List of famous linguists

• Adele Goldberg
• Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993) British
• August Schleicher (1821 - 1868) German
• Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897 - 1941) American
• Carl Meinhof (1857 - 1944) German
• Carl Richard Lepsius (1810 - 1884) German
• Charles F. Hockett (1914 - 2000) American
• Clement Martyn Doke (1893 - 1980) South African
• Deborah Tannen American
• Diedrich Westermann (1875 - 1956) German
• Dwight Bolinger (1907 - 1992) American
• Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) American
• Ernst Oswald Johannes Westphal (1919 - 1990)
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 - 1913) Swiss
• Fran Ramovš (1890 - 1952) Slovene
• Franz Boas (1858 - 1942) American
• Franz Bopp (1791 - 1867) German
• Franc Miklošič (1813 - 1891) Slovene
• Fred Lukoff (1920 - 2000) American (Korean language)
• George Lakoff American
• Holger Pedersen (1867 - 1953) Danish
• Jakob Grimm (1785 - 1863) German
• Jean-François Champollion (1790 - 1832) French
• Joseph H. Greenberg (1914 - 2001) American
• Jože Toporišič (born 1926) Slovene
• Karel Oštir (1888 - 1973) Slovene
• Karl Verner (1846 - 1896) Danish
• Kenneth L. Hale (Ken) (1934 - 2001) American
• Kenneth L. Pike (1912 - 2000) American
• L. L. Zamenhof (1859 - 1917) Polish (creator of the constructed language Esperanto)
• Leonard Bloomfield (1887 - 1949) American
• Michael Halliday (1925 - ) Australian
• Michael Ventris (1922 - 1956) British
• Morris Halle (1923 - ) American (phonologist)
• Noam Chomsky (1928 - ) American
• Otto Jespersen (1860 - 1943) Danish
• Panini (sometime during 7th - 4th centuries BCE) - the man who started it all with his analysis of Sanskrit in ancient India
• Roman Jakobson (1896 - 1982) Russian
• Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906 - 1992) American
• Sidney M. Lamb (born 1929) American
• Umberto Eco (1932 - ) Italian
• Victor Yngve (1920 - ) American
• Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787 - 1864) Serb
• Sir William Jones (1746 - 1794) British
• William Labov (1927 - ) American (founder of sociolinguistics)
• William Safire (1929 - ) American (editor of a New York Times column on language and linguistics)
• Zellig Harris (1909 - 1992) American

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