Linguist celebrities
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Marc Okrand (/ˈmɑrk ˈoʊkrænd/; born July 3, 1948) is an American linguist, well known as the creator of the Klingon language.
Bratoljub Klaić (also Adolf Klaić; Bizovac, 27 July 1909 – Zagreb, 1983), is a Croatian linguist and translator.
Daniel Kane is an Australian linguist, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the extinct Jurchen and Khitan languages and their scripts.
Ludwig Henrich Friedlaender (July 16, 1824 Königsberg – December 16, 1909 Straßburg, German Empire) was a German philologist. He was one of the preeminent scholars of Ancient Rome of his time and is known for his research on Roman daily life and
Ilona Marita Lorenz (born August 18, 1939 in Bremen) is a German woman who had an affair with Fidel Castro in 1959 and in January 1960 was involved in an assassination attempt by the CIA on Castro’s life.
Eugene Aram, (born c. September 1704, Ramsgill, Yorkshire, Eng.—died Aug. 6, 1759, York, Yorkshire) noted English scholar and murderer, whose notoriety was romanticized in a ballad by Thomas Hood and in the novel Eugene Aram (1832), by Bulwer-Lytto
Bernard Cerquiglini (born 1947 in Lyon, France), is a French linguist.
David Dean Shulman (born January 13, 1949 in Waterloo, Iowa) is an Indologist and regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the languages of India. His research embraces many fields, including the history of religion in South India, In
Carol Chomsky (July 1, 1930 – December 19, 2008) was an American linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children.
Joachim Latacz (born 4 April 1934) is a German classical philologist.