| Picture | Name | Dates | Nationality | Significant contributions |
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| {{sort|Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun|Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun}}
{{MongolUnicode|ᠠᡳ᠌ᠰᡳᠨ ᡤᡳᠣᡵᠣ ᡠᠯᡥᡳᠴᡠᠨ|h}} | {{sort|1958|b. 1958}} | China/Japan | Study of Khitan Language and Script (2004)
A Study of Newly Excavated Khitai Materials (2012)
Total Decipherments of Epitaphs in Khitai Large and Small Scripts (2014) |
| {{sort|Chinggeltei|Chinggeltei}}
{{MongolUnicode|ᠴᠢᠩᠭᠡᠯᠲᠡᠢ|h}} | {{sort|1924|1924–2013}} | China | "A new approach to the deciphering of the Ch'i-tan Small Script" (1978)
Study of the Khitan Small Script (1985)
Problems in the readings of the Khitan Small Script (2002) |
| {{sort|Janhunen|Juha Janhunen}} | {{sort|1952|b. 1952}} | Finland | New Materials on the Khitan Small Script: A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelü Xiangwen (2010) |
| {{sort|Jishi|Jishi}}
即实 (pen name of Batu)[1] | {{sort|1927|b. 1927}} | China | A New Approach to the Decipherment of Khitan Small Script (1996)
Continuing the Decipherment of Khitan Small Script (2012) |
| {{sort|Kane|Daniel Kane}} | {{sort|1948|b. 1948}} | USA | The Kitan Language and Script (2009) |
| {{sort|Liu Fengzhu|Liu Fengzhu}}
刘凤翥 | {{sort|1934|b. 1934}} | China | "A new approach to the deciphering of the Ch'i-tan Small Script" (1978)
Study of the Khitan Small Script (1985)
Collection of Liao dynasty monumental inscriptions from the area of the Liao Upper Capital (2009) |
| {{sort|Starikov|Vladimir Sergeevich Starikov}}
Влади́мир Серге́евич Ста́риков | {{sort|1919|1919–1987}} | Soviet Union | Catalogue of Graphems of the Kitan Script (1966) |
| {{sort|Sun Bojin|Sun Bojun}}
孫伯君[2] | {{sort|1966|b. 1966}} | China | "Study and reading of a stone with a Khitan large script inscription in Khentii Province, Mongolia" (2006) |
| {{sort|Wu Yinggzhe|Wu Yingzhe}}
吴英喆 | {{sort|1971|b. 1971}} | China | New Materials on the Khitan Small Script: A Critical Edition of Xiao Dilu and Yelü Xiangwen (2010) |
| {{sort|Zaytsev|Viacheslav Petrovich Zaytsev}}
Вячесла́в Петро́вич За́йцев[3] | {{sort|1976|b. 1976}} | Russia | "A Manuscript Codex in the Khitan Large Script from the Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences" (2011)
"Identification of a Khitan historical work as part of the Nova N 176 manuscript codex from the collection of the IOM RAS and related problems" (2015) |
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1. ^{{Cite web | author=Kang Peng 康鹏 | title=Short biography of Jishi | script-title=zh:即实微传 | url=http://www.lsjyshi.cn/LJCQ/2013/59/1359183413HH3IC74AG6AGDEHCII88.html | date=9 May 2013 | accessdate=2016-04-10 }}
2. ^{{Cite journal | author=Sun Bojun 孫伯君 | script-title=zh:蒙古國肯特省契丹大字刻石考釋 | journal=Shije Minzu 世界民族 | year=2006 | issue=4 | pages=44–52 | issn=1006-8287 | language=Chinese }}
3. ^{{Cite web | title=Viacheslav Petrovich Zaytsev | url=http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_personalities&Itemid=74&person=621 | publisher=Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RAS | accessdate=2016-04-13}}