Machado de Assis. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
152,893
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
22,537
views
views
2
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
11,612
views
views
3
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
8,771
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
7,634
views
views
5
Conceição Evaristo
Brazilian writer
7,173
views
views
6
Monteiro Lobato
Brazilian writer (1882–1948)
7,140
views
views
7
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
6,482
views
views
8
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
5,899
views
views
9
Graciliano Ramos
Brazilian writer and mayor (1892-1953)
4,916
views
views
10
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
3,487
views
views
11
Olavo Bilac
Brazilian poet, journalist and translator (1865–1918)
3,412
views
views
12
Joseph of Anchieta
Spanish Jesuit missionary (1534-1597)
3,407
views
views
13
Erico Verissimo
Brazilian writer (1905–1975)
3,350
views
views
14
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
3,333
views
views
15
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
2,409
views
views
16
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
2,406
views
views
17
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira
Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer (1910–1989)
2,262
views
views
18
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
1,655
views
views
19
Luís da Câmara Cascudo
Brazilian academic (1898–1986)
1,647
views
views
20
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
1,597
views
views
21
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
1,561
views
views
22
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
1,444
views
views
23
Flávio Arns
Brazilian politician
1,379
views
views
24
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
1,360
views
views
25
Millôr Fernandes
Brazilian cartoonist, humorist and playwright (1923–2012)
1,083
views
views
26
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
1,075
views
views
27
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
979
views
views
28
Marina Colasanti
Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist (1937–2025)
949
views
views
29
Lya Luft
Brazilian writer (1938–2021)
916
views
views
30
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
893
views
views
31
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
871
views
views
32
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
841
views
views
33
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
823
views
views
34
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
800
views
views
35
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
745
views
views
36
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
737
views
views
37
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
667
views
views
38
Luiz Alberto Teixeira Sayão
Brazilian hebraist, linguist, professor e baptist pastor
658
views
views
39
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
641
views
views
40
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
640
views
views
41
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
634
views
views
42
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
617
views
views
43
Antônio Houaiss
Brazilian lexicographer (1915-1999)
602
views
views
44
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
600
views
views
45
Jane Hawking
British author
593
views
views
46
Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos
German-Portuguese academic and art collector (1851–1925)
568
views
views
47
Marcos Bagno
Brazilian linguist and writer
546
views
views
48
Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Portuguese writer and translator
533
views
views
49
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
523
views
views
50
João de Barros
Portuguese historian (1496 – 1570)
522
views
views
51
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
518
views
views
52
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
488
views
views
53
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
486
views
views
54
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
485
views
views
55
Haroldo de Campos
Brazilian poet and artist, part of Noigandres (1929–2003)
463
views
views
56
Evanildo Bechara
Brazilian teacher
458
views
views
57
Bartolomé Mitre
president of Argentina (1821-1906), writer, politician
439
views
views
58
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
416
views
views
59
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
415
views
views
60
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
410
views
views
61
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
402
views
views
62
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
397
views
views
63
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
389
views
views
64
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
386
views
views
65
Paulo Rónai
Brazilian translator (1907–1992)
382
views
views
66
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
369
views
views
67
Cristovão Tezza
Brazilian novelist
367
views
views
68
Luiz Tatit
Brazilian singer and linguist
362
views
views
69
Jorge de Sena
poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor (1919–1978)
360
views
views
70
Henrique Feist
Portuguese actor and director
343
views
views
71
António Feliciano de Castilho
Portuguese writer (1800–1875)
329
views
views
72
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
329
views
views
73
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
327
views
views
74
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
310
views
views
75
Lucia Santaella
researcher and professor from Brazil
310
views
views
76
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
309
views
views
77
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro
Brazilian philologist and lexicographer
309
views
views
78
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
302
views
views
79
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
302
views
views
80
José Leite de Vasconcelos
Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and author (1858–1941)
298
views
views
81
Hipólito da Costa
Brazilian journalist and diplomat (1774-1823)
297
views
views
82
Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)
295
views
views
83
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
294
views
views
84
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
291
views
views
85
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
289
views
views
86
Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
286
views
views
87
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
284
views
views
88
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
283
views
views
89
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
283
views
views
90
Júlio Ribeiro
Brazilian grammarian
281
views
views
91
Murilo Ramos Krieger
Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and primate of Brazil
280
views
views
92
José Oiticica
Brazilian writer (1882-1957)
280
views
views
93
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
275
views
views
94
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
262
views
views
95
Erich Auerbach
German philologist (1892-1957)
261
views
views
96
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
260
views
views
97
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
252
views
views
98
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
252
views
views
99
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
251
views
views
100
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
248
views
views