WJohann Albert Bachmann was a Swiss lexicographer and dialectologist, professor for Germanic philology at Zürich University from 1896. From 1892 he was an editor of the Schweizerisches Idiotikon dictionary, acting as editor-in-chief from 1896 until his death. Bachmann specialized on Swiss German dialects. He edited the series Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik and founded, together with Louis Gauchat, the Phonographic Archive of Zurich University in 1913.
WFrantišek Bartoš was a Moravian ethnomusicologist, folklorist, folksong collector, and dialectologist. He is viewed as the successor of František Sušil, the pioneer of Moravian ethnomusicology. He notably organized the collecting, categorizing and editing of hundreds of Moravian folksongs which were published is a four volume collection along with about 4000 folksongs from other ethnic traditions. The folksongs appear in ethnographic monographs and the work as a whole is viewed as one of the most important folk song collections ever published. However, Bartoš, like many other early European folk music scholars, sometimes changed the texts of the folk songs, thereby reducing the documentary value of the work.
WFriedrich Bechtel was a German philologist and linguist of Indo-European languages, known for his research of Greek dialects.
WLouis Lucien Bonaparte was the third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte.
WVladimir Ivanovich Dal was a noted Russian-language lexicographer, polyglot, Turkologist, and founding member of the Russian Geographical Society. During his lifetime he compiled and documented the oral history of the region that was later published in Russian and became part of modern folklore.
WGiacomo Devoto was an Italian historical linguist and one of the greatest exponents of the twentieth century of the discipline. He was born in Genoa and died in Florence.
WAlexander John Ellis, was an English mathematician, philologist and early phonetician who also influenced the field of musicology. He changed his name from his father's name Sharpe to his mother's maiden name, Ellis in 1825, as a condition of receiving significant financial support from a relative on his mother's side. He is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.
WAlfredo Giovine was an Italian historian, folklorist, dialectologist, and journalist. He wrote several books and many monographs on the musicians and theatres of the Province of Bari and the surrounding Region of Puglia as well as on the dialect and folklore of Bari, his native city.
WBengt Ivar Hesselman (1875–1952) was a Swedish linguist and philologist, specialising in Scandinavian languages.
WProf. Dr Hab. Karol Daniel Kadłubiec is a Polish ethnographer, folklorist and historian from the Zaolzie region of the Czech Republic. He specializes also in ethnology, history of language and dialectology, and in a studies of culture, folklore and language of Cieszyn Silesia and Zaolzie.
WNikolai Mikhailovich Karinsky was a Russian linguist, dialectologist, Slavist, correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1921, correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR since 1925.
WWinfred Philip Lehmann was an American linguist who specialized in historical, Germanic, and Indo-European linguistics. He was for many years a professor and head of departments for linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and served as president of both the Linguistic Society of America and the Modern Language Association. Lehmann was also a pioneer in machine translation. He lectured a large number of future scholars at Austin, and was the author of several influential works on linguistics.
WPieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut, of which he was the director until 1965.
WStefan Mladenov was a Bulgarian linguist and dialectologist, a specialist in Indo-European linguistics, Slavic studies, Balkan studies, Bulgarian studies and a scientist of world renown and authority.
WFrancisco Moreno-Fernández is a Spanish dialectologist and sociolinguist.
WHeinrich Morf was a Swiss linguist and literary historian.
WMarc van Oostendorp is a Dutch linguist and Esperantist. From 2004 he has served as a weekly commentator on linguistics for Radio Noord-Holland. Since 2007, he has researched phonological microvariation, dialectology and interlinguistics. He is currently attached to the Radboud University in Nijmegen.
WFran Ramovš was a Slovenian linguist. He studied the dialects and onomastics of Slovene.
WMilan Rešetar was a linguist, historian and literary critic from Dubrovnik.
WYenshööbü ovogt Byambyn Rinchen, also known in Russian as Rinchin-Dorzhi Radnazhapovich Bimbaev, was one of the founders of modern Mongolian literature, a translator of literature and a scholar in various areas of Mongolian studies, especially linguistics.
WJørgen Rischel was a Danish linguist who worked extensively with different subjects in linguistics, especially phonetics, phonology, lexicography and documentation of endangered languages.
WJean-Pierre Rousselot was a French priest who was an important phonetician and dialectologist.
WEliza Jane Schneider is an American actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, playwright, dialect coach and dialectologist. She has appeared on television and as a voice over actress on video games and animations. She also performs various musical and stage shows.
WFriedrich Staub was a Swiss lexicographer, dialectologist and librarian.
WStoyko Ivanov Stoykov was a Bulgarian linguist.
WAleksandar Stoyanov Teodorov-Balan was a Bulgarian linguist, historian and bibliographer.
WGeorg Wenker was a German linguist who began documenting German dialect geography during the late nineteenth century. He is considered a pioneer in this field and contributed several groundbreaking publications, most notably, the Deutscher Sprachatlas.
WWilhelm Wisser was a German teacher and dialectologist. He is remembered as a collector of Low German legends and fairy tales.
WJoseph Wright FBA was an English philologist who rose from humble origins to become Professor of Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford.
WZinka Zorko was a Slovenian linguist and academic. Her research focused on phonetic, theological, syntactic, and vocabulary phenomena of Carinthian, Styrian, and Pannonian dialect groups. In 2003, she was elected a full member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a decade later, she received the Zois Lifetime Achievement Award.
WKoldo Zuazo is a Basque linguist, professor at the University of the Basque Country and specialist in Basque language dialectology and sociolinguistics.
WAnton Wilhelm Florentin von Zuccalmaglio was a German dialectologist, folklorist, folk-song collector, poet, and composer. Born in Waldbröl, he was one of six children born to politician and jurist Jakob Salentin von Zuccalmaglio and Clara Deycks. His brother Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio was a successful writer and poet.