Andrea Angelo Zottoli, sinologist and Jesuit missionary, was born in Acerno in 1826 and died in Shanghai in 1902.
Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. (1884–1975), Christian missionary to China and Sinologist
French linguist and Sinologist Laurent Sagart considers the Austronesian languages to be related to the Sino-Tibetan languages, and also groups the Tai–Kadai languages as more closely related to the Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Masson Fox was born into a Quaker family (although he was not related to the Quakers’ founder George Fox) and was a cousin of the fraudulent sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet.
While he was at Princeton, Twitchett worked closely with fellow Sinologist Frederick W. Mote (who had a related wartime experience).
At Chicago, he attracted leading European scholars to teach at the University, including Arnaldo Momigliano, Raymond Aron and the British sinologist Michael Loewe, among others.
Erik Zürcher (Utrecht, September 13, 1928 - Warmond, February 7, 2008) was a Dutch Sinologist.
Jan Jakob Maria de Groot (1854–1921), Sinologist and historian of religion
To publish it in correct form, Jean-Baptiste Biot wrote, he had to consult Stanislas Julien, the famous Sinologist, but also, especially for the translation of the most difficult part, the Kaogongji, he himself had to visit many workshops and questioned artisans and craftsmen about their methods and vocabulary in order to verify his son's work.
Kristofer Marinus Schipper (born 1934, Järnskog, Eda Municipality), is a Dutch sinologist.
He apparently spoke to Lucien Herr—the librarian of the École Normale from 1888 to 1926 who was associated with Durkheim and his students, and who was active in the socialist movement and the Dreyfus Affair—who advised Granet, when the latter thought of considering the Japanese case, to seek the advice of respected sinologist Edouard Chavannes, then apparently the nearest Granet could get in Paris to an expert on Japan.
in 1971 Belgian sinologist Ulrich Libbrecht published his doctorate dissertation, Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century, which earned him a degree cum laude at Leiden University.
Sinologist Myra Sidharta describes it as valuable account of history, as other former prisoners did not write such detailed memoirs.
During his early years as a scholar and academic, he benefited from the guidance of sinologists such as Hans Bielenstein, Patrick Fitzgerald, Hsü Cho-yün and Miyazaki Ichisada, and developed an interest in the late Han Dynasty through the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Michele Ruggieri, Jesuit missionary in China, the first European sinologist.
Samuel Wells Williams (1812–1884), linguist, missionary and Sinologist from the United States
The sinologist and historian Joseph Needham contends Yang was "aided almost certainly by cannabis" in writing down the Shangqing scriptures.
Stephen H. West, Ph.D (Traditional Chinese: 奚如谷, pinyin: Xī Rúgǔ, born January 6, 1944) is a sinologist, philologist, and translator.
From Berlin, Carter's researches led him to Paris, where he introduced himself to Paul Pelliot of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, the archeologist and sinologist who had collected hundreds of rare manuscripts from the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in Chinese Turkestan.
Yukteshwar Kumar (born 7 August 1970) is an Indian sinologist, born and brought up in Jagdispur.