Linguists from the United States

German-American anthropologist

Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author, an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of the mind

American child prodigy (1898-1944)

American anthropologist (1876–1960)

American geologist (1834-1902)

American philosopher (1935–2017)

American linguist

American author

American linguist

American linguist

American orientalist, linguist and lexicographer (1827–1894)

American classical scholar (1906-1950)

American linguist, developer of neuro-linguistic programming

Austrian-American scientist-explorer (1884-1962)

American linguist (1940–2022)

American suffragist (1857–1935)

American linguist and philosophy professor

American linguist (1944–2021)

U.S. Air Force veteran and former NSA translator, with the longest prison sentence for an unauthorized release of government classified information to the media

U.S. linguist, missionary, diplomat, naturalist and Sinologist (1812–1884)

American linguist and writer (1936-2015)

American linguist (1934-2019)

American communications professor and linguist

American linguist (1926–1967)

Chinese linguist and sinologist (1902–1987)

American linguist and philologist (1933-2013)

American linguist (1929-2014)

American anarchist (1812-1886)

American academic (1862–1939)

American linguist

Professor emeritus in the field of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.

American linguist

American linguist

Israeli-American indologist, historian of religion, and poet

American anthropologist (1918–1951)

American philosopher (1957-)

linguist, scholar, author and game designer (1929–2012)

American sinologist and linguist (1936–2012)

American author in the international language Esperanto

American librarian, book collector, and chess player (1831–1904)

American linguist

American linguist, anthropologist (1945–2020)

American linguist

German linguist (1938–2019)

American guitarist and ethnomusicologist (1954–2013)

Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages (1862–1937)

American historian and linguist (1805–1886)

American linguist

American linguist

American professor of English

American mesoamericanist (1914–1998)

American linguist (1875–1952)

American classical scholar (1857–1937)

American-Estonian linguist (born 1932)

American Indologist and Sanskrit scholar

American activist

American academic (1937–2022)

American linguist

Christian missionary