- 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, 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, 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 (1973)
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the au...
- male, 55 years old
- Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in...
- female, 73 years old
- Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important...
- male
- John Grinder, Ph.D. (born 1940) is an American author and linguist. Grinder (pronounced grin-der,) is credited (with Richard Bandler) with the...
- 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,...
- male, deceased (1943)
- Jens Otto Harry Jespersen or Otto Jespersen (July 16, 1860-April 30, 1943) was a Danish linguist who specialized in the grammar of the English...
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