Trending Linguists in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed linguists this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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Ranked
268,252
Total Views (this week)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
37,478
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
27,598
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
15,451
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
11,694
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
10,194
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
8,038
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
6,767
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
6,247
views
views
9
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
5,880
views
views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
5,223
views
views
11
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
5,155
views
views
12
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
4,479
views
views
13
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
4,080
views
views
14
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
3,779
views
views
15
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
3,505
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
3,370
views
views
17
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
3,089
views
views
18
Jane Hawking
British author
3,038
views
views
19
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
3,011
views
views
20
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
3,010
views
views
21
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
2,996
views
views
22
Probal Dasgupta
former president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio
2,992
views
views
23
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
2,903
views
views
24
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
2,557
views
views
25
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
2,504
views
views
26
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
2,446
views
views
27
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
2,384
views
views
28
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,211
views
views
29
Philippe Le Bas
French archaeologist
2,199
views
views
30
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
2,194
views
views
31
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
2,081
views
views
32
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
1,995
views
views
33
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
1,878
views
views
34
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
1,860
views
views
35
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
1,742
views
views
36
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
1,721
views
views
37
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
1,719
views
views
38
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
1,657
views
views
39
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,518
views
views
40
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
1,425
views
views
41
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
1,397
views
views
42
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
1,393
views
views
43
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
1,372
views
views
44
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
1,369
views
views
45
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
1,364
views
views
46
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
1,353
views
views
47
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
1,315
views
views
48
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,224
views
views
49
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
1,173
views
views
50
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,168
views
views
51
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,162
views
views
52
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,145
views
views
53
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,141
views
views
54
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,137
views
views
55
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
1,126
views
views
56
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,114
views
views
57
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,108
views
views
58
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
1,055
views
views
59
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
1,042
views
views
60
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
1,015
views
views
61
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,013
views
views
62
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
1,010
views
views
63
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
957
views
views
64
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
941
views
views
65
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
932
views
views
66
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
927
views
views
67
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
903
views
views
68
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
873
views
views
69
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
846
views
views
70
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
826
views
views
71
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
822
views
views
72
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
821
views
views
73
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
813
views
views
74
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
811
views
views
75
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
810
views
views
76
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
788
views
views
77
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
782
views
views
78
William Morgan
Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
765
views
views
79
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
755
views
views
80
Maurice Vidal Portman
British naval officer and photographer (1860-1935)
741
views
views
81
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
734
views
views
82
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
717
views
views
83
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
707
views
views
84
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
701
views
views
85
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
697
views
views
86
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
693
views
views
87
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
671
views
views
88
Pearl Gibbs
Indigenous Australian activist (1901β1983)
648
views
views
89
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
644
views
views
90
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
644
views
views
91
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
623
views
views
92
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
621
views
views
93
Qalandar Momand
Pakistani writer
619
views
views
94
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
618
views
views
95
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
611
views
views
96
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
607
views
views
97
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
602
views
views
98
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
587
views
views
99
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
576
views
views
100
Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born 1952)
555
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