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
872,649
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
108,497
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
68,550
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
58,386
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
40,251
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
32,411
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
29,311
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
27,009
views
views
8
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
24,499
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
19,687
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
19,211
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
16,427
views
views
12
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
16,199
views
views
13
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
14,959
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
13,980
views
views
15
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
13,319
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
11,481
views
views
17
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
10,963
views
views
18
Jane Hawking
British author
10,334
views
views
19
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
10,264
views
views
20
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
10,160
views
views
21
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
9,678
views
views
22
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
8,842
views
views
23
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
8,403
views
views
24
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
7,804
views
views
25
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
7,644
views
views
26
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
7,433
views
views
27
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
7,082
views
views
28
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
6,530
views
views
29
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
6,429
views
views
30
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
6,283
views
views
31
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
6,264
views
views
32
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
6,002
views
views
33
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
5,825
views
views
34
Reality Winner
U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified info
5,748
views
views
35
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
5,353
views
views
36
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
5,246
views
views
37
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
5,128
views
views
38
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
5,082
views
views
39
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
5,027
views
views
40
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
4,952
views
views
41
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
4,843
views
views
42
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
4,810
views
views
43
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
4,791
views
views
44
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
4,550
views
views
45
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
4,427
views
views
46
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,380
views
views
47
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
4,194
views
views
48
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
4,155
views
views
49
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
4,140
views
views
50
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
4,122
views
views
51
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
3,971
views
views
52
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
3,785
views
views
53
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
3,736
views
views
54
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
3,704
views
views
55
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
3,682
views
views
56
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
3,678
views
views
57
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
3,590
views
views
58
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
3,562
views
views
59
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
3,510
views
views
60
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
3,507
views
views
61
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
3,410
views
views
62
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
3,359
views
views
63
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
3,330
views
views
64
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
3,297
views
views
65
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
3,293
views
views
66
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
3,271
views
views
67
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer and translator (1914β1984)
3,222
views
views
68
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
3,184
views
views
69
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
3,124
views
views
70
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
2,907
views
views
71
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
2,903
views
views
72
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
2,901
views
views
73
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
2,819
views
views
74
Tarak Mehta
Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright (1929-2017)
2,775
views
views
75
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
2,769
views
views
76
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
2,758
views
views
77
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
2,662
views
views
78
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
2,572
views
views
79
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
2,517
views
views
80
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
2,510
views
views
81
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
2,500
views
views
82
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
2,453
views
views
83
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881β1942)
2,420
views
views
84
Ravan A. G. FarhΓ’di
Afghanistani tajik politician
2,411
views
views
85
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
2,394
views
views
86
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
2,362
views
views
87
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,359
views
views
88
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
2,332
views
views
89
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
2,328
views
views
90
George Chapman
16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator
2,269
views
views
91
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
2,232
views
views
92
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
2,209
views
views
93
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
2,185
views
views
94
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
2,167
views
views
95
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
2,153
views
views
96
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904β1980)
2,134
views
views
97
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886β1956)
2,131
views
views
98
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910β1985)
2,125
views
views
99
Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi
Indian linguist (1916-2008)
2,058
views
views
100
Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
2,054
views
views
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