| 语言学家 | yǔ yán xué jiā | linguist |  |
| 季羡林 | Jì Xiàn lín | Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), Chinese linguist and Indologist | |
| 顾炎武 | Gù Yán wǔ | Gu Yanwu (1613-1682), late Ming and early Qing Confucian philosopher, linguist and historian, played a founding role in phonology of early Chinese, author of Rizhilu or Record of daily study 日知錄|日知录 | |
| 翟理斯 | Zhái lǐ sī | Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935), British diplomat and linguist, contributor to the Wade-Giles Chinese romanization system | |
| 赵元任 | Zhào Yuán rèn | Yuen Ren Chao (1892-1982), Chinese-American linguist | |
| 高本汉 | Gāo Běn hàn | Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), distinguished Swedish linguist and sinologist | |
| 林语堂 | lín yǔ táng | Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor | |
| 诺姆・乔姆斯基 | Nuò mǔ · Qiáo mǔ sī jī | Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist) | |
| 周有光 | Zhōu Yǒu guāng | Zhou Youguang (1906-2017), PRC linguist, considered the father of Hanyu Pinyin 漢語拼音|汉语拼音[Han4 yu3 Pin1 yin1] | |
| 诺姆·乔姆斯基 | Nuò mǔ · Qiáo mǔ sī jī | Noam Chomsky (American linguist and political activist) | |
