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Noam Chomsky

1928 - Today

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Avram Noam Chomsky ( nohm CHOM-skee; born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Noam Chomsky has received more than 20,663,401 page views. His biography is available in 138 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 134 in 2019). Noam Chomsky is the 2nd most popular linguist, the 118th most popular biography from United States (down from 71st in 2019) and the most popular American Linguist.

Noam Chomsky is most famous for his work in linguistics and as a political activist. He is best known for his critique of U.S. foreign policy and the American media.

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  • 138

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Noam Chomsky ranks 2 out of 214. Before him are Ferdinand de Saussure. After him are Max Müller, Mahmud al-Kashgari, Antoine Meillet, William James Sidis, Roman Jakobson, Noah Webster, Edgar de Wahl, Mesrop Mashtots, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, and Franz Bopp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Noam Chomsky ranks 8. Before him are Ariel Sharon, Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, Hosni Mubarak, Ennio Morricone, and John Forbes Nash Jr.. After him are Agnès Varda, Eduard Shevardnadze, Serge Gainsbourg, James Watson, Chinghiz Aitmatov, and Roger Vadim.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Noam Chomsky ranks 118 out of 20,380. Before him are Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927), Jack Nicholson (1937), Madonna (1958), Jane Addams (1860), Isadora Duncan (1877), and Tupac Shakur (1971). After him are James Dean (1931), Ted Bundy (1946), Barack Obama (1961), Chuck Norris (1940), Katharine Hepburn (1907), and Dustin Hoffman (1937).

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Among LINGUISTS In United States

Among linguists born in United States, Noam Chomsky ranks 1. After him are William James Sidis (1898), Noah Webster (1758), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), Leonard Bloomfield (1887), Joseph Greenberg (1915), George Lakoff (1941), Joshua Fishman (1926), William Labov (1927), Morris Swadesh (1909), Stephen Krashen (1941), and George Kingsley Zipf (1902).

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