Gary Holton (linguist)

Gary Holton
Holton in 2023
OccupationLinguist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Main interestsPapuan languages, Athabaskan languages

Gary Holton is an American linguist who works on Athabaskan languages of Alaska and Papuan languages of eastern Indonesia. As of 2019, he is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

He has bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics. In 2000, he obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.