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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682,071
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
77,039
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2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
55,806
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views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
42,104
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
30,606
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
27,279
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
22,393
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
21,315
views
views
8
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
20,537
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
15,646
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
14,118
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
13,552
views
views
12
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
12,773
views
views
13
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
11,674
views
views
14
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
11,639
views
views
15
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
11,270
views
views
16
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
9,344
views
views
17
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
8,494
views
views
18
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
8,301
views
views
19
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
7,466
views
views
20
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
7,221
views
views
21
Jane Hawking
British author
6,973
views
views
22
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
6,904
views
views
23
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
6,709
views
views
24
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
5,953
views
views
25
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
5,940
views
views
26
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
5,908
views
views
27
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
5,808
views
views
28
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
5,424
views
views
29
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
5,251
views
views
30
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
5,209
views
views
31
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
5,050
views
views
32
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
4,882
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views
33
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
4,862
views
views
34
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
4,834
views
views
35
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
4,470
views
views
36
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
4,325
views
views
37
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
4,193
views
views
38
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,175
views
views
39
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
4,157
views
views
40
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
4,045
views
views
41
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
4,044
views
views
42
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
3,931
views
views
43
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
3,925
views
views
44
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
3,788
views
views
45
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
3,530
views
views
46
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
3,432
views
views
47
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
3,284
views
views
48
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
3,180
views
views
49
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
3,129
views
views
50
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
3,125
views
views
51
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
3,067
views
views
52
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
2,987
views
views
53
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
2,977
views
views
54
George Chapman
16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator
2,976
views
views
55
Ayo Bamgbose
Nigerian linguist
2,888
views
views
56
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
2,836
views
views
57
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
2,698
views
views
58
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
2,679
views
views
59
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
2,670
views
views
60
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
2,647
views
views
61
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910β1985)
2,629
views
views
62
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer and translator (1914β1984)
2,601
views
views
63
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
2,590
views
views
64
Tarak Mehta
Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright (1929-2017)
2,552
views
views
65
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
2,539
views
views
66
Ravan A. G. FarhΓ’di
Afghanistani tajik politician
2,408
views
views
67
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881β1942)
2,377
views
views
68
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
2,374
views
views
69
Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
2,366
views
views
70
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
2,365
views
views
71
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
2,361
views
views
72
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
2,352
views
views
73
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
2,347
views
views
74
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
2,315
views
views
75
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
2,305
views
views
76
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
2,305
views
views
77
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
2,295
views
views
78
E. V. Rieu
British poet (1887-1972)
2,228
views
views
79
Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi
Indian linguist (1916-2008)
2,180
views
views
80
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
2,164
views
views
81
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
2,160
views
views
82
John Tzetzes
Byzantine poet and writer (c.1110β1180)
2,151
views
views
83
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
2,137
views
views
84
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
2,051
views
views
85
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,983
views
views
86
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,952
views
views
87
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,889
views
views
88
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,853
views
views
89
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,826
views
views
90
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
1,810
views
views
91
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
1,794
views
views
92
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
1,778
views
views
93
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886β1956)
1,759
views
views
94
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,758
views
views
95
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,747
views
views
96
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Roman freedman and writer (c. 64 BC β AD 17)
1,718
views
views
97
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
1,673
views
views
98
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904β1980)
1,665
views
views
99
Rahul Sankrityayan
Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893β1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
1,638
views
views
100
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
1,634
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