Category
page 1Linguists from the United Kingdom
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British linguist and writer (born 1941)
Monier Monier-Williams
British professor of Sanskrit (1819–1899)
George Abraham Grierson
Irish linguistic scholar and civil servant (1851–1941)
Thomas Francis Wade
British linguist (1818–1895)
Robin Dunbar
British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist
Ian Hancock
British linguist
Katharine Gun
translator and whistle-blower
Donald Rayfield
British academic and translator (born 1942)
John C. Wells
British phonetician and Esperanto teacher
Tom Shippey
British linguist, critic, fiction writer
Robert Phillipson
British linguist

Norman Fairclough
British linguist
Helen Doron
British linguist and educator
Ken George
Cornish poet and linguist
Peter Trudgill
British linguist

Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet
Quaker, sinologist (1873–1944)
Sidney Herbert Ray
British linguist (1858–1939)
Priscilla Hannah Peckover
English pacifist
Robert Nisbet Bain
British linguist and historian (1854–1909)
John Beames
British historian, linguist
Peter Dronke
German literary scholar (1934–2020)
Stephen Ullmann
British linguist (1914–1976)
Robert Needham Cust
British linguist (1821–1909)
Rudolf Hoernlé
British orientalist (1841–1918)
Nicholas Williams
Cornish writer
William Chandless
Amazonian explorer, linguist (1829–1896)
Bertha Phillpotts
British academic & college headmistress (1877–1932)

Geoffrey K. Pullum
British-American linguist
Walter Hillier
British diplomat (1849–1927)
Robert Payne Smith
Dean of Canterbury (1818–1895)
Aditi Lahiri
German linguist
Anna Siewierska
British linguist (1955-2011)
Rachel Bromwich
Scholar on medieval Welsh literature (1915-2010)
Francis Joseph Steingass
British linguist (1825–1903)
Cecil Bendall
English scholar (1856–1906)
Mark Turin
British anthropologist
Yaron Matras
British linguist
David Dumville
British historian (1949–2024)
Robert Atkinson
Anglo-Irish academic, philologist and textual scholar
Roy Harris
British linguist (1931-2015)

Ruth Finnegan
British author, professor, linguistic anthropologist
Conrad Brann
German-British linguist
Ian Maddieson
American linguist
Theodore Duka
Hungarian-born soldier and physician (1825–1908)
Peter Roach
British phonetician

Ralph Midgley
British Volapükologist (1929–2024)
James Clackson
British linguist and Indo-Europeanist
Mark Steedman
British computational linguist

Ken Hyland
British linguist

Bencie Woll
British sign language specialist
Gerald Gazdar
British linguist
William Entwhistle
English Hispanist (1895–1952)
Charles Duff
British linguist (1894–1966)
William Taylor
British essayist, scholar and polyglot
Greville G. Corbett
British linguist
Maurice Pope
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