Oliver William Wolters OBE (8 June 1915 – 5 December 2000) was a British academic, historian and author.^[1] He was also a Malayan civil servant and administrator. At his death, he was the Goldwin Smith Professor of Southeast Asian History Emeritus at Cornell University.^[2]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about O. W. Wolters, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 20+ works in 90+ publications in 4 languages and 2,200+ library holdings.^[3]

• The Khmer King at Basan (1371-1373) and the Restoration of the Cambodian Chronology during the 14th and 15th Centuries (1965)
• Early Indonesian Commerce: a Study of the Origins of Srĭvijaya. (1962)
• Some Reflections on the Subject of Ayudhyā and the World (1967)
• Southeast Asian History and Historiography: Essays Presented to D.G.E. Hall (1976)
• History, Culture and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives (1982)
• The Fall of Śrīvijaya in Malay History (1970)
• Culture and Region in Southeast Asian Perspectives (1982)
• Two essays on Đại-Việt in the Fourteenth Century (1988)
• Perdagangan awal Indonesia: satu kajian asal usul kerajaan Srivijaya (1989)
• Early Southeast Asia: Selected Essays (2008)
• Monologue, Dialogue, and Tran Vietnam (2009)

Honors

• Guggenheim Fellowship, 1972
• Association for Asian Studies (AAS), 1990 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies^[4]