Trending Linguists this year
The 100 most-viewed linguists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
100
Ranked
219,709
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
32,751
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
15,581
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
13,825
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
9,924
views
views
5
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
7,499
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
7,107
views
views
7
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
5,810
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
5,324
views
views
9
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
4,200
views
views
10
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
3,893
views
views
11
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
3,593
views
views
12
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
2,963
views
views
13
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
2,945
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
2,920
views
views
15
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
2,719
views
views
16
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
2,713
views
views
17
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
2,667
views
views
18
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
2,451
views
views
19
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
2,284
views
views
20
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
2,240
views
views
21
Jane Hawking
British author
2,232
views
views
22
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
2,202
views
views
23
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
2,117
views
views
24
Andrey Lebedev
2,046
views
views
25
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
1,980
views
views
26
Jaan Puhvel
American-Estonian linguist (1932-2026)
1,919
views
views
27
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
1,918
views
views
28
Nakahama ManjirΕ
English interpreter
1,684
views
views
29
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
1,670
views
views
30
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
1,626
views
views
31
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
1,620
views
views
32
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
1,589
views
views
33
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
1,519
views
views
34
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
1,515
views
views
35
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
1,495
views
views
36
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
1,477
views
views
37
Crates of Mallus
ancient Greek philosopher
1,466
views
views
38
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
1,449
views
views
39
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,381
views
views
40
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
1,375
views
views
41
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,368
views
views
42
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
1,354
views
views
43
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
1,354
views
views
44
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
1,349
views
views
45
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999) President of Uganda (1978β1979)
1,323
views
views
46
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,292
views
views
47
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
1,228
views
views
48
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
1,220
views
views
49
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,189
views
views
50
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,174
views
views
51
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,170
views
views
52
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
1,124
views
views
53
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,102
views
views
54
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812β1891)
1,033
views
views
55
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
995
views
views
56
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
965
views
views
57
Yekaterina Dashkova
Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810)
940
views
views
58
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
911
views
views
59
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
904
views
views
60
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
900
views
views
61
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
878
views
views
62
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
873
views
views
63
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
864
views
views
64
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
854
views
views
65
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
850
views
views
66
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
849
views
views
67
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
847
views
views
68
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
842
views
views
69
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839β1908)
840
views
views
70
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
Spanish writer
813
views
views
71
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
809
views
views
72
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
792
views
views
73
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
788
views
views
74
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
769
views
views
75
Denis Scheck
German writer
761
views
views
76
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
760
views
views
77
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
759
views
views
78
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
746
views
views
79
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
743
views
views
80
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
743
views
views
81
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
706
views
views
82
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
697
views
views
83
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
697
views
views
84
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
693
views
views
85
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
692
views
views
86
Tomas TranstrΓΆmer
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator (1931-2015)
689
views
views
87
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
674
views
views
88
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
670
views
views
89
Monteiro Lobato
Brazilian writer (1882β1948)
660
views
views
90
Herta MΓΌller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
659
views
views
91
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
657
views
views
92
Shimizu UsaburΕ
(1829-1910)
656
views
views
93
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
633
views
views
94
Arseny Tarkovsky
Soviet poet and translator (1907β1989)
624
views
views
95
Nikolay Karamzin
Russian writer, poet, critic
624
views
views
96
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
601
views
views
97
Alejandra Pizarnik
Argentinian poet (1936-1972)
584
views
views
98
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
581
views
views
99
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
577
views
views
100
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
571
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