Brent Douglas Galloway (8 April 1944 – 6 August 2014[1]) was an American linguist noted for his work with endangered Amerindian languages, specializing in several of the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.
He completed his degrees through a doctorate in linguistics in 1977 at the University of California, Berkeley, undertaking extensive fieldwork in that period.
From 1975 and 1980 Galloway founded and headed the Halkomelem Language Program at the Coqualeetza Education Training Centre in Sardis, British Columbia.
He developed the Stó:lō Halkomelem orthography, which was subsequently adopted officially and is now in wide use throughout the Fraser Valley.
His orchestral pieces The Night Before Christmas and Mexican Colors have been performed by the Regina Symphony Orchestra.