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The list Women linguists includes Lera Boroditsky, Carol Chomsky, Natalia O'Shea, Lou Bennett (musician) and Lidia Zamenhof. The list consists of 703 members and 11 sublists.
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    Lera Boroditsky
    American cognitive scientist
    Lera Boroditsky
    Overview: Lera Boroditsky (born c.1976) is a cognitive scientist and professor in the fields of language and cognition. She is currently one of the main contributors to the theory of linguistic relativity. She is ...
    Date of birth: 1976
    Age: 48
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Psychologist
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century American women scientists 388T
    20th-century American women scientists 967T
    Jewish women scientists 67T
  • 2.

    Lou Henry Hoover
    First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933
    Lou Henry Hoover
    Overview: Lou Hoover (née Henry; March 29, 1874 – January 7, 1944) was the wife of President Herbert Hoover and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
    Date of birth: 29 March 1874
    Date of death: 7 January 1944
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: First Lady
    Gender: Female
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    Girl Scouts of the USA national leaders 9T
    19th-century American women 476T
    20th-century American women 4,893T
  • 3.

    Carol Chomsky
    American linguist
    Carol Chomsky
    Overview: Carol Doris Chomsky (née Schatz; July 1, 1930 – December 19, 2008) was an American linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children.
    Date of birth: 1 July 1930
    Date of death: 19 December 2008
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
    Scientists from Philadelphia 155T
    Deaths from cancer of unknown primary origin 93T
  • 4.

    Lou Bennett
    Australian actress and musician
    Lou Bennett
    Overview: Lou Bennett AM is an Indigenous Australian musician, actor and academic researching Aboriginal languages and their retrieval.
    Date of birth: 1960
    Age: 64
    Nationality: Australian
    Gender: Female
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    Indigenous Australian actresses 27T
    Wikipedia articles with AWR identifiers 5T
    Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers 226T
  • 5.

    Lidia Zamenhof
    Polish Esperantist
    Lidia Zamenhof
    Overview: Lidia Zamenhof (Esperanto: Lidja; 29 January 1904–1942) was a Polish writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. She ...
    Date of birth: 29 January 1904
    Date of death: 1942
    Age: 37 (age at death)
    Nationality: Polish
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Female
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    Jewish Polish writers 4T
    Polish people who died in Treblinka extermination camp 21T
    Women religious writers 178T
  • 6.

    Reality Winner
    American intelligence translator (born 1991)
    Reality Winner
    Overview: Reality Leigh Winner (born December 4, 1991) is an American former enlisted US Air Force member and NSA translator. In 2018, she was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for unauthorized release ...
    Date of birth: 4 December 1991
    Age: 33
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Female
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    People associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections 35T
    Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections 44T
    21st-century American military personnel 13T
  • 7.

    Natalia O'Shea
    Musical artist
    Natalia O'Shea
    Overview: Natalia Andreyevna O'Shea (Russian: Ната́лья Андре́евна О’Шей, née Nikolayeva, Russian: Николаева, known as Hellawes; born 3 September 1976) is a Russian harpist, singer-songwriter, linguist and band leader ...
    Date of birth: 3 September 1976
    Age: 48
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Linguist
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    Linguists from Russia 137T
    Russian harpists 8T
    Celtic studies scholars 156T
  • 8.

    Galina Varlamova
    Russian folklorist
    Galina Varlamova
    Overview: Galina Ivanovna Varlamova or Keptuke (native name) (born January 18, 1951) (Russian: Галина Ивановна Варламова, Кэптукэ) is an Evenk writer, philologist and folklorist. She is an expert in Evenk language ...
    Date of birth: 18 January 1951
    Age: 74
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Women philologists 99T
    2019 deaths 9,204T
    Women folklorists 197T
  • 9.

    Shana Poplack
    American linguist living in Canada, variation theory specialist
    Shana Poplack
    Overview: Shana Poplack, CM FRSC is a Distinguished University Professor in the linguistics department of the University of Ottawa and three time holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Linguistics. She ...
    Occupation: Linguist
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    Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America 41T
    Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
    Linguists from Canada 92T
  • 10.

    Rachel Saint
    American linguist
    Rachel Saint
    Overview: Rachel Saint (January 2, 1914 – November 11, 1994) was an evangelical Christian missionary from the United States who worked in Ecuador.
    Date of birth: 2 January 1914
    Date of death: 11 November 1994
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Protestant missionaries in Ecuador 10T
    American Protestant missionaries 209T
    Women lexicographers 32T
  • 11.

    Jane Ellen Harrison
    British classical scholar, linguist and feminist (1850–1928)
    Jane Ellen Harrison
    Overview: Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 1850 – 15 April 1928) was a British classical scholar and linguist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Ancient ...
    Date of birth: 9 September 1850
    Date of death: 15 April 1928
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century English non-fiction writers 173T
    20th-century English non-fiction writers 123T
    19th-century British women scientists 74T
  • 12.

    Ann Bannon
    Writer
    Ann Bannon
    Overview: Ann Weldy (born September 15, 1932), better known by her pen name Ann Bannon, is an American author who, from 1957 to 1962, wrote six lesbian pulp fiction novels known as The Beebo Brinker Chronicles ...
    Date of birth: 15 September 1932
    Age: 92
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    Pseudonymous women writers 644T
    Novelists from Illinois 359T
    20th-century American women writers 5,363T
  • 13.

    Naomi Baron
    American linguist
    Overview: Naomi S. Baron is a linguist and professor of linguistics at the Department of World Languages and Cultures, at American University, in Washington, D.C.. Her areas of research and interest include com ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
    Gender: Female
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    American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
    American semioticians 30T
    American University faculty and staff 220T
  • 14.

    Peggy Speas
    American linguist
    Overview: Margaret "Peggy" Speas is a linguist who works on syntax, specifically evidentiality and Navajo. She is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Speas received her PhD in ...
    Occupation: Linguist
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  • 15.

    Dorit Bar-On
    American philosopher
    Overview: Dorit Bar-On is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and Director of the Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning (ECOM) Research Group. Her research focuses on phi ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Linguist
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  • 16.

    Hanni Woodbury
    German-American linguist and anthropologist
    Overview: Hanni Woodbury is a German-American linguist and anthropologist who specializes in Onondaga and other Iroquoian languages. She was born in Hamburg and moved with her family to the United States after World ...
    Occupation: Linguist
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  • 17.

    Helena Krasowska
    Polish slavist
    Helena Krasowska
    Overview: Helena Krasowska (b. 1973) Polish linguist, professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsawand visiting professor at the Center for Eastern Europe at the University ...
    Occupation: Linguist
    Gender: Female
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  • 18.

    Johanna Narten
    Professor of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Linguistics
    Johanna Narten
    Overview: Johanna Narten (October 5, 1930 – July 15, 2019), Professor of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a member of the Bayerische Akademie der ...
    Date of birth: 5 October 1930
    Date of death: 15 July 2019
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Occupation: Linguist
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    Shannon M. Kent
    United States Navy cryptologic technician (1983–2019)
    Shannon M. Kent
    Overview: Shannon M. Kent was a United States Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer and Cryptologic Technician, who was deployed to Syria and killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing.
    Date of birth: 1983
    Date of death: 16 January 2019
    Age: 35 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Military
    Gender: Female
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    Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States) 231T
    2019 deaths 9,204T
    January 2019 crimes in Asia 6T
  • 20.

    Charlene Polio
    American linguist
    Charlene Polio
    Overview: Charlene Polio (born 1961) is an American linguist. She is currently a professor and associate chair at the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages at the Michigan State ...
    Date of birth: 14 January 1961
    Age: 64
    Occupation: Linguist
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    Second language writing 12T
    Applied linguists 67T
    Academic journal editors 766T
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