Jean Antoine Letronne was a French archaeologist.
The Institut français d'archéologie orientale, also known as the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, is a French research institute based in Cairo, Egypt, dedicated to the study of the archaeology, history and languages of the various periods of Egypt's civilisation.
Jean Leclant was a renowned Egyptologist who was an Honorary Professor at the College of France, Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters of the Institut de France, and Honorary Secretary of the International Association of Egyptologists.
Jean-Philippe Lauer, was a French architect and Egyptologist. He was considered to be the foremost expert on pyramid construction techniques and methods.
Ahmed Kamāl was Egypt’s first Egyptologist and pioneer in his own country. Kamal was of Turkish origin.
Georges Albert Legrain was a French Egyptologist.
Étienne Marie Felix Drioton was a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and Catholic canon. He was born in Nancy and died in Montgeron.
Adolphe Joseph Reinach was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist who participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls.
Gustave Jéquier was an Egyptologist and one of the first archaeologists to excavate ancient Persian cities in what is now Iran. He was a member of Jacques de Morgan's 1901 Susa expedition, which led to the discovery of the famous Code of Hammurabi, now on display in the Louvre.
Jean Vercoutter was a French Egyptologist. One of the pioneers of archaeological research into Sudan from 1953, he was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale from 1977 to 1981.
Tasos Neroutsos was a Greek physician and scholar.
Sydney Hervé Aufrère is a French Egyptologist, archaeologist, and director of research at CNRS.
Senusret IV Seneferibre was an ancient Egyptian Theban king during the late Second Intermediate Period that is attested only through finds from Upper Egypt. The chronological position of Senusret IV is unclear and even the dynasty to which he belongs is debated.
Pierre Jouguet was a French Egyptologist and classical philologist. In 1890 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, obtaining his agrégation for grammar in 1893. For three years thereafter he was associated with the École française d’Athènes, followed by work at the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo (1896–97). From 1898 to 1910, he was a lecturer of grammar and philology at the Faculty of Arts in Lille. On 8 June 1911 he received his doctorate of letters at the Sorbonne, subsequently serving as a professor of ancient history and papyrology in Lille. From 1920 to 1933, he was a professor of papyrology at the Sorbonne, meanwhile serving as director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (1928-1940). From 1937 to 1949, he was a professor at Fouad I University in Cairo.
Bernard Mathieu is a French Egyptologist who was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale from 1999 to 2005.
Henri Munier was a 20th-century French bibliographer and scholar of Coptic culture.
Jean-Luc Fournet is a French papyrologist.
Jean Andreau is a French historian, former student of the École normale supérieure (1960) and former member of the École française de Rome. As of 2016, he is research director at the EHESS.
Christian-Georges Schwentzel, born in 1967, is a French historian specializing in the Hellenistic East.
Annibale Evaristo Breccia was an Italian egyptologist, the second director of the Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria and rector of the University of Pisa.
