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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Ranked
469,350
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
68,296
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
42,137
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
25,502
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
20,870
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
20,417
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
15,123
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
12,635
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
11,200
views
views
9
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
10,017
views
views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
9,706
views
views
11
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
8,761
views
views
12
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
8,482
views
views
13
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
7,415
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
6,246
views
views
15
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
6,214
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
6,098
views
views
17
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
5,687
views
views
18
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
5,555
views
views
19
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
5,553
views
views
20
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
5,407
views
views
21
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
5,228
views
views
22
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
4,733
views
views
23
Jane Hawking
British author
4,667
views
views
24
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
4,553
views
views
25
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
4,473
views
views
26
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
4,079
views
views
27
Maurice Vidal Portman
British naval officer and photographer (1860-1935)
4,004
views
views
28
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
3,919
views
views
29
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
3,901
views
views
30
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
3,879
views
views
31
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
3,317
views
views
32
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
3,290
views
views
33
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
3,190
views
views
34
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
3,068
views
views
35
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
3,061
views
views
36
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
3,053
views
views
37
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
3,033
views
views
38
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
2,629
views
views
39
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
2,618
views
views
40
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
2,616
views
views
41
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
2,593
views
views
42
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
2,580
views
views
43
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
2,576
views
views
44
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
2,502
views
views
45
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,301
views
views
46
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
2,257
views
views
47
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
2,162
views
views
48
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
2,152
views
views
49
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
2,029
views
views
50
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
2,004
views
views
51
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,999
views
views
52
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,960
views
views
53
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,950
views
views
54
Philippe Le Bas
French archaeologist
1,938
views
views
55
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,908
views
views
56
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
1,901
views
views
57
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
1,881
views
views
58
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
1,826
views
views
59
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,788
views
views
60
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,777
views
views
61
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,742
views
views
62
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
1,734
views
views
63
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
1,686
views
views
64
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
1,683
views
views
65
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
1,670
views
views
66
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
1,635
views
views
67
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
1,615
views
views
68
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
1,540
views
views
69
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
1,531
views
views
70
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
1,499
views
views
71
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,436
views
views
72
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
1,435
views
views
73
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
1,409
views
views
74
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
1,398
views
views
75
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,389
views
views
76
William Morgan
Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
1,363
views
views
77
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,356
views
views
78
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
1,341
views
views
79
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
1,335
views
views
80
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
1,332
views
views
81
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
1,331
views
views
82
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
1,299
views
views
83
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
1,292
views
views
84
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
1,255
views
views
85
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
1,237
views
views
86
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
1,170
views
views
87
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
1,143
views
views
88
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
1,120
views
views
89
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,119
views
views
90
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,116
views
views
91
David Stuart
American Mayanist, linguist and epigrapher
1,106
views
views
92
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
1,091
views
views
93
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
1,091
views
views
94
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
1,088
views
views
95
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
1,046
views
views
96
Owen Barfield
British philosopher
1,025
views
views
97
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
1,017
views
views
98
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
1,014
views
views
99
Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born 1952)
983
views
views
100
Cheikh Anta Diop
Senegalese politician, essayist (1923β1986)
962
views
views
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