Trending Linguists in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed linguists this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Joseph Stalin.
100
Ranked
484,026
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
70,911
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
40,770
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
28,852
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
22,560
views
views
5
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
16,425
views
views
6
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
15,091
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
14,394
views
views
8
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
12,454
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
10,733
views
views
10
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
9,528
views
views
11
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
9,325
views
views
12
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
8,478
views
views
13
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
7,279
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
6,856
views
views
15
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
6,724
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
6,666
views
views
17
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
6,018
views
views
18
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
5,743
views
views
19
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
5,610
views
views
20
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
5,445
views
views
21
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
5,409
views
views
22
Jane Hawking
British author
4,993
views
views
23
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
4,972
views
views
24
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
4,659
views
views
25
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
4,492
views
views
26
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
4,221
views
views
27
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
4,108
views
views
28
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
4,003
views
views
29
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
3,718
views
views
30
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
3,612
views
views
31
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
3,546
views
views
32
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
3,470
views
views
33
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
3,426
views
views
34
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
3,163
views
views
35
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
2,908
views
views
36
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
2,807
views
views
37
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
2,749
views
views
38
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
2,740
views
views
39
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
2,693
views
views
40
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
2,606
views
views
41
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
2,599
views
views
42
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
2,553
views
views
43
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
2,449
views
views
44
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
2,398
views
views
45
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
2,362
views
views
46
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
2,178
views
views
47
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
2,156
views
views
48
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
2,099
views
views
49
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
2,087
views
views
50
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
2,048
views
views
51
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
2,046
views
views
52
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
2,012
views
views
53
Jaan Puhvel
American-Estonian linguist (1932-2026)
1,987
views
views
54
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
1,946
views
views
55
Philippe Le Bas
French archaeologist
1,934
views
views
56
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
1,933
views
views
57
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
1,911
views
views
58
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
1,889
views
views
59
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
1,877
views
views
60
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
1,865
views
views
61
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
1,850
views
views
62
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer (1914β1984)
1,838
views
views
63
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
1,835
views
views
64
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
1,805
views
views
65
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
1,785
views
views
66
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
1,774
views
views
67
Panini
ancient Sanskrit grammarian
1,762
views
views
68
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
1,747
views
views
69
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
1,685
views
views
70
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
1,677
views
views
71
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
1,645
views
views
72
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
1,596
views
views
73
Crates of Mallus
ancient Greek philosopher
1,550
views
views
74
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
1,530
views
views
75
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
1,527
views
views
76
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
1,518
views
views
77
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
1,496
views
views
78
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
1,472
views
views
79
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
1,459
views
views
80
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
1,400
views
views
81
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
1,397
views
views
82
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
1,395
views
views
83
Charles de Foucauld
French Catholic religious man, explorer and scholar (1858β1916)
1,385
views
views
84
William Morgan
Bishop of Llandaff and of St Asaph, and translator of the Bible into Welsh
1,382
views
views
85
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
1,333
views
views
86
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
1,329
views
views
87
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900β1992)
1,315
views
views
88
Lydia Davis
American writer (born 1947)
1,249
views
views
89
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
Russian hebrew linguist, grammarian, journalist, lexicographer, newspaper editor and Zionist activist
1,235
views
views
90
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904-1980)
1,227
views
views
91
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
1,175
views
views
92
John Wesley Powell
American geologist (1834-1902)
1,171
views
views
93
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
1,145
views
views
94
Ivan Goncharov
Russian novelist and official (1812β1891)
1,140
views
views
95
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
1,138
views
views
96
Thomas Young
English polymath (1773-1829)
1,124
views
views
97
ShΕ«mei Εkawa
Japanese nationalist intellectual (1886β1957)
1,119
views
views
98
David Stuart
American Mayanist, linguist and epigrapher
1,118
views
views
99
Maurice Vidal Portman
British naval officer and photographer (1860-1935)
1,112
views
views
100
Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born 1952)
1,100
views
views
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