Deborah Cameron - linguist - was born in 1958.
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.
Guy Deutscher - linguist - was born in 1969.
Jack Chambers - linguist - was born in 1938.
Ernst Fraenkel - linguist - was born in 1881.
John Lynch - linguist - was born in 1946.
Knud Knudsen - linguist - was born in 1812.
Karl Hoffmann - linguist - was born in 1915.
Alexander Murray - linguist - was born in 1775.
Robert Lees - linguist - was born in 1922.
Friedrich Müller - linguist - was born in 1834.
Luigi Rizzi - linguist - was born in 1952.
Michel Lejeune - linguist - was born in 1907.