Trending Linguists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed linguists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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178,606
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
26,224
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
13,090
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
11,908
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
8,918
views
views
5
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
6,322
views
views
6
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
5,789
views
views
7
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
4,986
views
views
8
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
4,122
views
views
9
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
3,759
views
views
10
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
3,184
views
views
11
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
2,919
views
views
12
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,867
views
views
13
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
2,759
views
views
14
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
2,595
views
views
15
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
2,523
views
views
16
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
2,303
views
views
17
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
2,019
views
views
18
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
1,976
views
views
19
Jane Hawking
British author
1,969
views
views
20
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
1,963
views
views
21
Jaan Puhvel
American-Estonian linguist (1932-2026)
1,919
views
views
22
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
1,888
views
views
23
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
1,869
views
views
24
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
1,818
views
views
25
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
1,605
views
views
26
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
1,537
views
views
27
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
1,528
views
views
28
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
1,468
views
views
29
Crates of Mallus
ancient Greek philosopher
1,462
views
views
30
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
1,445
views
views
31
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
1,445
views
views
32
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
1,376
views
views
33
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
1,312
views
views
34
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
1,228
views
views
35
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999) President of Uganda (1978β1979)
1,217
views
views
36
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
1,134
views
views
37
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,082
views
views
38
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
1,051
views
views
39
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
1,043
views
views
40
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
1,019
views
views
41
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,011
views
views
42
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
960
views
views
43
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
951
views
views
44
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
928
views
views
45
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
918
views
views
46
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
894
views
views
47
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812β1891)
877
views
views
48
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
830
views
views
49
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
828
views
views
50
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
823
views
views
51
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
815
views
views
52
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
808
views
views
53
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
789
views
views
54
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
787
views
views
55
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
769
views
views
56
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
748
views
views
57
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
744
views
views
58
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
743
views
views
59
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
739
views
views
60
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
734
views
views
61
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
728
views
views
62
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
724
views
views
63
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
688
views
views
64
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
663
views
views
65
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
653
views
views
66
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
647
views
views
67
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
634
views
views
68
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
630
views
views
69
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
613
views
views
70
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
605
views
views
71
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
580
views
views
72
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
579
views
views
73
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
569
views
views
74
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
566
views
views
75
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
564
views
views
76
Raghunath Murmu
Inventor of Ol Chiki script, writer and linguist (1905β1982)
564
views
views
77
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
526
views
views
78
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
518
views
views
79
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
515
views
views
80
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
512
views
views
81
Jeremy Blaustein
American translator
496
views
views
82
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
494
views
views
83
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
494
views
views
84
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
487
views
views
85
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
483
views
views
86
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
481
views
views
87
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
474
views
views
88
Joseph Elias Aoun
Seventh president of Northeastern University
459
views
views
89
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
458
views
views
90
Galina Dzhugashvili
Russian translator (1938-2007)
458
views
views
91
Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born 1952)
454
views
views
92
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
453
views
views
93
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
446
views
views
94
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
444
views
views
95
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
442
views
views
96
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
438
views
views
97
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924β1998)
437
views
views
98
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
435
views
views
99
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
433
views
views
100
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
425
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