Category
page 1Historical linguists
Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Linguist, language revivalist, professor, author, hyperpolyglot
Edward Sapir
American linguist and anthropologist (1884-1939)
Giuseppe Peano
Italian mathematician (1858–1932)
William Jones
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)
August Schleicher
German philologist (1821–1868)
Rasmus Rask
Danish linguist
Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist (1897–1941)
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)
Joseph Greenberg
American linguist
Morris Swadesh
American linguist (1909–1967)
Colin Renfrew
British archaeologist (1937–2024)
Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
Vilhelm Thomsen
Danish linguist (1842-1927)
Karl Brugmann
German linguist (1849–1919)
Wilhelm Schmidt
German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion (1868–1954)
Hermann Paul
German philologist (1846–1921)
Graziadio Isaia Ascoli
Italian linguist (1829–1907)
Matthias Alexander Castrén
Finnish ethnologist and philologist (1813–1852)
Jussi Halla-aho
Finnish politician, Slavic linguist, and Speaker of the Parliament
Sergey Starostin
Russian linguist and philologist (1953–2005)
Holger Pedersen
Danish linguist (1867-1953)
Karl Verner
Danish linguist (1846–1896)
Bernhard Karlgren
Swedish sinologist and linguist (1889–1978)
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)
Johannes Schmidt
German linguist (1843–1901)
Mary Haas
American linguist; studied historical linguistics (1910–1996)
Henry Sweet
British linguist (1845–1912)
Paul Rivet
French ethnologist (1876-1958)
Kazimieras Būga
Lithuanian linguist (1879-1924)
Nicholas Poppe
Russian-American linguist (1897–1991)
Vladimir Toporov
Russian philologist (1928–2005)
Berthold Delbrück
German comparative linguist and Sanskrit scholar (1842–1922)
Ian Hancock
British linguist
Asko Parpola
Finnish Indologist and Sindhologist
Lyle Campbell
American Mesoamericanist
Robert Blust
American linguist (1940–2022)
Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn
Dutch linguist (1612–1653)
Hermann Osthoff
German linguist (1847-1909)
Ibn Duraid
Arab poet and linguist
Helmut Rix
German linguist (1926–2004)
Paul Kretschmer
German linguist (1866-1956)
János Sajnovics
Hungarian linguist, anthropologist, astronomer and mathematician
Michael Witzel
German-American philologist (born 1943)
Oswald Szemerényi
Hungarian linguist (1913–1996)
Arnold Chikobava
Georgian linguist (1898-1985)
Frederik Kortlandt
linguist
Merritt Ruhlen
American linguist (1944–2021)
Bernard Comrie
British linguist
Jan Gebauer
Czech linguist (1838-1907)
Malcolm Ross
Australian linguist
Laurent Sagart
French linguist (born 1951)
Diedrich Hermann Westermann
German missionary, Africanist, and linguist (1875–1956)
Derek Bickerton
British American linguist (1926–2018)
Herbert Hunger
Austrian Byzantinist (1914–2000)
Theo Vennemann
German linguist
Li Fang-Kuei
Chinese linguist and sinologist (1902–1987)
Knut Bergsland
Norwegian linguist (1914–1998)
Calvert Watkins
American linguist and philologist (1933-2013)
George van Driem
Dutch linguist
R. M. W. Dixon
Australian linguist and author