Trending Linguists in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
2,560,053
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
261,850
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
215,753
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
194,129
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
125,696
views
views
5
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
87,455
views
views
6
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
83,619
views
views
7
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media
60,117
views
views
8
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
59,671
views
views
9
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
59,571
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
55,628
views
views
11
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
52,218
views
views
12
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
42,264
views
views
13
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
42,191
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
40,285
views
views
15
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
37,765
views
views
16
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
37,575
views
views
17
Jane Hawking
British author
33,923
views
views
18
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
31,802
views
views
19
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912–1998)
29,517
views
views
20
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
29,434
views
views
21
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
29,040
views
views
22
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
27,587
views
views
23
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
25,970
views
views
24
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
24,280
views
views
25
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
24,149
views
views
26
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
22,837
views
views
27
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
22,271
views
views
28
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
22,146
views
views
29
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
19,779
views
views
30
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
18,610
views
views
31
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878–1972)
17,851
views
views
32
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
17,776
views
views
33
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
17,663
views
views
34
Aulus Gellius
2nd century Roman author and grammarian
16,993
views
views
35
Girish Karnad
Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
16,588
views
views
36
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
16,241
views
views
37
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
16,236
views
views
38
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
16,146
views
views
39
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
16,059
views
views
40
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
15,807
views
views
41
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603–1683)
15,474
views
views
42
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
14,835
views
views
43
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
14,716
views
views
44
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
14,465
views
views
45
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
14,073
views
views
46
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
13,997
views
views
47
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
13,684
views
views
48
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
13,130
views
views
49
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
12,818
views
views
50
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
12,622
views
views
51
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
12,539
views
views
52
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
12,220
views
views
53
Benjamin Moser
American linguist, writer
11,976
views
views
54
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900–1992)
11,957
views
views
55
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
11,720
views
views
56
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
11,415
views
views
57
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
11,154
views
views
58
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
11,054
views
views
59
William Caxton
English merchant and printer (c. 1422–c. 1491)
10,949
views
views
60
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
10,831
views
views
61
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914–2000)
10,796
views
views
62
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
10,711
views
views
63
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
10,044
views
views
64
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
9,847
views
views
65
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
9,830
views
views
66
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
9,779
views
views
67
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
9,770
views
views
68
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
9,562
views
views
69
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886–1967)
9,333
views
views
70
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
9,109
views
views
71
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940–1992)
8,892
views
views
72
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
8,770
views
views
73
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
8,672
views
views
74
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
8,671
views
views
75
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
8,615
views
views
76
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
8,392
views
views
77
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
8,178
views
views
78
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869–1914)
8,083
views
views
79
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
7,879
views
views
80
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
7,792
views
views
81
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
7,779
views
views
82
Adam Aleksic
American linguist and content creator
7,703
views
views
83
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
7,649
views
views
84
John Chadwick
English linguist and classical scholar (1920-1998)
7,388
views
views
85
Rahul Sankrityayan
Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
7,200
views
views
86
Shaker Aamer
Guantanamo Bay detainee
7,188
views
views
87
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
7,119
views
views
88
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
7,038
views
views
89
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901–1985)
7,018
views
views
90
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
6,942
views
views
91
Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785–1859)
6,862
views
views
92
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
6,607
views
views
93
Harriet Martineau
English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)
6,587
views
views
94
Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
6,478
views
views
95
Friedrich August Wolf
German philologist
6,361
views
views
96
Edwin Thumboo
Singaporean poet and academic (born 1933)
6,282
views
views
97
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
6,280
views
views
98
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
6,266
views
views
99
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
6,247
views
views
100
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
6,213
views
views