Nathan Wayne Hill (born July 8, 1979) is an American historical linguist and Tibetologist specializing in languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, in particular Tibetic languages.

[1] He was previously reader in Tibetan and historical linguistics at SOAS, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and served as head of department from 2017 to 2019.

[2] He is particularly well known for his work on comparative Sino-Tibetan, Old Tibetan philology, as well as linguistic typology (especially mirativity and evidentiality).

From 2014 to 2020, Hill was a principal investigator on Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a project funded by the European Research Council and hosted by the British Museum.

[3][4] During the academic year 2015–2016 he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley,[5] and in 2020–2021 at Oxford's Oriental Institute.