Category
page 118th-century lexicographers
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

Johann Christoph Adelung
German philologist, linguist (1732-1806)

Johann Mattheson
German composer and theorist (1681-1764)
Hester Thrale
Welsh author and salon-holder (1741-1821)
Johann Ernst Hanxleden
German missionary
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye
French academic (1697-1781)
Cristfried Ganander
Finnish academic
Egidio Forcellini
Italian philologist (1688-1768)

Siraj-ud-Din Ali Khan Arzu
Indian poet

Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
British poet, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist
Jakob Langebek
Danish historian
Alexander Adam
British teacher, writer; (1741-1809)
Kasper Niesiecki
Polish heraldist, Jesuit, lexicographer, writer, theologian and preacher
Jacopo Facciolati
Italian philologist (1682-1769)
Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller
German lexicographer and classical philologist
Christian Gottlieb Jöcher
German lexicographer
Fortunato de Felice, 2nd Count Panzutti
Italian printer
Theodore Kavalliotis
Greek Orthodox cleric

Francesco della Penna
Italian missionary and lexicographer (1680-1745)
Miguel Casiri
Spanish academic and orientalist (1710–1791)
Murtaḍá al-Zabīdī
Fakie, author, writer, Iraqi and modernist from Yemen

Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut
French writer (1719-1791)
Francis Grose
English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer (c1731 - 1791)
Carl Günther Ludovici
German writer
Noël François de Wailly
French grammarian and lexicographer
Anna Williams
Welsh poet and companion of Samuel Johnson
Johann Rudolf Füssli
Swiss art historian and painter (1709-1793)
Pierre Nicolas Chantreau
French lexicographer and journalist
Jean-François Féraud
French Jesuit and grammarian
Malachy Postlethwayt
British lexicographer
John Walker
English philologist, lexicographer and actor (1732–1807)
Mohammed ibn al-Tayyib
music theorist
Marie-Marguerite Brun
French poet
Benjamin Martin
English lexicographer and scientific instrument maker

Claude Parfaict
French historian of theatre (1705-1777)