30 December - Luís da Câmara Cascudo, anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, historian, lawyer, and lexicographer (died 1986)
His grandson was the eminent music critic and lexicographer Henry Cope (H. C.) Colles.
Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (died circa 1003), a lexicographer who wrote one of the first large Arabic dictionaries
His grandfather on his mother's side was Sir James Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Cousins attended Murray's funeral at age 11.
A. S. Hornby (1898–1978), English grammarian, lexicographer and researcher into second language teaching
Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (May 3, 1910 – February 28, 1989) was a Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer, best known for editing the Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, a major dictionary of the Portuguese language.
Bergen Baldwin Evans (September 19, 1904 – February 4, 1978) was an American lexicographer, a Rhodes Scholar, a Harvard College graduate, a Northwestern University professor of English, and a television host.
Bryan A. Garner (born November 17, 1958, in Lubbock, Texas) is a U.S. lawyer, lexicographer, and teacher who has written several books about English usage and style, including Garner's Modern American Usage and Elements of Legal Style.
Robert Burchfield CNZM CBE (1923–2004), scholar, writer, and lexicographer
Until September 2008, Oxford maintained a permanent staff of lexicographers in Canada, led by editor Katherine Barber.
Discovered by Captain James Ross, 1841, who named it for Peter Mark Roget, noted English lexicographer who was Secretary of the Royal Society.
In the time of Lewis and Clark the word 'pheasant' stood for "a genus of gallinaceous birds," according to lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense.
The Common Phonetic Spelling is the phonetic spelling system devised in 2012 by the British-based Chinese lexicographer Ian Low in his Chinese to English dictionaries.
The bill is largely the result of lobbying efforts by American lexicographer Noah Webster.
Dag Gundersen (born 15 January 1928 in Ringsaker, Hedmark) is a Norwegian linguist and lexicographer, dictionary editor and professor.
The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, first published in 1854, was the last of a series of classical dictionaries edited by the English scholar William Smith (1813–1893), which included as sister works A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
Nakdimon S. Doniach OBE (1907–1994), lexicographer and scholar of Judaic and Semitic languages
According to Oxford University Press lexicographer Susie Dent, this versatility is one of the reasons that the word has been linguistically "successful".
After the death of Noah Webster, the lexicographer, the Merriams purchased the right of future publication of Webster's Dictionary.
Gerhard Kittel (September 23, 1888, Breslau – July 11, 1948, Tübingen) was a German Protestant theologian, lexicographer of biblical languages, and open anti-Semite.
Peter Gilliver (born 1964), British lexicographer and dictionary editor
Gwennole Le Menn (1938–2009) was a Breton writer, editor and lexicographer.
Alexander Harkavy (1863-1939), Russian Jewish writer and lexicographer, known for his Jewish-English Dictionary.
John Camden Hotten (1832-1873), Victorian pornographer, publisher, lexicographer
The fifteenth century also saw the birth of a pivotal Italo-Englishman in the form of John Florio, a famed language teacher, lexicographer, and translator.
Franc Jakopin (1921–2002), Slovene linguist, slavist, lexicographer and onomastist, father of Primož
Lemprière may have been influenced by another Pembroke man, the lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson, whose famous A Dictionary of the English Language had appeared in 1755.
He edited a combined version of John Walker's and Noah Webster's Dictionaries (London, 1864), and Walker's Rhyming Dictionary (London, 1865), with an introduction on English versification.
His first job was as personal assistant to Albert Hodges Morehead, a writer, lexicographer, and the first bridge editor of The New York Times.
After completing his education, he acted as teacher in the Jewish school in Strelitz (Mecklenburg), where the lexicographer Daniel Sanders was his pupil.
Antanas Juška (1819–1880), Roman Catholic pastor, lexicographer, folklorist, and musicologist
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer and editor for the Merriam-Webster family of dictionaries.
(Possibly, the origin of the quote is from the 2nd century lexicographer Harpocration. See Smith, 1854. The entry on Kythnos is under the spelling "Cythnus").
John Lemprière (circa 1765-1824), English classical scholar, lexicographer, theologian, teacher and headmaster
Georg Anton Lorenz Diefenbach (19 July 1806, Ostheim, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt – 28 March 1883, Darmstadt) was a German philologist and lexicographer, as well as a novelist associated with the German Nationalist movement.
Maria Odulio de Guzman, lexicographer and first Filipino female principal in a Philippine high school.
Muhammed Mansooruddin (1904–1987), Bangladeshi author, literary critic, lexicographer and song collector
Mojsije Margel - Croatian rabbi, lexicographer and Hebrew scholar
Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky (May 19, 1878 – November 2, 1961) - Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, lexicographer of Chuvash ethnicity.
(October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.
Franz Passow (1786–1833), a German classical scholar and lexicographer
Philip Babcock Gove (1902-1972) was an American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.
It is named after Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869), British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer, best known as author of Thesaurus of English words and phrases (London, 1852), a work frequently consulted in connection with Antarctic place-name proposals.
It was entitled The Rules of Golf in Plain English, by the lexicographer Bryan A. Garner and USGA rules official Jeffrey S. Kuhn.
In response to mounting criticism from British newspapers, the board announced the additions of James Murray, the Scottish lexicographer and primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, along with Joseph Wright, an Oxford University professor of comparative philology and editor of the English Dialect Dictionary.
Gotthard Friedrich Stender (1714-1796), Latvian grammarian, lexicographer, and poet
Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife Hester Thrale entertained many of the leading literary and artistic characters of the day, most notably the lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who was fond of a summer house in the grounds.
Joakim Stulić (1730–1817), lexicographer from the Republic of Ragusa, author of the biggest dictionary in the older Croatian lexicography