- L. L. Zamenhof
Ludvic Lazarus (Ludwik Lejzer, Ludwik Łazarz) Zamenhof was an eye doctor, philologist, and the initiator of Esperanto, the most widely spoken and successful constructed language in the world. According to biographers A. Zakrzewski and E. Wiesenfeld, his native languages were Polish, from the neighborhood where he was raised, and his parents' languages Russian and Yiddish, but his father was a German teacher, … - Claude Piron
Claude Piron (born 1931), a linguist and a psychologist, was a translator for the United Nations (from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French) from 1956 to 1961. After leaving the UN he worked for the World Health Organization all over the world, as well as being a prolific author of Esperanto works. He has spoken Esperanto since childhood and has used Esperanto in many countries, including Japan, the People's Republic of China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, … - William Auld
William Auld (6 November, 1924 - 11 September, 2006) was a Scottish author and the deputy director of a grammar school. He began to study Esperanto in 1937, but only became active in the propagation of the language in 1947, and from then on wrote many works in Esperanto. Auld edited various magazines and reviews, including "Esperanto en Skotlando" (1949-1955), "Esperanto" (1955-1958, 1961-1962), of "Monda Kulturo" (1962-1963), … - Jorge Camacho
Jorge Camacho (Cordón) is a writer in Esperanto and Spanish. Camacho was born in Zafra, Spain and learned Esperanto in 1980. He was a member of the Academy of Esperanto from 1992 until 2001. Since 1995 he has worked in Brussels as an interpreter for the European Union from English and Finnish into Spanish. Camacho was elected to the Academy of Esperanto in 1992, but on August 15, 2001 he announced his resignation due to disappointment with the Esperanto movement. - Franko Luin
Franko Luin, Swedish type designer of Slovene nationality. Born April 6 1941 in Trieste, Italy, died September 15 2005 in Tyresö, Sweden. Studied graphic arts at Grafiska Institutet in Stockholm, where he graduated in 1967. Graphic designer at the telecom company Ericsson 1967 - 1989. He started his own design shop Omnibus Typografi in 1989. Franko Luin had a keen interest in languages, particularly the international auxiliary language Esperanto, … - Marjorie Boulton
Marjorie Boulton (born 7 May 1924) is a British author and poet writing in both English and Esperanto. She is the author of "Zamenhof: Creator of Esperanto", a biography of L. L. Zamenhof published in 1960 by Routledge & Kegan Paul of London. Also "The Anatomy of Poetry", "The Anatomy of Prose", "The Anatomy of Drama", "The Anatomy of the Novel" and "The Anatomy of Language" Marjorie Boulton taught English literature, … - Julio Baghy
Julio Baghy (13 January 1891, Szeged - 18 March 1967, Budapest) was a Hungarian actor and one of the leading authors of the Esperanto movement. He is the author of several famous novels but it is particularly in the field of poetry that he proved his mastery of Esperanto. - Karl Bartos
Karl Bartos was born on 31 May, 1952 in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Between 1975 and 1991 Bartos, along with Wolfgang Flür, was an electronic percussionist in the Electronic music quartet known as Kraftwerk. He was originally recruited to play on their US "Autobahn" tour, and his improvisations were an essential part of the earlier Kraftwerk recordings. - Kálmán Kalocsay
Kálmán Kalocsay, in Hungarian name order Kalocsay Kálmán (pronounced) is one of the foremost figures in the history of Esperanto literature. He left a rich legacy to the language and culture of Esperanto in his original poetry and his translations of literary works from his native Hungarian and other languages of Europe. A surgeon by profession, Kalocsay published his first collection of original poems in 1921, … - Tibor Sekelj
Tibor Sekelj (born 14 February, 1912 in Spišská Sobota, Poprad, present-day Slovakia; died 23 September, 1988 in Subotica, present day Serbia) was an explorer, Esperantist, writer and lawyer of Jewish descent. Sekelj's father was a veterinarian and the family moved very often. After several months they moved to Cheney (today Romania) and in 1922 they moved to Kikinda (in Vojvodina). - Lidia Zamenhof
Lidia Zamenhof (sometimes Lidja in Esperanto) was the youngest daughter of Dr. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. She was born on January 29, 1904 in Warsaw, then Russian Empire. She was an active promoter of Esperanto, as well as Homaranismo, a form of religious humanism first defined by her father. Around 1925 she became a member of the Bahá'í Faith. She came to the United States in late 1937 to teach that religion as well as Esperanto. - Peter Sinfield
Peter John Sinfield (born on December 27, 1943 in Fulham Palace Road, Fulham, South-west London, England) is most famously known as the lyricist for early incarnations of King Crimson. He contributed to "In the Court of the Crimson King", "In the Wake of Poseidon", "Lizard" and "Islands", which he also produced. After being asked to leave the band by Robert Fripp after four albums, Sinfield continued to be active in the progressive rock scene. - Kazimierz Bein
Kazimierz Bein (1872 - June 15, 1959), was a Polish ophthalmologist, the founder and sometime director of the Warsaw Ophthalmic Institute ("Warszawski Instytut Oftalmiczny"). He was also, for a time, a prominent Esperanto author, translator and activist, until in 1911 he suddenly, without explanation, abandoned the Esperanto movement. Bein became at least as well known for his involvement with Esperanto as for his medical accomplishments, … - James Connolly
James Connolly (June 5, 1868 - May 12, 1916) was an Irish socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but despite this he would become one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. Though proud of his Irish background he also took a role in Scottish politics. In addition, he studied the neutral international language, Esperanto. - Louis de Beaufront
Marquis Louis de Beaufront was a major influence in the development of Ido, an international auxiliary language. Beaufront was initially an advocate of Esperanto and was largely responsible for its early diffusion in western Europe as well as one of its first French proponents. Much of Beaufront's life is shrouded in mystery. He pretended to be the descendant of a french king and a doctor of theology. - Boris Kolker
Boris Kolker (born July 15, 1939) is a language teacher, translator, and advocate of the international language Esperanto. Until 1993 a Soviet and Russian citizen and since then a resident and citizen of the United States. In 1985 he was awarded a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Linguistic Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Dr. Kolker learned the language Esperanto in 1957. - Daniel Bovet
Daniel Bovet (March 23, 1907 - April 8, 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. He is best known for his discovery in 1937 of antihistamines, which block the neurotransmitter histamine and are used in allergy medication. His other research included work on chemotherapy, sulfa drugs, the sympathetic nervous system, … - Antoni Grabowski
Antoni Grabowski was a Polish chemical engineer, and an activist of the early Esperanto movement. His translations had an influential impact on the development of Esperanto into a language of literature. - Gerrit Berveling
Gerrit Berveling (* 1944), famous Dutch Esperanto author. He studied Classical Languages (Latin & Greek) at Leiden University, and Theology at Utrecht and Leiden Universities. After 14 years of teaching general history and classical languages, he worked 14 years as a Remonstrant minister in different liberal Christian communities, and now is teaching classical languages again. In Esperanto he is known as an original Esperanto poet, but mostly as a translator from Latin, … - Franz Jonas
Franz Jonas (October 4, 1899 - April 24, 1974) was an Austrian political figure. He served as the President of Austria between 1965 and 1974. He was a typesetter by profession and a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria. After World War II he got involved in Viennese communal politics and was mayor of Vienna from 1951 to 1965. Since 1965, he was federal president and was re-elected in 1971. He was a fervent supporter of Esperanto. In 1974 he died in office. - Petr Ginz
Petr Ginz was a young Jewish boy who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp, during the Holocaust. At age fifteen, Ginz was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died in a gas chamber. Ginz was a very talented boy. At the age of fourteen, he became the first and only editor-in-chief of the magazine "Vedem", written, edited, and illustrated entirely by young boys at Terezín. He also wrote an Esperanto-Czech dictionary. - Mario Pei
Mario Andrew Pei (1901-1978) was an Italian-American linguist and polyglot, who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics. - Edgar de Wahl
Edgar von Wahl or Edgar de Wahl (born August 11, 1867 in Olwiopol, Imperial Russia (now Pervomaysk, Ukraine); died in 1948 in Estonia) was a teacher and creator of Occidental. An Estonian of ethnic Baltic German origin, he studied in Saint Petersburg and spent most of his later professional life in Tallinn, Estonia. - Sándor Szathmári
SZATHMÁRI Sándor [Satma’ri Sa’ndor] (born 19 June 1897, Gyula – died 16 July 1974 in Budapest) was a writer, mechanical engineer, Esperantist, one of the leading figures in Esperanto literature. - John C. Wells
John Christopher Wells, MA (Cantab), Ph.D. (London) (born March 11, 1939), is a British phonetician and Esperanto teacher at University College London, where until 2006 he held the departmental chair in Phonetics. He is a member of the five-person Academic Advisory committee to Linguaphone. He is best known for his book and cassette "Accents of English", the book and CD "The Sounds of the IPA", "Lingvistikaj Aspektoj de Esperanto", … - Rodrigo Fresán
Rodrigo Fresán is a fiction writer and journalist. He has published "Historia argentina", "Vidas de santos", "Trabajos manuales", "Esperanto", "La velocidad de las cosas", "Mantra" and "Jardines de Kensington". They have been translated into many languages. "Mantra", a portrait of Mexico DF ca. 2000, reveals a deep influence of Science Fiction novels (Philip K. Dick in particular), … - Yrjö Väisälä
Yrjö Väisälä (September 6, 1891 – July 21, 1971) was a Finnish astronomer and physicist. [A note on dates: the birth date is a Gregorian calendar date, because although Finland was part of Russia at the time and Russia used the Julian calendar until 1918, … - Vladimir Varankin
Vladimir Valentinovich Varankin (born 12 November 1902, died 3 October 1938) was a Russian writer of literature in Esperanto, an instructor of western European history, and director of the Moscow Ped. Instituto for foreign languages. He wrote the novel "Metropoliteno". - David Wolff
David Wolff was a popular artist manager and music producer in the 1980s. He was both the manager and boyfriend of Cyndi Lauper from 1980 to 1990. He also appeared in her music videos for "Time After Time", "She Bop", "True Colors", "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" and "My First Night Without You". - Eugène Lanti
Eugène Lanti was a pseudonym of Eugène Adam. Lanti was an Esperantist, socialist and writer. He was a founder of Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, and a long time editor of the internationalist socialist magazine Sennaciulo. Lanti was a critic of Stalinism. - Małgorzata Handzlik
Małgorzata Handzlik is a member of the European Parliament. She was elected in 2004 by the Polish people as a candidate of Citizens Platform (Platforma Obywatelska, "PO"). Apart from promoting her (in European terminology, liberal-conservative) party's objectives Handzlik has declared to stand in for multilingualism and equal linguistic rights for all citizens. - Edwin de Kock
Edwin de Kock (born March 9, 1930), writer and world traveler, was born in South Africa and became a U.S. citizen in 2000. His publications are in English, Esperanto, and Afrikaans, prose as well as poetry. He lives in Edinburg, Texas. - David Healy
David Healy is an Irish politician, member of the Irish Green Party. He has been Councillor from 1991 to 1999, and again from 2004, working mainly in the Fingal County Council. He grew up in the Cayman Islands. Later, he studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, until 1990 and then Environmental Sciences between 1994 and 1997. He was Green candidate for the Dublin North East constituency in the 2002 Irish General Election, winning 5.65% of the votes, … - Sidney S. Culbert
Sidney Spence Culbert (1913 - October 28, 2003) was a psychologist and Esperantist. Born in Miles City, Montana, Culbert moved to Tacoma, Washington with his family in 1923 and lived in Tacoma and Seattle for most of his life. He extensively researched the number of speakers of various languages throughout the world (by stratified sampling), and contributed to the World Almanac's section on "Principal Languages of the World". - Mauro Nervi
Mauro Nervi (born 1959) is an Italian poet in the Esperanto language. Nervi was born in La Spezia, a port town in northern Italy. A student of medicine, he gained his M.D. as a general surgeon. Since 1984 he has worked in the Department of Surgery at the University of Pisa. Afterwards, he received a Ph.D in 1994 in German and a Ph.D in classical literature in 1999 from the same university. Since 1995 he has written critical material on Kafka, Goethe, … - Milos Milos
Milos Milos (July 1, 1941 - January 30, 1966) was an actor born Milos Milosevic in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, best known for his performance as a Soviet naval officer in the 1966 comedy "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming", and is perhaps most infamous for his titular role in the 1965 Esperanto horror movie, "Incubus". In 1966, Milos murdered his girlfriend, the estranged wife of Mickey Rooney, … - Teodoro Schwartz
Teodoro Ŝvarc was a Hungarian Jewish doctor, lawyer, author and editor. He was the father of George Soros. He fought in World War I and spent years in a prison camp in Siberia before escaping. He founded the Esperanto literary magazine in "Literatura Mondo" (Literary World) in 1922 and edited it until 1924. He wrote the short novel "Modernaj Robinzonoj" (Modern Robinsons) - Cezaro Rossetti
Cezaro Rossetti (1901-1950), a Scot of Italian-Swiss derivation born in Glasgow and living in Britain, was an Esperanto writer who, together with his younger brother, Reto Rossetti, learned Esperanto in 1928. He studied (in Bombay) to be a restaurant manager, worked as a cook, briefly as a peddler, and afterwards as a hawker at fairs. - Gaston Moch
Gaston Moch (born 1859 in Paris, France) was the secretary of the Esperantist "Centra Oficejo" and a member of the "Lingva Komitato". - Ric Berger
Richard "Ric" Berger (1894-1984) was a Swiss professor of design, decoration, and art history. In 1912, at the age of 18, he became interested in universal languages as an ardent Esperantist. He changed to Ido in 1918 and to Occidental in 1928. He was co-editor of the Occidental magazine "Cosmoglotta" from 1934 to 1950, and he was responsible for changing the name of the Occidental language to "Interlingue" in 1949. Finally, in 1956, he settled on Interlingua.
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