Trending Linguists — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Haruki Murakami. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
932,867
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
114,702
views
views
2
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
107,624
views
views
3
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
63,346
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
40,846
views
views
5
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
40,476
views
views
6
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
30,587
views
views
7
Shūmei Ōkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886–1957)
21,801
views
views
8
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
21,258
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
20,793
views
views
10
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
19,429
views
views
11
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
14,404
views
views
12
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
13,217
views
views
13
Hans Uszkoreit
German linguist
13,037
views
views
14
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
12,691
views
views
15
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
12,038
views
views
16
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
11,107
views
views
17
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
10,701
views
views
18
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
10,091
views
views
19
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
9,752
views
views
20
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media
8,887
views
views
21
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
8,749
views
views
22
Kūkai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774–835)
8,484
views
views
23
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
7,259
views
views
24
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
7,188
views
views
25
Mikhail Lomonosov
Russian polymath (1711-1765)
7,141
views
views
26
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912–1998)
7,118
views
views
27
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
7,076
views
views
28
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
7,024
views
views
29
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
6,992
views
views
30
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
6,594
views
views
31
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
6,569
views
views
32
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
6,406
views
views
33
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
6,289
views
views
34
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
6,235
views
views
35
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
5,744
views
views
36
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
5,716
views
views
37
Nakahama Manjirō
English interpreter
5,681
views
views
38
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
5,658
views
views
39
Machado de Assis
Brazilian writer (1839–1908)
5,467
views
views
40
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
5,274
views
views
41
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
4,982
views
views
42
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
4,977
views
views
43
Mori Ōgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
4,810
views
views
44
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
4,710
views
views
45
Naoyuki Akaso
Japanese linguist and educator
4,709
views
views
46
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
4,709
views
views
47
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
4,591
views
views
48
Marie Wilcox
Wukchumni speaker and teacher
4,547
views
views
49
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
4,546
views
views
50
Jane Hawking
British author
4,451
views
views
51
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
4,375
views
views
52
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
4,342
views
views
53
Yasmina Reza
French actor and writer
4,298
views
views
54
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
4,223
views
views
55
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
4,126
views
views
56
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
4,041
views
views
57
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
3,960
views
views
58
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
3,876
views
views
59
Samuil Marshak
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
3,670
views
views
60
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai royal
3,566
views
views
61
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
3,542
views
views
62
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)
3,481
views
views
63
Ivan Krylov
Russian writer (1769–1844)
3,471
views
views
64
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
3,466
views
views
65
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
3,459
views
views
66
Vasily Zhukovsky
Russian poet (1783-1852)
3,290
views
views
67
Boris Akunin
Russian writer, translation, and historian
3,264
views
views
68
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
3,201
views
views
69
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
3,157
views
views
70
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
3,138
views
views
71
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
3,116
views
views
72
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
3,104
views
views
73
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878–1972)
3,031
views
views
74
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
3,026
views
views
75
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
3,025
views
views
76
Kim Tu-bong
Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)
3,008
views
views
77
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
2,926
views
views
78
Benjamin Moser
American linguist, writer
2,915
views
views
79
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
2,878
views
views
80
Alejandra Pizarnik
Argentinian poet (1936-1972)
2,876
views
views
81
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
2,858
views
views
82
Girish Karnad
Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
2,850
views
views
83
Nitobe Inazō
Japanese educator, agricultural economist and diplomat (1862–1933)
2,822
views
views
84
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Prussian philosopher, government official, diplomat, and educator (1767–1835)
2,806
views
views
85
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858–1916)
2,800
views
views
86
Pierre Perret
French singer
2,792
views
views
87
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
2,736
views
views
88
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
2,735
views
views
89
John Amos Comenius
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
2,715
views
views
90
Dmitry Puchkov
Russian media personality
2,655
views
views
91
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
2,576
views
views
92
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
2,562
views
views
93
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
2,557
views
views
94
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
2,493
views
views
95
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886–1967)
2,487
views
views
96
Nabil Benabdallah
Moroccan politician
2,474
views
views
97
Kunio Yanagita
Japanese folklorist (1875–1962)
2,447
views
views
98
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603–1683)
2,424
views
views
99
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869–1914)
2,378
views
views
100
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
2,366
views
views