Trending Linguists of all time
The 100 most-viewed linguists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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180,582
Total Views (of all time)
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
18,755
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2
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
14,911
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views
3
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
13,772
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views
4
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
12,234
views
views
5
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
8,424
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views
6
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
6,028
views
views
7
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
5,746
views
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8
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,991
views
views
9
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
3,869
views
views
10
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
3,787
views
views
11
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
3,700
views
views
12
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
3,439
views
views
13
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
3,338
views
views
14
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
3,319
views
views
15
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
3,267
views
views
16
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
3,065
views
views
17
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
2,953
views
views
18
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
2,859
views
views
19
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
2,643
views
views
20
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
2,620
views
views
21
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
2,615
views
views
22
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
2,388
views
views
23
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
2,187
views
views
24
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Roman freedman and writer (c. 64 BC β AD 17)
2,101
views
views
25
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
2,006
views
views
26
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,927
views
views
27
Jane Hawking
British author
1,907
views
views
28
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
1,840
views
views
29
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,593
views
views
30
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
1,500
views
views
31
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
1,353
views
views
32
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
1,304
views
views
33
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
1,265
views
views
34
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
1,088
views
views
35
John Langshaw Austin
English philosopher (1911β1960)
1,032
views
views
36
Robert Bly
American poet, author, and activist (1926β2021)
1,027
views
views
37
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
1,018
views
views
38
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
984
views
views
39
Carol Chomsky
linguist (1930β2008)
955
views
views
40
Ajayi Crowther
Yoruba linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria (1809-1891)
949
views
views
41
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
871
views
views
42
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881β1942)
864
views
views
43
Edward Sapir
American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)
748
views
views
44
Elias LΓΆnnrot
Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (1802-1884)
678
views
views
45
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
657
views
views
46
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
643
views
views
47
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
548
views
views
48
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
532
views
views
49
Benjamin Jowett
English writer and classical scholar (1817β1893)
531
views
views
50
Peter Stephen Du Ponceau
French-born American linguist, philosopher and jurist (1760-1844)
523
views
views
51
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886β1956)
517
views
views
52
George Chapman
16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator
517
views
views
53
Zhou Youguang
Chinese linguist, sinologist (1906β2017)
505
views
views
54
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
498
views
views
55
Robert S.P. Beekes
Dutch linguist (1937β2017)
495
views
views
56
Victor H. Mair
American sinologist and linguist (1943-2026)
494
views
views
57
Sibawayh
Persian grammarian from Basra (c.760β796)
485
views
views
58
Yekaterina Dashkova
Russian author and woman of letters (1743-1810)
472
views
views
59
Alexander Melville Bell
British linguist (1819β1905)
466
views
views
60
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
458
views
views
61
Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785-1859)
453
views
views
62
George Buchanan
Scottish historian and humanist scholar (1506-1582)
450
views
views
63
Caleb Everett
American anthropologist
434
views
views
64
Lucille Roubedeaux
native American Osage cultural leader
430
views
views
65
Gilbert Murray
Anglo-Australian scholar (1866-1957)
421
views
views
66
Michael Ventris
British architect and linguist (1922-1956)
417
views
views
67
James Legge
Scottish missionary and translator (1815β1897)
413
views
views
68
Benjamin Moser
American linguist, writer
404
views
views
69
HalldΓ³r Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
403
views
views
70
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
403
views
views
71
George Lakoff
American linguist
397
views
views
72
Edwin O. Reischauer
American diplomat (1910-1990)
397
views
views
73
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
394
views
views
74
E. V. Rieu
British poet (1887-1972)
387
views
views
75
Leo Rosten
Jewish American humorist
385
views
views
76
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher
364
views
views
77
Sandra Roelofs
First Lady of Georgia
363
views
views
78
Monteiro Lobato
Brazilian writer (1882β1948)
361
views
views
79
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
361
views
views
80
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
357
views
views
81
'Adud al-Dawla
Buyid dynasty emir (936-983)
356
views
views
82
John Ciardi
American poet, professor, translator (1916β1986)
354
views
views
83
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924β1998)
353
views
views
84
Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi
Indian linguist (1916-2008)
347
views
views
85
Harriet Martineau
English writer and sociologist (1802β1876)
344
views
views
86
Salima Ikram
Pakistani egyptologist
338
views
views
87
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786β1859)
335
views
views
88
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904β1980)
334
views
views
89
Hesychius of Alexandria
5th/6th century Greek philologist and lexicographer
324
views
views
90
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
319
views
views
91
Friedrich August Wolf
German philologist
317
views
views
92
Maithili Sharan Gupt
Indian poet and one of the pioneers of modern Hindi literature(1886-1964)
306
views
views
93
Herta MΓΌller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
305
views
views
94
BΓ©la H. BΓ‘nΓ‘thy
Hungarian linguist and systems scientist (1919-2003)
304
views
views
95
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
304
views
views
96
Adoniram Judson
American missionary (1788-1850)
300
views
views
97
Kamil Zvelebil
Czech indologist (1927β2009)
280
views
views
98
Rahul Sankrityayan
Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893β1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
277
views
views
99
Roberto de Nobili
missionary
265
views
views
100
Simin Daneshvar
Iranian writer (1921β2012)
265
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