Category
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Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Linguist, language revivalist, professor, author, hyperpolyglot
Isidore of Seville
Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and bishop (c. 560–636)

Max Vasmer
Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)
Vasily Abaev
Ossetian Soviet linguist (1900-2001)
Aleksander Brückner
Polish linguist and lexicographer (1856–1939)
William Safire
American journalist and presidential speechwriter (1929–2009)
Joseph Vendryes
French linguist (1875–1960)
Julius Pokorný
linguist (1887-1970)
Friedrich Kluge
German philologist and educator (1856-1926)
Walter William Skeat
British etymologist and professor (1835-1912)
Ranko Matasović
Croatian linguist
Jan de Vries
Dutch linguist (1890-1964)
Lewis Thomas
American physician, poet and educator (1913-1993)
John Ciardi
American poet, professor, translator (1916–1986)
Manfred Mayrhofer
linguist (1926-2011)
Carl Darling Buck
American linguist (1866–1955)

Rudolf Lenz
German romanist and linguist (1863–1938)
Hasan Eren
Turkish linguist and writer (1919–2007)
Andrzej Bogusławski
Polish linguist
Hjalmar Frisk
Swedish linguist (1900–1984)
Eric P. Hamp
Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
Yakov Malkiel
American linguist, etymologist and philologist
Vladimir Orel
Russian linguist and etymologist (1952–2007)
John Jamieson
Scottish lexicographer (1759-1838)
Jaroslav Rudnyckyj
Ukrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer
Nicoline van der Sijs
Dutch linguist
Abu Nasr Ali ibn Hibat Allah ibn Ja'far ibn Makula
11th c. Iraqi scholar
Marko Snoj
Slovenian linguist
František Kopečný
Czech bohemist and slavist (1909-1990)
Mark Forsyth
British writer
Pavle Merkù
Italian-Slovene composer, ethnomusicologist, slavicist and musicologist
Anatoly Liberman
Russian-American writer
Charles Talbut Onions
English grammarian and lexicographer (1873-1965)

Hensleigh Wedgwood
British etymologist (1803-1891)
Elena Berezovich
Russian linguist
Aleksandras Vanagas
Lithuanian linguist (1934-1995)
Václav Machek
Czech linguist (1894–1965)
Yuri Otkupshchikov
Soviet linguist (1924-2010)
James B. Greenough
American classical philologist (1833-1901)
Hermann Güntert
German philologist (1886–1948)
Kazimierz Rymut
Polish linguist (1935–2006)
Kiyozō Kazama
Japanese linguist
Carl August Friedrich Mahn
German philologist (1802-1887)

Rajko Perušek
writer, translator, linguist and bibliographer (1854–1917)
Jost Trier
German linguist and germanist (1894-1970)