Trending Linguists this month
The 100 most-viewed linguists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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383,822
Total Views (this month)
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
55,463
views
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2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
31,398
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
19,086
views
views
4
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
17,744
views
views
5
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
14,905
views
views
6
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
13,426
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
11,577
views
views
8
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
11,375
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
8,924
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
7,917
views
views
11
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
6,629
views
views
12
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
6,527
views
views
13
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
6,166
views
views
14
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
5,762
views
views
15
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
5,390
views
views
16
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
4,685
views
views
17
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
4,633
views
views
18
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
4,527
views
views
19
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
4,379
views
views
20
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
4,269
views
views
21
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
4,216
views
views
22
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
4,106
views
views
23
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
3,620
views
views
24
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
3,528
views
views
25
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
3,285
views
views
26
Jane Hawking
British author
3,258
views
views
27
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
3,000
views
views
28
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
2,950
views
views
29
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
2,827
views
views
30
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
2,824
views
views
31
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
2,596
views
views
32
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
2,544
views
views
33
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
2,540
views
views
34
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
2,490
views
views
35
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
2,458
views
views
36
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
2,249
views
views
37
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
2,239
views
views
38
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
2,231
views
views
39
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
2,226
views
views
40
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
2,162
views
views
41
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
2,124
views
views
42
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
2,105
views
views
43
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
2,097
views
views
44
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
2,049
views
views
45
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
2,019
views
views
46
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,980
views
views
47
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
1,948
views
views
48
Philippe Le Bas
French archaeologist
1,935
views
views
49
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,923
views
views
50
Nakahama ManjirΕ
English interpreter
1,816
views
views
51
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,716
views
views
52
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,648
views
views
53
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,618
views
views
54
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,609
views
views
55
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,606
views
views
56
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
1,572
views
views
57
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,562
views
views
58
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
1,562
views
views
59
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
1,545
views
views
60
Pierre Perret
French singer
1,527
views
views
61
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,428
views
views
62
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
1,417
views
views
63
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,417
views
views
64
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,395
views
views
65
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,393
views
views
66
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,389
views
views
67
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839β1908)
1,386
views
views
68
William Morgan
Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
1,334
views
views
69
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
1,269
views
views
70
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
1,253
views
views
71
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
1,251
views
views
72
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
1,231
views
views
73
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
1,227
views
views
74
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
1,223
views
views
75
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
1,213
views
views
76
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
1,189
views
views
77
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
1,178
views
views
78
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
1,135
views
views
79
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
1,131
views
views
80
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,130
views
views
81
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
1,126
views
views
82
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,109
views
views
83
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
1,103
views
views
84
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
1,085
views
views
85
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
1,068
views
views
86
David Stuart
American Mayanist, linguist and epigrapher
1,064
views
views
87
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
1,053
views
views
88
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
1,053
views
views
89
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
1,046
views
views
90
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
1,001
views
views
91
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
998
views
views
92
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767β1835)
975
views
views
93
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
968
views
views
94
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
964
views
views
95
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
961
views
views
96
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924β1998)
941
views
views
97
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
926
views
views
98
Lin Yutang
Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895β1976)
907
views
views
99
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
902
views
views
100
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
891
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