Noam Chomsky07 December 1928
Linguist
Steven Pinker18 September 1954
Psychologist, Linguists
Noah Webster16 October 1758
Lexicographer
Jamie Hyneman25 September 1956
Television presenter, Journalist, Linguist,
John McWhorter06 October 1965
Linguist
S.I. Hayakawa18 July 1906
Politician
Jean Hersholt12 July 1886
Film actor, Actor, Linguist, Writer, Translator
Robert Bly23 December 1926
Linguist, Poet, Translator, Writer
Edward Sapir26 January 1884
Anthropologist, Linguist, Sociolinguist,
William Labov04 December 1927
Linguist
Benjamin Lee Whorf24 April 1897
Anthropologist, Linguist
Dell Hymes07 June 1927
Anthropologist, Linguist, University teacher,
Leonard Bloomfield01 April 1887
linguist
Zellig Harris23 October 1909
Linguist
Joseph Greenberg28 May 1915
Linguist
Gregory Rabassa09 March 1922
Translator
William Stokoe21 July 1919
Linguist
Martha Carey Thomas02 January 1857
Linguist
Ella Cara Deloria31 January 1889
Educator
Mario Pei16 February 1901
Linguist
Edward Robinson10 April 1794
Translator
Kenneth Lee Pike09 June 1912
Linguist
William Dwight Whitney09 February 1827
Linguist
Mary Haas23 January 1910
Linguist
Luis Marden25 January 1913
Photographer
Samuel Kirkland01 December 1741
Missionary
Frederic G. Cassidy10 October 1907
Linguist
John R. Swanton19 February 1873
Anthropologist
John Russell Bartlett23 October 1805
Historian
A.V. Williams Jackson09 February 1862
Specialist
Sydney Lamb04 May 1929
Professor
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Hans Kurath13 December 1891
Linguist
Robert M. Laughlin29 May 1934
Anthropologist
James Owen Dorsey31 October 1848
Ethnologist
Alfred Tozzer04 July 1877
Anthropologist
Cara Dunne-Yates17 March 1970
Lawyer
George Oliver Curme14 January 1860
Grammarian
Charles Hall Grandgent14 November 1862
Scholar