Ancient linguists

Roman scholar, polymath and author (116–27 BC)

thumb|270px|right|Priscian, or the Grammar, relief from the bell tower of Florence by [[Luca della Robbia]] Priscianus Caesariensis (), commonly known as Priscian ( or ), was a Latin grammarian and the author of the Institutes of Grammar, which was the standard textbook for the study of Latin during the Middle Ages. It also provided the raw material for the field of speculative grammar.

Roman grammarian

Chinese linguist, poet and writer (53 BCE – 18 CE)

Chinese philosopher of the 3rd century BCE of the School of Names

Chinese author of Shuowen Jiezi

Terentianus, surnamed Maurus (a native of Mauretania), was a Latin grammarian and writer on prosody who flourished probably at the end of the 2nd century AD.

Roman philologist (c. 154 – 74 BC)

Roman grammarian

Flavius Sosipater Charisius ( 4th century AD) was a Latin grammarian.

Roman grammarian

2nd-century Greek grammarian

profession in the Greco-Roman world responsible for the 2nd stage in the education system, teaching classics such as Homer and Virgil and the correct way of speaking, before a boy moved on to study under the rhetor

4th century Latin grammarian

3rd-century Roman grammarian

Comminianus (also referred to as Cominianus or Comminian) was a Latin grammarian of the late fourth century. His writings no longer exist and he is only known through the Ars grammatica of Charisius. He is the final author mentioned in Alcuin's poetic recounting of the Latin authors contained in his library at York Minster.

Roman grammarian

philosopher of the School of Names