List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary

The following writers contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Chief editors

Chief editors of the OED^[1]
Name	Dates of chief editorship	Notes
Herbert Coleridge	1858–61	Preliminary work. Died in office.
Frederick J. Furnivall	1861–70	Preliminary work. Resigned.
James Murray	1879–1915	1st edition. Died in office.
Henry Bradley	1915–23	1st edition. Joined 1887. Died in office.
William Craigie	1923–33	1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Onions. Joined 1901.
Charles Talbut Onions	1923–33	1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Craigie. Joined 1914.
Robert Burchfield	1957–86	2nd Supplement
Edmund Weiner	1985–89	2nd edition jointly with Simpson; also worked on 3rd edition. Joined 1977.
John Simpson	1985–2013	2nd edition jointly with Weiner; 3rd edition chief editor from 1993. Joined 1976.
Michael Proffitt	2013–	3rd edition. Joined 1989.

^ "Dictionary Editors". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 March 2017.; "Dictionary milestones in reverse order". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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