List of linguists - Wikipedia

The following is a list of linguists.

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