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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Ranked
232,054
Total Views (this month)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
33,885
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
21,008
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
12,576
views
views
4
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
11,062
views
views
5
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
10,134
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
7,543
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
6,102
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
5,713
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
4,887
views
views
10
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
4,788
views
views
11
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
4,384
views
views
12
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
4,157
views
views
13
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
3,913
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
3,085
views
views
15
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
3,020
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
3,006
views
views
17
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
2,773
views
views
18
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
2,759
views
views
19
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
2,699
views
views
20
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
2,581
views
views
21
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
2,456
views
views
22
Jane Hawking
British author
2,358
views
views
23
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
2,154
views
views
24
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
2,118
views
views
25
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
2,096
views
views
26
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
2,077
views
views
27
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
1,952
views
views
28
Philippe Le Bas
French archaeologist
1,921
views
views
29
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
1,915
views
views
30
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
1,910
views
views
31
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
1,837
views
views
32
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
1,695
views
views
33
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
1,645
views
views
34
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
1,618
views
views
35
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
1,470
views
views
36
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
1,433
views
views
37
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
1,428
views
views
38
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,305
views
views
39
William Morgan
Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
1,300
views
views
40
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
1,295
views
views
41
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
1,238
views
views
42
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
1,238
views
views
43
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
1,196
views
views
44
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
1,187
views
views
45
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
1,179
views
views
46
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
1,106
views
views
47
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,053
views
views
48
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,050
views
views
49
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,038
views
views
50
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,034
views
views
51
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
1,025
views
views
52
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,022
views
views
53
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,009
views
views
54
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
991
views
views
55
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
918
views
views
56
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
910
views
views
57
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
899
views
views
58
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
860
views
views
59
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
857
views
views
60
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
825
views
views
61
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
824
views
views
62
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
812
views
views
63
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
808
views
views
64
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
798
views
views
65
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
782
views
views
66
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
760
views
views
67
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
759
views
views
68
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
736
views
views
69
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
722
views
views
70
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
708
views
views
71
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
705
views
views
72
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
701
views
views
73
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
691
views
views
74
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
686
views
views
75
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
684
views
views
76
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
671
views
views
77
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
660
views
views
78
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
648
views
views
79
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
632
views
views
80
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
622
views
views
81
Maurice Vidal Portman
British naval officer and photographer (1860-1935)
619
views
views
82
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
609
views
views
83
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
603
views
views
84
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
598
views
views
85
Ion Luca Caragiale
Romanian playwright, writer and poet (1852-1912)
593
views
views
86
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
590
views
views
87
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
574
views
views
88
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
572
views
views
89
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
568
views
views
90
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
555
views
views
91
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
546
views
views
92
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
537
views
views
93
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
530
views
views
94
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
528
views
views
95
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
522
views
views
96
Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born 1952)
488
views
views
97
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
485
views
views
98
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
485
views
views
99
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
480
views
views
100
Owen Barfield
British philosopher
470
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