List of biographical names in the history of linguistics

• Aarsleff (orig.Årsleff), Hans (Christian, b.1925)

• Abbadie, Antoine d’ (1810–1897),

• Adamska-Sałaciak, Arleta (b.1957)

• Alpatov, Vladimir Mixajlovič (b.1945)

• Alois Vaníček (1825–1883)

• Angulo y Mayo Jaime de (1888–1950)

• Antal, Lázló (1930–1993)

• Anttila, Raimo (b.1935)

• Apresjan, Jurij Derenikovič (b.1930)

• Arens, Hans (1911–2003)

• Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan (1845–1929)

• Baxtin/Bakhtin, Mixail Mixajlovič (1895–1975)

• Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948)

• Benveniste, Émile (1902–1976)

• Benware, Wilbur A(lan, b.1937)

• Berezin, Fedor Mixajlovič (1930–2003)

• Bergounioux, Gabriel (b.1954)

• Bergunder, Michael.(b.1966)

• Best, Karl-Heinz (b.1943)

• Bloch, Bernard (1907–1965)

• Bloomfield, Leonard (1887–1949)

• Boas, Franz (1858–1942)

• Bopp, Franz (1791–1867)

• Bradley, Henry (1845–1923)

• Braune, Wilhelm (1850–1925)

• Bréal, Michel (1832–1915)

• Bright, James Wilson (1852–1926)

• Brockhaus, Hermann (1806–1877)

• Brugmann, Karl (1849–1919)

• Bühler, Karl (1879–1963)

• Bulič, Sergej Konstantinovič (1859–1921)

• Bynon, Theodora (“Thea”, b.1936)

• Campbell, Lyle (R., b.1942)

• Cassidy, Frederick Gomes (1897–2000)

• Cassirer Ernst (1874–1945)

• Charencey, le comte Charles Félix Hyacinthe de (1832–1916)

• Chavée, Honoré (Joseph, 1815–1877)

• Chomsky, Noam (b.1929)

• Chevalier, Jean-Claude (1925–2018)

• Christiansen, Broder (1869–1958)

• Christmann, Hans-Helmut (1929–1995)

• Christy, Craig (b.1952)

• Christy, Thomas Crag (b.1952)

• Clark, Katerina (b.1941)

• Collinson, William Edward (1889–1969)

• Coseriu, Eugenio (1921–2002)

• Cowan, William George (1929–2001)

• Croce, Benedetto (1866–1953)

• Curtius, Ernst (1814–1896

• Curtius, Georg (1820–1885)

• Darnell, Regna Diebold (b.1943)

• Darwin, Charles (1809–1882)

• Delbrück, Berthold (1842–1922)

• Di Cesare, Donatella (b.1956)

• Diez, Friedrich (1794–1876)

• Dinneen, SJ Frank (Francis Patrick, 1923–1994)

• Dürbeck, Helmut (1930–2019)

• Dufriche-Desgenettes, Antoni (1804–1878)

• Durkheim, Émile (1858–1917)

• Duruy, Victor (1811–1894),

• Edgerton, Franklin (1885–1963)

• Egger, Émile (1813–1885)

• Einhauser, Elwine (b.1960)

• Engler, Rudolf (1930–2003)

• Fenton, William N(ash, 1908-2005)

• Firth, John Rupert (1890–1960)

• Fischer, Olga (b.1951)

• Foster, Michael K(irk, b.1938)

• Freeland, L. S. (“Nancy”, 1890–1972)

• Frege, Gottlob (1848–1925)

• Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)

• Gabelentz, (Hans) Georg von der (Conon, 1840–1893)

• Gambarara, Daniele (b.1948)

• Gilliéron, Jules (1854–1926)

• Gipper, Helmut (1919–2005)

• Golla, Victor Karl (b.1939)

• Graßmann, Hermann (Günter, 1809–1877)

• Greenberg, Joseph (Harold, 1915–2001)

• Gregores, Emma (1927–1995)

• Guigniaut, Joseph-Daniel (1794–1876),

• Guxman, Mirra Moiseevna (1904–1989)

• Haas, Mary R(osamond, 1910–1996)

• Haspelmath, Martin (b.1936)

• Harris, Zellig S(abbettai, (1909–1992)

• Harrold, Ernest William (1889–1945)

• Hattala, Martin (1821–1903)

• Hausmann, Franz Josef (b.1943)

• Hayashi, Tetsuro (1921–2002)

• Helbig, Gerhard (1929–2008)

• Hemsterhuis, Tiberius (1685–1766)

• Henricy, Casimir (1819–1892

• Hill, Eugen (post 2016)

• Hirschkop, Ken(neth, b.1957)

• Hjelmslev, Louis (Trolle.1899–1965)

• Hock, Hans-Henrich (b.1938)

• Hockett, Charles F(rancis, 1916–2000)

• Hoefer, Albert (1812–1883)

• Hoenigswald, Henry M(ax, 1915–2003)

• Holquist,Michael (b.1935)

• Holtzmann, Adolf (1810–1870)

• Hooton, Earnest Albert (1887–1954)

• Hoijer, Harry (1904–1976)

• Hovelacque, Abel (1843–1896)

• Humboldt, (Friedrich) Wilhelm von (Freiherr, 1767–1835)

• Hutton, Christopher M(ark, b.1958)

• Hymes, Dell (Hathaway, 1927–2009)

• Iordan, Iorgu (1888–1986)

• Itkonen, Esa (b.1944)

• Ivanov, Vjačeslav Vsevolodovič (b.1929)

• Iviċ, Milka (b.1921)

• Jarceva, Viktorija Nikitična (1906–1999)

• Jahn, Otto (1813–1869)

• Jakobson, Roman (Osipovič) (1896–1982)

• Jankowsky, Kurt R(obert, b.1928)

• Jenness, Diamond (1886–1969)

• Jespersen, Otto (1860–1943)

• Joos, Martin (George, 1907–1978)

• Joseph, John E(arl, b.1956)

• Kacnel’son, Solomon Davidovič (1907–1985)

• Kainz, Friedrich (1897–1977)

• Kanaev, Ivan Ivanovič (1893–1984)

• Kiparsky, (René) Paul (Victor, b.1941)

• Knobloch, Clemens (b.1951)

• Koerner, (Ernst Frideryk) Konrad (b.1939)

• Kroeber, Alfred Louis (1876–1960)

• Kruisinga, Etsko (1879–1944)

• Kruszewski, Mikołaj (1851–1887)

• Kuhn, Adalbert (1812–1881)

• Kuhn, Thomas S(amuel, 1922–1996)

• Kvícala, Jan (1834–1908)

• Labov, William (b.1927)

• Lazarus, Moritz (1824–1903)

• Lehmann, Winfred P(hilipp, 1916–2007)

• Léon, Pierre (1914–1976)

• Leont’ev, Aleksej Alekseevič (b.1936)

• Lepschy, Giulio C(iro, b.1935)

• Lerchenmüller, Otto (1943–2011)

• Leroy, Maurice (1909–1990)

• Leśniewski, Stanislaw (1886–1939)

• Leskien, August (1840–1916)

• Littré, Émile (1801–1881)

• Lloyd, Richard J(ohn, 1846–1906)

• Lowie, Robert Harry (orig. Löwe, 1883–1957)

• Macbeth, Madge (1878–1965)

• Maher, J(ohn) Peter (1933-2018)

• Malkiel, Yakov (1914–1998)

• Malmberg, Bertil (1913–1994)

• Mandelbaum, David G. (1911–1887)

• Marr, Nikolaj Jakovlevič (in Georgian: Marr, Nik’o, 1865–1934)

• Marx, Karl (Heinrich, 1818–1883)

• Mason, James Alden (1885–1967)

• Matejka, Ladislav (b.1919)

• McCawley, James D(avid, 1938–1999)

• Mclenagan, Jean Victoria (1899–1979)

• Medvedev, Pavel Nikolaevič (1891–1938)

• Meillet, Antoine (1866–1936)

• Merton, Robert K. (1910–2003)

• Meyer, Paul (1840–1917)

• Michel, Cornelius Leonardus (1887–1984)

• Mikuš, Radivoj Franciscus (1906–1983)

• Morpurgo Davies, Anna (1937–2014)

• Mounin, Georges (alias Louis Julien Leboucher, 1910–1993)

• Mowat, Robert (1823–1912)

• Müller, Theodor (1816–1881)

• Mugdan, Joachim (b.1951)

• Newman, Stanley S(tewart, 1905–1984)

• Newmeyer, Frederick J(aret, b.1944)

• Noordegraaf, Jan (b.1948)

• Novotny, Eduard (1833–1876)

• Ogden, Charles K(ay, 1889–1957)

• Orr, John (1985–1966)

• Osthoff, Hermann (1847–1909)

• Paris, Gaston (1839–1903)

• Paul, Hermann (1846–1921)

• Percival, Walter Keith (b.1930)

• Pike, Kenneth Lee (1912 –2000)

• Plato (427–347 B.C.)

• Polivanov, Evgenij Dmitri’evič (1891–1938)

• Pott, August Friedrich (1802–1887)

• Preston, Richard J(oseph, b.1931)

• Prokosch, Eduard (1876–1938)

• Pumpjanskij, Lev Vasil’evič (alias Leib Meerovič Pumpjan, 1891–1940)

• Putschke, Wolfgang (b.1937)

• Ranke, Leopold von (1795–1886)

• Richards, Ivor Armstrong (1877–1979)

• Ringler, Richard N. (b.1934)

• Roberts, E(llis, .1939)

• Robins, John Daniel (1889–1952)

• Sapir, Edward (1884–1939)

• Sapir, Jacob David (b.1935)

• Saussure, Ferdinand (1857–1913)

• Scherer, Wilhelm (1841–1886)

• Schleicher, August (1821–1868)

• Schmidt, Johannes (1843–1901)

• Schmitter, Peter (1943–2006)

• Schreyer, Rüdiger (b.1941)

• Schogt, Henry (1927–2020)

• Scott, Duncan Campbell (1862–1947)

• Sebeok, Thomas A(lbert, c.1915–2001)

• Sériot, Patrick (b.1949)

• Seuren, Pieter A. M(arie, b.1934)

• Sievers, Eduard (1850–1936)

• Skousen, Royal (b.1945)

• Sommerfelt, Alf (Axelssǿn, 1892–1965)

• Šor, Rozalija Osipovna (1894–1939)

• Spier, Leslie (1893–1961)

• Spitzer, Leo (1887–1960)

• Steinthal, H(eymann = Chajim, 1823–1899)

• Stojanov, Vasil Dimitrov (1839–1910)

• Strong, Herbert Augustus (1841–1918)

• Sullivan, Harry Stack (1892–1949)

• Swadesh, Morris (Maurizio, 1909–1967)

• Swiggers, Pierre (b.1955)

• Taine, Hippolyte (1828–1893)

• Tajjma, Matsuji (b.1942)

• Tarski, Alfred (1902–1983)

• Techmer, Friedrich (1843–1891)

• Tell, Julien (1807–post 1874)

• Thomas, Lawrence L. (1924–2009)

• Titunik, Irwin (1929–1998)

• Trager, George Leonard (1906–1992)

• Trautmann, Thomas R(oger, b.1940)

• Trubetzkoy/Trubeckoj, Nikolaj Sergeevič (Prince, 1890–1938)

• Vaníček, Alois (1825–18830

• Velmezova, Ekaterina (b.1973)

• Vendryes, Joseph (1875–1960)

• Verner, Karl (1846–1896)

• Voegelin, Charles Frederick (“Carl” (1906–1986)

• Vološinov, Valentin Nikolaevič (1895–1936)

• Wallis, Wilson Dallam (1886 1970)

• Wanner, Dieter (1934–2019)

• Warnotte, Daniel (1871–1949)

• Watts, Richard James (b.1943)

• Weber, Albrecht (1825–1901)

• Wehrle, Albert J. (1891–19??)

• Weinreich, Uriel (1926–1967)

• Wheeler, Benjamin Ide (1854–1927)

• Whitney, William Dwight (1827–1894)

• Whorf, Benjamin Lee (1897–1941)

• Wilbur, Terrece H(arrison, 1924–2000)

• Williams, Joanna Radwańska (b.1961)

• Winteler, Jost (1846–1929)

• Zeitlin, Jacob (1883–1937)

• Zvegincev, Vladimir Andreevič (1910–1984)

• Zwirner, Eberhard (1899–1984)