Esperantist

An Esperantist (Esperanto: esperantisto) is a person who speaks, reads or writes Esperanto. According to the Declaration of Boulogne, a document agreed upon at the first World Esperanto Congress in 1905, an Esperantist is someone who speaks Esperanto and uses it for any purpose. ListImportant EsperantistsMuztar Abbasi, Pakistani scholar, patron in chief of PakEsA, translated the Quran and many other works into EsperantoWilliam Auld, eminent Scottish Esperanto poet and nominee for the Nobel Prize in LiteratureJulio Baghy, poet, member of the Akademio de Esperanto and "Dad" ("Paĉjo") of the Esperanto movementHenri Barbusse, French writer, honorary president of the first congress of the Sennacieca Asocio TutmondaKazimierz Bein, "Kabe", prominent Esperanto activist and writer who suddenly left the Esperanto movement without explanationÉmile Boirac, French writer and first president of the Esperanto language committee (later the Akademio de Esperanto)Barry Friedman, well-known Esperanto-language author and translatorAntoni Grabowski, Polish chemical engineer, the father of Esperanto poetryLou Harrison, American composer of Esperanto music and translator of Sanskrit texts into Esperant