List of Esperanto speakers

An Esperantist is a person who speaks or uses Esperanto. Etymologically, an Esperantist is someone who hopes. Although definitions of "Esperantist" vary, according to the Declaration of Boulogne, a document forged at the first World Congress of Esperanto, an Esperantist is someone who knows Esperanto and uses it for any purpose. An Esperantist is also a person who participates in Esperanto culture.

Lists of famous Esperantists

Important Esperantists

• Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto.
• William Auld, eminent Scottish Esperanto poet and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature
• Kazimierz Bein, "Kabe", prominent Esperanto activist and writer who suddenly and infamously left the Esperanto movement
• Georges Lagrange, French Esperantist writer
• Frederic Pujulà i Vallés, Pioneer of Esperanto in Catalonia
• Julio Baghy, poet, member of the Academy of Esperanto and "Dad" of the Esperanto movement.
• Émile Boirac, French writer and first president of the Esperanto language committee (later the Academy of Esperanto)
• Antoni Grabowski, the father of Esperanto poetry

Politicians

• Kazimierz Badowski, founder of the Communist Party of Poland, promoted Esperanto as part of Trotskyist movement
• Jean Jaurès, French politician

He proposed to the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart in 1907 the use of Esperanto for the information diffused by the Brussels Office of the organization.

• Franz Jonas, President of the Republic of Austria

Was secretary of the Austrian Laborist Esperantist League and founder of Internacio de Socialistaj Esperantistoj (Internation of socialist esperantists).

• Josip Broz Tito, head of state of Yugoslavia, Learned Esperanto in and attended a number of International Congresses.
• Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, one of the architects of the League of Nations, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Writers

• Marjorie Boulton, British writer and poet in English and Esperanto
• Ba Jin, prolific Chinese novelist and chairman of Chinese Writer Association
• Georges Lagrange, French Esperantist writer
• Jules Verne, french author, incorporated Esperanto into his last unfinished work
• Leo Tolstoy, russian writer and philosopher, who claimed he learned how to write Esperanto after two hours of study.
• Henri Barbusse, French writer, and honorary president of the first congress of the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda
• Petr Ginz, native Esperanto speaking boy who wrote an Esperanto-Czech dictionary but later died in a concentration camp at age 16. His drawing of the Moon was carried aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. His diary appears in Czech, Spanish, Catalan and Esperanto, and was recently published in English.

Scientists

• Bertalan Farkas, Hungarian cosmonaut
• Daniel Bovet, Italian pharmacologist and winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, learned Esperanto as a first language
• Reinhard Selten, German economist and winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics because of his work on game theory. He has authored two books in Esperanto on that subject.
• Yrjö Väisälä, Finnish astronomer, discovered asteroids 1421 Esperanto and 1462 Zamenhof.
• Louis Lumière, French inventor of cinema

The use of Esperanto could have one of the happiest consequences in its effects on international relations and the establishment of peace.

Others

• Pope John Paul II, gave numerous speeches using Esperanto during his career
• Onisaburo Deguchi, one of the chief figures of the Oomoto religious movement in Japan and president of the Universala Homama Asocio ("Universal Human-love Association")
• George Soros, Armenian-American billionaire and son of Esperantist parents. ("Soros", a name selected by his father to avoid persecution, in Esperanto means "will soar".)
• Alfred Fried, recipient of a Nobel Peace Prize and author of a textbook on Esperanto
• László Polgár, Hungarian chess teacher
• Susan Polgar, Hungarian-American chess grandmaster, taught Esperanto by her father László
• Jan Fethke, Polish film director and author
• William Shatner, Canadian actor, used Esperanto in one of the few Esperanto feature films, Incubus, though is not active today.

See also

• Esperanto culture

Source

This page has been translated from the article fr:Espérantiste on the French wikipedia, accessed on June 13 2006.

External links

• 100 eminentaj esperantistoj "100 eminent Esperantists" (eo)