A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary. Lexicography is either of two things Practical lexicography is the art or craft of writing dictionaries. ... A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ...

Some famous lexicographers:

• Julian Barnes (at a stretch)
• Thomas Blount
• Henry Bradley
• Peter Bowler
• Robert Burchfield
• Thomas Cooper
• William Craigie
• Vladimir Dal
• Susie Dent
• Henry Watson Fowler
• Isaac Kaufmann Funk
• Frederick James Furnivall
• Hesychius of Alexandria
• A. S. Hornby
• Samuel Johnson
• Pierre Larousse
• María Moliner (Spanish)
• James Murray
• Sergei Ozhegov
• Charles Talbut Onions
• Eric Partridge
• Josette Rey-Debove
• Peter Mark Roget
• John Simpson
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• John Walker
• Noah Webster
• Edmund Weiner

Johnson defined a lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words". Barnes as Francophile and Francophone in Bernard Pivots Double je (France 2, March 2005) Julian Patrick Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester) is a contemporary British writer whose novels and short stories have been seen as examples of postmodernism in literature. ... Thomas Blount (1618-1679) was an English antiquarian and lexicographer. ... Henry Bradley (1845-1923) was a philologist and lexicographer, the second editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1888 until his death. ... Peter Bowler is an Australian lexicographer and author of The Superior Persons Book of Words, The Superior Persons Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words, and The Superior Persons Third Book of Well-Bred Words. ... Robert William Burchfield (January 27, 1923 - July 5, 2004) was a scholar, writer, and lexicographer. ... See: Tommy Cooper - British magician and comedian. ... Sir William Alexander Craigie, (August 13, 1867 – September 2, 1957), was a philologist and a lexicographer. ... Dahls portrait by Perov Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (also: Dahl, Владимир Иванович Даль) (November 10, 1801 – September 22, 1872) was the greatest Russian lexicographer. ... Susie Dent is a British lexicographer born in Woking in the late 1960s. ... Henry Watson Fowler (10 March 1858 - 26 December 1933) was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on usage, notable for both Fowlers Modern English Usage (first published 1926) and his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. ... Isaac Kaufmann Funk (1839-1912) was an American editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer. ... Frederick James Furnivall (February 4, 1825 - July 2, 1910), English philologist and editor, was born at Egham, Surrey, the son of a surgeon who made his fortune from running the private lunatic asylum at Great Fosters there. ... page of Marc. ... Albert Sidney Hornby, usually just A. S. Hornby (1898-1978) was an English grammarian, lexicographer and EFL teacher. ... Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. ... Pierre Athanase Larousse (October 23, 1817-January 3, 1875) was a French grammarian and lexicographer born in Toucy. ... María Moliner (1900 - 1981) was a Spanish librarian and lexicographer. ... Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. ... Sergei Ivanovich Ozhegov (August 22, 1900-1964), Russian lexicographer. ... Charles Talbut Onions (C.T. Onions) (1873-1965) was an English grammarian and lexicographer. ... Eric Honeywood Partridge (February 6, 1894-June 1, 1979) was a noted lexicographer of the English language, and particularly of its slang. ... Peter Mark Roget, (January 18, 1779 - September 12, 1869) Studied at Edinburgh University and became a distinguished medical doctor and lexicographer. ... John Simpson, born 1953, Co-Editor of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (unknown-1989), Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1993-present). ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... John Walker (born 18 March, 1732 in Colney Hatch, Middlesex; died 1 August, 1807 in London) was an English lexicographer best known for his Rhyming Dictionary (1775) and Critical Pronouncing Dictionary (1791). ... Noah Webster Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook author, Bible translator, spelling reformer, writer, and editor. ... Edmund Weiner, born 1950, Co-Editor of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (1985-1989), Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1993-present). ...

See also: List of lexicographers The following are lexicographers: Contents: Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z B Henning Bergenholtz Thomas Blount Peter Bowler Henry Bradley A. Scott Britton Robert Burchfield C Thomas...