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
333,366
Total Views (this week)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
38,606
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
26,630
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
24,580
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
15,289
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
12,177
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
12,073
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
10,223
views
views
8
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
7,434
views
views
9
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
6,749
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
6,508
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
6,137
views
views
12
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
5,917
views
views
13
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
5,615
views
views
14
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
5,539
views
views
15
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
5,221
views
views
16
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
4,504
views
views
17
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
4,032
views
views
18
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
3,952
views
views
19
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
3,634
views
views
20
Jane Hawking
British author
3,612
views
views
21
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
3,538
views
views
22
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
3,302
views
views
23
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
3,000
views
views
24
Andrew Melville
Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer
2,968
views
views
25
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
2,723
views
views
26
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
2,684
views
views
27
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
2,626
views
views
28
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
2,614
views
views
29
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
2,553
views
views
30
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
2,454
views
views
31
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
2,377
views
views
32
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
2,372
views
views
33
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
2,363
views
views
34
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
2,226
views
views
35
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
2,208
views
views
36
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
2,165
views
views
37
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
2,154
views
views
38
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
2,122
views
views
39
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
2,109
views
views
40
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
2,075
views
views
41
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
1,995
views
views
42
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
1,993
views
views
43
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
1,991
views
views
44
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
1,968
views
views
45
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
1,921
views
views
46
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
1,907
views
views
47
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
1,880
views
views
48
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
1,831
views
views
49
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
1,730
views
views
50
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
1,701
views
views
51
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
1,646
views
views
52
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
1,601
views
views
53
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
1,548
views
views
54
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
1,541
views
views
55
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,517
views
views
56
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
1,483
views
views
57
Tarak Mehta
Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright (1929-2017)
1,414
views
views
58
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
1,400
views
views
59
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
1,380
views
views
60
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
1,370
views
views
61
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
1,328
views
views
62
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
1,317
views
views
63
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
1,290
views
views
64
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
1,225
views
views
65
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,208
views
views
66
George Chapman
16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator
1,193
views
views
67
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
1,162
views
views
68
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886β1956)
1,157
views
views
69
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
1,146
views
views
70
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
1,145
views
views
71
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910β1985)
1,127
views
views
72
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
1,118
views
views
73
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer and translator (1914β1984)
1,104
views
views
74
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
1,092
views
views
75
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
1,089
views
views
76
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,088
views
views
77
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
1,084
views
views
78
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
1,065
views
views
79
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
1,055
views
views
80
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,051
views
views
81
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,017
views
views
82
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
1,017
views
views
83
Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
989
views
views
84
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
952
views
views
85
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
940
views
views
86
E. V. Rieu
British poet (1887-1972)
909
views
views
87
Ravan A. G. FarhΓ’di
Afghanistani tajik politician
878
views
views
88
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
877
views
views
89
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881β1942)
856
views
views
90
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
849
views
views
91
John Tzetzes
Byzantine poet and writer (c.1110β1180)
846
views
views
92
Caleb Everett
American anthropologist
844
views
views
93
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
843
views
views
94
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
837
views
views
95
Thomas De Quincey
British author (1785-1859)
821
views
views
96
Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi
Indian linguist (1916-2008)
811
views
views
97
HalldΓ³r Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
801
views
views
98
Michael Ventris
British architect and linguist (1922-1956)
793
views
views
99
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
787
views
views
100
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
773
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