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Trending Linguists in Japan this month

The 100 most-viewed linguists this month on Wikipedia (Japan). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Nakahama Manjirō.

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12,724
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1
Nakahama Manjirō
Nakahama Manjirō
English interpreter
📚 7 citations Person
1,450
views
2
Helen Keller
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
📚 39 citations Person
773
views
3
Kūkai
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
📚 15 citations Person
769
views
4
Shimizu Usaburō
(1829-1910)
Person
656
views
5
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
📚 57 citations Person
602
views
6
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
📚 19 citations Person
565
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
📚 42 citations Person
560
views
8
Mori Ōgai
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
📚 16 citations Person
464
views
9
Nitobe Inazō
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
📚 12 citations Person
314
views
10
Kunio Yanagita
Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)
📚 13 citations Person
235
views
11
Fujiwara no Teika
Fujiwara no Teika
poet and court noble (1162–1241)
📚 13 citations Person
223
views
12
Ogyū Sorai
Japanese philosopher (1666–1728)
📚 10 citations Person
220
views
13
Sugita Genpaku
Sugita Genpaku
Japanese scholar
📚 6 citations Person
212
views
14
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
📚 6 citations Person
180
views
15
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
📚 11 citations Person
174
views
16
Edwin O. Reischauer
Edwin O. Reischauer
American diplomat (1910-1990)
📚 17 citations Person
172
views
17
Benedictus de Spinoza
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
📚 37 citations Person
172
views
18
Hanawa Hokiichi
Hanawa Hokiichi
Japanese philosopher (1746-1821)
📚 5 citations Person
166
views
19
Motoori Norinaga
Motoori Norinaga
Japanese scholar and philosopher (1730–1801)
📚 15 citations Person
164
views
20
Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi
Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism (1875-1947)
📚 13 citations Person
158
views
21
Shinobu Orikuchi
Japanese writer and academic (1887–1953)
📚 7 citations Person
158
views
22
Tokiko Iwatani
Japanese lyricist, linguist and translator (1916–2013)
Person
149
views
23
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
📚 80 citations Person
147
views
24
Nishi Amane
Japanese philosopher and politician (1829–1897)
📚 10 citations Person
141
views
25
Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
📚 67 citations Person
137
views
26
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
Japanese novelist, translator, literary critic, art critic (1928–1987)
📚 8 citations Person
133
views
27
Fūtarō Yamada
Japanese novelist (1922–2001)
📚 11 citations Person
132
views
28
Natsuki Ikezawa
Japanese writer
📚 10 citations Person
128
views
29
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
📚 21 citations Person
112
views
30
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
📚 55 citations Person
112
views
31
Kazuko Shiraishi
Japanese poet (1931–2024)
📚 9 citations Person
107
views
32
Donald Keene
Japanese/American academic (1922–2019)
📚 18 citations Person
100
views
33
Hirata Atsutane
conventionally ranked as one of the four great men of kokugaku studies, and one of the most significant theologians of the Shintō religion
📚 9 citations Person
94
views
34
Tsuneari Fukuda
Japanese writer (1912–1994)
📚 5 citations Person
94
views
35
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
Person
93
views
36
Kanda Naibu
Japanese educator
Person
89
views
37
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Japanese linguist (1882–1971)
📚 10 citations Person
86
views
38
Sankyū Tatsuo
Japanese owarai tarento and tarento
Person
75
views
39
Tatsuo Hori
Tatsuo Hori
writer, poet, and translator in Japan (1904–1953)
📚 10 citations Person
75
views
40
Naoyuki Akaso
Japanese linguist and educator
Person
73
views
41
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
📚 25 citations Person
67
views
42
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
📚 65 citations Person
67
views
43
Taijun Takeda
Japanese novelist and Buddhist priest (1912–1976)
📚 8 citations Person
65
views
44
Jan Hus
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
📚 26 citations Person
64
views
45
William James Sidis
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
📚 7 citations Person
63
views
46
Masako Hachisuka
Japanese anglicist
Person
62
views
47
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
📚 58 citations Person
61
views
48
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
📚 46 citations Person
59
views
49
Toshihiko Izutsu
Japanese author of many books on Islam and other religions (1914–1993)
📚 12 citations Person
57
views
50
Inuhiko Yomota
Japanese writer
📚 7 citations Person
57
views
51
Shōichi Watanabe
English scholar and critic
📚 6 citations Person
55
views
52
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
📚 52 citations Person
51
views
53
Tadao Umesao
anthropologist
📚 4 citations Person
50
views
54
Anjirō
Japanese translator
📚 4 citations Person
50
views
55
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
📚 46 citations Person
49
views
56
Hideho Kindaichi
Japanese linguist
Person
48
views
57
Ikuhiko Hata
Japanese historian
📚 7 citations Person
48
views
58
James Curtis Hepburn
James Curtis Hepburn
American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
📚 8 citations Person
46
views
59
Hajime Nakamura
Hajime Nakamura
Japanese philosopher (1912-1999)
📚 14 citations Person
46
views
60
Haruhiko Kindaichi
Japanese lexicographer (1913–2004)
📚 6 citations Person
45
views
61
Kamo no Mabuchi
Kamo no Mabuchi
Japanese philosopher
📚 9 citations Person
45
views
62
José Rizal
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
📚 25 citations Person
44
views
63
Ryūsui Seiryōin
Japanese writer
Person
44
views
64
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
📚 61 citations Person
42
views
65
Ueda Kazutoshi
Japanese linguist
📚 9 citations Person
38
views
66
Ueda Akinari
Japanese writer (1734–1809)
📚 13 citations Person
38
views
67
Shinmura Izuru
Japanese linguist (1876–1967)
📚 9 citations Person
36
views
68
Kazuo Hirotsu
Japanese novelist and literary critic (1891-1968)
📚 8 citations Person
36
views
69
Minamoto no Shitagō
Minamoto no Shitagō
Japanese poet
📚 12 citations Person
34
views
70
Yamada Bimyō
Yamada Bimyō
Japanese writer (1868–1910)
📚 7 citations Person
33
views
71
Naitō Torajirō
Japanese historian and sinologist (1866–1934)
📚 10 citations Person
33
views
72
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
📚 43 citations Person
32
views
73
Keichū
Keichū
Buddhist priest and scholar
📚 8 citations Person
31
views
74
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
📚 36 citations Person
31
views
75
Ikuma Arishima
Japanese artist (1882-1974)
📚 8 citations Person
30
views
76
Haruka Orth
American actress
📚 1 citation Person
30
views
77
Hidetoshi Kenbō
Japanese linguist
Person
29
views
78
Yoko Matsuoka McClain
Japanese language scholar
Person
28
views
79
Eiichi Chino
Japanese linguist and translator (1932-2002)
Person
28
views
80
Ōtsuki Fumihiko
Ōtsuki Fumihiko
Japanese linguist and lexicographer (1847–1928)
📚 9 citations Person
28
views
81
Jirō Kawakita
activist
📚 4 citations Person
27
views
82
Frédéric Mistral
Frédéric Mistral
Provençal writer, poet, lexicographer and founder of Le Félibrige (1830–1914)
📚 42 citations Person
27
views
83
Hidemi Kon
Japanese writer
📚 4 citations Person
27
views
84
Heinrich von Siebold
Austrian collector, antiquary, japanologist (1852–1908)
📚 7 citations Person
27
views
85
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Charles-Valentin Alkan
French composer and pianist (1813–1888)
📚 22 citations Person
25
views
86
Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun
linguist
📚 3 citations Person
25
views
87
Iha Fuyū
Japanese historian, linguist (1876-1947)
📚 5 citations Person
24
views
88
Michio Takeyama
Japanese writer (1903–1984)
📚 11 citations Person
24
views
89
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
📚 33 citations Person
24
views
90
Suehiro Tanemura
Japanese writer
📚 5 citations Person
24
views
91
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
📚 32 citations Person
23
views
92
Takako Takahashi
Japanese writer (1932–2013)
📚 6 citations Person
23
views
93
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
📚 44 citations Person
22
views
94
Daisuke Takada
Japanese novelist
Person
21
views
95
Denis Diderot
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
📚 54 citations Person
20
views
96
Zoltán Kodály
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue (1882–1967)
📚 33 citations Person
20
views
97
Ryūichi Tamura
Japanese writer (1923–1998)
📚 5 citations Person
20
views
98
Katsuragawa Hoshū
Japanese physician
📚 9 citations Person
19
views
99
Tomotada Iwakura
Japanese linguist (1933-2016)
Person
19
views
100
John Amos Comenius
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
📚 54 citations Person
19
views