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.
Igor Anichkov
Russian linguist (philosopher by education), professor (1947), Doctor of Philological Sciences (1947).
Smet Kenesbaev
Kazakhstan
KazakhstanSoviet and Kazakh linguist-Turkologist
Alfred Zhurinsky
Russian linguist, candidate of philological sciences
Ambrogio Calepino
Italy
ItalyItalian lexicographer
Edward Sapir
USA
USAAmerican linguist and anthropologist.
Ronald W. Langacker
USA
USAAmerican linguist
Marcel Bernard Jullien
France
FranceFrench linguist and teacher-methodologist.
John Muir
Great Britain
Great BritainScottish Sanskrit and Indologist.
Georgiy Akhvlediani
Georgian linguist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR.
Emile Benveniste
France
FranceFrench linguist
Boris Bogorodsky
Soviet linguist
Claude Hagege
France
FranceModern French linguist and orientalist
Josef Dobrovsky
Czech
CzechCzech philologist (linguist, literary scholar, folklorist), historian and educator
Yann Fransez Vari ar Gonideg
France
FranceFrench linguist
Hans Krahe
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist who specialized in Illyrian languages
Clement Martyn Doke
South Africa
South AfricaSouth African linguist, Africanist
Alexander Vovin
USA
USAAmerican linguist
Hermann Paul
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism
Jean-Baptiste Valincour
France
FranceFrench aristocrat, novelist, translator, historian, linguist
Lev Scherba
Russia
RussiaLinguist, specialist in general linguistics, Russian, Slavic and French languages
Michelem Breal
France
FranceFrench linguist and philologist
Aleksandr Issatschenko
Austria
AustriaCzechoslovakian and Austrian linguist
Derek Baines
Australia
AustraliaHead of Tourism Australia Representative Office in Japan
Valentin Avrorin
Soviet linguist
George Driem
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch linguist, professor at Leiden University
Berthold Delbruck
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist
Georg Grotefend
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist, antiquarian
Mathias Alexander Castren
Finland
FinlandFinnish and Russian linguist
Vasiliy Alatyrev
Soviet scientist, linguist
Fedor Klimchuk
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian linguist-dialectologist, historian
Arnold Chikobava
Georgia
GeorgiaGeorgian linguist and philologist
Louis Lucien Bonaparte
France
FranceFrench linguist
Suren Zoljan
Armenia
ArmeniaArmenian scientist and public figure
Jacob Wackernagel
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss linguist
William Labov
USA
USAAmerican linguist
Leo Weisgerber
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist
Jorgen Kofod-Jensen
Denmark
DenmarkDanish linguist
Annelies Kammenhuber
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist
Wolfgang Dressler
Austria
AustriaAustrian linguist, professor
Erney Kopitar
Slovenia
SloveniaSlovenian linguist.
Cyrus Herzl Gordon
USA
USAAmerican linguist
Carl Marquard Sauer
Germany
GermanyGerman writer and linguist.
Noam Avram Chomsky
USA
USAAmerican linguist and public figure
Asmah Haji Omar
Malaysia
MalaysiaMalaysian linguist
Dean Worth
USA
USAAmerican linguist and literary scholar, PhD (1956), emeritus professor (since 1995) at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jules Gillieron
Switzerland
SwitzerlandLinguist
Vaclav Blazek
Czech
CzechCzech linguist, professor
Gaston Waringhien
France
FranceFrench linguist
Ernst Faber
Germany
GermanyGerman missionary, sinologist and botanist
Stefania Giannini
Italy
ItalyItalian linguist, politician