Famous Linguistics Majors

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Writer and Philologist
BA in English language and literature, Oxford University

Marc Okrand
Inventor, Klingon language (Star Trek franchise) & Atlantean language (Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
BA in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD in Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

Emily Bender
AI Researcher and Professor of Linguistics (University of Washington)
BA in Linguistics, University of California - BerkeleyMA in Linguistics, Stanford University
PhD in Linguistics, Stanford University

Sir Colville Norbert Young
Politician
PhD in Linguistics, University of York, England

Todd Haynes
Film director, screenwriter, and producer
BA in Art and Semiotics, Brown University

Mary Rosamund Haas
Linguist
PhD in Linguistics, Yale University

Larry Bohn
Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners
MA in English Linguistics, Clark University