Faculty
- Liu Yizheng (柳詒徵), historian
- Wang Bohang (王伯沆), Confucian scholar, literary history scholar
- Xiao Junxian (蕭俊賢), the first artist providing Chinese painting education in modern institutions of higher learnings.
- Matsumoto Kouzirou (松本孝次郎), educationist. Former provost of Tokyo Higher Normal School (today's University of Tsukuba). He jointly founded the first magazine for children education in Japan.
- Tao Xingzhi (陶行知), educator
- Wang Yanqing (王燕卿), the first musician introducing Guqin and Guoyue education into modern higher learning institutions. The founder of Meian qin school (梅庵琴派, Meian music school. Meian is the Zi(字) of former school president Li Ruiqing).
- Liu Boming (劉伯明), philosopher
- Zhu Kezhen (竺可楨), meteorologist, geologist.
- Mao Yisheng (茅以升), structural engineer
- Xiong Qinglai (熊慶來) mathematician
- Mei Guangdi (梅光迪), the first dean of the first department of western literature in Chinese universities.
- Ma Yinchu (馬寅初), economist.
- Thome H. Fang (方東美), philosopher
- Pearl Buck (賽珍珠), writer. A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- Xu Beihong (徐悲鴻), artist
- Chang Dai-chien (張大千), great Chinese artist.
- Zheng Ji (鄭集), biochemist
- Ren Mei'e (任美鍔), geomorphologist, geologist, marine and coastal scientist
- Na zhong (納忠), the first scholar teaching Arabic in Chinese universities, master of Arabic culture and history studies.
- Xu Xin (徐新), a founder of Judaic studies in China.
- Du Junfei (杜骏飞), scholar in computer-mediated communication and mass communication. A pioneer scholar in the study of internet mass communication.
- Honorary professors, visiting professors
- Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist. The founder of the Entomology Division University of California, Berkeley. He was a lecturer in Entomology during his sabbatical there in 1918 and then again between 1921-1924. See the C. W. Woodworth Award.
- Hans Driesch, biologist and philosopher. German leader of vitalism. He taught for a semester in 1922.
- Retired professors
- Xu Longdao (徐龙道), physics
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