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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eliezer Ben-Yehuda | Eliezer Ben‑Yehuda | 1858 | 1922 | null | Hebrew lexicographer and newspaper editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Ben-Yehuda |
| Nicolas Slonimsky | Nicolas Slonimsky | none | 1995 | Russian | conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Slonimsky |
| John Florio | Giovanni Florio | 1552 | 1625 | null | linguist, poet, writer, translator, lexicographer, and royal language tutor at the Court of James I. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Florio |
| Jonathon Green | Jonathon Green | 1948 | n/a | English | lexicographer of slang and writer on the history of alternative cultures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Green |
| Adolf Erman | Johann Peter Adolf Erman | 1854 | 1937 | null | renowned German Egyptologist and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Erman |
| Ilan Stavans | Ilan Stavans | 1961 | n/a | Mexican | essayist, lexicographer, cultural commentator, translator, short story author, publisher, TV personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilan_Stavans |
| Nathan ben Jehiel | Nathan ben Jehiel of Rome | 1035 | 1106 | Italian | Jewish lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_ben_Jehiel |
| Tal Ilan | Tal Ilan | 1956 | n/a | Israeli | historian, notably of women's history in Judaism, and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tal_Ilan |
| Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev | Judah Leib Ben-Ze'ev | 1764 | 1811 | Galician | Jewish philologist, lexicographer, and Biblical scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Leib_Ben-Ze'ev |
| Menahem Lonzano | Menahem ben Judah ben Menahem de Lonzano , often Menahem di Lonzano | null | null | null | rabbi, Masoretic scholar, lexicographer, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem_Lonzano |
| Alexander Harkavy | Alexander Harkavy | 1863 | n/a | Russian | writer, lexicographer and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Harkavy |
| David ben Abraham al-Fasi | David ben Abraham al-Fasi | 1026 | n/a | null | medieval Jewish, Moroccan lexicographer and grammarian from Fez, living in the second half of the 10th century (died before 1026 CE), who eventually settled in the Land of Israel where he is believed to have composed his magnum opus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_ben_Abraham_al-Fasi |
| Avraham Even-Shoshan | Avraham Even-Shoshan | 1906 | 1984 | Russian | Hebrew linguist and lexicographer, compiler of the Even-Shoshan dictionary, one of the foremost dictionaries of the Hebrew language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Even-Shoshan |
| Mosè Piccio | Mosè Piccio | 1576 | n/a | null | Ottoman lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosè_Piccio |
| Judah ibn Kuraish | Judah ibn Kuraish | null | null | Maghrebi | Jewish grammarian and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_ibn_Kuraish |
| Zalman Reisen | Zalman Reisen | 1887 | 1940 | null | lexicographer and literary historian of Yiddish literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_Reisen |
| Tanhum of Jerusalem | Tanhum ben Joseph of Jerusalem | 1220 | 1291 | null | 13th-century Hebrew lexicographer and biblical exegete who compiled several Hebrew works, the most notable of which being a lexicon on Mishnaic words entitled Murshid al-kāfī ("The Sufficient Guide") | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanhum_of_Jerusalem |
| Sebastián de Covarrubias | Sebastián de Covarrubias | 1539 | 1613 | Spanish | lexicographer, cryptographer, chaplain and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastián_de_Covarrubias |
| Leon Kellner | Leon Kellner | 1859 | 1928 | English | lexicographer, grammarian, and Shakespearian scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kellner |
| Emanuel Nunes Carvalho | Emanuel Nunes Carvalho | 1771 | 1817 | American | Jewish religious leader and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Nunes_Carvalho |
| Daniel Sanders (lexicographer) | Daniel Sanders | 1819 | 1897 | German | lexicographer of Jewish parentage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sanders_(lexicographer) |
| Jack Halpern (linguist) | Jack Halpern | 1946 | n/a | null | Japan-based lexicographer specializing in Chinese characters, namely kanji | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Halpern_(linguist) |
| Solayman Haïm | Solayman Haïm | n/a | 1970 | Iranian | lexicographer, translator, playwright and essayist, often called "Iran's Father of the bilingual dictionary" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solayman_Haïm |
| Ezra Zion Melamed | Rabbi Ezra Zion Melamed | 1903 | 1994 | Israeli | biblical and Talmudic scholar, and lexicographer of Aramaic language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Zion_Melamed |
| Władysław Kopaliński | Władysław Kopaliński | 1907 | 2007 | Polish | lexicographer, publisher, writer and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Kopaliński |
| Nahum Stutchkoff | Nahum Stutchkoff, Yiddish נחם סטוטשקאָװ [nɔxəm (nʊxəm) stʊtʃkɔv] | 1893 | 1965 | null | Yiddish-Polish and later Yiddish-American actor, author, lexicographer, and radio host | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahum_Stutchkoff |
| Moses ben Isaac ben ha-Nessiah | Moses ben Isaac ben ha-Nessiah of London | null | null | English | grammarian and lexicographer of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_ben_Isaac_ben_ha-Nessiah |
| Mojsije Margel | Mojsije Margel | 1875 | 1939 | null | rabbi of Zagreb, lexicographer, and Hebrew scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojsije_Margel |
| Judah Löb Minden | Judah Löb ben Joel Minden | null | null | null | 18th-century German Jewish lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Löb_Minden |
| Judah Even Shemuel | Judah Even Shemuel | 1886 | 1976 | Ukrainian | lexicographer, whose English-Hebrew dictionary was known as The Kaufman Dictionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Even_Shemuel |
| Moses Schulbaum | Moses Schulbaum | none | 1918 | Galician | Jewish Hebrew writer, translator, and lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Schulbaum |
| Abigail Lindo | Abigail Lindo | 1803 | 1848 | British | lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Lindo |
| Mordechai Tsanin | Mordechai Tsanin | 1906 | 2009 | null | Yiddish language author, journalist and lexicographer and a leading figure in post-war Israeli Yiddish culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Tsanin |
| Simon Bondi | Simon Bondi | 1774 | 1816 | German | maskil and lexicographer of the Talmud | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bondi |
| Jacob Knaani | Jacob Knaani | 1894 | 1978 | Moldavian | lexicographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Knaani |