20th-century British philologists

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).

English egyptologist and philologist (1879–1963)

British academic (1857–1934)

English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar (1923–1988)

British theologian and scholar (1864-1935)

British medievalist (1891-1972)

English linguist, translator and critic

British philologist (1925–2020)

Anglo-German philologist and philosopher (1900-1975)

English linguist

British classical scholar (1869–1933)

British historian and archaeologist of Assyria (1951-2004)