Pierre Chuvin (18 July 1943 – 26 December 2016) was a French hellenist and historian.
He was specialized on ancient Greece and Greek mythology, as well as modern Central Asia and the Turkic-speaking world.
He studied at the Université de Clermont-Ferrand under Francis Vian and the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes, where he learned modern Greek and Turkish, and did an agrégation on classical literature.
[1] In 1983 he presented his doctoral thesis on the ancient Greek epic Dionysiaca by Nonnus.
He created and led the Institut français d'études sur l'Asie centrale in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and founded the journal Les Cahiers de l'Asie centrale.