27 Philologists

Irina Antanasijević is a Russian and Serbian philologist, literary critic, and translator. She received her Doctor of philological sciences degree in 2002 and has been a professor of Russian literature at Philology Faculty of University in Belgrade since 2004. Her scholarly interests include folklore and post-folklore, visual literature and visual text, poetics of comics, illustration, children's literature, and history of Russian emigration studies.

Jakob Jonas Björnståhl, Swedish orientalist and Greek philologist from the Lund University. He was a manuscript collector.

Dr Léon Bollendorff was a Luxembourgish politician, teacher, and philologist. He was born in Wasserbillig. A member of the Christian Social People's Party, he sat in the Chamber of Deputies, of which he served as President (1979–1989). He also sat on the communal council of Luxembourg City, holding office as échevin.

Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri, was a Colombian writer, linguist, and philologist.

Archimandrite Nićifor Dučić, was a Bosnian Serb theologian, historian, philologist, archimandrite, writer and academic.

Edward Payson Evans was an American scholar, linguist and early advocate for animal rights.

Robert Forby (1759–1825), was an English philologist.

Miguel Ángel Garrido Gallardo is a Spanish philologist and semiotician. Born September 7, 1945 in Lubrín. Adopted Son of the town of Los Santos de Maimona. Philologist. He is a professor of research at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) [National Council for Scientific Research] in Madrid and distinguished university professor.

Richard Henry Geoghegan was an Anglo-American philologist and the first known Esperantist from the English-speaking world. As a young man, he emigrated to the United States, first living in Washington state and then in the Alaska Territory.

Elizabeth Hazelton "Hazel" Haight was an American classical scholar and academic who specialised in Latin teaching. She spent most of her career working for Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Haight was the second female president of the American Philological Association, and first woman to chair the Advisory Council of the American School of Classical Studies at Rome. She published eleven books in the field of Classics, as well as histories of Vassar and James Monroe Taylor. Her works focused on Latin Literature and the Greek novel, before she began the study of symbolism in Latin literature in her final publications. She was involved in Vassar's war efforts during World War I, and supporting foreign scholars during World War II, and was consistently interested in promoting women's education as a force for good in American society.

Martin Andreas Hainz is an Austrian philologist, theorist and philosopher. He has taught at several universities in Europe and the United States, among them the universities of Vienna, Timișoara and Iaşi. He is a member of the Northeastern Language Association (NEMLA). His main interests are contemporary Austrian philosophy and literature.

Dr. Jakob Jakobsen was a Faroese linguist and scholar. The first Faroe Islander to earn a doctoral degree, his thesis on the Norn language of Shetland was a major contribution to its historical preservation.

Frede Jensen, Ph.D., was a 20th-century, Danish-born Romance philologist, author, and professor of French. Author of 17 books and over 60 articles, he was widely respected by the romance philology community and recognized as an expert in the field. He is highly esteemed for his detailed and thorough publications on the grammar of Old Occitan and has been referred to endearingly as "the 'Grevisse' of old Occitan". Jensen is also considered an expert on Sicilian poetry. His English translation and analysis of previously untranslated Sicilian poems have been honorably referred to as one of the codices optimi on the subject, dating from Dante forward. An extraordinary linguist, Jensen was fluent in eight languages with a remarkable command of medieval/ancient Romance languages. His publications include works on vulgar and classical Latin, old Italian, old Spanish, medieval Occitan, old French, and old Portuguese.

Rimma Vasilyevna Komina was a Soviet and Russian specialist in literary criticism, Doctor of Philology, professor (1985), dean of the philological faculty at Perm State University (1977–1982), the author of handbook "Contemporary Soviet literature" (1984), one of the key people in cultural life in Perm in the 1970s and 1980s. Her famous students are Jury Belikov and Boris Kondakov.

James McDonald is a British polymath: mathematician, etymologist, historian, theologian and non-fiction writer.

Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi was a Xhosa dramatist, essayist, critic, novelist, historian, biographer, translator and poet whose works are regarded as instrumental in standardising the grammar of isiXhosa and preserving the language in the 20th century.

Prof. Christopher A. Rollston is a scholar of the ancient Near East, specializing in Hebrew Bible, Old Testament Apocrypha, Northwest Semitic literature, epigraphy and paleography.

John Edward H. Rulloff was an American doctor, lawyer, schoolmaster, photographer, inventor, carpet designer, phrenologist, and philologist, in addition to a career criminal and serial killer. This dichotomy was exemplified in the title of his 1871 biography, The Man of Two Lives. He was also known as "The Genius Killer".

Yoani María Sánchez Cordero is a Cuban blogger who has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government.

C. Alphonso Smith was an American Professor of English, college dean, philologist, and folklorist.

Evangelinos Apostolides Sophocles was a professor of classics and Modern Greek at Harvard University, and lexicographer. He was born in Tsangarada, Thessaly, Ottoman Empire, and he died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is considered to be a pioneer of Modern Greek studies.

Minerva Josefina Tavárez Mirabal, known by the hypocoristic Minou, is a philologist, professor and politician from the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Tavárez served as deputy for the National District in the lower House for three terms from 2002 until 2016; served as deputy foreign minister from 1996 to 2000.

Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī, Abd al-Mālik ibn Muḥammad ibn Ismā’īl, (961–1038), was a writer of Persian or Arab ethnicity, native of Nishapur, Persia, famous for his anthologies and collections of epigrams. As a writer of prose and verse in his own right, distinction between his and the work of others is sometimes lacking, as was the practice of writers of the time.

Sofija Trenchovska is a writer, editor, producer, philologist and cultural activist from North Macedonia, living in Great Britain.

Francisco Darío Villanueva Prieto is a Spanish literary theorist and critic, and is the director of the Royal Spanish Academy as of 11 December 2014. He has been a member of the academy since 2007, and he occupies the chair corresponding to the letter D.

Curt Wittlin was a Swiss philologist and an expert of medieval Catalan language and literature.

Pavlo Hnatovych Zhytetsky was a Ukrainian linguist, philologist, ethnographer and literary historian, Doctor of Russian Literature (1908). For a long time worked as a teacher of Russian language in Kamianets-Podilsky and Kiev.