Category
page 1Linguists from Scotland
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish poet, pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (1892–1978)
James Legge
Scottish missionary and translator (1815–1897)
William Robertson Smith
Scottish orientalist and minister of the Free Church of Scotland (1846–1894)
John Crawfurd
British historian
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher
Thomas Urquhart
Scottish writer and translator
Fleeming Jenkin
Scottish engineer (1833-1885)
John Gilchrist
Scottish indologist
John Anderson
scientist, philosopher, and educator of the Scottish Enlightenment; (1726-1796)

Andrew Melville
Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer
George Dalgarno
British philosopher
John McConnell Black
British botanist (1855-1951)
Duncan Forbes
Scottish linguist (1798-1868)
Margaret Hasluck
British scholar (1885–1948)
David Adger
Scottish linguist, Professor of Linguistics

Ion Keith-Falconer
Scottish missionary, Arabic scholar and cyclist (1856-1887)
John MacInnes
Scottish Gaelic scholar and authority on Scottish Gaelic oral tradition
James Crichton
Scottish polymath
William Tennant
British writer; (1784-1848)
Hugh Sempill
Scottish mathematician

James Elphinston
British linguist