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.

Noam Avram Chomsky
Noam Avram Chomsky
USA
American linguist and public figure
Dean Worth
Dean Worth
USA
American linguist and literary scholar, PhD (1956), emeritus professor (since 1995) at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jules Gillieron
Jules Gillieron
Switzerland
Linguist
Vaclav Blazek
Vaclav Blazek
Czech
Czech linguist, professor
Ernst Faber
Ernst Faber
Germany
German missionary, sinologist and botanist
Mei Yingzuo
Mei Yingzuo
China
Chinese scientist, linguist
Vuk Karadzic
Vuk Karadzic
Turkey
Serbian linguist and educator
Johann Fater
Johann Fater
Germany
German linguist and theologian.
Berdzhih Grozniy
Berdzhih Grozniy
Czech
Czech orientalist and linguist.
Diedrich Westermann
Diedrich Westermann
Germany
German missionary and linguist
Elias Lenrott
Elias Lenrott
France
The largest representative of Finnish culture, an outstanding researcher of the Karelian-Finnish epic “Kalevala”, linguist, doctor by training.
Martyn Doke
Martyn Doke
South Africa
South African linguist, Africanist, one of the leading experts on Bantu languages of the first half of the 20th century.
Nikolay Dmitriev
Nikolay Dmitriev
Soviet linguist-Turkologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor
Vilhelm Thomsen
Vilhelm Thomsen
Denmark
Danish linguist
Ivan Meshanov
Ivan Meshanov
Russian linguist
John Chedvik
John Chedvik
Great Britain
British linguist
Mark C. Baker
Mark C. Baker
USA
American linguist
Dorothea Bleek
Dorothea Bleek
South Africa
German linguist.
Karl Eduard Sachau
Karl Eduard Sachau
Germany
German orientalist, linguist.
Marcel Cohen
Marcel Cohen
France
French linguist, professor.
David Diringer
David Diringer
Great Britain
British linguist and writer.
Carl Abraham Clewberg
Carl Abraham Clewberg
Sweden
Swedish linguist
Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik
USA
American linguist, emeritus university professor
Franz Kuhn
Franz Kuhn
Germany
German linguist and historian.
Alexander Teodorov-Balan
Alexander Teodorov-Balan
Bulgaria
Bulgarian linguist and literary scholar.
Jean-Franzois Champollion
Jean-Franzois Champollion
France
French Egyptologist who was the first to decipher hieroglyphs
Jean-Paul Martan
Jean-Paul Martan
France
Professor of Didactics of French Language and Literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Elias Lenrott
Elias Lenrott
France
The greatest representative of Finnish culture, an outstanding researcher of the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala", a linguist, and a physician by education.
Yonas Yablonskis
Yonas Yablonskis
Lithuania
American tenor saxophonist