Linguists
Celebrities in category Linguists. List of famous people in category Linguists.
Mary Haas
USA
American linguist
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Henri Frei
Sweden
Swiss linguist, professor, one of the representatives of the Geneva school.
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Johann Fater
Germany
German linguist and theologian.
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Ernst Faber
Germany
German missionary, sinologist and botanist
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Jost Trier
Germany
German philologist
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Varlam Topuria
Georgia
Georgian linguist
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Vilhelm Thomsen
Denmark
Danish linguist
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Alexander Teodorov-Balan
Bulgaria
Bulgarian linguist and literary critic.
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Lucien Tesniere
France
French linguist
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Ferdinand Saussure
Switzerland
Swiss linguist, one of the founders of modern linguistic science
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Albert Sechehaye
Switzerland
Swiss linguist, one of the leading representatives of the Geneva School.
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Edward Sapir
USA
American linguist and anthropologist.
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Hermann Paul
Germany
German linguist and linguistic theorist, representative of neogrammatism
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James Matisoff
USA
American linguist, emeritus professor.
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John Muir
Great Britain
Scottish Sanskrit and Indologist.
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Vilem Mathesius
Czech
Czech linguist
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Jean-Paul Martan
France
Professor of didactics of French language and literature at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
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Elias Lenrott
France
The largest representative of Finnish culture, an outstanding researcher of the Karelian-Finnish epic “Kalevala”, linguist, doctor by training.
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George Lakoff
USA
American linguist
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Erney Kopitar
Slovenia
Slovenian linguist.
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Mathias Alexander Castren
Finland
Finnish and Russian linguist
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Aleksandr Issatschenko
Austria
Czechoslovakian and Austrian linguist
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Jules Gillieron
Switzerland
Linguist
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Louis Hjelmslev
Denmark
Danish linguist, founder of glossematics
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Martyn Doke
South Africa
South African linguist, Africanist, one of the leading experts on Bantu languages of the first half of the 20th century.
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Sir William Jones
Great Britain
"The Father of British Oriental Studies"
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Berdzhih Grozniy
Czech
Czech orientalist and linguist.
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Michael Veske
Estonia
Researcher in Finnish languages
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Karl Bugmann
Germany
German linguist
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Michelem Breal
France
French linguist and philologist
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Leonard Bloomfield
USA
American linguist
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Wilhelm Bleek
Germany
German linguist, specialist in African languages. Son of theologian Friedrich Blick.
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Emile Benveniste
France
French linguist
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Roland Barthes
France
French structuralist and semiotician
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Charles Bally
Switzerland
Swiss linguist
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Joan Bybee
USA
American linguist, professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
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Gotzon Garate
Spain
Basque writer and linguist.
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Boris Kolker
Moldova
Soviet Esperantologist, language teacher and translator
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Smet Kenesbaev
Kazakhstan
Soviet and Kazakh linguist-Turkologist
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Mark Hucko
Slovakia
Slovak linguist.
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Carl Abraham Clewberg
Sweden
Swedish linguist
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Carl Marquard Sauer
Germany
German writer and linguist.
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Ernst Sittig
Germany
German linguist
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Krume Kepeski
Macedonia
Macedonian linguist.
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Gaston Waringhien
France
French linguist
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Graziadio Ascoli
Italy
Italian linguist.
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Diedrich Westermann
Germany
German missionary and linguist
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Elias Lenrott
France
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Ljudevit Gaj
Croatia
Croatian poet, educator, linguist
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Jan Ivar Bjornflaten
Norway
Norwegian linguist, Russianist.
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