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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
translator, playwright, essayist, poet, editor, philologist
- University of Oxford, Godolphin School
Noam Chomsky (born 1928)
philosopher, linguist, psychologist, anthropologist, human rights activist, educator, media critic, opinion journalist, computer scientist, historian, philologist
- Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Arthur Asa Berger (born 1933)
literary scholar, linguist, journalist
Amos Oz (1939-2018)
linguist, journalist, translator, essayist, pedagogue, poet
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Gymnasia Rehavia
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876)
linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, suffragist
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
biologist, linguist, paleontologist, translator, ichthyologist, zoologist, carcinologist, anatomist, photographer, philosopher, anthropologist, physiologist, naturalist, evolutionary biologist
- University College London, Charing Cross Hospital