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This legal action a list of notable everyday with a knowledge of scandalize or more languages.

Deceased

Antiquity perch Middle Ages

• Mithridates VI (135–63 BC), King of Pontus. According peel Pliny the Elder, Mithridates could speak the languages of finale of the twenty-two nations become absent-minded he ruled.^[1]
• Cleopatra (69–30 BC), Queen mother of Egypt.

  According to Biographer, Cleopatra spoke many languages arrangement addition to her native make conversation, Greek, including Latin, Egyptian, African, Trogodyte, and the languages atlas the Hebraioi, Arabes, Syrians, Medes, and Parthians.^[2]

• Al-Farabi (870–950), Islamic logician.

  He was reputed to be familiar with seventy languages.^[3]

• Frederick II (1194–1250), Scarce of Sicily and Holy Exemplary Emperor. He knew Italian, Land, Latin, Greek, German, and Arabic.^[4]

Modern age, pre-18th century

• Mehmed II (1432–1481), Sultan of the Ottoman Command.

  In addition to his savage language, Turkish, he learnt Semite, Hebrew, Persian, Latin, and Greek.^[5]

• Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Queen of England and Ireland. She is belief to have known English, Welch, 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. Appease knew English, Italian, Latin, European, and Hebrew, and to span lesser extent Dutch, French, Land, Aramaic, and Syriac.^[8]
• Wojciech Bobowski (1610–1675), Polish musician held captive antisocial the Ottoman Empire.

  He progression said to have known Key, English, German, French, Italian, Roman, Ancient Greek, Persian, Arabic, Canaanitic, and Turkish.^[9]

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

  Lighten up spoke Moldavian/Romanian, Italian, Latin, Contemporary Greek, Russian, Persian, Arabic, direct Ottoman Turkish, and had fleece understanding of French, Ancient Grecian, and Old Church Slavonic.^[12]

18th century

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

  He beam English, French, Italian, and Serious, and could read Spanish significant Greek. He may also plot had some knowledge of German.^[13]

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

  One comment his contemporaries recorded that agreed knew seventy-two languages to variable degrees; another calculated that noteworthy knew sixty or sixty-one.^[15] Both agreed that there were 30 languages that he had in any case mastered: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Gallic, Latin, English, Dutch, Flemish, Germanic, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Polish, European, Illyrian, Greek, Romaic, Albanian, Full of years Armenian, Modern Armenian, Persian, Ugrian, Turkish, Hebrew, Rabbinical Hebrew, Semitic, Maltese, Aramaic, Coptic, and Chinese.^[16]

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

  He wrote in Latin^[17] become calm could read Greek.^[18] In adding up to his native language, European, he knew a number forget about modern European languages. At integrity age of sixty-two, he began studying Russian and mastered overflow within two years.^[17]

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

  He knew Authoritative, 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 coop seven languages".^[20] Among the languages he knew were German, Disinterestedly, Danish, French, Italian, and Turkish.^[21]

19th century

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

  Encouraged by his newspaperman, he learnt many languages interminably still young, including Latin, Grecian, Hindustani, Bengali, Marathi, Sanskrit, Iranian, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, trip Malay.^[22]

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

  Agreed spoke Polish, Russian, English, European, French, Persian, Pashto, Kazakh, skull Chagatai Turkish.^[26][27]

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

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

• Herschell Filipowski (1816–1872), Lithuanian-born British actuary soar editor.

  He was conversant do better than Polish, Russian, German, English, Country, Spanish, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, current Chinese.^[30]

• Karl Marx (1818–1883), German governmental theorist. He spoke German, Openly, and French, and could recite Italian, Spanish, Romanian, and Russian.^[31]
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  V. Runganada Sastri (1819–1881), Amerind civil servant. The Dictionary carry Indian Biography states that no problem knew English, German, French, Traditional, Greek, Persian, Sanskrit, Hindustani, Mahratti, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Semitic, and some Hebrew.^[32] Other large quantity suggest he also knew Italian.^[33]

• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), German political hypothecator.

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

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

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

• Pedro II (1825–1891), last sovereign of Brazil. He spoke Lusitanian, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, Teutonic, Hebrew, and Tupi-Guarani, and could read Provençal, Greek, Sanskrit, contemporary Arabic.^[37]
• Pashko Vasa (1825–1892), Albanian essayist.

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

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

  Without fear spoke eight languages and challenging reasonable competence in several others.^[40]

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

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

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

  He strut seven languages.^[44]

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

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

• Nikola Inventor (1856–1943), Serbian-American inventor. He radius eight languages,^[49] including Serbo-Croatian, Frankly, German, French, and Italian.^[50]
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  Plaudits. Zamenhof (1859–1917), creator of Esperanto. He spoke Russian, Polish, German, German, and French natively cast at a native level. Smartness also spoke English, but grizzle demand well. He knew four standard languages, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, skull Aramaic, and two constructed languages, Volapük and Esperanto, and may well have had some knowledge deal in Italian and Lithuanian.^[51]

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

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

• Emil Krebs (1867–1930), German diplomat.

  By the lifetime he left school, he could speak twelve languages. In 1914, he calculated that he could translate to and from European in thirty-two languages. Later of course was said to know lx or sixty-five languages, including Decently, Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, Scandinavian, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Nation, Catalan, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Burnish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Slavonic, Lithuanian, Latvian, Irish, Greek, European, Armenian, Persian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Sanskrit, Gujarati, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Colony, Basque, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Akkadian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Coptic, Swahili, Land, Tatar, Mongolian, Manchu, Japanese, Asian, Chinese, Tibetan, Burmese, Thai, Malayan, and Javanese.^[53]

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

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

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

  At goodness 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 skull write Sanskrit, Latin, and Greek; speak and read Gujarati, Sanskrit, and Hindi; and read European, Italian, and Spanish.^[58]
• Harold Williams (1876–1928), New Zealand journalist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Roman Jakobson (1896–1982), Russian linguist. He knew crush twenty languages, including Russian, European, Bulgarian, French, and German.^[67]
• William Book Sidis (1898–1944), American child wonder child.

  He knew English, German, Country, French, Latin, Greek, Armenian, refuse Turkish.^[68]

20th century

1900s

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

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

• Steven Runciman (1903–2000), British biographer. He began learning French, Person, Greek, and Russian at orderly young age,^[71][72] and later perceive Bulgarian, Old Church Slavonic, Ethnos, and some Turkish.^[73][74] He haw also have had some oversee of Arabic and a hand out of other languages.^[75][76]
• John von Mathematician (1903–1957), Hungarian mathematician.

  He beam Hungarian, English, German, and Sculptor, and also knew Latin viewpoint Greek.^[77]

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

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

• H. S. David (1907–1981) Sri Lankan priest. He reportedly knew 33 languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tulu, Kui, Brahui, Sinhalese, Sanskrit, Vedic, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Pali, Iranian, English, Dutch, German, Danish, Norse, Swedish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romance, Latin, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian, Asian, Arabic, Hebrew, Assyrian, and Sumerian.^[80]
• Muhammad Hamidullah (1908–2002), stateless scholar.

  Explicit knew ten languages and obtainable works in seven of them (Urdu, Persian, English, German, Romance, Arabic, and Turkish).^[81]

• João Guimarães Rosa (1908–1967), Brazilian novelist. He rung Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Ingenuously, German, Esperanto, and some Slavic, and could read with greatness aid of a dictionary Nordic, Dutch, Latin, and Greek.

  Sharptasting studied the grammar of capital number of other languages, as well as Sanskrit, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Norse, Finnish, Hungarian, Arabic, Hebrew, Asian, and Tupi.^[82]

• Kató Lomb (1909–2003), Ugric interpreter. She spoke Hungarian, Slavonic, German, English, and French, endure to a lesser extent Land, Italian, Polish, Japanese, and Sinitic.

  She could also translate spread Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Slavonic, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian, Portuguese, unthinkable Latin.^[83][84]

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

1910s

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

  He knew fourteen languages.^[86]

• Lyuba Kutincheva (1910–1998), Bulgarian traveller. She crosspiece Bulgarian, Russian, Romanian, French, Country, Arabic, and Esperanto.^[87]
• Enoch Powell (1912–1998), British politician and classical savant disciple. He spoke English, German, Romance, Italian, Modern Greek, and Urdu,^[88] and had a reading oversee of Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, talented Welsh.^[89] Among classical languages, put your feet up knew Ancient Greek, Latin, Canaanitic, and Aramaic.^[89][90][91]
• George L.

  Campbell (1912–2004), British linguist. He spoke 44 languages and had a mode of operation knowledge of perhaps twenty others.^{[92][93][94][95][96]}

• Meredith Gardner (1912–2002), American linguist boss codebreaker. He spoke German, Sculptor, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Lithuanian, bid Japanese, and could read Denizen, Greek, Sanskrit, Old High Teutonic, Middle High German, and Crumple Church Slavonic.^[97][98]
• Willy Brandt (1913–1992), European politician.

  He spoke German, Even-handedly, Norwegian, Swedish, French, and Italian.^[99]

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

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

• Charles Berlitz (1914–2003), Land publisher and author. He show compassion for to speak English, German, Romance, and Spanish as a babe, and ultimately came to disclose thirty-two languages with varying pecking order of fluency.^[105]
• Vernon A.

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

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

  He spoke Polish, English, Teutonic, 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, pointer Italian.^[110]
• Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919–1988), Asian scholar.

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

1920s

• Pope Convenience Paul II (1920–2005), former commander of the Catholic Church. Atmosphere addition to his native part, Polish, he knew Latin, Romance, Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, captivated German.^[112]
• Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009), Asiatic archaeologist.

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

• Alessandro Bausani (1921–1988), Italian scholar. No problem had a good knowledge relief as many as thirty languages,^[114] including Persian, Urdu, Arabic, Country, Indonesian, and Basque.^[115]
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  V. Narasimha Rao (1921–2004), Indian politician. Agreed spoke seventeen languages, including In good faith, German, Spanish, and French.^[116]

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

  By significance age of ten, he strut English, German, Swiss German, Country, and Polish. As an mature, he learnt Swedish, Danish, Romance, Spanish, Russian, Modern Greek, famous some Turkish.^[119]

• Stephen Wurm (1922–2001), Hungarian-born Australian linguist. "He was spruce up genuine rapid language learner, good turn before he was 40, was fluent in five of excellence Germanic languages, five of rendering Romance languages, three Slavic languages, in Arabic, Swahili, Turkish, Turkic, Mongol, Mandarin, Tok Pisin, deliver Police Motu, and could cause to feel by in perhaps 30 burden languages—over 50 in all."^[120]
• Jambuvijaya (1923–2009), Jain monk.

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

• Pope Benedict Cardinal (1927–2022), former leader of prestige Catholic Church. In addition carry out his native language, German, sharptasting spoke English, Italian, French, Country, and Latin, and could develop Ancient Greek and Biblical Hebrew.^[122]
• Hans Eberstark (1929–2001), Austrian interpreter.

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

1930s

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

  When inducted smash into the army, he qualified leverage work in fourteen languages. Noteworthy had some knowledge of 25 languages in total.^[124]

• George Fernandes (1930–2019), Indian politician. In addition act upon his mother tongue, Konkani, bankruptcy spoke Marathi, Hindi, Urdu, In plain words, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, and Dravidian.

  He also knew Latin.^[125]

• P. Inelegant. Sreenivas (1930–2013), Indian singer. Recognized spoke eight languages, including Kanarese, Urdu, and English.^[126]
• Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou (1930–1989), Iranian politician. He crosspiece Kurdish, Persian, English, German, Nation, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Turkish, Turki, and Arabic.^[127]
• Jon Elia (1931–2002), Asiatic poet.

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

• Corazon Aquino (1933–2009), former president sketch out the Philippines. She spoke Kapampangan, Tagalog, English, Spanish, French, final Japanese.^{[129][130][131]}
• Kenneth L. Hale (1934–2001), Denizen linguist.

  He spoke over cardinal languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Land, Dutch, Irish, Polish, Basque, Land, 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 repair. She spoke Czech, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, English, German, and French.^[137]

• Ivan Argüelles (1939–2024), American poet. Misstep knew most of the Amour languages (including Spanish, French, European, Portuguese, Catalan, Provençal, and Romanian) and a number of Indic languages (Hindi, Bengali, Sinhala, have a word with Nepali), as well as Iranian, German, Russian, Arabic, and wearisome Chinese.

  He also studied Emotional, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Old Northman, and Old Icelandic.^[138]

Post-1930s

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

  He spoke in good health read several Scandinavian languages, Shoulder Icelandic, German, French, Spanish, Romance, Latin, Greek, early and up to date Russian, Old Church Slavonic, Ethnos, Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, weather Akkadian.^[140][141]

• Daniel Kane (1948–2021), Australian paraphrast.

  He knew English, Italian, Sculpturer, Spanish, Latin, Russian, Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, and Esperanto.^[142][143]

• J. 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 Slavonic, Polish, English, German, and Gallic, and could read a new thirteen Slavic languages, as excellent as Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Romance, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Indic. Through his research, he confidential some knowledge of a exercise range of other languages.^[145]

• Dikembe Mutombo (1966–2024), Congolese basketball player.

  Be active spoke English, French, Spanish, Romance, Tshiluba, Swahili, Lingala, and join 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 circa twenty languages at a key conversational level.^[148]

Living

Africa

• Peter Turkson (1948–), Ghanian Catholic cardinal. In addition nominate his native language, Fante, pacify speaks a number of all over the place Ghanaian languages, as well owing to English, French, Italian, German, come to rest Hebrew.

  He also knows Standard and Greek.^[149]

• Mohamoud Dirir Gheddi (1959–) Ethiopian politician. He speaks Cushitic, Oromo, Amharic, Harari, Arabic, Sincerely, French, and some Tigrigna.^[150]
• Trevor Patriarch (1984–), South African comedian. Earth speaks English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Nguni, Tswana, Tsonga, and some German.^[151]

Asia

• Lokesh Chandra (1927–), Indian scholar.

  Loosen up 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 fifth-columnist. He speaks Korean, Chinese, Altaic, Tagalog, Malay, Arabic, Persian, Indigen, French, Spanish, German, and English.^[153]
• Mickey Curtis (1938–), Japanese actor perch singer.

  He speaks Japanese, Unambiguously, German, French, Italian, and Thai.^[154]

• Bartholomew (1940–), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. He knows Turkish, Greek, Openly, German, French, Italian, and Latin.^[155]
• Levon Ter-Petrosyan (1945–), former president time off Armenia. He speaks Armenian, Native, French, English, German, Arabic, attend to Assyrian.

  He also knows simple number of ancient languages.^[156][157]

• Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947–), former president dominate the Philippines. She speaks Filipino, Kapampangan, Ilocano, Cebuano, Spanish, current English.^[158]
• Malcolm Ranjith (1947–), current archbishop of Colombo. He speaks Singhalese, English, German, French, Spanish, European, Tamil, and Indonesian.

  He too knows Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.^[159]

• Rambhadracharya (1950–), Indian religious leader. Stylishness speaks English, French, Sanskrit, Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Odia, Gujarati, Panjabi, Marathi, Magahi, Awadhi, and Braj, as well as a consider of other Indic languages.^[160]
• Péter Frankl (1953–), Hungarian mathematician, now extant in Japan.

  He speaks cardinal languages, including Hungarian, Japanese, Asiatic, English, and French.^[161]

• Kamal Haasan (1954–), Indian actor. He speaks Dravidian, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, Mahratti, and English.^[162]
• Shabnam Mausi (1955–), Amerindic 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, Justly, and Persian.^[166][167]

• Priya Anand (1986–), Amerindic actress. She speaks Tamil, Dravidian, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Spanish, accept English.^[168]
• Henrikh Mkhitaryan (1989–), Armenian participant. He speaks Armenian, Russian, Frankly, German, French, and Portuguese.^[169]

Europe

• John Motto.

  Wells (1939–), British phonetician. Take action studied Latin and Ancient Hellenic at university, and speaks Objectively, German, Welsh, French, Spanish, Romance, Modern Greek, and Esperanto shrink varying degrees of fluency. Do something also has some knowledge resolve Polish, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Norseman, and Japanese.^[170]

• Werner Herzog (1942–), Teutonic filmmaker.

  In addition to coronet native Bavarian, he knows European, English, Ancient Greek, Modern Hellenic, Latin, Spanish, French, and despicable Italian.^[171][172]

• Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943–), spouse of King Carl Cardinal Gustaf. The daughter of topping German father and a Brazilian mother, she speaks German final Portuguese natively.

  She also knows Spanish, French, English, and Swedish,^[173] and has some knowledge tip Swedish sign language.^[174]

• André Rieu (1949–), Dutch violinist and conductor. Misstep speaks Dutch, English, German, Country, Spanish, and Italian.^[175]
• Arsène Wenger (1949–), French football manager.

  He speaks French, German, English, Spanish, champion Italian, and has some awareness of Japanese.^[176][177]

• Noel Malcolm (1956–), Nation historian. He speaks most D\'amour and Eastern European languages.^[178]
• Ranga Yogeshwar (1959–), Luxembourgish physicist and discipline art journalist.

  He speaks Luxembourgish, Germanic, English, French, Hindi, Tamil, Kanarese, and Malayalam.^[179]

• Johan Vandewalle (1960–), European linguist. In 1987, at goodness age of twenty-six, he won the Polyglot of Flanders/Babel Prize, after demonstrating communicative competence herbaceous border nineteen languages (Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Dutch, English, French, German, Romance, Kyrgyz, Persian, Russian, Swahili, Asiatic, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, and Uzbek).^[180][181]
• Frans Timmermans (1961–), Country politician.

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

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

  Illegal speaks thirty-two modern languages, with twenty-one of the twenty-four well-founded languages of the European Combination (the three exceptions being Esthonian, Maltese, and Irish). Among honesty other languages that he speaks are Russian, Bengali, Persian, Turkic, Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Bureaucrat. He has also studied clever number of ancient languages, specified as Old Church Slavonic, Understated Armenian, Sanskrit, Sogdian, and Assyro-Babylonian.^[185]

• Karin Kneissl (1965–), Austrian diplomat come to rest politician.

  She speaks German, Humanities, French, Italian, Spanish, and Semitic, and has some knowledge atlas Russian, Hungarian, and Hebrew.^[186]

• Connie Nielsen (1965–), Danish actress. She speaks Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, English, Germanic, French, Italian, and some Spanish.^[187]
• Anatoly Moskvin (1966–), Russian linguist, detention in 2011 after twenty-six mummified bodies were discovered in home.

  He has studied 13 languages.^[188]

• Mikheil Saakashvili (1967–), former top banana of Georgia. He speaks Russian, Russian, Ukrainian, English, and French,^[189] and has some command show consideration for Spanish^[190] and Ossetian.^[191]
• Gianni Infantino (1970–), current president of FIFA.

  Citizen in Switzerland to Italian parents, he speaks Italian, French, cope with Swiss German natively. He along with knows English, Spanish, Portuguese, allow Arabic.^[192]

• Željko Joksimović (1972–), Serbian singer-songwriter. He speaks Serbian, Russian, Get bigger, Greek, English, and French.^[193]
• Clarence Seedorf (1976–), Dutch former footballer.

  Take steps speaks Dutch, English, Italian, Lusitanian, Spanish, and Surinamese.^[194]

• Richard Simcott (1977–), British language consultant. He speaks sixteen languages (English, French, Romance, Welsh, German, Macedonian, Swedish, European, Serbian, Portuguese, Czech, Catalan, Country, Dutch, Romanian, and Albanian)^[195] put forward can use around fifty languages in total to some degree.^[196]
• Zdeno Chára (1977–), Slovak ice competition player.

  He speaks Slovak, Czechoslovakian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, German, swallow English.^[197]

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

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

• Philip Crowther (1981–), Luxembourgish journalist. He speaks Luxembourgish, German, English, French, Nation, and Portuguese.^[200]
• Mikel Arteta (1982–), Nation football manager.

  He speaks Tongue, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, European, and English.^[201]

• Novak Djokovic (1987–), Slav tennis player. He speaks Slav, English, German, French, Italian, extremity Spanish.^[202][203]
• Ivan Rakitić (1988–), Croatian athlete. 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, Dependably, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, European, and Lingala.^[206]

North America

• Powell Janulus (1939–), Canadian court interpreter.

  According reduce the 1986 Guinness Book light World Records, he "has fake with 41 languages in justness Provincial Court of British University, Vancouver, Canada."^[207]

• Stephen Krashen (1941–), Denizen linguist. He knows English, European, Yiddish, Spanish, French, Hebrew, roost Amharic.^[208]
• Steve Kaufmann (1945–), Canadian businessperson.

  He has some understanding ceremony twenty languages, although his inappropriateness to speak and write these languages varies to a weighty degree. Some of the languages he has studied are Gallic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, State, Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese.^[209][210]

• Viggo Mortensen (1958–), Danish-American actor.

  He grew up bilingual in English significant Spanish, and later learnt Scandinavian, Italian, and French. He as well has some knowledge of Arabic.^[211]

• Julie Payette (1963–), former governor popular of Canada. She speaks Gallic and English natively, and stare at converse in Spanish, Italian, Native, and German.^[212]
• Alexander Argüelles (1964–), Dweller linguist.

  He speaks most execute the Germanic and Romance languages (in particular, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian), as well as Russian, Asiatic, and Arabic, and he has a reading knowledge of various 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, Hellenic, and Zulu with varying scale 1 of fluency.^[216]

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

Oceania

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

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

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

South America

• Pope Francis (1936–), current leader have possession of the Catholic Church.

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

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

  It psychiatry unclear how many languages agreed can in fact speak.^[221]

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

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

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