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This is a list of historians, but only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included and names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.

Antiquity

Greco-Roman world

Further information: List of Greek historiographers, Greek historiography, and Roman historiography

Classical period

Hellenistic period

  • Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BCE), Greek history
  • Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BCE), Greek history
  • Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 – c. 300 BCE), Greek historian of science
  • Ptolemy I Soter (367 – c. 283 BCE), general of Alexander the Great, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty
  • Duris of Samos (c. 350 – post-281 BCE), Greek history
  • Berossus (early 3rd century BCE), Babylonian historian
  • Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 345 BCE – c. 250 BCE), Greek history
  • Manetho (3rd century BCE), Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) living in the Ptolemaic era
  • Quintus Fabius Pictor (born c. 254 BCE), Roman history
  • Artapanus of Alexandria (late 3rd – early 2nd centuries BCE), Jewish historian of Ptolemaic Egypt
  • Cato the Elder (234–149 BCE), Roman statesman and historian, author of the Origines
  • Cincius Alimentus (late 2nd century BCE), Roman history
  • Gaius Acilius (fl. 155 BCE), Roman history
  • Agatharchides (fl. mid–2nd century BCE), Greek history
  • Polybius (203 – c. 120 BCE), early Roman history (in Greek)
  • Sempronius Asellio (c. 158 – post-91 BCE), early Roman history
  • Valerius Antias (1st century BCE), Roman history
  • Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (1st century BCE), Roman history
  • Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BCE), Greek history
  • Posidonius (c. 135 – 51 BCE), Greek and Roman history
  • Theophanes of Mytilene (fl. mid 1st-century BCE), Roman history

Roman Empire

  • Julius Caesar (100 – c. 44 BCE), Gallic and civil wars
  • Sallust (86–34 BCE), Roman history
  • Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 – post-7 BCE), Roman history
  • Livy (64 BCE – 12 CE), Roman history
  • Memnon of Heraclea (fl. 1st century CE), Greek and Roman history
  • Strabo (63 BCE – 24 CE), geography, Greek history
  • Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BCE – c. 31 CE), Roman history
  • Claudius (10 BCE – 54 CE), Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history
  • Pamphile of Epidaurus (female historian active under Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history
  • Marcus Cluvius Rufus, (fl. 41–69), Roman history
  • Quintus Curtius Rufus (c. 60–70), Greek history
  • Flavius Josephus (37–100), Jewish history
  • Dio Chrysostom (c. 40 – c. 115 CE), history of the Getae
  • Thallus (early 2nd c. CE), Roman history
  • Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56–120), early Roman Empire
  • Plutarch (c. 45 – 125), Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans
  • Criton of Heraclea (fl. 100), history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars
  • Suetonius (c. 69 – post-122), Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty
  • Appian (c. 95 – c. 165), Roman history
  • Arrian (c. 92–175), Greek history
  • Granius Licinianus (2nd century), Roman history
  • Criton of Pieria (2nd century), Greek history
  • Lucius Ampelius (c. 2nd c. CE), Roman history
  • Dio Cassius (c. 160 – after 229), Roman history
  • Marius Maximus (c. 160 – c. 230), biography of Roman emperors
  • Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 230), history of Greek philosophers
  • Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240), early Christian
  • Herodian (c. 170 – c. 240), Roman history
  • Publius Anteius Antiochus (early 3rd c.)
  • Gaius Asinius Quadratus (fl. 248), Roman history
  • Dexippus (c. 210 – 273), Roman history
  • Ephorus the Younger (late 3rd century), Roman history
  • Acholius (late 3rd century), Roman history
  • Callinicus (died 273), history of Alexandria
  • Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275 – c. 339), early Christian
  • Praxagoras of Athens (fl. early 4th century), Greek and Roman history
  • Festus (fl. 370), Roman history
  • Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390), Roman history
  • Eutropius (died 390), Roman history
  • Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
  • Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394), Roman history
  • Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late 4th century), Roman history
  • Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 340–410), early Christian
  • Eunapius (346–414), biographies of philosophers and universal history
  • Orosius (c. 375 – post-418), early Christian
  • Philostorgius (368 – c. 439), early Christian
  • Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – unknown date), early Christian
  • Agathangelos (5th century), Armenian history
  • Priscus (5th century), Byzantine history
  • Sozomen (c. 400 – c. 450), early Christian
  • Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 457), early Christian
  • Movses Khorenatsi (13 January 410–488), Armenian history
  • Hydatius (c. 400 – c. 469), chronicler of Hispania
  • Salvian (c. 400/405 – c. 493), early Christian
  • Faustus of Byzantium (5th c.), Armenian history
  • Ghazar Parpetsi (441– after 515), Armenian history
  • Zosimus (fl. 491–518), late Roman history
  • Jordanes (6th century), history of the Goths
  • John Malalas (c. 491–578), Early Christian

China

Further information: Historiography of China
  • Zuo Qiuming (左丘明, 556–451 BCE), attributed author of the Zuo Zhuan, a history of Spring and Autumn period
  • Sima Tan (司馬談, 165–110 BCE), began the Records of the Grand Historian, completed by his son Sima Qian
  • Sima Qian (司馬遷, c. 145 – c. 86 BCE), customary father of Chinese historiography, compiled the Records of the Grand Historian
  • Liu Xiang (劉向, 77–76 BCE) (Han dynasty), organized the Han imperial library
  • Ban Biao (班彪, CE 3–54) (Han dynasty), began the Book of Han, completed by his son and daughter
  • Ban Gu (班固, CE 32–92) (Han dynasty), compiled the Book of Han, completed by his sister Ban Zhao
  • Ban Zhao (班昭, CE 45–116) (Han dynasty, China's first female historian, completed the Book of Han
  • Chen Shou (陈寿, 233–297) (Jin dynasty) compiled the Records of the Three Kingdoms
  • Faxian (法顯, c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler, wrote an important memoir of his travels to India
  • Fan Ye (范曄, 398–445), compiled the Book of Later Han
  • Shen Yue (沈約, 441–513), wrote the Book of Song on the Liu Song dynasty (420–479)

Middle Ages

Byzantine sphere

Further information: Category:Byzantine historians
  • Procopius (c. 500 – c. 565), writings on reigns of Justinian and Theodora
  • Constantine of Preslav (late 9th – early 10th c.), Bulgarian historian
  • Nestor the Chronicler (c. 1056 – c. 1114, in Kiev), author of the Primary Chronicle
  • Anna Komnene (1083–1153), Byzantine princess
  • Joannes Zonaras (12th c.), Byzantine chronicler
  • Nicetas Choniates (died c. 1220)
  • Domentijan (1210–1264), Serbian monk and chronicler


Latin sphere

Further information: Historians of England in the Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages

  • Gregory of Tours (538–594), A History of the Franks
  • Baudovinia (fl. c. 600), Frankish nun who wrote a biography of Radegund
  • Cogitosus (fl. c. 650), Irish historian
  • Tírechán (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
  • Muirchu moccu Machtheni (7th c.), Irish historian
  • Adamnan (625–704), Irish historian
  • Bede (c. 672–735), Anglo-Saxon England
  • Paul the Deacon (8th c.), Langobards
  • Einhard (9th c.), biographer of Charlemagne
  • Nennius (c. 9th c.), Wales
  • Notker of St Gall (9th c.), anecdotal biography of Charlemagne
  • Martianus Hiberniensis (819–875), Irish teacher and historian
  • Asser, Bishop of Sherborne (died 908/909), Welsh historian
  • Regino of Prüm (died 915)

High Middle Ages

Further information: Recueil des historiens des croisades

10th century

  • Widukind of Corvey (925–973), Ottonian chronicler
  • Liutprand of Cremona (922–972), Byzantine affairs
  • Heriger of Lobbes (925–1007), theologian and historian
  • Richerus (fl. 10th century), French monk and historian

11th century

12th century

13th century

  • Giraldus Cambrensis (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
  • Wincenty Kadlubek (1161–1223), Polish historian
  • Adam of Eynsham (died c. 1233), English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey
  • Snorri Sturluson (c. 1178–1241), Icelandic historian
  • Matthew Paris (died 1259), English chronicler and illuminator
  • Jans der Enikel (c. 1227 – c. 1290), Viennese historian and poet
  • Templar of Tyre (c. 1230–1314), end of the Crusades
  • Simon of Kéza. End of 13th century. A Hungarian chronicler. (c. 1282–1285: Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum)

Late Middle Ages

Historians of the Italian Renaissance listed under "Renaissance"

  • Piers Langtoft (died c. 1307)
  • Jean de Joinville (1224–1319)
  • Giovanni Villani (1276–1348), Italian chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica
  • John of Küküllő (1320–1393)
  • John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349), Irish historian
  • Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372), Irish historian
  • Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373)
  • John of Fordun (died 1384), Scottish chronicler
  • Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387), Irish historian
  • Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
  • Dietrich of Nieheim (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastical history
  • Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet and philosopher
  • Álvar García de Santa María (1370–1460)
  • Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418)
  • John Capgrave (1393–1464)
  • Alfonso de Cartagena (1396–1456)
  • Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400–1453), French chronicler
  • Georges Chastellain (c. 1405 or 1415–1475), Burgundian chronicler
  • Thomas Basin (1412–1491), French historian
  • Jan Długosz (1415–1480), Polish historian and chronicler
  • Mathieu d'Escouchy (1420–1482), French chronicler
  • Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), Burgundian chronicler
  • Antonio Bonfini(1424–1502), Italian chronicler
  • Johannes de Thurocz(1435–1489), Hungarian chronicler
  • Jean Molinet (1435–1507), French chronicler
  • Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (1439–1498), compiler and annalist
  • Philippe de Commines (1447–1511)

Islamic world

Further information: Historiography of early Islam
  • Ibn Rustah (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
  • Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995–1077), Persian historian and author
  • Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923), Persian historian
  • Al-Biruni (973–1048), Persian historian
  • Ibn Hayyan (987–1075), Al-Andalus historian
  • Ibn Hazm (994–1064), Al-Andalus historian
  • Al-Udri (born 1003), Al-Andalus historian
  • Mohammed al-Baydhaq (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
  • Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188)
  • Ali ibn al-Athir (1160–1233)
  • Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185), Moroccan historian
  • Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239), Moroccan historian
  • Ata al-Mulk Juvayni (1226–1283), Persian historian
  • Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (died 1298), Moroccan historian
  • Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315), Moroccan historian
  • Ibn Idhari (late 13th/early 14th c.), Moroccan historian
  • Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1317), Persian historian
  • Abdullah Wassaf (1299–1323), Persian historian
  • Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
  • Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387–1406), Moroccan historian

East Asia

  • Fang Xuanling (房玄齡, 579–648, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the Book of Jin.
  • Yao Silian (姚思廉, died 637, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the Book of Liang and Book of Chen.
  • Wei Zheng (魏徵, 580–643), Chinese historian and lead editor of the Book of Sui
  • Liu Zhiji (劉知幾, 661–721), Chinese history, author of Shitong, the first Chinese work on Chinese historiography and methods
  • Ō no Yasumaro (太安万侶, died 723), Japanese chronicler and editor of Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
  • Liu Xu (劉昫,888–947), Chinese historian and lead editor of Old Book of Tang
  • Li Fang (李昉, 925–996), Chinese editor of Four Great Books of Song
  • Song Qi (宋祁, 998–1061), Chinese historian and co-author of New Book of Tang
  • Ouyang Xiu (歐陽脩, 1007–1072), Chinese historian and co-author of New Book of Tang
  • Sima Guang (司馬光, 1019–1086), Chinese historiographer and politician
  • Kim Bu-sik (김부식, 1075–1151), Korean historian, author of Samguk Sagi
  • Il-yeon (일연, 1206–1289), Korean historian, author of Samguk Yusa
  • Lê Văn Hưu (黎文休, 1230–1322), Vietnamese history
  • Toqto'a (脫脫, 1314–1356) (Chinese Yuan dynasty), Mongol historian who compiled History of Song
  • Song Lian (宋濂, 1310–1381) (Chinese Ming dynasty), wrote History of Yuan
  • Zhu Quan (朱權, 1378–1448), Chinese history

India

  • Kalhana (c. 12th century), historian of Kashmir and Indian Subcontinent
  • Hemachandra (12th century), Jain polymath
  • Abdul Malik Isami (14th century), Indian historian and poet
  • Jonaraja (15th century) Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet
  • Padmanābha (15th century), Indian poet and historian
  • Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi (15th century), Delhi Sultanate

Renaissance to early modern

Renaissance Europe

Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern"
  • Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian
  • Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian
  • Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian
  • Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler
  • Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories
  • Hector Boece (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, author of Historia Gentis Scotorum
  • Albert Krantz (1450–1517), German historian
  • Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
  • Stephanus Brodericus (1480–1539), Croatian Hungarian bishop. Stephani Broderici narratio de praelio quo ad Mohatzium anno 1526 Ludovicus Hungariae rex periit(De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohacz verissima historia)
  • Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"
  • Paolo Giovio (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, Historiae
  • Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian of the Council of Trent
  • Olaus Magnus (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic
  • Kaspar Helth (1490–1574), Transylvanian Saxon historian and Protestant preacher.
  • Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), Hungarian/Wallachian chronicler. H
  • João de Barros (1496–1570), Portuguese historian
  • Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), Swiss historian
  • Oliver Mathews (c. 1520–c. 1618), Welsh chronicler
  • Josias Simmler (1530–1576), Swiss classicist
  • Ferenc Forgách, Bishop of Várad (1530–1577), Hungarian historian
  • Arild Huitfeldt (1546–1609), Denmark
  • Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580), chronicler, source for Shakespeare plays
  • Caesar Baronius (1538–1607), ecclesiastical historian
  • Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
  • Miklós Istvánffy (1538–1615) Hungarian historian
  • Paolo Paruta (1540–1598), Venetian historian
  • Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), Spanish historian of Inca history
  • Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590). Irish historian

Early modern period

Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815

Middle East and Islamic Empires

Further information: Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire, and Ottoman Empire
  • Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
  • Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553–1616), Moroccan historian
  • Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549–1621), Moroccan historian
  • Bahrey (born 1593), Ethiopian monk and historian; wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo)
  • Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631–1685), Moroccan historian
  • Mohammed al-Ifrani (1670–1745), Moroccan historian
  • Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773), Moroccan historian
  • Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734–1833), Moroccan historian and poet
  • Sulayman al-Hawwat (1747–1816), Moroccan historian
  • Mohammed al-Duayf (born 1752), Moroccan historian
  • Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794–1847), history of Azerbaijan and the Middle East
  • George Grote (1794–1871), classical Greece
  • Teimuraz Bagrationi (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
  • Mohammed Akensus (1797–1877), Moroccan historian
  • Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf (1804–1874), Tunisian historian

East Asia

  • Qian Qianyi (銭謙益, 1582–1664, late Chinese Ming dynasty)
  • Zhang Tingyu (張廷玉, 1672–1755, Chinese Qing dynasty) compiled the History of Ming.
  • Qian Daxin (錢大昕, 1728–1804, Chinese Qing dynasty)
  • Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (章學誠, 1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
  • Yu Deuk-gong (유득공, 1749–1807), Korean historian

Modern historians

Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770

Further information: Historiography of the French Revolution#Contemporary and 19th-century historians
  • Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), English historical writer and biographer
  • Archibald Alison (1792–1867), English historian
  • Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), English historian and educator
  • Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), French Revolution, Germany
  • Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), Lithuanian
  • Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist
  • John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), Scottish historian
  • George Finlay (1799–1875), Greece
  • Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), Swedish nationalist historian
  • François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
  • Henry Hallam (1777–1859), Medieval European history
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
  • Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), German historian and polymath
  • Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), Polish historian
  • Heinrich Leo (1799–1878), Prussian historian
  • John Lingard (1771–1851), England
  • Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773–1858), French
  • Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French
  • François Mignet (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
  • Christian Molbech (1783–1857), Danish history, founder of Historisk Tidsskrift (1839)
  • John Neal (1793–1876), US Revolutionary War and US literature
  • Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), German historian
  • František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech
  • William H. Prescott (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
  • Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), European diplomacy; influential German historian
  • Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
  • George Tucker (1775–1861), US history

Historians born in the 19th century

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  • Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France
  • George Bancroft (1800–1891), U.S. to 1789
  • Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), Native Americans and the Western United States
  • R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion
  • Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas
  • Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies
  • Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
  • Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), US, economic interpretation, historiography
  • Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), US, women's history
  • Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), Enlightenment
  • Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia
  • Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe
  • Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S.
  • Isabella Margaret Elizabeth Blandin (1838–1912), U.S.
  • Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School
  • Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands
  • Erich Brandenburg (1868–1946), Modern Germany
  • George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canada
  • Otto Brunner (1898–1982), medieval and early modern Austria
  • Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), Europe
  • Arthur Bryant (1888–1985), Pepys; English warfare
  • James Bryce, (1838–1922), Europe, America, Middle East
  • Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), England, History of Civilization
  • Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance
  • John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
  • J. B. Bury (1861–1927), classical, Europe
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  • Helen Cam (1885–1968), English medieval
  • Pierre Caron (1875–1952), French revolution
  • E. H. Carr (1892–1982), Soviet history, methodology
  • Henri Raymond Casgrain (1831–1904), French Canada
  • Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian
  • Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish identity
  • Bruce Catton (1899–1978), American Civil War
  • Cesar de Bazancourt (1810–1865), Crimean War
  • Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), India
  • Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian historian, history of Russian law
  • Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), US West, fur trade
  • Winston Churchill (1874–1965), world wars, British Empire
  • Augustin Cochin (1876–1916), French Revolution
  • Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020), Russia
  • R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosophy of history
  • Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), historian and interdisciplinarian
  • Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval
  • Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia
  • Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South
  • Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare
  • Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historiography
  • Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon
  • John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet Union
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  • Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval
  • Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
  • Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
  • Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), US West
  • Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838–1919), Colombia
  • Edith Dobie (1887–1975), Great Britain
  • William Dodd (1869–1940), US South
  • David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England
  • Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history
  • Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India
  • Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe
  • Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe
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  • Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization
  • Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe
  • Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism
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  • Cyril Falls (1888–1971), military, world wars
  • Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), France
  • Keith Feiling (1884–1977), England, conservatism
  • Herbert Feis (1893–1972), World War II diplomacy, international finance
  • Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England
  • Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940)
  • Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), US reconstruction
  • Vilmos Fraknói (27 February 1843 – 20 November 1924), Hungarian historian and expert in Hungarian ecclesiastical history e. g. Popes and Hungarian kings diplomatic relations
  • Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English politics
  • Egon Friedell (1878–1938), cultural history of the modern age
  • James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), Tudor England
  • J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), military
  • Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), France
  • John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), Burma, Southeast Asia
  • Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), antiquity, France
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  • François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), medieval history
  • Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), 17th-century England
  • Alice Gardner (1854–1927), ancient history
  • Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of Thuringia
  • Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch
  • Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775
  • Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy
  • Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
  • George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy
  • Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), political history
  • Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany
  • Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887), Etruscan history
  • John Richard Green (1837–1883), English
  • Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English
  • Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history
  • Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec
  • René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history
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H

  • Élie Halévy (1870–1937), modern Britain
  • Louis Halphen (1880–1950), Middle Ages
  • Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960), Latin American history
  • B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), military
  • Charles H. Haskins (1870–1937), medieval
  • Henri Hauser (1866–1946), French historian, economist, geographer
  • Julien Havet (1853–1893), Middle Ages
  • Paul Hazard (1878–1944), modern France
  • Eli Heckscher (1879–1954), Swedish economic historian
  • Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer
  • Otto Hintze (1861–1940), Germany
  • Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungary
  • Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923), British historian and geologist
  • Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian historian
  • Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
   [top]

I

  • Ibn Zaydan (1873–1946), Moroccan historian
  • Dmitry Ilovaisky (1832–1920), Russian history
  • Marilla Baker Ingalls (US, 1828–1902), Burmese missionary and historian
  • Harold Innis (1894–1952), Canadian economic history
   [top]

J

  • Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan
  • Muhammad Jaber (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
  • William James (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940), Georgian historian
  • Arthur Johnson (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University
  • Ellen Jørgensen (1877–1948), Danish historian and historiographer
  • J. B. Bury (1851–1927), Anglo-Irish historian of the Medieval Roman epoch.
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K

  • Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian
  • Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws
  • François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), French political historian
  • Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), legal
  • Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855–1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
  • Erenzhen Khara-Davan (1883–1942), Russian-Kalmyk historian
  • Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
  • William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian
  • Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history
  • David Knowles (1896–1974), English medieval
  • Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian
  • Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960), US naval historian
  • Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, botanist and music historian
  • Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian
  • Hans Kohn (1891–1971), European nationalism
  • Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Byzantine art
  • Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1966), Turkish historian
  • Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
  • Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history
  • Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historian
   [top]

L

  • Leonard Woods Labaree (1897–1980), editor of the Benjamin Franklin papers
  • Harold Lamb (1892–1962), US
  • Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915), German art and economic history
  • William L. Langer (1896–1977), US historian, world and diplomatic history
  • John Knox Laughton (1830–1915), British naval historian
  • Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922), French history
  • William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903), England and Ireland
  • Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French Revolution
  • Elisabeth Lemke (1849–1925) German history
  • Anna Lewis (1885–1961), South-western US
  • Liang Qichao (梁啓超, 1873–1929), Chinese and Western history and historiography
  • John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), Welshness
  • Ferdinand Lot (1866–1952), Middle Ages
  • John Lord (1810–1894), Middle Ages, ancient history, historical survey
  • Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), intellectual history
  • Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian
  • György Lukács (1885–1971), history of literature, art history and philosophy of history
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M

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N

  • Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), 18th-century British and 20th-century diplomatic history
  • Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (1835–1897), Moroccan
  • J. E. Neale (1890–1975), Elizabethan England
  • Allan Nevins (1890–1971), US political and business; Civil War; biography
  • A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire
  • Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), Serbian
   [top]

O

  • Charles Oman (1860–1946), 19th-century military
  • Herbert L. Osgood (1855–1918), American colonial
   [top]

P

  • K. M. Panikkar (1895–1963), Indian historian
  • Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian history
  • Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Middle Ages
  • Jane Marsh Parker (1836–1913), US history
  • Francis Parkman (1823–1893), colonial North America
  • Herbert Paul (1853–1935), 19th-century UK
  • Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), Roman
  • Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history
  • Dexter Perkins (1889–1984), US history
  • David Pietrusza (1949–), US history
  • Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children
  • Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
  • Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian
  • Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and Soviet history
  • Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Tudor England
  • Delia Lyman Porter (1858–1933), US history
  • Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian
  • Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages
  • F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval
  • H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
   [top]

Q

  • Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages
   [top]

R

  • William Pember Reeves (1857–1932), New Zealand
  • Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), diplomatic historian
  • Herbert Richmond (1871–1946), British naval
  • James Riker (1822–1889), New York
  • B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), Mormon
  • James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936), European
  • James Rodway (1848–1926), British Guiana
  • Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), US west and naval history
  • John Holland Rose (1855–1942), modern Europe, Britain and France
  • Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), ancient history
  • Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), modern German
  • Simon Rutar (1851–1903), Slovenian
  • Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), Serbian
   [top]

S

  • Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history
  • Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian
  • Salamon Ferenc (1825–1892), Ottoman Hungary
  • Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), medieval and church
  • Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), history of India
  • George Sarton (1884–1956), history of science
  • Gustave Schlumberger (1844–1929), French
  • Otto Seeck (1850–1921), German
  • John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), British Empire
  • J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), fascism
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965) US social history
  • W. C. Sellar (1898–1951), co-author of 1066 and All That
  • Ekaterina Shchepkina (1854–1938), Russia
  • Shin Chaeho (신채호, 1880–1936), Korean
  • Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian
  • Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937), English early modern
  • Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), British and Canadian
  • Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), Mexican–American War
  • Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), Russian historian
  • Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; The Decline of the West
  • Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia
  • Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe
  • Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval
  • Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval
  • Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West
  • William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law
  • László Szalay (1813–1864) Hungarian historian
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T

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U

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V

  • Alfred Vagts, (1892–1986), Germany, military
  • Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England
   [top]

W

  • Annie Russell Wall (1835–1920), English historian
  • Spencer Walpole (1839–1907), English historian
  • Charles Webster (1886–1961), British diplomatic history
  • Curt Weibull (1886–1991), Swedish historian
  • Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960), Swedish historian
  • Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937), Britain, military historian
  • Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944), Latin America
  • James A. Williamson (1886–1964), Britain, maritime historian and historian of exploration
  • Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971), England
  • Justin Winsor (1831–1897), America, Narrative and Critical History of America
  • Carl Frederick Wittke (1892–1971), US ethnics
  • Ernest Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British history and international relations
  • Muriel Hazel Wright (1889–1975), Oklahoma, Native Americans
  • George MacKinnon Wrong (1860–1948), Canadian
   [top]

Y

  • Yi Byeongdo (이병도, 1896–1989), Korea
   [top]

Z

  • Nicolas Zafra (1892–1979), Philippines
  • Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856), Celts
  • Faddei Zielinski (1859–1944), ancient Greece
   [top]

Historians born in the 20th century

Top - 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

  • Raouf Abbas (1939–2008), Egyptian
  • Irving Abella (1940–2022), Canadian
  • Aberjhani (born 1957), African American, Harlem Renaissance, Literary
  • David Abulafia (born 1949), Mediterranean
  • Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina
  • Donald Adamson (1939–2024), Britain
  • Teodoro Agoncillo (1912–1985), Philippines
  • Donald Akenson (born 1941), Irish
  • Risto Alapuro (1944–2022), Finland
  • Dean C. Allard (1933–2018), US naval
  • Robert C. Allen (born 1947), British economy
  • Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), America, Hiroshima
  • Ida Altman (born 1950), America, colonial Spain and Latin America
  • Mor Altshuler (born 1957), Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism
  • Abbas Amanat (born 1947) Iran, America
  • Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002), World War II, U.S. political
  • Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), French, Nazi occupation of France
  • Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Southeast Asia, intellectual and political history
  • Perry Anderson (born 1938), British and European
  • Joyce Appleby (1929–2016), U.S. early national
  • Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), African-American
  • Leonie Archer (born 1955), England
  • Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), French medieval, childhood
  • Karen Armstrong (born 1944), British religious
  • Andrea Aromatico (born 1966), Italian esotericism and Hermetic iconography
  • Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999), America, Mormons
  • Thomas Asbridge (born 1969), Crusades
  • Maurice Ashley (1907–1994), 17th-century England
  • Paul Avrich (1931–2006), Russian, the Anarchist movement
  • Gerald Aylmer (1926–2000), 17th-century England
  • Ali Azaykou (1942–2004), Moroccan
  • Eiichiro Azuma (born 1966), US, Japan
   [top]

B

  • Nigel Bagnall (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece
  • Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020), early America; Atlantic
  • David E. Barclay (born 1948), German
  • Juliet Barker (born 1958), late Middle Ages, literary biography
  • Frank Barlow (1911–2009), medieval biography
  • Linda Diane Barnes (living), US
  • Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), Germany, world
  • G.W.S. Barrow (1924–2013), Scotland
  • H. Arnold Barton (1929–2016), Scandinavia
  • Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide
  • Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), cultural
  • Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), Peru
  • Hanna Batatu (1926–2000), Palestinian, modern Iraq
  • K. Jack Bauer (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime
  • Yehuda Bauer (born 1926), Holocaust
  • Stephen B. Baxter (1929–2020), late 17th – early 18th-century English
  • David Bebbington (born 1949), Evangelicalism
  • Antony Beevor (born 1946), World War II
  • David Bell (living), Early Modern France, cultural history
  • James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand
  • Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944), Morocco
  • Laurence Bergreen (born 1950), biography
  • Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), ideas
  • Michael Beschloss (born 1955), Cold War
  • Juliette Bessis, (1925–2017), Tunisia
  • Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), Soviet
  • Robert Bickers (born 1964), modern China and colonialism
  • Anthony Birley (1937–2020), Ancient Rome
  • Yael Bitrán (born 1965), musicology
  • David Blackbourn (born 1949), German
  • Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian
  • Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English
  • Gisela Bock (born 1942), German feminist
  • Brian Bond (born 1936), British military
  • Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938–2020), US dance historian
  • Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), US
  • Georges Bordonove (1920–2007), France
  • John Boswell (1947–1994), medievalist
  • Robert Bothwell (born 1944), Canada
  • Gérard Bouchard (born 1943), Canada
  • Joanna Bourke (born 1963), military
  • Paul S. Boyer (1935–2012), US morality
  • Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), modern German
  • Jim Bradbury (1937–2023), Middle Ages
  • James C. Bradford (born 1944), US naval
  • David Brading (1936–2024), Mexican history
  • William Brandon (1914–2002), American West
  • Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean
  • Ahron Bregman (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Bridget Brereton (born 1946), Trinidad and Tobago
  • Holly Brewer (born 1964), early American history
  • Carl Bridenbaugh (1903–1992), American colonial
  • Asa Briggs (1921–2016), British social history
  • Alan Brinkley (1949–2019), American 1930s
  • David Brody (born 1930), American labor
  • Timothy Brook (born 1951), China
  • Martin Broszat (1926–1989), Nazi Germany
  • Pierre Broué (1926–2005), Trotskyism
  • Gregory S. Brown (living), Early Modern French History, Cultural History
  • Peter Brown (born 1935), medieval
  • Christopher Browning (born 1944), Holocaust
  • Nikolai Bugay (born 1941), Soviet Union
  • Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982), Brazil
  • Alan Bullock (1914–2004), 1940s, Hitler studies
  • Peter Burke (born 1937), modern period, cultural history
  • Michael Burlingame (born 1941), Abraham Lincoln
  • Briton C. Busch (1936–2004), British diplomatic and US maritime
  • Richard Bushman (born 1931), US colonial and Mormon
  • Jon Butler (born 1940), US religion
  • Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historiography
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C

  • Angus Calder (1942–2008), Second World War
  • Philip L. Cantelon (born 1940), United States
  • Julio Caro Baroja (1914–1995), anthropologist
  • Sir Raymond Carr (1919–2015), Spain and Latin America
  • Richard Carrier (born 1969), ancient Rome; history of philosophy, science and religion
  • Paul Cartledge (born 1947), classicist
  • Lionel Casson (1914–2009), classicist
  • Boris Celovsky (1923–2008), Czech-German relations
  • David G. Chandler (1934–2004), British historian specializing in Napoleonic history
  • Bipan Chandra (1928–2014), modern India
  • Iris Chang (이병도, 1968–2004), China
  • Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975), maritime
  • Maher Charif (living), Arabic intellectual history and political movements
  • Louis Chevalier (1911–2001), France
  • Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006), Scotland
  • Thomas Childers (born 1976), war and society, both world wars
  • Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (1935–2016), India
  • I. R. Christie (1919–1998), Britain
  • Robert M. Citino (born 1958), US military historian of Europe
  • Alan Clark (1928–1999), both world wars
  • Christopher Clark (born 1960), Prussia
  • J. C. D. Clark (born 1951), British
  • Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australia
  • Oliver Edmund Clubb (1901–1989), China
  • Yolande Cohen (born 1950), youth, women, Moroccan Jews
  • Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), Elizabethan England and Puritanism
  • Ann Gorman Condon (1936–2001), Canada
  • Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Russia
  • Margaret Conrad (born 1946), Canada
  • Martin Conway (born 1960), British scholar of European history
  • John Milton Cooper (born 1940), Woodrow Wilson
  • Peter Cottrell (born 1964), Anglo-Irish
  • Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005), German and diplomatic
  • Catherine Crary (1909–1974), American Revolution
  • Donald Creighton (1902–1979), Canadian
  • Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and art history
  • William Cronon (born 1954), US environmental
  • Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China
  • Roger Crowley (born 1951), Mediterranean Sea; Portuguese empire
  • Dan Cruickshank (born 1949), Britain, architecture
  • Robert M. Crunden (1940–1999), US cultural
  • Gemma Cruz (born 1943), Rizaliana, Philippines
  • Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), archaeology
   [top]

D

  • Vahakn N. Dadrian (1926–2019), Armenia
  • Robert Dallek (born 1934), 20th-century US presidents
  • William Dalrymple (born 1965), Scottish
  • David B. Danbom (born 1947), US rural
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009), South Asia
  • Robert Darnton (born 1939), 18th-century France
  • Saul David (born 1966), military
  • John Davies (1938–2015), Wales
  • Norman Davies (born 1939), Poland, Britain
  • Kenneth S. Davis (1912–1999), Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023), early modern France, film
  • R. H. C. Davis (1918–1991), Middle Ages
  • Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), Holocaust
  • David Day (born 1949), Australia
  • Renzo De Felice (1929–1996), Italian fascism
  • Carl N. Degler (1921–2014), US
  • Len Deighton (born 1929), British military
  • Esther Delisle (born 1954), French-Canadian
  • Jean Delumeau (1923–2020), Catholic Church
  • Marcel Detienne (1935–2019), ancient Greece
  • Alexandre Deulofeu (1903–1978), Catalan
  • Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Soviet
  • Wu Di (吴迪, born 1951), China
  • Igor M. Diakonov (1914–1999), Ancient Near East
  • Jay P. Dolan (1936–2023), American Catholics
  • David Herbert Donald (1920–2009), American Civil War
  • Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), Scotland
  • Susan Doran (living), Elizabethan England
  • Elisabeth Joan Doyle (1922–2009), 19th-century American and British history
  • William Doyle (born 1932), French Revolution
  • Georges Duby (1924–1996), Middle Ages
  • William S. Dudley (born 1936), US naval
  • Robert Dudley Edwards (1909–1988), Ireland
  • Eamon Duffy (born 1947), 15th–17th-century religious
  • Hermann Walther von der Dunk (1928–2018), 20th-century Dutch and German
  • Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017), early American, women's history
  • Richard Slator Dunn (1928–2022), early American, slavery
  • A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019), US science and technology
  • Trevor Dupuy (1916–1995), military
  • Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–1994), French diplomacy
  • Harold James Dyos (1921–1978), British urban
   [top]

E

  • Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing
  • Geoff Eley (born 1949), German
  • John Elliott (1930–2022), Spanish
  • Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943), early US
  • Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Tudor England
  • Peter Englund (born 1957), Sweden
  • Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939), Britain
  • Richard J. Evans (born 1947), German social
  • Alf Evers (1905–2004), America
   [top]

F

  • Esther Farbstein (born 1946), Israeli, Holocaust
  • Grahame Farr (1912–1983), maritime, south-west England
  • Brian Farrell (1929–2014), Ireland
  • Boris Fausto (1930–2023), Brazil
  • John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1918–1992), medieval Russia
  • Niall Ferguson (born 1964), military, business, imperial
  • Božidar Ferjančić (1929–1998), medieval
  • Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018), US history, US presidency, World War I, US foreign policy and diplomacy, Harry S. Truman
  • Marc Ferro (1924–2021), World War I
  • Joachim Fest (1926–2006), Nazi Germany
  • David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Jewish
  • Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), medieval, diplomacy
  • David Kenneth Fieldhouse (1925–2018), British Empire
  • Orlando Figes (born 1957), Russian
  • Robert O. Fink (1905–1988), classical
  • Norman Finkelstein (born 1953), Israel, Palestine
  • Moses Finley (1912–1986), ancient, especially economic
  • David Hackett Fischer (born 1935), American Revolution, cycles
  • Fritz Fischer (1908–1999), Germany
  • Frances FitzGerald (born 1940), Vietnam, history textbooks
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941), Soviet Union
  • Judith Flanders (born 1959), Victorian British social
  • Simha Flapan (1911–1987), Israel
  • Robin Fleming (born 1950s), medieval Britain
  • Robert Fogel (1926–2013), US economic, cliometrics
  • Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction
  • Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American Civil War
  • Amanda Foreman (born 1968), Georgian England, American Civil War, women's history
  • Michel Foucault (1926–1984), ideas
  • Jo Fox (living), 20th-century film and propaganda
  • Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), ancient
  • Stephen Fox (born 1938), US in World War II
  • Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), US South, cultural and social, women
  • Walter Frank (1905–1945), Nazi historian
  • H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934), Vietnam War
  • Antonia Fraser (born 1932), England
  • Frank Freidel (1916–1993), Franklin Roosevelt
  • Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013), Holocaust
  • Henry Friedlander (1930–2012), Holocaust
  • Saul Friedländer (born 1932), Holocaust
  • Sheppard Frere (1916–2015), anthropologist, Roman Empire
  • David Fromkin (1932–2017), Middle East
  • Francis Fukuyama (born 1955), world
  • Bruno Fuligni (born 1968), French history
  • François Furet (1927–1997), French Revolution
  • Halima Ferhat (born 1941), Middle Ages of the Maghreb
   [top]

G

  • Femme Gaastra (born 1945), Dutch
  • John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), Cold War
  • Lloyd Gardner (born 1934), US diplomatic
  • Delphine Gardey (born 1967, gender and science)
  • Robert Garland, (born 1947, Classical history)
  • Edwin Gaustad (1923–2011), religion in America
  • Peter Gay (1923–2015), psycho-history, Enlightenment and 19th-century social
  • Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), US South, slavery
  • Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), 19th/20th-century Germany
  • François Géré (born 1950), military
  • Christian Gerlach (born 1963), Holocaust
  • N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990), military
  • William Gibson (born 1959), ecclesiastical history
  • Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), Holocaust
  • Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939), social history
  • Jan Glete (1947–2009), Swedish
  • Elizaveta I. Gnevusheva (1916–1994), Dutch India
  • Eric F. Goldman (1916–1989), 20th-century US
  • James Goldrick (1958–2023), Australian
  • Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969), ancient history
  • David Hamilton Golland (born 1971), 20th-century US civil rights, public policy, labor
  • Guillermo Gómez (born 1936), Philippine history
  • Brison D. Gooch (1925–2014), 19th century Europe
  • Ruth Goodman (born 1963), early modern period
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), US presidential
  • Andrew Gordon (born 1951), British naval history
  • Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Central Asian history
  • Lewis L. Gould (born 1939), US presidents and First Ladies
  • Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988), British imperial
  • Jack Granatstein (born 1939), Canada
  • Michael Grant (1914–2004), ancient
  • Abigail Green British historian of modern Europe
  • Peter Green (born 1924), ancient
  • Vivian H.H. Green (1915–2005), Christianity
  • John Robert Greene (born 1955), US presidency
  • Roger D. Griffin (born 1948), fascism, political and religious fanaticism
  • Ramachandra Guha (born 1958), India, environment
  • Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), Indian
  • Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet
  • Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites
  • John Guy (born 1949), Tudor England
   [top]

H

  • Irfan Habib (born 1931), India
  • Sheldon Hackney (1933–2013), US South
  • Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936), US naval
  • John Haldon (born 1948), Byzantine Empire
  • John Whitney Hall (1916–1997), Japan
  • Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (1937–2015), World War II air war
  • N. G. L. Hammond (1907–2001), ancient Greek history
  • Nahema Hanafi (born 1983), modern and contemporary history
  • Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), ancient warfare
  • Syed Nomanul Haq (born 1948), history and philosophy of science
  • Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976), Israeli, military, Medieval
  • Antoinette Harrell (born 1960), post-slavery peonage of African-American sharecroppers
  • Dick Harrison (born 1966), Swedish and Medieval
  • Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual
  • Max Hastings (born 1945), military, WWII
  • John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime
  • Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995), 17th–18th-century European international
  • Denys Hay (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
  • John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991), US naval
  • Peter Hayes (born c. 1947), Holocaust
  • Joel Hayward (born 1964), Islamic, maritime, military
  • Ingo Heidbrink (born 1968), maritime history, history of technology
  • Klaus Hentschel (born 1961), historian of science and of visual cultures
  • Ulrich Herbert (born 1951), modern Germany
  • Jeffrey Herf (born 1947), Germany, Europe
  • Arthur L. Herman (born 1956), America, Britain
  • Michael Hicks (born 1948), late medieval England
  • Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Holocaust
  • Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941), 19th/20th-century Germany
  • Christopher Hill (1912–2003), 17th-century England
  • Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989), 20th-century Germany
  • Richard L. Hills (1936–2019), technology
  • Rodney Hilton (1916–2002), late medieval period
  • Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), Britain
  • Harry Hinsley (1918–1998), British intelligence, World War II
  • Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946), 20th-century Germany, World War I, World War II
  • Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), labour; Marxism
  • Marshall Hodgson (1922–1968), Islamic
  • Peter Hoffmann (1930–2023), National Socialism
  • Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), US political
  • David Hoggan (1923–1988), neo-Nazi
  • Hajo Holborn (1902–1969), Germany
  • Tom Holland (born 1968), Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages
  • C. Warren Hollister (1930–1997), Middle Ages
  • George Holmes (1927–2009), medieval
  • Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military
  • Ed Hooper (born 1964), Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
  • A. G. Hopkins (born 1938), Britain
  • Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), ancient
  • Michiel Horn (born 1939), Canada
  • Alistair Horne (1925–2017), modern French
  • Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), US cultural
  • Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women
  • Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle East
  • Youssef Hourany (1931–2019), Lebanon, ancient
  • Michael Howard (1922–2019), military
  • Ray Huang (1918–2000), China
  • Robert Hughes (1938–2012), Australia, cities
  • Marnie Hughes-Warrington (born 1970), historiography, philosophy of history
  • Andrew Hunt (born 1968), Cold War America
  • Tristram Hunt (born 1974)
  • Mark C. Hunter (born 1974), naval
   [top]

I

  • Georg Iggers (1926–2017), Germany, Historiography
  • Halil Inalcik (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire
  • Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry
   [top]

J

  • Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), Nazi Germany
  • John Archibald Getty (born 1950)
  • Julian T. Jackson (born 1954), French
  • C. L. R. James (1862–1935), Trinidad/England
  • Harold James (born 1956), modern Germany
  • Nikoloz Janashia (1931–1982), Georgia and Caucasus
  • Simon Janashia (1900–1947), Georgia and Caucasus
  • Marius Jansen (1922–2000), Japan
  • Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970), Poland
  • Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (born 1942), US intelligence
  • Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution
  • Richard J. Jensen (born 1941), America
  • Khasnor Johan (living), Malaysian historian
  • Paul Johnson (1928–2023), Britain, Western civilization
  • Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), US naval
  • Mauno Jokipii (1924–2007), Finnish, World War II
  • A. H. M. Jones (1904–1970), later Roman Empire
  • George Hilton Jones III (1924–2008), England
  • Gwyn Jones (1907–1999), medieval
  • Loe de Jong (1914–2005), Netherlands
  • Tony Judt (1948–2010), 20th-century European, postwar
   [top]

K

  • Donald Kagan (1932–2021), ancient Greek
  • Michel Kaplan (born 1946), French Byzantinist
  • Efraim Karsh (born 1953), Israel
  • David S. Katz (born 1953), early modern England
  • Alex J. Kay (born 1979), Nazi Germany
  • Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East
  • Rod Kedward (1937–2023), 20th-century France
  • John Keegan (1934–2012), military
  • John H. Kemble (1912–1990), US maritime
  • Paul Murray Kendall (1911–1973), late Middle Ages
  • Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born 1938), medieval
  • George F. Kennan (1904–2005), US–Soviet relations
  • James Kennedy (born 1963), Netherlands
  • Paul Kennedy (born 1945), world, military
  • W. Hudson Kensel (1928–2014), western America
  • Ian Kershaw (born 1943), Nazi Germany, Hitler
  • Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939), science
  • Rashid Khalidi (born 1948), Palestine
  • Khan Roshan Khan (1914–1988), Pakistan
  • Khoo Kay Kim (1937–2019), Malaysia
  • Kim Jung-bae (born 1940), Korea
  • Michael King (1945–2004), New Zealand
  • Patrick Kinross (1904–1976), Ottoman Empire
  • Henry Kissinger (born 1923), 19th-century Europe; late 20th-century
  • Martin Kitchen (born 1936), modern Europe
  • Simon Kitson (born c. 1967), Vichy France
  • Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), Germany
  • Oleg Khlevniuk (born 1959), Soviet Union
  • Matti Klinge (1936–2023), Finnish
  • Felix Klos (born 1992), American/Dutch, Modern European
  • R.J.B. Knight (born 1944), British naval
  • Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), historical linguist
  • Eberhard Kolb (born 1933), German
  • Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), US
  • Claudia Koonz (born 1940), Nazi Germany
  • Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), economic, Near East, Islamic and pre-Islamic
  • Ernst Kossmann (1922–2003), Low Countries
  • Stephen Kotkin (born 1959), Russia, Soviet Union
  • Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China
  • Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science
  • Myoma Myint Kywe (1960–2021), Burmese writer and historian
   [top]

L

  • Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021), US colonial and maritime
  • Leopold Labedz (1920–1993), Soviet
  • Walter LaFeber (1933–2021), diplomatic, Cold War
  • Brij Lal (1952–2021), Fiji
  • K. S. Lal (1920–2002), Medieval India
  • Andrew Lambert (born 1956), British naval
  • Peter Lampe (born 1954), Hellenistic and late antiquity
  • Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea (1905–1983), haciendas in Western Mexico
  • Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943), 19th–20th century, nationalism and liberalism
  • Abdallah Laroui (born 1933), Maghreb
  • David Lavender (1910–2003), American West
  • Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014), medieval
  • Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023), French
  • Daniel Leab (1936–2016), 20th century
  • Robert Leckie (1920–2001), US military
  • Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976), intellectual and cultural history
  • Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004), Korean
  • William Leuchtenburg (born 1922), US political and legal
  • Barbara Levick (born 1931), Roman emperors
  • Moshe Lewin (1921–2010), Russia, Soviet Union
  • Bernard Lewis (1916–2018), Oriental studies
  • David Levering Lewis (born 1936), African American, Harlem Renaissance
  • Li Ao (1935–2018), Chinese
  • Marcel Liebman (1929–1986), Marxism
  • Leon F. Litwack (1929–2021), America, African-American
  • Xinru Liu (born 1951), Ancient Indian and Chinese
  • Mario Liverani (born 1939), ancient Middle East
  • David Loades (1934–2016), Tudor England
  • Roger Lockyer (1927–2017), Stuart England
  • James W. Loewen (1942–2021), America
  • Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), Victorian England
  • Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002), Scandinavia
  • Walter Lord (1917–2002), America
  • John Lukacs (1924–2019), modern Europe
   [top]

M

  • Joseph A. McCartin (born 1959), American labor
  • Charles B. MacDonald (1922–1990), World War II
  • Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021), Australia
  • Piers Mackesy (1924–2014), British military
  • Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), 20th-century international relations
  • William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974), liberal South African historiography
  • Ramsay MacMullen (1928–2022), Roman
  • Heidrun E. Mader (born 1977), 2nd cent BCE – 2nd cent CE
  • Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), Norse
  • Charles S. Maier (born 1939), 20th-century Europe
  • Paul L. Maier (born 1930), ancient history
  • Pauline Maier (1938–2013), early America
  • Leonard Maltin (born 1950), film
  • William Manchester (1922–2004), Churchill
  • Golo Mann (1909–1994), general
  • Susan Mann (born 1941), Canadian
  • Susan L. Mann (born 1943), history of China and women
  • Adel Manna (born 1947), Palestine in Ottoman period
  • María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), social
  • Philip Mansel (born 1951), France, Ottoman Empire
  • Arthur Marder (1910–1980), British naval
  • Michael Marrus (1941–2022), French and Jewish
  • Rev. F. X. Martin (1922–2000), Irish medievalist and campaigner
  • Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007), the Book
  • Luis Martínez-Fernández (born 1960), Cuba, the Caribbean
  • Laurence Marvin (living), US, French medievalist
  • Ezequiel González Mas (1919–2007), Spanish literature
  • Timothy Mason (1940–1990), Nazi Germany
  • Garrett Mattingly (1900–1962), early modern Europe
  • Ernest R. May (1928–2009), 20th-century warfare and international relations
  • Richard J. Maybury (born 1946), America, World War I, World War II, Middle East
  • Arno J. Mayer (1926–2023), World War I and Europe
  • Mark Mazower (born 1958), Balkans, Greece
  • David McCullough (1933–2022), US
  • Forrest McDonald (1927–2016), early national America, presidency, business
  • K. B. McFarlane (1903–1966), English medievalist
  • William S. McFeely (1930–2019), American Civil War
  • Maurie McInnis (born 1966), Antebellum art and politics
  • W. David McIntyre (1932–2022), Commonwealth, New Zealand
  • Neil McKendrick (born 1935), modern economic and social history
  • Ross McKibbin (born 1942), 20th-century Britain
  • Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949), medieval
  • William McNeill (1917–2016), world
  • James M. McPherson (born 1936), American Civil War
  • Jon Meacham (born 1969), US presidency
  • D. W. Meinig (1924–2020), US geography
  • Evaldo Cabral de Mello (born 1936), Dutch Brazil
  • Russell Menard (living), colonial American
  • Thomas C. Mendenhall (1910–1998), history of sport
  • Josef W. Meri (born 1969), Islamic world, Jews
  • John M. Merriman(1946–2022), France
  • Barbara Metcalf (born 1941), India
  • Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020), medieval Serbia
  • Perry Miller (1905–1963), US intellectual
  • Giles Milton (born 1966), exploration
  • Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950), food history and material culture of Central Europe
  • Steven Mintz (born 1953), US family
  • Yagutil Mishiev (born 1927), Derbent, Dagestan, Russia
  • Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), Germany
  • Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004), Britain, Germany
  • Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) general
  • Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), Russia, Middle East
  • Theodore William Moody (1907–1984), Ireland
  • Edmund Morgan (1916–2013), American colonial and Revolution
  • Kenneth O. Morgan (born 1934), British politics, Wales
  • William J. Morgan (1917–2003), US naval
  • Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), US colonial and naval
  • Benny Morris (born 1948), Middle East
  • Ian Mortimer (born 1967), Middle Ages
  • W.L. Morton (1908–1980), Canada
  • George Mosse (1918–1999), German, Jewish, fascist
  • Roland Mousnier (1907–1993), early modern France
  • Mubarak Ali (born 1941), Pakistan
  • Robert K. Murray (1922–2019), 20th century US
   [top]

N

  • J. Milton Nance (1913–1997), American writer on the history of Texas
  • Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology
  • Mark E. Neely Jr. (born 1944), American Civil War
  • Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), history of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
  • Cynthia Neville (living), late medieval, Scotland and England, Gaelic culture
  • Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992), 19th c. German history
  • Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), German, fascism and communism
   [top]

O

  • Josiah Ober (living), ancient Greece
  • Heiko Oberman (1930–2001), Reformation
  • Ambeth Ocampo (born 1961), Philippines
  • W. H. Oliver (1925–2015), New Zealand
  • Robin O'Neil (living), Holocaust
  • Melanie Oppenheimer (living), Australia
  • Vincent Orange (1935–2012), military, World War II, aviation
  • Michael Oren (born 1955), modern Middle East
  • Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996), Canada
  • İlber Ortaylı (born 1947), Turkey
  • Fernand Ouellet (1926–2021), French Canada
  • Richard Overy (born 1947), World War II
  • Steven Ozment (1939–2019), Germany
   [top]

P

  • Thomas Pakenham (born 1933), Africa
  • Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), Russia and Europe
  • Ilan Pappé (born 1954), Israel
  • Peter Paret (1924–2020), military
  • Geoffrey Parker (born 1943), early modern military
  • Simo Parpola (born 1943), ancient Middle East
  • J. H. Parry (1914–1982), maritime
  • T. T. Paterson (1909–1994), archaeologist and sociologist
  • Fred Patten (1940–2018), science fiction
  • Stanley G. Payne (born 1934), Spain, fascism
  • Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish anarchist
  • William Armstrong Percy (1933–2022), Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality
  • Bradford Perkins (1925–2008), US diplomatic
  • Detlev Peukert (1950–1990), everyday life in Weimar and Nazi eras
  • John Edward Philips (born 1952), Africa
  • Liza Picard (1927–2022), London
  • William B. Pickett (born 1940), US history, Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • David Pietrusza (born 1949), US
  • Boris B. Piotrovsky (1908–1990), Urartu, Scythia
  • Richard Pipes (1923–2018), Russian and Soviet
  • J.H. Plumb (1911–2001), 18th-century Britain
  • J. G. A. Pocock (1924–2023), early modern intellectual
  • Kwok Kin Poon (born 1949), Chinese Southern and Northern dynasties
  • Barbara Corrado Pope (born 1941), America, Belle Époque, women's studies
  • Roy Porter (1946–2002), medicine, British social and cultural
  • Norman Pounds (1912–2006), geography and England
  • Caio Prado Júnior (1907–1990), Brazil
  • Gordon W. Prange (1910–1980), World War II Pacific
  • Joshua Prawer (1917–1990), Crusades
  • Jean-Claude Pressac (1944–2003), Holocaust
  • Michael Prestwich (born 1943), medieval England
  • Clement Alexander Price (1945–2014), America
  • Francis Paul Prucha (1921–2015), American Indians
  • Janko Prunk (born 1942), Slovenia
  • Alenka Puhar (born 1945), Slovenia
   [top]

Q

  • Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), classical, western history, theorist of civilizations
   [top]

R

  • Marc Raeff (1923–2008), Russian Empire
  • Alexander Rabinowitch (born 1934), Russia
  • Werner Rahn (1939–2022), German naval
  • Jack N. Rakove (born 1947), U.S. Constitution and early politics
  • Šerbo Rastoder (born 1956), Montenegrin
  • Marcus Rediker (born 1951), Piracy and the Middle Passage
  • Robert V. Remini (1921–2013), Jacksonian U.S.
  • René Rémond (1918–2007), French politics
  • Timothy Reuter (1947–2002), Medieval Germany
  • Ofelia Rey Castelao (born 1956), Spanish Galician women
  • Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Australia
  • Susan Reynolds (1929–2021), medieval
  • Richard Rhodes (born 1937), World War II, hydrogen bomb
  • Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011), Russia
  • Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), Brazil
  • Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938–2016), Crusades
  • Blaze Ristovski (1931–2018), Macedonia
  • Charles Ritcheson (1925–2011), Anglo-US relations 1775–1815
  • Gerhard A. Ritter (1929–2015), Germany
  • Andrew Roberts (born 1963), Britain
  • Geoffrey Roberts (born 1952), World War II, Soviet Union
  • J. M. Roberts (1928–2003), Europe
  • Nicholas A. M. Rodger (born 1949), British naval
  • William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), ancient naval
  • Walter Rodney (1942–1980), Guyana
  • Vadim Rogovin (1937–1998), Soviet Union, Trotskyism
  • Theodore Ropp (1911–2000), military
  • W. J. Rorabaugh (1945–2020), 19th and 20th-century US
  • Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946), Hitler
  • Charles E. Rosenberg (born 1936), medicine and science
  • Stephen Roskill (1903–1982), British naval
  • Maarten van Rossem (born 1943), 20th-century US
  • María Rostworowski (1915–2016), Peruvian
  • Constance Rover (1910–2005), feminism
  • Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943), feminism, socialism
  • Herbert H. Rowen (1916–1999), Netherlands
  • A. L. Rowse (1903–1997), English
  • Miri Rubin (born 1956), social, Europe 1100–1600
  • George Rudé (1910–1993), French revolution
  • Robert W. Thurston (born 1949)
  • R. J. Rummel (1932–2014), genocide
  • Steven Runciman (1903–2000), Crusades
  • Leila J. Rupp (born 1950), feminist
  • Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004), 17th-century Britain
  • Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), World War II, popular
  • Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), Soviet
   [top]

S

  • Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonia
  • Andrey Sakharov (1930–2019), Russia
  • Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974), recent Britain and America
  • Usha Sanyal (living), Asian, Islam, Sufism
  • S. Srikanta Sastri (1904–1974), Indian
  • Simon Schama (born 1945), British, Dutch, US, French
  • Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
  • Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), Middle Ages
  • David Schoenbaum (born 1935), modern German and US–Israeli relations
  • Carl Emil Schorske (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
  • Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020), European diplomacy
  • D. M. Schurman (1924–2013), British imperial and naval
  • Marjan Schwegman (living), Dutch
  • Karl Schweizer (living), 18th-century European
  • Dorothy Schwieder, (1933–2014), Iowa
  • Joan Scott (born 1941), feminism
  • William Henry Scott (1921–1993), Philippines
  • Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983), ancient
  • Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinamese historian and former prime minister
  • Tom Segev (born 1945), Israeli
  • Lorelle D. Semley (born 1969), US historian of Africa
  • Robert Service (born 1947), Soviet, Russian
  • Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976), Rajasthan
  • Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011), ancient India
  • James J. Sheehan (born 1937), modern Germany
  • Michael S. Sherry (born 1945), 20c American military; LGBTQ
  • William L. Shirer (1904–1993), 20c Europe, Third Reich
  • Avi Shlaim (born 1945), Israel and the Middle East
  • He Shu (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution
  • Jack Simmons (1915–2000), English historian, railway history
  • Keith Sinclair (1922–1993), New Zealand
  • Helene J. Sinnreich (born 1975), Holocaust
  • Nathan Sivin (1931–2022), China
  • Quentin Skinner (born 1940), early modern Britain
  • Alexandre Skirda (1942–2020), Russia
  • Theda Skocpol (born 1947), institutions and comparative method; sociological
  • Richard Slotkin (born 1942), US environment and West
  • Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004), military history, American Old West
  • Digby Smith (1935–2024), military
  • Henry Nash Smith (1906–1986), US cultural
  • Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019), US foreign policy, constitutional law, biography
  • Page Smith (1917–1995), U.S.
  • Richard Norton Smith (born 1953), US presidential
  • T. C. Smout (born 1933), Scottish environmental and social
  • John Smolenski, (born 1973), American colonial period
  • Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993), German nationalism
  • Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969), Eastern Europe
  • Albert Soboul (1913–1982), French revolution
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian Gulag
  • Pat Southern (born 1948), ancient Rome
  • R. W. Southern (1912–2001), medieval
  • E. Lee Spence (born 1947), shipwrecks
  • Jonathan Spence (1936–2021), China
  • Jonathan Sperber (born 1952), US historian of Europe.
  • Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939), world
  • Kenneth Stampp (1912–2009), U.S. South, slavery
  • George Stanley (1907–2002), Canada
  • David Starkey (born 1945), Tudor
  • Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913—2004), world
  • James M. Stayer (born 1935), German Reformation
  • Valerie Steele (born 1955), fashion
  • Jonathan Steinberg (1934–2021), US historian of Germany
  • Jean Stengers (1922–2002), Belgian
  • Fritz Stern (1926–2016), Germany and Jewish
  • Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020), fascism
  • William N. Still, Jr. (1932–2022), US naval
  • Dan Stone (living), recent Europe
  • Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), early modern British social, economic and family
  • Norman Stone (1941–2019), military
  • Hew Strachan (born 1949), military
  • Barry S. Strauss (born 1953), ancient military
  • Michael Stürmer (born 1938), modern German
  • Ronald Suleski (born 1942), China
  • Ronald Grigor Suny (born 1940), Soviet Union, Armenia, Russia
  • Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), Soviet Union
  • Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient
  • David Syrett (1939–2004), British naval
   [top]

T

  • Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
  • J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
  • Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
  • A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
  • Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
  • Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
  • Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
  • Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
  • Françoise Thébaud (born 1952), history of women
  • Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), US ethnic
  • Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
  • Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
  • Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
  • Keith Thomas (born 1933), early modern Britain, culture
  • E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
  • Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, World War I Italy
  • Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963), Viking Age, Middle Ages
  • Charles Tilly (1929–2008), Modern Europe; politics and society
  • Louise A. Tilly (1930–2018), modern Europe; women, family
  • John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
  • K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
  • Adam Tooze (1967), economic history
  • Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
  • Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
  • Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
  • Gil Troy (born 1961), modern US, the Presidency
  • Marcel Trudel (1917–2011), New France, slavery in Canada
  • Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military
  • Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin
  • Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics
  • Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German
  • Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China
  • David Tyack (1930–2016), US education
   [top]

U

  • Walter Ullmann (1910–1983), medieval
  • Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938), early America
  • David Underdown (1925–2009), 17th-century England
  • Mladen Urem (born 1964), Croatian literary
  • Robert M. Utley (1929–2022), 19th-century US West
   [top]

V

  • Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China
  • Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), US Civil War
  • Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgium, Africa
  • Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), France, ancient Greece
  • Paul Veyne (1930–2022), France, ancient Greece and Rome
  • César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spain
  • Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), France, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
  • Richard Vinen (born 1963), Britain
  • Lynne Viola (born 1955), Soviet Union
  • Jaime Vicens Vives (1910–1960), Spain
  • Andrekos Varnava (born 1979), Australia, modern history
   [top]

W

  • John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinea
  • J. Samuel Walker (living), nuclear energy and weapons
  • Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), world-systems theory
  • Retha Warnicke (born 1939), Tudor and gender issues
  • Peter Watson (born 1943), intellectual history
  • Eugen Weber (1925–2007), modern French
  • Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997), 16th and 17th-century Europe
  • Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), 19th-century German social
  • Russell Weigley (1930–2004), military
  • Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928), Germany, World War II
  • Roberto Weiss (1906–1969), Renaissance
  • Emma J. Wells (born 1986), church history
  • Frank Welsh (1931–2023), British imperial
  • Christopher Whatley (living), Scotland
  • John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), Germany
  • John Whyte (1928–1990), Northern Ireland, divided societies
  • Christopher Wickham (born 1950), medieval
  • Robert H. Wiebe (1930–2000), American business and society
  • Toby Wilkinson (born 1969), ancient Egypt
  • Eric Williams (1911–1981), Guiana, Caribbean
  • Glanmor Williams (1920–2005), Wales
  • Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022), exploration
  • William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), US diplomacy
  • John Willingham (born 1946), Texas
  • Andrew Wilson (born 1961), Ukraine
  • Clyde N. Wilson (born 1941), 19th-century US South
  • Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious
  • Keith Windschuttle (born 1942), Australia; historiography
  • Henry Winkler (born 1938), German
  • Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
  • John B. Wolf (1907–1996), French
  • Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947), German Jewish
  • Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), medieval
  • Gordon S. Wood (born 1933), American Revolution
  • Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016), Marxist political and economic history
  • Michael Wood (born 1948), England
  • Thomas Woods (born 1972), America, conservatism
  • C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American South
  • Daniel Woolf (born 1958), Britain, historiography
  • Lucy Worsley (born 1973), Britain
  • Gordon Wright (1912–2000), modern France
  • Lawrence C. Wroth (1884–1970), US printing
   [top]

Y

  • Yen Ching-hwang (顏清湟, born 1937), writer, works on Overseas Chinese history
  • Robert J. Young (born 1942), French Third Republic
  • Robert M. Young (1935–2019), medicine
   [top]

Z

  • Gregorio F. Zaide (1907–1986), Philippines
  • Adam Zamoyski (born 1949), Napoleonic era
  • Anna Żarnowska (1931–2007), Polish historian
  • Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947), German
  • Yuri Zhukov (1938–2023), Soviet
  • Howard Zinn (1922–2010), US
  • Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), German
  • Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961), Poland, Kraków
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