Famous linguists
language scholar specialized in linguistics
622 people
Joseph Stalin
1878
– 1953
· Age 74
Deceased
J. R. R. Tolkien
1892
– 1973
· Age 81
Deceased
Noam Chomsky
1928
· Age 97
Alive
George Bernard Shaw
1856
– 1950
· Age 94
Deceased
Geoffrey Chaucer
1343
– 1400
· Age 57
Deceased
Helen Keller
1880
– 1968
· Age 87
Deceased
L. L. Zamenhof
1859
– 1917
· Age 57
Deceased
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792
– 1822
· Age 29
Deceased
Walter Scott
1771
– 1832
· Age 61
Deceased
Samuel Beckett
1906
– 1989
· Age 83
Deceased
Samuel Johnson
1709
– 1784
· Age 75
Deceased
C. S. Lewis
1898
– 1963
· Age 64
Deceased
Haruki Murakami
1949
· Age 77
Alive
Herta Müller
1953
· Age 72
Alive
Thomas Carlyle
1795
– 1881
· Age 85
Deceased
J. M. Coetzee
1940
· Age 86
Alive
Edgar de Wahl
1867
– 1948
· Age 80
Deceased
Mikhail Lomonosov
1711
– 1765
· Age 53
Deceased
Ferdinand de Saussure
1857
– 1913
· Age 55
Deceased
Thomas Henry Huxley
1825
– 1895
· Age 70
Deceased
Al-Biruni
0973
– 1048
· Age 75
Deceased
Seamus Heaney
1939
– 2013
· Age 74
Deceased
Tomas Tranströmer
1931
– 2015
· Age 83
Deceased
Jan Hus
1369
– 1415
· Age 46
Deceased
Halldór Laxness
1902
– 1998
· Age 95
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q14467526