Pranas Skardžius (26 March 1899 – 18 December 1975) was a Lithuanian linguist. Together with , Skardžius was the first and most prominent linguist who matured in independent Lithuania. As a student at Vytautas Magnus University, Skardžius became secretary of Jonas Jablonskis and with his help obtained a scholarship to study at Leipzig University. Upon his return to Lithuania, he lectured as a docent at Vytautas Magnus University in 1929–1939 and as a professor at Vilnius University in 1939–1943. In 1944, Skardžius emigrated from Lithuania due to the upcoming Soviet annexation. Skardžius worked at the University of Tübingen in West Germany in 1946–1949 and at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. in 1956–1971.