Victor Bers (born August 30, 1944) is an American philologist and classicist.

He serves as Professor Emeritus of Classics at Yale University,[1] where he taught since 1972 before retiring in 2018.

[2] Prior to retiring, he served as a Director of the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies).

he is the son of the mathematician Lipman Bers, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions.

Afterwards, he attained a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to study at New College, Oxford, where he would obtain a second degree.