Trending Linguists in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
296,517
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
25,220
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
15,072
views
views
3
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
10,770
views
views
4
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
10,627
views
views
5
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
9,782
views
views
6
Pierre Perret
French singer
8,426
views
views
7
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
7,970
views
views
8
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
7,540
views
views
9
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
6,741
views
views
10
Cécile Alduy
academic
6,525
views
views
11
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
6,431
views
views
12
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
6,379
views
views
13
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
6,126
views
views
14
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
5,907
views
views
15
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
5,816
views
views
16
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
5,196
views
views
17
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
5,186
views
views
18
Aurélie Filippetti
French politician and writer
4,801
views
views
19
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
4,789
views
views
20
Frédéric Mistral
Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
4,681
views
views
21
Frédéric François
Belgian singer
4,564
views
views
22
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
4,258
views
views
23
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
4,057
views
views
24
Mohamed Ouzzine
Moroccan politician
3,822
views
views
25
Nabil Benabdallah
Moroccan politician
3,563
views
views
26
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
3,202
views
views
27
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
3,180
views
views
28
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
3,171
views
views
29
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
3,033
views
views
30
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
3,030
views
views
31
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
2,960
views
views
32
Laélia Véron
French researcher in stylistics and linguistics, teacher
2,893
views
views
33
Mario Rossi
French linguist (1928-)
2,831
views
views
34
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
2,724
views
views
35
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
2,705
views
views
36
Simon Leys
Belgian-Australian writer, sinologist and essayist
2,454
views
views
37
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
2,420
views
views
38
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
2,242
views
views
39
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
2,133
views
views
40
Aki Shimazaki
Canadian writer
2,125
views
views
41
Nancy Huston
Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French
2,088
views
views
42
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
2,040
views
views
43
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
2,016
views
views
44
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
2,014
views
views
45
Assia Djebar
French Algerian writer, translator and film director (1936-2015)
1,898
views
views
46
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
1,847
views
views
47
Georges Dumézil
French philologist (1898-1986)
1,723
views
views
48
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
1,710
views
views
49
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
1,685
views
views
50
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
1,651
views
views
51
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
1,620
views
views
52
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,583
views
views
53
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
1,570
views
views
54
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
1,495
views
views
55
Jules Supervielle
French writer (1884–1960)
1,478
views
views
56
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
1,464
views
views
57
Edgar Quinet
French writer (1803-1875)
1,436
views
views
58
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
1,353
views
views
59
Charles Nodier
French author (1780–1844)
1,345
views
views
60
Barbara Cassin
French philologist and philosopher (born 1947)
1,344
views
views
61
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
1,338
views
views
62
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
1,287
views
views
63
Arthur Asa Berger
American academic
1,230
views
views
64
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
1,171
views
views
65
Pierre Bayle
French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)
1,169
views
views
66
Émile Littré
French lexicographer and philosopher (1801-1881)
1,157
views
views
67
Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
1,141
views
views
68
Alain Rey
French lexicographer (1928–2020)
1,140
views
views
69
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
1,130
views
views
70
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
1,117
views
views
71
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
1,112
views
views
72
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
1,090
views
views
73
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
1,081
views
views
74
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
1,042
views
views
75
Étienne Dolet
French translator and scholar (1509-1546)
1,014
views
views
76
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
1,007
views
views
77
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
966
views
views
78
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
965
views
views
79
Taha Hussein
Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)
937
views
views
80
Boris Akunin
Russian writer, translation, and historian
903
views
views
81
Claude Hagège
French linguist
891
views
views
82
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
884
views
views
83
Pierre Larousse
French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist
872
views
views
84
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
862
views
views
85
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
856
views
views
86
Thomas Corneille
French dramatist (1625-1709)
816
views
views
87
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
798
views
views
88
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher
792
views
views
89
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Polish novelist (1812–1887)
791
views
views
90
Pierre Boutang
French writer (1916–1998)
782
views
views
91
Violaine Vanoyeke
French writer
769
views
views
92
Mouloud Mammeri
Algerian Amazigh linguist and writer (1917–1989)
768
views
views
93
Pierre Alferi
French novelist, poet, essayist, and professor at European Graduate School (1963–2023)
766
views
views
94
Alejandra Pizarnik
Argentinian poet (1936-1972)
756
views
views
95
Mahmud al-Kashgari
Turkic scholar and lexicographer
745
views
views
96
Pierre Klossowski
French writer, translator and painter (1905-2001)
741
views
views
97
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
737
views
views
98
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
732
views
views
99
Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785–1859)
731
views
views
100
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
719
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