Trending Linguists in France — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Haruki Murakami. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
75,695
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
8,037
views
views
2
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
7,446
views
views
3
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
5,746
views
views
4
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
3,564
views
views
5
Pierre Perret
French singer
2,676
views
views
6
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
2,528
views
views
7
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
2,212
views
views
8
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
2,160
views
views
9
Nabil Benabdallah
Moroccan politician
2,143
views
views
10
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
1,732
views
views
11
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
1,657
views
views
12
Aurélie Filippetti
French politician and writer
1,623
views
views
13
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
1,501
views
views
14
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
1,440
views
views
15
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
1,389
views
views
16
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
1,191
views
views
17
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
1,185
views
views
18
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
1,065
views
views
19
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,062
views
views
20
Frédéric François
Belgian singer
1,016
views
views
21
Frédéric Mistral
Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
892
views
views
22
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923–1986)
827
views
views
23
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
787
views
views
24
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
780
views
views
25
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media
649
views
views
26
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
636
views
views
27
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
572
views
views
28
Jacques Capelovici
French television presenter (1922-2011)
548
views
views
29
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
516
views
views
30
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
508
views
views
31
Assia Djebar
French Algerian writer, translator and film director (1936-2015)
486
views
views
32
Laélia Véron
French researcher in stylistics and linguistics, teacher
446
views
views
33
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
435
views
views
34
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
429
views
views
35
Aki Shimazaki
Canadian writer
427
views
views
36
Antoine Furetière
French writer and scholar (1619-1688)
418
views
views
37
Edgar Quinet
French writer (1803-1875)
395
views
views
38
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
391
views
views
39
Alain Rey
French lexicographer (1928–2020)
373
views
views
40
Nancy Huston
Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French
370
views
views
41
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
367
views
views
42
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
362
views
views
43
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
357
views
views
44
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
339
views
views
45
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
334
views
views
46
Georges Dumézil
French philologist (1898-1986)
317
views
views
47
Cécile Alduy
academic
316
views
views
48
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
315
views
views
49
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
309
views
views
50
Jules Supervielle
French writer (1884–1960)
289
views
views
51
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
288
views
views
52
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)
283
views
views
53
Barbara Cassin
French philologist and philosopher (born 1947)
283
views
views
54
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
271
views
views
55
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
267
views
views
56
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924–1998)
267
views
views
57
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
266
views
views
58
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
253
views
views
59
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
250
views
views
60
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
245
views
views
61
Charles Nodier
French author (1780–1844)
240
views
views
62
Pierre Bayle
French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)
240
views
views
63
Pierre Alferi
French novelist, poet, essayist, and professor at European Graduate School (1963–2023)
238
views
views
64
Pierre Larousse
French grammarian, lexicographer and encyclopaedist
237
views
views
65
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
235
views
views
66
Simon Leys
Belgian-Australian writer, sinologist and essayist
233
views
views
67
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
231
views
views
68
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
223
views
views
69
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
214
views
views
70
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
214
views
views
71
Étienne Dolet
French translator and scholar (1509-1546)
212
views
views
72
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
212
views
views
73
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
210
views
views
74
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
203
views
views
75
Pierre Boutang
French writer (1916–1998)
203
views
views
76
Roman Jakobson
Russian linguist (1896–1982)
194
views
views
77
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
194
views
views
78
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
190
views
views
79
Mohamed Ouzzine
Moroccan politician
185
views
views
80
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
183
views
views
81
Théophile Obenga
Congolese academic and politician
180
views
views
82
Mouloud Mammeri
Algerian Amazigh linguist and writer (1917–1989)
178
views
views
83
Jean Nicot
French diplomat and scholar (1530-1605)
175
views
views
84
Émile Littré
French lexicographer and philosopher (1801-1881)
175
views
views
85
César-Pierre Richelet
French lexicographer
172
views
views
86
Émile Coué
French psychologist and pharmacist (1857-1926)
172
views
views
87
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
169
views
views
88
Violaine Vanoyeke
French writer
167
views
views
89
Amos Oz
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual (1939–2018)
160
views
views
90
Claude Hagège
French linguist
159
views
views
91
Pierre Klossowski
French writer, translator and painter (1905-2001)
157
views
views
92
Élodie Mielczareck
French semiologist
154
views
views
93
Valentin Haüy
founder of the first school for the blind
148
views
views
94
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
147
views
views
95
Bernard Cerquiglini
French linguist
146
views
views
96
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
144
views
views
97
Agustín de Iturbide y Green
Prince of Mexico (1863-1925)
143
views
views
98
Émile Benveniste
French linguist (1902–1976)
142
views
views
99
Ignacio Ramonet
Spanish writer
141
views
views
100
Taha Hussein
Egyptian writer and literary critic (1889–1973)
139
views
views