1 John McWhorter
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Famous As: Linguist
Birthdate: October 6, 1965
Sun Sign: Libra
Nationality: American
2 Noah Webster
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Famous As: Lexicographer
Birthdate: October 16, 1758
Sun Sign: Libra
Nationality: American
Died: May 28, 1843
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Famous As: Film actor, Actor, Linguist, Writer, Translator
Birthdate: July 12, 1886
Sun Sign: Cancer
Nationality: Danish, American
Died: June 2, 1956
4 Edward Sapir
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Famous As: Anthropologist, Linguist, Sociolinguist, University teacher, Ethnologist
Birthdate: January 26, 1884
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Nationality: Polish, American
Died: February 4, 1939
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Birthdate: December 23, 1926
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Nationality: American
6 William Labov
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Birthdate: December 4, 1927
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Nationality: American
7 Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Famous As: Anthropologist, Linguist
Birthdate: April 24, 1897
Sun Sign: Taurus
Nationality: American
Died: July 26, 1941
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Sun Sign: Gemini
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Sun Sign: Gemini
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Sun Sign: Libra
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Birthdate: July 21, 1919
Sun Sign: Cancer
Nationality: American
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13 Gregory Rabassa
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Birthdate: March 9, 1922
Sun Sign: Pisces
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Sun Sign: Capricorn
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15 Edward Robinson
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Birthdate: April 10, 1794
Sun Sign: Aries
Nationality: American
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16 Kenneth Lee Pike
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Famous As: Linguist
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Sun Sign: Gemini
Nationality: American
Died: December 31, 2000
17 Ella Cara Deloria
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Famous As: Educator
Birthdate: January 31, 1889
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Nationality: American
Died: February 12, 1971
18 William Dwight Whitney
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Famous As: Linguist
Birthdate: February 9, 1827
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Nationality: American
Died: June 7, 1894
19 Luis Marden
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Famous As: Photographer
Birthdate: January 25, 1913
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Nationality: American
Died: March 3, 2003
20 John R. Swanton
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Famous As: Anthropologist
Birthdate: February 19, 1873
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Nationality: American
Died: May 2, 1958
21 John Russell Bartlett
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Birthdate: October 23, 1805
Sun Sign: Libra
Nationality: American
Died: May 28, 1886
22 Samuel Kirkland
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Famous As: Missionary
Birthdate: December 1, 1741
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Nationality: American
Died: February 28, 1808
23 Hans Kurath
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Famous As: Linguist
Birthdate: December 13, 1891
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Nationality: American
Died: January 2, 1992
24 A.V. Williams Jackson
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Famous As: Specialist
Birthdate: February 9, 1862
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Nationality: American
Died: August 8, 1937
25 George Oliver Curme
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Famous As: Grammarian
Birthdate: January 14, 1860
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Nationality: American
Died: April 29, 1948
26 Sydney Lamb
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Famous As: Professor
Birthdate: May 4, 1929
Sun Sign: Taurus
Nationality: American
27 Frederic G. Cassidy
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Famous As: Linguist
Birthdate: October 10, 1907
Sun Sign: Libra
Nationality: American
Died: June 14, 2000
28 Alfred Tozzer
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Famous As: Anthropologist
Birthdate: July 4, 1877
Sun Sign: Cancer
Nationality: American
Died: October 5, 1954
29 James Owen Dorsey
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Famous As: Ethnologist
Birthdate: October 31, 1848
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Nationality: American
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30 Cara Dunne-Yates
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Sun Sign: Pisces
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31 Noam Chomsky
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Famous As: Linguist
Birthdate: December 7, 1928
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
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32 Jamie Hyneman
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Famous As: Television presenter, Journalist, Linguist, Wrangler, Machinist
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Sun Sign: Libra
Nationality: American
33 Charles Hall Grandgent
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Famous As: Scholar
Birthdate: November 14, 1862
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Nationality: American
Died: September 11, 1939
34 Mary Haas
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Famous As: Linguist
Birthdate: January 23, 1910
Sun Sign: Aquarius
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Famous As: Anthropologist
Birthdate: May 29, 1934
Sun Sign: Gemini
Nationality: American
Died: May 28, 2020