Trending Linguists in USA — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed linguists on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
573,446
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Joseph Stalin
politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
63,090
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892–1973)
50,002
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
36,994
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
35,432
views
views
5
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
32,165
views
views
6
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265–1321)
16,923
views
views
7
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
16,417
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792–1822)
13,631
views
views
9
Confucius Institute
Chinese international educational partnership program
13,405
views
views
10
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632–1677)
10,821
views
views
11
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906–1989)
9,256
views
views
12
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
9,089
views
views
13
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
8,722
views
views
14
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915–2016)
8,478
views
views
15
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343–1400)
8,181
views
views
16
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
7,468
views
views
17
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912–1998)
7,429
views
views
18
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
6,949
views
views
19
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
6,942
views
views
20
José Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
6,624
views
views
21
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
6,125
views
views
22
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
6,029
views
views
23
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932–2016)
5,826
views
views
24
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
5,358
views
views
25
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
4,766
views
views
26
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785–1863)
4,666
views
views
27
Marie Wilcox
Wukchumni speaker and teacher
4,631
views
views
28
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795–1881)
4,458
views
views
29
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
4,356
views
views
30
Jane Hawking
British author
4,164
views
views
31
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
4,044
views
views
32
Julian Barnes
English writer (born 1946)
3,838
views
views
33
Aurobindo Ghosh
Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)
3,700
views
views
34
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
3,605
views
views
35
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind
3,602
views
views
36
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878–1972)
3,470
views
views
37
Girish Karnad
Indian playwright, theatre personality (1938–2019)
3,363
views
views
38
Benjamin Moser
American linguist, writer
3,302
views
views
39
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880–1956)
3,241
views
views
40
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
3,167
views
views
41
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821–1890)
3,165
views
views
42
Wilhelm Grimm
German author, philologist, collector of fairy tales and legends (1786–1859)
3,092
views
views
43
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist (1915–1980)
3,068
views
views
44
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
3,039
views
views
45
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
3,031
views
views
46
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
2,977
views
views
47
José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
2,901
views
views
48
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
2,884
views
views
49
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891–1942)
2,779
views
views
50
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopædist (1713–1784)
2,768
views
views
51
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922–1999)
2,684
views
views
52
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
2,620
views
views
53
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869–1914)
2,574
views
views
54
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603–1683)
2,574
views
views
55
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
2,529
views
views
56
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
2,511
views
views
57
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
2,444
views
views
58
Al-Biruni
11th-century Khwarazmian scholar and polymath (973–1048)
2,437
views
views
59
Rahul Sankrityayan
Indian Buddhist scholar, polyglot and travel writer (1893–1963); 'Father of Hindi travel literature'
2,377
views
views
60
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
2,307
views
views
61
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886–1967)
2,234
views
views
62
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
2,159
views
views
63
Cesare Pavese
Italian writer, literary critic, and translator (1908–1950)
2,143
views
views
64
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
2,086
views
views
65
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
2,074
views
views
66
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857–1913)
2,019
views
views
67
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940–1992)
2,009
views
views
68
Julio Cortázar
Argentine writer and translator (1914–1984)
1,985
views
views
69
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914–2000)
1,982
views
views
70
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
1,978
views
views
71
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)
1,925
views
views
72
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,921
views
views
73
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,916
views
views
74
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)
1,895
views
views
75
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,861
views
views
76
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
1,816
views
views
77
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886–1956)
1,698
views
views
78
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,674
views
views
79
John Searle
American philosopher (1932–2025)
1,568
views
views
80
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,555
views
views
81
Kim Tu-bong
Korean linguist and politician (1886–1958?)
1,538
views
views
82
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
1,523
views
views
83
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
1,486
views
views
84
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai royal
1,484
views
views
85
Yariv Levin
Minister of Justice of Israel since 2022
1,460
views
views
86
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895–1975)
1,440
views
views
87
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
1,423
views
views
88
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
1,384
views
views
89
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,326
views
views
90
Friedrich Max Müller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
1,323
views
views
91
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901–1985)
1,276
views
views
92
Lewis Spence
British academic (1874-1955)
1,244
views
views
93
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
1,224
views
views
94
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
1,211
views
views
95
Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785–1859)
1,209
views
views
96
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,196
views
views
97
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
1,188
views
views
98
William Caxton
English merchant and printer (c. 1422–c. 1491)
1,179
views
views
99
Max Brod
Bohemian-Israeli author, composer, and journalist (1884–1968)
1,176
views
views
100
Leon Battista Alberti
Italian architect and writer (1404-1472)
1,168
views
views