Elias Avery Lowe

Elias Avery Lowe (October 15, 1879 – August 8, 1969) was an American palaeographer. He was born to a Russian Jewish family and originally named Elias Avery Loew. His wife, whom he married in 1911, was translator H. T. Lowe-Porter. Among the Lowes' descendants are English artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl, and her son, journalist and politician Boris Johnson, former Mayor of London and current Foreign Secretary.

Lowe graduated from Cornell University in 1902 and received his doctorate in 1908 at the University of Munich under the supervision of Ludwig Traube. His main works are the Codices Latini Antiquiores. From 1954 until his death in 1969, Lowe was an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. An ongoing lecture series on palaeography, the Triennial E. A. Lowe Lectures, continue to be held at the College in his memory.