- Grant Barrett
Grant Barrett is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage. He is the editor of the "Official Dictionary of Unofficial English" (McGraw-Hill, 2006, ISBN 0071458042) and award-winning web site Double-Tongued Dictionary. In January 2007, he became the new co-host of KPBS radio show "A Way With Words". - Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (13 December 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of England's best known literary figures : a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and a critic of English literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist, well known for his "aphorisms". Dr Johnson is the most quoted of English writers after Shakespeare and has been described as one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century England. - Noah Webster
Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 - April 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, spelling reformer, political writer, and editor. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His Blue-backed Speller books taught five generations of children in the United States how to spell and read, … - Susie Dent
Susie Dent is an English lexicographer, best known as the resident expert and adjudicator on Channel 4’s long-running game show "Countdown". Dent studied Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and German at Princeton University, USA, after which she worked as a language teacher in the United States and for a German publisher before going to work for the Oxford University Press (OUP). - James Murray
James Augustus Henry Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary" from 1879 until his death. - William Smith
Sir William Smith (1813 - 1893), English lexicographer, was born at Enfield in 1813 of Nonconformist parents. He was originally destined for a theological career, but instead was articled to a solicitor. In his spare time he taught himself classics, and when he entered University College London he carried off both the Greek and Latin prizes. He was entered at Gray's Inn in 1830, but gave up his legal studies for a post at University College School, … - Eric Partridge
Eric Honeywood Partridge was a noted New Zealand/British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. Partridge was born near Waimata Valley, Gisborne, on the North Island of New Zealand to John Thomas Partridge, a grazier, and his wife Ethel Norris. In 1907 the family moved to Brisbane, Australia, where he was educated at the Toowoomba Grammar School. He then studied first Classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. - Barbara Ann Kipfer
Barbara Ann Kipfer is a linguist and lexicographer. She has written more than 30 books, including the bestselling "14,000 Things to be Happy About" (Workman) and Page-a-Day calendars based on it. She has also authored "Instant Karma", "8,789 Words of Wisdom", "The Wish List", "1,400 Things for Kids to be Happy About", and the forthcoming "Self-Meditation" for Workman Publishing. - John Simpson
John (Andrew) Simpson is a British lexicographer and senior editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary (OED)". Simpson was co-editor of the second edition, which ran to 20 volumes published in 1989, a combination of the original text with several supplemental volumes that had followed. He also directed the conversion of the "OED"’s vast printed resources into a streamlined electronic database, bringing the entire second edition on-line in March 2000. - Nathan Bailey
Nathan Bailey (d. June 27, 1742) was an English philologist and lexicographer. His "Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant" (1730) formed the basis of Dr Johnson's great work. Bailey's "An Universal Etymological English Dictionary" was, from its publication in 1721, the most popular dictionary of the 18th century, and went through nearly thirty editions. - Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961, in Mexico City) is an American intellectual, essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short-story author, TV personality, teacher, and man of letters known for his insights into American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. - John Walker
John Walker (born 18 March, 1732 in Colney Hatch, Middlesex; died 1 August, 1807 in London) was an English lexicographer best known for his "Rhyming Dictionary" (1775) and "Critical Pronouncing Dictionary" (1791). In his early life he was an actor, which may have led to his interest in careful pronunciation. - Edmund Weiner
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 the "Oxford English Dictionary" (1993–present). He originally joined the OED staff in 1977. Previously, he taught Old English, Middle English and English linguistic history at Christ Church, Oxford, where he also undertook research on Middle English literature. He is now a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. - Robert Burchfield
Robert William Burchfield CNZM CBE (January 27, 1923 - July 5, 2004) was a scholar, writer, and lexicographer. Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, he studied at Victoria University in Wellington and, later, at Magdalen College, Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he was mentored by J.R.R. Tolkien. From 1957 to 1986 he edited the second Supplement to the "Oxford English Dictionary". - Peter Mark Roget
Peter Mark Roget (January 18 1779, London-September 12 1869), the son of a Swiss clergyman, studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and became a distinguished physician and lexicographer. He was a natural theologian. He is best known for creating the "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Roget died while on holiday and is buried in the cemetery of St James's Church, West Malvern, Worcestershire. - John Florio
John Florio (b. London 1553; d. Fulham, near London, 1625), known in Italian as Giovanni Florio, was an accomplished linguist and lexicographer, a royal language tutor at the Court of James I, a probable close friend and influence on William Shakespeare and the translator of Montaigne. He was of Anglo-Italian origin. His Italian father was reportedly of Jewish ethnicity, while his mother was almost certainly English. - Henry Watson Fowler
Henry Watson Fowler was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on usage of English. He is notable for both "Fowler's Modern English Usage" and his work on the "Concise Oxford Dictionary". Born in Tonbridge, Kent, Fowler graduated from Rugby and Balliol College, Oxford, and then spent seventeen years teaching Latin, Greek and English at Sedbergh School. He then went to London and worked as a freelance journalist. - Robert Cawdrey
English schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey (ca. 1538-?) produced one of the first dictionaries of the English language, the Table Alphabeticall, in 1604. - Vladimir Dal
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (also: Dahl was one of the greatest Russian lexicographers. His father was a Danish physician named Johan Christian Dahl. The future lexicographer was born in Lugansk and served in the Russian Navy from 1814 to 1826. Dahl was interested in the language and folklore from early years. Having graduated from the medical department of the Dorpat University, … - Patrick Hanks
Patrick Hanks (born 1940), English lexicographer and corpus linguist. He has edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. After graduation from University College, Oxford, he started his lexicographic career as editor of the "Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary" (1971). In 1970, he was appointed editor of "Collins English Dictionary" (1979). - Christiane Fellbaum
Christiane Fellbaum, born in Braunschweig, has lived since 1969 in the United States. After graduating from Princeton University with a PhD in linguistics, she became a part of the Cognitive Science department under George A. Miller and has played an active role in the development of WordNet. In 2001, through the gift of the Wolfgang-Paul Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation, she started the 'Kollokationen im Wörterbuch' project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. - Thomas Blount
Thomas Blount (1618-1679) was an English antiquarian and lexicographer. He was the son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire and was born at Bordesley, Tardebigge, Worcestershire. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, but, being a zealous Roman Catholic, his religion interfered considerably with the practice of that profession at a time when Catholics were excluded from almost all areas of public life in England. - Émile Littré
Émile Maximilien Paul Littré was a French lexicographer and philosopher, best known for his Dictionnaire de la langue française, commonly called "the Littré". He was born in Paris. His father had been a gunner, and afterwards sergeant-major of marine artillery, in the French navy, and was deeply imbued with the revolutionary ideas of the day. Settling down as a collector of taxes, he married Sophie Johannot, a free-thinker like himself, … - Henry Bradley
Henry Bradley (1845 – 1923) was a Victorian philologist and lexicographer who succeeded James Murray as senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. - Pierre Larousse
Pierre Athanase Larousse (October 23, 1817-January 3, 1875) was a French grammarian and lexicographer born in Toucy. At the age of sixteen he won a scholarship at the teaching school in Versailles. Four years later, he returned to Toucy to teach in a primary school, but became frustrated by the archaic and rigid teaching methods. In 1840 he moved to Paris to improve his own education by taking free courses. From 1848 to 1851 he taught at a private boarding school, … - John Minsheu
John Minsheu (or Minshew) (1560 - 1627) was an English linguist and lexicographer. He was born and died in London. Otherwise, little is known about his life. He published some of the earliest dictionaries and grammars of the Spanish language for speakers of English. His major work was the "Ductor in linguas" ("Guide into tongues"), an eleven-language dictionary. - Allen Walker Read
Allen Walker Read (June 1 or 2, 1906 - October 16, 2002) was an American etymologist and lexicographer, best known for his studies into the words "okay" and "fuck." Read was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa (then called Iowa State Teachers College) in 1925, a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1926, and studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar from 1928-1931. - Robert Scott
Robert Scott was a 19th-century British academic philologist and a Fellow (later Master) of Balliol College, Oxford University. He served as Dean of Rochester from 1870 until his death in 1887. He is best known as the co-editor (with his colleague Henry George Liddell) of "A Greek-English Lexicon", the standard dictionary of the classical Greek language. According to the 1925 edition of the "Lexicon", … - Joseph Emerson Worcester
Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784-1865) was an American lexicographer and chief competitor of "Webster's Dictionary" in the mid-nineteenth-century. Worcester was born August 24, 1784, in Bedford, New Hampshire, and worked on a farm in his youth, entering Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1805. In 1809, he entered Yale University and graduated in two years. He then taught school in Massachusetts for several years, during which time he produced several works on geography, … - John Davies
Dr John Davies, Mallwyd (c. 1567-1644) was one of Wales's leading scholars of the late Renaissance. He wrote a Welsh grammar and dictionary. He was also a translator and editor and an ordained minister of the Church of England. Born in Llanferres, Denbighshire, he graduated from Jesus College, Oxford in 1594. His name is traditionally associated with the parish of Mallwyd, Gwynedd, where he was rector from 1604 until his death in 1644. - Sergei Ozhegov
Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov (August 22 1900-1964), Russian lexicographer. His main piece of work, the "Slovar' i Kul'tura Russkoi Rechi" (Dictionary and Culture of Russian Speech) is the most widely used reference for the Russian language today. Vladimir Nabokov, however, compared this dictionary with that of Vladimir Dahl unfavourably, and repeatedly used Ozhegov's work as an example of "impeccably bad taste". - Robert Allen
Robert Allen is a British lexicographer who has written, edited, and published a wide range of books about the English language. He was formerly a senior editor for the "Oxford English Dictionary" who became a freelance writer and consultant in 1996. - Noël François de Wailly
Noël François de Wailly, French grammarian and lexicographer, was born at Amiens. His life was spent in Paris, where for many years he carried on a school which was extensively patronized by foreigners who wished to learn French. In 1754 he published "Principes généraux de la langue française", which revolutionized the teaching of grammar in France. The book was adopted as a textbook by the University of Paris and generally used throughout France, … - Francis Grose
Francis Grose, antiquary and lexicographer, of Swiss extraction, was Richmond Herald 1755–63. He published "Antiquities of England and Wales" (1773–87), which was well received, and thereafter, in 1789, set out on an antiquarian tour through Scotland, the fruit of which was "Antiquity of Scotland" (1789–91). He afterwards undertook a similar expedition to Ireland, but died suddenly at Dublin. - Paul Robert
"Paul Charles Jules Robert" (19 October 1910, Orléansville, French Algeria - 11 August 1980, Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France), usually called Paul Robert, was a French lexicographer and publisher, best-known for his large "Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française" (1953), often called simply the "Robert", and its abridgement, the "Petit Robert" (1967). - William Craigie
Sir William Alexander Craigie, (August 13 1867 - September 2 1957), was a philologist and a lexicographer. A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C. T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement. From 1916 to 1925 he was also Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford. - William Dwight Whitney
William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894) was an American linguist, philologist, and lexicographer who edited "The Century Dictionary". Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, February 9, 1827. He entered Williams College at fifteen, graduating in 1845. He continued studying and worked at a bank in Northampton for several years, then assisted his brother Josiah Whitney on a geological survey of the Lake Superior region in 1849. For three years, he studied Sanskrit in Germany, … - Chauncey Allen Goodrich
Chauncey Allen Goodrich (October 23, 1790-February 25, 1860) was an American clergyman, educator and lexicographer. He was the son-in-law of Noah Webster and edited his "Dictionary" after his father-in-law's death. Goodrich was the son of Elizur and Anne Willard (Allen) Goodrich. His father was a lawyer and member of the United States House of Representatives. Chauncey was also the grandson of the Reverend Elizur Goodrich. - Grady Ward
(William) Grady Ward (born April 4, 1951) is an American software engineer, lexicographer, and Internet activist who has featured prominently in the Scientology versus the Internet controversy.<;br /> Prior to his opposition to Scientology practices, Grady Ward compiled the Moby Project, an extensive compilation of English language lexical resources and in 1996 released it to the public domain. - Katherine Barber
Katherine Patricia Mary Barber (born 1959) is a Canadian lexicographer and Editor-in-Chief of the "Canadian Oxford Dictionary". Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree University of Winnipeg in 1980 and a Master of Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1990. From 1984 to 1991, she was a lecturer in the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa.
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