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
942,860
Total Views (this year)
Country
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1
Joseph Stalin
leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953
116,485
views
views
2
J. R. R. Tolkien
English writer and philologist (1892β1973)
75,616
views
views
3
Helen Keller
American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)
62,972
views
views
4
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898β1963)
43,407
views
views
5
Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher (c. 1265β1321)
35,446
views
views
6
Noam Chomsky
American linguist and activist (born 1928)
31,446
views
views
7
Haruki Murakami
Japanese writer (born 1949)
29,196
views
views
8
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856β1950)
26,043
views
views
9
Benedictus de Spinoza
Dutch philosopher (1632-1677)
21,386
views
views
10
Percy Bysshe Shelley
British Romantic poet (1792β1822)
20,911
views
views
11
JosΓ© Rizal
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861β1896)
17,683
views
views
12
Enoch Powell
British politician (1912β1998)
17,349
views
views
13
Samuel Beckett
Irish writer (1906β1989)
16,174
views
views
14
Geoffrey Chaucer
14th century English poet and author (1343β1400)
15,072
views
views
15
Jamie Hyneman
American special effects specialist and television host
14,875
views
views
16
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709β1784)
12,264
views
views
17
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771β1832)
12,036
views
views
18
Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
11,057
views
views
19
Jane Hawking
British author
10,998
views
views
20
Umberto Eco
Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist (1932β2016)
10,987
views
views
21
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
10,301
views
views
22
Susie Dent
English lexicographer
9,658
views
views
23
William Tyndale
English Bible translator and reformer
9,036
views
views
24
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795β1881)
8,394
views
views
25
Sejong the Great
fourth king of Joseon (Korea), creator of Hangul
8,219
views
views
26
C. Rajagopalachari
Indian politician and activist (1878β1972)
8,077
views
views
27
Moses Gaster
British-Romanian academic and rabbi
7,143
views
views
28
Steven Pinker
Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the m
7,115
views
views
29
Jaun Elia
Pakistani poet and writer (1931-2002)
6,942
views
views
30
Paul Auster
American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
6,762
views
views
31
H. L. Mencken
American journalist and writer (1880β1956)
6,690
views
views
32
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939β2013)
6,483
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
6,314
views
views
34
J. M. Coetzee
South African and Australian writer and scholar (born 1940)
6,212
views
views
35
Julius Nyerere
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and President of Tanzania (1922β1999)
5,759
views
views
36
Roland Barthes
French philosopher and essayist
5,621
views
views
37
Haakon Chevalier
American translator, writer and academic (1901β1985)
5,577
views
views
38
Gregory Potyomkin
Russian military leader and politician (1739β1791)
5,495
views
views
39
David Mitchell (author)
English novelist (b. 1969)
5,390
views
views
40
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist (1914β2000)
5,355
views
views
41
Edith Stein
Jewish-German Catholic nun, theologian and philosopher (1891β1942)
5,354
views
views
42
William Caxton
English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer
5,342
views
views
43
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, army officer, writer and scholar (1821β1890)
5,209
views
views
44
Al-Biruni
11th-century Persian scholar and polymath (973β1048)
4,908
views
views
45
Nyota Uhura
Star Trek character
4,858
views
views
46
Nikos Kazantzakis
Greek writer, poet and philosopher (1883-1957)
4,812
views
views
47
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Sarah Forbes Bonetta
West African princess
4,520
views
views
48
Ken Liu
Chinese-American writer
4,472
views
views
49
JosΓ© MartΓ
Cuban poet, philosopher and nationalist (1853-1895)
4,459
views
views
50
Panini
ancient philologist who standardized classical Sanskrit through grammatical rules
4,419
views
views
51
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
4,257
views
views
52
Roger Williams
English Baptist theologian and author (1603β1683)
4,100
views
views
53
Anatoly Moskvin
Russian ethnographer, linguist and criminal
3,994
views
views
54
Vyvyan Holland
British author, translator (1886β1967)
3,962
views
views
55
Denis Diderot
French Enlightenment philosopher writer and encyclopΓ¦dist (1713β1784)
3,960
views
views
56
Thomas Bernhard
Austrian playwright and novelist (1931β1989)
3,898
views
views
57
Daniel Jackson
fictional character from the Stargate universe
3,845
views
views
58
Charles Sanders Peirce
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist (1839-1914)
3,831
views
views
59
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825β1895)
3,742
views
views
60
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
3,681
views
views
61
Daniel Everett
American linguist (born 1951)
3,643
views
views
62
Sirindhorn, Princess Royal
Thai Royal
3,638
views
views
63
Sequoyah
Cherokee silversmith and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
3,576
views
views
64
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish-Jewish physician and inventor of Esperanto (1859-1917)
3,571
views
views
65
Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733β1804)
3,537
views
views
66
Julio CortΓ‘zar
Argentine writer and translator (1914β1984)
3,501
views
views
67
Ferdinand de Saussure
Swiss linguist and philosopher (1857β1913)
3,459
views
views
68
Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
3,392
views
views
69
Angela Carter
English novelist (1940β1992)
3,359
views
views
70
Patanjali
ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
3,160
views
views
71
Alcide De Gasperi
Italian politician and founder of the Christian Democratic Party (1881-1954)
3,109
views
views
72
Jacob Grimm
German philologist, linguist, jurist and mythologist (1785β1863)
3,101
views
views
73
Mamah Borthwick
American translator (1869β1914)
3,044
views
views
74
Takahito, Prince Mikasa
Japanese prince (1915β2016)
3,011
views
views
75
Tarak Mehta
Indian columnist, humorist, writer and playwright (1929-2017)
2,925
views
views
76
Jean-François Champollion
French classical scholar (1790-1832)
2,893
views
views
77
Ayo Bamgbose
Nigerian linguist
2,891
views
views
78
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
2,829
views
views
79
John Searle
American philosopher (1932β2025)
2,809
views
views
80
Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900β2000)
2,675
views
views
81
John McWhorter
American academic and linguist
2,669
views
views
82
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
2,640
views
views
83
George Chapman
16th/17th-century English dramatist, poet, and translator
2,593
views
views
84
Mori Εgai
Japanese novelist and army physician (1862-1922)
2,571
views
views
85
Gary Marcus
American psycholinguist
2,551
views
views
86
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
2,543
views
views
87
Sibel Edmonds
American whistleblower
2,524
views
views
88
Titus Brandsma
Dutch Carmelite friar, Catholic priest, professor of philosophy and saint (1881β1942)
2,509
views
views
89
KΕ«kai
Japanese Buddhist monk and calligrapher, the founder of the Shingon school (774β835)
2,493
views
views
90
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian intellectual and philosopher (1895β1975)
2,486
views
views
91
David J. Peterson
American conlanger, writer, and artist (born 1981)
2,422
views
views
92
Albert Gallatin
Swiss and American politician, diplomat and scholar (1761-1849)
2,413
views
views
93
Ravan A. G. FarhΓ’di
Afghanistani tajik politician
2,413
views
views
94
William Chester Minor
American army surgeon, psychiatric-hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher
2,393
views
views
95
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet, critic and translator (1910β1985)
2,391
views
views
96
Julia Kristeva
Bulgarian philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
2,363
views
views
97
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904β1980)
2,333
views
views
98
Friedrich Max MΓΌller
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823β1900)
2,314
views
views
99
Apollonius of Rhodes
3rd century BC Greek epic poet
2,277
views
views
100
Jean Hersholt
Danish-American actor (1886β1956)
2,270
views
views
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