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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 agreed at the first World Congress of Esperanto, an Esperantist is someone who speaks 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
Sándor Szathmári, leading figure of Esperanto literature
Boris Kolker, Esperantist scholar and key member of the Academy of Esperanto

Politicians

Kazimierz Badowski, founder of the Communist Party of Poland, promoted Esperanto as part of Trotskyist movement

Jean Jaurès, French politician ť 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 ť 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

Richard Bartholdt, U.S. Representative from Missouri

Małgorzata Handzlik, member of the European Parliament

Writers

J.R.R. Tolkien

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.

Edmond Privat, Swiss author, journalist, university professor, and movement activist

René de Saussure, Swiss writer and activist

Nikolai Nekrasov, Russian Esperantist writer, translator and critic

Vladimir Varankin, Russian writer

Gerrit Berveling, Dutch Esperantist poet, translator and editor of the Esperanto literary review, Fonto

Jorge Camacho, Spanish Esperantist writer

Cezaro Rossetti, Scottish Esperantist writer

Hector Hodler, Swiss journalist, translator, organizer, and philanthropist

Kálmán Kalocsay, Hungarian surgeon, poet, translator, and editor

Marjorie Boulton, British author and poet; researcher and writer

Georges Lagrange, French Esperanto writer, member of Academy of Esperanto

Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova, Ukrainian writer and translator

Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic Writer and esperantist.

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

Claude Piron, Esperantist psychologist and linguist.

John C. Wells, British phonetician and Esperanto teacher

Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian Nobel laureate for his seminal work in chemical catalysis.

Others

Pope John Paul II, gave several 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, Hungarian-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

Persone, Swedish Esperantist rock-trio

Muztar Abbasi, Pakistani Muslim scholar; he translated the Quran into Esperanto

Alexander Nedoshivin, tax specialist; one of the founders of the Esperanto Society at Kaunas, Lithuania

William Main Page, Secretary of Edinburgh Esperanto Society; editor and author

John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, English classical scholar: gave a historic speech against Esperanto reformists at the World Congress of Esperanto held at Cambridge

Franko Luin, Swedish type designer of Slovene nationality

Many Baha'is have been involved with Esperanto - see Bahá'í Faith and auxiliary language. Lidia Zamenhof was a Bahá'í, and several leading Baha'is have spoken Esperanto. Most notably the Son of Bahá'u'lláh, `Abdu'l-Bahá, learned Esperanto (see John Esslemont).Further Information

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