- male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
- Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
- male, 86 years old
- Morris Halle, né Pinkowitz, is an American linguist. He was born in Liepaja, Latvia, in 1923, and moved with his family to Riga in 1929. They a...
- male, deceased (1982)
- Yuen Ren Chao (Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jaw Yuanrenn) (November 3, 1892 - February 25, 1982) was an American Chinese linguist and amateur composer. He made...
- male
- John McCarthy (born 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts...
- male, 63 years old (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States)
- Alan Sanford Prince (born 1946) is a professor of linguistics at Rutgers University. Prince, along with Paul Smolensky, developed Optimality Theory...
- male, 54 years old (Baltimore, Maryland, United States)
- Paul Smolensky (born May 5, 1955) is a professor of Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University. With Alan Prince he developed Optimality...
- male, deceased (1949)
- Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist, whose influence dominated the development of structural linguistics in America between the 1930s and...
- male
- John Anton Goldsmith (born 1951) is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, with appointments in...
- male, deceased (1938)
- Prince Nikolay Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (also: Trubetskoy) (Russian: (Moscow, April 15, 1890 - Vienna, June 25, 1938) was a Russian linguist whose...
- male (Iowa City, Iowa, United States)
- Jerzy Rubach (born 1948) is a Polish and American linguist, phonologist. Professor of linguistics at University of Iowa and University of Warsaw...
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