Through his mother's family Brinkley was related to Richard Francis Burton, a distinguished linguist who shared Brinkley's passion for foreign culture.

As a distinguished linguist he had a mastery over English, Gurmukhi, Persian, Arabic and Sanskrit.

A graduate of the United States Naval Academy in 1868, Mason was a distinguished linguist with an inquisitive mind, qualities that gave him respect and recognition in the Navy.

Clark became a distinguished linguist and translator, fluent in eight languages and able to speak another four.

His wife, Ruth Preston Miller Lehmann (died in 2000), was also a distinguished historical linguist.

He had planned the work as a modern successor to Eduard Prokosch's 1939 A Comparative Germanic Grammar, and had brought together a number of distinguished historical linguists for the purpose.

On August 17, 1917 MacVeagh married Margaret Charlton Lewis, the daughter of a distinguished linguist.

One of the most distinguished linguists of the modern period, Bloomfield was largely responsible for the establishment of linguistics as a scientific discipline.

The distinguished linguist, Y. R. Chao developed a Cantonese adaptation of his Gwoyeu romanization system which he used in his "Cantonese Primer."

A distinguished linguist, philosopher and poet, he had trained in Paris and studied law at Poitiers, before moving to Geneva and developing an interest in Protestant theology.