Stuart Berg Flexner

Stuart Berg Flexner

male, deceased (1990)
writer, Promises to Keep, Listening to America, I Hear America Talking, The Random House Thesaurus, Oxford American Dictionary…Lexicographer
Stuart Berg Flexner was a lexicographer, editor and author, noted for his books on the origins of American words and expressions, including "I Hear...
Randle Cotgrave

Randle Cotgrave

male, deceased (1634)
cambridge university, Lexicographer, British, proverb, University of Cambridge, St John's College
Randle Cotgrave (died 1634) was an English lexicographer who in 1611 compiled and published "A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues", a...

Julius Pollux

male
Alexandria, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Lives of the Sophist, Onomasticon, Encyclopædia Britannica, academy…Lexicographer
Julius Pollux (2nd century AD) was an Alexandrian grammarian and sophist who taught at Athens, where he was appointed professor of rhetoric at the...
Aristophanes Of Byzantium

Aristophanes Of Byzantium

male
mediterranean, Alexander, Classical Greek, Homeric scholarship, Librarian of Alexandria, Lingua Franca…Lexicographer
Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257 BC–c. 185 BC/180 BC) was a Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric sc...

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

male, deceased (1725)
Orthodox converts to Catholicism, Lexicographer, diplomat, politician, georgian, Georgian nobility
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (November 4, 1658 in Tandzia, Georgia; † January 26,1725 in Moscow) was a famous Georgian prince, writer, monk and re...
William Salesbury

William Salesbury

male, deceased (1584)
tudor, Alumni of the University of Oxford, Lexicographer, Oxford University, dictionary, Non-fiction writer
William Salesbury also Salusbury (c. 1520 - c.1584) was the leading Welsh scholar of the Renaissance and the principal translator of the 1567 Welsh...
B. T. S. Atkins

B. T. S. Atkins

female
Lexicographer, American National Corpus, FrameNet, British National Corpus, festschrift, DLitt
Beryl T. ("Sue") Atkins has been a professional lexicographer since 1966, first with Collins Publishers (now HarperCollins), where she was General...

Nathan Brown

male, deceased (1886)
Lexicographer, Inventor of writing systems, Translator, missionary, satirist, Bible translator
Nathan Brown (22 June 1807 - 1 January, 1886) was an American Baptist missionary to India and Japan, Bible translator, and abolitionist.
Fairuzabadi

Fairuzabadi

male, deceased (1414)
Medieval linguist, mecca, Lexicographer, yemen, baghdad, maliki
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...
Khalil Ibn Ahmad

Khalil Ibn Ahmad

male, deceased (791)
Medieval linguist, Arabic poet, writer, From Basra, arab, sunni…Lexicographer
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...