Famous linguists
language scholar specialized in linguistics
1,476 people
Sejong the Great
1397
– 1450
· Age 52
Deceased
Alcide De Gasperi
1881
– 1954
· Age 73
Deceased
Julia Kristeva
1941
· Age 84
Alive
Friedrich Max Müller
1823
– 1900
· Age 76
Deceased
Gavrila Derzhavin
1743
– 1816
· Age 73
Deceased
Mesrop Mashtots
0362
– 0440
· Age 78
Deceased
Franz Boas
1858
– 1942
· Age 84
Deceased
Richard Francis Burton
1821
– 1890
· Age 69
Deceased
Jost Gippert
1956
· Age 69
Alive
Vuk Karadžić
1787
– 1864
· Age 76
Deceased
Edward Sapir
1884
– 1939
· Age 55
Deceased
Mikhail Bakhtin
1895
– 1975
· Age 79
Deceased
Vasily Zhukovsky
1783
– 1852
· Age 69
Deceased
Roman Jakobson
1896
– 1982
· Age 85
Deceased
H. L. Mencken
1880
– 1956
· Age 75
Deceased
Amos Oz
1939
– 2018
· Age 79
Deceased
Machado de Assis
1839
– 1908
· Age 69
Deceased
Suman Pokhrel
1967
· Age 58
Alive
Giuseppe Peano
1858
– 1932
· Age 73
Deceased
Ivar Andreas Aasen
1813
– 1896
· Age 83
Deceased
Willard Van Orman Quine
1908
– 2000
· Age 92
Deceased
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
1724
– 1803
· Age 78
Deceased
Jean-François Lyotard
1924
– 1998
· Age 73
Deceased
Abay Kunanbaiuly
1845
– 1904
· Age 58
Deceased
Steven Pinker
1954
· Age 71
Alive
Source: Wikidata Q14467526