Linguist
Explore the world's most renowned linguists, celebrated for their exceptional language skills and contributions to the field of linguistics. Discover their lives, accomplishments, and the impact they have made on our understanding of language and communication.
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Franz Boas
 USAAmerican anthropologist, linguist and naturalist
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Robert Dixon
 Great BritainBritish and Australian linguist, professor
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Dorothea Bleek
 South AfricaGerman linguist.
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Arnold Chikobava
 GeorgiaGeorgian linguist and philologist
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Roland Barthes
 FranceFrench structuralist and semiotician
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Fedor Klimchuk
 BelarusBelarusian linguist-dialectologist, historian
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Grigoriy Kapantsyan
 ArmeniaSoviet historian, linguist
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Emile Benveniste
France French linguist
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Nikolay Durnovo
 RussiaRussian linguist, Slavist and Russianist.
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Wilhelm Bleek
 GermanyGerman linguist, specialist in African languages. Son of theologian Friedrich Blick.
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Franz Bopp
Germany German linguist, founder of comparative linguistics
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Annelies Kammenhuber
Germany German linguist
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Ernst Sittig
Germany German linguist
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Cyrus Herzl Gordon
USA American linguist
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Sonja Elen Kisa Kisa
 CanadaCanadian linguist
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Ljudevit Gaj
 CroatiaCroatian poet, educator, linguist
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Vaclav Blazek
 CzechCzech linguist, professor
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Valentin Avrorin
Soviet linguist
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Clement Martyn Doke
South Africa South African linguist, Africanist
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Sir William Jones
Great Britain "The Father of British Oriental Studies"
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Josef Dobrovsky
Czech Czech philologist (linguist, literary scholar, folklorist), historian and educator
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Alfred Zhurinsky
Russian linguist, candidate of philological sciences
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Michael Veske
 EstoniaResearcher in Finnish languages
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Alan Henderson Gardiner
Great Britain English Egyptologist and linguist.
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George Lakoff
USA American linguist
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Zalman Dymshits
Russian linguist, translator
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John Grinder
USA American author, linguist and co-author
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Wolfgang Dressler
 AustriaAustrian linguist, professor
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Friedrich-Eduard Konig
Germany German theologian, biblical scholar and linguist
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Jacob Wackernagel
 SwitzerlandSwiss linguist
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Karl Eduard Sachau
Germany German orientalist, linguist.
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Jerzy Kurylowicz
 PolandPolish linguist
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Ernst Faber
Germany German missionary, sinologist and botanist
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Aleksander Reformatskiy
Russian linguist.
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Jan Ivar Bjornflaten
 NorwayNorwegian linguist, Russianist.
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Anna Wierzbicka
 DivePolish and Australian linguist
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Henri Frei
 SwedenSwiss linguist, professor, one of the representatives of the Geneva school.
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Hermann Paul
Germany German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism
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Jost Trier
Germany German philologist
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Vilhelm Thomsen
 DenmarkDanish linguist
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Talmy Givon
USA American linguist
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Ruben Avanesov
Soviet linguist
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Meredith Gardner
USA American linguist and cryptanalyst
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Varlam Topuria
Georgia Georgian linguist
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Bernhard Karlgren
Sweden Swedish sinologist and linguist
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Mathurin Veyssiere Croze
France French orientalist and Armenologist, linguist, Benedictine.
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Joseph Greenberg
USA American linguist, professor at Stanford University
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Georgiy Gerovsky
Carpatho-Russian linguist, ethnographer, teacher
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Graziadio Ascoli
 ItalyItalian linguist.
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Mark Hucko
 SlovakiaSlovak linguist.
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