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J. R. R. Tolkien
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).
Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet
British politician (1810-1895)
Michael Ventris
British architect and linguist (1922-1956)
Richard Bentley
English classical scholar, critic and theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1662–1742)
James Prinsep
British scholar, orientalist and antiquary (1799–1840)
John Chadwick
English linguist and classical scholar (1920-1998)
Henry Sweet
British linguist (1845–1912)
Alexander John Ellis
English mathematician, philologist and musician
Walter William Skeat
British etymologist and professor (1835-1912)
John M. Allegro
English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar (1923–1988)
Irving Finkel
British archaeologist
James Cowles Prichard
English physician and anthropologist
William Barnes
English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist (1801–1886)
Robert Gordon Latham
British ethnologist and philologist (1812-1888)
Robert Scott
British academic and priest (1811–1887)
Joseph Wright
British linguist (1855–1930)
Nora Kershaw Chadwick
British medievalist (1891-1972)
Samuel Birch
British Egyptologist and antiquary (1813–1885)
John Horne Tooke
British politician (1736-1812)
Frederick James Furnivall
English lexicographer (1825–1910)
George Stephens
English archeologist, philologist, and runologist (1813–1895)
Richard Payne Knight
English classical scholar and connoisseur (1750-1824)
Eugene Aram
philologist (1704–1759)
Gabriel Turville-Petre
English philologist (1908-1978)
Ralph Lilley Turner
Indic languages philologist and university administrator (1888–1983)
John Palsgrave
English priest and writer
Raymond O. Faulkner
British Egyptologist (1894–1982)
Hector Munro Chadwick
English philologist and historian (1870-1947)
Nathaniel Brassey Halhed
Civilian of the British East India Company (1751-1830)
Isaac Taylor
British Anglican priest (1829-1901)
Arthur Hubert Terry
English linguist, translator and critic
Herbert Coleridge
British philologist (1830-1861)
Nathan Bailey
British lexicographer and philologist
John Richardson
British orientalist (1740/41–1795)
Wilmer Cave Wright
American classical philologist
Jeremy Black
British historian and archaeologist of Assyria (1951-2004)
Claudius Hollyband
French lexicographer and linguist
Herbert Strong
Australian academic (1841–1918)