William Safire

William Safire

male, 79 years old
William L. Safire (born December 17, 1929) is an American author, semi-retired columnist, and former journalist and presidential speechwriter. He...
Anatoly Liberman

Anatoly Liberman

male
Anatoly Liberman is a professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, U.S.A., where he...

Ptolemy

male
The name Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus comes from the Greek "Ptolemaios", which means warlike. There have been many people named Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus, the...
Lewis Thomas

Lewis Thomas

male, deceased (1993)
Lewis Thomas (November 25 1913 - December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and...

James Barr

male, deceased (2006)
The Revd. Professor James Barr FBA (born March 20, 1924, Glasgow, Scotland; died October 14, 2006, Claremont, California) was a Scottish Old...
Max Vasmer

Max Vasmer

male, deceased (1962)
Max Vasmer (February 28, 1886-November 30, 1962) was a Russian-born German linguist who studied problems of etymology of Indo-European, Finno-Ugric...
Larry Trask

Larry Trask

male, deceased (2004)
Robert Lawrence "Larry" Trask (November 10, 1944 - March 27, 2004) was Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex and an authority on...

Thomas Blount

male, deceased (1679)
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...
Marcus Jastrow

Marcus Jastrow

male, deceased (1903)
Marcus Mordechai Jastrow (June 5, 1829, Rogasen, Prussian Poland - October 13, 1903, Germantown, Pennsylvania) was a renowned Talmudic scholar,...
Victoria Coren

Victoria Coren

female, 37 years old
Victoria "Vicky" Coren (born 1964) is a British writer, presenter and poker player. Coren writes weekly columns for "The Observer" and "The...