Trending Linguists in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed linguists this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
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Ranked
327,079
Total Views (this week)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
43,731
views
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2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
28,711
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
19,299
views
views
4
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
13,949
views
views
5
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
13,671
views
views
6
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
12,189
views
views
7
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
10,142
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
8,622
views
views
9
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
8,196
views
views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
6,444
views
views
11
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
6,156
views
views
12
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
5,306
views
views
13
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
4,972
views
views
14
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
4,924
views
views
15
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
4,894
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
4,262
views
views
17
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
4,171
views
views
18
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
3,869
views
views
19
Jane Hawking
British author
3,770
views
views
20
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
3,746
views
views
21
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
3,256
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
3,179
views
views
23
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
3,173
views
views
24
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
3,026
views
views
25
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
2,938
views
views
26
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
2,845
views
views
27
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
2,787
views
views
28
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
2,716
views
views
29
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
2,657
views
views
30
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
2,654
views
views
31
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
2,603
views
views
32
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
2,213
views
views
33
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
2,183
views
views
34
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
2,075
views
views
35
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
2,058
views
views
36
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
2,023
views
views
37
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
1,933
views
views
38
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
1,878
views
views
39
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
1,825
views
views
40
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,780
views
views
41
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
1,777
views
views
42
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
1,774
views
views
43
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
1,757
views
views
44
Probal Dasgupta
former president of the Universala Esperanto-Asocio
1,750
views
views
45
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
1,619
views
views
46
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
1,617
views
views
47
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,594
views
views
48
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
1,532
views
views
49
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
1,501
views
views
50
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
1,456
views
views
51
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,416
views
views
52
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,361
views
views
53
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
1,333
views
views
54
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
1,319
views
views
55
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,312
views
views
56
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,309
views
views
57
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
1,308
views
views
58
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,307
views
views
59
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,188
views
views
60
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
1,186
views
views
61
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,169
views
views
62
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
1,135
views
views
63
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
1,127
views
views
64
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
1,111
views
views
65
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
1,109
views
views
66
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
1,108
views
views
67
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
1,085
views
views
68
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,082
views
views
69
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,062
views
views
70
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
1,059
views
views
71
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
1,046
views
views
72
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
1,024
views
views
73
Nakahama ManjirΕ
English interpreter
1,013
views
views
74
Erri De Luca
Italian novelist, poet and translator
990
views
views
75
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
983
views
views
76
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
983
views
views
77
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
980
views
views
78
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
975
views
views
79
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
973
views
views
80
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
963
views
views
81
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
951
views
views
82
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
917
views
views
83
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
903
views
views
84
Ramil Safarov
Azerbaijani army officer and convicted murderer
897
views
views
85
Ramchandra Siras
Indian linguist and author (1948β2010)
841
views
views
86
Qalandar Momand
Pakistani writer
834
views
views
87
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
803
views
views
88
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
797
views
views
89
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
794
views
views
90
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
792
views
views
91
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884β1968)
781
views
views
92
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
771
views
views
93
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
769
views
views
94
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
767
views
views
95
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
748
views
views
96
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
722
views
views
97
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
709
views
views
98
William Morgan
Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
697
views
views
99
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
691
views
views
100
Lin Yutang
Chinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895β1976)
676
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