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Ralph-Johannes Lilie (30 December 1947, Hamburg) is a GermanByzantinist.
He graduated fromMunich University in 1975 with a dissertation entitled 'The Byzantine Reaction to the Arab Invasions – Studies on the Transformation of Government Structures in the Byzantine States in the 7th and 8th Century' andhabilitated in 1982–83 at the Byzantinisch-Neugriechischen Seminar of theFree University of Berlin, where from 1984 to 2005 he was extraordinary professor. Since 1992 he has been working on theProsopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (PmbZ) project at theBerlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. His wife is the medievalistMarie-Luise Favreau-Lilie.