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Assia Djebar (1936-2015)
linguist, film director, professor, translator, historian
- École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Fénelon, Paris
Edith Pargeter (1913-1995)
linguist, translator, bohemicist
Andrew Dalby (born 1947)
linguist, librarian, cultural historian, historian, classical scholar, translator
- University of Cambridge, Bristol Grammar School
Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)
philosopher, linguist, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar, art theorist
- Saint Petersburg State University
Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457)
philologist, philosopher, Latin Catholic priest
- University of Pavia
David Albahar (1948-2023)
translator, linguist
- University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy
Erri De Luca (born 1950)
linguist, poet, translator, playwright, journalist, Bible translator, truck driver, assembly line worker, mountaineer
- L.Clas.Umberto I-Napoli-
A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993)
linguist, translator, poet, faculty member
- University of Mysore, Indiana University