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lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons and the art of compiling dictionaries. It is divided into two separate academic disciplines: * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretical le ...

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* Maulvi Abdul Haq (India/Pakistan, 1872–1961) Baba-e-Urdu, English-Urdu dictionary *

Ivar Aasen Ivar Andreas Aasen (; 5 August 1813 – 23 September 1896) was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembled one of the two official written versions of the Norwegian language, Nynorsk, from ...

(Norway, 1813–1896) Norwegian language * Abu Amr Ishaq ibn Mirar al-Shaybani (Iraq, c. 738–828) Arabic * Ilia Abuladze (Georgia, 1901–1968) Old Georgian * Johann Christoph Adelung (Germany, 1732–1806) German language general dictionary * George J. Adler (Germany/US, 1821–1868) German/English * Robert Ainsworth (UK, 1660–1743) Latin * Adam Jack Aitken (UK, 1921–1998) Scots language * John Michael Allaby (UK, born 1933) English LSP * Anthony Allen (UK, late 17th century – 1754) obsolete English words * Robert Allen (UK, born 1944) English language general * Amerias (Greece, 3rd century BC) Ancient Macedonian * Ethan Allen Andrews (US, 1787–1858) Latin * Vladimir Anić (Croatia, 1930–2000) Croatian general * Vaman Shivram Apte (India, 1858–1892) English-Sanskrit * Ġużè Aquilina (Malta, 1911–1997)

Maltese language Maltese (, also or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language derived from Siculo-Arabic, late medieval Sicilian Arabic with Romance languages, Romance Stratum (linguistics), superstrata. It is the only Semitic languages, Semitic language pred ...

Aristophanes of Byzantium __NOTOC__ Aristophanes of Byzantium ( ; Byzantium – Alexandria BC) was a Hellenistic Greek scholar, critic and grammarian, particularly renowned for his work in Homeric scholarship, but also for work on other classical authors such as ...

(Greece, 257–180 BC) Ancient Greek * Sue Atkins (UK, 1931–2021) English/French bilingual * Ali Azaykou (Morocco, 1942–2004)

Berber languages The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages spoken by Berbers, Berber communities, ...

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* Albert Bachmann (Switzerland, 1863–1934)

Swiss German Swiss German (Standard German: , ,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no #Conventions, defined orthography for any of them, many different spellings can be found. and others; ) is any of the Alemannic German, Alemannic ...

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I. Bacon argued for the importance of nat ...

(UK, 1561–1626) philosophy and science *

Nathan Bailey Nathan Bailey (died 27 June 1742), was an English philologist and lexicographer. He was the author of several dictionaries, including his '' Universal Etymological Dictionary'', which appeared in some 30 editions between 1721 and 1802. Bailey' ...

(UK, 1691–1742) English * Johannes Balbus (Italy, died 1298) Latin * Frederick W. Baller (UK, 1852–1922) Chinese * Katherine Barber (Canada, 1959–2021) English * Edmund Henry Barker (UK, 1788–1839) Classical languages *

Clarence Barnhart Clarence Lewis Barnhart (1900–1993) was an American lexicographer best known for editing the ''Thorndike-Barnhart'' series of graded dictionaries, published by Scott Foresman & Co. which were based on word lists and concepts of definition deve ...

(US, 1900–1993) English general dictionary * David Barnhart (US, born 1941) English * Robert Barnhart (US, 1933–2007) English * Louis Barral (France, 1910–1999) French and Monégasque * Grant Barrett (US, born 1970) English dictionary of slang * John Barrow (UK, fl. 1735–1774) navigation and science * Marcos E. Becerra (Mexico, 1870–1940) Spanish language * Richard Beckett (Australia, 1936–1987) English food guides * William Bedwell (UK, 1561–1632) Arabic * Ivan Belostenec (Croatia, 1594–1675) Illyrian and Latin * Henning Bergenholtz (Denmark, born 1944) Danish LSP dictionary * Eric Blom (Switzerland, 1888–1959) music dictionary * Thomas Blount (UK, 1618–1679) English * Robert Blust (US, 1940–2022)

Austronesian languages The Austronesian languages ( ) are a language family widely spoken throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, parts of Mainland Southeast Asia, Madagascar, the islands of the Pacific Ocean and Taiwan (by Taiwanese indigenous peoples). They are spoken ...

* Jean-Baptiste Boissiere (France, 1806–1885) French thesaurus * Peter Bowler (Australia, living) English *

Abel Boyer Abel Boyer (1667? – 16 November 1729) was a French-English lexicographer, journalist and miscellaneous writer. Biography Abel Boyer was probably born on 24 June 1667 at Castres, in Upper Languedoc, southern France. His father, Pierre Boyer, o ...

(France, c. 1667–1729) French and English * Dan Beach Bradley (US, 1845–1923) Siamese * Henry Bradley (UK, 1845–1923) English general * Jim Breen (Australia, born 1947) Japanese and English * Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (UK, 1810–1897) English * Francis Brinkley (Ireland/UK/Japan, 1841–1912) Japanese and English * Nathan Brown (US/Burma/Japan, 1807–1886) Assamese and Japanese * Aleksander Brückner (Poland, 1856–1939) Polish and German * Kazimieras Būga (Lithuania, 1879–1924) Lithuanian * John Bullokar (UK, 1574–1627) English language dictionary of hard words * Robert Burchfield (New Zealand/UK 1923–2004) English language historical * Arthur Coke Burnell (England and India, 1840–1882), co-compiler of '' Hobson-Jobson'' Anglo-Indian

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* Ambrogio Calepino (Italy, c. 1450–1510) Latin * Angus Cameron (Canada, 1941–1983) English * Joachim Heinrich Campe (Germany, 1746–1818) German * Emanuel Nunes Carvalho (UK/US, 1771–1817) Hebrew * Edmund Castell (UK, 1606–1685) Oriental languages * Robert Cawdrey (UK, c. 1538–1604) English * Pranas Čepėnas (Lithuania/US, 1899–1980) Lithuanian * Mohamed Chafik (Morocco, born 1926) Berber * Robert L. Chapman (US, 1920–2002) English * Nikoloz Cholokashvili (Georgia, 1585–1658) Georgian * David Chubinashvili (Georgia/Russia, 1814–1891) Georgian * Michael Chyet (US, born 1957) Kurdish * Saïd Cid Kaoui (Algeria, 1859–1910) Berber * Cigerxwîn (Turkey/Syria, 1903–1984)

Kurdish language Kurdish (, , ) is a Northwestern Iranian languages, Northwestern Iranian language or dialect continuum, group of languages spoken by Kurds in the region of Kurdistan, namely in southeast Turkish Kurdistan, Turkey, northern Iraqi Kurdistan, Ira ...

* Henry Cockeram (UK, 17th century) English and Latin * Herbert Coleridge (UK, 1830–1861) English language historical * Elisha Coles (UK, c. 1608–1688) English * Thomas Cooper (UK, c. 1517–1594) English and Latin * Randle Cotgrave (UK, died 1634) English and French * John Craig (UK, 1796–1880), English * William Craigie (UK/US, 1867–1957) English language historical dictionary * Jane Tapsubei Creider (Kenya, ) Nandi language

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* Vladimir Dahl (Russia, 1801–1872) '' Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language'' * Charles Anderson Dana (US, 1819–1897) English language encyclopedic dictionary * Frederick William Danker (US, 1920–2012) New Testament Greek lexicon *

Đào Duy Anh Đào Duy Anh (25 April 1904 – 1 April 1988) was a Vietnamese historian and List of lexicographers, lexicographer. He was born in Thanh Oai, Hà Tây, now, Hanoi. He was one of the writers associated with the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm affair. ...

(Vietnam, 1904–1988) Scholarly Vietnamese, ''Pháp-Việt Từ điển'' * Khudiram Das (India, 1916–2002) Bengali- Santali * John Davies (Wales, 1567–1644) Welsh and Latin * Tomás de Bhaldraithe (Ireland, 1916–1996) Irish and English * William Quinby De Funiak (US, 1901–1981) American and British * Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (Iran, 1879–1956) extensive dictionary in Persian * Philip Delaporte (Germany/US, 1868–1928) German and Nauruan * Francesco della Penna (Italy, 1680–1745) Tibetan and Italian bilingual * Susie Dent (UK, born 1964) English * Friedrich Christian Diez (Germany, 1794–1876) etymological dictionary of Romance languages * Patrick S. Dinneen (Ireland, 1860–1934) Irish and English bilingual * Josef Dobrovský (Czechoslovakia, 1753–1829) Slavic languages, Czech and German bilingual * Jacob Ludwig Döhne (Germany/South Africa, 1811–1879) Zulu and English bilingual * Franz Dornseiff (Germany, 1888–1960) German language thesaurus * Henry Drisler (US, 1818–1939) Latin dictionary * Konrad Duden (Germany, 1829–1911) German language general * Edward Dwelly (UK, 1864–1939)

Scottish Gaelic Scottish Gaelic (, ; Endonym and exonym, endonym: ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a member of the Goidelic language, Goidelic branch of Celtic, Scottish Gaelic, alongs ...

* Thomas Dyche (UK, late 17th century – 1733) English language spelling

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* Eugene Ehrlich (US, 1922–2008) English language general and specialised * Ernst Johann Eitel (Germany/China, 1838–1908) Cantonese Chinese dictionary * John Eliot (UK/US, 1604–1690) Native American * Karim Emami (Iran, 1930–2005) Persian and English * Leo James English (Australia/Philippines, 1907–1997) Tagalog and English bilingual * Adolf Erman (Germany, 1854–1937) Ancient Egyptian *

Robert Estienne Robert I Estienne (; 15037 September 1559), known as ''Robertus Stephanus'' in Latin and sometimes referred to as ''Robert Stephens'', was a 16th-century printer in Paris. He was the proprietor of the Estienne print shop after the death of his f ...

(France, 1503–1559) Latin thesaurus * Daniel Silvan Evans (Wales, 1818–1903) Welsh and English bilingual * Avraham Even-Shoshan (Belarus/Israel, 1906–1984) Hebrew language general

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* Fairuzabadi (Iran, 1329–1414) Arabic language comprehensive *

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi Abu ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Khalīl ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Amr ibn Tammām al-Farāhīdī al-Azdī al-Yaḥmadī (; 718 – 786 CE), known as al-Farāhīdī, or al-Khalīl, was an Arab philologist, lexicographer and leading grammarian of Basra in ...

(Basra, 718–791) Arabic language general * Fortunato Felice (Italy, 1723–1789) Italian and French encyclopedic *

Christiane Fellbaum Christiane D. Fellbaum is an American linguist and computational linguistics researcher who is Lecturer with Rank of Professor in the Program in Linguistics and the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. The co-developer of the WordN ...

(Germany/US, living) German and English cognitive linguistics * Jean-François Féraud (France, 1725–1807) French critical dictionary * Charles J. Fillmore (US, 1929–2014) English and Japanese cognitive linguistics * Stuart Berg Flexner (US, 1928–1990) English dictionary of slang * John Florio (England, 1553–1625) comprehensive Italian to English * Henrik Florinus (Finland, 1633–1705) Latin, Swedish and Finnish trilingual * Johann Gottfried Flügel (Germany/US, 1788–1855) German and English bilingual *

Henry Watson Fowler Henry Watson Fowler (10 March 1858 – 26 December 1933) was an English schoolmaster, Lexicography, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language. He is notable for both ''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage'' and his wor ...

(UK, 1858–1933) English general * Sami Frashëri (also Şemseddin Sâmi) (

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Centr ...

, 1850–1904)

Ottoman Turkish Ottoman Turkish (, ; ) was the standardized register of the Turkish language in the Ottoman Empire (14th to 20th centuries CE). It borrowed extensively, in all aspects, from Arabic and Persian. It was written in the Ottoman Turkish alphabet. ...

, Arabic, French * James O. Fraser (UK/China, 1886–1938) Lisu language * Wilhelm Freund (Germany, 1806–1894) Latin general * Jens Andreas Friis (Norway, 1821–1896)

Sami language Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise ne ...

general * Johan Fritzner (Norway, 1812–1893)

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

* Louis Frolla (Monaco, 1904–1978) French and Monégasque * Isaac Kaufmann Funk (US, 1839–1912) English general * Antoine Furetière (France, 1619–1688) French universal * Frederick James Furnivall (UK, 1825–1910) English historical

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* Brent Galloway (US, 1944–2014) Native American languages * Cristfried Ganander (Finland, 1741–1790) Finnish general * Marie de Garis (UK, 1910–2010)

Guernésiais Guernésiais (), also known as Guerneseyese, ''Dgèrnésiais'', Guernsey French, and Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of the Norman language spoken in Guernsey. It is sometimes known on the island simply as "patois". As one of the langues d ...

language general dictionary * Johannes de Garlandia (UK/France, c. 1190–1270) Latin * Bryan A. Garner (US, born 1958) English general and LSP * Dirk Geeraerts (Belgium, born 1955) cognitive linguistics * Nayden Gerov (Bulgaria, 1823–1900) Bulgarian general * Peter Gilliver (UK, born 1964) English historical * Rudolph Goclenius (Germany, 1547–1628) Latin LSP * Jacob Golius (Netherlands, 1596–1667) Arabic and Persian to Latin * Chauncey Allen Goodrich (US, 1790–1860) English general *

Philip Babcock Gove Philip Babcock Gove (June 27, 1902–November 16, 1972) was an American lexicographer who was the editor-in-chief of the ''Webster's Third New International Dictionary'', published in 1961. Born in Concord, New Hampshire, he received his A.B. fr ...

(US, 1902–1972) English general * Louis Herbert Gray (US, 1875–1955) Indo-Iranian languages * Jonathon Green (UK, born 1948) English slang * Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Germany, 1785–1863) German historical * Francis Hindes Groome (UK, 1851–1902)

Gypsy {{Infobox ethnic group , group = Romani people , image = , image_caption = , flag = Roma flag.svg , flag_caption = Romani flag created in 1933 and accepted at the 1971 World Romani Congress , po ...

Francis Grose Francis Grose (before 11June 173112May 1791) was an England, English antiquary, drawing, draughtsman, and lexicographer. He produced ''A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'' (1785) and ''A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local ...

(UK, c. 1730–1791) English historical *

Hermann Gundert Hermann Gundert (Stuttgart, 4 February 1814 – 25 April 1893) was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the maternal grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert is chiefly known for his contribu ...

(Germany/India, 1814–1893) Malayalam and English bilingual * Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen (Mexico, 1899–1979) Spanish language * Karl Gützlaff (Germany/Thailand/China, 1803–1851) Cambodian and Chinese * Bartol Gyurgieuvits (Croatia, 1506–1566) Croatian and Latin bilingual

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* Mary Rosamund Haas (US, 1910–1996) Native American and Thai * Soleiman Haim (Iran, 1897–1970) Persian and English bilingual * Patrick Hanks (UK, 1940–2024) English language general, onomastic, and LSP * Johann Ernst Hanxleden (Germany/India, 1681–1732)

Malayalam Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian languages, Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (union territory), Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of ...

, Sanskrit and Portuguese dictionary * Orin Hargraves (US, born 1953) English dictionary of slang and rhyme * Alexander Harkavy (Belarus/US, 1863–1939) Yiddish and English bilingual * William Torrey Harris (US, 1835–1909) philosophy, English general * Reinhard Hartmann (Austria/UK, born 1938) Austrian and English contrastive linguistics, LSP dictionary * Einar Ingvald Haugen (Norway/US, 1906–1994)

, Norwegian and English *

Joyce Hawkins Joyce Mary Hawkins (1928–1992) was a lexicographer and the editor of a number of dictionaries. Joyce Hawkins studied classics at St Hugh's College, Oxford. Hawkins initially worked on a Patristic Greek dictionary, published in 1961 by Oxfo ...

(England, 1928–1992) English language general * S.I. Hayakawa (Canada/US, 1906–1992), biographical directory of US Congress * Benjamin Hedericus (Germany, 1675–1748) Latin and Greek * Tom Heehler (US, born 1963) The Well-Spoken Thesaurus * Michael Heilprin (Poland/US, 1823–1888) Hebrew and English encyclopedic * James Curtis Hepburn (US/China/Japan, 1815–1911) Japanese and English bilingual * Charles George Herbermann (Germany/US, 1840–1916) English language LSP * Hesychius of Alexandria (Greece, 5th century) Ancient Greek language lexicon * Johann Christian August Heyse (Germany, 1764–1829) German dictionary of loan words * Jack Hibberd (Australia, born 1940) English dictionary of slang * Hoke Sein (Myanmar, 1890–1984) Universal Burmese-English-Pali * Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (Brazil, 1910–1989) Portuguese-language general * William Holwell (1726–1798), English classicist and cleric * Francis Holyoake (UK, 1567–1653) English etymological * A. S. Hornby (UK/Japan, 1898–1978) English learners' * John Camden Hotten (UK, 1832–1873) English slang, '' A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words'' * Antônio Houaiss (Brazil, 1915–1999) Portuguese general * Richard Howard (US, born 1929) French and English translation * August Wilhelm Hupel (Germany/Estonia, 1737–1819) Estonian general * Robert Hunter (Encyclopædist) (England, 1823–1897), lead editor of Encyclopædic Dictionary

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* Jonah ibn Janah (Spain, c. 990–1050) Hebrew lexicon * Ibn Manzur (Maghreb Arabia, 1233–1312) Arabic dictionary incorporating earlier * Laurynas Ivinskis (Lithuania, 1810–1881) Lithuanian bilingual

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* Jin Qizong (China, 1918–2004) Jurchen and Chinese bilingual * John Jamieson (UK, 1759–1838) Lowland Scots language etymological * Marcus Jastrow (Poland, 1829–1903)

Talmud The Talmud (; ) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (''halakha'') and Jewish theology. Until the advent of Haskalah#Effects, modernity, in nearly all Jewish communities, the Talmud was the cen ...

ic language general * Jauhari (Iraq?, 10th century) Arabic language alphabetical * Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Germany, 1694–1758) German biographical * John of Genoa → Johannes Balbus *

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson ( – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The ''Oxford ...

(UK, 1709–1784) English general, ''

A Dictionary of the English Language ''A Dictionary of the English Language'', sometimes published as ''Johnson's Dictionary'', was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is among the most influential dictionary, dictionaries in the history of the English la ...

'' * Alexander Keith Johnston (UK, 1804–1871) English LSP dictionary and atlas * Dafydd Glyn Jones (Wales, born 1941) English and Welsh bilingual * Eliza Grew Jones (US/Burma, 1803–1838) Siamese (Thai) and English bilingual * Henry Stuart Jones (UK, 1867–1939) Greek and English * Michael Josephs (Prussia/UK, 1763–1849), English and Hebrew * Adoniram Judson (US/Myanmar, 1788–1850) Burmese and English bilingual * Joseph Jungmann (Czechoslovakia, 1773–1847) Czech and German bilingual * Daniel Juslenius (Finland, 1676–1752) Finnish general

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* Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbia, 1787–1864) Serbian general * Mahmud al-Kashgari (Turkey, 1005–1102),

Uyghur language Uyghur or Uighur (; , , or , , ), formerly known as Turki or Eastern Turki, is a Turkic languages, Turkic language with 8 to 13 million speakers (), spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western ...

* Bartol Kašić (Croatia, 1575–1650) Croatian and Italian bilingual *

John Samuel Kenyon John Samuel Kenyon (July 26, 1874 – September 6, 1959) was an American linguist. Born in Medina, Ohio, he graduated from Hiram College in 1898 and taught there as a professor of English from 1916 to 1944, when he retired and became an emeritus ...

(US, 1874–1959) English pronunciation * Adam Kilgarriff (UK, 1960–2015) English and computer lexicography * Barbara Ann Kipfer (US, born 1954) English general and LSP * Ferdinand Kittel (Germany/India, 1832–1903)

Kannada Kannada () is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly in the state of Karnataka in southwestern India, and spoken by a minority of the population in all neighbouring states. It has 44 million native speakers, and is additionally a ...

and English bilingual *

Friedrich Kluge Friedrich Kluge (21 June 1856 – 21 May 1926) was a German philologist and educator. He is known for the ''Etymological Dictionary of the German Language'' (), which was first published in 1883. Biography Kluge was born in Cologne. He studied ...

(Germany, 1856–1926) German language etymological * Grzegorz Knapski (Poland, 1561–1639) Polish, Latin and Greek thesaurus * James Knowles (UK, 1759–1840) English pronunciation * Władysław Kopaliński (Poland, 1907–2007) Polish etymological * Emmanuel Kriaras (Greece, 1906–2014) Greek historical * Raphael Kuhner (Germany, 1802–1878) Greek and Latin * Hans Kurath (Austria/US, 1891–1992) English historical, dialect atlas

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* Sita Ram Lalas (India, 1908–1986) Rajasthani language historical * Wilfred G. Lambert (England, 1926–2011) Assyrian language *

Edward William Lane Edward William Lane (17 September 1801 – 10 August 1876) was a British orientalist, translator and lexicographer. He is known for his ''Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians'' and the '' Arabic-English Lexicon,'' as well as his translati ...

(1801–1876) translation of medieval Arabic dictionaries to English * Pierre Larousse (France, 1817–1875) French general dictionary and encyclopedic * Donald Laycock (Australia, 1936–1988) languages of Papua New Guinea *

James Legge James Legge (; 20 December 181529 November 1897) was a Scottish linguist, missionary, sinologist, and translator who was best known as an early translator of Classical Chinese texts into English. Legge served as a representative of the Lond ...

(UK/China, 1815–1897) Chinese language * George William Lemon (UK, 1726–1797) English etymological * John Lemprière (Jersey, 1765–1824) dictionary of classical proper names * Charlton Thomas Lewis (1834–1904) Latin and English bilingual * Matthias von Lexer (Germany, 1830–1892) German historical * Li Fanwen (China, born 1932) Tangut and Chinese bilingual *

Henry Liddell Henry George Liddell (; 6 February 1811– 18 January 1898) was Dean (college), dean (1855–1891) of Christ Church, Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University (1870–1874), headmaster (1846–1855) of Westminster School (where a house is n ...

(UK, 1811–1898) Greek and English bilingual lexicon * Sven Lidman (Sweden, 1921–2011) Swedish encyclopedic * Lin Yutang (China/US, 1895–1976) Chinese and English bilingual * Samuel Linde (Poland, 1771–1847) Polish language general * Émile Littré (France, 1801–1881) French language general * Thomas Lloyd (Wales, 1673–1734) Welsh language * Elias Lönnrot (Finland, 1802–1884) Finnish and Swedish bilingual

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* Mackintosh MacKay (Scotland, 1793–1873) probable earliest dictionary of Scots Gaelic (1828) * Stepan Malkhasyants (Armenia, 1857–1947)

Armenian language Armenian (endonym: , , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family. It is the native language of the Armenians, Armenian people and the official language of ...

historical * Mouloud Mammeri (Algeria, 1917–1989)

Tamazight The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related but mostly mutually unintelligible languages spoken by Berber communities, who ar ...

lexicography * Francis Andrew March (US, 1825–1911) comparative linguistics, English historical * Francis Mason (UK/US/Burma, 1799–1874) Burmese * Percy C. Mather (UK/China, 1882–1933) Mongolian * Robert Henry Mathews (Australia/China, 1877–1970) Chinese and English bilingual *

Johann Mattheson Johann Mattheson (28 September 1681 – 17 April 1764) was a German composer, critic, lexicographer and music theorist. His writings on the late Baroque and early Classical period were highly influential, specifically, "his biographical and the ...

(Germany, 1681–1764) music, German * Tom McArthur (UK), Dictionary Research Centre,

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

* Erin McKean (US, born 1971) English general and LSP * Lambert McKenna (Ireland, 1870–1956) English and Irish bilingual * Walter Henry Medhurst (UK/China, 1796–1857) Chinese and English bilingual * Igor Mel'čuk (Russia/Canada, born 1932) French * Gilles Ménage (France, 1613–1692) etymological dictionary of French * Francisci a Mesgnien Meninski (1623–1698) first large Turkish-to-Latin * Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (Switzerland/Germany, 1861–1936) Romance languages * Minamoto no Shitagō (Japan, 911–983) Japanese thesaurus * William Chester Minor (Sri Lanka/US/UK, 1834–1920) English historical *

John Minsheu John Minsheu (or Minshew) (1560–1627) was an English Linguistics, linguist and lexicographer. Biography He was born and died in London. Little is known about his life. He published some of the earliest dictionaries and grammars of the Spanish ...

(England, 1560–1627) Spanish and English bilingual, 11-language multilingual dictionary * María Moliner (Spain, 1900–1981) Spanish general * Judah Monis (US, 1683–1764) Hebrew language * Paul Monroe (US, 1869–1947) English encyclopedic * Morohashi Tetsuji (Japan, 1883–1982) Chinese and Japanese bilingual * Robert Morrison (UK/China, 1782–1834) Chinese and English bilingual * Mahshid Moshiri (Iran, born 1951) Persian language pronunciation and LSP dictionaries * Joseph Moxon (UK, 1627–1691) English LSP *

Kārlis Mīlenbahs Kārlis Mīlenbahs (his surname was formerly also written as Mühlenbach, Mühlenbachs, Mǖlenbachs or Mīlenbachs) (18 January 1853 in Courland, Russian Empire – 27 March 1916 in Võru, Livonia, Russian Empire) was the first native speaker o ...

(Latvia, 1853–1916) Latvian and German bilingual * Wilhelm Max Müller (Germany/US, 1862–1919) Hebrew language * Monier Monier-Williams (India/UK, 1819–1899) Sanskrit English * Pamela Munro (US, born 1947) Native American language dictionaries * James Murray (UK, 1837–1915) English historical * Vladimir Müller (Russia, 1880 – before 1943) English–Russian

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* Hajime Nakamura (Japan, 1911–1999) Sanskrit and Pali languages * Nathan ben Jehiel (Italy, c. 1035–1106) Hebrew * William Allen Neilson (UK/US, 1869–1946) English general * Andrew Nelson (US/Japan, 1893–1975) Japanese and English bilingual * Jean Nicot (France, 1530–1600) French historical * Sandro Nielsen (Denmark, born 1961) Danish LSP * Njattyela Sreedharan (India, born 1938) Dravidian languages * Nonius Marcellus (Italy, 3rd/4th centuries) Latin lexicon * Jerry Norman (US, 1936–2012)

Manchu The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from wh ...

-English

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* Niall Ó Dónaill (Ireland, 1908–1995) Irish and English bilingual * John Ogilvie (UK, 1797–1867) English language general *

Charles Talbut Onions Charles Talbut Onions (10 September 1873 – 8 January 1965) was an English grammarian and lexicographer and the fourth editor of the ''Oxford English Dictionary''. Life C. T. Onions was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the eldest son of Ralph ...

(UK, 1873–1965) English language historical * Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (Georgia, 1658–1725)

Georgian language Georgian (, ) is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language, Kartvelian language family. It is the official language of Georgia (country), Georgia and the native or primary language of 88% of its population. It also serves as the literary langu ...

general * Oros of Alexandria (Egypt?, 5th century) Ancient Greek language * Osbern of Gloucester (UK, 1123–1200) Latin language etymological * Flora Osete (Spain, 1883–?), Spanish language * Ōtsuki Fumihiko (Japan, 1847–1928) Japanese language general * Sergei Ozhegov (Russia, 1900–1964) Russian language general

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* Condé Benoist Pallen (US, 1858–1929) English language encyclopedia *

Alfredo Panzini Alfredo Panzini (31 December 1863 – 10 April 1939) was an Italian novelist, Literary criticism, critic, historical writer, and Lexicography, lexicographer. A prolific and popular writer, Panzini is famous in Italy for his brilliant and amusing ...

(Italy, 1863–1939) Italian general *

Eric Partridge Eric Honeywood Partridge (6 February 1894 – 1 June 1979) was a New Zealand–United Kingdom, British lexicography, lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the ...

(New Zealand/Australia/UK, 1894–1979) English slang * Franz Passow (Germany, 1786–1933) Greek language historical * Hermann Paul (Germany, 1846–1921) German language historical *

Andrew Pawley Andrew Kenneth Pawley (born 1941 in Sydney) is an Australian–New Zealand linguist and Emeritus Professor at the School of Culture, History and Language of the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Career Paw ...

(Australia/New Zealand, born 1941) Austronesian languages * Clemente Peani (Italy/India, 1731–1782)

language * Edmund Peck (Canada, 1850–1924) Inaktitut and English bilingual * Aaron Peckham (US) English language slang * Philitas of Cos (Greece, c. 340–285 BC) Ancient Greek glossary * Philo of Byblos (Greece, c. 64–141 AD) Ancient Greek dictionary of synonyms * Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai (India, 1864–1946) Malayalam dictionary *

Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (3 September 1921 – 21 July 2016) was a Polish-born polymath and inventor with 50 patents to his credit. He was a civil and industrial engineer by profession, educated in Poland, Belgium, and the United States. He was ...

(Poland, US, 1921–2016) Polish and English bilingual * Julius Pollux (Egypt/Greece, 2nd century) Ancient Greek thesaurus *

Noah Porter Noah Thomas Porter III (December 14, 1811 – March 4, 1892)''Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University'', Yale University, 1891-2, New Haven, pp. 82-83. was an American Congregational minister, academic, philosopher, author, lexicographer ...

(US, 1811–1892) English language general * Malachy Postlewayt (UK, c. 1707–1767) English language LSP

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* Ola Raknes (Norway/US, 1887–1975) Norwegian and English bilingual * Stanislovas Rapalionis (Lithuania/Germany, 1485–1545) Lithuanian language * Rasmus Christian Rask (Denmark, 1787–1832) Indo-European comparative linguistics * Allen Walker Read (US, 1906–2002) English language glossary * James Redhouse (UK, 1811–1892) Turkish and English bilingual * Gustaf Renvall (Finland, 1781–1841) Finnish language general * Alain Rey (France, 1928–2020) French language general and LSP * Barbara Reynolds (UK, 1914–2015) Italian language * Kel Richards (Australia, born 1946) English language dialect * César-Pierre Richelet (French, 1626–1698) French language general * John Rider (UK/Ireland, 1562–1632) Latin language etymological * William Rider (UK, 1723–1785) English language general * Mark Ridley (England, 1560 – c. 1624) Russian/English and English/Russian * Paul Robert (French, 1910–1980) French language general * Nancy Roper (UK, 1918–2004) Nursing and medical dictionaries * Joseph Francis Charles Rock (Austria/US/China, 1884–1962) Naxi and English bilingual *

Peter Mark Roget Peter Mark Roget ( ; 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian, Lexicography, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the ''Roget's Thesau ...

(UK, 1779–1869) English thesaurus *

Leo Rosten Leo Calvin Rosten (Yiddish: ; April 11, 1908 – February 19, 1997) was an American writer and humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism, and Yiddish lexicography. Early life Rosten was born into a Yiddish-speaking famil ...

(Poland–Russia/US, 1908–1997) Hebrew and English lexicon

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* Rachel Saint (US/Ecuador/Africa, 1914–1994) Waorani dictionary * Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (France, 1697–1781) French glossary * William Salesbury (UK, c. 1520–1600) English and Welsh bilingual * Pekka Sammallahti (Finland, born 1947) Sámi dictionaries * Daniel Sanders (Germany, 1819–1897) German general * Francisco J. Santamaría (Mexico, 1886–1963) Spanish dictionary of Americanisms * Irene Saunders (US/China, living) Chinese and English bilingual * Valentin Schindler (Germany, died 1604) Hebrew et al. five-language * Steinar Schjøtt (Norway, 1844–1920) Norwegian and Danish bilingual * Johann Gottlob Schneider (Germany, 1750–1822) Ancient Greek and German bilingual * Ericus Schroderus (Sweden, 1608–1639) Latin and Scandinavian languages multilingual * August Schumann (Germany, 1773–1826) German language dictionary of Saxony * Norman W. Schur (US, 1907–1992) English lexicons * Robert Scott (UK, 1811–1887) Ancient Greek and English bilingual * Kurt Heinrich Sethe (Germany, 1869–1934) Ancient Egyptian language * Stephen Sewall (US, 1734–1804) Hebrew language * Sextus Pompeius Festus (Roman Empire, 2nd century) Ancient Latin etymological * Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee (Pakistan/Canada, 1917–2005) Urdu language *

Jesse Sheidlower Jesse Sheidlower (born August 5, 1968) is a lexicographer, editor, author, and programmer. He is past president of the American Dialect Society, was the project editor of the Random House ''Dictionary of American Slang'', and is the author of '' ...

(US, born 1968) English language historical * Thomas A. Sherwood (US, 1791–1879) English place names gazetteer * David Shulman (US, 1912–2004) English language historical *

Natalia Shvedova Natalia Yulievna Shvedova (, 25 December 1916 – 18 September 2009) was a Soviet lexicographer who authored several standard outlines of Russian grammar, for which she was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982. Yuly Aikhenvald's daughter and Vik ...

(Russia, 1916–2009) Russian language explanatory * Johannes Silvet (Estonia, 1895–1979) Estonian and English bilingual * John Simpson (UK, born 1953) English language historical *

John McHardy Sinclair John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933 – 13 March 2007) was a professor of Modern English Language at Birmingham University from 1965 to 2000. He pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teachin ...

(UK, 1933–2007) English corpus linguistics, learners' * Konstantinas Sirvydas (Lithuania, 1580–1631) Lithuanian–Latin–Polish trilingual * Stephen Skinner (UK, 1623–1667) English etymological * Johan Kristian Skougaard (Norway, 1847–1925) Norwegian and French bilingual * Nicholas Slonimsky (Russia, 1894–1995) Musicology, biography and literary criticism * Benjamin Eli Smith (US, 1857–1913) English general and LSP * John Smith (US, died 1809) Hebrew * William Smith (UK, 1813–1893) Greek and Romance languages LSP * Knut Fredrik Söderwall (Sweden, 1842–1924) Old Swedish * William Edward Soothill (UK/China, 1861–1935) Chinese language LSP * Lewis Spence (UK, 1874–1955) English language LSP * Alexander Spiers (UK/France, 1807–1869) English and French bilingual * Izmail Sreznevsky (Russia, 1812–1880) Ancient Russian language historical * Kory Stamper (US, living) Modern American/English * Jan Stanisławski (Poland, 1893–1973) Polish and English bilingual * Joakim Stulić (Croatia, 1730–1817) Croatian–Latin–Italian trilingual * Nahum Stutchkoff (US, 1893–1965) Yiddish

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* John Van Nest Talmage (US/China, 1819–1892) Chinese and English bilingual * Peter Tamony (US, 1902–1985) English LSP etymology * Jack Thiessen (Canada, 1932–present) Plautdietsch * Antoine Thomas (Belgium, 1644–1709) mathematics glossary * Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud (Germany/Netherlands, 1899–1988) Javanese and Dutch * Lewis Thorpe (UK, died 1977) French language * Alf Torp (Norway, 1853–1916) Norwegian and Danish bilingual etymological

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* Martin Ulvestad (Norway/US, 1865–1942) English–Danish–Norwegian trilingual * Laurence Urdang (US, 1927–2008) English language general * Dmitry Ushakov (Russia, 1873–1942) Russian language general

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* Oreste Vaccari (Italy/Japan, died 1980) Japanese–English bilingual * Johan Hendrik van Dale (Netherlands, 1828–1872) creator of '' Van Dale's Great Dictionary of the Dutch Language'' * Louis Gustave Vapereau (France, 1819–1906) French LSP * G. Venkatasubbaiah (India, 1913–2021) Kannada language general dictionary, Kannada and English bilingual * Verrius Flaccus (Ancient Rome, c. 55 BC – 20 AD) Latin language orthographic * Anna de Villiers (1900–1979), Afrikaans South African writer, lexicographer, and educator * Faust Vrančić (Croatia, 1551–1617) Croatian et al. five-language

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* Magdi Wahba (Egypt, 1925–1991) Arabic and English bilingual * Noël François de Wailly (France, 1724–1801) French language neologisms * John Walker (UK, 1732–1807) English rhymes and pronunciation * Fr. Paul Walsh (Ireland, 1885–1941) Irish place names and genealogy * John Walters (Wales, 1721–1797) English and Welsh languages * Wang Li (China, 1900–1986) Chinese dictionary of word families * Grady Ward (US, born 1951) English thesaurus * Oliver Wardrop (UK, 1864–1948) Georgian language *

Noah Webster Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education" ...

(US, 1758–1843) English language general * Edmund Weiner (UK, born 1950) English language historical * William Dwight Whitney (US, 1827–1894) English language general dictionary, English and German bilingual * Harischandra Wijayatunga (Sri Lanka, born 1931)

Sinhala language Sinhala ( ; Sinhala: , , ), sometimes called Sinhalese ( ), is an Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken by the Sinhalese people of Sri Lanka, who make up the largest ethnic group on the island, numbering about 16 million. It is also the first ...

general * Samuel Wells Williams (US/China, 1812–1884) Chinese language dictionary,

Cantonese Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...

language * Miron Winslow (US/Sri Lanka, 1789–1864) Tamil and English bilingual * Arok Wolvengrey (Canada, born 1965)

Cree The Cree, or nehinaw (, ), are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada, First Nations. They live prim ...

and English bilingual *

Joseph Emerson Worcester Joseph Emerson Worcester (August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of ''Webster's Dictionary'' in the mid-nineteenth-century. Their rivalry became known as the "dictionary ...

(US, 1784–1865) English general and LSP dictionaries * Elizabeth Mary Wright (UK, 1863–1958) English dialect * Joseph Wright (UK, 1855–1930) English dialect *

Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (27 March 1870–26 January 1945) was a notable English lexicographer and philologist. Early life Wyld was born in 1870 and attended Charterhouse School from 1883 to 1885; he was then privately educated in Lausanne ...

(UK, 1870–1945) English language general

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* Xu Shen (China, c. 58–147) Chinese character dictionary

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* Robert W. Young (US, 1912–2007)

Navajo language Navajo or Navaho ( ; Navajo: or ) is a Southern Athabaskan languages, Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dene languages, Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo i ...

general *

Henry Yule Colonel (United Kingdom), Colonel Sir Henry Yule (1 May 1820 – 30 December 1889) was a Scottish Oriental studies, Orientalist and geographer. He published many travel books, including translations of the work of Marco Polo and ''Mirabil ...

(Scotland and India, 1820–1889), co-compiler of '' Hobson-Jobson'' ("A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive")

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* Ladislav Zgusta (Czechoslovakia/US, 1924–2007) historical/comparative linguistics, onomastics, lexicography * Ben Zimmer (US, born 1971) English language visual thesaurus *

Ghil'ad Zuckermann Ghil'ad Zuckermann (, ; ) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann was awarded the Rubinlicht Prize (2023) "for his researc ...

(Australia/Israel/Italy/UK, born 1971) Barngarla,

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

lexicology,

phono-semantic matching Phono-semantic matching (PSM) is the incorporation of a word into one language from another, often creating a neologism, where the word's non-native quality is hidden by replacing it with phonetically and semantically similar words or roots f ...

, expert witness in lexicographyMoroccanoil v Aldi 2017

Federal Court of Australia The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary (less serious) and indictable (mo ...

, J. Katzmann (Judge), 31 August 2017.

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