Denys Lombard (1938-January 8 1998) was a leading Asian experts with contributions to Southeast Asian Studies, Sinology, and the history of maritime Asia. He was famous for efforts to compare insular Southeast Asia and the Asian Seas to the Mediterranean area.He was the head of the Division des Aires Culturelles in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and the director of the École Français d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) from 1993 to 1998.
Denys Lombard was born after Maurice Lombard(colleague of Fernand Braudel at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes(EPHE) in Paris).