Famous linguists
language scholar specialized in linguistics
1,476 people
É
Émile Benveniste
1902
– 1976
· Age 74
Deceased
Jonas Basanavičius
1851
– 1927
· Age 75
Deceased
Ignacy Krasicki
1735
– 1801
· Age 66
Deceased
Luis de León
1527
– 1591
· Age 64
Deceased
Alexandre de Rhodes
1591
– 1660
· Age 69
Deceased
Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
1774
– 1849
· Age 74
Deceased
M
Morris Swadesh
1909
– 1967
· Age 58
Deceased
Vítězslav Nezval
1900
– 1958
· Age 57
Deceased
Maksim Bahdanovič
1891
– 1917
· Age 25
Deceased
S
Stephanus of Byzantium
0501
– 0600
Deceased
Lydia Davis
1947
· Age 78
Alive
P
Paul Grice
1913
– 1988
· Age 75
Deceased
Yuri Knorozov
1922
– 1999
· Age 76
Deceased
J
John Tzetzes
1110
– 1180
· Age 70
Deceased
Alfred Korzybski
1879
– 1950
· Age 70
Deceased
Fan S. Noli
1882
– 1965
· Age 83
Deceased
Niccolò Tommaseo
1802
– 1874
· Age 71
Deceased
M
Michael Ventris
1922
– 1956
· Age 34
Deceased
Tin Ujević
1891
– 1955
· Age 64
Deceased
Leszek Engelking
1955
– 2022
· Age 67
Deceased
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
1929
– 2005
· Age 75
Deceased
Fujiwara no Teika
1162
– 1241
· Age 79
Deceased
Eduardo Mendoza Garriga
1943
· Age 83
Alive
Gerard of Cremona
1114
– 1187
· Age 73
Deceased
Dámaso Alonso
1899
– 1990
· Age 90
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q14467526