Linguists of English

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American intellectual, philosopher, linguist, political activist, and social critic. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona and an institute professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Among the most cited living authors, Chomsky has written more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, and politics. In addition to his work in linguistics, since the 1960s, Chomsky has been an influential voice on the American Left as a consistent critic of the foreign policy of the United States, contemporary capitalism, and corporatocracy.

English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist (1733–1804)

English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)

American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)

English mathematician (*1616 – †1703)

Danish linguist (1860–1943)

Danish linguist

British theologian and author (1838-1926)

British linguist and writer (born 1941)

American linguist (1927–2024)

English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist (1763–1835)

Australian linguist (1925-2018)

British phonetician (1881–1967)

Czech linguist, literature historian and science writer (1882-1945)

British linguist (1845–1912)

British phonetician and Esperanto teacher

American academic and linguist

British linguist

Australian linguist and author

Bishop of St David's; Bishop of Oxford; Bishop of London (1710-1787)

American grammarian and lawyer (1745-1826)

English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer (1810–1871)

Anglo-Welsh historian and writer

British linguist

British lexicographer and corpus linguist

British teacher, writer; (1741-1809)

16th-century English scholar and diplomat

British linguist (1920-2017)

Norwegian linguist (1836–1920)

French classical scholar (1668–1747)

British logician, grammarist, author, minister, beekeeper

British linguist (1936–2014)

English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)

English phonetician (1917-1985)

Indian linguist (1932-2016)

British-American linguist

British politician (1709-1780)

English grammarian and lexicographer (1873-1965)

English diplomat, judge, and privy councillor in the government of Elizabeth I (1524-1581)

English educator and spelling reformer

English lexicographer, grammarian, and Shakespearian scholar (1859–1928)

Scottish poet, died 1609

English scholar, spelling reformer, and high-master of St Paul's School, London (1565-1635)

Scottish-American linguist

English language scholar, lexicographer, linguist, pioneer in the field of "teaching English as a foreign language" (1898-1978)

16th-century printer

Swiss opinion journalist and philologist

German linguist, notable for work in the morphology of English (1907-1978)

British linguist and semiotician

British phonetician