Linguists from England

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).

Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)

British author (1934–1995)

Australian linguist (1925-2018)

British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928)

English ornithologist and ichthyologist

English linguist, philosopher, writer (1889–1957)

British Assyriologist and linguist (1845–1933)

English linguist and classical scholar (1920-1998)

English linguist (1890-1960)

English linguist (1932-2020)

British phonetician (1882-1937)

missionary in China

British-Romanian academic and rabbi

British linguist (1903–1972)

British phonetician (1925–2006)

British orientalist (1636-1703)

British American linguist (1926–2018)

Australian linguist and author

British academic

British linguist (1855–1930)

British linguist and orientalist (1871-1940)

Tatwine ( – 30 July 734) was the tenth Archbishop of Canterbury from 731 to 734. Prior to becoming archbishop, he was a monk and abbot of a Benedictine monastery. Besides his ecclesiastical career, Tatwine was a writer, and riddles he composed survive. Another work he composed was on the grammar of the Latin language, which was aimed at advanced students of that language. He was subsequently considered a saint.

British ornithologist (1811-1875)

language scholar from England (1918-1990)

British Indologist (1909-1986)

English Orientalist, born in Shropshire; professor at Cambridge (1783-1852)

British linguist

British linguist (1936–2014)

British travel writer and philanthropist

British philologist

English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)

English philologist (1908-1978)

British linguist

sibling duo

Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic languages at the University of Oxford (1834–1909)

English philologist and historian (1870-1947)

British orientalist (1740/41–1795)

English linguist

British ethnographer

English linguist

English linguist and phonetician

English linguist

English literary scholar (1899–1980)

British linguist and writer, born 1938

English linguist

British linguist

English linguist and scholar of English literature and Anglo-Saxon

British linguist and writing system inventor

British linguist and semiotician

French lexicographer and linguist

British linguist

British linguist (1939-2021)