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Trending Linguists in Brazil this year

The 100 most-viewed linguists this year on Wikipedia (Brazil). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Machado de Assis.

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11,101
Total Views (this year)
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1
Machado de Assis
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
📚 34 citations Person
1,214
views
2
Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato
Brazilian writer (1882–1948)
📚 18 citations Person
1,032
views
3
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
📚 57 citations Person
896
views
4
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
📚 80 citations Person
606
views
5
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
📚 52 citations Person
554
views
6
Benedictus de Spinoza
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
📚 37 citations Person
462
views
7
Conceição Evaristo
Brazilian writer
📚 15 citations Person
390
views
8
Graciliano Ramos
Brazilian writer and mayor (1892-1953)
📚 18 citations Person
329
views
9
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
Person
326
views
10
Joseph of Anchieta
Joseph of Anchieta
Spanish Jesuit missionary (1534-1597)
📚 17 citations Person
296
views
11
William James Sidis
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
📚 7 citations Person
238
views
12
Erico Verissimo
Brazilian writer (1905–1975)
📚 18 citations Person
221
views
13
Olavo Bilac
Olavo Bilac
Brazilian poet, journalist and translator (1865–1918)
📚 12 citations Person
221
views
14
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
📚 39 citations Person
219
views
15
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
📚 55 citations Person
183
views
16
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
📚 61 citations Person
157
views
17
Jan Hus
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
📚 26 citations Person
153
views
18
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
📚 27 citations Person
148
views
19
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
📚 42 citations Person
130
views
20
Luís da Câmara Cascudo
Brazilian academic (1898–1986)
📚 10 citations Person
115
views
21
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira
Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer (1910–1989)
📚 8 citations Person
113
views
22
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
📚 65 citations Person
94
views
23
Edith Stein
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
📚 34 citations Person
93
views
24
Millôr Fernandes
Brazilian cartoonist, humorist and playwright (1923–2012)
📚 12 citations Person
88
views
25
Mikhail Bakhtin
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
📚 24 citations Person
84
views
26
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
📚 25 citations Person
78
views
27
Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer (1914–1984)
📚 33 citations Person
78
views
28
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
📚 50 citations Person
77
views
29
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
📚 3 citations Person
75
views
30
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
📚 58 citations Person
72
views
31
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
📚 54 citations Person
71
views
32
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
📚 27 citations Person
69
views
33
Flávio Arns
Brazilian politician
📚 2 citations Person
68
views
34
Jorge de Sena
poet, critic, essayist, novelist, dramatist, translator and university professor (1919–1978)
📚 15 citations Person
64
views
35
Marina Colasanti
Italian-Brazilian writer, translator and journalist (1937–2025)
📚 14 citations Person
64
views
36
Luiz Alberto Teixeira Sayão
Brazilian hebraist, linguist, professor e baptist pastor
Person
63
views
37
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
📚 46 citations Person
60
views
38
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
📚 32 citations Person
58
views
39
Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
📚 32 citations Person
53
views
40
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
📚 54 citations Person
52
views
41
Jane Hawking
British author
📚 10 citations Person
50
views
42
Antônio Houaiss
Brazilian lexicographer (1915-1999)
📚 7 citations Person
49
views
43
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
📚 44 citations Person
48
views
44
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
📚 67 citations Person
47
views
45
Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
📚 36 citations Person
47
views
46
Antenor Nascentes
Brazilian linguist
📚 5 citations Person
46
views
47
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
📚 19 citations Person
45
views
48
Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelos
German-Portuguese academic and art collector (1851–1925)
📚 17 citations Person
44
views
49
Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Portuguese writer and translator
📚 11 citations Person
43
views
50
Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
📚 54 citations Person
41
views
51
Marcos Bagno
Brazilian linguist and writer
Person
40
views
52
Bartolomé Mitre
Bartolomé Mitre
President of Argentina (1821-1906)
📚 19 citations Person
38
views
53
Charles de Foucauld
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
📚 35 citations Person
38
views
54
António Feliciano de Castilho
António Feliciano de Castilho
Portuguese writer (1800–1875)
📚 14 citations Person
37
views
55
Ruy Belo
Portuguese writer (1933–1978)
📚 7 citations Person
37
views
56
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
📚 46 citations Person
37
views
57
Haroldo de Campos
Brazilian poet and artist, part of Noigandres (1929–2003)
📚 15 citations Person
37
views
58
João de Barros
João de Barros
Portuguese historian (1496 – 1570)
📚 13 citations Person
36
views
59
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
📚 35 citations Person
35
views
60
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
📚 41 citations Person
35
views
61
William Tyndale
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
📚 13 citations Person
35
views
62
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
📚 36 citations Person
34
views
63
Luiz Tatit
Brazilian singer and linguist
Person
34
views
64
Henrique Feist
Portuguese actor and director
Person
31
views
65
Julius Nyerere
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
📚 21 citations Person
31
views
66
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
📚 27 citations Person
29
views
67
Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
📚 34 citations Person
29
views
68
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
📚 22 citations Person
28
views
69
Leon Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
📚 69 citations Person
28
views
70
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
📚 23 citations Person
27
views
71
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
📚 34 citations Person
27
views
72
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
📚 43 citations Person
26
views
73
Alejandra Pizarnik
Alejandra Pizarnik
Argentinian poet (1936-1972)
📚 24 citations Person
26
views
74
Boris Schnaiderman
Brazilian translator (1917–2016)
📚 4 citations Person
25
views
75
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
📚 8 citations Person
25
views
76
Alcide De Gasperi
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
📚 26 citations Person
23
views
77
Cristovão Tezza
Brazilian novelist
📚 13 citations Person
22
views
78
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
📚 14 citations Person
22
views
79
Murilo Ramos Krieger
Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Salvador da Bahia and primate of Brazil
📚 3 citations Person
22
views
80
Antônio Olinto
Brazilian writer (1919–2009)
📚 9 citations Person
20
views
81
Evanildo Bechara
Brazilian teacher
📚 5 citations Person
20
views
82
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
📚 39 citations Person
20
views
83
José Luiz Fiorin
Brazilian linguist
Person
20
views
84
Agustín de Iturbide y Green
Agustín de Iturbide y Green
Prince of Mexico (1863-1925)
📚 2 citations Person
20
views
85
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
📚 33 citations Person
20
views
86
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
📚 33 citations Person
19
views
87
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
📚 41 citations Person
19
views
88
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga
Dutch cultural historian (1872–1945)
📚 39 citations Person
19
views
89
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
📚 11 citations Person
18
views
90
Júlio Ribeiro
Brazilian grammarian
📚 5 citations Person
18
views
91
António Pereira de Figueiredo
Portuguese theologist
📚 14 citations Person
18
views
92
Thomas Young
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
📚 27 citations Person
18
views
93
Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
📚 55 citations Person
18
views
94
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
📚 35 citations Person
18
views
95
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
📚 38 citations Person
17
views
96
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
📚 31 citations Person
17
views
97
Paulo Rónai
Brazilian translator (1907–1992)
📚 8 citations Person
16
views
98
Émile Benveniste
French linguist (1902–1976)
📚 23 citations Person
16
views
99
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
📚 40 citations Person
16
views
100
José Leite de Vasconcelos
Portuguese ethnographer, archaeologist and author (1858–1941)
📚 14 citations Person
16
views