Manfred Mayrhofer (1926-2011) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer served as professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionary of Sanskrit.

Gordon B. Ford Jr. was a professor of linguistics at Northwestern University. He is editor of Old Lithuanian Texts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: With a Glossary.