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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957)
translator, playwright, essayist, poet, editor, philologist
- University of Oxford, Godolphin School
Nancy Huston (born 1953)
linguist, translator
- Sarah Lawrence College, High Mowing School
Arthur Asa Berger (born 1933)
literary scholar, linguist, journalist
Walter Scott (1771-1832)
poet, playwright, linguist, translator, musicologist, biographer, judge, poet lawyer, lawyer, historian, literary critic
- University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh School of Law
Robert van Gulik (1910-1967)
linguist, diplomat, translator, illustrator, musician, orientalist
- Leiden University, Utrecht University
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926)
theologian, school teacher, cleric, philologist
- University of Cambridge
Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
linguist, literary scholar, pedagogue, historian, critic, teacher, philologist
- Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University, College of Philosophy of the Prague German University
Gilbert Murray (1866-1957)
linguist, classical philologist, playwright, classical scholar, politician, translator
- University of Oxford