#1951
Lance Morrow
1939 - Present (85 years)
Lance Morrow is an American essayist and writer, chiefly for Time magazine, as well as the author of several books. He won the 1981 National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism and was a finalist for the same award in 1991. He has the distinction of writing more "Man of the Year" articles than any other writer in the magazine's history and has appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and The O'Reilly Factor. He is a former professor of journalism and University Professor at Boston University.
Go to Profile#1952
Takao Suzuki
1926 - 2021 (95 years)
was a Japanese sociolinguist, He was the author of ことばと文化, translated into English as Words in Context. Suzuki argued that:Sociolinguists do not pay enough attention to the subtle differences between word usage in different cultures.Japanese linguistss have traditionally been too occupied with Western linguistic categories, which are less than effective in studying Japanese.
Go to Profile#1953
Natsuko Toda
1936 - Present (88 years)
Natsuko Toda is a Japanese subtitler and film industry interpreter. She has been called "the most famous film translator in Japan [...] unquestionably" and the "Subtitle Queen". She has subtitled more than 1,000 English-language films in Japanese.
Go to Profile#1954
Dany Boon
1966 - Present (58 years)
Dany Boon is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy Welcome to the Sticks. Since then he has been involved as screenwriter or director or both in the films Nothing to Declare , Supercondriaque , Raid dingue , La Ch'tite famille , Stuck Together and Life for Real .
Go to Profile#1955
Andrea Moro
1962 - Present (62 years)
Andrea Carlo Moro is an Italian linguist, neuroscientist and novelist. He is currently full professor of general linguistics at the Institute for Advanced Study IUSS Pavia, Italy, founder and former director of NeTS and of the Department of Cognitive Behavioural and Social Sciences. He studied at the university of Pavia for his laurea, then he got a Ph.D. at the university of padua; he has been visiting scientist for several times at MIT, first with a Fulbright grant, then at Harvard. He was professor of at the University of Bologna and at the Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele. He is member...
Go to Profile#1956
Anya Schiffrin
1962 - Present (62 years)
Anya Schiffrin is the director of the Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs , and a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs.
Go to Profile#1957
Ken Friedman
1949 - Present (75 years)
Ken Friedman is a design researcher. He was a member of Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, and music. Friedman joined Fluxus in 1966 as the youngest member of the classic Fluxus group. He has worked closely with other Fluxus artists and composers such as George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, and Nam June Paik, as well as collaborating with John Cage and Joseph Beuys. He was the general manager of Dick Higgins's Something Else Press in the early 1970s. In the 1990s, Friedman's work as a management consultant and designer led him to an academic career, firs...
Go to Profile#1958
Michel Deville
1931 - 2023 (92 years)
Michel Deville was a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.
Go to Profile#1959
Margarethe von Trotta
1942 - Present (82 years)
Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta's extensive body of work has won awards internationally. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff. Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became "Germany's foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history".
Go to Profile#1960
Tomasz Wicherkiewicz
1967 - Present (57 years)
Tomasz Wicherkiewicz is a Polish linguist who is Professor of Linguistics and Chair at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Publications in English "Endangered languages. In Search of a Comprehensive Model for Research and Revitalization" , in: Integral strategies for language revitalization, ed. J. Olko, T. Wicherkiewicz, R. Borges, Wydział AL, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa 2016, p. 653-680.The Ukrainian & Ruthenian languages in education in Poland, Mercator-Education Regional Dossiers, Fryske Akademy, Ljouwert, 2006.The Lithuanian language in education in Poland, Mercator-Education Regi...
Go to Profile#1961
Stig Johansson
1939 - 2010 (71 years)
Stig Johansson was a Swedish-Norwegian linguist. He was born in Traryd in Småland, Sweden. He received his PhD in linguistics from Indiana University in 1968 and then worked at the universities of Lund and Gothenburg in Sweden before being hired as an associate professor at the University of Oslo in 1976. He remained there until his retirement in 2008, serving as a full professor from 1982. He was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1991, and received an honorary degree from Lund University in 1999.
Go to Profile#1962
Carlo De Simone
1932 - Present (92 years)
Carlo De Simone was an Italian linguist, specializing in Ancient Greek and Latin texts and Etruscan epigraphs. He is best known for his research into Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetian languages. Biography De Simone studied comparative linguistics and archaeology at the University of Rome, where he was awarded a prize in 1955 with a thesis on the subject: "Le iscrizioni messapiche: cronologia e fonetismo". He obtained a scholarship to the University of Tübingen for the same discipline from the "Servizio di Scambio Accademico Tedesco" from 1955 to 1956, with Hans Krahe, for whom he was an assista...
Go to Profile#1963
Lucio Battisti
1943 - 1998 (55 years)
Lucio Battisti was an influential Italian singer-songwriter and composer. He is widely recognized for songs that defined the late 1960s and 1970s era of Italian songwriting. Battisti released 18 studio albums from 1969 to 1994, with a significant portion of this catalogue translated into Spanish , English , French , and German . He was known to be an extremely reserved artist, performing only a small number of live concerts during his career. In 1978 he announced that he would speak to the public only through his musical work, limiting himself to the recording of studio albums and disappearin...
Go to Profile#1964
Sarah McLachlan
1968 - Present (56 years)
Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four Juno Awards. In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians.
Go to Profile#1965
Robert T. Craig
1947 - Present (77 years)
Robert T. Craig is an American communication theorist from the University of Colorado, Boulder who received his BA in Speech at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and his MA and PhD in communication from Michigan State University. Craig was on the 1988 founding board of the journal "Research on Language and Social Interaction," a position he continues to hold. From 1991 to 1993 Craig was the founding editor of the International Communication Association journal "Communication Theory" which has been in continuous publication since 1991. He is currently the editor for the ICA Handbook series.
Go to Profile#1966
Anthony Minghella
1954 - 2008 (54 years)
Anthony Minghella, was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He directed Truly, Madly, Deeply , The English Patient , The Talented Mr. Ripley , and Cold Mountain , and produced Iris , The Quiet American , Michael Clayton , and The Reader .
Go to Profile#1967
Mirta Ojito
1964 - Present (60 years)
Mirta Ojito is a Cuban-born author and journalist. She has written two nonfiction books, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus a book about her journey to the U.S. as a teenager in the Mariel boatlift, and Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town." She was part of a group of New York Times reporters who shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race in America. More recently, she was a member of the Telemundo team that won an Emmy for the coverage of Pope Francis's visit to the Americas.
Go to Profile#1968
Greg Kot
1957 - Present (67 years)
Greg Kot is an American music journalist and author. From 1990 until 2020, Kot was the rock music critic at the Chicago Tribune, where he covered popular music and reported on music-related social, political and business issues. Kot co-hosts the radio program Sound Opinions, which introduces itself as "the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show", nationally syndicated through Chicago Public Radio, WBEZ.
Go to Profile#1969
Ludwig Güttler
1943 - Present (81 years)
Ludwig Güttler is an internationally known German virtuoso on the Baroque trumpet, the piccolo trumpet and the corno da caccia. As a conductor, he founded several ensembles including the chamber orchestra Virtuosi Saxoniae. His name is sometimes written in English as Ludwig Guttler.
Go to Profile#1970
Michele De Lucchi
1951 - Present (73 years)
Michele de Lucchi is an Italian architect and designer. Biography De Lucchi was born in 1951 in Ferrara and graduated in architecture from Florence. During the period of radical and experimental architecture he was a prominent figure in movements such as Cavart, Studio Alchimia and Memphis.
Go to Profile#1971
Richard Donner
1930 - 2021 (91 years)
Richard Donner was an American filmmaker and film producer. He directed several financially successful films during the New Hollywood period. Michael Barson, Senior Publicist for Putnam, author of over ten books, wrote, Donner was "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters." This 50 year career crossed genres and influenced trends among film makers.
Go to Profile#1972
Sebastian Shaumyan
1916 - 2007 (91 years)
Sebastian Konstantinovich Shaumyan was an Armenian American theoretician of linguistics and an outspoken adherent of structuralist analysis. Biography He was born in Tbilisi, the polyglot capital of the Russian Empire's territories in the Transcaucasus, on February 14, 1916, . A sickly child, he was mostly tutored at home until he took a course in chemistry at a vocational school.
Go to Profile#1973
Janet Dean Fodor
1942 - Present (82 years)
Janet Dean Fodor was distinguished professor emerita of linguistics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her primary field was psycholinguistics, and her research interests included human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory and L1 acquisition.
Go to Profile#1974
Jane Pratt
1962 - Present (62 years)
Jane Pratt is the founding editor of Sassy, Jane and xoJane. She is the host of the talk show Jane Radio on Sirius XM Radio. Early life Jane Pratt was born in San Francisco, California, to Sheila Marks Blake, an artist, and Vernon Pratt, a minimalist painter and professor of art at Duke University. Her mother grew up in Queens, New York, and her maternal grandfather, Joseph Marks, was a vice-president of the Doubleday publishing company. Her paternal grandfather was Gaither Pratt, a paranormal psychology researcher at the University of Virginia. Pratt's parents were divorced when she was 13.
Go to Profile#1975
Peter Allen
1946 - Present (78 years)
Peter Edwin Allen is an English radio broadcaster with 40 years' experience in journalism. He has been with BBC Radio 5 Live since it started in 1994, and co-presented the Drive programme for 16 years from 1998 to 2014.
Go to Profile#1976
Jan Terje Faarlund
1943 - Present (81 years)
Jan Terje Faarlund is a Norwegian linguist and professor emeritus of North Germanic languages at the University of Oslo. Career Faarlund was born in Østre Toten. His academic career began with his magister dissertation Preposisjonsuttrykkenes syntaks i moderne norsk and he has also done substantial work on grammatical issues in Norwegian. One of his most extensive works is as a coauthor of Norsk referansegrammatikk .
Go to Profile#1977
Pepa Fernández
1965 - Present (59 years)
María José Fernández Vallés , better known as Pepa Fernández, is a Spanish journalist. She is the director and presenter of the Radio Nacional de España program . Biography Pepa Fernández was born in the town of Cervera, Lleida in 1965. Her father's family is from Ourense. At 18 she started working in radio. She earned a licentiate in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since 1999, she has been directing and presenting the RNE program , a weekend magazine which has received several awards.
Go to Profile#1978
Lise Menn
1941 - Present (83 years)
Lise Menn is an American linguist who specializes in psycholinguistics, including the study of language acquisition and aphasia. Professional history Menn earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1962 from Swarthmore College and a master's degree from Brandeis University in 1964. After changing fields, she earned a master's, and later a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1976.
Go to Profile#1979
Joe Elliott
1959 - Present (65 years)
Joseph Thomas Elliott is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer and one of the founding members of the hard rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down 'n' Outz. He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard still in the band and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album. Elliott is known for his distinctive and wide ranging raspy singing voice.
Go to Profile#1980
Allan Holdsworth
1946 - 2017 (71 years)
Allan Holdsworth was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist, violinist and composer. Holdsworth was known for his esoteric and idiosyncratic usage of advanced music theory concepts, especially with respect to melody and harmony. His music incorporates a vast array of complex chord progressions, often using unusual chord shapes in an abstract way based on his understanding of "chord scales", and intricate improvised solos, frequently across shifting tonal centres. He used myriad scale forms often derived from those such as the Lydian, diminished, harmonic major, augmented, whole ...
Go to Profile#1981
Mercedes Bunz
1971 - Present (53 years)
Mercedes Bunz is a German art historian, journalist, and the Professor of Digital Culture and Society at King's College London. Biography Early career Bunz studied philosophy and art history at the Freie Universität Berlin, after passing her final exams at the Celtis-Gymnasium secondary school in the German town of Schweinfurt in 1991. Together with Sascha Kösch, Riley Reinhold, and Benjamin Weiss she founded the Berlin music monthly De:Bug in 1997, becoming its co-editor and editor-in-chief from 1999 until 2001.
Go to Profile#1982
Yamuna Kachru
1933 - 2013 (80 years)
Yamuna Kachru was Professor Emerita of Linguistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Career Kachru studied linguistics at Deccan College in Poona, India, and then at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London . She earned her PhD as SOAS in 1965 with a dissertation entitled A Transformational Treatment of Hindi Verbal Syntax, the first in-depth analysis of the Hindi language to utilize the Chomskyan framework. She taught Hindi at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London until she moved to the University of Illinois with her husband Braj Kachru in 1966.
Go to Profile#1983
Bob Johnson
1944 - Present (80 years)
Robert Johnson is a British guitarist. He was formerly in British folk rock band Steeleye Span from 1972 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 2001. Early life Johnson was born in London; his mother was a music teacher. He was educated at Westminster City School in London and the University of Hertfordshire.
Go to Profile#1984
Jean Rollin
1938 - 2010 (72 years)
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre. Rollin's career, spanning over fifty years, featured early short films and his achievements with his first four vampire classics Le viol du vampire , La vampire nue , Le frisson des vampires , and Requiem pour un vampire . Rollin's subsequent notable works include La rose de fer , Lèvres de sang , Les raisins de la mort , Fascination , and La morte vivante .
Go to ProfileAntonella Sorace,FBA, FRSE, FRSA , Professor of Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, since 2002; Founding Director, Bilingualism Matters, since 2008 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U294916 |website=Who's Who 2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=3 December 2022 |language=en |date=1 December 2022}}</ref>
Go to Profile#1986
Rob Sheffield
1966 - Present (58 years)
Robert James Sheffield is an American music journalist and author. He is a long time contributing editor at Rolling Stone, writing about music, TV, and pop culture. Previously, he was a contributing editor at Blender, Spin and Details magazines. A native of Milton, Massachusetts, Sheffield has a bachelor's degree from Yale University and master's degree from the University of Virginia.
Go to Profile#1987
Willie Wilson
1947 - Present (77 years)
Willie Wilson is an English rock drummer, known for his work with Pink Floyd and his long-time association with their guitarist, David Gilmour. Music career In April 1966, Wilson joined Jokers Wild, a Cambridge band that included his friend David Gilmour on guitar, and later, Rick Wills on bass.
Go to Profile#1988
Annemarie Esche
1925 - 2018 (93 years)
Annemarie Esche was a German scholar of Burmese literature and linguistics. Following her studies of Burmese as a teacher of German in Burma at the cultural centre of the German Democratic Republikc in Yangon from 1955 to 1963, she later became professor at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Go to ProfileBrian M. Carney is a senior executive at Rivada Networks. He is formerly an editor, journalist and member of the Editorial Board at The Wall Street Journal. From August 2009 until early 2014 , he lived in London and served as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe. He is the coauthor, with Isaac Getz, of Freedom, Inc., published by Crown Business on October 13, 2009. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism and the Frederic Bastiat Journalism Prize.
Go to Profile#1990
Chris Connelly
1956 - Present (68 years)
Chris Connelly is an American sports and entertainment reporter who currently works for ESPN as a contributor to its E:60 newsmagazine. He was also the interim editor-in-chief of Grantland.com, replacing Bill Simmons, before ESPN shuttered the site in October 2015.
Go to Profile#1991
Alan Price
1942 - Present (82 years)
Alan Price is an English musician who first found prominence as the original keyboardist of the English rock band the Animals. He left the band in 1965 to form the Alan Price Set; his hit singles with and without the group include "Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear", "The House That Jack Built", "Rosetta" and "Jarrow Song". Price is also known for work in film and television, taking occasional acting roles and composing the soundtrack to Lindsay Anderson's film O Lucky Man! . He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 as a member of the Animals.
Go to Profile#1992
Lubomír Doležel
1922 - 2017 (95 years)
Lubomír Doležel was a Czech literary theorist and one of the founders of the so-called fictional worlds theory. Life, work, and academic career Doležel was born in 1922 in Lesnice in Czechoslovakia. He was educated at Charles University in Prague and received his CSc in Slavic philology from the Institute of the Czech Language of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Many of his teachers and mentors were representatives of the so-called Prague School, an internationally recognized and influential centre of inter-war structuralist and semiotic thought. The influence of the Prague School is ev...
Go to Profile#1993
Howard Shore
1946 - Present (78 years)
Howard Leslie Shore is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on The Lord of the Rings, with one being for the song "Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin S...
Go to Profile#1994
David Sanborn
1945 - Present (79 years)
David William Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school.
Go to Profile#1995
Emily M. Bender
1973 - Present (51 years)
Emily Menon Bender is an American linguist who is a professor at the University of Washington. She specializes in computational linguistics and natural language processing. She is also the director of the University of Washington's Computational Linguistics Laboratory. She has published several papers on the risks of large language models.
Go to Profile#1996
Rosemarie Tracy
1949 - Present (75 years)
Rosemarie Tracy is a German linguist specializing in language acquisition. She is currently senior professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim. Biography Tracy studied English, French and Portuguese at the universities of Mannheim and Göttingen, as well as Bryn Mawr College. She received her doctorate at the University of Mannheim for a thesis on child first language acquisition based on longitudinal studies. Subsequently, she taught and researched at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen, taking a habilitation for her work on bilingual child language acquisition.
Go to Profile#1997
Todd Haynes
1961 - Present (63 years)
Todd Haynes is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles.
Go to Profile#1998
Theo van Leeuwen
1947 - Present (77 years)
Theodoor Jacob "Theo" van Leeuwen is a Dutch linguist and one of the main developers of the sub-field of social semiotics. He is also known for his contributions to the study of Multimodality; he wrote with Gunther Kress Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design, one of the most influential books on the topic.
Go to Profile#1999
Li Jen-kuei
1936 - Present (88 years)
Paul Li, or Li Jen-kuei , is a Taiwanese linguist. Li is a research fellow at the Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. Li is a leading specialist on Formosan languages and has published dictionaries on the Pazeh and Kavalan languages.
Go to Profile#2000
K. David Harrison
1966 - Present (58 years)
K. David Harrison is a Canadian and American linguist, anthropologist, author, filmmaker, and activist for the documentation and preservation of endangered languages. Biography Harrison received his PhD from Yale University as a student of linguist Stephen R. Anderson and anthropologist Harold C. Conklin. He has done documentary field work on endangered Turkic languages in Siberia and Mongolia including Tuvan, Tsengel Tuvan, Tofa, Chulym, Monchak, and in India on Munda, and also in Paraguay, Chile, Papua New Guinea, India, Vietnam, and Vanuatu. He specializes in phonology, morphology, and in t...
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