Researchers in Programming Languages and Compilers (a large list!) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/language-people.html
Programming Language Research (categorized by subjects) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/language-research.html
Researchers in Programming Languages and Compilers (a large list!) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/language-people.html
Programming Language Research (categorized by subjects) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/language-research.html
Last updated 1996.
Ah, didn't check that.
Nevertheless, a useful starting page to begin one's research from.
Somebody needs to create a similar list for current times. Maybe the co-author of "Elements of Programming" and preserver of "Software History" artifacts, named Paul McJones would be the right person? ;-)