Category
page 1Linguists from France
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)
Louis Couturat
French logician, mathematician, philosopher and linguist (1868–1914)
Antoine Meillet
French linguist (1866–1936)
Mary-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
French chemist and painter (1758-1836)
Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy
French linguist and orientalist (1758–1838)
Valentin Haüy
founder of the first school for the blind
Paul Pelliot
French sinologist (1878-1945)
Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat
French sinologist (1788-1832)
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron
French orientalist (1731–1805)
Joseph Vendryes
French linguist (1875–1960)
Guillaume Postel
French linguist, astronomer, diplomat and professor (1510–1581)
Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist and indologist (1863–1935)
Claude Hagège
French linguist
Paul Passy
French linguist (1859-1940)
Alain Rey
French lexicographer (1928–2020)
Albert Dauzat
French linguist (1877-1955)
Samuel Bochart
French Protestant theologian (1599–1667)
James Darmesteter
French author, orientalist, and antiquarian (1849–1894)
Ioannis Psycharis
French writer and linguist (1854–1929)
Michel Thomas
American linguist, language teacher, and résistance fighter (1914–2005)
André du Ryer
French orientalist
Jean-François Le Gonidec
Breton grammarian and translator
Antoine-Léonard de Chézy
French orientalist
Michel Duc-Goninaz
French linguist (1933–2016)
Ferdinand Brunot
French linguist (1860-1938)
René Basset
French linguist and orientalist (1855–1924)
Léopold Leau
French mathematician and linguist (1868–1943)
Michel Arrivé
French writer (1936-2017)
Pêr Denez
French linguist, lexicographer, scholar and writer (1921-2011)
Théophile Cart
French Esperantist professor and linguist (1855-1931)
Gilbert Lazard
French linguist (1920-2018)
Alfred Jeanroy
French linguist (1859–1953)
Bernard Cerquiglini
French linguist
Frédéric Macler
French Armenologist (1869-1938)
Étienne Aymonier
French linguist and explorer (1844–1929)
Louis-Mathieu Langlès
French academic, philologist, linguist, translator, author, librarian and orientalist
Maurice Grammont
French linguist (1866–1946)
Émile Picot
French writer (1844-1918)
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Basque writer
Abel Pavet de Courteille
French Turkologist (1821–1889)
Joseph Loth
French linguist (1847-1934)
Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry
French Creole colonist (1750-1819), politician, gouvernor of Parma
Joachim Menant
French magistrate and orientalist (1820-1899)
Jean Jacques Antoine Caussin de Perceval
French orientalist and professor
Jacques Faitlovitch
Jewish Orientalist
Dan Sperber
French academic
Frédéric Eichhoff
writer
Nicolas Fréret
French historian (1688-1749)
Jean-Claude Milner
French philosopher
Albert Cuny
French linguist (1869–1947)
Boris Vildé
French linguist and French resistance fighter (1908-1942)
Clément Huart
French orientalist, publisher and translator (1854–1926)
Jean Deny
French grammarian, specialist of oriental languages (1879-1963)
Jules Gros
French linguist (1890–1992)
Alan Heusaff
French linguist and Breton nationalist (1921–1999)
Francesco Salvolini
Italian egyptologist who was involved with the Rosetta stone
Oswald Ducrot
French linguist (1930–2024)
Claude Hardy
French mathematician
Joyce Blau
Professor Emeritus, orientalist (1932–2024)