Mark Edward Lewis (Chinese: 陆威仪; pinyin: Lù Wēiyí; born September 25, 1954) is an American sinologist and historian of ancient China.

Mark Edward Lewis was born on September 25, 1954. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and studied Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program (ICLP). His dissertation, entitled "The Imperial Transformation of Violence in Ancient China," was written under the Chinese-American historian Ho Ping-ti. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows.

Since 2002 he has been Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in Chinese Culture at Stanford University.[1] Previously he was a Reader at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.[2]

He was a Humboldt Research Award Fellow for one year at the University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.