Alexander Kravchenko - linguist - was born in 1955.
Gyula Németh - linguist - was born on 1890-11-02.
Deborah Wittenberg was born in Evanston, in Illinois, USA.
Deborah Wakeham was born in Nelson, in British Columbia, Canada.
Cameron Leslie - businessman - was born in 1974.
Most famous is possibly David Crystal. Others include Peter Trugill, Deborah Cameron, Candace West, Angela Goddard, Grice & Goffman. Many universities employ professional linguists to teach linguistics/languages.
Martin Harris - linguist - was born in 1944.
Alexander Kravchenko - linguist - was born in 1955.
Knud Knudsen - linguist - was born in 1812.
Karl Hoffmann - linguist - was born in 1915.
Jack Chambers - linguist - was born in 1938.
Guy Deutscher - linguist - was born in 1969.
Calvin Thomas - linguist - was born in 1854.
Anthony Traill - linguist - was born in 1939.
Johannes Friedrich - linguist - was born in 1893.
William Croft - linguist - was born in 1956.
John Lynch - linguist - was born in 1946.