List of women linguists facts for kids

This is a list of women linguists by their country of origin. A linguist studies linguistics. Here in this list, this is the study of natural languages. These other people are not included in this list: polyglots (people fluent in several languages), grammarians (experts on prescriptive grammar), or language professionals such as translators or interpreters. Those are different professions.

Argentina

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Violeta Demonte	Spanish-Argentinian university professor and linguist	1944-06-27
	Alicia María Zorrilla	Argentinian linguist	1948-12-08

Australia

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Jeannie Bell	Australian linguist
	Judith Bishop	Australian poet and linguist	1972
	Claire Bowern	Australian linguist
	Kate Burridge	Australian linguist
	Lee Cataldi	Contemporary Australian poet and linguist	1942
	Dymphna Clark	Australian language scholar	1916-12-18	2000-05-12
	Margaret Florey	Australian linguist
	Luise Hercus	Australian linguist	1926-01-16
	Mabel Lee	Australian linguist
	Raymattja Marika	Australian aboriginal leader	1959	2008-05-11
	Felicity Meakins	Australian linguist
	Wilga Rivers	academic and writer from Australia	1919-04-13	2007-06-23
	Jane Simpson	Australian linguist
	Karen Stollznow	Linguist, skeptic	1976-08-12

Austria

Brazil

Canada

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Jean Briggs		1929-05-28	2016-07-27
	Elizabeth Cowper	Canadian linguist	1952
	Susan Ehrlich	Canadian linguist
	Donna Gerdts	American linguist
	Monica Heller	Canadian linguist	1955-06
	Christina Kramer	Canadian linguist
	Julie Anne Legate	Canadian linguist
	France Martineau	Linguist	1960
	Diane Massam	Canadian linguist
	Monique Nemni	Canadian linguist	1936
	Keren Rice	Canadian linguist	1949
	Pierrette Vachon-L’Heureux	Canadian linguist
	Marie-Éva de Villers	Canadian linguist and lexicographer	1945-12-14

Croatia

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Snježana Kordić	Croatian linguist	1964-10-29
	Yvonne Vrhovac		1940

Czech Republic

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Věra Barandovská-Frank	Czech esperantist	1952-08-17
	Eva Hajičová	Czech linguist	1935-08-23

Denmark

Finland

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Kaisa Häkkinen	Finnish linguist and professor	1950-11-17
	Auli Hakulinen	Finnish linguist	1941-03-10
	Marja-Liisa Olthuis	Inari Sámi scholar	1967-08-09
	Tove Skutnabb-Kangas	Finnish linguist	1940-07-06

France

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Anne Abeillé	French university professor	1962-09-13
	Renée Balibar	French linguist	1915	1998 1998-01
	Denise Bernot	Burmese academic	1922-02-04	2016-05-12
	Joyce Blau	orientalist	1932-03-18
	Nina Catach	French linguist	1923-07-14	1997 1997-10-25
	Marguerite Durand		1904	1962-02-10
	Anne-Marie Esnoul	French linguist	1908	1996
	Clarisse Herrenschmidt	French archaeologist and linguist	1946-10-24
	Luce Irigaray	feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist	1930-05-03
	Liliane Jagueneau		1950-07-29
	Laurence Lentin	French linguist
	Geneviève Massignon	French historian and linguist	1921-04-21	1966-06-09
	Hélène Naïs	French linguist	1927	2010-02-17
	Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre	French linguist	1941	2007
	Michèle Perret	French writer	1937
	Maguy Pothier		1945	2016-05-13
	Josette Rey-Debove	First female lexicographer in France	1929-11-16	2005-02-22
	Mitsou Ronat	French poet, linguist, specialist of literary theory	1946	1984-07-08
	Marie-Louise Sjoestedt	French Celticist	1900-09-20	1940-12-06
	Éliane Viennot	French historian
	Henriette Walter	French linguist	1929

Germany

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Wilma Ruth Albrecht	German linguist	1947
	Irmhild Barz	German Germanist	1943-07-26
	Dagmar Blei	German linguist	1940-08-09
	Edith Braun	German linguist	1921-08-07	2016-10-14
	Ulrike Buchholz	German linguist	1959-05-14
	Brigitte Bulitta	German linguist	1966
	Christa Dürscheid	Linguist	1959-10-04
	Karin M. Eichhoff-Cyrus	linguist	1949-06-22
	Christiane Fellbaum	American linguist	1950
	Linda Fierz-David	German philologist	1891	1955
	Eva Fiesel	German linguist	1891-12-23	1937-05-27
	Roswitha Fischer	German linguist	1956-01-23
	Annemarie von Gabain	German linguist and art historian	1901-03-04	1993-01-15
	Anneli Ute Gabanyi	Romanian-born German political scientist, literary critic, journalist, and philologist	1942-10-18
	Rosemarie Gläser	German linguist	1935
	Gerda Haßler	German linguist	1953-07-04
	Ursula Hirschfeld	German professor and linguist	1953-01-07
	Margret Jäger	German linguist	1951-03-15
	Eva-Maria Jakobs	German linguist	1955
	Elisabeth Karg-Gasterstädt	German linguist	1886-02-09	1964-08-24
	Christina Kauschke	German linguist	1964
	Ilse Kunert	German linguist	1923-03-12	2016-05-22
	Barbara Kunzmann-Müller	German linguist	2000s
	Annette Leßmöllmann	German linguist and journalist	1968
	Rosemarie Lühr	German linguist	1946-03-23
	Susanne Maria Michaelis	Linguist	1962-03-30
	Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh	German linguist	1953-10-25
	Damaris Nübling	German professor and linguist	1963
	Gertrud Pätsch	German ethnologist and philologist	1910-01-22	1994-12-14
	Elisabeth Piirainen	German linguist	1943
	Luise F. Pusch	German linguist	1944-01-14
	Monika Rathert	German linguist	1972-07-12
	Ursula Reutner	German linguist	1975-10-06
	Elisabeth Rieken	German linguist	1965
	Sabine Schiffer	German linguist	1966
	Friederike Schmöe	German linguist	1967
	Agnes Schultheiß	German linguist	1873-01-09	1959-12-10
	Magdalene Siebenbrodt	German linguist	1920-05-03	2007-05-18
	Anja Steinhauer	German linguist	1965
	Anita Steube	German linguist	1939-06-20
	Rosemarie Tracy	German linguist and university teacher	1949
	Senta Trömel-Plötz	German linguist	1939-02-26

Hungary

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo	Hungarian linguist	1956-08-30
	Katalin Fehértói	Hungarian linguist (1925-2006)	1925-11-25	2006-05-12
	Felicitas Goodman	American linguist and anthropologist	1914-01-30	2005-03-30
	Judit Hidasi	Hungarian linguist, japanogist, professor of communication	1948-07-11
	Katalin É. Kiss	Hungarian linguist	1949-05-31
	Judit Kormos	Applied linguist	1970-05-11
	Terézia Olajos	Hungarian linguist and university professor	1941-10-15

India

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Anvita Abbi	Indian linguist, scholar	1949-01-09
	Ruqaiya Hasan	Indian linguist	1931	2015-06-24
	Yamuna Kachru	Linguist	1933	2013
	Aditi Lahiri	German linguist	1952-07-14
	Azarmi Dukht Safavi	Indian linguist	1948
	Satvasheela Samant	Indian linguist	1945-03-25	2013-05-01

Iran

Israel

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Netiva Ben-Yehuda	Israeli linguist	1928-07-26	2011-02-28
	Ruth A. Berman	Israeli linguist
	Tamar Eilam Gindin	Israeli linguist
	Tanya Reinhart	Israeli journalist	1943	2007-03-17
	Tsvia Walden	Israeli linguist	1946-10-20

Italy

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Maria Gaetana Agnesi	Italian mathematician and philanthropist	1718-05-16	1799-01-09
	Carla Bazzanella	Italian linguist	1947-08-06
	Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi	Scholar and writer	1930
	Nice Contieri	Italian linguist	1912-10-19	1965-08-12
	Laura Sturma Fanelli	Italian linguist	1937-09-01	2011-02-09
	Bice Mortara Garavelli	Italian linguist	1931-05-18
	Joyce Lussu	Italian writer and translator	1912-05-08	1998-11-04
	Nicoletta Maraschio	Italian linguist	1946
	Carla Marello	Italian linguist	1952-06-30
	Maria Teresa Morreale	Italian linguist	1933-07-16	1996-02-14
	Daniela Rossella	Italian linguist	1955-04-02
	Alma Sabatini	Italian writer, linguist and activist	1922-09-06	1988-04-12
	Valeria Della Valle	Italian linguist	1944
	Patrizia Violi	Italian linguist	1949-08-14
	Raffaella Zanuttini	Italian linguist

Japan

Kingdom of the Netherlands

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Helma van den Berg	Linguist and caucasologist from Netherlands	1965-05-26	2003-11-11
	Marijke de Boer	Dutch linguist	1971
	Linde van den Bosch	Dutch linguist	1963
	Melissa Bowerman	Dutch linguist	1942-04-03	2011-10-31
	Til Brugman	Dutch author, poet and linguist	1888-09-16	1958-07-24
	Rosemarie Buikema	Dutch linguist	1956-07-31
	Jo Daan	Dutch linguist	1910-05-12	2006-06-11
	Mariëtte Hamer	Dutch politician, civil servant, educator, trade union leader	1958-06-07
	Anna Siewierska	British linguist	1955-12-25	2011-08-06
	Nicoline Sijs	Dutch linguist	1955-04-01
	Marijke Verbrugge-Breeuwsma	Dutch linguist	1966

Latvia

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Tove Bull	Norwegian linguist	1945-10-31
	Kirsti Koch Christensen	Norwegian linguist	1940-12-01
	Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik	Norwegian journalist and linguist	1977-10-19
	Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen	Norwegian linguist	1942-12-18
	Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld	Norwegian linguist	1948-05-08
	Ingrid Kristine Hasund	Norwegian linguist	1969-11-24
	Clara Holst	Norwegian academic	1868-06-04	1935-11-15
	Anne Holtsmark	Norwegian professor of Old Norse studies	1896-06-21	1974-05-19
	Janne Bondi Johannessen	Norwegian linguist	1960
	Elizabeth Lanza	Norwegian linguist	1951-09-05
	Gunvor Mejdell	Norwegian linguist and professor	1948
	Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen	Danish philologist	1948
	Anne Steinsvik Nordal	Norwegian writer and linguist	1949
	Toril Opsahl	Norwegian linguist	1976-04-16
	Einfrid Perstølen	Norwegian psychiatrist	1917-06-15
	Helene Uri	writer and linguist	1964-12-11

People's Republic of China

Philippines

Poland

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Aleksandra Cieślikowa	Polish linguist and university teacher	1936-01-07
	Ewa Dąbrowska		1963
	Krystyna Długosz-Kurczabowa	Polish philologist	1940-04-13	2016-09-14
	Barbara Kuszmider	Polish linguist, philologist and author	1954
	Alicja Sakaguchi	Polish linguist and university professor	1954
	Zuzanna Topolińska	Polish linguist	1931-01-09
	Anna Wierzbicka	Polish linguist	1938-03-10

Romania

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Gabriela Adameșteanu	Romanian novelist	1942-04-02
	Eta Boeriu	Romanian writer	1923-02-23	1984-11-13
	Nina Cassian	Romanian writer	1924-11-27	2014-04-15
	Delia Grigore	Romanian Romani writer, philologist, academic and Romani rights activist	1972-02-07
	Iulia Hasdeu	Romanian poet	1869-11-14	1888-09-29
	Rallou Karatza	Romanian culture personality / Greek actor and director	1778 1799	1870
	Monica Lovinescu	Romanian writer	1923-11-19	2008-04-20
	Mărgărita Miller-Verghy	Romanian socialite and author	1865-01-01	1953-12-31
	Olga Murvai		1942-10-10	2011-10-30
	Mona Muscă	Romanian politician	1949-05-04
	Laura Pavel	Romanian writer	1968-10-19
	Laura Poantă	Romanian physician, writer and artist	1971-03-10
	Livia Ana Tătaru	German linguist	1927-07-15

Russia

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Yelena Bazhenova	Russian linguist and philologist	1958-12-29
	Elena Berezovich	Russian linguist	1966-01-02
	Tatyana Elizarenkova	Russian linguist	1929-09-17	2007-09-05
	Tamara Erofeyeva	Russian linguist	1937-06-29
	Olga Frolova	Russian orientalist and linguist	1931
	Elena Kostioukovitch	Russian writer	1958
	Mariya Pavlovna Kotyurova	Russian philologist and linguist	1939-04-26
	Svetlana Leonidovna Mishlanova	Russian physician and linguist	1965-11-27
	Natalia O'Shea	Russian musician and linguist	1976-09-03
	Irina Ovchinnikova	Russian linguist	1960-05-09
	Yelena Perekhvalskaya	Russian linguist	1954-03-04
	Elena Nikolaevna Poljakova	Russian linguist, slavicist and dialectologist	1932-05-26
	Galina Yershova	Russian academic	1955-03-17
	Anna Zaliznyak	Russian linguist	1959-09-10

Russian Empire

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Mariya Aleksandrovna Genkel	Soviet linguist	1910-05-06	2001-03-14
	Liubov Gurevich	Russian writer	1866-11-01	1940-10-17
	Sophia Parnok	Russian writer	1885-08-11	1933-08-26
	Elizaveta Polonskaya	Soviet writer	1890-06-26	1969-01-11
	Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik	Russian writer, dramatist, poet and translator	1874-01-24	1952-07-27
	Veronika Tushnova	Russian writer and journalist	1911-03-14	1965-07-07
	Lidia Veselitskaya	Russian writer	1857-03-17	1936-02-23
	Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova	Russian author and woman of letters	1743-03-17	1810-01-04
	Wera Iwanowna Zinzius	Russian linguist	1903	1981

Slovakia

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Želmíra Gašparíková	slovak linguist and writer	1901-01-18	1966-12-15
	Mira Nábělková	Slovak linguist	1956-03-30

Slovenia

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Metka Furlan	Slovene linguist	1955
	Polonca Kovač	Children's writer and translator	1937-02-19
	Taja Kramberger	Slovenian writer	1970-09-11
	Jana Milčinski	Slovenian writer and translator	1920-12-05	2007-04-13
	Ada Vidovič Muha	Slovene linguist	1940-03-08
	Martina Orožen		1931-10-12
	Breda Pogorelec	Slovene linguist	1928-01-01	2006-07-21
	Alenka Puhar	Slovenian historian and journalist	1945-02-04
	Vera Smole	linguist from Slovenia	1960-06-02
	Zinka Zorko	Slovene linguist and dialectologist	1936-02-24

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

South Africa

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Dorothea Bleek	German anthropologist and philologist	1873-03-26	1948-06-27
	Olga Kirsch	Israeli poet in Afrikaans	1924-09-23	1997-06-05
	Antjie Krog	South African writer and academic	1952-10-23
	Dorothea van Zyl

Soviet Union

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Anna Abrikosova	Soviet linguist	1882-01-23	1936-07-23
	Alexandra Aikhenvald	Linguist	1957-09-01
	Marina Boroditskaya	Russian writer	1954-06-28
	Svetlana Burlak	Russian linguist	1969-06-12
	Yelena Ivanovna Cheberuk	Soviet linguist	1925-11-11
	Julia Abramovna Dobrovol'skaja	Russian linguist	1917-08-25	2016-07-25
	Anna Dybo	Russian linguist	1959-06-04
	Galina Dzhugashvili	Russian translator	1938-02-19	2007-08-27
	Elena Fanailova	Russian writer	1962-12-19
	Iryna Farion	Ukrainian politician	1964-04-29
	Naira Gelashvili	Georgian linguist	1947-10-28
	Irina Glushkova	Russian phililogist	1952-08-09
	Liliya Mikhailovna Gorelova	Russian linguist	1948
	Nina Harutyunova		1923-04-30
	Natalja Glebovna Ilinskaja		1958-01-25
	Irina Kobozeva	Soviet linguist
	Margarita Kozhina	Russian linguist	1925-08-01	2012-08-11
	Lada Gennadevna Lanova	Russian linguist	1969-02-08
	Olga Alekseyevna Lapteva	Russian linguist	1931-02-05
	Inna Meiman-Kitrossky	Soviet philologist	1932-10-16	1987-02-09
	Elena Mestergazi	Russian academic	1967-09-08
	Olga Danilovna Mitrofanova	Russian linguist	1930-08-25
	Revzina Olga	Soviet philologist and linguist	1939-04-21
	Elena Oznobkina	Russian philosopher and human rights activist	1959-04-25	2010-03-14
	Marina Palei	Russian writer	1955-02-01
	Olga Raïevskaïa		1956-07-10
	Natalia Shvedova	Russian lexicographer	1916-12-25	2009-09-18
	Hanna Pavlovna Sokolóvskaya	Soviet linguist (1932-2012)	1932-08-01	2012-07-27
	Tatyana Tikhomirova		1931-10-17
	Natalia Tolstaya	Russian writer	1943-05-02	2010-06-15
	Galina Varlamova	Russian folklorist	1951-01-18
	Viktoria Yartseva	Russian linguist	1906-11-03	1999-09-27

Spain

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Gabriela Bustelo	Spanish author and translator	1962
	Maria Teresa Cabré	Spanish linguist	1947
	Carmina Pleyan i Cerdà	Spanish linguist (1917-2011)	1917	2011-02-24
	Victoria Cirlot	Spanish historian	1955
	Patricia Esteban Erlés	Spanish	1972
	Carme Forcadell	Writer and professor of Catalan language and literature	1956
	Montserrat Meya Llopart	Spanish linguist	1948
	Neus Moly i Martí	Spanish Esperantist, linguist and educationist (1944-2005)	1944	2005-11-19
	Yvonne Griley i Martínez	Spanish linguist and philologist	1964
	María Moliner	Spanish lexicographer	1900-03-30	1981-01-21
	Teresa Moure	writer	1969
	Mila Segarra i Neira	Spanish linguist, philologist and professor	1950
	Gemma Rigau i Oliver	Spanish linguist, philologist and professor	1948-11-13
	Lourdes Oñederra	writer and linguist	1958-06-09
	Maria Josep Cuenca Ordinyana	Spanish linguist and professor	1964
	María Goyri de Menéndez Pidal	Spanish hispanist	1873	1955
	Blanca Serra i Puig	Spanish linguist and historian	1942
	Esther Regina	Spanish actress	2000s
	Immaculada Cerdà Sanchis		1965-05-17
	Carmen Caffarel Serra	Spanish linguist	1953
	Miren Azkarate Villar	Spanish politician	1955-11-27

Sweden

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Christina Berger	Swedish writer	1784-08-21	1852-05-25
	Anna Bülow	writer, translator, abbess		1519
	Inger Edelfeldt	Swedish writer	1956
	Elisabet Engdahl	Swedish linguist	1949-04-10
	Hanna Fahl	Swedish writer	1978-10-23
	Cecilia Falk	Swedish Scandinavian studies scholar	1960-08-24
	Karin Lannby	Swedish actress, translator, journalist, poet and spy	1916-04-13	2007-11-19
	Cecilia Milow	Swedish writer and translator	1856	1946
	Brigitte Mral	German rhetoric theorist	1953
	Gun Widmark	Swedish linguist	1920-07-31	2013-10-26

Switzerland

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Marie-José Béguelin	Swiss linguist	1949-07-21
	Princess Fadia of Egypt	Egyptian princess	1943-12-15	2002-12-28
	Valérie de Gasparin	Swiss woman of letters	1813-09-13	1894-06-16
	Hannelore Lee-Jahnke	Swiss linguist	1945
	Lorenza Mondada	Swiss linguist	1963
	Catherine Trümpy	Swiss classical philologist and linguist	1956-01-08

Turkey

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Zeynep Ergun	Turkish linguist	1956
	Zeynep Korkmaz	Scientist	1922-07-05
	Jaklin Kornfilt	Linguist
	Sevin Okyay	Turkish writer and translator	1942
	A. Sumru Özsoy	Turkish academic and linguist
	Ekin Tunçay Turan	Turkish actress

United Kingdom

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Lilias Armstrong	British phonetician	1882-09-29	1937-12-09
	Sue Blackwell	British linguist	2000s
	Mary Boyce	British academic	1920-08-02	2006-04-04
	Eliza Marian Butler	English scholar of German; linguist and intellectual historian	1885-12-29	1959-11-13
	Angela Carter	English novelist	1940-05-07	1992-02-16
	Eve V. Clark	American linguist	1942-07-26
	Anna Morpurgo Davies	British professor and linguist	1937-06-21	2014-09-27
	Margaret Davis	British linguist	1942-02-15
	Helen Doron	British linguist and educator	1955-11-05
	Jane Ellen Harrison	British classical scholar, linguist and feminist	1850-09-09	1928-04-15 1928-04-16
	Margaret Hasluck	British scholar	1885-06-18	1948-10-18
	Cornelia Knight	English writer	1757	1837-12-17
	Ann Lambton	British historian	1912-02-08	2008-07-19
	Lucy Lloyd	British folklorist	1834-11-07	1914-08-31
	Bathsua Makin	English linguist and feminist writer	1600	1675
	Margaret Masterman	British linguist and philosopher	1910-05-04	1986-04-01
	April McMahon	British linguist	1964-04-30
	Barbara Reynolds	British academic	1914-06-13	2015-04-29
	Vera Rich	British poet	1936-04-24	2009-12-20
	Elizabeth Sara Sheppard	19th century British novelist, linguist, poet, and musician	1830	1862
	Mary Snell-Hornby	British-Austrian translator and scholar	1940-04-02
	Antonella Sorace	British-Italian linguist
	Elizabeth C. Traugott	American linguist	1939-04-09
	Ida C. Ward	British linguist	1880-10-04	1949-10-10
	Sylvia Townsend Warner	Writer, poet, activist	1893-12-06 1893	1978-05-01
	Gladys Yang	British translator	1919-01-19	1999-11-18
	Charlotte Mary Yonge	English writer	1823-08-11	1901-05-24

United States of America

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Barbara Abbott	American linguist
	Ann Bannon	Writer	1932-09-15
	Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig	American linguist
	Naomi Baron	American linguist
	Mary Beckman	American linguist
	Ursula Bellugi	American psychologist
	Andrea Berez-Kroeker	American documentary linguist	1972-05-15
	Renée A. Blake	American linguist
	Joan Bresnan	American linguist	1945-08-22
	Joan Bybee	American linguist	1945-02-11
	Rena Torres Cacoullos	Linguist	2000s
	Carol Chomsky	linguist	1930-07-01	2008-12-19
	Jennifer S. Cole	American linguist
	Jenny L. Davis	Chickasaw Linguist & Anthropologist	1982
	Ella Cara Deloria	Yankton Dakota Author	1889-01-31	1971-02-12
	Penelope Eckert	American sociolinguist	1942
	Suzette Haden Elgin	American linguist	1936-11-18	2015-01-27
	Susan M. Ervin-Tripp	American linguist	1927-06-27
	Pamela Faber	American/Spanish linguist	1950-02-27
	Carol Genetti	American linguist	1961
	Jean Berko Gleason	American psycholinguist	1931
	Adele Goldberg	American linguist	1963-11-09
	Bettina Gorton	Wife of Australian Prime Minister	1915-06-23	1983-10-02
	Lisa Green	American linguist
	Anna Gutto	Norwegian actor and director	1977
	Mary Haas	American linguist; studied historical linguistics, North American languages, Thai	1910-01-12	1996-05-17
	Kira Hall	American linguist and anthropologist	1962-10-10
	Anna Granville Hatcher	American linguist	1905	1978-06
	Shirley Heath	American linguist and anthropologist	1939-07-26
	Leanne Hinton	professor of linguistics
	Erika Hoff	American psycholinguistic and professor	1951-10-12
	LaVerne Jeanne	American linguist
	Gail Jefferson	American inventor	1938-04-22	2008-02-21
	Eliza Grew Jones	Christian missionary and lexicographer	1803-03-30	1838-03-28
	Renée Kahane	American philologist and linguist	1907-12-09	2002-12-10
	Frances Karttunen	American academic	1942
	Shannon M. Kent	American linguist	1993	01-16-2019
	Roberta Kevelson	American semiotics scholar	1931-11-04	1998-11-28
	Barbara Ann Kipfer	American linguist and lexicographer	1954
	Alice Kober	American classical scholar and archaeologist	1906-12-23	1950-05-16
	Robin Lakoff	professor and author	1942-11-27
	Diane Larsen-Freeman	applied linguist
	Rosina Lippi	Novelist, linguist	1956-01-14
	María Rosa Lida de Malkiel	Philologist	1910-11-07	1962-09-25
	Barbara McNamara	American linguist
	Norma Mendoza-Denton	sociolinguist and anthropologist	1968
	Lise Menn	American linguist	1941-12-28
	Marie Meyer	American linguist and spy	1897-04-07
	Marianne Mithun	American linguist	1946
	Pamela Munro	American lingusit	1947-05-23
	Susan J. Napier	Professor of the Japanese Program at Tufts University	1955-10-11
	Donna Jo Napoli	American children's writer and linguist	1948-02-28
	Margaret Noori	Ojibwe language teacher, poet, and linguist	1965
	Barbara Partee	American linguist	1940-06-23
	Meredith L. Patterson	American technologist, science fiction author, and journalist	1977-04-30
	Tatiana Proskouriakoff	American Mayanist scholar	1909-01-23	1985-08-30
	Irmengard Rauch	American linguist	1933-04-17
	Ivy Kellerman Reed	American author in the international language Esperanto	1877-07-08	1968-02-07
	Hazel Sampson	American linguist	1910-05-26	2014-02-04
	Katherine Siva Saubel	Indian leader and scholar	1920-03-07	2011-11-01
	Bambi Schieffelin	American linguist
	Deborah Tannen	American sociolinguist	1945-06-07
	Joan M. Tenenbaum	American academic	1945
	M. Carey Thomas	American suffragist	1857-01-02	1935-12-02
	Sarah Thomason	American linguist	2000s
	Marian Robertson Wilson	American musician and writer	1926	2013
	Mary Yee	American linguist	1897	1965
	Hiltgunt Zassenhaus	German philologist	1916-07-10	2004-11-20
	Ofelia Zepeda	American linguist	1954-03-24
	Jane Zuengler	American academic

Misc

	Name	Description	Birth date	Death date
	Erzsébet Abaffy	Hungarian linguist	1928-03-11
	Ana Agud		2000s
	Jean Aitchison	Linguist and writer	1938
	Tamara Akhmedova	linguist and professor	1924-12-27	2012-02-24
	Artemis Alexiadou	Greek professor and linguist	1969-02-13
	Jolanta Antas	Polish scientist/professor of linguistics/Jagiellonian University/kraków	1954
	Manjula Anwar	Bengali linguist
	Rosa Colomer Artigas		1966-06-05	2013-10-22
	Syeda Ummehani Ashraf	Linguist	1949-12-26
	B. T. S. Atkins	Professional lexicographer	1930-02-26
	Tista Bagchi	Indian linguist	1964-10-01
	Jessie Little Doe Baird	Linguist	1963-11-18
	Tanja Bakić	Poet, writer and translator	1981-09-14
	Giuseppa Barbapiccola	Italian writer	1702	1740
	Katherine Barber	Canadian lexiographer	1959
	Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi	Indian linguist	1916-09-17	2008-06-08
	Eloína Miyares Bermúdez	Cuban linguist	1928	2015
	Edith Bone	Hungarian aristocrat and writer	1889	1975
	Hagit Borer	American linguist
	Miriam Bras
	Rachel Bromwich	Scholar on medieval Welsh literature	1915-07-30	2010-12-15
	Ellen Broselow	experimental linguist
	Catherine Browman	American linguist	1945	2008
	Penelope Brown
	Mary Bucholtz	American linguist	1966-10-29
	Miriam Butt	Linguist	1966-02-27
	Deborah Cameron	British linguist	1958
	Elizabeth Carter	English poet, classicist, writer and translator	1717-12-16	1806-02-19
	Justine Cassell	American linguist, professor and human-computer interaction researcher	1960-03-19
	María Catrileo	Chilean linguist	1944
	Carole Chaski	American linguist	1955
	Jenny Cheshire	British linguist
	Marion Frances Chevalier	American linguist	1902-01-21	1990-02-17
	Lina Choueiri	Linguist
	Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin	Irish female poet and writer	1942-11-28
	Sandra Chung	American linguist
	Marina Colasanti	Brazilian writer and translator	1937-09-26
	Sara Coleridge	British writer	1802-12-23	1852-05-03
	Nancy Condee	American linguist
	Ellen Contini-Morava	Linguistic anthropologist
	Maria Cosniceanu	Moldovan linguist	1935-02-04
	Martha Crago	Canadian linguist
	E.J. Crevels	Dutch linguist
	Jean D'Costa	Jamaican writer and linguist	1937-01-13
	Susie Dent	Lexicographer	1967-09-21
	Güzin Dino	Turkish linguist	1910	2013-05-30
	Vitória Diogo	Mozambican linguist and politician	1960-01-31
	Nancy Dorian	American linguist	1936
	Rajna Dragićević	Serbian linguist, lexicologist, and lexicographer	1968
	Dulce Almada Duarte	Cape Verdean linguist and former resistance fighter	1933
	Ilona Duczyńska	Hungarian revolutionary historian	1897-03-11	1978-04-24
	Attie Duval	linguist and clinician	<some value>
	Arienne Dwyer	American linguist
	Vilma Sindona Eichholz	Canadian linguist and Esperantist	1926	1995-07-15
	Nora England	American Mesoamericanist	1946-11-08
	Stephanie Fielding	Linguist
	Maria Carme Junyent Figueras		1955
	Colleen Fitzgerald	American linguist
	Janet Dean Fodor	American psycholinguist	1942-04-02
	Regula Forster
	Mary LeCron Foster	American linguist	1914-02-01	2001-12-09
	Olga Freidenberg	Russian philosopher	1890-03-15	1955-07-06
	Victoria Fromkin	American linguist	1923-05-16	2000-02-19
	Susan Gal	Anthropologist and linguist	1949
	Constance Garnett	translator	1861-12-19	1946-12-17
	Henriette Gezundhajt	Professor of French linguistics	1963
	Jila Ghomeshi	Canadian linguist
	Zuzanna Ginczanka	Polish writer	1917-03-09	1945-01
	Eileen Glisan	American linguist
	Anna Maria Goldsmid	British translator and philanthropist	1805-09-17	1889-02-08
	Biljana Golubović		1971
	María Concepción Maldonado González		1962
	Miriam Urkia Gonzalez		1965
	Myrna Gopnik	Canadian psychologist and linguist
	Sarah Israelit Groll	Israeli Egyptologist	1925	2007
	Eliza Gutch	English folklore and dialect studies	1840	1931
	Maria Odulio de Guzman	Filipino educator and author
	Natalia Gvishiani	Russian linguist and scholar	1959-06-29
	Joumana Haddad	Lebanese poet, journalist and activist	1970-12-06
	Rhina Toruño Haensly	El Salvador linguist
	Nada El Hage	Lebanese writer
	Heidi Harley	American linguist	1969-09-26
	Alice Carmichael Harris	American linguist and caucasologist (b. 1947)	1947-11-23
	Irene Heim	American linguist
	Gabriella Hermon	Linguist
	Susan Herring	Linguist	1955-05-27
	Martha Hildebrandt	Peruvian politician and linguist	1925-01-13
	Elizabeth Hill	British linguist	1900-10-24	1996-12-17
	Jane H. Hill	American linguist	1939-10-27	2018-11-2
	Baroat Abdurahimovna Hodzhibaeva	Tajik linguist	1928-11-27
	Elizabeth V. Hume		1956-10-29
	Jennett Humphreys	British writer	1829	1917
	Sharon Inkelas	American linguist
	Nuala Níc Con Iomaire			2010-07-16
	Junko Itō	American linguist
	Ann-Marie Ivars	Finnish linguist	1941
	Milka Ivić	linguist	1923-12-11	2011-03-07
	Mathilde Jansen	Dutch linguist	1977-03-24
	Katarzyna Jaszczolt	British linguist
	Eloise Jelinek	American linguist	1924	2007
	Li Jinfang	Chinese linguist	1963-10
	Brigitte Jobbé-Duval	Historian and linguist
	Elizabeth Mary Jones	Welsh writer, called Moelona	1877-06-21	1953-06-05
	Maria Teresa Turell i Julià		1949	2013-04-24
	Jarmila Kalousková		1908-12-31	1989-04-27
	Olga Kapeliuk	Israeli linguist	1932
	Patricia Keating	American linguist
	Ksenia Kepping	Russian linguist	1937-02-07	2002-12-13
	Margarit Khachikyan	linguist	1949-02-25
	Hannah Kilham	Methodist missionary	1774-08-12	1832-03-31
	Verna Kirkness	Cree scholar and indigenous language proponent	1935
	Irena Klepfisz	Jewish Lesbian author and activist	1941-04-17
	Net Koene		1946
	Katalin Kováts	Hungarian linguist and Esperantist	1957-10-16
	Angelika Kratzer	American linguist
	Nataliya Aleksandrovna Kupina
	Sally Laird	British translator and editor	1956-05-02	2010-07-15
	Maite Lakar		1978-01-30
	Barbara Landau	Cognitive scientist
	Margaret Langdon	linguist, Native American languages		2005
	Vivien Law	Law, Vivien Anne, Lady Shackleton (1954–2002), linguistic scholar	1954 1954-03-22	2002 2002-02-20
	Jane Lee	Linguist and college administrator		1895
	Ilse Lehiste	American linguist	1922-01-31	2010-12-25
	Elisabeth Leinfellner	Austrian linguist	1938-10-14	2010-01-04
	Rochelle Lieber	American linguist
	Deborah Lifchitz	Expert on Semitic Ethiopian languages	1907	1942
	Jeannette Littlemore	linguist
	Emily Lorimer	Irish linguist	1881	1949
	Theraphan Luangthongkum	Thai academic
	Olga Luković-Pjanović	Serbian linguist	1920	1998-04-01
	Kovácsné József Magda		1942-07-01
	Olga Martincová	Czech linguist and lexicographer	1945
	Esther Martinez	Tewa language activist, linguist	1912	2006-09-16
	Sandra Lee McKay	American linguist
	Erin McKean	Lexicographer, dictionary editor	1971
	Miriam Meyerhoff	New Zealand sociolinguist.	1964-05-30
	Laura Michaelis	American linguist
	Giustina Renier Michiel	Venetian aristocrat	1755-10-14	1832-04-07
	Halina Mierzejewska	Polish linguist	1922	2003
	Vesna Mikolič		1965-02-25
	Lesley Milroy	American linguist
	Zara Mints	Russian literary scientist	1927-07-24	1990-10-25
	Mary Moffat	missionary, wife of Robert Moffat	1795	1871-01-09
	Jill Morford	Linguist
	Odille Morison	Canadian linguist	1855-07-17
	Amalie Münster	Danish poet	1767	1814
	Carol Myers-Scotton	Linguist	1934
	Samira Negrouche	writer	1980-09-13
	Johanna Nichols	American linguist
	Shaista Nuzhat	Pakistani linguist
	Cecile O'Rahilly	Irish language academic	1894-12-17	1980-05-02
	Olga Obukhova	Russian writer	1941-08-10
	Arika Okrent	American linguist
	Els Oksaar	Swedish docent and linguist	1926-10-01	2015-12-09
	Birgit Anette Olsen	Linguist	1944-04-02
	Elise Charlotte Otté	English linguist and historian	1818	1903
	Nina Grigorivna Ozerova	Ukrainian linguist
	Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė	Lithuanian politician	1944-04-06
	Maya Pencheva	Bulgarian linguist	1947-05-03
	Ellavina Perkins	American linguist
	Janet Pierrehumbert	American linguist
	Alicja Pihan-Kijasowa	Polish linguist	1950
	Monika Popiolek
	Shana Poplack	Canadian linguist
	Saveros Pou	Cambodian linguist	1929-08-24
	Ellen Prince	American linguist	1944	2010-10-24
	Karolina Proniewska	Polish writer	1828	1859
	Parashqevi Qiriazi	Albanian linguist	1880-06-02	1970
	Lea Ráskay	Hungarian woman scholar and Dominican nun
	Martha Ratliff	American linguist
	Najima Rhozali	Moroccan politician	1960
	Suzanne Romaine		1951
	Jana S. Rošker	Slovenian sinologist	1960-05-21
	Jane Helen Rowlands	linguist, teacher and missionary	1891	1955-02
	Fatima Sadiqi	Linguist
	Dora Sakayan	linguist specializing in Armenian language	1931-01-24
	Irene Saunders	American lexicographer
	Mihaela Secrieru	Literary scholar and linguist	1962-03-26
	Elena Semino	British linguist	1964-09-09
	Tamara Shakryl	Linguist; activist		2004
	Donna Shalev	American Israeli philologist and linguist	1964-04-15
	Patricia Alice Shaw	Canadian linguist
	Judy Shepard-Kegl	American linguist
	Murai Shimako	Japanese playwright	1928
	Chintha Lakshmi Sinhaarachchi	Writer
	Dorjana Širola	Croatian quizzer	1972-06-09
	Larisa Grigorevna Skripnik	Ukrainian linguist	1921-04-21	2004-08-13
	Adeline Smith	American linguist	1918-03-15	2013-03-19
	Eleanor Smith	Irish linguist and supporter of women's education	1822	1896
	L. Z. Sova	Russian linguist	1937-09-17
	Tamar Sovran	Hebrew Culture Studies researcher	1948
	Salamatou Sow	Nigerien anthropologist and linguist	1963-01-01
	Katja Špur	Slovenian writer	1908-11-20	1991-12-18
	Hripsime Srapyan		1928-12-28	2013-04-10
	Paulette Steeves		1955-11-25
	Hildegard Striedter-Temps	German linguist	1931-01-24	1972-04-18
	Thelma D. Sullivan	American Mesoamericanist	1918	1981
	Merrill Swain	language scholar
	Eve Sweetser	Professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley
	Clotilde Tambroni	Italian linguist	1758-06-29	1817-06-02
	Manana Tandaschwili		1960-05-22
	Marina Tarlinskaja	Russian linguist
	Elaine Tarone	American linguist
	Marie-Lucie Tarpent	Canadian linguist
	Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido	Filipino writer	1912	1994
	Zora Tavčar	writer, essayist and translator	1928-10-02
	Svetlana Ter-Minasova		1938-08-25
	Sandra Thompson	American linguist	1941-07-06
	Erika Timm	German linguist	1934
	Joan Lee Tu	Linguist	1981
	Joan Turville-Petre	British linguist	1911-05-10	2006-03-09
	Josiana Ubaud
	Igone Zabala Unzalu
	Anna Vainikka	Linguist
	Jacqueline Vaissière	French linguist
	Gertrude Vakar	Russian translator	1904	1973
	Reinhild Vandekerckhove	Belgian linguist	1969-01-17
	Ludmila Vassilyeva	Russian scholar	1942-05-23
	Zinayida Mikolayivna Veselovska	Ukrainian linguist	1900-07-04	1986-06-28
	Olga Vilímková		1960-07-04
	Margaret Mary Vojtko	American linguist, educator, polyglot, and labor unionist	1930-01-15	2013-09-01
	Erika Vouk	Poet and translator	1941
	Jadwiga Waniakowa	Polish linguist.	1964-07-11
	Marjory Wardrop	English historian	1869-11-11	1909-12-07
	Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik	Polish linguist	1961-04-25
	Lucille Watahomigie	Hualapai educator and linguist	1945
	Jill R. Webster		1931-09-29
	Agnes Wenman, Viscountess Wenman	British viscountess		1617
	Lydia White	Canadian linguist
	Rita Morgan Williams	English linguist
	Kay Williamson	British linguist	1935-01-26	2005-01-03
	Zora Wolfová	Czech translator from English	1928-02-20	2012-11-29
	Alison Wray	Welsh linguist
	Virginia Yip	Linguist
	Martha Young-Scholten	American /British linguist
	Annie Zaenen	American linguist	1941
	Irena Žerjal	writer, poet, translator	1940-04-20
	Niina Ning Zhang	Chinese linguist
	Milena Žic-Fuchs	Croatian scientist	1954-08-10
	Bina Štampe Žmavc	writes poems, prose and theatre plays	1951-10-04
	Բուրաստան Զուլումյան		1953-11-12
	Էթերի Թումանյան		1923-10-30
	Լիանա Հովսեփյան		1941-07-26
	Լեյլա Ստեփանյան