Lucian Boia (born 1 February 1944) is a Romanian historian.

He is mostly known for his debunking of historical myths about Romania, for purging mainstream Romanian history of deformations arising from ideological propaganda, and as a fighter against pseudohistory.

[1] Boia was born and raised in the Cotroceni neighborhood of Bucharest.

In 1967 he graduated from the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest, after which he was a teaching assistant and then assistant professor at his alma mater.

Since 1990, he is a professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest.