# List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary

The following writers contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary.

## Chief editors

Chief editors of the OED :
| Name | Dates of chief editorship | Notes |
| Herbert Coleridge | 1858–61 | Preliminary work. Died in office. |
| Frederick J. Furnivall | 1861–70 | Preliminary work. Resigned. |
| James Murray | 1879–1915 | 1st edition. Died in office. |
| Henry Bradley | 1915–23 | 1st edition. Joined 1887. Died in office. |
| William Craigie | 1923–33 | 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Onions. Joined 1901. |
| Charles Talbut Onions | 1923–33 | 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Craigie. Joined 1914. |
| Robert Burchfield | 1957–86 | 2nd Supplement |
| Edmund Weiner | 1985–89 | 2nd edition jointly with Simpson; also worked on 3rd edition. Joined 1977. |
| John Simpson | 1985–2013 | 2nd edition jointly with Weiner; 3rd edition chief editor from 1993. Joined 1976. |
| Michael Proffitt | 2013– | 3rd edition. Joined 1989. |

## Other contributors

* Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham
* Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet
* George Latimer Apperson
* Edward Arber
* Henry Spencer Ashbee
* John Christopher Atkinson
* Clarence Barnhart
* George Fielding Blandford
* Katherine Harris Bradley
* James Britten
* Elizabeth Brown
* Thomas Nadauld Brushfield
* Ingram Bywater
* Robert William Chapman
* Albert Huntington Chester
* Andrew Clark (priest)
* Edith Emma Cooper
* Edward Dowden
* Thomas Messinger Drown
* Robert Druitt
* Jonathan Eastwood
* Alexander John Ellis
* Robinson Ellis
* Frederick Thomas Elworthy
* Daniel Silvan Evans
* Wendell Phillips Garrison
* Peter Gilliver
* Alexander Balloch Grosart
* Fitzedward Hall
* Beatrice Harraden
* Joyce Hawkins
* William Carew Hazlitt
* Richard Oliver Heslop
* William Ballantyne Hodgson
* Clement Mansfield Ingleby
* Benjamin Daydon Jackson
* Benjamin Jowett
* Thomas Hewitt Key
* Friedrich Kluge
* Marghanita Laski
* John Knox Laughton
* John Wickham Legg
* Henry Liddell
* Augustus Edward Hough Love
* Falconer Madan
* Frederic William Maitland
* Francis March
* David Samuel Margoliouth
* George Perkins Marsh
* Eleanor Marx
* Paul Meyer
* William Chester Minor
* William Morfill
* Anna Morpurgo Davies
* Edward Ellis Morris
* Richard Morris
* Horatio Mosley Moule
* Max Müller
* H. J. R. Murray
* Margaret Murray
* Eadweard Muybridge
* Arthur Napier
* Alfred Newton
* Edward Nicholson
* Edward Peacock
* Flinders Petrie
* John Thompson Platts
* Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
* Frederick York Powell
* L. F. Powell
* Hereward Thimbleby Price
* Richard Bissell Prosser
* Philip Pye-Smith
* John Rhys
* John Richardson
* Charles Pierre Henri Rieu
* Henry Roscoe
* William Michael Rossetti
* Jesse Sheidlower
* Walter William Skeat
* William Barclay Squire
* John Stainer
* W. H. Stevenson
* William Stubbs
* Edward Sugden
* Charles William Sutton
* Henry Sweet
* Joseph Robson Tanner
* William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
* J. R. R. Tolkien
* Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache
* Lucy Toulmin Smith
* Paget Toynbee
* Richard Chenevix Trench
* Henry Frederic Turle
* Edward Burnett Tylor
* Herbert Warren
* Hensleigh Wedgwood
* Richard Francis Weymouth
* Richard Grant White
* William Dwight Whitney
* R. J. Whitwell
* Joseph Wright
* Charlotte Mary Yonge
* Henry Yule
* Ghil'ad Zuckermann