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