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