- Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. - Steven Pinker
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 at MIT for 21 years, he returned to Harvard in 2003 as the Johnstone Professor of Psychology. Pinker's experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association. - David Crystal
Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England where he attended St Mary's College from 1951. He grew up bilingual in Welsh and English, which influenced his approach to language education. Crystal studied English at University College London between 1959 and 1962. He was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963, … - Deborah Tannen
Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured worldwide in her field, and written or edited numerous academic publications on linguistics and interpersonal communication, she is best known for her general-audience books on interpersonal communication and public discourse. - J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English philologist, writer and university professor, best known as the author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon) from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a devout Roman Catholic. - Larry Wall
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976. Wall is the author of the rn Usenet client and the nearly universally used patch program. - Suzette Haden Elgin
Suzette Haden Elgin is an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction conlangs. Elgin also publishes non-fiction, of which the best-known is the "Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense" series Born in 1936 in Missouri, Elgin attended the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the 1960s, and began writing science fiction in order to pay tuition. - John Grinder
John Grinder, Ph.D. (born 1940) is an American author and linguist. Grinder (pronounced grin-der,) is credited (with Richard Bandler) with the creation of the field of Neuro-linguistic programming. - Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was a British novelist, critic and composer. He was also active as a librettist, poet, pianist, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator, linguist and educationalist. Born in Harpurhey, Manchester in northwest England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. - Otto Jespersen
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 language. He was born in Randers in northern Jutland and attended Copenhagen University, earning degrees in English, French, and Latin. He also studied linguistics at Oxford. Jespersen was a professor of English at Copenhagen University from 1893 to 1925. - William Bright
William Bright (born August 13, 1928, Oxnard, California; died October 15, 2006 (of a brain tumor), Louisville, Colorado) was an American linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics. Bright earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics in 1949 and a doctorate in the same field in 1955, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a professor of linguistics and anthropology at UCLA from 1959 to 1988. - Richard Francis Burton
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (March 19, 1821 - October 20, 1890) was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke twenty-nine European, Asian, and African languages. - Jacob Grimm
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Hanau, January 4, 1785 - September 20, 1863 in Berlin), German philologist, jurist and mythologist, was born at Hanau, in Hesse-Kassel. He is best known as a recorder of fairy tales, one of the Brothers Grimm. - Michael Krauss
Michael E. Krauss is a linguist who has worked extensively on the Na-Dené language family, especially on proto-Athabaskan, pre-proto-Athabaskan, the Eyak language, and also numerous other Athabaskan and Eskimo-Aleut languages. With his 1991 address to the Linguistic Society of America, Krauss was among the first to create an awareness of the global problem of endangered languages. - Mark Turner
Mark Turner is a cognitive scientist, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He was previously Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Turner has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, … - Charles Berlitz
Charles Frambach Berlitz was a linguist and language teacher known for his books on anomalous phenomena, as well as his language-learning courses. He is listed in People's Almanac as one of fifteen most eminent linguists in the world and was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld International Prize for Non-fiction in 1976 for "The Bermuda Triangle" (1974), which sold over 20 million copies. He was a brilliant polyglot and spoke 32 languages. - Ivan van Sertima
Ivan van Sertima is an American historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University. He was born at Kitty Village, Guyana, South America on 26 January, 1935. Van Sertima was an undergraduate at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, before moving to the United States in 1970. He completed his postgraduate studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey where he is now professor of African studies. - John Rhys
Sir John Rhys, (21 June 1840 - 17 December 1915) was a Welsh scholar, fellow of the British Academy, celticist and the first Professor of Celtic at Oxford University. - Gilles Fauconnier
Gilles Fauconnier (pronounced) (born August 19, 1944) is a French linguist, researcher in cognitive science, and author, currently working in the US. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Cognitive Science. His work with Mark Turner founded the theory of conceptual blending. - Charles Kay Ogden
Charles Kay Ogden (June 1 1889 Fleetwood, Lancashire - March 21 1957 London) was an English linguist, philosopher, and writer. - Peter Ludlow
Peter Ludlow (January 16, 1957), who also writes under the name Urizenus Sklar, is a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before moving to Michigan, Ludlow taught for several years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and Cornell University. His research areas include the conceptual issues in cyberspace, … - Yuen Ren Chao
Yuen Ren Chao (Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Jaw Yuanrenn) (November 3, 1892 - February 25, 1982) was an American Chinese linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Besides helping to shape the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Chinese romanization scheme, Chao is also credited with inventing a notation for transcribing tonal pitch variation in spoken languages. - Michael Clyne
Michael George Clyne AM is an Australian linguist and academic. Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, Clyne studied for his Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees the University of Melbourne, focusing on Germanic and French languages. He undertook further graduate studies in German and general linguistics at Utrecht and Bonn Universities, before joining the German language faculty at Monash University in Melbourne in 1962. He earned a Ph.D. from Monash in 1965, … - Donna Jo Napoli
Donna Jo Napoli (born February 28, 1948) is an author of children's and young adult books, as well as a prominent linguist who has worked in syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical and comparative linguistics, Romance studies, structure of Japanese, structure of American Sign Language, poetics, writing for ESL students, and mathematical and linguistic analysis of folk dance. - Ljudevit Gaj
Ljudevit Gaj. It was a big progress in realising the idea of marking the Croatian literature as unique. The "Novine Horvatske" were printed in Kajkavian dialect until the end of that year, while "Danica" was printed in Shtokavian dialect along with Kajkavian. In early 1836 the publications' names were changed to "Ilirske narodne novine" ("The Illyrian People's News") and "Danica ilirska" ("The Illyrian Morning Star") respectively. - Ian Hancock
Ian Hancock is a renowned linguist, Romani scholar, and human rights advocate. He was born and raised in England. He is director of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Clinton, … - Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić was a Serbian linguist and major reformer of the Serbian language. Karadžić was born in the village of Tršić, Ottoman Empire (now Serbia) near Loznica. His first name "Vuk" means "wolf", which he was given because all his brothers and sisters died of tuberculosis, leaving him the sole survivor. It was believed at the time that witches feared wolves (as it is dangerous beast), … - Leone Battista Alberti
Leon Battista Alberti (February 14, 1404 - April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, poet, linguist, architect, philosopher, cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. In Italy, his first name is usually spelled "Leon". Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's "Vite". - Andrew Gonzalez
Brother Andrew Benjamin Gonzalez FSC (February 29, 1940 - January 29, 2006) was a linguist, writer, educator, and a Lasallian Brother. He served as president of De La Salle University from 1979 to 1991 and from 1994 to 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he served as Secretary of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports. - Brent Berlin
Brent Berlin is an American anthropologist. He is most famous for his work with linguist Paul Kay on colour: "Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution" (1969) ISBN 1575861623. - Shan-Ul-Haq Haqqee
Shanul Haq Haqqee (Urdu: شان الحق حقی was a notable Urdu poet, linguist, researcher, writer and journalist of Pakistan. Born in Delhi, Haqqee acquired his BA from Aligarh Muslim University. He obtained a Master's in English literature from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He was a scion of a great literary family from Delhi. His father, Maulvi Ehtashamuddin Haqqee, wrote short stories, a study of Hafez, "Tarjuman-ul-Ghaib", … - Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie Cantemir was a Moldavian Voivode (Prince; March-April 1693 and 1710-1711) and prolific man of letters (philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, geographer). - Humayun Azad
Humayun Azad (Rari Khal, Bangladesh, 28 April, 1947 - Munich, Germany, 11 August, 2004) was a prolific Bangladeshi author and scholar. He wrote more than 70 books including 10 novels, 7 collections of poetry, 7 books of comparative literature and 2 books for children. Azad received the prestigious Bangla Academy Award (1996) and the Shishu Academy Award for his contributions in both adult and children literature. - Alexander Murray
Alexander Murray (1775-1813) was a linguist, born at Dunkitterick, Kirkcudbrightshire. He graduated at Edinburgh University, became parish minister of Urr in his native shire (1806) and professor of Oriental languages in Edinburgh University (1812). He died April 15, 1813. Murray edited in a thorough manner Bruce's "Travels" (1805; new edition, … - Lionel Bender
*Lionel Bender is a British author of more than 60 children's illustrated information books, and is the Editorial Partner of book creation house Bender Richardson White. Lionel is the Media Officer of the British Minigolf Association, and a regular minigolf player, representing his country in European and World Championship Minigolf Sport events. He is a partner of UrbanCrazy, a company that designs, builds, and installs miniature golf courses. - Kayla Williams
Kayla Williams (born 1976) is a female American soldier who wrote the book, "Love My Rifle More Than You" about her experiences in the Army as an Arabic linguist/interpreter and SIGINT operations specialist. Williams, part of the female 15 percent of the US Army, served five years in the military, including a year's deployment (2002/3) in SWA (Iraq & Kuwait) during the buildup to and during the invasion of Iraq. She continued to serve in Iraq until December of 2003. - Barbara Ann Kipfer
Barbara Ann Kipfer is a linguist and lexicographer. She has written more than 30 books, including the bestselling "14,000 Things to be Happy About" (Workman) and Page-a-Day calendars based on it. She has also authored "Instant Karma", "8,789 Words of Wisdom", "The Wish List", "1,400 Things for Kids to be Happy About", and the forthcoming "Self-Meditation" for Workman Publishing. - Jaime de Angulo
Jaime de Angulo was born in Paris of Spanish parents. He came to America in 1905 to become a cowboy, and eventually arrived in San Francisco on the eve of the great 1906 earthquake. He lived a picaresque life including stints as a cowboy, medical doctor and psychologist. He is best known as a linguist, novelist and ethnomusicologist. He began his career at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1920s, shortly after his marriage to L. S. (“Nancy”) Freeland. - Harald Haarmann
Harald Haarmann PhD (born 1946) is a German linguist and cultural scientist who lives and works in Finland. Dr. Haarmann studied general linguistics, various philological disciplines and prehistory at the universities of Hamburg, Bonn, Coimbra and Bangor. He obtained his PhD in Bonn (1970) and his Habilitation (qualification at professorship level) in Trier (1979). - Elizabeth Carter
Elizabeth Carter, (December 16 1717 - February 19 1806), was a poet, classicist and translator, and member of the Bluestocking Circle. Born in Deal, Kent, daughter of a clergyman. Encouraged by her father to study, she applied herself with such perseverance that she became perhaps one of the most learned Englishwoman of her time, being mistress of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, besides several modern European languages.
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