Linguist (disambiguation)

A linguist is a person who studies Linguistics.

Some noted linguists are:

• Leonard Bloomfield (1887 - 1949) American
• Franz Boas (1858-1942) American
• Franz Bopp (1791-1867) German
• Noam Chomsky (1928- ) American
• Umberto Eco (1932- ) Italian
• Joseph_H._Greenberg (1914-2001) American
• Jakob Grimm(1785-1863) German
• Michael Halliday (1925- ) Australian
• Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (1906-1992) American
• Charles F. Hockett (1914-2000) American
• Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) Czech
• Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) Danish
• Sir William Jones(1746-1794) English
• Sidney M. Lamb (1929- ) American
• Carl Richard Lepsius (1810-1884) German
• Clement Martyn Doke (1893-1980) South African
• Carl Meinhof (1857-1944) German
• Holger Pedersen (1867-1953) Danish
• Kenneth L. Pike (1912-2000) American
• Edward Sapir (1884-1939) American
• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) Swiss
• Diedrich Westermann (1875-1956) German
• Benjamin Whorf (1897-1941) American