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Ilija Trojanow (born 1965)
linguist, translator, editor, journalist
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Bryan A. Garner (born 1958)
lexicographer, linguist, lawyer
- University of Texas at Austin
Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953)
politician, journalist, linguist, translator
Paul Dickson (born 1939)
journalist, linguist
- Wesleyan University
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
linguist, film director, cricketer, poet, playwright, translator, teacher, intellectual, French resistance fighter, video artist
- Trinity College Dublin
Paul Auster (1947-2024)
film director, linguist, translator, poet, essayist, autobiographer, playwright, musician, librettist, critic, editor
- Columbia University
Joaquín Víctor González (1863-1923)
linguist, historian, journalist, politician, lawyer, judge, translator, philosopher
- National University of Córdoba
Al-Biruni (0973-1048)
philosopher, chemist, geographer, polymath, mathematician, cartographer, astronomer, translator, anthropologist, physicist, astrologer, historian, linguist, indologist, pharmacist, humanist, botanist