Trending Linguists in USA this month
The 100 most-viewed linguists this month on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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545,462
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
61,749
views
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2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
45,197
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
33,304
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
24,415
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
21,421
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
17,914
views
views
7
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
17,873
views
views
8
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
17,144
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
12,334
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
11,048
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
10,321
views
views
12
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
9,312
views
views
13
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
9,289
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
9,030
views
views
15
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
8,867
views
views
16
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
7,244
views
views
17
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
6,742
views
views
18
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
6,677
views
views
19
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
6,512
views
views
20
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
5,892
views
views
21
Jane Hawking
British author
5,816
views
views
22
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
5,672
views
views
23
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
5,586
views
views
24
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
4,746
views
views
25
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
4,644
views
views
26
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
4,643
views
views
27
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
4,620
views
views
28
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
4,327
views
views
29
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
4,251
views
views
30
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
4,141
views
views
31
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
3,958
views
views
32
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
3,900
views
views
33
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
3,864
views
views
34
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
3,856
views
views
35
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
3,508
views
views
36
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
3,461
views
views
37
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
3,433
views
views
38
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
3,270
views
views
39
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
3,199
views
views
40
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
3,174
views
views
41
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
3,162
views
views
42
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
3,135
views
views
43
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
3,096
views
views
44
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
3,017
views
views
45
Ayo Bamgbose
Nigerian linguist
2,883
views
views
46
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
2,741
views
views
47
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
2,711
views
views
48
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
2,684
views
views
49
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
2,662
views
views
50
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
2,514
views
views
51
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
2,484
views
views
52
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,464
views
views
53
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
2,454
views
views
54
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
2,413
views
views
55
Ravan A. G. FarhΓ’di
Afghanistani tajik politician
2,407
views
views
56
George Chapman
16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator
2,280
views
views
57
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881β1942)
2,267
views
views
58
Tarak Mehta
Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright (1929-2017)
2,246
views
views
59
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
2,206
views
views
60
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
2,188
views
views
61
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
2,181
views
views
62
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
2,157
views
views
63
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
2,104
views
views
64
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910β1985)
2,100
views
views
65
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
2,096
views
views
66
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
1,986
views
views
67
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer and translator (1914β1984)
1,979
views
views
68
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
1,862
views
views
69
Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
1,855
views
views
70
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
1,850
views
views
71
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,848
views
views
72
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
1,846
views
views
73
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
1,841
views
views
74
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
1,836
views
views
75
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,808
views
views
76
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
1,804
views
views
77
Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi
Indian linguist (1916-2008)
1,803
views
views
78
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,759
views
views
79
E. V. Rieu
British poet (1887-1972)
1,738
views
views
80
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
1,699
views
views
81
John Tzetzes
Byzantine poet and writer (c.1110β1180)
1,695
views
views
82
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
1,689
views
views
83
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
1,671
views
views
84
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,603
views
views
85
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
1,559
views
views
86
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,535
views
views
87
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,529
views
views
88
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,507
views
views
89
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886β1956)
1,467
views
views
90
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
1,414
views
views
91
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,409
views
views
92
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,373
views
views
93
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,347
views
views
94
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
1,345
views
views
95
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904β1980)
1,341
views
views
96
Gaius Julius Hyginus
Roman freedman and writer (c. 64 BC β AD 17)
1,336
views
views
97
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
1,322
views
views
98
Rahul Sankrityayan
Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893β1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
1,298
views
views
99
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
1,264
views
views
100
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
1,238
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