Lucien de la Rive (3 April 1834 – 4 May 1924) was a Swiss physicist.
He studied electromagnetism and wrote an early article on the Theory of relativity.
He studied at the Academy of Geneva and at the École Polytechnique in Paris.
In 1863, he published an article Sur le nombre d'équations indépendantes dans la solution d'un système de courants linéaires ("On the number of independent equations in the solution of a system of linear currents", relating to Kirchhoff's circuit laws), and between then and 1918 published many scientific studies on gravitation, the theory of electrons and Maxwell's equations.
[1] Also interested in literature, he wrote translations of works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1870) and an essay on John Milton (1886).