Trending Linguists this month
The 100 most-viewed linguists this month on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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572,139
Total Views (this month)
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
60,073
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2
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
49,815
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views
3
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
40,618
views
views
4
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
40,232
views
views
5
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
25,789
views
views
6
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
24,355
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views
7
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
17,340
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views
8
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
14,595
views
views
9
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
13,952
views
views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
12,309
views
views
11
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
10,920
views
views
12
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
9,181
views
views
13
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
9,179
views
views
14
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
8,400
views
views
15
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
8,316
views
views
16
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
7,985
views
views
17
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
6,949
views
views
18
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
6,016
views
views
19
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
5,847
views
views
20
Jane Hawking
British author
5,742
views
views
21
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
5,569
views
views
22
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
5,430
views
views
23
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
5,089
views
views
24
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
5,007
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
4,783
views
views
26
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
4,758
views
views
27
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
4,675
views
views
28
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
4,440
views
views
29
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
4,361
views
views
30
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
4,233
views
views
31
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
3,890
views
views
32
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
3,812
views
views
33
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
3,706
views
views
34
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
3,458
views
views
35
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
3,360
views
views
36
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
3,322
views
views
37
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
3,275
views
views
38
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
3,273
views
views
39
Gavrila Derzhavin
Russian poet
3,160
views
views
40
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
3,131
views
views
41
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
3,117
views
views
42
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
3,088
views
views
43
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
2,910
views
views
44
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
2,813
views
views
45
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
2,700
views
views
46
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
2,644
views
views
47
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
2,598
views
views
48
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,573
views
views
49
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
2,382
views
views
50
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
2,324
views
views
51
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
2,316
views
views
52
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
2,311
views
views
53
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
2,301
views
views
54
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
2,269
views
views
55
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
2,253
views
views
56
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
2,229
views
views
57
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
2,214
views
views
58
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
2,144
views
views
59
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
2,122
views
views
60
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
2,088
views
views
61
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
2,084
views
views
62
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
2,084
views
views
63
Sevan NiΕanyan
Turkish lexicographer and writer of Armenian ancestry (born 1956)
2,006
views
views
64
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,985
views
views
65
Ziryab
9th-century poet and musician
1,979
views
views
66
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,978
views
views
67
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
1,972
views
views
68
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
1,955
views
views
69
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
1,907
views
views
70
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
1,857
views
views
71
Huno RΓ€tsep
Estonian linguist (1927-2026)
1,814
views
views
72
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,761
views
views
73
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
1,685
views
views
74
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,670
views
views
75
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,648
views
views
76
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
1,638
views
views
77
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,637
views
views
78
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
1,613
views
views
79
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
1,598
views
views
80
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,555
views
views
81
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,543
views
views
82
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,449
views
views
83
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
1,439
views
views
84
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,422
views
views
85
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
1,409
views
views
86
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
1,386
views
views
87
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
1,319
views
views
88
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
1,317
views
views
89
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
1,314
views
views
90
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
1,297
views
views
91
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
1,269
views
views
92
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
1,242
views
views
93
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
1,226
views
views
94
Herta MΓΌller
German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist (born 1953)
1,201
views
views
95
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839β1908)
1,199
views
views
96
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,199
views
views
97
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786β1859)
1,197
views
views
98
Galyani Vadhana
Thai princess (1923-2008)
1,189
views
views
99
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
1,178
views
views
100
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
1,177
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