The following are lexicographers, people who specialise in the theory and practice of dictionary making (see Lexicography).

Contents:		Top   0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

  A

• Ivar Aasen (Norway, 1813–1896) Norwegian language
• Ilia Abuladze (Georgia, 1901–1968) Ancient Georgian
• Johann Christoph Adelung (Germany, 1732–1806) German language general dictionary
• George J. Adler (Germany/USA, 1821–1868) German and English languages
• Robert Ainsworth (UK, 1660–1743) Latin language
• Adam Jack Aitken (UK, 1921–1998) Scots language dictionary
• John Michael Allaby (UK, born 1933) English LSP dictionary
• Anthony Allen (UK, 16...–1754) English language dictionary of obsolete words
• Robert Allen (UK, born 1944) English language general dictionary
• Amerias (Greece, 3rd century BC) Ancient Macedonian
• Ethan Allen Andrews (USA, 1787–1858) Latin language
• Vladimir Anić (Croatia, 1930–2000) Croatian language general dictionary
• Aristophanes of Byzantium (Greece, 257–180 BC) Ancient Greek
• Sue Atkins (UK, ?...–...) English and French bilingual dictionary
• Ali Azaykou (Morocco, 1942–2004) Arabic and Berber languages

  B

• Francis Bacon (UK, 1561–1626) philosophy and science
• Nathan Bailey (UK, 1691–1742) English language
• Johannes Balbus (Italy, ...–1298) Latin language
• Frederick W. Baller (UK, 1852–1922) Chinese language
• Katherine Barber (Canada, born 1959) English language
• Edmund Henry Barker (UK, 1788–1839) Classical languages
• Clarence Barnhart (USA, 1900–1993) English language general dictionary
• David Barnhart (USA, born 1941) English language
• Robert Barnhart (USA, 1933–2007) English language
• Louis Barral (France, 1910–1999) French and Monegassian languages
• Grant Barrett (USA, born 1970) English language dictionary of slang
• Delfin Carbonell Basset (Spain/USA, born 1938) Spanish and English languages
• Marcos E. Becerra (Mexico, 1870–1940) Spanish language
• Richard Beckett (Australia, 1936–1987) English language food guides
• William Bedwell (UK, 1561–1632) Arabic language
• Ivan Belostenec (Croatia, 1594–1675) Illyrian and Latin languages
• Henning Bergenholtz (Denmark, born 1944) Danish LSP dictionary
• Eric Blom (Switzerland, 1888–1959) music dictionary
• Thomas Blount (UK, 1618–1679) English language
• Robert Blust (USA, born 1940) Austronesian languages
• Jean-Baptiste Boissiere (France, 1806–1885) French language thesaurus
• Peter Bowler (Australia, ...) English language
• Abel Boyer (France, c.1667–1729) French and English languages
• Dan Beach Bradley (USA, 1845–1923) Siamese language
• Henry Bradley (UK, 1845–1923) English language general dictionary
• Jim Breen (Australia, born 1947) Japanese and English languages
• Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (UK, 1810–1897) English language
• Francis Brinkley (Ireland/UK/Japan, 1841–1912) Japanese and English languages
• Nathan Brown (USA/Burma/Japan, 1807–1886) Assamese and Japanese languages
• Aleksander Brückner (Poland, 1856–1939) Polish and German languages
• Kazimieras Būga (Lithuania, 1879–1924) Lithuanian language
• John Bullokar (UK, 1574–1627) English language dictionary of hard words
• Robert Burchfield (New Zealand/UK 1923–2004) English language historical dictionary

  C

• Ambrogio Calepino (Italy, c. 1450–1510) Latin language
• Angus Cameron (Canada, 1941–1983) English language
• Joachim Heinrich Campe (Germany, 1746–1818) German language
• Emanuel Nunes Carvalho (UK/USA, 1771–1817) Hebrew language
• Miguel Casiri (Lebanon/Italy/Spain, 1710–1791) Arabic language
• Edmund Castell (UK, 1606–1685) Oriental languages
• Robert Cawdrey (UK, c. 1538–1604) English language
• Pranas Čepėnas (Lithuania/USA, 1899–1980) Lithuanian language
• Mohamed Chafik (Morocco, born 1926) Berber language
• Robert L. Chapman (USA, 1920–2002) English language
• Nikoloz Cholokashvili (Georgia, 1585–1658) Georgian language
• David Chubinashvili (Georgia/Russia, 1814–1891) Georgian language
• Michael Chyet (USA, born 1957) Kurdish language
• Cigerxwîn (Turkey/Syria, 1903–1984) Kurdish language
• Nicolas Cleynaerts (Belgium/Spain, 1495–1542 Latin and Arabic languages
• Henry Cockeram (UK, 17th century) English and Latin languages
• Herbert Coleridge (UK, 1830–1861) English language historical dictionary
• Elisha Coles (UK, c.1608–1688) English language
• Thomas Cooper (UK, c.1517–1594) English and Latin languages
• Randle Cotgrave (UK, ...–1634) English and French languages
• John Craig (UK, 1796–1880), English language
• William Craigie (UK/USA, 1867–1957) English language historical dictionary

  D

• Vladimir Dahl (Russia, 1801–1872) Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language
• Charles Anderson Dana (USA, 1819–1897) English language encyclopedic dictionary
• Frederick William Danker (USA, 1920–2012) New Testament Greek lexicon
• John Davies (Wales, 1567–1644) Welsh and Latin bilingual dictionary
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe (Ireland, 1916–1996) Irish and English bilingual dictionary
• William Quinby De Funiak (USA, 1901–1981) American and British English
• Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (Iran, 1879–1959) Persian language general dictionary
• Philip Delaporte (Germany/USA, ?...) German and Nauruan languages
• Francesco della Penna (Italy, 1680–1745) Tibetan and Italian bilingual dictionary
• Susie Dent (UK, born 1967) English language
• Patrick S. Dinneen (Ireland, 1860–1934) Irish and English bilingual dictionary
• Josef Dobrovský (Czechoslovakia, 1753–1829) Slavic languages, Czech and German bilingual dictionary
• Jacob Ludwig Döhne (Germany/South Africa, 1811–1879) Zulu and English bilingual dictionary
• Henry Drisler (USA, 1818–1939) Latin language dictionary
• Konrad Duden (Germany, 1829–1911) German language general dictionary
• Edward Dwelly (UK, 1864–1939) Scottish Gaelic dictionary
• Thomas Dyche (UK, 16...–1733) English language spelling dictionary

  E

• Eugene Ehrlich (USA, 1922–2008) English language general and specialised dictionaries
• Ernst Johann Eitel (Germany/China, 1838–1908) Cantonese Chinese dictionary
• John Eliot (UK/USA, 1604–1690) Native American languages
• Karim Emami (Iran, 1930–2005) Persian and English languages
• Leo James English (Australia/Philippines, born 1907) Tagalog and English bilingual dictionary
• Adolf Erman (Germany, 1854–1937) Ancient Egyptian language
• Robert Estienne (France, 1503–1559) Latin language thesaurus
• Daniel Silvan Evans (Wales, 1818–1903) Welsh and English bilingual dictionary
• Avraham Even-Shoshan (Belarus/Israel, 1906–1984) Hebrew language general dictionary

  F

• Fairuzabadi (Iran, 1329–1414) Arabic language comprehensive dictionary
• Al Farahidi (Oman, 718–791) Arabic language general dictionary
• Fortunato Felice (Italy, 1723–1789) Italian and French encyclopedic dictionary
• Christiane Fellbaum (Germany/USA ?...–...) German and English cognitive linguistics
• Jean-François Féraud (France, 1725–1807) French language critical dictionary
• Charles J. Fillmore (USA, born 1929) English and Japanese cognitive linguistics
• Stuart Berg Flexner (USA, 1928–1990) English language dictionary of slang
• Henrik Florinus (Finland, 1633–1705) Latin, Swedish and Finnish trilingual dictionary
• Johann Gottfried Flügel (Germany/USA, 1788–1855) German and English bilingual dictionary
• Henry Watson Fowler (UK, 1858–1933) English language general dictionary
• James O. Fraser (UK/China, 1886–1938) Lisu language
• Wilhelm Freund (Germany, 1806–1894) Latin language general dictionary
• Jens Andreas Friis (Norway, 1821–1896) Sami language general dictionary
• Louis Frolla (France, ?–?) French and Monegassian dictionary
• Isaac Kaufmann Funk (USA, 1839–1912) English language general dictionary
• Antoine Furetière (France, 1619–1688) Franch language universal dictionary
• Frederick James Furnivall (UK, 1825–1910) English language historical dictionary

  G

• Brent Galloway (USA, born 1944) Native American languages
• Cristfried Ganander (Finland, 1741–1790) Finnish language general dictionary
• Marie de Garis (UK, born 1910) Guernésiais language general dictionary
• Johannes de Garlandia (UK/France, c. 1190–1270) Latin language dictionary
• Bryan A. Garner (USA, born 1958) English language general and LSP dictionary
• Dirk Geeraerts (Belgium, born 1955) cognitive linguistics
• Nayden Gerov (Bulgaria, 1823–1900) Bulgarian language general dictionary
• Peter Gilliver (UK, born 1964) English language historical dictionary
• Rudolph Goclenius (Germany, 1547–1628) Latin language LSP dictionary
• Chauncey Allen Goodrich (USA, 1790–1860) English language general dictionary
• Philip Babcock Gove (USA, 1902–1972) English language general dictionary
• Louis Herbert Gray (USA, 1875–1955) Indo-Iranian languages
• Jonathon Green (UK, born 1948) English language dictionary of slang
• Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Germany, 1785–1863) German language historical dictionary
• Francis Hindes Groome (UK, 1851–1902) Gypsy language
• Francis Grose (UK, c.1730–1791) English language historical dictionary
• Hermann Gundert (Germany/India, 1814–1893) Malayalam and English bilingual dictionary
• Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen (Mexico, 1899–1979) Spanish language
• Karl Gützlaff (Germany/Thailand/China, 1803–1851) Cambodian and Chinese languages
• Bartol Gyurgieuvits (Croatia, 1506–1566) Croatian and Latin bilingual dictionary

  H

• Mary Rosamund Haas (USA, 1910–1996) Native American and Thai languages
• Soleiman Haim (Iran, 1897–1970) Persian and English bilingual dictionary
• Patrick Hanks (UK, born 1940) English language general, onomastic, and LSP dictionary
• Johann Ernst Hanxleden (Germany/India, 1681–1732) Malayalam, Sanskrit and Portuguese language dictionary
• Orin Hargraves (USA, born 1953) English language dictionary of slang and rhyme
• Alexander Harkavy (Belarus/USA, 1863–1939) Yiddish and English bilingual dictionary
• William Torrey Harris (USA, 1835–1909) philosophy, English language general dictionary
• Reinhard Hartmann (Austria/UK, born 1938) German and English contrastive linguistics, LSP dictionary
• Hamid Hassani (Iran, born 1968) Persian corpus linguistics, Persian dictionary
• Einar Ingvald Haugen (Norway/USA, 1906–1994) Old Norse, Norwegian and English languages
• S.I. Hayakawa (Canada/USA, 1906 – 1992), biographical directory of US Congress
• Benjamin Hedericus (Germany?, 1675–1748) Latin and Greek language dictionary
• Tom Heehler (USA, born 1963) The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
• Michael Heilprin (Poland/USA, 1823–1888) Hebrew and English encyclopedic dictionary
• James Curtis Hepburn (USA/China/Japan, 1815–1911) Japanese and English bilingual dictionary
• Charles George Herbermann (Germany/USA, 1840–1916) English language LSP dictionary
• Hesychius of Alexandria (Greece, 5th century) Ancient Greek language lexicon
• Johann Christian August Heyse (Germany, 1764–1829) German language dictionary of loanwords
• Jack Hibberd (Australia, born 1940) English language dictionary of slang
• Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (Brazil, 1910–1989) Portuguese language general dictionary
• Francis Holyoake (UK, 1567–1653) English language etymological dictionary
• A. S. Hornby (UK/Japan, 1898–1978) English language learner's dictionary
• John Camden Hotten (UK?, 1832–1873) English language dictionary of slang
• Antônio Houaiss (Brazil, 1915–1999) Portuguese language general dictionary
• Richard Howard (USA, born 1929) French and English language translation
• August Wilhelm Hupel (Germany/Estonia, 1737–1819) Estonian language general dictionary
• Robert Hunter (Encyclopædist) (England, 1823-1897), lead editor of the Encyclopædic Dictionary

  I

• Jonah ibn Janah (Spain, c. 990–1050) Hebrew language lexicon
• Laurynas Ivinskis (Lithuania, 1810–1881) Lithuanian language bilingual dictionary

  J

• John Jamieson (UK, 1759–1838) Lowland Scots language etymological dictionary
• Marcus Jastrow (Poland, 1829–1903) Talmudic language general dictionary
• Jauhari (Iraq?, 10th century) Arabic language alphabetic dictionary
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Germany, 1694–1758) German language biographical dictionary
• John of Genoa → Johannes Balbus
• Samuel Johnson (UK, 1709–1784) English language general dictionary
• Alexander Keith Johnston (UK, 1804–1871) English language LSP dictionary and atlas
• Dafydd Glyn Jones (Wales, born 1941) English and Welsh bilingual dictionary
• Eliza Grew Jones (USA/Burma, 1803–1838) Siamese (Thai) and English bilingual dictionary
• Henry Stuart Jones (UK, 1867–1939) Greek and English bilingual dictionary
• Adoniram Judson (USA/Myanmar, 1788–1850) Burmese and English bilingual dictionary
• Joseph Jungmann (Czechoslovakia, 1773–1847) Czech and German bilingual dictionary
• Daniel Juslenius (Finland, 1676–1752) Finnish language general dictionary

  K

• Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (Serbia, 1787–1864) Serbian language general dictionary
• Mahmud al-Kashgari (Turkey, 1005–1102), Uyghur language
• Bartol Kašić (Croatia, 1575–1650) Croatian and Italian bilingual dictionary
• John Samuel Kenyon (USA, 1874–1959) English language dictionary of pronunciation
• Barbara Ann Kipfer (USA, born 1954) English language general and LSP dictionary
• Ferdinand Kittel (Germany/India, 1832–1903) Kannada and English bilingual dictionary
• Friedrich Kluge (Germany, 1856–1926) German language etymological dictionary
• Grzegorz Knapski (Poland, 1561–1639) Polish, Latin and Greek thesaurus
• Władysław Kopaliński (Poland, 1907–2007) Polish language etymological dictionary
• Emmanuel Kriaras (Greece, born 1906) Greek language historical dictionary
• Raphael Kuhner (Germany, 1802–1878) Greek and Latin languages
• Hans Kurath (Austria/USA, 1891–1992) English language historical dictionary, dialect atlas

  L

• Sita Ram Lalas (India, born 1909) Rajasthani language historical dictionary
• Pierre Larousse (France, 1817–1875) French language general dictionary and encyclopedic dictionary
• Donald Laycock (Australia, 1936–1988) languages of Papua New Guinea
• James Legge (UK/China, 1815–1897) Chinese language
• George William Lemon (UK, 1726–1797) English language etymological dictionary
• Matthias von Lexer (Germany, 1830–1892) German language historical dictionary
• Henry Liddell (UK, 1811–1898) Greek and English bilingual lexicon
• Sven Lidman (Sweden, born 1921) Swedish encyclopedic dictionary
• Lin Yutang (China/USA, 1895–1976) Chinese and English bilingual dictionary
• Samuel Linde (Poland, 1771–1847) Polish language general dictionary
• Émile Littré (France, 1801–1881) French language general dictionary
• Thomas Lloyd (Wales, 1673–1734) Welsh language
• Elias Lönnrot (Finland, 1802–1884) Finnish and Swedish bilingual dictionary

  M

• Stepan Malkhasyants (Armenia, 1857–1947) Armenian language historical dictionary
• Francis Andrew March (USA, 1825–1911) comparative linguistics, English language historical dictionary
• Francis Mason (UK/USA/Burma, 1799–1874) Burmese language
• Percy C. Mather (UK/China, 1882–1933) Mongolian language dictionary
• Robert Henry Mathews (Australia/China, 1877–1970) Chinese and English bilingual dictionary
• Johann Mattheson (Germany, 1681–1764) music, German language
• Erin McKean (USA, born 1971) English language general and LSP dictionary
• Lambert McKenna (Ireland, 1870–1956) English and Irish bilingual dictionary
• Walter Henry Medhurst (UK/China, 1796–1857) Chinese and English bilingual dictionary
• Igor Mel'čuk (Russia/Canada, 1932-) French dictionary
• Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke (Switzerland/Germany, 1861–1936) Romance languages
• Minamoto no Shitagō (Japan, 911–983) Japanese language thesaurus
• William Chester Minor (Sri Lanka/USA/UK, 1834–1920) English language historical dictionary
• John Minsheu (UK, 1560–1627) Spanish and English bilingual dictionary, 11-language multilingual dictionary
• María Moliner (Spain, 1900–1981) Spanish language general dictionary
• Judah Monis (USA, 1683–1764) Hebrew language
• Paul Monroe (USA, 1869–1947) English language encyclopedic dictionary
• Morohashi Tetsuji (Japan, 1883–1982) Chinese and Japanese bilingual dictionary
• Robert Morrison (UK/China, 1782–1834) Chinese and English bilingual dictionary
• Mahshid Moshiri (Iran, ?– ) Persian language pronunciation and LSP dictionaries
• Joseph Moxon (UK, 1627–1691) English LSP dictionary
• Kārlis Mīlenbahs (Latvia, 1853–1916) Latvian and German bilingual dictionary
• Wilhelm Max Müller (Germany/USA, 1862–1919) Hebrew language dictionary
• Pamela Munro (USA, born 1947) Native American language dictionaries
• James Murray (UK, 1837–1915) English language historical dictionary
• Vladimir Müller (Russia, 1880–before 1943) English–Russian dictionary

  N

• Hajime Nakamura (Japan, 1911–1999) Sanskrit and Pali languages
• Nathan ben Jehiel (Italy, c.1035–1106) Hebrew language dictionary
• William Allen Neilson (UK/USA, 1869–1946) English language general dictionary
• Andrew Nelson (USA/Japan, 1893–1975) Japanese and English bilingual dictionary
• Jean Nicot (France, 1530–1600) French language historical dictionary
• Sandro Nielsen (Denmark, born 1961) Danish language LSP dictionary
• Nonius Marcellus (Italy, 3rd/4th century) Latin language lexicon

  O

• Niall Ó Dónaill (Ireland, 1908–1995) Irish and English bilingual dictionary
• John Ogilvie (UK, 1797–1867) English language general dictionary
• Charles Talbut Onions (UK, 1873–1965) English language historical dictionary
• Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani (Georgia, 1658–1725) Georgian language general dictionary
• Oros of Alexandria (Egypt?, 5th century) Ancient Greek language dictionary
• Osbern of Gloucester (UK, 1123–1200) Latin language etymological dictionary
• Ōtsuki Fumihiko (Japan, 1847–1928) Japanese language general dictionary
• Sergei Ozhegov (Russia, 1900–1964) Russian language general dictionary

  P

• Condé Benoist Pallen (USA, 1858–1929) English language encyclopedia
• Alfredo Panzini (Italy, 1863–1939) Italian language general dictionary
• Eric Partridge (New Zealand/Australia/UK, 1894–1979) English language dictionary of slang
• Franz Passow (Germany, 1786–1933) Greek language historical dictionary
• Hermann Paul (Germany, 1846–1921) German language historical dictionary
• Andrew Pawley (Australia/New Zealand, born 1941) Austronesian languages
• Clemente Peani (Italy/India, 1731–1782) Malayalam language dictionary
• Edmund Peck (Canada, 1850–1924) Inaktitut and English bilingual dictionary
• Philitas of Cos (Greece, c. 340–285 BC) Ancient Greek language glossary
• Philo of Byblos (Greece, c. 64–141 AD) Ancient Greek language dictionary of synonyms
• Sreekanteswaram Padmanabha Pillai (India, 1864–1946) Malayalam language dictionary
• Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski (Poland, USA, born 1921) Polish and English bilingual dictionaries
• Julius Pollux (Greece?, 2nd century) Ancient Greek language thesaurus
• Noah Porter (USA, 1811–1892) English language general dictionary
• Malachy Postlewayt (UK, 1707?–1767) English language LSP dictionary

  Q

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  R

• Ola Raknes (Norway/USA, 1887–1975) Norwegian and English bilingual dictionary
• Stanislovas Rapalionis (Lithuania/Germany, 1485–1545) Lithuanian language
• Rasmus Christian Rask (Denmark, 1787–1832) Indo-European comparative linguistics
• Allen Walker Read (USA, 1906–2002) English language glossary
• James Redhouse (UK, 1811–1892) Turkish and English bilingual dictionary
• Gustaf Renvall (Finland, 1781–1841) Finnish language general dictionary
• Alain Rey (France, born 1928) French language general and LSP dictionary
• Barbara Reynolds (UK, born 1914) Italian language dictionary
• Kel Richards (Australia, born 1946) English language dialect dictionary
• César-Pierre Richelet (French, 1626–1698) French language general dictionary
• John Rider (UK/Ireland, 1562–1632) Latin language etymological dictionary
• William Rider (UK, 1723–1785) English language general dictionary
• Paul Robert (French, 1910–1980) French language general dictionary
• Joseph Francis Charles Rock (Austria/USA/PR China, 1884–1962) Naxi and English bilingual dictionary
• Peter Mark Roget (UK, 1779–1869) English language thesaurus
• Leo Rosten (Poland–Russia/USA, 1908–1997) Hebrew and English lexicon

  S

• Rachel Saint (USA/Ecuador, 1914–1994) Waorani language dictionary
• Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (France, 1697–1781) French language glossary
• William Salesbury (UK, c. 1520–1600) English and Welsh bilingual dictionary
• Daniel Sanders (Germany, 1819–1897) German language general dictionary
• Francisco J. Santamaría (Mexico, 1886–1963) Spanish language dictionary of Americanisms
• Moti Lal Saqi (India, 1936–1999) Kashmiri language dictionary
• Irene Saunders (US/PR China, ?...–...) Chinese and English bilingual dictionary
• Valentin Schindler (Germany, ?...–1604) Hebrew et al. 5-language dictionary
• Steinar Schjøtt (Norway, 1844–1920) Norwegian and Danish bilingual dictionary
• Johann Gottlob Schneider (Germany, 1750–1822) Ancient Greek and German bilingual dictionary
• Ericus Schroderus (Sweden, 1608–1639) Latin and Scandinavian languages multilingual dictionary
• August Schumann (Germany, 1773–1826) German language dictionary of Saxony
• Robert Scott (UK, 1811–1887) Ancient Greek and English bilingual dictionary
• Kurt Heinrich Sethe (Germany, 1869–1934) Ancient Egyptian language
• Stephen Sewall (USA, 1734–1804) Hebrew language
• Sextus Pompeius Festus (Roman Empire, 2nd century) Ancient Latin etymological dictionary
• Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee (Pakistan/Canada, 1917–2005) Urdu language dictionary
• Jesse Sheidlower (USA, ?...–...) English language historical dictionary
• Thomas A. Sherwood (USA, 1791–1879) English place names gazetteer
• David Shulman (USA, 1912–2004) English language historical dictionary
• Natalia Shvedova (Russia, born 1916) Russian language explanatory dictionary
• John Simpson (UK, born 1953) English language historical dictionary
• John McHardy Sinclair (UK, 1933–2007) English corpus linguistics, learner's dictionary
• Konstantinas Sirvydas (Lithuania, 1580–1631) Lithuanian–Latin–Polish trilingual dictionary
• Stephen Skinner (UK/Germany?, 1631–1667) English language etymological dictionary
• Johan Kristian Skougaard (Norway, 1847–1925) Norwegian and French bilingual dictionary
• Nicholas Slonimsky (Russia, April 27 [O.S. April 15] 1894 – December 25, 1995) Musicology, biography, and literary criticism
• Benjamin Eli Smith (USA, 1857–1913) English language general and LSP dictionary
• John Smith (USA, ?...–1809) Hebrew language
• William Smith (UK, 1813–1893) Greek and Romance languages LSP dictionary
• William Edward Soothill (UK/China, 1861–1935) Chinese language LSP dictionary
• Lewis Spence (UK, 1874–1955) English language LSP dictionary
• Alexander Spiers (UK/France, 1807–1869) English and French bilingual dictionary
• Izmail Sreznevsky (Russia, 1812–1880) Ancient Russian language historical dictionary
• Kory Stamper - Modern American/English. Possibly even post modern.
• Jan Stanisławski (Poland, 1893–1973) Polish and English bilingual dictionary
• Joakim Stulić (Croatia, 1730–1817) Croatian–Latin–Italian trilingual dictionary

  T

• John Van Nest Talmage (USA/China, 1819–1892) Chinese and English bilingual dictionary
• Peter Tamony (USA, .1902–1985) English LSP etymology
• Antoine Thomas (Belgium, 1644–1709) mathematics glossary
• Theodoor Gautier Thomas Pigeaud (Germany/Netherlands, 1899–1988) Javanese and Dutch dictionary
• Lewis Thorpe (UK, ?...–1977) French language
• Alf Torp (Norway, 1853–1916) Norwegian and Danish bilingual etymological dictionary

  U

• Martin Ulvestad (Norway/USA, 1865–1942) English–Danish–Norwegian trilingual dictionary
• Laurence Urdang (USA, 1927–2008) English language general dictionary
• Dmitry Ushakov (Russia, 1873–1942) Russian language general dictionary

  V

• Oreste Vaccari (Italy/Japan, ?...–1980) Japanese–English bilingual dictionary
• Louis Gustave Vapereau (France, 1819–1906) French LSP dictionary
• G. Venkatasubbaiah (India, born 1913) Kannada language general dictionary, Kannada and English bilingual dictionary
• Verrius Flaccus (Ancient Rome, c. 55 BC – 20 AD) Latin language orthographic dictionary
• Faust Vrančić (Croatia, 1551–1617) Croatian et al. 5-language dictionary

  W

• Magdi Wahba (Egypt, 1925–1991) Arabic and English bilingual dictionary
• Noël François de Wailly (France, 1724–1801) French language dictionary of neologisms
• John Walker (UK, 1732–1807) English language dictionary of rhymes and pronunciation
• Fr. Paul Walsh (Ireland, 1885–1941) Irish placenames and genealogy
• John Walters (Wales, 1721–1797) English and Welsh languages
• Wang Li (China, 1900–1986) Chinese language dictionary of word families
• Grady Ward (USA, born 1951) English language thesaurus
• Oliver Wardrop (UK, 1864–1948) Georgian language
• Noah Webster (USA, 1758–1843) English language general dictionary
• Edmund Weiner (UK, born 1950) English language historical dictionary
• William Dwight Whitney (USA, 1827–1894) English language general dictionary, English and German bilingual dictionary
• Harischandra Wijayatunga (Sri Lanka, born 1931) Sinhala language general dictionary
• Samuel Wells Williams (USA/China, 1812–1884) Chinese language dictionary, Cantonese language dictionary
• Miron Winslow (USA/Sri Lanka, 1789–1864) Tamil and English bilingual dictionary
• Arok Wolvengrey (Canada, ?...–...) Cree and English bilingual dictionary
• Joseph Emerson Worcester (USA, 1784–1865) English language general and LSP dictionaries
• Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (.UK, 1870–1945) English language general dictionary

  X

• Xu Shen (China, c.58–147) Chinese language character dictionary

  Y

• Robert W. Young (USA, 1912–2007) Navajo language general dictionary

  Z

• Ladislav Zgusta (Czechoslovakia/USA, 1924–2007) historical/comparative linguistics, onomastics, lexicography
• Ben Zimmer (USA, born 1971) English language visual thesaurus

  See also

• List of linguists

Lexicography Types of reference works Dictionary Glossary Lexicon Thesaurus Types of dictionaries Bilingual Biographical Conceptual Defining Electronic Encyclopedic Language for specific purposes dictionary Machine-readable Maximizing Medical Minimizing Monolingual learner's Multi-field Phonetic Picture Reverse Rhyming Rime Single-field Specialized Sub-field Visual Lexicographic projects Lexigraf WordNet Other List of lexicographers List of online dictionaries

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