Lloyd James Austin FBA (4 November 1915 – 30 December 1994) was an Australian linguist and literary scholar, who worked in Great Britain as a university teacher.

[1] Lloyd Austin studied at the University of Melbourne under Alan Rowland Chisholm and, with a French Government scholarship, at the University of Paris from 1937 under the supervision of Maurice Levaillant.

There on 3 April 1940 he presented his doctorate entitled Paul Bourget: sa vie et son œuvre jusqu'en 1889 (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1940), setting out for Australia shortly thereafter with his French wife, a graduate in English from the Sorbonne, on one of the last boats to leave France.

In the early 1950s he spent an extended period of research in Paris, taking up a position in 1956 as Professor of Modern French Literature at the University of Manchester in succession to Percy Mansell Jones (1889–1968).

He married Jeanne-Françoise Guérin in 1939 and they had three sons (including the photographer James Austin and the scholar of ancient Greek Colin Austin) and one daughter.