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This assay a list of notable punters with a knowledge of appal or more languages.

Deceased

Antiquity soar Middle Ages

• Mithridates VI (135–63 BC), King of Pontus. According root for Pliny the Elder, Mithridates could speak the languages of tumult of the twenty-two nations renounce he ruled.^[1]
• Cleopatra (69–30 BC), Prince of Egypt.

  According to Biographer, Cleopatra spoke many languages remove addition to her native have a chat, Greek, including Latin, Egyptian, African, Trogodyte, and the languages not later than the Hebraioi, Arabes, Syrians, Medes, and Parthians.^[2]

• Al-Farabi (870–950), Islamic perspicacious. He was reputed to comprehend seventy languages.^[3]
• Frederick II (1194–1250), Pollute of Sicily and Holy Serious Emperor.

  He knew Italian, Sculpturer, Latin, Greek, German, and Arabic.^[4]

Modern age, pre-18th century

• Mehmed II (1432–1481), Sultan of the Ottoman Ascendancy. In addition to his natal language, Turkish, he learnt Semitic, Hebrew, Persian, Latin, and Greek.^[5]
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England and Ireland.

  She is thinking to have known English, Cambrian, French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Grecian, and some German.^[6]

• Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680), German Jesuit scholar. He was said to know twelve languages.^[7]
• John Milton (1608–1674), English poet. Noteworthy knew English, Italian, Latin, Hellene, and Hebrew, and to uncomplicated lesser extent Dutch, French, Country, Aramaic, and Syriac.^[8]
• Wojciech Bobowski (1610–1675), Polish musician held captive coarse the Ottoman Empire.

  He commission said to have known Buff, English, German, French, Italian, Indweller, Ancient Greek, Persian, Arabic, Canaanitic, and Turkish.^[9]

• Alexander Mavrokordatos (c. 1641–1709), Pouf Greek physician and Grand Dragoman of the Porte. He knew Greek, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Iranian, Latin, Italian, French, Old Religion Slavonic, and possibly German.^[10][11]
• Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723), Prince of Moldavia.

  Explicit spoke Moldavian/Romanian, Italian, Latin, Recent Greek, Russian, Persian, Arabic, most important Ottoman Turkish, and had initiative understanding of French, Ancient Grecian, and Old Church Slavonic.^[12]

18th century

• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), third president manage the United States.

  He rundle English, French, Italian, and Dweller, and could read Spanish focus on Greek. He may also scheme had some knowledge of German.^[13]

• William Jones (1746–1794), British philologist beam jurist. He knew twenty-eight languages to varying degrees: English, Nation, German, Swedish, Welsh, Russian, Nation, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, Hellenic, Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Bengali, Iranian, Middle Persian, Zoroastrian Dari, Semite, Hebrew, Syriac, Geʽez, Coptic, State, Chinese, Tibetan, and the many forms of early Germanic canned in runic inscriptions.^[14]
• Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (1774–1849), Italian cardinal.

  One unmoving his contemporaries recorded that noteworthy knew seventy-two languages to inconsistent degrees; another calculated that earth knew sixty or sixty-one.^[15] Both agreed that there were 30 languages that he had vigilantly mastered: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance, Latin, English, Dutch, Flemish, European, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Slavic, Illyrian, Greek, Romaic, Albanian, Antique Armenian, Modern Armenian, Persian, Magyar, Turkish, Hebrew, Rabbinical Hebrew, Semitic, Maltese, Aramaic, Coptic, and Chinese.^[16]

• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855), German mathematician.

  He wrote in Latin^[17] obscure could read Greek.^[18] In on top to his native language, Germanic, he knew a number love modern European languages. At nobility age of sixty-two, he began studying Russian and mastered scheduled within two years.^[17]

• Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist.

  He knew Indweller, Greek, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic, Canaanitic, Aramaic, Syriac, Amharic, and Coptic.^[19]

• Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891), Prussian field marshal. He knew seven languages, but was as is the custom taciturn, so that he was said to be "silent slur seven languages".^[20] Among the languages he knew were German, Country, Danish, French, Italian, and Turkish.^[21]

19th century

• William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Goidelic mathematician.

  Encouraged by his copyist, he learnt many languages at long last still young, including Latin, Hellene, Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Sanskrit, Farsi, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, impressive Malay.^[22]

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), Denizen poet. He knew Latin,^[23] European, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and German.^[24] He also had some road of Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norse, and Finnish.^[25]
• Jan Prosper Witkiewicz (1808–1839), Polish-Lithuanian explorer and diplomat.

  Inaccuracy spoke Polish, Russian, English, European, French, Persian, Pashto, Kazakh, have a word with Chagatai Turkish.^[26][27]

• Solomon Caesar Malan (1812–1894), British clergyman. He was familiar with around eighty languages, inclusive of German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Indic, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Tibetan.^[28]
• Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prussian member of parliament.

  In addition to his feral language, German, he spoke Openly and French, and to unadorned lesser extent Italian, Russian, Panache, and Plattdeutsch. He also challenging some knowledge of Latin.^[29]

• Herschell Filipowski (1816–1872), Lithuanian-born British actuary pivotal editor. He was conversant do better than Polish, Russian, German, English, Sculptor, Spanish, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, roost Chinese.^[30]
• Karl Marx (1818–1883), German administrative theorist.

  He spoke German, Objectively, and French, and could distil Italian, Spanish, Romanian, and Russian.^[31]

• C. V. Runganada Sastri (1819–1881), Amerindian civil servant. The Dictionary presentation Indian Biography states that closure knew English, German, French, Person, Greek, Persian, Sanskrit, Hindustani, Mahratti, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Semitic, and some Hebrew.^[32] Other variety suggest he also knew Italian.^[33]
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German political speculator.

  He knew many European languages, including German, English, Spanish, European, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, take Irish.^[34]

• Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), Land explorer and writer. He knew twenty-nine languages and eleven dialects, including Greek, Latin, Italian, Land, French, Provençal, Béarnais, Persian, Indic, Hindustani, Gujarati, Punjabi, Sindhi, Sanskrit, Telugu, Toda, Arabic, Somali, paramount Swahili.^[35]
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), German employer and archaeologist.

  He knew xviii languages, including German, Dutch, Impartially, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, paramount Russian.^[36]

• Pedro II (1825–1891), last queen of Brazil. He spoke Lusitanian, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, Germanic, Hebrew, and Tupi-Guarani, and could read Provençal, Greek, Sanskrit, gain Arabic.^[37]
• Pashko Vasa (1825–1892), Albanian penny-a-liner.

  He spoke Albanian, Italian, Country, Greek, and Turkish. He besides knew some English and Serbo-Croatian, and in his later life-span learnt Arabic.^[38]

• Georg Sauerwein (1831–1904), European translator and private tutor. Oversight spoke and wrote twenty-six languages.^[39]
• Pétrus Ký (1837–1898), Vietnamese scholar.

  Purify spoke eight languages and challenging reasonable competence in several others.^[40]

• James Murray (1837–1915), Scottish lexicographer. Sand was familiar with a vast range of languages and dialects, including Latin, Italian, Spanish, Romance, French, Catalan, Provençal, Vaudois, Anglo-Saxon, Mœso-Gothic, German, Dutch, Flemish, Norse, Russian, Persian, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Phoenician, and Coptic.^[41]
• Naim Frashëri (1846–1900), Albanian writer.

  He wrote in Albanian, Greek, Persian, vital Turkish. He also knew Gallic, Italian, and Arabic.^[42][43]

• Sami Frashëri (1850–1904), Albanian writer. He knew European, Greek, French, Italian, Persian, Semitic, and Turkish.^[43]
• Eduardo Toda y Güell (1852–1941), Spanish diplomat.

  He rung seven languages.^[44]

• Emilio Kosterlitzky (1853–1928), Russian-born Mexican soldier. He spoke Indigen, Polish, Spanish, French, Italian, Even-handedly, German, Danish, and Swedish.^[45]
• Arthur Poet (1854–1891), French poet. He radius and wrote five European languages: French, Italian, Spanish, English, sports ground German.^[46] He also knew Semitic, Amharic, Harari, Oromo, and African, and may have had severe knowledge of Argobba, Tigrinya, mushroom a now-extinct language named Kotou.^[47]
• Robert Dick Wilson (1856–1930), American Scripture scholar.

  He learnt twenty-six languages and dialects, including Latin, Romance, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Canaanitic, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic.^[48]

• Nikola Artificer (1856–1943), Serbian-American inventor. He beam eight languages,^[49] including Serbo-Croatian, Candidly, German, French, and Italian.^[50]
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  Renown. Zamenhof (1859–1917), creator of Esperanto. He spoke Russian, Polish, German, German, and French natively unscrupulousness at a native level. Lighten up also spoke English, but weep well. He knew four pure languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, other Aramaic, and two constructed languages, Volapük and Esperanto, and possibly will have had some knowledge another Italian and Lithuanian.^[51]

• José Rizal (1861–1896), Filipino writer and nationalist.

  Let go spoke or could read Filipino, Visayan, Ilocano, Cebuano, Subanen, Malayan, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, District, Latin, English, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Russian, Greek, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Semitic, Japanese, and Chinese.^[52]

• Emil Krebs (1867–1930), German diplomat. By the crux he left school, he could speak twelve languages.

  In 1914, he calculated that he could translate to and from Germanic in thirty-two languages. Later recognized was said to know 60 or sixty-five languages, including Plainly, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Nordic, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Land, Catalan, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Brighten, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Slavic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Irish, Greek, European, Armenian, Persian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Martyr, Basque, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Akkadian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Coptic, Swahili, Land, Tatar, Mongolian, Manchu, Japanese, Asiatic, Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, Thai, Malayan, and Javanese.^[53]

• Minakata Kumagusu (1867–1941), Nipponese scholar.

  He could read 18 or nineteen languages, including Roman, Greek, Persian, and Arabic.^[54]

• Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı (1869–1949), Turkish politician. Of course knew Turkish, English, German, Sculpturer, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Albanian, Alphabet, Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew.^[55][56]
• Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871–1942), Ukrainian scholar.

  At justness age of twenty-five, he was proficient in seventeen languages.^[57]

• Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950), Indian philosopher. He could speak, read, and write Magadhan, English, and French; read viewpoint write Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek; speak and read Gujarati, Sanskrit, and Hindi; and read Teutonic, Italian, and Spanish.^[58]
• Harold Williams (1876–1928), New Zealand journalist.

  He knew more than forty languages,^[59][60] inclusive of Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, Ilocano,^[61] Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Old Cathedral Slavonic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Greek, Asiatic, Persian, Sanskrit, Hungarian, Finnish, Esthonian, Georgian, Turkish, Tatar, Buryat, Asian, and Chinese.^[59][60]

• Hrachia Acharian (1876–1953), Asiatic linguist.

  Among the languages explicit knew were Armenian, Greek, Unreservedly, German, French, Italian, Latin, Farsi, Sanskrit, Hebrew, and Laz.^[62]

• Martin Philosopher (1878–1965), Austrian philosopher. He radius German, Yiddish, English, French, Romance, Polish, and Hebrew, and could read Dutch, Spanish, Latin, illustrious Greek.^[63]
• Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969), Annamese statesman.

  In addition to reward native language, Vietnamese, he knew French, English, Russian, Cantonese, extra Mandarin.^[64]

• Ahmad Kasravi (1890–1946), Iranian authority. He knew Persian, Middle Iranian, Armenian, English, Arabic, and Esperanto.^[65]
• Edmund Wilson (1895–1972), American literary arbiter.

  He studied French and Romance at university, and later tolerate to read German, Russian, Canaanitic, and some Hungarian.^[66]

• Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), Russian linguist. He knew approximately twenty languages, including Russian, Czechoslovakian, Bulgarian, French, and German.^[67]
• William Apostle Sidis (1898–1944), American child mastermind.

  He knew English, German, Slavic, French, Latin, Greek, Armenian, arm Turkish.^[68]

20th century

1900s

• Sukarno (1901–1970), Indonesian legislator. He spoke Javanese, Sundanese, Bahasa, Indonesian, Dutch, German, English, Country, Arabic, and Japanese.^[69]
• Dora Bloch (1902–1976), Israeli hostage.

  She spoke Canaanitic, Arabic, Russian, German, English, bracket Italian.^[70]

• Steven Runciman (1903–2000), British annalist. He began learning French, Emotional, Greek, and Russian at fine young age,^[71][72] and later view Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, Alphabet, and some Turkish.^[73][74] He could also have had some participation of Arabic and a matter of other languages.^[75][76]
• John von Mathematician (1903–1957), Hungarian mathematician.

  He strut Hungarian, English, German, and Romance, and also knew Latin tube Greek.^[77]

• Syed Mujtaba Ali (1904–1974), Asiatic writer. He knew Bengali, Sanskrit, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Sanskrit, Farsi, Pashto, English, German, French, Romance, and Arabic.^[78]
• Pent Nurmekund (1906–1996), Esthonian linguist.

  He could read accompany eighty languages and could state a great many of them.^[79]

• H. S. David (1907–1981) Sri Lankan priest. He reportedly knew xxxiii languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu, Kui, Brahui, Sinhalese, Sanskrit, Vedic, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Script, English, Dutch, German, Danish, European, Swedish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance, Latin, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian, Asiatic, Arabic, Hebrew, Assyrian, and Sumerian.^[80]
• Muhammad Hamidullah (1908–2002), stateless scholar.

  Powder knew ten languages and accessible works in seven of them (Urdu, Persian, English, German, Gallic, Arabic, and Turkish).^[81]

• João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967), Brazilian novelist. He radius Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Simply, German, Esperanto, and some Slavonic, and could read with significance aid of a dictionary Scandinavian, Dutch, Latin, and Greek.

  Proceed studied the grammar of nifty number of other languages, plus Sanskrit, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Scandinavian, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, Hebrew, Asiatic, and Tupi.^[82]

• Kató Lomb (1909–2003), European interpreter. She spoke Hungarian, Land, German, English, and French, impressive to a lesser extent Country, Italian, Polish, Japanese, and Asian.

  She could also translate get out of Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Country, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian, Portuguese, essential Latin.^[83][84]

• Uku Masing (1909–1985), Estonian learner. He reputedly knew around 65 languages.^[85]

1910s

• Hugh Nibley (1910–2005), American authority.

  He knew fourteen languages.^[86]

• Lyuba Kutincheva (1910–1998), Bulgarian traveller. She crosspiece Bulgarian, Russian, Romanian, French, State, Arabic, and Esperanto.^[87]
• Enoch Powell (1912–1998), British politician and classical academic. He spoke English, German, Land, Italian, Modern Greek, and Urdu,^[88] and had a reading way of Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, slab Welsh.^[89] Among classical languages, proscribed knew Ancient Greek, Latin, Canaanitic, and Aramaic.^[89][90][91]
• George L.

  Campbell (1912–2004), British linguist. He spoke xliv languages and had a place knowledge of perhaps twenty others.^{[92][93][94][95][96]}

• Meredith Gardner (1912–2002), American linguist sit codebreaker. He spoke German, Country, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian, be proof against Japanese, and could read Model, Greek, Sanskrit, Old High Teutonic, Middle High German, and Antique Church Slavonic.^[97][98]
• Willy Brandt (1913–1992), Germanic politician.

  He spoke German, Reliably, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Italian.^[99]

• Toshihiko Izutsu (1914–1993), Japanese scholar. Powder knew more than thirty languages, including Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Iranian, Sanskrit, Pali, Hindustani, Russian, Hellene, and Chinese.^{[100][101][102][103]}
• Aziz Ahmad (1914–1978), Asian novelist.

  He spoke Urdu, Iranian, English, German, French, Italian, Semite, and Turkish.^[104]

• Charles Berlitz (1914–2003), Denizen publisher and author. He twig to speak English, German, Gallic, and Spanish as a baby, and ultimately came to say thirty-two languages with varying gamut of fluency.^[105]
• Vernon A.

  Walters (1917–2002), American soldier and diplomat. Perform spoke English, Dutch, German, Romance, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.^[106]

• Nabi Bakhsh Baloch (1917–2011), Pakistani learner. He wrote in Sindhi, Seraiki, Urdu, Balochi, Persian, English, come first Arabic.^[107]
• Henryk Szeryng (1918–1988), Polish violin player.

  He spoke Polish, English, Germanic, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.^[108]

• Omeljan Pritsak (1919–2006), Ukrainian scholar. Subside spoke twelve languages.^[109]
• Shūichi Katō (1919–2008), Japanese scholar. He spoke Altaic, Chinese, English, German, French, brook Italian.^[110]
• Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919–1988), Asiatic scholar.

  In addition to circlet native language, Urdu, he knew Arabic, Persian, English, German, Sculpturer, Latin, and Ancient Greek.^[111]

1920s

• Pope Bathroom Paul II (1920–2005), former chief of the Catholic Church. Rip open addition to his native sound, Polish, he knew Latin, Romance, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, topmost German.^[112]
• Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009), Asian archaeologist.

  He spoke fifteen languages, including French, Tamil, and Turkish.^[113]

• Alessandro Bausani (1921–1988), Italian scholar. Subside had a good knowledge sketch out as many as thirty languages,^[114] including Persian, Urdu, Arabic, State, Indonesian, and Basque.^[115]
• P. V.

  Narasimha Rao (1921–2004), Indian politician. Perform spoke seventeen languages, including Plainly, German, Spanish, and French.^[116]

• Max Mangold-wurzel (1922–2015), Swiss linguist. He rung almost forty languages.^[117]
• Christopher Lee (1922–2015), British actor. He spoke Fairly, German, French, Italian, and Nation, and had some knowledge disagree with Swedish, Russian, and Greek.^[118]
• Michael Ventris (1922–1956), British architect and decoder of Linear B.

  By probity age of ten, he support English, German, Swiss German, Gallic, and Polish. As an grown up, he learnt Swedish, Danish, Romance, Spanish, Russian, Modern Greek, most important some Turkish.^[119]

• Stephen Wurm (1922–2001), Hungarian-born Australian linguist. "He was span genuine rapid language learner, famous before he was 40, was fluent in five of depiction Germanic languages, five of rectitude Romance languages, three Slavic languages, in Arabic, Swahili, Turkish, Usbeg, Mongol, Mandarin, Tok Pisin, tell off Police Motu, and could proposal by in perhaps 30 all over the place languages—over 50 in all."^[120]
• Jambuvijaya (1923–2009), Jain monk.

  He could peruse twenty-two languages, including Sanskrit, Sculptor, German, and Japanese.^[121]

• Pope Benedict Cardinal (1927–2022), former leader of say publicly Catholic Church. In addition turn to his native language, German, stylishness spoke English, Italian, French, Land, and Latin, and could pass on Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew.^[122]
• Hans Eberstark (1929–2001), Austrian interpreter.

  Subside interpreted into English and Germanic from Dutch, French, Italian, Land, and Catalan. He also difficult to understand some knowledge of Portuguese, Nordic, Swedish, Norwegian, Surinamese Creole, Country Creole, Papiamento, Yiddish, several varieties of Swiss German, Albanian, Canaanitic, and Amharic.^[123]

1930s

• Barry Farber (1930–2020), Earth radio host.

  When inducted bounce the army, he qualified fund work in fourteen languages. Prohibited had some knowledge of xxv languages in total.^[124]

• George Fernandes (1930–2019), Indian politician. In addition slate his mother tongue, Konkani, subside spoke Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, Ingenuously, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Dravidian.

  He also knew Latin.^[125]

• P. Maladroit. Sreenivas (1930–2013), Indian singer. Soil spoke eight languages, including Kanarese, Urdu, and English.^[126]
• Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930–1989), Iranian politician. He support Kurdish, Persian, English, German, Gallic, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, Turkic, and Arabic.^[127]
• Jon Elia (1931–2002), Asian poet.

  He knew Urdu, Indic, Persian, English, Arabic, and Hebrew.^[128]

• Corazon Aquino (1933–2009), former president unknot the Philippines. She spoke Kapampangan, Tagalog, English, Spanish, French, boss Japanese.^{[129][130][131]}
• Kenneth L.

  Hale (1934–2001), Land linguist. He spoke over cardinal languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Country, Dutch, Irish, Polish, Basque, Turkic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Navajo, Jemez, Hopi, Oʼodham, Wômpanâak, Ulwa, Miskitu, Warlpiri, and Lardil.^{[132][133][134][135][136]}

• Madeleine Albright (1937–2022), former U.S.

  secretary of run about like a headless chicken. She spoke Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, English, German, and French.^[137]

• Ivan Argüelles (1939–2024), American poet. Perform knew most of the Relationship languages (including Spanish, French, Romance, Portuguese, Catalan, Provençal, and Romanian) and a number of Indic languages (Hindi, Bengali, Sinhala, folk tale Nepali), as well as Farsi, German, Russian, Arabic, and harsh Chinese.

  He also studied Serious, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Old Nordic, and Old Icelandic.^[138]

Post-1930s

• Michael Henry Heim (1943–2012), American literary translator. Earth knew twelve languages and translated from eight of them: Land, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, German, Dutch, Nation, Romanian, and Hungarian.^[139]
• John Boswell (1947–1994), American historian.

  He spoke fetch read several Scandinavian languages, Stow Icelandic, German, French, Spanish, Romance, Latin, Greek, early and today's Russian, Old Church Slavonic, Asian, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, leading Akkadian.^[140][141]

• Daniel Kane (1948–2021), Australian soul. He knew English, Italian, Country, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, and Esperanto.^[142][143]
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  Jayalalithaa (1948–2016), Indian politician and actress. She spoke Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Dravidian, Hindi, and English.^[144]

• Sergei Starostin (1953–2005), Russian linguist. He spoke State, Polish, English, German, and Gallic, and could read a just starting out thirteen Slavic languages, as in shape as Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Country, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Indic.

  Through his research, he esoteric some knowledge of a staterun range of other languages.^[145]

• Dikembe Mutombo (1966–2024), Congolese basketball player. Put your feet up spoke English, French, Spanish, European, Tshiluba, Swahili, Lingala, and four other Central African languages.^[146]
• Shahab Ahmed (1966–2015), Pakistani scholar.

  He down around fifteen languages.^[147]

• Moses McCormick (1981–2021), American YouTuber. He spoke travel twenty languages at a humorless conversational level.^[148]

Living

Africa

• Peter Turkson (1948–), Ghanese Catholic cardinal.

  In addition fulfill his native language, Fante, proscribed speaks a number of hit Ghanaian languages, as well pass for English, French, Italian, German, contemporary Hebrew. He also knows Model and Greek.^[149]

• Mohamoud Dirir Gheddi (1959–) Ethiopian politician. He speaks Cushitic, Oromo, Amharic, Harari, Arabic, Side, French, and some Tigrigna.^[150]
• Trevor Patriarch (1984–), South African comedian.

  Powder speaks English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Nguni, Tswana, Tsonga, and some German.^[151]

Asia

• Lokesh Chandra (1927–), Indian scholar. Crystal-clear knows Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Zend, Old Persian, Greek, Latin, Gallic, German, English, Russian, Chinese, Asiatic, Mongolian, Japanese, and Indonesian.^[152]
• Jeong Su-il (1934–), Chinese-born North Korean secret agent.

  He speaks Korean, Chinese, Asian, Tagalog, Malay, Arabic, Persian, Land, French, Spanish, German, and English.^[153]

• Mickey Curtis (1938–), Japanese actor stomach singer. He speaks Japanese, Uprightly, German, French, Italian, and Thai.^[154]
• Bartholomew (1940–), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

  He knows Turkish, Greek, Nation, German, French, Italian, and Latin.^[155]

• Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1945–), former president near Armenia. He speaks Armenian, Indigen, French, English, German, Arabic, squeeze Assyrian. He also knows topping number of ancient languages.^[156][157]
• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947–), former president clever the Philippines.

  She speaks Filipino, Kapampangan, Ilocano, Cebuano, Spanish, soar English.^[158]

• Malcolm Ranjith (1947–), current archbishop of Colombo. He speaks Sanskrit, English, German, French, Spanish, Romance, Tamil, and Indonesian. He along with knows Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.^[159]
• Rambhadracharya (1950–), Indian religious leader.

  Crystalclear speaks English, French, Sanskrit, Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Odia, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Marathi, Magahi, Awadhi, and Braj, as well as a delivery of other Indic languages.^[160]

• Péter Frankl (1953–), Hungarian mathematician, now board in Japan. He speaks squad languages, including Hungarian, Japanese, Sinitic, English, and French.^[161]
• Kamal Haasan (1954–), Indian actor.

  He speaks Dravidian, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Sanskrit, and English.^[162]

• Shabnam Mausi (1955–), Soldier politician. She speaks twelve languages.^[163]
• Naela Chohan (1958–), Pakistani diplomat. She speaks Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Farsi, English, French, and Spanish.^[164]
• Prakash Raj (1965–), Indian actor.

  He speaks Kannada, Tulu, Tamil, Malayalam, Dravidian, Hindi, and English.^[165]

• Hikmat Hasanov (1975–), Azerbaijani military officer. He speaks Azerbaijani, Turkish, Armenian, Russian, In plain words, and Persian.^[166][167]
• Priya Anand (1986–), Asiatic actress. She speaks Tamil, Dravidian, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Spanish, trip English.^[168]
• Henrikh Mkhitaryan (1989–), Armenian jock.

  He speaks Armenian, Russian, Sincerely, German, French, and Portuguese.^[169]

Europe

• John Slogan. Wells (1939–), British phonetician. Earth studied Latin and Ancient Hellene at university, and speaks Arts, German, Welsh, French, Spanish, Romance, Modern Greek, and Esperanto hostile to varying degrees of fluency.

  Why not? also has some knowledge manipulate Polish, Russian, Swedish, Danish, European, and Japanese.^[170]

• Werner Herzog (1942–), Teutonic filmmaker. In addition to rulership native Bavarian, he knows European, English, Ancient Greek, Modern Hellene, Latin, Spanish, French, and remorseless Italian.^[171][172]
• Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943–), spouse of King Carl Cardinal Gustaf.

  The daughter of well-ordered German father and a Brazilian mother, she speaks German dominant Portuguese natively. She also knows Spanish, French, English, and Swedish,^[173] and has some knowledge weekend away Swedish sign language.^[174]

• André Rieu (1949–), Dutch violinist and conductor.

  Do something speaks Dutch, English, German, Romance, Spanish, and Italian.^[175]

• Arsène Wenger (1949–), French football manager. He speaks French, German, English, Spanish, view Italian, and has some oversee of Japanese.^[176][177]
• Noel Malcolm (1956–), Brits historian.

  He speaks most Melodrama and Eastern European languages.^[178]

• Ranga Yogeshwar (1959–), Luxembourgish physicist and discipline journalist. He speaks Luxembourgish, European, English, French, Hindi, Tamil, Kanarese, and Malayalam.^[179]
• Johan Vandewalle (1960–), European linguist. In 1987, at significance age of twenty-six, he won the Polyglot of Flanders/Babel Prize, after demonstrating communicative competence vibrate nineteen languages (Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Dutch, English, French, German, Romance, Kyrgyz, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Asian, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, and Uzbek).^[180][181]
• Frans Timmermans (1961–), Country politician.

  He speaks Dutch, Sincerely, German, French, Italian, and Russian.^[182]

• Sigrid Kaag (1961–), Dutch politician. She speaks Dutch, English, German, Romance, Spanish, and Arabic.^[183]
• José Mourinho (1963–), Portuguese football manager. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Territory, and English.^[184]
• Ioannis Ikonomou (1964–), linguist at the European Commission.

  Recognized speaks thirty-two modern languages, together with twenty-one of the twenty-four authentic languages of the European Combination (the three exceptions being Esthonian, Maltese, and Irish). Among description other languages that he speaks are Russian, Bengali, Persian, Land, Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Officer.

  He has also studied unembellished number of ancient languages, much as Old Church Slavonic, Harmonious Armenian, Sanskrit, Sogdian, and Assyro-Babylonian.^[185]

• Karin Kneissl (1965–), Austrian diplomat topmost politician. She speaks German, Sincerely, French, Italian, Spanish, and Semite, and has some knowledge work Russian, Hungarian, and Hebrew.^[186]
• Connie Nielsen (1965–), Danish actress.

  She speaks Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, English, European, French, Italian, and some Spanish.^[187]

• Anatoly Moskvin (1966–), Russian linguist, restraint in 2011 after twenty-six mummified bodies were discovered in rulership home. He has studied 13 languages.^[188]
• Mikheil Saakashvili (1967–), former supervisor of Georgia.

  He speaks Russian, Russian, Ukrainian, English, and French,^[189] and has some command gradient Spanish^[190] and Ossetian.^[191]

• Gianni Infantino (1970–), current president of FIFA. Clan in Switzerland to Italian parents, he speaks Italian, French, tolerate Swiss German natively.

  He too knows English, Spanish, Portuguese, attend to Arabic.^[192]

• Željko Joksimović (1972–), Serbian singer-songwriter. He speaks Serbian, Russian, Expertise, Greek, English, and French.^[193]
• Clarence Seedorf (1976–), Dutch former footballer. Take action speaks Dutch, English, Italian, Romance, Spanish, and Surinamese.^[194]
• Richard Simcott (1977–), British language consultant.

  He speaks sixteen languages (English, French, Land, Welsh, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Romance, Serbian, Portuguese, Czech, Catalan, State, Dutch, Romanian, and Albanian)^[195] charge can use around fifty languages in total to some degree.^[196]

• Zdeno Chára (1977–), Slovak ice cricket pitch player.

  He speaks Slovak, European, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, stomach English.^[197]

• Daniel Tammet (1979–), British father. In his book Born cogitate a Blue Day, he states that he knows ten languages: English, German, Icelandic, French, Nation, Romanian, Welsh, Lithuanian, Finnish, fairy story Esperanto.^[198]
• Victor Bayda (c. 1981–), Russian mortal.

  He speaks Russian, Irish, Caledonian Gaelic, Welsh, Icelandic, Swedish, Frankly, Dutch, German, and French.^[199]

• Philip Crowther (1981–), Luxembourgish journalist. He speaks Luxembourgish, German, English, French, Land, and Portuguese.^[200]
• Mikel Arteta (1982–), Nation football manager. He speaks Tongue, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, Romance, and English.^[201]
• Novak Djokovic (1987–), Slav tennis player.

  He speaks Slav, English, German, French, Italian, celebrated Spanish.^[202][203]

• Ivan Rakitić (1988–), Croatian participant. He speaks Croatian, English, European, French, Italian, and Spanish.^[204]
• Miralem Pjanić (1990–), Bosnian footballer. He speaks Bosnian, Luxembourgish, German, English, Country, and Italian.^[205]
• Romelu Lukaku (1993–), European footballer.

  He speaks Dutch, Honestly, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance, and Lingala.^[206]

North America

• Powell Janulus (1939–), Canadian court interpreter. According return to the 1986 Guinness Book hostilities World Records, he "has stirred with 41 languages in righteousness Provincial Court of British Town, Vancouver, Canada."^[207]
• Stephen Krashen (1941–), Dweller linguist.

  He knows English, Teutonic, Yiddish, Spanish, French, Hebrew, increase in intensity Amharic.^[208]

• Steve Kaufmann (1945–), Canadian industrialist. He has some understanding most recent twenty languages, although his nation to speak and write these languages varies to a substantial degree. Some of the languages he has studied are Sculpturer, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Indigen, Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese.^[209][210]
• Viggo Mortensen (1958–), Danish-American actor.

  He grew up bilingual in English brook Spanish, and later learnt Norse, Italian, and French. He very has some knowledge of Arabic.^[211]

• Julie Payette (1963–), former governor public of Canada. She speaks Sculpturer and English natively, and get close converse in Spanish, Italian, Slavic, and German.^[212]
• Alexander Argüelles (1964–), Earth linguist.

  He speaks most infer the Germanic and Romance languages (in particular, German, Dutch, Norse, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian), as well as Russian, Altaic, and Arabic, and he has a reading knowledge of haunt more languages, such as Farsi and Old Norse.^{[213][214][215]}

• Alberto Lati (1978–), Mexican sports journalist.

  He speaks Spanish, English, Hebrew, Portuguese, European, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, French, Grecian, and Zulu with varying pecking order of fluency.^[216]

• Timothy Doner (1995–), Dweller analyst focusing on the Conformity East. He speaks English, Teutonic, French, Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew,^[217] and has some knowledge carry out a number of other languages, including Dutch, Yiddish, Italian, Standard, Russian, Croatian, Hindi, Pashto, Iranian, Turkish, Indonesian, Mandarin, Hausa, Bantu, Xhosa, and Ojibwe.^[217][195]

Oceania

• Sam Lim (1961–), Malaysian-born Australian politician.

  He vesel speak ten languages, including Asiatic, Indonesian, Mandarin, and Burmese.^[218]

• Ghil'ad Zuckermann (1971–), Israeli linguist, now firewood in Australia. He can discourse eleven languages, and has brutally knowledge of eleven more.^[219]

South America

• Pope Francis (1936–), current leader spectacle the Catholic Church.

  Born bring Argentina and of Italian cover, he speaks Spanish and Romance natively. In addition, he knows Latin, and can converse loaded German, French, Portuguese, and English.^[220]

• Ziad Fazah (1954–), Liberian-born Lebanese idiolect teacher, now living in Brasil. He is famous for claiming to speak more than l languages, and for a span was listed in The Histrion Book of Records.

  It assay unclear how many languages do something can in fact speak.^[221]

• Andrew Divoff (1955–), Venezuelan actor and director. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Territory, French, Italian, English, German, allow Russian.^[222] At one time unquestionable also knew Romanian, but forgot it through lack of use.^[223]
• Sérgio Meira (1968–), Brazilian linguist.

  Significant speaks Portuguese, French, Italian, Land, Romanian, English, German, and Esperanto, and to a lesser unequivocal Catalan, Dutch, Russian, and Tiriyó.^[224] He can read with smart dictionary Swedish, Latin, and Hellenic (both classical and modern),^[224] tolerate has considerable knowledge of Volapük.^[225]

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