Trending Linguists this year
The 100 most-viewed linguists this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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Ranked
930,467
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
114,757
views
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2
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
70,289
views
views
3
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
66,356
views
views
4
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
47,833
views
views
5
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
39,070
views
views
6
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
30,430
views
views
7
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
28,075
views
views
8
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
26,469
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
21,971
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
18,601
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
18,481
views
views
12
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
17,919
views
views
13
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
15,813
views
views
14
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
15,227
views
views
15
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
12,296
views
views
16
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
12,266
views
views
17
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
11,939
views
views
18
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
10,833
views
views
19
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
10,748
views
views
20
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
10,692
views
views
21
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
10,587
views
views
22
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
9,257
views
views
23
Jane Hawking
British author
9,153
views
views
24
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
8,349
views
views
25
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
8,319
views
views
26
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
7,637
views
views
27
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
7,613
views
views
28
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
7,367
views
views
29
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
6,920
views
views
30
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
6,567
views
views
31
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
6,109
views
views
32
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
6,009
views
views
33
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
5,880
views
views
34
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
5,669
views
views
35
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
5,618
views
views
36
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
5,329
views
views
37
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
5,255
views
views
38
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
5,169
views
views
39
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
5,025
views
views
40
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
5,009
views
views
41
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
4,887
views
views
42
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
4,874
views
views
43
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
4,760
views
views
44
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
4,618
views
views
45
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
4,618
views
views
46
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
4,515
views
views
47
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
4,419
views
views
48
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
4,395
views
views
49
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
4,322
views
views
50
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
4,133
views
views
51
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
4,132
views
views
52
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
4,037
views
views
53
Nakahama ManjirΕ
English interpreter
3,921
views
views
54
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
3,911
views
views
55
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
3,889
views
views
56
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
3,869
views
views
57
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
3,821
views
views
58
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
3,768
views
views
59
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
3,679
views
views
60
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
3,607
views
views
61
Gavrila Derzhavin
Russian poet
3,605
views
views
62
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
3,410
views
views
63
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
3,405
views
views
64
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
3,378
views
views
65
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
3,370
views
views
66
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
3,215
views
views
67
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
3,210
views
views
68
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
3,192
views
views
69
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
3,170
views
views
70
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
3,148
views
views
71
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
3,137
views
views
72
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
3,108
views
views
73
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839β1908)
3,071
views
views
74
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
3,029
views
views
75
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
3,020
views
views
76
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
2,976
views
views
77
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
2,886
views
views
78
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
2,881
views
views
79
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
2,878
views
views
80
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
2,865
views
views
81
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
2,680
views
views
82
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
2,628
views
views
83
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
2,612
views
views
84
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
2,530
views
views
85
Ziryab
9th-century poet and musician
2,455
views
views
86
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
2,449
views
views
87
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
2,436
views
views
88
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
2,397
views
views
89
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
2,343
views
views
90
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767β1835)
2,271
views
views
91
Andrey Lebedev
2,270
views
views
92
Herta MΓΌller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
2,235
views
views
93
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
2,205
views
views
94
Sevan NiΕanyan
Turkish lexicographer and writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1956)
2,165
views
views
95
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,159
views
views
96
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924β1998)
2,143
views
views
97
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
2,142
views
views
98
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
2,114
views
views
99
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
2,112
views
views
100
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
2,086
views
views
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