Elizabeth Hill (linguist)

Dame Elizabeth Mary Hill DBE (born Yelizaveta Fyodorovna Hill; Russian Елизаве́та Фёдоровна Хилл; 24 October 1900 – 17 December 1996) was a Russian-born British academic linguist. In addition to a career with the London University School of Slavonic Studies, she was course director of the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL), a UK Government training programme to produce linguists and interpreters of Russian, for military and intelligence purposes.

Professor Lisa Hill
Portrait of Lisa Hill in 1949
Born
Yelizaveta Fyodorovna Hill

(1900-10-24)24 October 1900
Died17 December 1996(1996-12-17) (aged 96)
Cambridge, England
Occupation
  • Linguist
Spouse
  • Stojan Veljkovic
    (m. 1984; div. 1996)