Trending Linguists of all time
The 100 most-viewed linguists of all time on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
100
Ranked
571,370
Total Views (of all time)
Country
π Global
πΊπΈ USA
π©πͺ Germany
π«π· France
π―π΅ Japan
πͺπΈ Spain
π§π· Brazil
π·πΊ Russia
π¨π³ China
1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
79,024
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
59,655
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
36,718
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
27,734
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
20,122
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
19,393
views
views
7
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
15,103
views
views
8
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
12,697
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
12,280
views
views
10
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
10,154
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
9,805
views
views
12
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
9,688
views
views
13
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
8,994
views
views
14
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
8,394
views
views
15
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
8,220
views
views
16
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
7,846
views
views
17
Jane Hawking
British author
7,742
views
views
18
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
7,387
views
views
19
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
6,145
views
views
20
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
6,044
views
views
21
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
5,509
views
views
22
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
5,389
views
views
23
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
5,265
views
views
24
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
5,199
views
views
25
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
5,136
views
views
26
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
5,011
views
views
27
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
4,904
views
views
28
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
4,879
views
views
29
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
4,407
views
views
30
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
4,062
views
views
31
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
4,023
views
views
32
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
4,022
views
views
33
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
3,695
views
views
34
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
3,591
views
views
35
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
3,539
views
views
36
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
3,445
views
views
37
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
3,426
views
views
38
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
3,261
views
views
39
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
3,121
views
views
40
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
3,060
views
views
41
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
3,008
views
views
42
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,840
views
views
43
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
2,820
views
views
44
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
2,792
views
views
45
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
2,709
views
views
46
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
2,685
views
views
47
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
2,640
views
views
48
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
2,534
views
views
49
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
2,499
views
views
50
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
2,395
views
views
51
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
2,377
views
views
52
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
2,342
views
views
53
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
2,334
views
views
54
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
2,233
views
views
55
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
2,228
views
views
56
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
2,165
views
views
57
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
2,164
views
views
58
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
2,131
views
views
59
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
2,121
views
views
60
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
2,114
views
views
61
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
2,106
views
views
62
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
2,055
views
views
63
_(cropped).jpg/960px-Sara_Forbes_Bonetta_(15_September_1862)_(cropped).jpg)
Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
1,972
views
views
64
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
1,944
views
views
65
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,932
views
views
66
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
1,916
views
views
67
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
1,869
views
views
68
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
1,861
views
views
69
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,855
views
views
70
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
1,853
views
views
71
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
1,794
views
views
72
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,766
views
views
73
Qalandar Momand
Pakistani writer
1,711
views
views
74
Pierre Perret
French singer
1,688
views
views
75
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
1,649
views
views
76
Nakahama ManjirΕ
English interpreter
1,648
views
views
77
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
1,633
views
views
78
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839β1908)
1,632
views
views
79
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
1,630
views
views
80
Tevfik Esenç
Turkish statesperson (1904β1992)
1,611
views
views
81
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
1,610
views
views
82
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
1,607
views
views
83
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
1,578
views
views
84
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,553
views
views
85
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
1,545
views
views
86
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
1,519
views
views
87
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,470
views
views
88
Herta MΓΌller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
1,445
views
views
89
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
1,437
views
views
90
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
1,428
views
views
91
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,421
views
views
92
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,353
views
views
93
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
1,345
views
views
94
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886β1956)
1,293
views
views
95
Jean-François Lyotard
French philosopher (1924β1998)
1,283
views
views
96
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
1st-century BC Greek historian and teacher
1,278
views
views
97
Ramil Safarov
Azerbaijani army officer and convicted murderer
1,246
views
views
98
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,218
views
views
99
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
1,202
views
views
100
Ramchandra Siras
Indian linguist and author (1948β2010)
1,194
views
views
Also trending in Global
π³οΈ Politicians
π Diplomats
ποΈ Officers
πͺ Soldiers
βοΈ Lawyers
π Actors
π΅ Musicians
π€ Singers
πΌ Composers
π₯ Filmmakers
π¬ Film Directors
π¨ Painters
π Novelists
π Poets
π° Journalists
π Historians
π¬ Scientists
βοΈ Physicists
π§ͺ Chemists
π Mathematicians
βοΈ Engineers
π©Ί Physicians
π Economists
π» Programmers