Lexicographer

A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary.

Some famous lexicographers:
*Julian Barnes (at a stretch)
*Thomas Blount
*Henry Bradley
*Peter Bowler
*Robert Burchfield
*Thomas Cooper
*William Craigie
*Vladimir Dal
*Susie Dent
*Henry Watson Fowler
*Isaac Kaufmann Funk
*Frederick James Furnivall
*Hesychius of Alexandria
*A. S. Hornby
*Samuel Johnson
*Pierre Larousse
*María Moliner (Spanish)
*James Murray
*Sergei Ozhegov
*Charles Talbut Onions
*Eric Partridge
*Josette Rey-Debove
*Peter Mark Roget
*John Simpson
*J.R.R. Tolkien
*John Walker
*Noah Webster
*Edmund Weiner

Johnson defined a lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words".

See also: List of lexicographers