Frits van Oostrom (born 15 May 1953 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is university professor for the Humanities at Utrecht University.

In 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard for the Erasmus Chair.

From September 2004 to June 2005, he was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS).

[1] In May 2005 he became president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for a three-year period.

This biographical article about a Dutch academic is a stub.