Linguist

This page lists 8,324 biographies of linguists, covering lives from 520 BC to 2000. Featuring Aleksey Shakhmatov, Chao Yuen Ren and Filipp Fortunatov. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Elena Oznobkina

1959 – 2010

Abbé Delille

1738 – 1813

Zanobi da Strada

1312 – 1361

Kay Williamson

1935 – 2005

V. Anandakuttan Nair

1920 – 2000

Otto Wilhelm Masing

1763 – 1832

Carlo Formichi

1871 – 1943

Philaret Drozdov

1782 – 1867

Benjamin Suchard

b. 1988

I Wayan Arka

b. 1962

Salikoko S. Mufwene

b. 1947

Adriaen Verwer

1655 – 1717

Joseph Mfonyam

b. 1953

Alphonse Chérel

1882 – 1956

Anne Abeillé

b. 1962

Ken Lodge

b. 1943

György Sárközi

1899 – 1945

Marc-Antoine Eidous

1715 – 1790

Tragyal

b. 1963

Louis de Dieu

1590 – 1642

Marnie Holborow

Humayun Azad

1947 – 2004

Oleksa Tykhyi

1927 – 1984

Hans Conon von der Gabelentz

1807 – 1874

Hranush Tovmasyan

b. 1982

Santiago Kovadloff

b. 1942

Mary Esther Kropp Dakubu

1938 – 2016

Anvita Abbi

b. 1949

Hjalmar Falk

1859 – 1928

Georgy Klimov

1928 – 1997

Wolfgang Krege

1939 – 2005

Johanna Nichols

b. 1945

Jan Gebauer

1838 – 1907

John P. Bennett

1914 – 2011

Rolf Bremmer

b. 1950

Anna Bahri︠a︡na

b. 1981

Cecil J. Edmonds

1889 – 1979

Charles Ernest Fay

1846 – 1931

Sándor Kányádi

1929 – 2018

Arne Husveg

1933 – 2004

Poia Rewi

Vardges Sureniants

1860 – 1921

Jan Hajič

b. 1960

Ralph Midgley

1929 – 2024

Carol Myers-Scotton

b. 1934

Qustandi Shomali

b. 1946

Pio Zirimu

Helen de Hoop

b. 1964

Paul Wexler

b. 1938

François-Urbain Domergue

1745 – 1810

Natalia Alieva

1931 – 2015

Rallou Karatza

1778 – 1870

Stephanie Fielding

James Beattie

1735 – 1803

Thomas Urquhart

1611 – 1660

Paul Schmidt

1899 – 1970

Gerardus Johannes Geers

1891 – 1965

Archie Thompson

1919 – 2013

Brian Cummings

b. 1960

Hammadi Sammoud

b. 1947

Fuad Rouhani

1907 – 2004

Tharwat Okasha

1921 – 2012

Joachim Menant

1820 – 1899

Gail Jefferson

1938 – 2008

Hyde Clarke

1815 – 1895

Octave Merlier

1897 – 1976

Mostafa Mastoor

b. 1965

William O'Grady

b. 1952

Morris Swadesh

1909 – 1967

Klaas Bruinsma

1931 – 2018

Erik Anonby

b. 1975

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

1940 – 2023

Heinz Kloss

1904 – 1987

Marina Gershenovich

b. 1960

Rudolf Karelson

1929 – 2006

Curtis Hidden Page

1870 – 1946

Flavius Mithridates

1445 – 1489

Mark Davies

b. 1963

Walter William Skeat

1835 – 1912

Vladimir Kafka

1931 – 1970

Hendrik Brugmans

1906 – 1997

Zelig Kalmanovich

1881 – 1944

Friedrich Schrader

1865 – 1922

Zynoviia Franko

1925 – 1991

Alexina Kublu

Mary Haʻaheo Atcherley

1874 – 1933

Ali El-Makk

1937 – 1992

William Bright

1928 – 2006

Marina Colasanti

1937 – 2025

Kuno Meyer

1858 – 1919

Arthur Middleton Reeves

1856 – 1891

Gábor Bálint

1844 – 1913

Yi Tso-lin

1897 – 1945

Eberhard Gottlieb Graff

1780 – 1841

J. Marshall Unger

b. 1947

Gérard Diffloth

1939 – 2023

Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė

b. 1944

Katalin É. Kiss

b. 1949

Martin Maiden

b. 1957

Elias John Wilkinson Gibb

1857 – 1901