Noam Chomsky07 December 1928, American
Linguist
Enoch Powell16 June 1912, British
Steven Pinker18 September 1954, Canadian, American
Psychologist, Linguists
Roland Barthes12 November 1915, French
French Literary Theorist & Philosopher
Ferdinand de Saussure26 November 1857, Swiss
Linguist
Katharine Gun1974 AD, British
Linguist
Jamie Hyneman25 September 1956, American
Television presenter, Journalist, Linguist,
John McWhorter06 October 1965, American
Linguist
Girish Karnad19 May 1938, Indian
Linguist, Author, Film director, Actor,
Julius Nyerere13 April 1922, Tanzanian
Linguist, Politician, Translator
Jon Elia14 December 1931, Pakistani
Linguist, Philosopher, Poet, Literary critic
Anne Carson21 June 1950, Canadian
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer, University
Jean-François Lyotard10 August 1924, French
Philosopher, Philologist, Writer, Linguist,
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri19 February 1951, Pakistani
Linguist, Politician, Translator, Writer
Roman Jakobson11 October 1896, Russian
Linguist
J. L. Austin26 March 1911, British
Philosopher
Amos Oz04 May 1939, Israeli
Writer, Linguist, Journalist, Novelist,
Michael Halliday13 April 1925, Australian, British
Linguist
S.I. Hayakawa18 July 1906, Canadian, American
Politician
Luce Irigaray03 May 1930, Belgian, French
Philosopher, Linguist, University teacher,
Valentin Inzko22 May 1949, Austrian
Linguist, Diplomat
Robert Bly23 December 1926, American
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer
William Labov04 December 1927, American
Linguist
Nirmal Verma03 April 1929, Indian
Linguist, Translator, Writer, Literary critic
Yasmina Reza01 May 1959, French
Actor, Linguist, Translator, Playwright, Novelist,
Dell Hymes07 June 1927, American
Anthropologist, Linguist, University teacher,
Zellig Harris23 October 1909, American
Linguist
Michel Thomas03 February 1914, Polish
Linguist
Sol Plaatje09 October 1876, South African
Journalist
Michael Ventris12 July 1922, British
Linguist, Architect, Historian, Archaeologist
Niki Karimi10 November 1971
Actor, Linguist, Film director, Translator,
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Zhou Youguang13 January 1906, Chinese
Chinese economist and linguist
Wolfgang Iser22 July 1926, German
Linguist, Writer, University teacher, Literary
Arthur Waley19 August 1889, British
Translator
Nikolai Trubetzkoy16 April 1890, Russian
Linguist
Joseph Greenberg28 May 1915, American
Linguist
Sandra Roelofs23 December 1968, Georgian, Dutch
Diplomat
Teun A. van Dijk07 May 1943
Linguist, University teacher, Sociologist
Yuri Knorozov19 November 1922, Russian
Linguist
John Rupert Firth17 June 1890, British
Linguist
William Stokoe21 July 1919, American
Linguist
Gregory Rabassa09 March 1922, American
Translator
Charles Kay Ogden01 June 1889, British
Linguist
Harry Johnston12 June 1858, British
Botanist
Surendranath Dasgupta30 September 1887, Indian
Scholar
Reynold A. Nicholson18 August 1868, British
Translator
Guillermo Cabrera Infante22 April 1929, Cuban, Spanish, British
Linguist, Screenwriter, Translator, Essayist,
Dmitry Likhachov28 November 1906, Russian
Linguist
Karl Bühler27 May 1879, German
German psychologist
Ella Cara Deloria31 January 1889, American
Educator
Wilhelm Schmidt16 February 1868, Austrian
Linguist
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay13 March 1845, Polish
Linguist
Sir George Abraham Grierson07 January 1851, British
Linguist
Martha Carey Thomas02 January 1857, American
Linguist
Alexis Kagame15 May 1912, Rwandan
Philosopher
Peter Ladefoged17 September 1925, British
Linguist
Sir Edward Howard Marsh18 November 1872, British
Translator
Mouloud Mammeri28 December 1917, Algerian
Writer
Julius Pokorny12 June 1887, Austrian
Linguist
Mario Pei16 February 1901, Italian, American
Linguist
David Samuel Margoliouth17 October 1858, British
Orientalist
Bedřich Hrozný06 May 1879, Czech
Orientalist
Kenneth Lee Pike09 June 1912, American
Linguist
Peter Hebblethwaite30 September 1930, British
Priest
Antoine Meillet11 November 1866, French
Linguist
Sophus Bugge05 January 1833, Norwegian
Philologist
Archibald Sayce25 September 1846, British
Assyriologist
Tanya Reinhart23 July 1943, Israeli
Linguist
Vilém Mathesius03 August 1882, Czech
Linguist
Mary Haas23 January 1910, American
Linguist
Arne Evensen Garborg25 January 1851, Norwegian
Writer
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli16 July 1829, Italian
Linguist
Sylvain Lévi28 March 1863, French
Orientalist
Kuno Meyer20 December 1858, German
Scholar
Louis Couturat17 January 1868, French
Logician
Karl Brugmann16 March 1849, German
Linguist
Luis Marden25 January 1913, American
Photographer
John R. Swanton19 February 1873, American
Anthropologist
Holger Pedersen07 April 1867, Danish
Linguist
Frederic G. Cassidy10 October 1907, American
Linguist
Nicholas Marr06 January 1865, Russian
Historian
Jacob Wackernagel11 December 1853, Swiss
Linguist
Paul Robert19 October 1910, Algerian
French lexicographer
Julio Caro Baroja13 November 1914, Spanish
Anthropologist
Jerzy Kuryłowicz26 August 1895, Polish, Ukrainian
Linguist
Lennart Hellsing05 June 1919, Swedish
Linguist, Poet, Writer, Translator, Children's
August Leskien08 July 1840, German
Linguist
Baltasar Lopes da Silva23 April 1907, Cape Verdean
Author
Matteo Bartoli22 November 1873, Croatian, Italian
Linguist
A.V. Williams Jackson09 February 1862, American
Specialist
Bagrat Shinkuba12 May 1917, Georgian, Russian
Writer
Carl Meinhof23 July 1857, German, Polish
Linguist
Henri-Alexandre Junod17 May 1863, Swiss
Missionary
Rudolf Thurneysen14 March 1857, Swiss
Linguist