Humanities and Social Sciences
- Johan Gunnar Andersson, archaeologist
- Tor Andræ, scholar of Comparative religion, orientalist, Bishop
- Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, poet, professor of poetry
- Anders Berch, economist
- Anders Chydenius, clergyman, economist
- Bengt Danielsson, ethnologist, crewmember of Kon Tiki expedition
- Georges Dumézil, scholar of comparative religion, lecturer of French 1931–1933
- Michel Foucault, lecturer of French 1954–1958 (received the position through Dumézil)
- Erik Gustaf Geijer, historian, poet, composer
- Carl August Hagberg (1810–1864), linguist and translator
- Artur Hazelius (1833–1901), founder of the Nordic Museum and the open-air museum Skansen in Stockholm. (Ph.D. 1860)
- Eli Heckscher, economic historian
- Johan Ihre, philologist
- Bernhard Karlgren, sinologist
- Rudolf Kjellén, political scientist
- Gerhard Lindblom (1887–1969), ethnographer, working in East Africa
- Eva Lundgren, feminist scholar and sociologist
- Oscar Montelius, archaeologist
- Carl Gustaf Nordin (1749–1812), historian, antiquarian and politician, Bishop of Härnösand from 1812.
- Adolf Noreen (1854–1925), linguist
- Henrik Samuel Nyberg, orientalist
- Torgny Säve-Söderbergh, egyptologist
- August Ludwig von Schlözer, studied 1755/56 with Johan Ihre
- Åke W. Sjöberg, assyriologist. Professor emeritus of Sumerian at the University of Pennsylvania, first editor of The Sumerian dictionary
- Knut Wicksell (1851–1926), economist
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