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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Belarusian politician, educator, and pro-democracy activist (born 1982)

Yun Ch'iho
Korean independence activist (1864-1945)

Sacagawea
Sacagawea ( or ; also spelled Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May 1788 – December 20, 1812) was a Lemhi Shoshone or Hidatsa woman who, in her teens, helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory. Sacagawea traveled with the expedition thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean, helping to establish cultural contacts with Native American people and contributing to the expedition's knowledge of natural history in different regions.

Park Jung-yang
Korean Joseon dynasty and Japanese-ruled Korean bureaucrat, politician, liberalism and social activists (1872-1959)

Saint Titus
early Christian missionary and church leader

La Malinche
Nahua woman who was the interpreter, advisor, and intermediary to Hernán Cortés
Prince Michael of Kent
first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; grandson of King George V and Queen Mary

Niloofar Rahmani
Afghan aviator

Pêro da Covilhã
Portuguese explorer and diplomat
Guarino da Verona
Italian humanist
Duarte Barbosa
Portuguese explorer and writer (1480–1521)
Sarah Winnemucca
Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher (1844–1891)
Enrique of Malacca
Portuguese slave
Vernon A. Walters
United States general (1917–2002)
Ros Sopheap
Women's rights activist in Cambodia
Arkady Strugatsky
Soviet Russian writer (1925–1991)
Magdalene of Nagasaki
Japanese saint
James Purdy
writer (1914–2009)
Benedict of Poland
Polish explorer
Luis de Torres
Spanish explorer
Gustav Shpet
Russian philosopher (1879–1937)

John Tanner
American fur trader
Hiroko Kuniya
Japanese television announcer
Princess Fawzia Farouk of Egypt
Princess of Egypt
Tamara Tchinarova
French and Australian ballet dancer (1919–2017)
Fernando Alvarado Tezozómoc
Nahua noble and historian
Julián Juderías
Spanish historian and author
Philip Madoc
Welsh actor (1934–2012)
Viktor Sukhodrev
Russian translator
Marco Pallis
Buddhist scholar and mystic (1895–1989)
Mikhail Margelov
Russian politician
Joseph Heco
Japanese journalist (1837–1897)
Adelina Kondrátieva
Argentinian translator
Diebold Schilling the Younger
Swiss chronicler
Taqulittuq
thumb|Taqulittuq in the United States
Taqulittuq (, often transliterated as Tookoolito; – December 31, 1876) was an Inuk interpreter and guide. She and her husband Ipirvik (also known as Joe) worked alongside Arctic explorer Charles Francis Hall and joined him in his search for Franklin's lost expedition in the 1860s, as well as the Polaris expedition to reach the North Pole.
Zhang Weiwei
Chinese professor of international relations
Juan de Betanzos
Spanish writer and historian
Khalid Saifullah Rahmani
Indian Muslim scholar and jurist
Henry Heusken
Dutch-American interpreter (1832-1861)
Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov
Soviet political prisoner, human rights activist, reporter, fixer, interpreter (1954-2014)
Mohammad Al-Emara
Finnish association football referee
Sharon Choi
Korean-American interpreter and filmmaker
Semra Ertan
Turkish poet and writer (1956–1982)
Han Sŏkpong
Korean calligrapher
Mufti Faizul Waheed
Islamic scholar

Gaspar da Gama
Polish interpreter
Ivan Frankopan
Croatian noble (14th century-1436)
César Oudin
French Hispanist, translator, paremiologist, grammarian and lexicographer
Anna Lo
politician in Northern Ireland (1950–2024)
Moriyama Einosuke
samurai
Danica Seleskovitch
Conference interpreter
Heinke Salisch
German politician
Joachim, 6th Prince Murat
Member of the Bonaparte-Murat family (1885-1938)
Henry Louis Larsen
United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General and Governor of Guam (1890-1962)

Ahmad Saeed Dehlavi
Indian Muslim scholar
Giovanni Veneroni
French linguist, lexicographer and grammarian
Qalaherriaq
Qalaherriaq (Inuktun pronunciation: , June 14, 1856), baptized as Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, was an Inughuaq hunter from Cape York, Greenland. He was recruited in 1850 as an interpreter by the crew of the British survey barque during the search for John Franklin's lost Arctic expedition. He guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew, but only found the corpses of local Inughuit and crew from an unrelated British vessel. With the help of the crew of the vessel, he produced accurate maps of his homeland. Although Assistance initially planned t
Hiltgunt Zassenhaus
German philologist

Valentin Berezhkov
Russian diplomat and translator (1916-1998)
Faubion Bowers
American academic