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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noam Chomsky | Avram Noam Chomsky | 1928 | n/a | American | linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky |
| Steven Pinker | Steven Arthur Pinker | 1954 | n/a | Canadian | cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author and public intellectual | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Pinker |
| William James Sidis | William James Sidis | 1898 | 1944 | American | child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis |
| Sidney Rittenberg | Sidney Rittenberg | 1921 | 2019 | American | journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in China from 1944 to 1980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Rittenberg |
| Michel Thomas | Michel Thomas | 1914 | 2005 | null | polyglot linguist, and decorated war veteran | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Thomas |
| George Lakoff | George Philip Lakoff | 1941 | n/a | American | cognitive linguist and philosopher, best known for his thesis that people's lives are significantly influenced by the conceptual metaphors they use to explain complex phenomena | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff |
| Joseph Greenberg | Joseph Harold Greenberg | 1915 | 2001 | American | linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Greenberg |
| Edward Sapir | Edward Sapir | 1884 | 1939 | American | Jewish anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of the discipline of linguistics in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Sapir |
| David Crystal | David Crystal | 1941 | n/a | British | linguist, academic, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Crystal |
| Muhammad Asad | Muhammad Asad | 1900 | 1992 | Austrian | Jew and convert to Islam who worked as a journalist, traveler, writer, linguist, political theorist, diplomat and Islamic scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Asad |
| Ghil'ad Zuckermann | Ghil'ad Zuckermann | null | null | Israeli | language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghil'ad_Zuckermann |
| Roman Jakobson | Roman Osipovich Jakobson | 1896 | 1982 | Russian | linguist and literary theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Jakobson |
| Maximilian Lambertz | Maximilian Lambertz | 1882 | 1963 | Austrian | linguist, folklorist, and a major personality of Albanology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Lambertz |
| Julius Pokorny | Julius Pokorny | 1887 | 1970 | Austrian | linguist and scholar of the Celtic languages, particularly Irish, and a supporter of Irish nationalism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Pokorny |
| William Labov | William Labov | 1927 | n/a | American | linguist widely regarded as the founder of the discipline of variationist sociolinguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Labov |
| 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 |
| Richard Lederer | Richard Lederer | 1938 | n/a | American | linguist, author, speaker, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lederer |
| Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy | Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy | 1888 | 1973 | null | historian and social philosopher, whose work spanned the disciplines of history, theology, sociology, linguistics and beyond | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Rosenstock-Huessy |
| Myrna Gopnik | Myrna Lee Gopnik | 1935 | n/a | Canadian | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrna_Gopnik |
| Leonard Bloomfield | Leonard Bloomfield | 1887 | 1949 | American | linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Bloomfield |
| Moses Gaster | Moses Gaster | 1856 | 1939 | null | Romanian, later British scholar, the Hakham of the Spanish Jewish congregation, London, and a Hebrew and Romanian linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Gaster |
| Leo Wiener | Leo Wiener | 1862 | 1939 | American | historian, linguist, author and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Wiener |
| Ernest Klein | Ernest David Klein | 1899 | 1983 | Hungarian | linguist, author, and rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Klein |
| Gustav Meyer | Gustav Meyer | 1850 | 1900 | German | linguist and Indo-European scholar, considered to be one of the most important Albanologists of his time, most importantly by proving that the Albanian language belongs to the Indo-European family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Meyer |
| Morris Swadesh | Morris Swadesh | 1909 | 1967 | American | linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Swadesh |
| Deborah Tannen | Deborah Frances Tannen | 1945 | n/a | American | author and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Best known as the author of You Just Don't Understand, she has been a McGraw Distinguished Lecturer at Princeton University and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences following a term in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Tannen |
| Morris Halle | Morris Halle | 1923 | 2018 | Latvian | Jewish linguist who was an Institute Professor, and later professor emeritus, of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Halle |
| Yehoshua Bar-Hillel | Yehoshua Bar-Hillel | 1915 | 1975 | Israeli | philosopher, mathematician, and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehoshua_Bar-Hillel |
| Zellig Harris | Zellig Sabbettai Harris | 1909 | 1992 | null | influential American linguist, mathematical syntactician, and methodologist of science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zellig_Harris |
| Sigmund Feist | Sigmund Feist | 1865 | 1943 | German | Jewish pedagogue and historical linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Feist |
| Moses ibn Ezra | Rabbi Moses ben Jacob ibn Ezra | null | null | null | Jewish, Spanish philosopher, linguist, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_ibn_Ezra |
| Alexander Beider | Alexander Beider | null | null | null | author of reference books in the field of Jewish onomastics and the linguistic history of Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Beider |
| Émile Benveniste | Émile Benveniste | 1902 | 1976 | French | structural linguist and semiotician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Benveniste |
| Wilhelm Bacher | Wilhelm Bacher | 1850 | 1913 | Hungarian | Jewish scholar, rabbi, Orientalist and linguist, born in Liptó-Szent-Miklós, Hungary (today Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia) to the Hebrew writer Simon Bacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Bacher |
| Eugene Garfield | Eugene Eli Garfield | 1925 | 2017 | American | linguist and businessman, one of the founders of bibliometrics and scientometrics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Garfield |
| Solomon Birnbaum | Solomon Asher Birnbaum | 1891 | 1989 | null | Yiddish linguist and Hebrew palaeographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Birnbaum |
| David Dean Shulman | David Dean Shulman | 1949 | n/a | Israeli | Indologist, poet and peace activist, known for his work on the history of religion in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil Islam, Dravidian linguistics, and Carnatic music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dean_Shulman |
| Max Weinreich | Max Weinreich | 1894 | 1969 | Russian | Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddish, and the father of the linguist Uriel Weinreich, who edited the Modern Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weinreich |
| Joshua Fishman | Joshua Fishman | 1926 | 2015 | American | linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Fishman |
| Morris Raphael Cohen | Morris Raphael Cohen | 1880 | 1947 | American | philosopher, lawyer, and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Raphael_Cohen |
| Abraham Yahuda | Abraham Shalom Yahuda | 1877 | 1951 | Palestinian | Jew, polymath, teacher, writer, researcher, linguist, and collector of rare documents | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Yahuda |
| Lazăr Șăineanu | Lazăr Șăineanu | 1859 | 1934 | Romanian | philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazăr_Șăineanu |
| Dmitri Borgmann | Dmitri Alfred Borgmann | 1927 | 1985 | German | author best known for his work in recreational linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Borgmann |
| Anatoly Liberman | Anatoly Liberman | 1937 | n/a | null | linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet, translator of poetry (mainly from and into Russian), and literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Liberman |
| Graziadio Isaia Ascoli | Graziadio Isaia Ascoli | 1829 | 1907 | Italian | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graziadio_Isaia_Ascoli |
| Vladislav Illich-Svitych | Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych | 1934 | 1966 | Soviet | linguist and accentologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Illich-Svitych |
| Michael Silverstein | Michael Silverstein | 1945 | 2020 | American | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Silverstein |
| Judah ben David Hayyuj | Judah ben David Hayyuj | null | null | Moroccan | Jewish linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_ben_David_Hayyuj |
| Herschell Filipowski | Herschell E. Filipowski | 1816 | 1872 | Lithuanian | Jewish Hebraist, editor, mathematician, linguist and actuary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschell_Filipowski |
| Alexandra Aikhenvald | Alexandra Yurievna "Sasha" Aikhenvald (Eichenwald) | null | null | Russian | linguist specialising in linguistic typology and the Arawak language family (including Tariana) of the Brazilian Amazon basin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Aikhenvald |
| Uriel Weinreich | Uriel Weinreich | 1926 | 1967 | American | Jewish linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriel_Weinreich |
| Tanya Reinhart | Tanya Reinhart | 1943 | 2007 | Israeli | linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Reinhart |
| Giorgio Levi Della Vida | Giorgio Levi Della Vida | 1886 | 1967 | Italian | Jewish linguist whose expertise lay in Hebrew, Arabic, and other Semitic languages, as well as on the history and culture of the Near East | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Levi_Della_Vida |
| Robert Hetzron | Robert Hetzron | 1938 | 1997 | Hungarian | linguist known for his work on the comparative study of Afro-Asiatic languages, as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hetzron |
| Luise Hercus | Luise Anna Hercus | 1926 | 2018 | German | linguist who lived in Australia from 1954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luise_Hercus |
| Anna Morpurgo Davies | Anna Elbina Morpurgo Davies | 1937 | 2014 | Italian | philologist who specialised in comparative Indo-European linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Morpurgo_Davies |
| Viktor Zhirmunsky | Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky | 1891 | 1971 | Russian | literary historian and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Zhirmunsky |
| Eric Lenneberg | Eric Heinz Lenneberg | 1921 | 1975 | null | linguist and neurologist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of innateness | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lenneberg |
| Moshe Goshen-Gottstein | Moshe Goshen-Gottstein | 1925 | 1991 | German | professor of Semitic linguistics and biblical philology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and director of the lexicographical institute and Biblical research institute of Bar-Ilan University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Goshen-Gottstein |
| Maximilian Berlitz | Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz (or Maximilien Berlitz | 1852 | 1921 | null | linguist and the founder of the Berlitz Language Schools, the first of which he established in 1878 in Providence, Rhode Island | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_Berlitz |
| Bernard Bloch (linguist) | Bernard Bloch | 1907 | 1965 | American | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Bloch_(linguist) |
| Igor Mel'čuk | Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk, sometimes Melchuk | 1932 | n/a | Russian | linguist, a retired professor at the Department of Linguistics and Translation, Université de Montréal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Mel'čuk |
| Aharon Dolgopolsky | Aharon Dolgopolsky | 1930 | 2012 | Russian | linguist who is known as one of the modern founders of comparative Nostratic linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Dolgopolsky |
| Paul Wexler (linguist) | Paul Wexler | 1938 | n/a | American | linguist, and Professor Emeritus of linguistics at Tel Aviv University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wexler_(linguist) |
| Hans Jakob Polotsky | Hans Jakob Polotsky | 1905 | 1991 | Israeli | orientalist, linguist, and professor of Semitic languages and Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Jakob_Polotsky |
| Alexander Harkavy | Alexander Harkavy | 1863 | n/a | Russian | writer, lexicographer and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Harkavy |
| Alexandru Graur | Alexandru Graur | 1900 | 1988 | Romanian | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandru_Graur |
| Victor Friedman | Victor A. Friedman | 1949 | n/a | American | linguist, Slavist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Friedman |
| Chaim Nahum | Chaim (Haim) Nahum Effendi | null | null | null | Jewish scholar, jurist, and linguist of the early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Nahum |
| Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai | Naftali Herz Tur-Sinai | 1886 | 1973 | null | Bible scholar, author, and linguist instrumental in the revival of the Hebrew language as a modern, spoken language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Herz_Tur-Sinai |
| Asa Kasher | Asa Kasher | 1940 | n/a | Israeli | philosopher and linguist working as a Professor at Tel Aviv University and at Shalem College, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Kasher |
| 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 |
| Judith Montefiore | Judith, Lady Montefiore | 1784 | 1862 | British | linguist, musician, travel writer, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Montefiore |
| George Sassoon | George Thornycroft Sassoon | 1936 | 2006 | British | scientist, electronic engineer, linguist, translator and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sassoon |
| Jean-Claude Milner | Jean-Claude Milner | 1941 | n/a | null | linguist, philosopher and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Milner |
| Margalit Finkelberg | Margalit Finkelberg | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | historian and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margalit_Finkelberg |
| Carol Chomsky | Carol Doris Chomsky | 1930 | 2008 | American | linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Chomsky |
| Jay Jasanoff | Jay Harold Jasanoff | 1942 | n/a | American | linguist and Indo-Europeanist, best known for his h₂e-conjugation theory of the Proto-Indo-European verbs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Jasanoff |
| Theodor Aufrecht | Simon Theodor Aufrecht | 1822 | 1907 | German | Indologist and comparative linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Aufrecht |
| Sidney Greenbaum | Sidney Greenbaum | 1929 | 1996 | British | scholar of the English language and of linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Greenbaum |
| Victor Raskin | Victor Raskin | 1944 | n/a | null | distinguished professor of linguistics at Purdue University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Raskin |
| Sol Steinmetz | Sol Steinmetz | 1930 | 2010 | Hungarian | linguistics and lexicography expert who wrote extensively about etymologies, definitions and uncovered earliest recorded usages of words in English and Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Steinmetz |
| Moshe Zvi Segal | Moshe Zvi (Hirsch) Segal | 1875 | 1968 | Israeli | rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Zvi_Segal |
| Guy Deutscher (linguist) | Guy Deutscher | 1969 | n/a | Israeli | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Deutscher_(linguist) |
| Alexander Lubotsky | Alexander "Sasha" Lubotsky | 1956 | n/a | Russian | linguist and Indologist who specializes in the study of Indo-Iranian languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lubotsky |
| Moshe Bar-Asher | Moshe Bar-Asher | 1939 | n/a | Israeli | linguist and the president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Bar-Asher |
| Mordkhe Schaechter | Itsye Mordkhe Schaechter | 1927 | 2007 | null | leading Yiddish linguist, as well as a writer and educator who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordkhe_Schaechter |
| Bogi Takács | Bogi Takács | 1983 | n/a | Hungarian | poet, writer, psycholinguist, editor, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogi_Takács |
| Heimann Hariton Tiktin | Heimann Hariton Tiktin | 1850 | 1936 | Silesian | Jewish linguist and academic, one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimann_Hariton_Tiktin |
| Solomon Löwisohn | Solomon Löwisohn | 1788 | 1789 | Hungarian | Maskilic poet, historian, grammarian, and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Löwisohn |
| Louis Loewe | Louis Loewe | 1809 | 1888 | Silesian | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Loewe |
| Ignác Kúnos | Ignác Kúnos | 1860 | 1945 | Hungarian | linguist, turkologist, folklorist, a correspondent member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignác_Kúnos |
| Jules Bloch | Jules Bloch | 1880 | 1953 | French | linguist who studied Indian languages, and was also interested in languages in their cultural and social contexts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Bloch |
| Farshid Delshad | Farshid Delshad | null | null | null | affiliated researcher, scholar of linguistics and Iranian Studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farshid_Delshad |
| Ze'ev Ben-Haim | Ze'ev Wolf Goldman, later known as Ze'ev Ben-Haim | 1907 | 2013 | null | leading Israeli linguist and a former president of the Academy of the Hebrew Language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Ben-Haim |
| Uzzi Ornan | Uzzi Ornan | 259 | n/a | Israeli | linguist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzzi_Ornan |
| Petr Sgall | Petr Sgall | 1926 | 2019 | Czech | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Sgall |
| Nochum Shtif | Nohum Shtif | 1879 | 1933 | null | Jewish linguist, literary historian, publisher, translator, and philologist of the Yiddish languageEstraikh, Gennady (2010, October 18) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nochum_Shtif |
| Nissim Francez | Nissim Francez | 1944 | n/a | Israeli | professor, emeritus in the computer science faculty at the Technion, and former head of computational linguistics laboratory in the faculty | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissim_Francez |
| Ivan Klajn | Ivan Klajn | 1937 | 2021 | Serbian | linguist, philologist and language historian, with primary interest in Romance languages and Serbian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Klajn |
| Yona Sabar | Yona Sabar | 1938 | n/a | null | Kurdistani Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Sabar |
| Alexander Kibrik | Alexander Kibrik | 1939 | 2012 | Russian | linguist, doctor of philology and the head of the department of theoretical and applied linguistics of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kibrik |
| William Poser | William J. Poser | null | null | Canadian | linguist who is known for his extensive work with the historical linguistics of Native American languages, especially those of the Athabascan family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Poser |
| Norbert Hornstein | Norbert Hornstein | null | null | null | professor of linguistics at the University of Maryland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Hornstein |
| Yechezkel Kutscher | Edward Yechezkel Kutscher | 1909 | 1971 | Israeli | philologist and Hebrew linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechezkel_Kutscher |
| Ernst Fraenkel (linguist) | Ernst Eduard Samuel Fraenkel | 1881 | 1957 | German | linguist who made major contributions to the fields of Indo-European linguistics and Baltic studies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Fraenkel_(linguist) |
| Valfrid Palmgren | Alfhild Valfrid Matilda Palmgren, as married Palmgren Munch-Petersen | 1877 | 1967 | Swedish | pedagogue, linguist, and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valfrid_Palmgren |
| Wolfgang Steinitz | Wolfgang Steinitz | 1905 | 1967 | German | linguist and folklorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Steinitz |
| Hagit Borer | Hagit Borer | null | null | null | professor of linguistics at Queen Mary University of London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagit_Borer |
| Pavel Eisner | Pavel Eisner | 1889 | 1958 | null | Czech-German linguist and translator and the author of many studies about Czech language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Eisner |
| Vladimir Plungian | Vladimir Plungian | 1960 | n/a | Russian | linguist, specialist in linguistic typology and theory of grammar, morphology, corpus linguistics, African studies, poetics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Plungian |
| Elye Spivak | Eliyahu "Elye" Spivak | 1890 | 1950 | Soviet | Jewish linguist, philologist, and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elye_Spivak |
| Gurion Hyman | Gurion Joseph Hyman | 1925 | 2017 | Canadian | anthropologist, linguist, pharmacist, composer, artist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurion_Hyman |
| Maurice Abraham Cohen | Maurice (Moses) Abraham Cohen | 1851 | 1923 | null | linguist and pioneer of Jewish education in Sydney, Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Abraham_Cohen |
| Georges-Elia Sarfati | Georges-Elia Sarfati | null | null | null | philosopher, linguist, poet, and an existentialist psychoanalyst, author of written works in the domains of ethics, Jewish thought, social criticism, and discourse analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Elia_Sarfati |
| Olga Kapeliuk | Prof. Olga Kapeliuk | 1932 | n/a | Israeli | linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Kapeliuk |
| Helen Adolf | Dr. Helen Adolf | 1895 | 1998 | Austrian | linguist and literature scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Adolf |
| Tsvia Walden | Tsvia Walden | 1946 | n/a | Israeli | psycholinguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsvia_Walden |
| Alexander M. Schenker | Alexander M. Schenker | 1924 | 2019 | American | Slavist of Polish descent, professor of Slavic linguistics at Yale University, and the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies for his contributions to the field of Polish studies, as well for the general contributions to the development of the field of Slavic studies in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_M._Schenker |
| Franz Skutsch | Franz Skutsch | 1865 | 1912 | German | classical philologist and linguist born in Neisse | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Skutsch |
| Yohanan Levi | Yohanan Levi | 1901 | 1945 | null | Hebrew linguist and historian, specialising in the Second Temple period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yohanan_Levi |
| Solomon Pappenheim | Solomon Pappenheim | 1740 | 1814 | German | Maskil, linguist, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Pappenheim |
| Arthur Lumley Davids | Arthur Lumley Davids | 1811 | 1832 | English | orientalist and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lumley_Davids |
| Ya'akov Cahan | Ya'akov Cahan or Kahan | 1881 | 1960 | Israeli | poet, playwright, translator, writer and Hebrew linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya'akov_Cahan |
| David Luria | David Luria | 1798 | 1855 | null | rabbi, commentator, and linguist, one of the greatest Torah scholars in his generation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Luria |
| Gérard Étienne | Gérard Vergniaud Étienne | 1936 | 2008 | null | linguist, journalist and writer of poems, novels and essays | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gérard_Étienne |
| Andrej Kibrik | Andrej Kibrik | 1963 | n/a | Russian | linguist, the director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2017), and professor at the Philological Faculty of the Moscow State University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Kibrik |
| Eva Fiesel | Eva Fiesel, née Lehmann | 1891 | 1937 | German | linguist and scholar of Etruscan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Fiesel |
| Michael Samuels (linguist) | Michael Louis Samuels | 1920 | 2010 | British | historical linguist, responsible for the Historical Thesaurus of English | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Samuels_(linguist) |
| Alan Nussbaum | Alan Jeffrey "Jerry" Nussbaum | 1947 | n/a | American | linguist of the Indo-European languages and a classical philologist, best known for his work on the language of the Homeric epics and modern and Proto-Indo-European nominals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Nussbaum |
| Rudolf Fischer (historian) | Rudolph Fischer | 1923 | 2016 | Romanian | historian and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Fischer_(historian) |
| Jack Catran | Jack Catran | 1918 | 2001 | American | industrial designer, behavioral psychologist, scientist, and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Catran |
| Abraham Bentes | Abraham Ramiro Bentes | 1912 | 1990 | Brazilian | Army commander and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Bentes |
| Hanoch Yelon | Hanoch Yelon | 1886 | 1970 | Israeli | linguist and leading Talmudic researcher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoch_Yelon |
| Józef Mieses | Józef Mieses | 1882 | 1941 | Polish | teacher, linguist, rabbi and military officer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Mieses |
| David Sagiv | David Sagiv | 1928 | 2019 | Israeli | linguist and journalist, known as the editor in chief of the Sagiv Dictionary, a bi-directional Hebrew-Arabic and Arabic-Hebrew dictionary | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sagiv |
| Mordkhe Veynger | Mordkhe Veynger | 1890 | 1929 | Soviet | Jewish linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordkhe_Veynger |
| Dora Yates | Dora Esther Yates | 1879 | 1974 | British | bibliographer, linguist and Romani scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Yates |
| David Vygodsky | David Isaakovich Vygodsky | 1893 | 1943 | Russian | literary critic, linguist, translator, poet, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Vygodsky |
| Hans Eberstark | Hans Eberstark | null | null | Austrian | linguist and translator, known as a mental calculator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eberstark |
| Simon Levy (activist) | Simon Levy | 1934 | 2011 | Moroccan | Jewish activist, linguist, and anthropologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Levy_(activist) |
| Talia Rahimi | Talia Rahimi | 1978 | n/a | Israeli | author, poet, teacher and linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talia_Rahimi |
| Elye Falkovitsh | Eliyahu "Elye" Falkovitsh | 1898 | 1979 | Belarusian | Jewish Yiddish linguist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elye_Falkovitsh |
| J. David Sapir | J. David Sapir, son of Edward Sapir | null | null | null | linguist, anthropologist and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._David_Sapir |
| Zipora Cochavi-Rainey | Professor Zipora Cochavi-Rainey | null | null | null | linguist and scholar in the Department of Hebrew Language at Beit Berl Academic College, Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipora_Cochavi-Rainey |
| Donn O'Meara | Donn O'Meara | 1924 | 2004 | null | author, linguist and anthropologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donn_O'Meara |
| Lev Zinder | Lev Rafailovich Zinder | 1904 | 1995 | Russian | linguist in German philology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Zinder |
| Shlomo Eitan | Rabbi Shlomo Eitan | null | null | null | Hebrew language linguist who developed teaching methods for Hebrew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Eitan |
| Haïm Vidal Séphiha | Haïm Vidal Séphiha | 1923 | 2019 | null | linguist and professor emeritus at several European universities, notably the Sorbonne | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haïm_Vidal_Séphiha |