List of lexicographers

A

• Maulvi Abdul Haq Baba-e-Urdu, English-Urdu dictionary
• Ivar Aasen Norwegian language
• Abu Amr Ishaq ibn Mirar al-Shaybani Arabic
• Ilia Abuladze Old Georgian
• Johann Christoph Adelung German language general dictionary
• George J. Adler German/English
• Robert Ainsworth Latin
• Adam Jack Aitken Scots language
• John Michael Allaby English LSP
• Anthony Allen obsolete English words
• Robert Allen English language general
• Amerias Ancient Macedonian
• Ethan Allen Andrews Latin
• Vladimir Anić Croatian general
• Vaman Shivram Apte English-Sanskrit
• Ġużè Aquilina Maltese language
• Aristophanes of Byzantium Ancient Greek
• Sue Atkins English/French bilingual
• Ali Azaykou Berber languages

  B

• Albert Bachmann Swiss German
• Francis Bacon philosophy and science
• Nathan Bailey English
• Johannes Balbus Latin
• Frederick W. Baller Chinese
• Katherine Barber English
• Edmund Henry Barker Classical languages
• Clarence Barnhart English general dictionary
• David Barnhart English
• Robert Barnhart English
• Louis Barral French and Monégasque
• Grant Barrett English dictionary of slang
• John Barrow navigation and science
• Marcos E. Becerra Spanish language
• Richard Beckett English food guides
• William Bedwell Arabic
• Ivan Belostenec Illyrian and Latin
• Henning Bergenholtz Danish LSP dictionary
• Eric Blom music dictionary
• Thomas Blount English
• Robert Blust Austronesian languages
• Jean-Baptiste Boissiere French thesaurus
• Peter Bowler English
• Abel Boyer French and English
• Dan Beach Bradley Siamese
• Henry Bradley English general
• Jim Breen Japanese and English
• Ebenezer Cobham Brewer English
• Francis Brinkley Japanese and English
• Nathan Brown Assamese and Japanese
• Aleksander Brückner Polish and German
• Kazimieras Būga Lithuanian
• John Bullokar English language dictionary of hard words
• Robert Burchfield English language historical
• Arthur Coke Burnell, co-compiler of Hobson-Jobson Anglo-Indian

  C

• Ambrogio Calepino Latin
• Angus Cameron English
• Joachim Heinrich Campe German
• Emanuel Nunes Carvalho Hebrew
• Edmund Castell Oriental languages
• Robert Cawdrey English
• Pranas Čepėnas Lithuanian
• Mohamed Chafik Berber
• Robert L. Chapman English
• Nikoloz Cholokashvili Georgian
• David Chubinashvili Georgian
• Michael Chyet Kurdish
• Saïd Cid Kaoui Berber
• Cigerxwîn Kurdish language
• Henry Cockeram English and Latin
• Herbert Coleridge English language historical
• Elisha Coles English
• Thomas Cooper English and Latin
• Randle Cotgrave English and French
• John Craig, English
• William Craigie English language historical dictionary
• Jane Tapsubei Creider Nandi language

  D

• Vladimir Dahl Explanatory Dictionary of the Live Great Russian language
• Charles Anderson Dana English language encyclopedic dictionary
• Frederick William Danker New Testament Greek lexicon
• Đào Duy Anh Scholarly Vietnamese, Pháp-Việt Từ điển
• Khudiram Das Bengali-Santali
• John Davies Welsh and Latin
• Tomás de Bhaldraithe Irish and English
• William Quinby De Funiak American and British
• Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda extensive dictionary in Persian
• Philip Delaporte German and Nauruan
• Francesco della Penna Tibetan and Italian bilingual
• Susie Dent English
• Friedrich Christian Diez etymological dictionary of Romance languages
• Patrick S. Dinneen Irish and English bilingual
• Josef Dobrovský Slavic languages, Czech and German bilingual
• Jacob Ludwig Döhne Zulu and English bilingual
• Franz Dornseiff German language thesaurus
• Henry Drisler Latin dictionary
• Konrad Duden German language general
• Edward Dwelly Scottish Gaelic
• Thomas Dyche English language spelling

  E

• Eugene Ehrlich English language general and specialised
• Ernst Johann Eitel Cantonese Chinese dictionary
• John Eliot Native American
• Karim Emami Persian and English
• Leo James English Tagalog and English bilingual
• Adolf Erman Ancient Egyptian
• Robert Estienne Latin thesaurus
• Daniel Silvan Evans Welsh and English bilingual
• Avraham Even-Shoshan Hebrew language general

  F

• Fairuzabadi Arabic language comprehensive
• Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi Arabic language general
• Fortunato Felice Italian and French encyclopedic
• Christiane Fellbaum German and English cognitive linguistics
• Jean-François Féraud French critical dictionary
• Charles J. Fillmore English and Japanese cognitive linguistics
• Stuart Berg Flexner English dictionary of slang
• John Florio comprehensive Italian to English
• Henrik Florinus Latin, Swedish and Finnish trilingual
• Johann Gottfried Flügel German and English bilingual
• Henry Watson Fowler English general
• Sami Frashëri Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, French
• James O. Fraser Lisu language
• Wilhelm Freund Latin general
• Jens Andreas Friis Sami language general
• Johan Fritzner Old Norse
• Louis Frolla French and Monégasque
• Isaac Kaufmann Funk English general
• Antoine Furetière French universal
• Frederick James Furnivall English historical

  G

• Brent Galloway Native American languages
• Cristfried Ganander Finnish general
• Marie de Garis Guernésiais language general dictionary
• Johannes de Garlandia Latin
• Bryan A. Garner English general and LSP
• Dirk Geeraerts cognitive linguistics
• Nayden Gerov Bulgarian general
• Peter Gilliver English historical
• Rudolph Goclenius Latin LSP
• Jacob Golius Arabic and Persian to Latin
• Chauncey Allen Goodrich English general
• Philip Babcock Gove English general
• Louis Herbert Gray Indo-Iranian languages
• Jonathon Green English slang
• Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm German historical
• Francis Hindes Groome Gypsy
• Francis Grose English historical
• Hermann Gundert Malayalam and English bilingual
• Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen Spanish language
• Karl Gützlaff Cambodian and Chinese
• Bartol Gyurgieuvits Croatian and Latin bilingual

  H

• Mary Rosamund Haas Native American and Thai
• Soleiman Haim Persian and English bilingual
• Patrick Hanks English language general, onomastic, and LSP
• Johann Ernst Hanxleden Malayalam, Sanskrit and Portuguese dictionary
• Orin Hargraves English dictionary of slang and rhyme
• Alexander Harkavy Yiddish and English bilingual
• William Torrey Harris philosophy, English general
• Reinhard Hartmann Austrian and English contrastive linguistics, LSP dictionary
• Einar Ingvald Haugen Old Norse, Norwegian and English
• Joyce Hawkins English language general
• S.I. Hayakawa, biographical directory of US Congress
• Benjamin Hedericus Latin and Greek
• Tom Heehler The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
• Michael Heilprin Hebrew and English encyclopedic
• James Curtis Hepburn Japanese and English bilingual
• Charles George Herbermann English language LSP
• Hesychius of Alexandria Ancient Greek language lexicon
• Johann Christian August Heyse German dictionary of loan words
• Jack Hibberd English dictionary of slang
• Hoke Sein Universal Burmese-English-Pali
• Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira Portuguese-language general
• William Holwell, English classicist and cleric
• Francis Holyoake English etymological
• A. S. Hornby English learners'
• John Camden Hotten English slang, A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words
• Antônio Houaiss Portuguese general
• Richard Howard French and English translation
• August Wilhelm Hupel Estonian general
• Robert Hunter , lead editor of Encyclopædic Dictionary

  I

• Jonah ibn Janah Hebrew lexicon
• Ibn Manzur Arabic dictionary incorporating earlier
• Laurynas Ivinskis Lithuanian bilingual

  J

• Jin Qizong Jurchen and Chinese bilingual
• John Jamieson Lowland Scots language etymological
• Marcus Jastrow Talmudic language general
• Jauhari Arabic language alphabetical
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher German biographical
• John of Genoa → Johannes Balbus
• Samuel Johnson English general, A Dictionary of the English Language
• Alexander Keith Johnston English LSP dictionary and atlas
• Dafydd Glyn Jones English and Welsh bilingual
• Eliza Grew Jones Siamese and English bilingual
• Henry Stuart Jones Greek and English
• Michael Josephs, English and Hebrew
• Adoniram Judson Burmese and English bilingual
• Joseph Jungmann Czech and German bilingual
• Daniel Juslenius Finnish general

  K

• Vuk Stefanović Karadžić Serbian general
• Mahmud al-Kashgari, Uyghur language
• Bartol Kašić Croatian and Italian bilingual
• John Samuel Kenyon English pronunciation
• Adam Kilgarriff English and computer lexicography
• Barbara Ann Kipfer English general and LSP
• Ferdinand Kittel Kannada and English bilingual
• Friedrich Kluge German language etymological
• Grzegorz Knapski Polish, Latin and Greek thesaurus
• James Knowles English pronunciation
• Władysław Kopaliński Polish etymological
• Emmanuel Kriaras Greek historical
• Raphael Kuhner Greek and Latin
• Hans Kurath English historical, dialect atlas

  L

• Sita Ram Lalas Rajasthani language historical
• Wilfred G. Lambert Assyrian language
• Edward William Lane translation of medieval Arabic dictionaries to English
• Pierre Larousse French general dictionary and encyclopedic
• Donald Laycock languages of Papua New Guinea
• James Legge Chinese language
• George William Lemon English etymological
• John Lemprière dictionary of classical proper names
• Charlton Thomas Lewis Latin and English bilingual
• Matthias von Lexer German historical
• Li Fanwen Tangut and Chinese bilingual
• Henry Liddell Greek and English bilingual lexicon
• Sven Lidman Swedish encyclopedic
• Lin Yutang Chinese and English bilingual
• Samuel Linde Polish language general
• Émile Littré French language general
• Thomas Lloyd Welsh language
• Elias Lönnrot Finnish and Swedish bilingual