Sarah Ogilvie is an Australianlinguist,lexicographer, andcomputer scientist.

Ogilvie grew up inBrisbane,Australia. As a graduate student, she spent a few years living with theLamalama people, anaboriginal tribe^[a] on the tip ofCape York in northern Australia. While there, she wrote a dictionary and grammar of their language,Morrobalama, which had never been written down before.^[1]

She completed a BSc in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics at theUniversity of Queensland and an MA in linguistics at theAustralian National University.^[2] She completed her doctorate in linguistics at theUniversity of Oxford.^[3]

She used to teach linguistics atStanford,Cambridge, and Australian National University. She also worked atAmazon's innovation lab inSilicon Valley.^[3] While working atAmazon's Lab126, she was part of the team that developed theKindle.^[4] Ogilvie is also a former editor of theOxford English Dictionary.^[2]

She currently works as a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and ofCampion Hall at the University of Oxford.^[2]

• Concise Encyclopedia of the Languages of the World (Elsevier, 2008)
• "Words of the World".Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Retrieved2025-07-16.
• Keeping Languages Alive: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press, 2020)
• Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
• Gen Z, Explained: the art of living in a digital age (University of Chicago Press, 2022)
• The Dictionary People: the unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary (Chatto & Windus (UK),Knopf (USA), 2023)

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• 21st-century linguists
• 21st-century Australian academics
• Academics of the University of Oxford
• 21st-century lexicographers
• Australian computer scientists

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• Year of birth missing (living people)