FAMOUS NAMES IN LINGUISTICS

As a continuation on the previous post I would like to add more famous names of the past who contributed to Linguistics a lot.

Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt was a Prussian philosopher, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named after him in 1949. He is especially remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of language and to the theory and practice of education.

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)

Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments both in linguistics and semiology in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major fathers of semiotics/semiology. 

Edward Sapir (1884-1939)

Edward Sapir was an American anthropologist-linguist, who is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the early development of the discipline of linguistics. Sapir helped to establish that non-European languages have structures as complex as European ones, and sometimes more so. He helped to document dozens of native languages of the Americas (especially the Athabaskan family), established by and large which were related to which, and became famous for his investigations of the relationship between language and thought, known as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

Leonard Bloomfield (1887-1949)

Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s. His influential textbook Language, published in 1933, presented a comprehensive description of American structural linguistics. He made major contributions to the study of Indo-European, Austronesian and especially Algonquian languages, but he is best known for his popularization of scientific approaches to language, particularly through Structural linguistics and later Behaviorism.

Noam Chomsky (1928 – present)

Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. Sometimes described as the "father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy. He has spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently Professor Emeritus, and has authored over 100 books.

References:

List of Famous Linguists. Retrieved from: http://www.ranker.com/list/notable-linguist_s)/reference 

Wier, Thomas. (2015). Who are some well-known linguists and what are their noteworthy contributions? Retrieved from: https://www.quora.com/Who-are-some-well-known-linguists-and-what-are-their-noteworthy-contributions