Pompeu FabraRamón Menéndez PidalJoan CorominesGermà Colón
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The Most Famous

Linguists from Spain

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This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Linguists. The pantheon dataset contains 214 Linguists, 6 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 9th most number of Linguists behind Switzerland and Ukraine.

Top 6 Spanish Linguists

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Linguists of all time. This list of famous Spanish Linguists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

  1. #1
    Photo of Pompeu Fabra

    Pompeu Fabra

    1868 - 1948

    HPI 68.4554 langs

    Catalan linguist (1868–1948)

  2. #2
    Photo of Ramón Menéndez Pidal

    Ramón Menéndez Pidal

    1869 - 1968

    HPI 61.8828 langs

    Spanish philologist and historian (1869-1968)

  3. #3
    Photo of Joan Coromines

    Joan Coromines

    1905 - 1997

    HPI 60.3022 langs

    Catalan lingüist (1905–1997)

  4. #5
    Photo of Martí de Riquer i Morera

    Martí de Riquer i Morera

    1914 - 2013

    HPI 55.2915 langs

    Spanish noble and philologist (1914-2013)

Overlapping Lives

Which Linguists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 6 most globally memorable Linguists since 1700.

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