• Annensky, Innokenty Fyodorovich (1855-1909), Russian poet
• Bally, Charles (1865-1947), Swiss linguist
• Baudouin De Courtenay, Jan Niecisław Ignacy (1845-1929), Polish-Russian linguist
• Gogol, Nikolay Vasilyevich (1809-1852), Russian-Ukranian novelist
• Humboldt, Wilhelm von (1767-1835), German philosopher and linguist
• James, William (1842-1910), American psychologist
• Konveskoy, Ivan Ivanovich (Oreus) (1877-1901), Russian poet
• Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich (1814 – 1841), Russian poet
• Lomonosov, Mikhail Vasilyevich (1711-1765), Russian poet and scientist
• Meillet, Paul Jules Antoine (1866-1936), French linguist
• Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849), American poet
• Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich (1799-1837), Russian poet
• Séchehaye, Albert (1870-1946), Swiss linguist
• Tolstoy, Aleksey Konstantinovich (1817-1875), Russian novelist
• Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich (1818-1883), Russian novelist
• Vyazemsky, Prince Pyotr Andreyevich (1792-1878), Russian poet
• Wundt, Wilhelm (1832-1920), German physician, physiologist and philosopher
• Zelinsky, Tadeusz Stefan (1859-1944), Polish-Russian philologist