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
USA
USAAmerican linguist and public figure

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

Ernst Faber
Germany
GermanyGerman missionary, sinologist and botanist

Mei Yingzuo
China
ChinaChinese scientist, linguist

Vuk Karadzic
Turkey
TurkeySerbian linguist and educator

Johann Fater
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist and theologian.

Berdzhih Grozniy
Czech
CzechCzech orientalist and linguist.

Diedrich Westermann
Germany
GermanyGerman missionary and linguist

Elias Lenrott
France
FranceThe largest representative of Finnish culture, an outstanding researcher of the Karelian-Finnish epic “Kalevala”, linguist, doctor by training.

Martyn Doke
South Africa
South AfricaSouth African linguist, Africanist, one of the leading experts on Bantu languages of the first half of the 20th century.

Nikolay Dmitriev
Soviet linguist-Turkologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor

Vilhelm Thomsen
Denmark
DenmarkDanish linguist

Ivan Meshanov
Russian linguist

John Chedvik
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish linguist

Mark C. Baker
USA
USAAmerican linguist

Dorothea Bleek
South Africa
South AfricaGerman linguist.

Karl Eduard Sachau
Germany
GermanyGerman orientalist, linguist.

Marcel Cohen
France
FranceFrench linguist, professor.

David Diringer
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish linguist and writer.

Carl Abraham Clewberg
Sweden
SwedenSwedish linguist

Howard Lasnik
USA
USAAmerican linguist, emeritus university professor

Franz Kuhn
Germany
GermanyGerman linguist and historian.

Alexander Teodorov-Balan
Bulgaria
BulgariaBulgarian linguist and literary scholar.

Jean-Franzois Champollion
France
FranceFrench Egyptologist who was the first to decipher hieroglyphs

Jean-Paul Martan
France
FranceProfessor of Didactics of French Language and Literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Elias Lenrott
France
FranceThe greatest representative of Finnish culture, an outstanding researcher of the Karelian-Finnish epic "Kalevala", a linguist, and a physician by education.

Yonas Yablonskis
Lithuania
LithuaniaAmerican tenor saxophonist