Lionel I. C. Pearson (30 January 1908 – 18 September 1988) was a British classical scholar.
He is primarily known for his work Early Ionian Historians, in which he outlines the historical methods of Hecataeus of Miletus, Xanthus the Lydian, Charon of Lampsacus, and Hellanicus of Lesbos.
[2][3] Pearson served as the president of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, and as the director and financial trustee of the APA (American Philosophical Association).
[2] He died on 18 September 1988 of pancreatic cancer Sunday, in a hospital in Menlo Park, California.
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