English-language spelling reform advocates

American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt was vice president for six months under William McKinley and became president after McKinley's assassination in 1901. He was 42 years old upon his first inauguration, making him the youngest person to hold the office.

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)

British Poet Laureate (1809–1892)

Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)

American librarian (1851–1931)

British phonetician (1881–1967)

British inventor (1813–1897)

British writer (1844-1930)

British linguist (1845–1912)

English mathematician, philologist and musician

British etymologist and professor (1835-1912)

Scottish critic and translator (1856–1924)

American politician (1856-1947)

16th-century English classical scholar and statesman

British pamphlet writer (1750-1814)

Anglo-Welsh historian and writer

16th-century English scholar and diplomat

British logician, grammarist, author, minister, beekeeper

American lawyer, Army officer & newspaper owner (1880–1955)

Russian-American writer

British politician and linguist (1887-1958)

English educator and spelling reformer

British organization

English scholar, spelling reformer, and high-master of St Paul's School, London (1565-1635)

Australian mathematician and linguist (1912–1992)

American centenarian

16th-century printer