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
808,693
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
113,125
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
69,430
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
45,290
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
37,620
views
views
5
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
26,322
views
views
6
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
24,820
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
22,802
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
20,664
views
views
9
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
17,080
views
views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
17,008
views
views
11
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
15,766
views
views
12
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
14,573
views
views
13
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
13,317
views
views
14
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
11,915
views
views
15
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
11,234
views
views
16
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
10,734
views
views
17
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
10,540
views
views
18
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
9,884
views
views
19
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
9,522
views
views
20
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
9,294
views
views
21
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
8,934
views
views
22
Jane Hawking
British author
8,851
views
views
23
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
8,441
views
views
24
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
8,401
views
views
25
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
7,799
views
views
26
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
7,506
views
views
27
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
7,209
views
views
28
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
7,177
views
views
29
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
6,894
views
views
30
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
6,537
views
views
31
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
5,699
views
views
32
Maurice Vidal Portman
British naval officer and photographer (1860-1935)
5,658
views
views
33
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
5,535
views
views
34
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
5,471
views
views
35
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
5,435
views
views
36
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
5,055
views
views
37
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
4,950
views
views
38
Julian Granberry
American anthropologist, ghost hunter, and writer
4,764
views
views
39
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
4,482
views
views
40
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
4,479
views
views
41
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
4,470
views
views
42
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
4,443
views
views
43
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
4,427
views
views
44
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
4,395
views
views
45
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
4,350
views
views
46
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
4,120
views
views
47
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
3,968
views
views
48
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
3,821
views
views
49
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
3,801
views
views
50
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
3,540
views
views
51
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
3,496
views
views
52
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
3,495
views
views
53
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
3,481
views
views
54
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
3,407
views
views
55
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
3,404
views
views
56
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
3,392
views
views
57
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
3,335
views
views
58
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
3,182
views
views
59
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
3,126
views
views
60
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
3,016
views
views
61
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
3,005
views
views
62
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
2,965
views
views
63
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
2,941
views
views
64
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
2,936
views
views
65
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
2,923
views
views
66
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
2,845
views
views
67
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
2,827
views
views
68
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
2,796
views
views
69
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
2,773
views
views
70
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
2,693
views
views
71
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
2,689
views
views
72
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
2,656
views
views
73
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
2,615
views
views
74
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
2,564
views
views
75
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
2,520
views
views
76
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
2,360
views
views
77
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
2,357
views
views
78
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
2,356
views
views
79
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
2,353
views
views
80
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
2,352
views
views
81
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
2,334
views
views
82
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
2,265
views
views
83
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
2,225
views
views
84
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
2,189
views
views
85
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
2,183
views
views
86
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
2,117
views
views
87
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
2,079
views
views
88
Jaan Puhvel
American-Estonian linguist (1932-2026)
2,069
views
views
89
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
2,033
views
views
90
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
1,991
views
views
91
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,965
views
views
92
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,965
views
views
93
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
1,963
views
views
94
Philippe Le Bas
French archaeologist
1,956
views
views
95
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
1,907
views
views
96
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
1,855
views
views
97
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
1,853
views
views
98
Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born 1952)
1,846
views
views
99
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
1,799
views
views
100
Owen Barfield
British philosopher
1,687
views
views
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