- male, deceased (791)
- Khalíl ibn Ahmad Al Farāhídi was a writer and philologist from southern Arabia (modern day Oman) who compiled the first dictionary of the Arabic lan...
- male, 1001 years old
- Mahmud ibn Hussayn ibn Muhammad al-Kashgari, born in 1008, was an early Turkic linguist of Turkic languages from the Kara-Khanid Khanate, born in...
- male, deceased (793)
- Sibawayh in the Fars province of Iran. He was one of the earliest and greatest grammarians of the Arabic language, and his phonetic description of...
- male
- Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland was a philologist and university teacher. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but he probably lived...
- male, deceased (856)
- Rabanus Maurus Magnentius (c. 780 - 4 February 856), also known as Hrabanus or Rhabanus, was a Benedictine monk, the archbishop of Mainz in...
- male, deceased (1298)
- John of Genoa (died c. 1298) was an Italian grammarian and Dominican priest. At an advanced age, John gave away his wealth to the poor of Genoa and...
- male, deceased (1414)
- Abu-t-Tahir Ibn Ibrahim Majd ud-Din ul-Fairuzabadi (1329-1414) was an Arab lexicographer born at Karazin near Shiraz (in modern Iran) and educated...
- male, deceased (734)
- St Tatwin, or Tatwine was the tenth Archbishop of Canterbury (731-734). He was subsequently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Tatwin was a...
- deceased (1066)
- Ibn Sidah (died 1066) was an Andalusian scholar of Classical Arabic, author of the Muhkam, a dictionary of 28 volumes.
- male, deceased (1320)
- Radulphus Brito was an influential grammarian, based in Paris. He is usually identified as Raoul le Breton, though this is apparently disputed by...
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