List of women linguists
This is a list of women linguists.
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| Name | Description | Birth | Death | Country | Image |
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| Luise Hercus | 1926-01-16 | Australia | |||
| A. Sumru Özsoy | Turkish academic and linguist | ||||
| Aale Tynni | Finnish poet | 1913-10-03 | 1997-10-21 | Finland |  |
| Acija Alfirević | Writer and literary translator | 1951-08-12 | |||
| Ada Adler | Danish classical scholar | 1878-02-18 | 1946-12-28 | Denmark |  |
| Ada María Elflein | Argentine writer | 1880-02-22 | 1919-07-24 | Argentina |  |
| Adele Goldberg | American linguist | 1963-11-09 | United States of America | ||
| Adeline Smith | American linguist | 1918-03-15 | 2013-03-19 | ||
| Aditi Lahiri | German linguist | 1952-07-14 | India | ||
| Agnes Wenman, Viscountess Wenman | British viscountess | 1617 | |||
| Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun | Linguist | 1958 | People's Republic of China | ||
| Aki Shimazaki | Canadian writer | 1954 | Canada | ||
| Albena Bakratcheva | Bulgarian Americanist | 1961-07-03 | Bulgaria |  | |
| Alejandra Pizarnik | Argentinian poet | 1936-04-29 | 1972-09-25 | Argentina |  |
| Alenka Puhar | Slovenian historian and journalist | 1945-02-04 | Slovenia |  | |
| Alexandra Aikhenvald | Linguist | 1957-09-01 | Soviet Union Australia |
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| Alice Carmichael Harris | American linguist and caucasologist (b. 1947) | 1947-11-23 | |||
| Alice Kober | American classical scholar and archaeologist | 1906-12-23 | 1950-05-16 | United States of America | |
| Alicia Nitecki | American writer and academic | 1942-01-02 | United States of America |  | |
| Alicja Sakaguchi | Polish linguist and university professor | 1954 | Poland |  | |
| Alison Wray | Welsh linguist | ||||
| Amalie Münster | Danish poet | 1767 | 1814 | ||
| Amanda Aizpuriete | Poet and translator | 1956-03-28 | Latvia | ||
| Ambujam Ammal | Indian linguist and veena player | 1899-01-08 | |||
| Ana Cristina Cesar | Brazilian poet and translator | 1952-06-02 | 1983-10-29 | Brazil | |
| Anabel Torres | Colombian writer | 1948-12-26 | Colombia | ||
| Anandmurti Gurumaa | Indian spiritual teacher | 1966-04-08 | India |  | |
| Angela Carter | English novelist | 1940-05-07 | 1992-02-16 | United Kingdom | |
| Angelika Kratzer | American linguist | ||||
| Ann Bannon | Writer | 1932-09-15 | United States of America |  | |
| Ann Lambton | British historian | 1912-02-08 | 2008-07-19 | United Kingdom | |
| Ann-Marie Ivars | Finnish linguist | 1941 | |||
| Anna Abrikosova | 1882-01-23 | 1936-07-23 | Soviet Union |  | |
| Anna Bagriana | writer and poet | 1981-03-24 | Ukraine |  | |
| Anna Bülow | writer, translator, abbess | 1519 | Sweden | ||
| Anna Catharina Materna | Danish actor and playwright | 1731-01-25 | 1757-09-03 | Denmark |  |
| Anna Gutto | Norwegian actor and director | 1977 | United States of America | ||
| Anna Maria Goldsmid | British translator and philsnthropist | 1805-09-17 | 1889-02-08 | ||
| Anna Morpurgo Davies | British professor and linguist | 1937-06-21 | 2014-09-27 | United Kingdom | |
| Anna Siewierska | British linguist | 1955-12-25 | 2011-08-06 | Netherlands | |
| Anna Swanwick | British writer | 1813-06-22 | 1899-11-02 | United Kingdom | |
| Anna V. Dybo | Russian linguist | 1959-06-04 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Anna Vainikka | Linguist | ||||
| Anna Wierzbicka | Polish linguist | 1938-03-10 | Poland Australia |
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| Anne Bignan | French poet | 1795-08-03 | 1861-11-27 | France | |
| Anne Carson | Canadian poet | 1950-06-21 | Canada | ||
| Anne Dacier | French scholar and translator | 1645 | 1720-08-17 | France |  |
| Anne Holtsmark | Norwegian professor of Old Norse studies | 1896-06-21 | 1974-05-19 | Norway | |
| Anne-Lisa Amadou | Norwegian literary researcher | 1930-03-04 | 2002-03-19 | Norway | |
| Anne-Marie Albiach | French poet and translator | 1937-08-09 | 2012-11-04 | France | |
| Anne-Marie de Backer | French writer | 1908-11-02 | 1987-07-05 | France | |
| Anneke Brassinga | writer | 1948-08-20 | Netherlands |  | |
| Anneli Ute Gabanyi | Romanian-born German political scientist, literary critic, journalist, and philologist | 1942-10-18 | Germany | ||
| Annemarie von Gabain | German linguist and art historian | 1901-03-04 | 1993-01-15 | Germany | |
| Annie Finch | American poet | 1956-10-31 | United States of America | ||
| Annie Zaenen | American linguist | 1941 | |||
| Annis Lee Wister | United States translator | 1830-10-09 | 1908-11-15 | ||
| Antjie Krog | South African writer and academic | 1952-10-23 | South Africa |  | |
| Anvita Abbi | Indian linguist, scholar | 1949-01-09 | |||
| Arienne Dwyer | American linguist | ||||
| Arika Okrent | American linguist | ||||
| Assia Djebar | Algerian writer and film director | 1936-06-30 | 2015-02-06 | France |  |
| Aster Ganno | Ethiopian Bible translator | 1872 | 1964 | ||
| Astrid Sverresdotter Dypvik | Norwegian journalist and linguist | 1977-10-19 | Norway | ||
| Augusta, Lady Gregory | Irish playwright, poet, folklorist | 1852-03-15 | 1932-05-22 | Ireland |  |
| Augustina Stridsberg | American writer and spy for the soviets | 1892-08-27 | 1978 | Sweden | |
| Auli Hakulinen | Finnish linguist | 1941-03-10 | Finland |  | |
| Azarmi Dukht Safavi | Indian linguist | 1948 | India | ||
| Azra Erhat | Turkish writer | 1915-06-06 | 1982-09-06 | Turkey |  |
| B. T. S. Atkins | Professional lexicographer | 1930-02-26 | |||
| Babette Deutsch | American writer | 1895-09-22 | 1982-11-13 | United States of America | |
| Bambi Schieffelin | American linguist | United States of America | |||
| Barbara Abbott | American linguist | ||||
| Barbara Ann Kipfer | American linguist and lexicographer | 1954 | United States of America | ||
| Barbara Godard | Canadian academic and translator | 1942 | 2010-05-16 | Canada | |
| Barbara Johnson | American literary critic | 1947-10-04 | 2009-08-27 | United States of America | |
| Barbara Landau | Cognitive scientist | ||||
| Barbara McNamara | American linguist | United States of America |  | ||
| Barbara Partee | American linguist | 1940-06-23 | United States of America |  | |
| Barbara Reynolds | British academic | 1914-06-13 | 2015-04-29 | ||
| Barbara Wright | English translator | 1915-10-13 | 2009-03-03 | ||
| Bathsua Makin | English linguist and feminist writer | 1600 | 1675 | United Kingdom | |
| Bertha Sneck | American linguist, journalist and translator | 1916-12-03 | 2010-03-01 | United States of America | |
| Bettina Gorton | Wife of Australian Prime Minister | 1915-06-23 | 1983-10-02 | United States of America | |
| Bhargavi Rao | Indian Telugu language writer and translator | 1944-08-14 | 2008-05-23 | India | |
| Bina Štampe Žmavc | writes poems, prose and theatre plays | 1951-10-04 |  | ||
| Birgit Anette Olsen | Linguist | 1944-04-02 | |||
| Brigitte D'Ortschy | German Buddhist architect | 1921-05-31 | 1990-07-09 | Germany |  |
| Brigitte Jobbé-Duval | Historian and linguist | ||||
| Brigitte Mral | German rhetoric theorist | 1953 | Sweden | ||
| C. M. Mayo | American writer | United States of America |  | ||
| Carla Bazzanella | Italian linguist | 1947-08-06 | Italy | ||
| Carme Forcadell | Profession Professor of Catalan language and literature, writer | 1956 | Spain |  | |
| Carol Chomsky | linguist | 1930-07-01 | 2008-12-19 | United States of America |  |
| Carol Genetti | American linguist | United States of America | |||
| Carol Myers-Scotton | Linguist | 1934 | |||
| Carole Chaski | American linguist | 1955 | |||
| Catherine A. Fitzpatrick | American writer and activist | 1956 | United Kingdom |  | |
| Catherine Browman | American linguist | 1945 | 2008 | ||
| Catherine Malabou | French philosopher | 1959 | France | ||
| Catherine Perret | French philosopher | 1956-07-09 | France |  | |
| Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen | Norwegian linguist | 1942-12-18 | Norway | ||
| Cathy Berberian | Singer | 1925-07-04 | 1983-03-06 | United States of America | .jpg) |
| Cecile O'Rahilly | irish language acaedmic | 1894-12-17 | 1980-05-02 | ||
| Cecilia Milow | Swedish writer and translator | 1856 | 1946 | Sweden | |
| Chandrika Balan | Indian bilingual writer | 1954-01-17 | India |  | |
| Charlotte Brooke | Irish writer | 1740 | 1793 | Kingdom of Ireland | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge | English writer | 1823-08-11 | 1901-05-24 | United Kingdom |  |
| Chintha Lakshmi Sinhaarachchi | Writer | ||||
| Christa Dürscheid | Linguist | 1959-10-04 | Germany |  | |
| Christiane Fellbaum | American linguist | 1950 | Germany | ||
| Christiane Nord | German translation scholar | 1943-09-13 | Germany | ||
| Christina Berger | Swedish writer | 1784-08-21 | 1852-05-25 | Sweden | |
| Christina Kramer | Canadian linguist | Canada | |||
| Claire Bowern | Australian linguist | Australia | |||
| Clara Bell | English translator | 1834 | 1927 | ||
| Clara Holst | Norwegian academic | 1868-06-04 | 1935-11-15 | Norway |  |
| Clara Janés | Spanish translator | 1940-11-06 | Spain | ||
| Clara Nordström | German wrriter and translator | 1886-01-18 | 1962 | Germany | |
| Claribel Alegría | Nicaraguan writer | 1924-05-12 | Nicaragua El Salvador |
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| Clotilde Tambroni | Italian linguist | 1758-06-29 | 1817-06-02 | Italy |  |
| Clémence Royer | French philosopher | 1830-04-21 | 1902-02-06 | France |  |
| Clémentine Nzuji | Congolese poet | 1944-01-21 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
| Cole Swensen | Poet, translator, editor, professor | 1955-10-22 | United States of America | ||
| Colleen Fitzgerald | American linguist | ||||
| Constance Bache | British musician | 1846-03-11 | 1903-06 | United Kingdom | |
| Constance Cox | Canadian interpreter | 1881 | 1960 | Canada | |
| Constance Dima | Greek writer | 1948-08-18 | Greece | ||
| Constance Garnett | translator | 1861-12-19 | 1946-12-17 | ||
| Coral Bracho | Mexican poet and translator | 1951-05-22 | Mexico | ||
| Cornelia Knight | English writer | 1757 | 1837-12-17 | United Kingdom | |
| Cristina Peri Rossi | Uruguayan writer | 1941-11-12 | Uruguay Spain |
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| Dagmar Normet | Estonian writer | 1921-02-13 | 2008-10-16 | Estonia | |
| Dahlia Ravikovitch | Israeli poet | 1936-11-17 | 2005-08-21 | Israel |  |
| Davida Karol | actress | 1917-06-20 | 2011-12-09 | Israel | |
| Deanna Hammond | Canadian-American translator and linguist | 1942 | 1997 | ||
| Deborah Cameron | British linguist | 1958 | |||
| Deborah Lifchitz | Expert on Semitic Ethiopian languages | 1907 | 1942 | ||
| Deborah Tannen | American sociolinguist | 1945-06-07 | United States of America | ||
| Delia Grigore | Romanian Romani writer, philologist, academic and Romani rights activist | 1972-02-07 | Romania | ||
| Denise Bernot | Burmese academic | 1922-02-04 | France | ||
| Diane Massam | Canadian linguist | Canada | |||
| Ditlevine Feddersen | Norwegian poet, translator | 1727 | 1803 | Norway | |
| Dominique Mainard | French translator and writer | 1967 | France | ||
| Donna Gerdts | American linguist | Canada | |||
| Donna Jo Napoli | American children's writer and linguist | 1948-02-28 | United States of America | ||
| Donna Shalev | American Israeli philologist and linguist | 1964-04-15 | |||
| Dora Gabe | Bulgarian writer | 1886-08-26 | 1983-11-16 | Bulgaria | .jpg) |
| Dora Sakayan | linguist specializing in Armenian language | 1931-01-24 |  | ||
| Doris Bartholomew | American linguist | 1930 | United States of America | ||
| Doris Debenjak | Slovene linguist and translator | 1936-08-05 | 2013-09-21 |  | |
| Dorjana Širola | Croatian quizzer | 1972-06-09 | |||
| Dorothea Biehl | Danish writer and translator | 1731-06-02 | 1788-05-17 | Denmark |  |
| Dorothea Bleek | German anthropologist and philologist | 1873-03-26 | 1948-06-27 | South Africa |  |
| Dorothea Tieck | German translator | 1799 | 1841 | Germany |  |
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher | American author and social activist | 1879-02-17 | 1958-11-09 | United States of America |  |
| Draga Ahačič | Slovene actress, film director, translator and publicist. | 1924-07-06 | Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | ||
| Dymphna Clark | Australian language scholar, wife of historian Manning Clark | 1916-12-18 | 2000-05-12 | Australia | |
| Dzvinia Orlowsky | American writer and academic | United States of America |  | ||
| Ea Jansen | Estonian historian | 1921-11-14 | 2005-04-20 | Estonia | |
| Edith Bone | Hungarian aristocrat and writer | 1889 | 1975 | ||
| Edith Grossman | American translator | 1936-03-22 | United States of America | _(cropped).jpg) | |
| Edith Pargeter | British writer | 1913-09-28 | 1995-10-14 | United Kingdom |  |
| Edith Stein | Jewish-German nun, theologian and philosopher | 1891-10-12 | 1942-08-09 | Germany |  |
| Edna W. Underwood | American writer and translator | 1873 | 1961 | United States of America | |
| Eeva-Liisa Manner | Finnish writer | 1921-12-05 | 1995-07-07 | Finland | |
| Eileen Glisan | American linguist | ||||
| Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Irish female poet and writer | 1942-11-28 | Ireland | ||
| Einfrid Perstølen | Norwegian psychiatrist | 1917-06-15 | Norway | ||
| Ekin Tunçay Turan | Turkish actress | Turkey | |||
| Elaine Tarone | American linguist | ||||
| Elena Berezovich | Russian linguist | 1966-01-02 | Russia |  | |
| Elena Fanailova | Russian writer | 1962-12-19 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Elena Kostioukovitch | Russian writer | 1958 | Russia | ||
| Elena Mestergazi | Swedish academic | 1967-09-08 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Elena Oznobkina | Russian philosopher and human rights activist | 1959-04-25 | 2010-03-14 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Elena Semino | British linguist | 1964-09-09 | |||
| Elena Văcărescu | Romanian writer | 1868-09-21 | 1947-02-17 | France Romania |
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| Eli Fischer-Jørgensen | Linguist | 1911-02-12 | 2010-02-27 | Denmark | |
| Eli Krog | Norwegian publicist and translator | 1891 | 1970 | Norway | |
| Elisabet Engdahl | Swedish linguist | 1949-04-10 | Sweden | ||
| Elisabeth Couperus-Baud | Dutch writer | 1867-10-30 | 1960-03-18 | Netherlands |  |
| Elisabeth Leinfellner | Austrian linguist | 1938-10-14 | 2010-01-04 |  | |
| Elisabeth of Lorraine | German noblewoman and pioneer of the prose novel | 1395 | 1456-01-17 |  | |
| Elisabeth of Wied | Romanian writer | 1843-12-29 | 1916-02-18 1916-03-02 |
Germany |  |
| Elisabeth Piirainen | German linguist | 1943 | Germany | ||
| Elise Charlotte Otté | English linguist and historian | 1818 | 1903 | ||
| Elise Reimarus | German scholar | 1735-01-22 | 1805-09-04 | Germany |  |
| Eliza Grew Jones | Christian missionary and lexicographer | 1803-03-30 | 1838-03-28 | United States of America | |
| Eliza Gutch | English folklore and dialect studies | 1840 | 1931 | ||
| Eliza Marian Butler | English scholar of German; linguist and intellectual historian | 1885-12-29 | 1959-11-13 | United Kingdom | |
| Elizabeth Anne Finn | founder of Elizabeth Finn Care; wife of James Finn, British Consul in Jerusalem | 1825-03-14 | 1921-01-18 | United Kingdom | |
| Elizabeth Benger | British writer | 1775-06-15 | 1827-01-09 | United Kingdom | |
| Elizabeth C. Traugott | American linguist | 1939-04-09 | United Kingdom | ||
| Elizabeth Carter | English poet, classicist, writer and translator | 1717-12-16 | 1806-02-19 |  | |
| Elizabeth Cowper | Canadian linguist | 1952 | Canada | ||
| Elizabeth Elstob | English linguist and feminist | 1683 | 1756 | ||
| Elizabeth Fairburn Colenso | New Zealand missionary | 1821-08-29 | 1904-09-02 | New Zealand | |
| Elizabeth Hill | British linguist | 1900-10-24 | 1996-12-17 | ||
| Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright | American translator | 1966-10-03 | United States of America |  | |
| Elizabeth Sara Sheppard | 19th century British novelist, linguist, poet, and musician | 1830 | 1862 | United Kingdom | |
| Elizaveta Polonskaya | Soviet writer | 1890-06-26 | 1969-01-11 | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
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| Eliška Krásnohorská | Czech feminist author | 1847-11-18 | 1926-11-26 | Czech Republic |  |
| Ella Cara Deloria | Yankton Dakota Author | 1889-01-31 | 1971-02-12 | United States of America | |
| Ella Mary Edghill | British translator | 1881-11-13 | |||
| Ellavina Perkins | American linguist | ||||
| Ellen Broselow | experimental linguist | ||||
| Ellen Contini-Morava | Linguistic anthropologist | ||||
| Ellen Doré Watson | American writer | United States of America | |||
| Ellen Prince | American linguist | 2010-10-24 | |||
| Ellendea Proffer | American translator | 1944-11-24 | United States of America | ||
| Ellisif Wessel | Norwegian politician | 1866-07-14 | 1949-11-28 | Norway | |
| Eloise Jelinek | American linguist | 1924 | 2007 | ||
| Elsa Cross | Mexican poet | 1946-03-06 | Mexico | ||
| Else Høst | Norwegian historian | 1908 | 1996 | Norway | |
| Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik | Polish linguist | 1961-04-25 |  | ||
| Emily Nonnen | British writer | 1812 | 1905 | Sweden |  |
| Erika Fuchs | German translator | 1906-12-07 | 2005-04-22 | Germany | |
| Erika Timm | German linguist | 1934 | |||
| Erika Vouk | Poet and translator | 1941 | |||
| Erin McKean | Lexicographer, dictionary editor | 1971 |  | ||
| Erzsébet Nagy | Hungarian writer and translator | 1927-04-13 | 2008-01-29 | Hungary | |
| Esmé Wiegman | Dutch politician | 1975-07-24 | Netherlands |  | |
| Estela Canto | Writer and translator | 1916 | 1994 | Argentina | .jpg) |
| Esther Martinez | Tewa language activist, linguist | 1912 | 2006-09-16 | ||
| Esther Regina | Spanish actress | 2000s | Spain |  | |
| Eta Boeriu | Romanian writer | 1923-02-23 | 1984-11-13 | Romania | |
| Eugénie Niboyet | French writer and feminist | 1796-09-11 | 1883-01-06 | France |  |
| Eva Brann | American academic | 1929 | |||
| Eva Hajičová | czech linguist | 1935-08-23 | Czech Republic |  | |
| Eve Sweetser | Professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. | ||||
| Eve V. Clark | American linguist | 1942-07-26 | United Kingdom | ||
| Evgenia Kamova | Bulgarian journalist | 1928 | 2008 | Bulgaria | |
| Fanny de Sivers | Estonian linguist | 1920-10-20 | 2011-06-22 | Estonia | |
| Fanny zu Reventlow | German artist and writer | 1871-05-18 | 1918-07-26 | German Empire |  |
| Fatemeh Rakeei | Iranian politician, linguist, poet | 1954 | Iran | ||
| Fatima Sadiqi | Linguist |  | |||
| Fausta Garavini | Italian writer | 1938 | Italy | ||
| Felicitas Goodman | American linguist and anthropologist | 1914-01-30 | 2005-03-30 | Hungary | |
| France Martineau | Linguist | 1960 | Canada |  | |
| Frances Karttunen | American academic | 1942 | United States of America | ||
| Frances Winwar | American writer | 1900-05-03 | 1985-07-24 | United States of America | |
| Franciszka Arnsztajnowa | Polish writer | 1865-02-12 | 1942 | Poland | |
| Françoise Massardier-Kenney | American translator | 1954 | United States of America | ||
| Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre | French linguist | 1941 | 2007 | France | |
| Gabriela Adameșteanu | Romanian novelist | 1942-04-02 | Romania |  | |
| Gabriela Babnik | Writer, literary critic and translator | 1979 | Germany | ||
| Gabriela Bustelo | Spanish author and translator | 1962 | Spain |  | |
| Gabriela Zapolska | novelist, playwright, prose writer, publicist, feuilletonist, theatre critic, stage actress | 1857-03-30 | 1921-12-21 | Poland |  |
| Gabriella Hermon | Linguist | ||||
| Gail Jefferson | American inventor | 1938-04-22 | 2008-02-21 | United States of America | |
| Galina Dzhugashvili | Russian translator | 1938-02-19 | 2007-08-27 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Galina Varlamova | Russian folklorist | 1951-01-18 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Galina Yershova | Russian academic | 1955-03-17 | Russia | ||
| Geneviève Massignon | French historian and linguist | 1921-04-21 | 1966-06-09 | France | |
| Georgiana Harcourt | British translator | 1807-01-01 | 1886-10-29 |  | |
| Gerda Grepp | Norwegian journalist and translator | 1907 | 1940-08-29 | Norway |  |
| Gertrud Pätsch | German ethnologist and philologist | 1910-01-22 | 1994-12-14 | Germany East Germany |
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| Gertrude Vakar | Russian translator | 1904 | 1973 | ||
| Gili Bar-Hillel | Israeli translator | 1974 |  | ||
| Giuseppa Barbapiccola | Italian writer | 1702 | 1740 | Italy |  |
| Giustina Renier Michiel | Venetian aristocrat | 1755-10-14 | 1832-04-07 | Italy |  |
| Gladys Yang | British translator | 1919-01-19 | 1999-11-18 | United Kingdom |  |
| Grace Jane Wallace | Scottish translator | 1878-03-12 | |||
| Greta Knutson | Swedish artist | 1899 | 1983 | Sweden | |
| Gunnel Vallquist | Swedish writer and translator, member of the Swedish Academy | 1918-06-19 | 2016-01-11 | Sweden | |
| Güzin Dino | Turkish linguist | 1910 | 2013-05-30 | ||
| H. T. Lowe-Porter | American translator | 1877 | 1963 | United States of America | |
| Hagit Borer | American linguist | ||||
| Halina Mierzejewska | Polish linguist | 1922 | 2003 | ||
| Halldis Moren Vesaas | Norwegian writer | 1907-11-18 | 1995-09-08 | Norway |  |
| Hanna Fahl | Swedish writer | 1978-10-23 | Sweden | ||
| Hanna Lewis | American linguist | 1931 |  | ||
| Hannah Kilham | Methodist missionary | 1774-08-12 | 1832-03-31 |  | |
| Hanni Ossott | Venezuelan writer, journalist and translator | 1946-02-14 | 2002-12-31 | Venezuela | |
| Harriet Bjerrum Nielsen | Danish philologist | 1948 | Norway | ||
| Harriet Martineau | English writer and sociologist | 1802-06-12 | 1876-06-27 | United Kingdom |  |
| Haruka Orth | American actress | 1981-11-16 | United States of America |  | |
| Hazel Sampson | American linguist | 1910-05-26 | 2014-02-04 | United States of America | |
| Hedda Eulenberg | German translator | 1876-03-06 | 1960-09-13 | Germany |  |
| Heidi Harley | American linguist | 1969-09-26 | |||
| Helen Craig McCullough | American translator and Japanoloigst | 1918 | 1998 | ||
| Helen Doron | British linguist and educator | 2000s | United Kingdom |  | |
| Helen Lane | American translator | 1921 | 2004-08-29 | United States of America | |
| Helena Bechlerowa | Writer and translator | 1908-12-02 | 1995-09-18 | Poland | |
| Helene Uri | writer and linguist | 1964-12-11 | Norway |  | |
| Henny Koch | German writer | 1854-09-22 | 1925-06-13 | Germany |  |
| Henriette Gezundhajt | Professor of French linguistics | 1963 | |||
| Hermynia Zur Mühlen | European noble | 1883-12-12 | 1951-03-20 | Austria | |
| Herta Müller | German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist | 1953-08-17 | Germany |  | |
| Hilda Sachs | Swedish writer | 1857-03-13 | 1935-02-26 | Sweden | |
| Hiltgunt Zassenhaus | German philologist | 1916-07-10 | 2004-11-20 | United States of America | |
| Ida C. Ward | British linguist | 1880-10-04 | 1949-10-10 | United Kingdom | |
| Ilona Duczyńska | Hungarian revolutionary historian | 1897-03-11 | 1978-04-24 | ||
| Ilse Lehiste | American linguist | 1922-01-31 | 2010-12-25 |  | |
| Inez De Florio-Hansen | Linguist | 1943 | Germany |  | |
| Inger Edelfeldt | Swedish writer | 1956 | Sweden |  | |
| Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir | Icelandic writer | 1942-10-21 | Iceland |  | |
| Inna Meiman-Kitrossky | Soviet philologist | 1932-10-16 | 1987-02-09 | Soviet Union |  |
| Irena Klepfisz | Jewish Lesbian author and activist | 1941-04-17 | |||
| Irena Tuwim | Poet | 1899 1899-08-22 |
1987 1987-12-07 |
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| Irena Žerjal | writer, poet, translator | 1940-04-20 | |||
| Irene Heim | American linguist | ||||
| Irene Saunders | American lexicographer | ||||
| Irina Glushkova | Russian phililogist | 1952-08-09 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit | German japanologist | 1948-08-20 | Germany | ||
| Irmengard Rauch | American linguist | 1933-04-17 | United States of America | ||
| Iryna Farion | Ukrainian politician | 1964-04-29 | Soviet Union Ukraine |
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| Isabel Allende Karam | Cuban diplomat | Cuba | |||
| Isabel Florence Hapgood | translator and writer | 1851-11-21 | 1928-06-26 | ||
| Isabelle de Montolieu | Swiss novelist and translator | 1751-05-07 | 1832-12-29 | Switzerland |  |
| Iulia Hasdeu | Romanian poet | 1869-11-14 | 1888-09-29 | Romania |  |
| Ivy Kellerman Reed | American author in the international language Esperanto | 1877-07-08 | 1968-02-07 | United States of America | |
| Izabella Trojanowska | Polish journalist | 1929-07-10 | 1995-04-21 | Poland | |
| Jacinta Escudos | Salvadoran writer | 1961 | El Salvador | ||
| Jacqueline Starer | French translator | 1940 | France | ||
| Jacqueline Vaissière | French linguist | ||||
| Jaklin Kornfilt | Linguist | ||||
| Jaleh Amouzgar | Irani professor | 1939-12-02 | Iran |  | |
| Jana Milčinski | Slovenian writer and translator | 1920-12-05 | 2007-04-13 | Slovenia | |
| Jana S. Rošker | Slovenian sinologist | 1960-05-21 | |||
| Jane Ellen Harrison | British classical scholar, linguist and feminist | 1850-09-09 | 1928-04-15 1928-04-16 |
United Kingdom |  |
| Jane H. Hill | American linguist | 1939 | |||
| Jane Hirshfield | Poet | 1953-02-24 | United States of America |  | |
| Jane Zuengler | American academic | United States of America | |||
| Janet Dean Fodor | American psycholinguist | 1942-04-02 | |||
| Janet Pierrehumbert | American linguist | ||||
| Janine Canan | American psychiatrist and writer | 1942-11-02 | United States of America | ||
| Janna Gur | Israeli linguist and journalist | 1958 | Israel |  | |
| Jaroslava Moserová | Czech diplomat, doctor and translator | 1930-01-17 | 2006-03-24 | Czech Republic | |
| Jean Aitchison | Linguist and writer | 1938 | |||
| Jean Berko Gleason | American psycholinguist | 1931 | United States of America |  | |
| Jean D'Costa | Jamaican writer and linguist | 1937-01-13 | Jamaica | ||
| Jeannie Bell | Australian linguist | Australia | |||
| Jelica Šumič Riha | Swedish philosopher | 1958 | |||
| Jennett Humphreys | British writer | 1829 | 1917 | ||
| Jennifer S. Cole | American linguist | United States of America | |||
| Jenny Cheshire | British linguist | ||||
| Jenny Hirsch | German writer | 1829-11-25 | 1902-03-10 | Germany |  |
| Jessie Little Doe Baird | Linguist | 1963-11-18 |  | ||
| Jila Ghomeshi | Canadian linguist | ||||
| Jill Morford | Linguist | ||||
| Jiřina Hauková | Czech poet and translator | 1919-01-27 | 2005-12-15 | Czech Republic | |
| Jo Giæver Tenfjord | Children's writer | 1918-06-12 | 2007-08-13 | Norway |  |
| Joan Bresnan | American linguist | 1945-08-22 | United States of America | ||
| Joan Bybee | American linguist | 1945-02-11 | United States of America | ||
| Joan Lee Tu | Linguist | 1981 | |||
| Joan M. Tenenbaum | American academic | 1945 | United States of America | ||
| Joan Turville-Petre | British linguist | 1911-05-10 | 2006-03-09 | ||
| Johanna Nichols | American linguist | ||||
| Jolanta Antas | Polish scientist/professor of linguistics/Jagiellonian University/kraków | 1954 | |||
| Josephine Acosta Pasricha | Filipino indologist | 1945-03-26 | Philippines | ||
| Josette Rey-Debove | First female lexicographer in France | 1929-11-16 | 2005-02-22 | France | |
| Joumana Haddad | Lebanese poet, journalist and activist | 1970-12-06 | Lebanon |  | |
| Joyce Lussu | Italian writer and translator | 1912-05-08 | 1998-11-04 | Italy |  |
| Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza | Mexican writer and activist | 1875-01-27 | 1942-07-13 | Mexico | |
| Judit Kormos | Applied linguist | 1970-05-11 | Hungary | ||
| Judith Bishop | Australian poet and linguist | 1972 | Australia | ||
| Judith Woodsworth | Canadian academic | 1948 | France | ||
| Judy Shepard-Kegl | American linguist | ||||
| Juliane House | German academic | 1942 | Germany | ||
| Juliet Winters Carpenter | American translator | 1948 | |||
| Julieta Campos | Mexican writer | 1932-05-08 | 2007-09-05 | Cuba Mexico |
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| Junko Itō | American linguist | ||||
| Justa Holz-Mänttäri | Finnish translation scholar | 1936 | Germany | ||
| Justine Cassell | American linguist, professor and human-computer interaction researcher | 1960-03-19 | |||
| Karen Brazell | American translator | 1938-04-25 | 2012-01-18 | ||
| Karen Stollznow | Linguist, skeptic | 1976-08-12 | Australia United States of America |
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| Karin Lannby | Swedish actress, translator, journalist, poet and spy | 1916-04-13 | 2007-11-19 | Sweden | |
| Karolina Proniewska | Polish writer | 1828 | 1859 | ||
| Karthika Thirunal Lakshmi Bayi | Indian linguist | 1916-09-17 | 2008-06-08 |  | |
| Katalin É. Kiss | Linguist | 1949-05-31 | Hungary | ||
| Katarina Frostenson | Swedish poet, member of the Swedish Academy | 1953-03-05 | Sweden | .jpg) | |
| Katarzyna Jaszczolt | British linguist |  | |||
| Katayun Mazdapour | Iranian linguist | 1943-03-22 | Iran | ||
| Kate Burridge | Australian linguist | Australia | |||
| Kate Næss | Poet and translator | 1938 | 1987 | Norway | |
| Katharina Reiss | German linguist | 1923-04-17 | Germany | ||
| Katharine Gun | Translator and whistle-blower | 1974 | United Kingdom | ||
| Katherine Barber | Canadian lexiographer | 1959 | |||
| Katherine Prescott Wormeley | American nurse and translator | 1830-01-14 | 1908-08-04 | United States of America | |
| Katherine Siva Saubel | Indian leader and scholar | 1920-03-07 | 2011-11-01 | United States of America | |
| Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig | American linguist | ||||
| Katja Špur | Slovenian writer | 1908-11-20 | 1991-12-18 | Yugoslavia Slovenia |
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| Kató Lomb | Hungarian interpreter | 1909-02-08 | 2003-06-09 | Hungary | |
| Kay Williamson | British linguist | 1935-01-26 | 2005-01-03 | Nigeria | |
| Kazimiera Zawistowska | Polish poet | 1870-01-17 | 1902-02-28 | Poland |  |
| Kazuko Shiraishi | Japanese poet | 1931-02-27 | Japan | ||
| Keren Rice | Canadian linguist | 1949 | Canada | ||
| Kersti Merilaas | Estonian writer | 1913-12-07 | 1986-03-08 | Estonia | |
| Kira Hall | American linguist and anthropologist | 1962-10-10 | United States of America | ||
| Kirsi Kunnas | Finnish author, poet and translator | 1924-12-14 | Finland |  | |
| Kirsti Koch Christensen | Norwegian linguist | 1940-12-01 | Norway | ||
| Klementyna Hoffmanowa | Polish prose writer, popularizer, translator, editor, one of the first Polish writers for children | 1798-11-23 | 1845-09-21 | Poland |  |
| Kristine Vetulani-Belfoure | Polish translator | 1924-10-01 | 2004-03-25 | Poland United States of America |
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| Ksenia Kepping | Russian linguist | 1937-02-07 | 2002-12-13 |  | |
| L. Z. Sova | Russian linguist | 1937-09-17 | |||
| Lady Charlotte Guest | Welsh translator and business woman | 1812-05-19 | 1895-01-15 | United Kingdom |  |
| Laila Stien | Norwegian writer | 1946-05-16 | Norway |  | |
| Lakshmi Holmström | British writer and translator | ||||
| Laleh Bakhtiar | Iranian academic | 1938-07-29 | United States of America | ||
| Laura Michaelis | American linguist | ||||
| Laura Pavel | Romanian writer | 1968-10-19 | Romania |  | |
| Laura Poantă | Romanian physician, writer and artist | 1971-03-10 | Romania |  | |
| LaVerne Jeanne | American linguist | United States of America | |||
| Lea Ráskay | Hungarian woman scholar and Dominican nun | ||||
| Leanne Hinton | professor of linguistics | United States of America |  | ||
| Leda Mileva | Bulgarian poet and diplomat | 1920-02-05 | 2013-02-05 | Bulgaria |  |
| Lee Cataldi | Contemporary Australian poet and linguist | 1942 | Australia | ||
| Lesley Milroy | American linguist | ||||
| Li Jinfang | Chinese linguist | 1963-10 | |||
| Lia Wyler | Brazilian translator | 1934-10-06 | Brazil | ||
| Lidia Veselitskaya | Russian writer | 1857-03-17 | 1936-02-23 | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
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| Lidia Zamenhof | Polish Esperantist | 1904-01-29 | 1942 | Poland | .jpg) |
| Lili Golestan | Iranian translator | 1944-07-14 | Iran |  | |
| Lili Novy | Slovenian writer | 1885-12-24 | 1958-03-07 | .jpg) | |
| Lilli Gjerløw | Norwegian archivist | 1910-06-19 | 1998-12-04 | Norway | |
| Lina Choueiri | Linguist | ||||
| Linda Fierz-David | German philologist | 1891 | 1955 | ||
| Linda Maria Baros | Romanian writer | 1981-08-06 | Romania France |
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| Linde van den Bosch | Dutch linguist | 1963 | Netherlands | ||
| Lisa Block de Behar | Uruguayan linguist | 1937-03-12 | Uruguay | .png) | |
| Lise Menn | American linguist | 1941-12-28 | United States of America | ||
| Liubov Gurevich | Russian writer | 1866-11-01 | 1940-10-17 | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
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| Lola Lemire Tostevin | Canadian writer | 1937-06-15 | Canada | ||
| Lore Segal | Novelist, translator, teacher, children's author | 1928-03-09 | United States of America | ||
| Loreta Anilionytė | Lithuanian philosopher, writer and translator | ||||
| Lourdes Oñederra | writer and linguist | 1958-06-09 | Spain |  | |
| Luce Irigaray | feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist | 1930-05-03 | France Belgium |
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| Lucia Graves | British writer and translator | 1943-07-21 | United Kingdom | ||
| Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon | British writer | 1821 1821-06-24 |
1869 1869-07-14 |
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| Lucille Watahomigie | Hualapai educator and linguist | 1945 | |||
| Lucy Lloyd | British folklorist | 1834-11-07 | 1914-08-31 | United Kingdom |  |
| Lucy Seki | Brazilian linguist | 1941 | Brazil | ||
| Ludmila Vassilyeva | Russian scholar | 1942-05-23 | |||
| Lydia Davis | American writer | 1947-07-15 | United States of America |  | |
| Lydia White | Canadian linguist | ||||
| M. Carey Thomas | American suffragist | 1857-01-02 | 1935-12-02 | United States of America |  |
| Mabel Lee | Australian linguist | Australia | |||
| Magli Elster | Norwegian writer | 1912-11-21 | 1993-05-11 | Norway | |
| Maguy Kabamba | Confolese writer | 1960-08-03 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
| Mahshid Moshiri | Iranian writer | 1951-03-21 | Iran | ||
| Malwina Garfeinowa-Garska | literary critic, translator, writer | 1870-10-15 | 1932-09-19 | Poland | |
| Mamah Borthwick | American translator | 1869-06-19 | 1914-08-15 |  | |
| Manana Antadze | Georgian writer | 1945-08-28 |  | ||
| Mani Rao | Indian poet | 1965-02-28 | |||
| Margaret Florey | Australian linguist | Australia | |||
| Margaret Hasluck | British scholar | 1885-06-18 | 1948-10-18 | United Kingdom | |
| Margaret Langdon | linguist, Native American languages | 2005 | |||
| Margaret Mary Vojtko | American linguist, educator, polyglot, and labor unionist | 1930-01-15 | 2013-09-01 | ||
| Margaret Masterman | British linguist and philosopher | 1910-05-04 | 1986-04-01 | United Kingdom | |
| Margaret Noori | Ojibwe language teacher, poet, and linguist | 1965 | United States of America | ||
| Margaret Raine Hunt | British writer | 1831 | 1912 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | |
| Margarita Aliger | famous Soviet poet, translator, and journalist | 1915-10-07 | 1992-08-01 | Soviet Union |  |
| Margarita Kozhina | Russian linguist | 1925-08-01 | 2012-08-11 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Maria Gaetana Agnesi | Italian mathematician and philanthropist | 1718-05-16 | 1799-01-09 | Italy |  |
| Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi | Scholar and writer | 1930 | Italy | ||
| Maria Odulio de Guzman | Filipino educator and author | ||||
| Maria Selvaggia Borghini | Poet | 1656-02-07 | 1731-02-22 | Italy | |
| Maria Tore Barbina | Italian writer | 1940-07-22 | 2007-08-28 | Italy | |
| Marian Robertson Wilson | American musician and writer | 1926 | 2013 | United States of America | |
| Mariana Frenk-Westheim | Mexican writer and academic | 1898-06-04 | 2004-06-24 | Mexico | |
| Marianna Marquesa Florenzi | Italian philosopher | 1802-11-09 | 1870-04-15 | Italy |  |
| Marianne McDonald | Philanthropist and Scholar of Latin and Irish texts | 1937 | United States of America |  | |
| Marianne Mithun | American linguist | 1946 | United States of America | ||
| Marie Amelie von Godin | German activist | 1882-03-07 | 1956-02-22 | Germany | |
| Marie Colban | Norwegian writer | 1814 | 1884 | Norway |  |
| Marie Madeleine de Rochechouart de Mortemart | French Abbess | 1645 | 1704-08-15 | France | %2C_anonymous_artist.jpg) |
| Marie-Louise Sjoestedt | French Celticist | 1900 | 1940 | France | |
| Marie-Lucie Tarpent | Canadian linguist | ||||
| Marija Aušrinė Pavilionienė | Lithuanian politician | 1944-04-06 | Lithuania | ||
| Marina Boroditskaya | Russian writer | 1954-06-28 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Marina Colasanti | Brazilian writer and translator | 1937-09-26 | Eritrea Brazil |
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| Marina Gershenovich | Russian writer | 1960-09-28 | Russia | ||
| Marina Palei | Russian writer | 1955-02-01 | Soviet Union Russia Netherlands |
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| Marina Tarlinskaja | Russian linguist | ||||
| Marion Frances Chevalier | American linguist | 1902-01-21 | 1990-02-17 | ||
| Mariëtte Hamer | Dutch politician, civil servant, educator, trade union leader | 1958-06-07 | Netherlands |  | |
| Marja-Liisa Olthuis | Inari Sámi scholar | 1967-08-09 | Finland | ||
| Marjory Wardrop | English historian | 1869-11-11 | 1909-12-07 |  | |
| Marlene Norst | Australian academic | 1930-03-24 | 2010-12-20 | Australia |  |
| Marta Steinsvik | Norwegian writer | 1877-03-23 | 1950-07-27 | Norway |  |
| Martha Crago | Canadian linguist | ||||
| Martha Hildebrandt | Peruvian politician | 1925-01-13 | Peru |  | |
| Martha Ratliff | American linguist | ||||
| Martha Young-Scholten | American /British linguist | ||||
| Marthe Robert | Writer | 1914-03-25 | 1996-04-12 | France | |
| Martine Broda | Writer and poet | 1947-03-17 | 2009-04-23 | France | |
| Mary B. Moser | American linguist | 1924-10-12 | 2013-01-13 | ||
| Mary Beckman | American linguist | ||||
| Mary Boyce | British academic | 1920-08-02 | 2006-04-04 | United Kingdom | |
| Mary Bucholtz | American linguist | 1966-10-29 | |||
| Mary Collyer | British writer | 1716 | 1762 | United Kingdom | |
| Mary Elizabeth Byrne | Irish linguist | 1880-07-02 | 1931-01-19 | Ireland | |
| Mary Haas | American linguist; studied historical linguistics, North American languages, Thai | 1910-01-12 | 1996-05-17 | United States of America | |
| Mary Howitt | English poet, and author | 1799-03-12 | 1888-01-30 | United Kingdom |  |
| Mary J. Gregor | American philosopher | 1928-01-01 | 1994-10-31 | United States of America | |
| Mary LeCron Foster | American linguist | 1914-02-01 | 2001-12-09 | ||
| Mary Louise Booth | American editor, translator and writer | 1831-04-19 | 1889-03-05 | United States of America |  |
| Mary Snell-Hornby | British-Austrian translator and scholar | 1940-04-02 | United Kingdom | ||
| Mary Somerville | Science writer and polymath | 1780-12-26 | 1872-11-28 | United Kingdom |  |
| Mary Yee | American linguist | 1897 | 1965 | United States of America | |
| Marzieh Sotoudeh | Iranian-Canadian writer | 1957 | Iran | ||
| María Catrileo | chilean linguist | 1944 | Chile | ||
| María Goyri de Menéndez Pidal | Spanish hispanist | 1873 | 1955 | Spain |  |
| María Kodama | writer | 1937-03-10 | Argentina |  | |
| María Moliner | Spanish lexicographer | 1900-03-30 | 1981-01-21 | Spain | |
| María Rosa Lida de Malkiel | Philologist | 1910-11-07 | 1962-09-25 | United States of America Argentina |
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| Maureen Freely | American writer | 1952 | United States of America | ||
| May French Sheldon | Novelist and translator | 1847-05-10 | 1936-02-10 | United States of America |  |
| Maya Pencheva | bulgarian linguist | 1947-05-03 | |||
| Melissa Bowerman | Dutch linguist | 1942-04-03 | 2011-10-31 | Netherlands | |
| Meredith L. Patterson | American technologist, science fiction author, and journalist | 1977-04-30 | United States of America |  | |
| Meri Utrio | Finnish journalist | 1918 | 2004 | Finland | |
| Merrill Swain | language scholar | ||||
| Meta Forkel-Liebeskind | German writer and translator | 1765-02-22 | 1853 | Germany |  |
| Michèle Causse | French academic | 1936-07-29 | 2010-07-29 | France |  |
| Milada Blekastad | Czech translator and writer | 1917 | 2003 | Norway Czech Republic |
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| Milena Jesenská | Czech publicist and translator | 1896-08-10 | 1944-05-17 | Czech Republic |  |
| Milena Žic-Fuchs | Croatian scientist | 1954-08-10 |  | ||
| Minoo Moshiri | Iranian translator | Iran |  | ||
| Mira Mihelič | Slovenian artist | 1912-07-14 | 1985-09-04 |  | |
| Mira Nábělková | slovak linguist | 1956-03-30 | Slovakia |  | |
| Mirdza Ķempe | Latvian poet | 1907-02-09 | 1974-04-12 | Russian Empire Latvia Soviet Union |
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| Miriam Butt | Linguist | 1966-02-27 |  | ||
| Miriam Meyerhoff | New Zealand sociolinguist. | 1964-05-30 | New Zealand | ||
| Miriam Mosessohn | Russian writer | 1841 | 1920-12-18 | Lithuania |  |
| Mitsou Ronat | French poet, linguist, specialist of literary theory | 1946 | 1984-07-08 | France | |
| Moelona | British writer | 1877-06-21 | 1953-06-05 | ||
| Mona Baker | Egyptian professor of translation studies | 1953-09-29 | Egypt |  | |
| Mona Muscă | Romanian politician | 1949-05-04 | Romania | ||
| Monica Heller | Canadian linguist | 1955-06 | Canada | ||
| Monica Lovinescu | Romanian writer | 1923-11-19 | 2008-04-20 | Romania |  |
| Monique Nemni | Canadian linguist | 1936 | Canada | ||
| Murai Shimako | Japanese playwright | 1928 | |||
| Myrna Gopnik | Canadian psychologist and linguist | ||||
| Mélanie Fazi | French writer | 1976-11-29 | France |  | |
| Münevver Andaç | Translator | 1917-02-12 | 1998 | ||
| Mărgărita Miller-Verghy | Romanian socialite and author | 1865-01-01 | 1953-12-31 | Romania |  |
| Nada El Hage | Lebanese writer | ||||
| Nada Klaić | Croatian historian | 1920 | 1988 | ||
| Naira Gelashvili | Georgian linguist | 1947-10-28 | |||
| Najah al-Attar | Syrian politician | 1933-01-10 | Syria |  | |
| Najima Rhozali | Moroccan politician | 1960 | Morocco | ||
| Nancy Andrew | American Japanologist | 1947-08-17 | 1998-11-29 | United States of America | |
| Nancy Condee | American linguist | ||||
| Nancy Dorian | American linguist | 1936 | |||
| Nancy Huston | Canadian writer | 1953-09-16 | France |  | |
| Naomi Baron | American linguist | United States of America | |||
| Natalia Gvishiani | Russian linguist and scholar | 1959-06-29 | |||
| Natalia O'Shea | Russian musician and ,inguist | 1976-09-03 | Russia |  | |
| Natalia Shvedova | Russian lexicographer | 1916-12-25 | 2009-09-18 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Natalia Tolstaya | Russian writer | 1943-05-02 | 2010-06-15 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Natalla Arsieńnieva | Belarusian poet | 1903-09-20 | 1997-07-25 | Soviet Union |  |
| Natalya Gorbanevskaya | Russian poet, translator, and civil rights activist | 1936-05-26 | 2013-11-29 | Soviet Union Poland |
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| Netiva Ben-Yehuda | Israeli linguist | 1928-07-26 | 2011-02-28 | Israel |  |
| Nicole Loraux | French historian | 1943-04-26 | 2003-04-06 | France | |
| Niina Ning Zhang | Chinese linguist | ||||
| Niki Karimi | Iranian film director and actor | 1971-11-10 | Iran |  | |
| Nileena Abraham | Indian translator, writer | 1925-07-27 | India | ||
| Nina Cassian | Romanian writer | 1924-11-27 | 2014-04-15 | Romania | |
| Nina Catach | French linguist | 1923-07-14 | 1997 1997-10-25 |
France | |
| Nora England | American Mesoamericanist | 1946-11-08 | |||
| Nora Gal | Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist | 1912-04-14 | 1991-07-23 | Soviet Union | |
| Norma Mendoza-Denton | sociolinguist and anthropologist | 1968 | United States of America | ||
| Nuala Níc Con Iomaire | 2010-07-16 | ||||
| Octavie Guichard | French translator | 1719 | 1805 | France | |
| Odille Morison | Canadian linguist | 1855-07-17 | |||
| Ofelia Zepeda | American linguist | 1954-03-24 | United States of America | ||
| Olga Freidenberg | Russian philosopher | 1890-03-15 | 1955-07-06 | ||
| Olga Frolova | Russian orientalist and linguist | 1931 | Russia |  | |
| Olga Kapeliuk | Israeli linguist | 1932 | |||
| Olga Kirsch | Israeli poet | 1924 | 1997 | South Africa | |
| Olga Obukhova | Russian writer | 1941-08-10 | |||
| Pamela Faber | American/Spanish linguist | 1950-02-27 | United States of America | ||
| Pamela Munro | American lingusit | 1947-05-23 | |||
| Parashqevi Qiriazi | Albanian linguist | 1880-06-02 | 1970 | Albania |  |
| Patricia Alice Shaw | Canadian linguist | ||||
| Patricia Esteban Erlés | Spanish | 1972 | Spain | ||
| Patricia Keating | American linguist | ||||
| Pham Thi Hoai | contemporary Vietnamese writer, editor and translator, living in Germany | 1960 | Vietnam | ||
| Pola Oloixarac | Writer | 1977 | Argentina | ||
| Polonca Kovač | Children's writer and translator | 1937-02-19 | |||
| Pooran Farrokhzad | Iranian writer | Iran | |||
| Princess Fadia of Egypt | Egyptian princess | 1943-12-15 | 2002-12-28 | Switzerland | |
| Pura Santillan-Castrence | Filipino writer and diplomat | 1905-03-24 | 2007-01-15 | ||
| Qurratulain Hyder | Indian writer and academic | 1927-01-20 | 2007-08-21 | India |  |
| Rachel Bromwich | Scholar on medieval Welsh literature | 1915 | 2010-12-15 | ||
| Rajna Dragićević | Serbian linguist, lexicologist, and lexicographer | 1968 |  | ||
| Rallou Karatza | Romanian culture personality / Greek actor and director | 1778 1799 |
1870 | Romania | |
| Randa Jarrar | American writer | 1978 | United States of America | ||
| Raymattja Marika | Australian aboriginal leader | 1959 | 2008-05-11 | Australia | |
| Ren Powell | American writer | 1966 | United States of America | ||
| Rena Torres Cacoullos | Linguist | 2000s | United States of America | ||
| Renske Leijten | Dutch politician | 1979-03-17 | Netherlands |  | |
| Renée A. Blake | American linguist | ||||
| Rhina Toruño Haensly | El Salvador linguist | El Salvador | |||
| Rika Lesser | American translator | 1953 | United States of America | ||
| Roberta Kevelson | American semiotics scholar | 1931-11-04 | 1998-11-28 | United States of America | |
| Robin Lakoff | professor and author | 1942-11-27 | United States of America | ||
| Rochelle Lieber | American linguist | ||||
| Rochelle Owens | American writer | 1936-04-02 | United States of America |  | |
| Rosa Maria Assing | German poet | 1783-05-28 | 1840-01-22 | Germany | |
| Rosamund Bartlett | British scholar, translator and biographer specializing in Russian literature | United Kingdom | |||
| Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen | Mexican lexicographer, linguist, educator, and poet | 1899-04-16 | 1979-05-12 | Mexico | |
| Rosina Lippi | Novelist, linguist | 1956-01-14 | United States of America |  | |
| Rosita Sokou | Greek journalist | 1923 | Greece |  | |
| Ruqaiya Hasan | Indian linguist | 1931 | 2015-06-24 |  | |
| Ruth A. Berman | Israeli linguist | Israel |  | ||
| Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld | Norwegian linguist | 1948-05-08 | Norway | ||
| Ruth von Mayenburg | Austrian journalist, writer and translator | 1907-07-01 | 1993-06-26 | Austria | |
| Ruth Wodak | Austrian linguist | 1950-07-12 | Austria | ||
| Ryoko Sekiguchi | Japanese writer | 1970-12-21 | Japan | ||
| Sally Laird | British translator and editor | 1956-05-02 | 2010-07-15 | ||
| Samira Negrouche | writer | 1980-09-13 | Algeria |  | |
| Sandra Chung | American linguist | ||||
| Sandra Lee McKay | American linguist | ||||
| Sandra Thompson | American linguist | 1941-07-06 | |||
| Sara Coleridge | British writer | 1802-12-23 | 1852-05-03 |  | |
| Sarah Austin | English editor/translator from German | 1793 | 1867-08-08 | United Kingdom |  |
| Sarah Cameron Sunde | American theatre director | United States of America | |||
| Sarah Israelit Groll | Israeli scholar | 1925 | 2007 | ||
| Sarah Thomason | American linguist | 2000s | United States of America | _Thomason.jpg) | |
| Sarojini Mahishi | Indian politician | 2015-01-25 | India | ||
| Satvasheela Samant | Indian linguist | 1945-03-25 | 2013-05-01 | India | |
| Sepideh Jodeyri | Iranian poet | 1976-05-23 | Iran |  | |
| Sevin Okyay | Turkish writer and translator | 1942 |  | ||
| Shaista Nuzhat | Pakistani linguist | ||||
| Shana Poplack | Canadian linguist | ||||
| Sharon Inkelas | American linguist | ||||
| Shirley Heath | American linguist and anthropologist | 1939-07-26 | United States of America | ||
| Sholeh Wolpe | Iranian writer | 1962-03-06 | Iran |  | |
| Sibel Edmonds | American whistleblower | 1970 | United States of America |  | |
| Sigrid Lidströmer | Swedish linguist, translator and writer | 1866 | 1942 | Sweden | |
| Sigrid Undset | Norwegian writer | 1882-05-20 | 1949-06-10 | Norway |  |
| Silvina Bullrich | Argentine novelist | 1915-10-04 | 1990-07-02 | Argentina |  |
| Simin Daneshvar | Iranian writer | 1921-04-28 | 2012-03-08 | Iran | |
| Simona Škrabec | Slovenian writer | 1968 | Spain | ||
| Siobhán Parkinson | Irish writer | 1954 | Ireland | ||
| Snježana Kordić | Croatian linguist | 1964-10-29 | Croatia |  | |
| Solomiia Pavlychko | Ukrainian literary critic and philosopher | 1958-12-15 | 1999-12-31 | Ukraine | |
| Sophia Parnok | Russian writer | 1885-08-11 | 1933-08-26 | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
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| Sophie Cabot Black | American poet | 1958 | United States of America | ||
| Stephanie Fielding | Linguist | ||||
| Susan Ehrlich | Canadian linguist | Canada | |||
| Susan Gal | Anthropologist and linguist | 1949 | |||
| Susan Herring | Linguist | 1955-05-27 | |||
| Susan J. Napier | Professor of the Japanese Program at Tufts University | 1955-10-11 | United States of America |  | |
| Susan M. Ervin-Tripp | American linguist | 1927-06-27 | United States of America | ||
| Susanne Maria Michaelis | Linguist | 1962-03-30 | Germany | ||
| Susie Dent | Lexicographer | 1967-09-21 |  | ||
| Suzanne Bachelard | French philosopher | 1919-10-18 | 2007-11-03 | France | |
| Suzanne Renaud | French translator | 1889-09-30 | 1964-01-21 | France | |
| Suzanne Romaine | 1951 | ||||
| Suzette Haden Elgin | American linguist | 1936-11-18 | 2015-01-27 | United States of America | |
| Svetlana Burlak | Russian linguist | 1969-06-12 | Soviet Union Russia |
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| Syeda Ummehani Ashraf | Linguist | 1949-12-26 | |||
| Sylvia Townsend Warner | Writer, poet, activist | 1893-12-06 1893 |
1978-05-01 | United Kingdom | |
| Tahereh Saffarzadeh | Iranian academic | 1936 | 2008-10-25 | Iran | |
| Taja Kramberger | Slovenian writer | 1970-09-11 | Slovenia | ||
| Takako Takahashi | Japanese writer | 1932-03-02 | 2013-07-12 | Japan | |
| Tamar Sovran | Hebrew Culture Studies researcher | 1948 |  | ||
| Tamara Erofeyeva | Russian linguist | 1937-06-29 | Russia |  | |
| Tamara Shakryl | Linguist; activist | 2004 | |||
| Tanja Bakić | Poet, writer and translator | 1981-09-14 |  | ||
| Tanja Nijmeijer | Dutch terrorist, political activist and squatter | 1978-02-13 | Netherlands | ||
| Tanya Reinhart | Israeli journalist | 1943 | 2007-03-17 | Israel |  |
| Tatiana Proskouriakoff | American MAyanist scholar | 1909-01-23 | 1985-08-30 | United States of America |  |
| Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik | Russian writer, dramatist, poet and translator | 1874-01-24 | 1952-07-27 | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
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| Tatyana Elizarenkova | Russian linguist | 1929-09-17 | 2007-09-05 | Russia | |
| Teresa Moure | writer | 1969 | Spain |  | |
| Thekla Knös | Swedish writer | 1815-07-17 | 1880-03-10 | Sweden |  |
| Thelma D. Sullivan | American Mesoamericanist | 1918 | 1981 | ||
| Theraphan Luangthongkum | Thai academic | Thailand | |||
| Therese Albertine Luise Robinson | American writer | 1797-01-26 | 1870-04-13 | Germany | .jpg) |
| Til Brugman | Dutch author, poet and linguist | 1888-09-16 | 1958-07-24 | Netherlands |  |
| Tista Bagchi | Indian linguist | 1964-10-01 | |||
| Tokiko Iwatani | Japanese lyricist, linguist and translator | 1916-03-28 | 2013-10-25 | South Korea | |
| Tove Bull | Norwegian linguist | 1945-10-31 | Norway | ||
| Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido | Filipino writer | 1912 | 1994 | ||
| Tsvia Walden | Israeli linguist | 1946-10-20 |  | ||
| Ugnė Karvelis | Lithuanian writer | 1935-06-13 | 2002-03-04 | Argentina | |
| Una Canger | Linguist | 1938-05-14 | Denmark | ||
| Ursula Bellugi | American psychologist | United States of America | |||
| Ursule Molinaro | American writer | 1916 | 2000 | United States of America | |
| Utako Yamada | Japanese author, illustrator | 1963 | Japan | ||
| Valerie Martínez | American writer | 1961 |  | ||
| Valérie de Gasparin | Swiss woman of letters | 1813-09-13 | 1894-06-16 | Switzerland |  |
| Vera Rich | British poet | 1936-04-24 | 2009-12-20 | United Kingdom |  |
| Verena Reichel | German transaltor | 1945-03-21 | |||
| Veronika Tushnova | Russian writer and journalist | 1911-03-27 | 1965-07-07 | Soviet Union | |
| Victoria Cirlot | Spanish historian | 1955 | Spain | ||
| Victoria Fromkin | American linguist | 1923-05-16 | 2000-02-19 | ||
| Viktoria Yartseva | Russian linguist | 1906-11-03 | 1999-09-27 | ||
| Vilma Sindona Eichholz | Canadian linguist and Esperantist | 1926 | 1995-07-15 | ||
| Virginia Yip | Linguist | ||||
| Věra Barandovská-Frank | Czech esperantist | 1952-08-17 | Czech Republic |  | |
| Wanda Dynowska | Indian writer and activist | 1888-06-30 | 1971-03-20 | Poland Russian Empire |
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| Wilga Rivers | academic and writer from Australia | 1919-04-13 | 2007-06-23 | Australia | |
| Willa Muir | Scottish novelist, essayist and translator | 1890-03-13 | 1970-05-22 | United Kingdom | |
| Yamuna Kachru | Linguist | 1933 | 2013 | India |  |
| Yanitzia Canetti | Cuban writer | 1967 | Cuba | ||
| Yasmina Reza | French author, director, actor | 1959-05-01 | France | ||
| Yda Hillis Addis | Writer | 1857 | United States of America |  | |
| Yeda Pessoa de Castro | Brazilian ethnolinguist | 1937 | Brazil | ||
| Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova | Russian author and woman of letters | 1743-03-28 | 1810-01-15 | Russian Empire | .jpg) |
| Yoko Matsuoka McClain | Japanese language scholar | 1924-01-01 | 2011-11-02 | Japan | |
| Yolanda Lastra | Mexican linguist | 1932 | Mexico | ||
| Yuasa Yoshiko | Japanese translator | 1896-12-07 | 1990-10-24 | Japan |  |
| Yukie Chiri | Yukar transcriber and translator | 1903-06-08 | 1922-09-18 | Japan |  |
| Yukika Sohma | Japanese scholar | 1912 | 2008-11-08 | Japan | |
| Yumiko Kurahashi | Writer | 1935-10-10 | 2005-06-10 | Japan | |
| Yuu Asakura | Japanese actress, dancer and language instructor based out of Los Angeles, California, USA | 1976 | Japan | ||
| Zara Mints | Russian literary scientist | 1927-07-24 | 1990-10-25 | ||
| Zenobia Camprubí | Spanish writer of Catalan and Puerto Rican descent | 1887-08-31 | 1956-10-28 | Spain |  |
| Zenta Mauriņa | Latvian writer | 1897-12-15 | 1978-04-25 | Latvia |  |
| Zeynep Ergun | Turkish linguist | 1956 | |||
| Zeynep Korkmaz | Scientist | 1922-07-05 | |||
| Zofia Romanowiczowa | Polish writer | 1922-10-18 | 2010-03-28 | Poland |  |
| Zora Tavčar | writer, essayist and translator | 1928-10-02 | |||
| Zora Wolfová | Czech translator from English | 1928-02-20 | 2012-11-29 | ||
| Zuzanna Ginczanka | Polish writer | 1917-03-09 | 1945-01 |  | |
| Ágnes Rapai | Hungarian poet | 1952-03-13 | Hungary |  | |
| Ágota Bozai | Hungarian writer | 1965 | Hungary | ||
| Åse-Marie Nesse | Norwegian philologist, translator and poet | 1934-04-29 | 2001-07-13 | Norway | |
| Élisabeth Gille | French writer and translator | 1937-03-20 | 1996-09-30 | France | |
| Émilie du Châtelet | French mathematician, physicist, and author | 1706-12-17 | 1749-09-10 | France | _-001.jpg) |
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