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