Dr. Karl-Ludwig Gotthard Elvers (born 2 November 1962 in Berlin) is a German historian.
In 1988 he passed his state examination, and in 1992 became research assistant at the Commission for Ancient History.
Then he moved to the Ruhr University Bochum, where he has taught since 1994 as a teacher in higher education employment.
His main research interest is in the intellectual history of the late Roman Republic.
Elvers is the department editor of the German encyclopedia of classical scholarship Der neue Pauly for the prosopography of the Roman Republic, and wrote numerous articles for the work.