Linguists
- Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin - Russian Orthodox Church monk and Sinologist
- Saint Innocent of Alaska - Wrote books on Tlingit and worked on an alphabet for Aleut
- Pyotr Kafarov - Student of Bichurin, also a Sinologist and ROC monk
- Mateja Matejić - Priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church
- Alexander Nedoshivin - Russian Orthodox Church priest and Esperantist
- Epifany Slavinetsky - Polyglot, Russian Orthodox Church monk, and translator
- Bullion Pritchard - Translated manuscripts for Leopold II
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