August Schleicher

August Schleicher

male, deceased (1868)
August Schleicher was a German linguist. His great work was "A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages", in which he...
Morris Halle

Morris Halle

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...
Zellig Harris

Zellig Harris

male, deceased (1992)
Zellig Sabbetai Harris (October 23, 1909 - May 22, 1992) was an American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science....
Peter Ladefoged

Peter Ladefoged

male, deceased (2006)
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered...
Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

male, deceased (1993)
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet,...
Gregory Bateson

Gregory Bateson

male, deceased (1980)
Gregory Bateson was a British anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fields. Some...
Paul Kay

Paul Kay

male
Paul Kay is an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He joined the University in 1966 as a member of...
Stephen Krashen

Stephen Krashen

male
Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, is a highly acclaimed linguist, educational researcher and activist....
Benjamin Whorf

Benjamin Whorf

male, deceased (1941)
Benjamin Lee Whorf was an American linguist. He is along with Edward Sapir best known as the author of works that laid the foundation for the...
Anthony Aristar

Anthony Aristar

male
Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Aristar is the founder of the LINGUIST List, the most important linguistic resource on the web. He was born in Cape Town,...