This is a list of notable Jewish American linguists.
For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.
Dennis Baron, linguist
Leonard Bloomfield, linguist
Noam Chomsky, linguist and political philosopher (atheist)
Joshua Fishman, sociolinguist
Jerry Fodor, philosopher and cognitive scientist
Talmy Givón, linguist
Cyrus Gordon. Semiticist
Joseph Greenberg, language classification
Mary Haas, linguist
Morris Halle, linguist
Zellig Harris, structural linguist
Ray Jackendoff, linguist
Roman Jakobson, Prague School of linguistics
Jay Jasanoff, Indo-Europeanist
Samuel Noah Kramer, Sumerologist
William Labov, sociolinguist
George Lakoff, sociolinguist
Fred Lukoff, linguist
María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, Spanish philologist
Yakov Malkiel, Romance philologist
Maria Polinsky, linguist
Edward Sapir, anthropologist-linguist
Dan I. Slobin, (psycho)linguist, language acquisition
Morris Swadesh, linguist
Leonard Talmy, linguist
Deborah Tannen, sociolinguist
Michel Thomas, linguist, language teacher
Max and Uriel Weinreich, linguists
