Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans

male, 48 years old
Latin Americanist, Guggenheim Fellowship, lexicography, pluralism, From Mexico City, Rubén Darío Distinction winner…Lexicographer
Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is an American intellectual, essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator,...

John Walker

male, deceased (1807)
Lexicographer, British, Colney Hatch, Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, Rhyming Dictionary
John Walker (born 18 March, 1732 in Colney Hatch, Middlesex; died 1 August, 1807 in London) was an English lexicographer best known for his...

Edmund Weiner

male, 59 years old
Lexicographer, Old Dragon, British, J.R.R. Tolkien, Old English, Middle English
Edmund Weiner was co-editor (with John A. Simpson) of the Second Edition of the "Oxford English Dictionary" (1985–1989) and Deputy Chief Editor of...
Robert Burchfield

Robert Burchfield

male, deceased (2004)
Etymologist, Victoria University of Wellington, wellington, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, British, Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit…Lexicographer
Robert William Burchfield CNZM CBE (January 27, 1923 - July 5, 2004) was a scholar, writer, and lexicographer. Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, he...
Peter Mark Roget

Peter Mark Roget

male, deceased (1869)
University of Edinburgh alumni, thesaurus, physician, Lexicographer, Roget's Thesaurus, university of edinburgh
Peter Mark Roget (January 18 1779, London-September 12 1869), the son of a Swiss clergyman, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and...
John Florio

John Florio

male, deceased (1625)
Giovanni Florio, Anglo-Italian, William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, James I, Edward VI, tudor…Lexicographer
John Florio (b. London 1553; d. Fulham, near London, 1625), known in Italian as Giovanni Florio, was an accomplished linguist and lexicographer, a...
Henry Watson Fowler

Henry Watson Fowler

male, deceased (1933)
Old Sedberghian, Modern English Usage, death by tuberculosis, journalist, rugby school, guernsey…Lexicographer
Henry Watson Fowler was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on usage of English. He is notable for both "Fowler's Modern English...
Robert Cawdrey

Robert Cawdrey

male
Lexicographer, English, Table Alphabeticall
English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey (ca. 1538-?) produced one of the first dictionaries of the English language, the Table Alphabeticall, in 1604.
Vladimir Dal

Vladimir Dal

male, deceased (1872)
Antisemitism, blood libel, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian, fairy tale, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences…Lexicographer
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (also: Dahl was one of the greatest Russian lexicographers. His father was a Danish physician named Johan Christian Dahl....
Patrick Hanks

Patrick Hanks

male
English, Lexicographer, personal names, New Oxford Dictionary of English, Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary, Collins English Dictionary
Patrick Hanks (born 1940), English lexicographer and corpus linguist. He has edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of...