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Noah Webster
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
James Curtis Hepburn
American physician, educator, and phonologist of Japanese (1815–1911)
Nicolas Slonimsky
Russian composer (1894-1995)
John Eliot
Puritan missionary to the American Indians
Robert Blust
American linguist (1940–2022)
Uriel Weinreich
American linguist (1926–1967)
Richard Howard
American poet and literary critic (1929–2022)
Victor H. Mair
American sinologist and linguist (born 1943)
John DeFrancis
American linguist (1911-2009)
Charles George Herbermann
American academic (1840–1916)
Ilan Stavans
Mexican-American author, publisher, TV personality, and teacher (born 1961)
James Alan Matisoff
linguist
Terrence Kaufman
American academic (1937–2022)
Philip Delaporte
American lexicographer and missionary
Alexander Arguelles
scholar of foreign languages
Alexander Harkavy
American author, linguist, and lexicographer
Durbin Feeling
Cherokee linguist
Charlton Thomas Lewis
US lexicographer (1834–1904)
Erin McKean
American lexicographer and dictionary editor
Bergen Evans
American lexicographer (1904–1978)
Wilhelm Max Müller
American orientalist (1862–1919)
Marie Wilcox
Wukchumni speaker and teacher
Louis Herbert Gray
American orientalist
Geoffrey Nunberg
American linguist (1945-2020)
Paul Monroe
American linguist (1869–1947)
Paul Saagpakk
Estonian linguist (1910-1996)
Ben Zimmer
American linguist and lexicographer
Robert M. Laughlin
American anthropologist (1934-2020)
Grady Ward
American lexicographer and critic of Scientology (1951-)
Bryan A. Garner
American lawyer, lexicographer, and teacher
William Allan Neilson
American lexicographer (1869–1946)
Caspar Levias
American orientalist (1860-1934)