intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively

academician, schoolman - a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation

alumna, alumnus, graduate, grad, alum - a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)

Arabist - a scholar who specializes in Arab languages and culture

bibliographer - someone trained in compiling bibliographies

bibliophile, book lover, booklover - someone who loves (and usually collects) books

Kabbalist, Cabalist - a student of the Jewish Kabbalah

Dr., doctor - a person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"

goliard - a wandering scholar in medieval Europe; famed for intemperance and riotous behavior and the composition of satirical and ribald Latin songs

historian, historiographer - a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

humanist - a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts

learned person, pundit, savant, initiate - someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

licentiate - holds a license (degree) from a (European) university

Masorete, Masorite, Massorete - a scholar who is expert on the Masorah (especially one of the Jewish scribes who contributed to the Masorah)

master - someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution

mujtihad - an Islamic scholar who engages in ijtihad, the effort to derive rules of divine law from Muslim sacred texts

musicologist - a student of musicology

bookworm, pedant, scholastic - a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

philosopher - a specialist in philosophy

post doc, postdoc - a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree

reader - a person who enjoys reading

Renaissance man - a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics

generalist, Renaissance man - a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests; "a statistician has to be something of a generalist"

salutatorian, salutatory speaker - the graduating student with the second highest academic rank; delivers the opening address at graduation exercises

scholiast - a scholar who writes explanatory notes on an author (especially an ancient commentator on a classical author)

medieval Schoolman, Schoolman - a scholar in one of the universities of the Middle Ages; versed in scholasticism

Sinologist - a student of Chinese history and language and culture

theologian, theologiser, theologist, theologizer - someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology (especially Christian theology)

valedictorian, valedictory speaker - the student with the best grades who delivers the valedictory at graduation

Vedist - a scholar of or an authority on the Vedas

Crichton, James Crichton, The Admirable Crichton - Scottish man of letters and adventurer (1560-1582)

Lorenzo de Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent - Italian statesman and scholar who supported many artists and humanists including Michelangelo and Leonardo and Botticelli (1449-1492)

Edmond Malone, Edmund Malone, Malone - English scholar remembered for his chronology of Shakespeare's plays and his editions of Shakespeare and Dryden (1741-1812)

Marcus Terentius Varro, Varro - Roman scholar (116-27 BC)

human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

memoriser, memorizer - a person who learns by rote

quick study, sponge - someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"

dweeb, grind, nerd, swot, wonk - an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or studying excessively

tutee - learns from a tutor

Rhodes scholar - a student who holds one of the scholarships endowed by the will of Cecil J. Rhodes that enables the student to study at Oxford University

educatee, pupil, student - a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution