This is a chronological list of canon lawyers . The listing is by date of death.

• Albert Avogadro (1149–1214)
• Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus (13th century)
• Laurentius Hispanus (died 1248)
• Bartholomew of Brescia (died 1258)
• Henry of Segusio (Hostiensis) (c. 1200–1271)
• William Durandus, the Younger (died 1328)
• Astesanus de Ast (died c. 1330)
• Novella d'Andrea (died 1333)
• Bartholomew of San Concordio (c. 1260–1347)
• Giovanni d'Andrea (c. 1270–1348)
• John Acton (died 1350)
• Bonifazio Vitalini (c. 1320–after 1388)
• John Alen (1476–1534)
• Franz Burkard of Ingolstadt (died 1539)
• Antoine de Mouchy (1494–1574)
• Franz Burkard of Bonn (died 1584)
• Antonio Agustín y Albanell (1516–1586)
• Martín de Azpilcueta (1491–1586)
• Hendrik de Moy (+1610)
• Henry Swinburne (1551–1624)
• Agostinho Barbosa (1589–1649)
• Ludwig Engel (died 1694)
• Francesco Antonio Begnudelli-Basso (died 1713)
• Giovanni Clericato (1633–1717)
• Jean-Pierre Gibert (1660–1736)
• Vitus Pichler (1670–1736)
• Placidus Böcken (1690–1752)
• Carbo Sebastiano Berardi (1719–1768)
• Pietro Ballerini (1698–1769)
• Johann Caspar Barthel (1697–1771)
• Girolamo Ballerini (1701–1781)
• Maurus von Schenkl (1749–1816)
• Marie Dominique Bouix (1808–1870)
• Camillus Tarquini (1810–1874)
• Ferdinand Walter (1794–1879)
• Wilhelm Molitor (1819–1880)
• Friedrich Heinrich Vering (1833–1896)
• Felice Cavagnis (1841–1906)
• Pope Leo XIV (born 1955)
• Phil Ashey (born c. 1956)