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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian-British philosopher
George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright
Samuel Johnson
English writer and lexicographer
Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright
J. R. R. Tolkien
British philologist and author, creator of classic fantasy works
Norman Blake
British linguist
Thomas Henry Huxley
English biologist and comparative anatomist
C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian and scholar
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English Romantic poet
Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate
Enoch Powell
British politician
Robert Morrison
Anglo-Scottish evangelist and the first Christian Protestant missionary in China
Geoffrey Chaucer
English poet
Peter Jones (missionary)
Anglo-Candaian missionary
William Tyndale
Bible translator and reformer from England
Fleeming Jenkin
Scottish Engineer
John Crawfurd
British historian
Richard Francis Burton
British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat
John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
English soldier, statesman and translator
Andrew Melville
Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer
Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone
British Baron
William Jones
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
J. L. Austin
English philosopher
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Francis Grose
English antiquary, draughtsman, and lexicographer
Thomas Young
English polymath
Christopher Belton
British writer
Benjamin Jowett
Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator
Paul Grice
Philosopher
George Buchanan
Scottish historian and humanist scholar
Martin Kay
British computer scientist
George Campbell
Figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, born 1719
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
British politician
Gavin Douglas
Scottish Churchman, Scholar, Poet
Francis William Newman
English scholar and writer
George Albert Wells
English atheist
John Florio
English linguist and lexicographer
Battiscombe Gunn
English egyptologist and philologist