| Willem F.H. Adelaar | Andean languages | | | | |
| Nicolaus Adriani | Indonesian languages | | | 1893 | Hendrik (Johan Hendrik Caspar) Kern (grad student) |
| Sofia Antoniadis | New Greek language and literature | | | | |
| Boban Arsenijevic | | | | 2006 | Gerard A.M. Kempen (grad student) |
| John Bake | classical languages | | | 1810 | Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (grad student) |
| Arnold Adriaan Bake | Sanskrit, ethnomusicology, Indian (vocal) music | | | | Jean Philippe Vogel (research assistant) |
| Reinier Cornelis Bakhuizen van den Brink | archival science | literature | | | 1842 | John Bake (grad student) |
| Sjef Barbiers | | | | 1995 | Jan Willem de Vries (grad student), Hendrik Johan (Hans) Bennis (grad student) |
| Adriaan Jacob Barnouw | Dutch linguistics, history of the Netherlands | | | 1902 | Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (grad student) |
| Robert S. P. Beekes | Comparative Indo-European Linguistics | | | 1969 | Frans B.J. Kuiper (grad student) |
| Nicolaas Beets | literature | | | 1839 | Nicolaas Christiaan Kist (grad student) |
| Hendrik Johan (Hans) Bennis | | | | | |
| Cornelis Christiaan Berg | Javanese language and literature | | | 1927 | Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (grad student) |
| Willem Bilderdijk | poetry | | | 1782 | Friedrich Wilhelm Pestel (grad student) |
| Gerard Hendrik Blanken | Greek language and literature, Byzantinology | | | 1947 | Sofia Antoniadis (grad student), Dirk Christiaan Hesseling (research assistant) |
| Petrus Johannes Blok | classical languages, history | | | 1879 | Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student), Matthias de Vries (research assistant), Robert Jacobus Fruin (research assistant) |
| Piet C. Boeren | Medieval church history, canon law | | | | |
| Ursul Philip Boissevain | classical literature/ancient history | | | 1879 | Matthias de Vries (grad student), Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland | English and German linguistics, philosophy | | | 1880 | Pieter Jakob Cosijn (research assistant) |
| Jacobus Gerardus Bomhoff | | | | 1950 | Pieter Minderaa (grad student) |
| Seeger Adrianus Bonebakker | Arabic linguistics and literature | | 1949 | 1956 | Johannes Hendrik Kramers (research assistant), Joseph Schacht (grad student) |
| Geert E. Booij | Linguistics | | | | |
| Johan Cornelis Gerard Boot | history, eloquence, antiquities, Greek and latin language and literature | | | 1836 | John Bake (research assistant), Johannes Henricus van der Palm (research assistant), Jacob Geel (research assistant), Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp (research assistant), Cornelis Jacobus van Assen (grad student) |
| Jacoba Maria Bordewijk-Knotter | Drama | | | | |
| Frederik David Kan Bosch | archaeology | | | 1914 | Jacob Samuel Speyer (grad student), Jean Philippe Vogel (grad student) |
| Arie Cornelis Bouman | Old Germanic languages and literatures, linguistics | | | | |
| Jan L.A. Brandes | Javanese language, history and archaeology | | | 1884 | Hendrik (Johan Hendrik Caspar) Kern (grad student) |
| Johannes Braun | theology, Hebrew | | | 1653 | Johannes Coccejus (grad student), Constantijn l'Empereur van Oppyck (grad student) |
| Willem Gerard Brill | Dutch language and literature/philosophy | | | 1837 | Jacob Geel (research assistant), John Bake (grad student) |
| Petrus van Limburg Brouwer | | | | 1820 | Benjamin Petrus van Wesele Scholten (grad student), Johan Carl Krauss (grad student), Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (research assistant) |
| Pieter Burman, I | History, eloquence | | | | |
| Christian Wilhelm Büttner | Natural history, comparative philology | | | 1737 | Herman Boerhaave (research assistant) |
| Alexander Willem Byvanck | classical archeology, ancient history | | | 1912 | Antonie E.J. Holwerda (grad student) |
| Willem Caland | Sanskrit/comparative philology | | | 1883 | Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Lisa Cheng | | | | | |
| Viacheslav Chirikba | | | | | |
| Theodorus Adrianus Clarisse | theology | | | 1819 | Hendrik Arent Hamaker (grad student) |
| Carel Gabriel Cobet | classical philology | | 1840 | 1841 | John Bake (grad student) |
| Johannes Coccejus | Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, Aramaic | | | | |
| David Cohen | Classical history, Greek and Roman antiquities | | | 1912 | Antonie E.J. Holwerda (grad student) |
| Jan Jacob Cornelissen | latin language and literature, Roman antiquities | | | 1864 | Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Pieter Jakob Cosijn | Dutch languague and literature | | | | |
| Hendrik Constantijn Cras | law | | | 1769 | Gerlach Scheltinga (grad student), Johann Conrad Rücker (grad student) |
| Petrus Cunaeus | classical languages, law | | | 1615 | Jacobus Arminius (research assistant), Franciscus Gomarus (research assistant), Joseph Justus Scaliger (research assistant), Daniel Heinsius (research assistant), Cornelius Paulinus Swanenburg (grad student) |
| Evandro L.T.P. Cunha | Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Leiden University Centre for Linguistics | 2015 | 2020 | Søren Wichmann (grad student), Willem F.H. Adelaar (grad student) |
| Pieter H. Damsté | latin language and literature | | | 1885 | Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Petra de Bruijn | Turkish Studies | | | 1997 | Barbara Henriëtte Flemming (grad student), Jacoba Maria Bordewijk-Knotter (grad student) |
| Cebus Cornelis de Bruin | Church history | | | | |
| Michäel Jan de Goeje | classical languages/semitic languages | | | 1860 | Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (grad student) |
| Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong | etnography/cultural antropology | | | 1913 | Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (grad student) |
| Patrick Edward de Josselin de Jong | cultural anthropology | | | 1952 | Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong (grad student) |
| Franz M.Th. de Liagre Böhl | semitic languages/assyriology | | | | |
| Marinus Willem de Visser | | | | 1900 | Antonie E.J. Holwerda (grad student) |
| Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas de Vooys | philology | | | 1900 | Jakob Verdam (grad student) |
| Matthias de Vries | Philology | | | 1843 | Abraham de Vries (research assistant), Jeronimo de Vries (research assistant), John Bake (grad student), Jacob Geel (research assistant), Antonie Rutgers (research assistant) |
| Jan Willem de Vries | | | | 1975 | Eugenius Marius Uhlenbeck (grad student) |
| Rick Derksen | | | | | |
| Mark Dingemanse | | African Languages and Cultures | | 2011 | Felix K. Ameka (grad student) |
| Marius Doornenbal | Computational Linguistics; Descriptive Linguistics | | | | |
| Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy | semitic languages | | | 1844 | Hendrik Engelinus Weyers (grad student) |
| Johannes Drusius | Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac | | | | |
| Simon Episcopius | | | 1606 | 1610 | Jacobus Arminius (grad student), Franciscus Gomarus (grad student), Johannes Drusius (grad student) |
| Thomas Erpenius | Philology | | | 1608 | Joseph Justus Scaliger (grad student) |
| Barbara Henriëtte Flemming | Oriental languages | | | | |
| Johann J.A.A. Frantzen | German, Germanics; linguistics, philology | | | 1882 | Hendrik (Johan Hendrik Caspar) Kern (research assistant) |
| Robert Jacobus Fruin | history | | | 1847 | Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp (grad student) |
| Jacob Geel | philology | | | | |
| Pieter C.A. Geyl | history | | | 1913 | Petrus Johannes Blok (grad student) |
| Jacob Gool | | | | 1621 | Willebrord Snell van Royen (Snellius) (grad student), Thomas Erpenius (grad student) |
| Izaäk H. Gosses | history | | | 1903 | Petrus Johannes Blok (grad student) |
| Joël Emanuël Goudsmit | law | | | 1842 | Cornelis Jacobus van Assen (grad student) |
| Johannes Fredericus Gronovius | Greek, history | | | 1639 | Daniel Heinsius (research scientist) |
| Hendrik Arent Hamaker | philology | | | | |
| Jacobus Johannes Hartman | classical languages | | | 1877 | Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Godard Arend Johannes Hazeu | | | | 1897 | Hendrik (Johan Hendrik Caspar) Kern (grad student) |
| Klaas Hanzen Heeroma | Dutch language and literature | | | 1935 | Gesinus Gerhardus Kloeke (grad student) |
| Johannes Cornelis Heesterman | Sanskrit, South Asian History | | | | |
| Daniel Heinsius | Greek, history | | | 1602 | Joseph Justus Scaliger (grad student) |
| Birgit Hellwig | | linguistics | | 2003 | Felix K. Ameka (grad student) |
| Tiberius Hemsterhuis | Greek | | | 1704 | Jacobus Perizonius (grad student) |
| Dirk Christiaan Hesseling | classical languages/Greek | | | 1886 | Jan Jacob Cornelissen (grad student), Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Teun Hoekstra | | | | | |
| Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp | classical literature and history | | | | |
| Wiebe Hogendoorn | | | | 1976 | Jacobus Gerardus Bomhoff (grad student) |
| Antonie E.J. Holwerda | Archeology and classical history | | | | |
| Martin Honcoop | | | | 1998 | Anna Szabolcsi (grad student) |
| Johan Huizinga | Dutch literature/history | | | | |
| Bram Jagersma | | | | | |
| Franciscus Junius, Jr. | Theology, Germanic languages | | | 1613 | Jacobus Arminius (grad student) |
| Theodor Wilhelm Johannes Juynboll | semitic languages | | | 1828 | Hendrik Arent Hamaker (grad student), Johannes Henricus van der Palm (research assistant) |
| Janneke Kalsbeek | | | | | |
| Simon Kerke | | | | | Pieter Muysken (research scientist) |
| Johan Hendrik Kern | English language and literature | | | 1891 | Matthias de Vries (grad student) |
| Hendrik (Johan Hendrik Caspar) Kern | classical languages/Sanskrit/philology | | | 1855 | Antonie Rutgers (grad student) |
| Zaira Khalilova | | | | | |
| Marian Klamer | | | | | |
| Gesinus Gerhardus Kloeke | German language and literature | | | | |
| Alwin Kloekorst | | | | | |
| Albert Kluyver | Dutch language, Literature | | 1880 | 1884 | Matthias de Vries (grad student) |
| Jan Kooij | generative linguistics | | | | |
| Frederik Kortlandt | | | | | |
| Maarten Kossmann | | | | | |
| Hendrik Kraemer | Javanese language and literature | | | 1921 | Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (grad student) |
| Johannes Hendrik Kramers | Arab and Turkish-Setish languages | | 1910 | 1915 | Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (research assistant), Willem Jan Mari van Eysinga (grad student) |
| Fritz Rudolf Kraus | Babylonian and Assyrian languages and history | | | | |
| Martin S. Kroon | syntax, computational linguistics | | 2017 | 2022 | Sjef Barbiers (grad student), Jan Odijk (grad student), Stéphanie van der Pas (grad student) |
| Guus Kroonen | | | | | |
| Abraham Kuenen | theology | | | 1851 | Theodor Wilhelm Johannes Juynboll (grad student), Joannes Henricus Scholten (grad student) |
| Frans B.J. Kuiper | Sanskrit | | | 1934 | Frederik Muller Jzn (grad student) |
| Constantijn l'Empereur van Oppyck | Talmudic and rabbinical literature | | | | Thomas Erpenius (grad student), Johannes Drusius (grad student) |
| Conradus Leemans | archeology | | | 1835 | Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens (grad student) |
| Willem J.M. Levelt | Psycholinguistics, Visual and auditory perception | | | 1965 | John P. van de Geer (grad student) |
| Orsat Ligorio | Indo-European, Historical Linguistics | Indo-European Linguistics Slavic Linguistics | | | Alexander Lubotsky (grad student), Frederik Kortlandt (grad student) |
| Johannes Lindeboom | classical languages/theology church history | | | 1909 | Fredrik Pijper (grad student) |
| Alexander Lubotsky | | | | | |
| Hiob Ludolf | Ethiopian linguistics | | | 1646 | Constantijn l'Empereur van Oppyck (post-doc), Jacob Gool (post-doc) |
| Elie Luzac | law, publicist and bookseller | | | 1749 | Johannes Alberti (grad student), Johann Conrad Rücker (grad student), Andreas Weiss (grad student), Hieronymus David Gaubius (research assistant), Tiberius Hemsterhuis (research assistant), Pieter van Musschenbroek (research assistant), Johannes Lulofs (research assistant) |
| Johan Luzac | Greek, Dutch history | | | 1768 | Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (grad student), David Ruhnken (research assistant) |
| Mika (Michaela) Menken (Poss) | Syntax, Semantics, Computational Linguistics | | 2004 | 2008 | Ton van der Wouden (grad student) |
| Johann David Michaelis | Oriental languages | | | 1741 | Albert Schultens (post-doc) |
| Pieter Minderaa | | | | | |
| Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen | classical languages, library science | | | 1896 | Jan van Leeuwen (grad student), Jacobus Johannes Hartman (grad student) |
| Henri Ernest Moltzer | Dutch literature/history | | | 1862 | Matthias de Vries (grad student), Joël Emanuël Goudsmit (grad student) |
| Francesca Romana Moro | | | | | Marian Klamer (research scientist) |
| Maarten Mous | | | | | |
| Willem Johannes Maria Mulder | History of the Middle Ages, Church history | | | 1907 | Petrus Johannes Blok (grad student) |
| Jacob Wijbrand Muller | Dutch language and literature, Middle Dutch | | | 1884 | Matthias de Vries (grad student) |
| Frederik Muller Jzn | classical languages | | | | |
| Pieter Nieuwland | Physics, astronomy | | | | |
| Gerrit S. Overdiep | Linguistics | | | 1914 | Jakob Verdam (grad student) |
| Bernard Jan Hendrik Ovink | history of philosophy, logic, metaphysics, psychology | | | 1886 | Jan Jacob Cornelissen (grad student) |
| Leticia Pablos | Psycholinguistics | | | | |
| Brigitte Pakendorf | | | | | |
| Jacobus Perizonius | eloquence, history | | | | |
| Michaël Peyrot | | | | | |
| Allard Pierson | modern languages, art history | | | 1853 | Joannes Henricus Scholten (research assistant) |
| Tijmen Pronk | | | | | |
| Johannes Rahder | | | | | |
| Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens | archeology | | | 1811 | Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (research assistant) |
| Martine Robbeets | | | | | |
| Taco Roorda | theology/oriental languages, Javanese | | | 1825 | Hendrik Arent Hamaker (grad student) |
| David Ruhnken | Greek | | | 1746 | Tiberius Hemsterhuis (post-doc) |
| Antonie Rutgers | Hebrew, Sanskrit | | | | |
| Joseph Justus Scaliger | Philosophy, Philology | | | | |
| Jos Schaeken | | | | | |
| Everard Scheidius | oriental languages and theology | | | 1765 | Johannes Jacobus Schultens (grad student) |
| Gerlach Scheltinga | law | | | | |
| Niels Olaf Schiller | Psycholinguistics | | | | |
| Nicolaus Wilhelm Schröder | Greek, Oriental languages, Hebrew antiquities | | | 1745 | Albert Schultens (post-doc) |
| Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt | history of North America | | | | |
| Johannes Jacobus Schultens | oriental languages, theology | | | 1742 | Albert Schultens (grad student) |
| Albert Schultens | Hebrew, Arabic | | | | |
| Hendrik Albert Schultens | Hebrew language and antiquities | | | | |
| Henk Schultink | linguistics | | | 1962 | Eugenius Marius Uhlenbeck (grad student) |
| Isac Leo Seeligmann | classical languages/bible science | | | 1948 | Gerard Jacobus Thierry (grad student) |
| Matthijs Siegenbeek | theology, Dutch language and literature eloquence and history | | | | |
| Rieks Smeets | | | | | |
| Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje | Arabic linguistics and literature/islamology | | | 1880 | Michäel Jan de Goeje (grad student) |
| Jacob Samuel Speyer | classical languages/Sanskrit | | | 1872 | Hendrik (Johan Hendrik Caspar) Kern (grad student) |
| Frederik August Stoett | Dutch language and literature | | | 1889 | Matthias de Vries (grad student) |
| Marten Stol | Akkadian, Ugaritic | | | 1976 | Fritz Rudolf Kraus (grad student) |
| Harry Stroomer | | | | | |
| Rint Sybesma | syntax | | | | Jan Kooij (grad student), Teun Hoekstra (grad student) |
| Deniz Tat | Morphosyntax | | | | |
| Jan te Winkel | Dutch language, Literature | | 1866 | 1872 | Matthias de Vries (research assistant) |
| Jan ten Brink | Greek and latin, Greek antiquities | | | 1792 | Johan Luzac (grad student) |
| Gerard Jacobus Thierry | Assyriology, Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac | | | 1913 | William Brede Kristensen (grad student) |
| Johan Rudolph Thorbecke | politics and government | | | 1820 | Johannes van Voorst (grad student) |
| Alessandro Del Tomba | | | | | Michaël Peyrot (research scientist) |
| Hendrik Willem Tydeman | law | | | 1799 | Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel (grad student) |
| Wataru Uegaki | Semantics | | | | |
| Eugenius Marius Uhlenbeck | Javanese language and literature/general linguistics | | | 1949 | Cornelis Christiaan Berg (grad student) |
| Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck | Sanskrit/comparative philology/old-Germanic | | | 1885 | Hendrik (Johan Hendrik Caspar) Kern (grad student) |
| Pieter Johannes Uylenbroek, Jr | mathematics, physics, astronomy, oriental languages | | | 1822 | Hendrik Arent Hamaker (grad student) |
| Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer | Greek | | 1737 | 1739 | Albert Schultens (post-doc) |
| Josué Jean Philippe Valeton | theology, semitic linguistics | | | 1844 | Hendrik Engelinus Weyers (grad student) |
| Cornelis van Arendonk | oriental languages | | | 1919 | Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (grad student) |
| Cornelis Jacobus van Assen | law | | | | |
| Lucien van Beek | | | | | |
| Helma van den Berg | | | | | |
| Dionysius Godefridus van der Keessel | law | | | 1761 | Gerlach Scheltinga (grad student) |
| Johannes Henricus van der Palm | theology/oriental languages | | | 1783 | Hendrik Albert Schultens (grad student) |
| Stéphanie van der Pas | | | | | |
| Jenneke van der Wal | Bantu languages, morphosyntax, information structure | | | | Lisa Cheng (grad student) |
| Ton van der Wouden | | | | | |
| Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck | | | | | |
| Bernard A. van Groningen | Greek language and literature | | | 1921 | Antoon Gerard Roos (grad student) |
| Robert H. van Gulik | oriental languages. diplomacy, and writer | | | 1935 | Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck (grad student) |
| Hendrik van Herwerden | Classical literature | | | 1855 | Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Philip Willem van Heusde | history, philosophy, Greek literature | | | 1803 | Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (grad student) |
| Jan van Leeuwen | classical languages | | | 1876 | Carel Gabriel Cobet (grad student) |
| Johannes Daniël van Lennep | Greek, latin | | 1747 | 1752 | Tiberius Hemsterhuis (post-doc) |
| Philippus Samuel van Ronkel, Jr | semitic languages/Indian languages/theology | | | 1895 | Michäel Jan de Goeje (grad student), Albert Cornelis Vreede (grad student) |
| Benjamin Petrus van Wesele Scholten | | | | 1783 | Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (grad student) |
| Nicolaas van Wijk | Balto-Slavic languages | | | | |
| Klaas Roelof Veenhof | Babylonian and Assyrian languages and history | | | 1972 | Fritz Rudolf Kraus (grad student) |
| Jakob Verdam | philology | | | 1872 | Matthias de Vries (grad student) |
| Willem Vermeer | | | | | |
| Eelco Verwijs | literature | | | 1857 | Matthias de Vries (grad student) |
| Pieter Johannes Veth | ethology/oriental languages | | | 1840 | Hendrik Engelinus Weyers (grad student) |
| Luis Vicente | Linguistics | | | | Lisa Cheng (grad student) |
| Campegius Vitringa, Sr | | | | 1679 | Frederik Spanheim, Jr (grad student) |
| Gijsbert Voet | theology, Hebrew | | | 1611 | Franciscus Gomarus (grad student) |
| Jean Philippe Vogel | Sanskrit/archeology | | | | |
| Albert Cornelis Vreede | Javanese, Madurese | | | | |
| Everwinus Wassenbergh | classical languages, archaeology | | | 1768 | Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (grad student) |
| Yuyang Wei | syntax | | | | Rint Sybesma (grad student), Zhaole Yang (grad student) |
| Arent Jan Wensinck | theology/semitic languages | | | 1908 | Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (grad student) |
| Hendrik Engelinus Weyers | oriental languages and literature | | | 1831 | Hendrik Arent Hamaker (grad student) |
| Jesse Wichers Schreur | Linguistics, Caucasology | | 2011 | 2017 | Alexander Lubotsky (grad student) |
| Søren Wichmann | Historical Linguistics, Linguistic Yypology | | | | |
| Jeroen Wiedenhof | | | | | |
| Joannes Willmet | classical languages | | | 1775 | Johannes Jacobus Schultens (post-doc) |
| Daniel Albert Wyttenbach | history, eloquence, Greek and Latin literature | | | 1771 | David Ruhnken (grad student) |
| Zhaole Yang | | | | | Rint Sybesma (grad student) |