list of anthropologists

Anthropology is “the science of humanity,” which studies human beings in aspects ranging from the biology and evolutionary history of Homo sapiens to the features of society and culture that decisively distinguish humans from other animal species. This is a list of anthropologists organized alphabetically by place of origin or residence. (See also archaeology and cultural anthropology.)

American

• W.F. Albright
• Robert Ballard
• Adolph Bandelier
• William R. Bascom
• Ruth Benedict
• Lewis R. Binford
• Hiram Bingham
• Carl Blegen
• Franz Boas
• Linda Schreiber Braidwood
• Robert J. Braidwood
• James Henry Breasted
• Carlos Castaneda
• Fay-Cooper Cole
• Johnnetta Cole
• Carleton S. Coon
• John M. Cooper
• Frank Hamilton Cushing
• Frances Densmore
• Roland B. Dixon
• George A. Dorsey
• James Owen Dorsey
• Andrew Ellicott Douglass
• Katherine Dunham
• Loren Eiseley
• Ellen Russell Emerson
• Paul Farmer
• Alice Cunningham Fletcher
• Henri Frankfort
• Clifford Geertz
• Edward W. Gifford
• Alexander Goldenweiser
• Joseph H. Greenberg
• Horatio Hale
• A. Irving Hallowell
• Marvin Harris
• Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes
• Melville J. Herskovits
• William Henry Holmes
• Earnest A. Hooton
• F. Clark Howell
• William W. Howells
• Aleš Hrdlička
• Vladimir Ilich Jochelson
• Donald C. Johanson
• William M. Kelso
• Alfred V. Kidder
• Clyde K.M. Kluckhohn
• A.L. Kroeber
• Oliver La Farge
• Francis La Flesche
• Daniel Lieberman
• Ralph Linton
• Robert H. Lowie
• Richard MacNeish
• William Ross Maples
• Margaret Mead
• Clinton Hart Merriam
• William Corless Mills
• Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
• James Mooney
• Lewis Henry Morgan
• Craig Morris
• George P. Murdock
• Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall
• Elsie Clews Parsons
• Kenneth L. Pike
• Hortense Powdermaker
• John Wesley Powell
• Pearl Primus
• Frederic Ward Putnam
• Paul Radin
• Robert Redfield
• Kathy Reichs
• George Andrew Reisner
• W.Z. Ripley
• Géza Róheim
• Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff
• Edward Sapir
• Katherine Siva Saubel
• Gene Savoy
• Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
• Elman Service
• Marjorie Shostak
• Erminnie Smith
• Frank Gouldsmith Speck
• E.G. Squier
• John Lloyd Stephens
• Matilda Coxe Stevenson
• Julian Steward
• William Duncan Strong
• John Reed Swanton
• Sol Tax
• Edward Herbert Thompson
• Homer Armstrong Thompson
• Alfred M. Tozzer
• Esther Boise Van Deman
• Anthony F.C. Wallace
• Wilson D. Wallis
• W. Lloyd Warner
• Leslie A. White
• Gordon Randolph Willey
• Clark Wissler
• Eric Robert Wolf

Argentine

• Florentino Ameghino

Australian

• Francis James Gillen

Austrian

• Robert H. Lowie
• Eric Robert Wolf

Belgian

• Franz Cumont

Brazilian

• Cláudio Villas Boas

British

• Anthony John Arkell
• Gregory Bateson
• James Theodore Bent
• Geoffrey Bibby
• Wallis Budge
• John Bulwer
• Ronald Montagu Burrows
• George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th earl of Carnarvon
• Howard Carter
• Gertrude Caton-Thompson
• J. Desmond Clark
• R.H. Codrington
• Alexander Cunningham
• Mary Douglas
• Arthur Evans
• John Evans
• Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard
• Charles Fellows
• Robert Bruce Foote
• Meyer Fortes
• James George Frazer
• Maurice Freedman
• John Frere
• Francis Galton
• Percy Gardner
• Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
• John Garstang
• Alfred Cort Haddon
• William Hamilton
• David George Hogarth
• Arthur Keith
• Kathleen Kenyon
• Austen Henry Layard
• Louis S.B. Leakey
• Meave G. Leakey
• Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd
• John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
• Bronisław Malinowski
• Max Mallowan
• Robert R. Marett
• John Hubert Marshall
• John Ferguson McLennan
• James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
• Ashley Montagu
• S.F. Nadel
• Charles Thomas Newton
• Kenneth Oakley
• Humfry Payne
• William Pengelly
• W.J. Perry
• Flinders Petrie
• Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
• James Cowles Prichard
• A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
• Peter John Reynolds
• Claudius James Rich
• Audrey I. Richards
• W.H.R. Rivers
• C.G. Seligman
• Walter William Skeat
• George Smith
• William Robertson Smith
• Baldwin Spencer
• Aurel Stein
• William Stukeley
• J. Eric S. Thompson
• Edward Burnett Tylor
• Mortimer Wheeler
• Godfrey Wilson
• Leonard Woolley

Canadian

• Davidson Black

Chinese

• Fei Xiaotong
• Jia Lanpo
• Li Chi

Cuban

• Miguel Barnet
• Fernando Ortiz

Czech

• Bedřich Hrozný

Danish

• Frans Ferdinand Blom
• Therkel Mathiassen
• Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

Dutch

• Eugène Dubois
• Bertram Schrieke

Egyptian

• Zahi Hawass

Estonian

• Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer

Finnish

• Edward Westermarck

French

• Jean-Jacques Barthélemy
• Paul-Émile Botta
• Jacques Boucher de Perthes
• Marcellin Boule
• Henri Breuil
• Paul Broca
• Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus
• Jean-François Champollion
• Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay
• Charles Clermont-Ganneau
• Joseph Déchelette
• Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt
• Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy
• Joseph, Baron Fourier
• Arnold van Gennep
• François Lenormant
• Édouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet
• Bruno Latour
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
• Auguste Mariette
• Gaston Maspero
• Marcel Mauss
• Pierre Montet
• Bernard de Montfaucon
• Gabriel de Mortillet
• Jules Quicherat
• Paul Rivet
• Jean-Pierre Rouch
• Ernest de Sarzec
• Claude-Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer
• Germaine Tillion

German

• Adolf Bastian
• Wilhelm Adolf Becker
• Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
• Franz Boas
• Helmuth Theodor Bossert
• Heinrich Karl Brugsch
• Ernst Curtius
• Wilhelm Dörpfeld
• Leo Frobenius
• Adolf Furtwängler
• Fritz Graebner
• Karl Humann
• Gustav Friedrich Klemm
• Oswin Köhler
• Robert Koldewey
• Wilhelm Koppers
• Richard Lepsius
• Friedrich Ratzel
• Maria Reiche
• Heinrich Schliemann
• Wilhelm Schmidt
• Richard Thurnwald
• Franz Weidenreich
• Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied-Neuwied
• Johann Winckelmann
• Hugo Winckler

Greek

• Manolis Andronicos
• Spyridon Marinatos

Haitian

• Jean Price Mars

Hungarian

• Sándor Bálint
• Karl Polanyi
• Géza Róheim

Israeli

• Eliezer Sukenik
• Yigael Yadin

Italian

• Giovanni Battista Belzoni
• Giuseppe Fiorelli
• Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani
• Paolo Orsi
• Giambattista Vico

Kenyan

• Louis S.B. Leakey
• Mary Douglas Leakey
• Richard Leakey

Mexican

• Alfonso Caso y Andrade
• Miguel Covarrubias

New Zealander

• Peter Buck
• Raymond Firth
• Michael John Morwood
• Anne Salmond

Norwegian

• Thor Heyerdahl

Peruvian

• José María Arguedas
• Carlos Castaneda
• Maria Reiche

Philippine

• Manuel Elizalde

Russian

• Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold
• Vladimir Germanovich Bogoraz
• Vladimir Ilich Jochelson
• Yury Valentinovich Knorozov

South African

• Lee Berger
• Raymond A. Dart
• Max Gluckman
• Isaac Schapera

Spanish

• Marcellino de Sautuola

Swedish

• Johan Gunnar Andersson
• Gustav VI Adolf
• Oscar Montelius
• Erland Nordenskiöld
• Anders Adolf Retzius
• Magnus Gustaf Retzius

Swiss

• Johann Jakob Bachofen
• Adolph Bandelier
• Henri Alexandre Junod
• Ferdinand Keller
• Jakob Messikomer
• Alfred Métraux

Turkish

• Hormuzd Rassam

Ugandan

• Okot p’Bitek

Vietnamese

• Paulus Cua