Topic summary
Toponymist
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Toponymy.
Notable toponymists
- Marcel Aurousseau (1891–1983), Australian geographer, geologist, war hero, historian and translator
- Andrew Breeze (born 1954), English linguist
- William Bright (1928–2006), American linguist
- Richard Coates (born 1949), English linguist
- Joan Coromines (1905–1997), etymologist, dialectologist, toponymist
- Albert Dauzat (1877–1955), French linguist
- Eilert Ekwall (1877–1964, Sweden)
- Yoel Elitzur
- Henry Gannett (1846–1914), American geographer
- Margaret Gelling (1924–2009), English toponymist
- Michel Grosclaude (1926–2002), philosopher and French linguist
- Ernest Nègre (1907–2000), French toponymist
- W. F. H. Nicolaisen (1927–2016), folklorist, linguist, medievalist
- Oliver Padel (born 1948), English medievalist and toponymist
- Robert L. Ramsay (1880–1953), American linguist
- Adrian Room (1933–2010), British toponymist and onomastician
- Charles Rostaing (1904–1999), French linguist
- Henry Schoolcraft (1793–1864), American geographer, geologist and ethnologist
- Walter Skeat (1835–1912), British philologist
- Petar Skok (1881–1956), Croatian etymologist and toponymist
- Albert Hugh Smith (1903–1967), scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages
- Frank Stenton (1880–1967), historian of Anglo-Saxon England
- George R. Stewart (1895–1980), American historian, toponymist and novelist
- Jan Paul Strid (1947–2018), Swedish toponymist
- Isaac Taylor (1829–1901), philologist, toponymist and Anglican canon of York
- James Hammond Trumbull (1821–1897), American scholar and philologist
- William J. Watson (1865–1948), Scottish scholar