Name
- Ranke, Hermann, orientalist1
- Read, Charles Hercules, Keeper of British and Medieval Antiquities British Museum1
- Renouf, Peter le Page, Egyptologist, Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities British Museum, 1822-18971
- Rhodokanakis, Nikolaus, Arabic scholar1
- Ricci, Seymour, bibliographer, collector and historian, 1881-19421
- Richard, Marcel, Abbé; codicologist1
- Riedel, Wilhelm, orientalist and church historian1
- Rostovtzeff, Mikhail Ivanovitch, historian of ancient history, 1870-1952, http://viaf.org/viaf/183471981
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1759-1
- Ruska, Julius, orientalist1
- Rustafjaell, Robert, Egyptologist and archaeologist, 1859-19431
- Rylands, Enriqueta Augustina, widow of J Rylands of Manchester1
- Rösch, Friedrich, papyrologist1
- Sanders, Henry Arthur, papyrologist1
- Sayce, Archibald Henry, Reverend orientalist1
- Schaeder, Hans Heinrich, orientalist1
- Schermann, Theodor, liturgiologist1
- Schiaparelli, Emesto, Egyptologist1
- Schiller, A. Arthur, Professor of Law at Columbia University 19491
- Schmidt, Carl, Hon. Professor of Church History at Berlin University1