13 Chaucer scholars

Peter Ackroyd, is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Charles Chaplin and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices, and the depth of his research.

Henry Bradshaw was a British scholar and librarian.

Christopher Cannon is a mediaevalist at Johns Hopkins University. He is currently Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Chair of Classics, and from 2020, Vice Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He is a specialist on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

John Vincent Fleming is an American literary critic and the Louis W. Fairchild '24 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University.

Frederick James Furnivall was an English philologist, best known as one of the co-creators of the New English Dictionary. He founded a number of learned societies on early English literature and made pioneering and massive editorial contributions to the subject, of which the most notable was his parallel text edition of The Canterbury Tales. He was one of the founders of and teachers at the London Working Men's College and a lifelong campaigner against injustice.

George Lyman Kittredge was a professor of English literature at Harvard University. His scholarly edition of the works of William Shakespeare was influential in the early 20th century. He was also involved in American folklore studies and was instrumental in the formation and management of the Harvard University Press. One of his better-known books concerned witchcraft in England.

Edith Rickert (1871–1938) was an influential medieval scholar at the University of Chicago, whose foundational work includes the Chaucer Life-Records and the eight-volume Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940).

Fred Norris Robinson, professionally known as F.N. Robinson, was an eminent American Celticist and scholar of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Walter William Skeat, FBA was the pre-eminent British philologist of his time. He was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom.

John Strong Perry Tatlock – known as J. S. P. Tatlock – was an American literary scholar and medievalist.

Hermiene Friederica Ulrich (1885–1956) was the first female lecturer at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She played a central role in shaping the early teaching and curriculum of the University of Queensland.

Sir Adolphus William Ward was an English historian and man of letters.

Julius Zupitza was a German philologist and one of the founders of English philology in Germany.