Trending Linguists this week
The 100 most-viewed linguists this week on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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264,532
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
37,148
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2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
27,200
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3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
15,351
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views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
11,492
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views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
10,077
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
7,883
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views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
6,665
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views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
6,134
views
views
9
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
5,739
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views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
5,133
views
views
11
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
5,098
views
views
12
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
4,341
views
views
13
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
4,027
views
views
14
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
3,819
views
views
15
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
3,469
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
3,317
views
views
17
Probal Dasgupta
former president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio
3,041
views
views
18
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
3,039
views
views
19
Jane Hawking
British author
3,037
views
views
20
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
2,999
views
views
21
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
2,951
views
views
22
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
2,931
views
views
23
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
2,835
views
views
24
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
2,519
views
views
25
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
2,459
views
views
26
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
2,411
views
views
27
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
2,324
views
views
28
Philippe Le Bas
French archaeologist
2,192
views
views
29
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,192
views
views
30
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
2,140
views
views
31
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
2,059
views
views
32
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
1,988
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views
33
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
1,838
views
views
34
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
1,837
views
views
35
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
1,712
views
views
36
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
1,707
views
views
37
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
1,694
views
views
38
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
1,615
views
views
39
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,484
views
views
40
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
1,379
views
views
41
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
1,376
views
views
42
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
1,373
views
views
43
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
1,359
views
views
44
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
1,359
views
views
45
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
1,350
views
views
46
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
1,334
views
views
47
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
1,306
views
views
48
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,207
views
views
49
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,162
views
views
50
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
1,161
views
views
51
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,140
views
views
52
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,128
views
views
53
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,126
views
views
54
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
1,104
views
views
55
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,101
views
views
56
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,090
views
views
57
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,070
views
views
58
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
1,063
views
views
59
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
1,023
views
views
60
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
997
views
views
61
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
994
views
views
62
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
991
views
views
63
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
955
views
views
64
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
944
views
views
65
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
914
views
views
66
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
913
views
views
67
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
895
views
views
68
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
876
views
views
69
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
840
views
views
70
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
812
views
views
71
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
812
views
views
72
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
811
views
views
73
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
806
views
views
74
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
801
views
views
75
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
796
views
views
76
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
786
views
views
77
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
777
views
views
78
William Morgan
Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
753
views
views
79
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
748
views
views
80
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
701
views
views
81
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
699
views
views
82
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
694
views
views
83
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
692
views
views
84
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
691
views
views
85
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
682
views
views
86
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
642
views
views
87
Pearl Gibbs
Indigenous Australian activist (1901β1983)
640
views
views
88
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
635
views
views
89
Maurice Vidal Portman
British naval officer and photographer (1860-1935)
626
views
views
90
Qalandar Momand
Pakistani writer
626
views
views
91
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
615
views
views
92
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
614
views
views
93
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
610
views
views
94
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
602
views
views
95
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
596
views
views
96
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
591
views
views
97
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
577
views
views
98
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
570
views
views
99
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
559
views
views
100
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
541
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