- 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, 68 years old (Berkeley, California, United States)
- George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has...
- male, 55 years old
- Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching...
- male, deceased (1913)
- Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Geneva-born Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the si...
- male, deceased (1950)
- George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
- male, 68 years old
- Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales,...
- female, 64 years old (Mc Lean, Virginia, United States)
- Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured...
- male, deceased (1939)
- Edward Sapir, (January 26 1884 - February 4 1939) was an American anthropologist-linguist, a leader in American structural linguistics, and one of...
- male
- Mark Liberman is a linguist. He has a dual appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, as Trustee Professor of Phonetics in the Department of...
- male, deceased (1982)
- Roman Osipovich Jakobson was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the 20th century by pioneering the development...
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