Charles Albert Ferguson (July 6, 1921 – September 2, 1998) was an American linguist who taught at Stanford University.
The TOEFL test was created under his leadership at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, DC.
[2] He was honored with a two-volume collection of papers in a 1986 festschrift, edited by Joshua A. Fishman and others.
He had an early curiosity for language, system, and order which led him to explore foreign languages through Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (BA 1942, MA 1943 with a thesis on the Moroccan Arabic Verb; PhD 1945 with a dissertation on Standard Colloquial Bengali).
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