List of women linguists

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 center|50px Alicia María Zorrilla Argentinian linguist 1948-12-08

 Australia 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px Margaret Florey Australian linguist Luise Hercus Australian linguist 1926-01-16 Mabel Lee Australian linguist Raymattja Marika Australian aboriginal leader 1959 2008-05-11Felicity MeakinsAustralian linguist Wilga Rivers academic and writer from Australia 1919-04-13 2007-06-23 Jane Simpson Australian linguist center|50px Karen Stollznow Linguist, skeptic 1976-08-12

 Austria 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Maria Hornung Austrian linguist and dialectologist 1920-05-31 2010-06-26 Herta Maurer-Lausegger Carinthian Slovene linguist 1953-11-30 Ruth Wodak Austrian linguist 1950-07-12Susanne WurmbrandAustrian linguist1966

 Brazil 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Yeda Pessoa de Castro Brazilian ethnolinguist 1937 Lucy Seki Brazilian linguist 1941

 Canada 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px France Martineau Linguist 1960 Diane Massam Canadian linguist Monique Nemni Canadian linguist 1936 center|50px Keren Rice Canadian linguist 1949 Pierrette Vachon-L’Heureux Canadian linguist center|50px Marie-Éva de Villers Canadian linguist and lexicographer 1945-12-14

 Croatia 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px Snježana Kordić Croatian linguist 1964-10-29 Yvonne Vrhovac 1940

 Czech Republic 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px Věra Barandovská-Frank Czech esperantist 1952-08-17 center|50px Eva Hajičová Czech linguist 1935-08-23

 Denmark 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Una Canger Linguist 1938-05-14 Helle Vrønning Dam Danish linguist 2000s Eli Fischer-Jørgensen Linguist 1911-02-12 2010-02-27 Elin Fredsted Danish professor and linguist 1953 Pia Jarvad Danish lexicologist and linguist 1946-07-20

 Finland 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Kaisa Häkkinen Finnish linguist and professor 1950-11-17 center|50px Auli Hakulinen Finnish linguist 1941-03-10 Marja-Liisa Olthuis Inari Sámi scholar 1967-08-09 center|50px Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Finnish linguist 1940-07-06

 France 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Anne Abeillé French university professor 1962-09-13 Renée Balibar French linguist 1915 19981998-01 Denise Bernot Burmese academic 1922-02-04 2016-05-12 Joyce Blau orientalist 1932-03-18 Nina Catach French linguist 1923-07-14 19971997-10-25 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Éliane Viennot French historian center|50px Henriette Walter French linguist 1929

 Germany 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px Christa Dürscheid Linguist 1959-10-04 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo Hungarian linguist 1956-08-30 Katalin Fehértói Hungarian linguist (1925-2006) 1925-11-25 2006-05-12 center|50px 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 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Anvita Abbi Indian linguist, scholar 1949-01-09 center|50px 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 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Carina Jahani Iranian linguist 1959 Katayun Mazdapour Iranian linguist 1943-03-22 Fatemeh Rakeei Iranian politician, linguist, poet 1954 שרה סורודי Iranian linguist and writer Azita Afrashi Professor of Linguistics 1972 مهری باقری Iranian linguist 1945 گیتی دیهیم Iranian linguist زهره زرشناس Iranian linguist ویدا شقاقی Iranian linguist 1948 بدرالزمان قریب Iranian linguist 1929 سیمین کریمی Iranian professor and linguist ایران کلباسی Iranian linguist 1939 مهشید میرفخرایی Iranian linguist شهین نعمت‌زاده Iranian linguist

 Israel 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px Netiva Ben-Yehuda Israeli linguist 1928-07-26 2011-02-28 center|50px Ruth A. Berman Israeli linguist center|50px Tamar Eilam Gindin Israeli linguist center|50px Tanya Reinhart Israeli journalist 1943 2007-03-17 center|50px Tsvia Walden Israeli linguist 1946-10-20

 Italy 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px 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 center|50px 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 1949-08-14Raffaella ZanuttiniItalian linguist

 Japan 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Naoko Aoki Japanese linguist Tomoko Yashima Japanese linguist

 Kingdom of the Netherlands 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px Mariëtte Hamer Dutch politician, civil servant, educator, trade union leader 1958-06-07 Anna Siewierska British linguist 1955-12-25 2011-08-06 center|50px Nicoline Sijs Dutch linguist 1955-04-01 Marijke Verbrugge-Breeuwsma Dutch linguist 1966

 Latvia 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Anna Ābele Latvian linguist (1881-1975) 1881-05-01 1975-09-09 Rasma Grīsle Latvian linguist 1922-01-19 Edīte Hauzenberga-Šturma Latvian linguist (1901-1983) 1901-11-24 1983-03-28 Aija Priedīte Latvian linguist 1942-07-03 Marta Rudzīte Latvian linguist (1924-1996) 1924-11-04 1996-07-19 Anna Stafecka Latvian linguist 1953-12-15

 Mexico 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen Mexican lexicographer, linguist, educator, and poet 1899-04-16 1979-05-12 Yolanda Lastra Mexican linguist 1932

Netherlands
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Marijn van Dijk Dutch applied linguist Marjolijn Verspoor Dutch applied linguist

 Norway 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Helene Uri writer and linguist 1964-12-11

 People's Republic of China 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Zhu Min Chinese linguist 1926-04-18 2009-04-13 Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun Linguist 1958

 Philippines 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Josephine Acosta Pasricha Filipino indologist 1945-03-26 Pura Santillan-Castrence Filipino writer and diplomat 1905-03-24 2007-01-15

 Poland 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px Alicja Sakaguchi Polish linguist and university professor 1954 center|50px Zuzanna Topolińska Polish linguist 1931-01-09 Anna Wierzbicka Polish linguist 1938-03-10

 Romania 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px 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 center|50px Iulia Hasdeu Romanian poet 1869-11-14 1888-09-29 Rallou Karatza Romanian culture personality / Greek actor and director 17781799 1870 center|50px Monica Lovinescu Romanian writer 1923-11-19 2008-04-20 center|50px Mărgărita Miller-Verghy Romanian socialite and author 1865-01-01 1953-12-31 center|50px Olga Murvai 1942-10-10 2011-10-30 Mona Muscă Romanian politician 1949-05-04 center|50px Laura Pavel Romanian writer 1968-10-19 center|50px Laura Poantă Romanian physician, writer and artist 1971-03-10 Livia Ana Tătaru German linguist 1927-07-15

 Russia 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px Yelena Bazhenova Russian linguist and philologist 1958-12-29 center|50px Elena Berezovich Russian linguist 1966-01-02 Tatyana Elizarenkova Russian linguist 1929-09-17 2007-09-05 center|50px Tamara Erofeyeva Russian linguist 1937-06-29 Olga Frolova Russian orientalist and linguist 1931 Elena Kostioukovitch Russian writer 1958 center|50px Mariya Pavlovna Kotyurova Russian philologist and linguist 1939-04-26 center|50px Svetlana Leonidovna Mishlanova Russian physician and linguist 1965-11-27 center|50px Natalia O'Shea Russian musician and linguist 1976-09-03 center|50px Irina Ovchinnikova Russian linguist 1960-05-09 center|50px Yelena Perekhvalskaya Russian linguist 1954-03-04 center|50px Elena Nikolaevna Poljakova Russian linguist, slavicist and dialectologist 1932-05-26 Galina Yershova Russian academic 1955-03-17 center|50px Anna Zaliznyak Russian linguist 1959-09-10

 Russian Empire 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Mariya Aleksandrovna Genkel Soviet linguist 1910-05-06 2001-03-14 center|50px Liubov Gurevich Russian writer 1866-11-01 1940-10-17 center|50px Sophia Parnok Russian writer 1885-08-11 1933-08-26 center|50px Elizaveta Polonskaya Soviet writer 1890-06-26 1969-01-11 center|50px 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 center|50px Lidia Veselitskaya Russian writer 1857-03-17 1936-02-23 center|50px Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova Russian author and woman of letters 1743-03-17 1810-01-04 Wera Iwanowna Zinzius Russian linguist 1903 1981

 Slovakia 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Želmíra Gašparíková slovak linguist and writer 1901-01-18 1966-12-15 center|50px Mira Nábělková Slovak linguist 1956-03-30

 Slovenia 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px Ada Vidovič Muha Slovene linguist 1940-03-08 center|50px Martina Orožen 1931-10-12 center|50px Breda Pogorelec Slovene linguist 1928-01-01 2006-07-21 center|50px Alenka Puhar Slovenian historian and journalist 1945-02-04 center|50px Vera Smole linguist from Slovenia 1960-06-02 center|50px Zinka Zorko Slovene linguist and dialectologist 1936-02-24

 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Draga Ahačič Slovene actress, film director, translator and publicist. 1924-07-06 Ksenija Milošević Yugoslav linguist 1933-08-21 1992

 South Africa 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px Dorothea Bleek German anthropologist and philologist 1873-03-26 1948-06-27 Olga Kirsch Israeli poet in Afrikaans 1924-09-23 1997-06-05 center|50px Antjie Krog South African writer and academic 1952-10-23 Dorothea van Zyl

 Soviet Union 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px Anna Abrikosova Soviet linguist 1882-01-23 1936-07-23 Alexandra Aikhenvald Linguist 1957-09-01 center|50px 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 center|50px Elena Fanailova Russian writer 1962-12-19 center|50px Iryna Farion Ukrainian politician 1964-04-292024-07-19 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 center|50px Irina Kobozeva Soviet linguist center|50px 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 center|50px Inna Meiman-Kitrossky Soviet philologist 1932-10-16 1987-02-09 center|50px Elena Mestergazi Russian academic 1967-09-08 Olga Danilovna Mitrofanova Russian linguist 1930-08-25 Revzina Olga Soviet philologist and linguist 1939-04-21 center|50px Elena Oznobkina Russian philosopher and human rights activist 1959-04-25 2010-03-14 center|50px Marina Palei Russian writer 1955-02-01 center|50px 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 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date center|50px Gabriela Bustelo Spanish author and translator 1962 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Lourdes Oñederra writer and linguist 1958-06-09 Maria Josep Cuenca Ordinyana Spanish linguist and professor 1964 center|50px María Goyri de Menéndez Pidal Spanish hispanist 1873 1955 Blanca Serra i Puig Spanish linguist and historian 1942 center|50px Esther Regina Spanish actress 2000s center|50px Immaculada Cerdà Sanchis 1965-05-17 center|50px Carmen Caffarel Serra Spanish linguist 1953 center|50px Miren Azkarate Villar Spanish politician 1955-11-27

 Sweden 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Christina Berger Swedish writer 1784-08-21 1852-05-25 Anna Bülow writer, translator, abbess 1519 center|50px 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 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Marie-José Béguelin Swiss linguist 1949-07-21 Princess Fadia of Egypt Egyptian princess 1943-12-15 2002-12-28 center|50px 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 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Zeynep Ergun Turkish linguist 1956 Zeynep Korkmaz Scientist 1922-07-05 Jaklin Kornfilt Linguist center|50px Sevin Okyay Turkish writer and translator 1942 A. Sumru Özsoy Turkish academic and linguist Ekin Tunçay Turan Turkish actress

 United Kingdom 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath 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 center|50px Margaret Davis British linguist 1942-02-15 center|50px Helen Doron British linguist and educator 1955-11-05 center|50px Jane Ellen Harrison British classical scholar, linguist and feminist 1850-09-09 1928-04-151928-04-16 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 center|50px Lucy Lloyd British folklorist 1834-11-07 1914-08-31 center|50px Bathsua Makin English linguist and feminist writer 1600 1675 Margaret Masterman British linguist and philosopher 1910-05-04 1986-04-01 April McMahon British linguist1964-04-30 Barbara Reynolds British academic 1914-06-13 2015-04-29 center|50px 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 1893-12-061893 1978-05-01 center|50px Gladys Yang British translator 1919-01-19 1999-11-18 center|50px Charlotte Mary Yonge English writer 1823-08-11 1901-05-24

 United States of America 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Barbara Abbott American linguist center|50px Ann Bannon Writer 1932-09-15 Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig American linguist Naomi Baron American linguist Mary Beckman American linguist Ursula Bellugi American psychologistAndrea Berez-KroekerAmerican documentary linguist1972-05-15 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 1971-02-12Penelope EckertAmerican sociolinguist1942 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 center|50px Jean Berko Gleason American psycholinguist 1931 Adele Goldberg American linguist 1963-11-09 center|50px Bettina Gorton Wife of Australian Prime Minister 1915-06-23 1983-10-02Lisa GreenAmerican 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 center|50px Leanne Hinton professor of linguisticsErika HoffAmerican psycholinguistic and professor1951-10-12 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 center|50px Rosina Lippi Novelist, linguist 1956-01-14 center|50px María Rosa Lida de Malkiel Philologist 1910-11-07 1962-09-25Joan MalingAmerican linguist1946-11 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Barbara Partee American linguist 1940-06-23 center|50px Meredith L. Patterson American technologist, science fiction author, and journalist 1977-04-30 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Deborah Tannen American sociolinguist 1945-06-07 Joan M. Tenenbaum American academic 1945 center|50px M. Carey Thomas American suffragist 1857-01-02 1935-12-02 center|50px 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 
NameDescriptionBirth dateDeath date Erzsébet Abaffy Hungarian linguist 1928-03-11 Ana Agud 2000s Jean Aitchison Linguist and writer 1938 center|50px 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 center|50px Tanja Bakić Poet, writer and translator 1981-09-14 center|50px Giuseppa Barbapiccola Italian writer 1702 1740 Katherine Barber Canadian lexiographer 1959 center|50px 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 center|50px Miriam Butt Linguist 1966-02-27 Deborah Cameron British linguist 1958 center|50px 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 center|50px Marina Colasanti Brazilian writer and translator 1937-09-26 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px 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> center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Martha Hildebrandt Peruvian politician and linguist 1925-01-13 Elizabeth Hill British linguist 1900-10-24 1996-12-17 Jane H. Hill American linguist 1939-10-272018-11-2 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Ksenia Kepping Russian linguist 1937-02-07 2002-12-13 Margarit Khachikyan linguist 1949-02-25 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 19541954-03-22 20022002-02-20 Jane Lee Linguist and college administrator 1895 center|50px Ilse Lehiste American linguist 1922-01-31 2010-12-25 center|50px 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 center|50px Erin McKean Lexicographer, dictionary editor 1971 Miriam Meyerhoff New Zealand sociolinguist. 1964-05-30 center|50px Laura Michaelis American linguist center|50px Giustina Renier Michiel Venetian aristocrat 1755-10-14 1832-04-07 Halina Mierzejewska Polish linguist 1922 2003 center|50px Vesna Mikolič 1965-02-25 Lesley Milroy American linguist Zara Mints Russian literary scientist 1927-07-24 1990-10-25 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Janet Pierrehumbert American linguist center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Fatima Sadiqi Linguist center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Clotilde Tambroni Italian linguist 1758-06-29 1817-06-02 center|50px 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 center|50px 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 center|50px Marjory Wardrop English historian 1869-11-11 1909-12-07 center|50px Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik Polish linguist 1961-04-25 Lucille Watahomigie Hualapai educator and linguist 1945 Jill R. 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