Trending Linguists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed linguists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
100
Ranked
1,079,773
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
131,775
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
86,225
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
71,772
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
49,598
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
41,304
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
35,925
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
33,367
views
views
8
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
28,707
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
24,698
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
23,981
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
20,914
views
views
12
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
19,752
views
views
13
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
18,501
views
views
14
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
18,359
views
views
15
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
17,716
views
views
16
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
14,136
views
views
17
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
14,081
views
views
18
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
12,776
views
views
19
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
12,631
views
views
20
Jane Hawking
British author
12,155
views
views
21
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
11,424
views
views
22
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
11,207
views
views
23
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
10,201
views
views
24
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
9,714
views
views
25
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
9,405
views
views
26
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
9,284
views
views
27
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
8,581
views
views
28
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
7,866
views
views
29
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
7,724
views
views
30
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
7,672
views
views
31
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
7,382
views
views
32
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
7,375
views
views
33
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
7,305
views
views
34
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
6,908
views
views
35
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
6,841
views
views
36
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
6,778
views
views
37
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
6,368
views
views
38
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
6,282
views
views
39
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
6,216
views
views
40
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
6,200
views
views
41
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
6,145
views
views
42
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
5,980
views
views
43
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
5,953
views
views
44
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
5,825
views
views
45
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
5,806
views
views
46
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
5,697
views
views
47
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
5,133
views
views
48
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
5,125
views
views
49
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
5,120
views
views
50
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
4,967
views
views
51
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
4,932
views
views
52
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
4,730
views
views
53
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
4,616
views
views
54
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
4,554
views
views
55
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
4,551
views
views
56
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
4,364
views
views
57
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
4,344
views
views
58
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
4,325
views
views
59
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
4,311
views
views
60
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
4,184
views
views
61
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer and translator (1914β1984)
4,123
views
views
62
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
4,122
views
views
63
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
4,102
views
views
64
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
4,034
views
views
65
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
3,985
views
views
66
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
3,973
views
views
67
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
3,958
views
views
68
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
3,912
views
views
69
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
3,851
views
views
70
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
3,629
views
views
71
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
3,600
views
views
72
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
3,526
views
views
73
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
3,509
views
views
74
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
3,391
views
views
75
George Chapman
16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator
3,289
views
views
76
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
3,280
views
views
77
Tarak Mehta
Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright (1929-2017)
3,231
views
views
78
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
3,210
views
views
79
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
3,203
views
views
80
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
3,154
views
views
81
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
3,109
views
views
82
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
3,092
views
views
83
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
3,080
views
views
84
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
3,037
views
views
85
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910β1985)
2,920
views
views
86
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
2,914
views
views
87
Ayo Bamgbose
Nigerian linguist
2,896
views
views
88
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,889
views
views
89
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
2,874
views
views
90
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
2,853
views
views
91
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
2,846
views
views
92
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
2,818
views
views
93
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
2,789
views
views
94
Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
2,788
views
views
95
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
2,779
views
views
96
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
2,665
views
views
97
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904β1980)
2,657
views
views
98
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
2,653
views
views
99
Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi
Indian linguist (1916-2008)
2,645
views
views
100
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881β1942)
2,619
views
views
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