Category
page 1Women linguists
Sonja Lang
Canadian writer and hyperpolyglot (born 1978)
Snježana Kordić
Croatian linguist
Milena Hübschmannová
Czech linguist and Romani scholar (1933–2005)
Zenta Mauriņa
Latvian writer (1897–1978)
Ingrid Rüütel
Estonian folklorist, philologist, and First Lady of Estonia (born 1935)
Tatyana Chernigovskaya
Soviet and Russian psychologist
Aleksandra Antonova
Kildin Sámi teacher, writer, poet, translator from the Soviet Union and Russia (1932– 2014)
Nina Afanasyeva
Soviet and Russian Kildin Sámi teacher, linguist, and politician (*1939)
Hella Keem
Estonian folklorist and linguist (1915–1997)
Tanya Reinhart
Israeli journalist and linguist (1943-2007)
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Finnish linguist (1940–2023)
Martha Hildebrandt
Peruvian politician and linguist (1925–2022)

Alexandra Aikhenvald
linguist
Ella Cara Deloria
Yankton Dakota Author (1889–1971)
Fatima Sadiqi
Moroccan linguist
Ruth Wodak
Austrian linguist (1950-)
Irina Antanasijević
Philologist and translator
Galina Varlamova
Russian folklorist (1951–2019)
Fatana Najib
Afghan linguist

Purity Ada Uchechukwu
Nigerian hispanist
Judit Kormos
Hungarian linguist
Zinka Zorko
Slovene linguist and dialectologist
Olena Kurylo
Ukrainian linguist (1890—1946)

Velta Ruke-Dravina
Latvian-born Swedish linguist, folklorist, professor (1917-2003)

Joyce Blau
Professor Emeritus, orientalist (1932–2024)
Agniya Desnitskaya
Soviet linguist (1912–1992)
Inés Fernández-Ordoñez Hernández
Spanish researcher
Yásnaya Aguilar
Mixe linguist, writer, translator and researcher

Elena Georgieva
Bulgarian linguist
Hanna Risku
Finnish professor
Lidia Vassikova
philologist, professor (1927-2012)
Lilit Galstyan
Armenian politician
Ilse Lehiste
Estonian-American linguist (1922-2010)
Deborah Lifchitz
Polish-French ethnologist and linguist, expert on Ethiopian languages and cultures
Martine Tanghe
Belgian journalist (1955–2023)
Melissa Bowerman
Dutch linguist
Marjolijn Verspoor
Dutch linguist
Galina Yershova
Soviet and Russian academic
Yamuna Kachru
linguist (1933-2013)
Miren Azkarate Villar
Basque linguist, professor and politician

Helen Adolf
Austrian-American linguist and literature scholar.
Anna Siewierska
British linguist (1955-2011)
Marie Wilcox
Wukchumni speaker and teacher
Janet Holmes
New Zealand sociolinguist
Nik Safiah Karim
Malaysian linguist
Florence Dolphyne
was the first female professor and pro-vice chancellor at the university of Ghana
Eloína Miyares Bermúdez
Cuban linguist

Artemis Alexiadou
Greek linguist and anglist (1969-)
Karen Stollznow
Australian-American writer, linguist, skeptic
Ivonne Bordelois
Argentine poet, essayist, and linguist
Helma van den Berg
Linguist and caucasologist from Netherlands (1965-2003)
Olga Richterová
Czech linguist and politician
Ruth A. Berman
Israeli linguist

Shannon M. Kent
Shannon Mary Kent was a United States Navy cryptologic technician and member of JSOC's Intelligence Support Activity who was killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing. She was the wife of Joe Kent, who entered politics in response to her death.
Amal Mohammed Al-Malki
Qatar's first female professor
Elsie Alvarado de Ricord
Panamanian writer, linguist (1928–2005)
Lisa Cheng
linguist (1962-)
Bernadette O'Rourke
Irish linguist
Irit Meir
Israeli linguist (1957–2018)
Edit Doron
Israeli academic (1951-2019)