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Samuel Johnson

English author

Sir Thomas Elyot

British author

H.A. Giles

British scholar

John Florio

English lexicographer

Francis Horace Vizetelly

American-British writer

Noah Webster

American lexicographer

Frédéric Mistral

French poet

Ambrose Bierce

American author

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Alexandre de Rhodes

French missionary

John Ciardi

American poet and critic

John Crawfurd

British scholar and diplomat

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

David Kimhi

European scholar

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Serbian language scholar

Joseph Emerson Worcester

American lexicographer

Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Angolan scholar