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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
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
linguist, poet, translator, playwright, librettist
- University of Oxford, Eton College
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998)
philosopher, philologist, linguist, epistemologist, sociologist, literary theorist, literary critic, teacher
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, University of Paris
Donna Jo Napoli (born 1948)
linguist, linguistics teacher
- Harvard University
Petrarch (1304-1374)
philosopher, poet, translator, lyricist, mountaineer, autobiographer, philologist, humanist, Catholic cleric
- University of Montpellier, University of Bologna
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
playwright, translator, linguist, poet, actor
- St Columb's College, Queen's University Belfast
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg