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.

AntiquityHistorians and chroniclers of the Ancient World

Greco-Roman world

Classical period

• Herodotus (484 – ), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories, which established Western historiography

• Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponnesian War

• Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates

• Ctesias (early 4th century BCE), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history

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

• Eupolemus, Hellenistic Jewish historian

• Gaius Acilius (), 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 (), 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-century 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-century 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 century), 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

• 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 AgesHistorians and chroniclers of the Medieval World

Byzantine sphere

• 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

Early Middle Ages

• Gildas (500–570), On the Ruin of Briain

• Gregory of Tours (538–594), A History of the Franks

• Baudonivia (), 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 champagne

• 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

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 (), French monk and historian

• Hrostvitha of Gandersheim (935–978), Saxon canoness, poet and historian

11th century

• Ahimaaz ben Paltiel (1017–1060) – known as the compiler of the Chronicle of 1054, a chronicle of Jewish Byzantine Italy

• Thietmar of Merseburg (975–1018), German, Polish, and Russian affairs

• Michael Psellus (1018 – c. 1078), Greek politician and historian

• Marianus Scotus (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler

• Michael Attaleiates (c. 1015 – c. 1080), Byzantine historian

• Guibert of Nogent (1053–1124), Benedictine historian

• Eadmer (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history

• Adam of Bremen (later 11th century), historian of Scandinavia, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum

12th century

• Abraham ibn Daud (1110–1180), Sephardic Jewish author of Sefer ha-Qabbalah

• Albert of Aix (), historian of the First Crusade

• Alured of Beverley (fl. 1143), English chronicler

• Ambroise (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman writer of verse narrative of the Third Crusade

• Anna Komnene (Anna Comnena, 1083 – post-1148), Byzantine princess and historian

• Bele Regis Notarius(late 12th century – early 13th century), Hungarian chronicler. Gesta Hungarorum.

• Eliezer ben Nathan (1090–1170), Jewish chronicler of the Rhineland massacres from Mainz

• Ephraim of Bonn (1132–1200 or 1221), Jewish chronicler

• Florence of Worcester (died 1118), English chronicler

• Galbert of Bruges (12th century), Flemish chronicler

• Gallus Anonymus (fl. 11th – 12th centuries), Polish historian

• Geoffrey Gaimar (fl. 1130s), Anglo-Norman chronicler

• Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100 – c. 1155), churchman/historian

• Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c. 1160–1212)

• Helmold of Bosau (ca. 1120 – post-1177), German chronicler

• John of Worcester (fl. 1150s), English chronicler

• Otto of Freising (c. 1114–1158), German chronicler

• Pelagius of Oviedo (died 1153), Iberian bishop/historian

• Saxo Grammaticus (12th century), Danish chronicler

• Solomon bar Simson (1140), Jewish chronicler of the Crusades in Mainz

• Svend Aagesen (c. 1140/1150 – unknown date), Danish historian

• Symeon of Durham (died post-1129), English chronicler

• William of Malmesbury (1095–1143), English historian

• William of Newburgh (1135–1198), English historian known as "the father of historical criticism"

• William of Tyre (c. 1128–1186)

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 (), 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

• 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), Arab historian

• Ibn Hazm (994–1064), Arab historian

• Al-Udri (born 1003), Arab historian

• Mohammed al-Baydhaq (), Moroccan historian

• Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188), Arab historian

• Ali ibn al-Athir (1160–1233), Arab historian

• 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 Kathir (1300–1373), Arab historian and Scholar

• Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315), Moroccan historian

• Ibn Idhari (late 13th/early 14th c.), Moroccan Arab historian

• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1317), Persian historian

• Abdullah Wassaf (1299–1323), Persian historian

• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), Arab historian

• Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387–1406), Arab 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 Pusik (김부식, 1075–1151), Korean historian, author of Samguk Sagi

• Li Xinchuan (, 1167–1244), Chinese historian of the Southern Song

• 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

1. Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern"

2. Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian

3. Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian

4. Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian

5. Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler

6. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories

7. Hector Boece (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, author of Historia Gentis Scotorum

8. Albert Krantz (1450–1517), German historian

9. Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history

10. 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)

11. Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"

12. Paolo Giovio (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, Historiae

13. Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian of the Council of Trent

14. Olaus Magnus (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic

15. Kaspar Helth (1490–1574), Transylvanian Saxon historian and Protestant preacher.

16. Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), Hungarian/Wallachian chronicler. H

17. João de Barros (1496–1570), Portuguese historian

18. Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), Swiss historian

19. Oliver Mathews (c. 1520–c. 1618), Welsh chronicler

20. Josias Simmler (1530–1576), Swiss classicist

21. Ferenc Forgách (bishop of Várad) (1530–1577), Hungarian historian

22. Arild Huitfeldt (1546–1609), Denmark

23. Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580), chronicler, source for Shakespeare plays

24. Caesar Baronius (1538–1607), ecclesiastical historian

25. Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs

26. Miklós Istvánffy (1538–1615) Hungarian historian

27. Paolo Paruta (1540–1598), Venetian historian

28. Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), Spanish historian of Inca history

29. Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (). Irish historian

Early modern period

Western historians of the early modern period and the Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment, c. 1600–1815

• John Hayward (1564–1627)

• James Ussher (1581–1656), chronology of the history of the world

• Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch Republic

• William Bradford (1590–1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America

• Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590–1643), Irish historian

• Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English historian and churchman

• Tadhg Óg Ó Cianáin (died c. 1614), Irish historian

• Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (Peregrine O'Clery) (died c. 1662/1664), Irish historian

• Sir James Ware (1594–1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian

• Arthur Wilson (1595–1652), 16th-century Britain

• Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685), Italian historian

• Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist

• Mary Bonaventure Browne (c. 1610 – c. 1670), Poor Clare and Irish historian

• Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain (), Irish historian

• Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629–1716/1718), Irish historian

• Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian

• Christoph Cellarius (1638–1707), German universal historian

• Constantin Catntacuzino (1639–1716), Wallachian Historian

• John Strype (1643–1737), English historian

• Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), English historian and antiquary

• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671), Irish historian, annalist, genealogist

• Geoffrey Keating/Seathrún Céitinn (died 1643), Irish historian

• Đorđe Branković (1645–1711), Serbian history

• Josiah Burchett (1666–1746), British naval historian and CEmiralty official

• Anton Mariah Del Chiaro (1669-aft.1727), the author of a book on the history of Wallachia.

• Laurence Echard (c. 1670–1730), England

• Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), Italy

• Manuel Teles da Silva, 3rd Marquis of Alegrete (1682–1736), Portuguese historian

• Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Lutheran pastor and polymath from Kingdom of Hungary

• Moses Williams (1685–1742), Welsh scholar and antiquarian

• Archibald Bower (1686–1766), historian of Rome

• Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia

• Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history

• Voltaire (1694–1778), writer on Europe and France

• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694–1755), Lutheran historian

• Charlotta Frölich (1698–1770), Swedish historian

• Francis Blomefield (1705–1752), historian of Norfolk, England

• David Hume (1711–1776), History of England

• Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780), colonial Massachusetts

• Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist

• William Robertson (1721–1793), Scottish historian

• György Pray (1723–1801), Hungarian abbot and historian

• Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Austrian Serb historian

• Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799), German historian

• Edward Hasted (1732–1812), English antiquarian and Kent historian

• Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733–1790), Russian historian

• August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809), German historian

• John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), English naval historian and geographer

• Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium

• Alexander Hewat (or Hewatt) (1739–1824), colonial Carolina and Georgia

• Benjamin Incledon (1730–1796), English antiquary and school historian

• Philip Yorke (1743–1804), Welsh historian and politician

• Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), philosophy of the history of mankind

• Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813), Spanish historian

• David Ramsay (1749–1815), American Revolution; South Carolina

• Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), Switzerland

• Pauline de Lézardière (1754–1835), French law historian

• Anton Tomaz Linhart (1756–1795), known for Slovenian history

• Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German historian

• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766–1826), Russian historian, Russian Empire

• György Fejér (1766–1851) Hungarian author

• Francesco Maria Appendini (1768–1837), Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa

• Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German historian

Jewish

• Abraham Zacuto (1452–1515)

• Solomon ibn Verga (1460–1554)

• Abraham ben Solomon (b. 1482)

• Gedaliah ibn Yahya (–1587)

• Samuel Usque (1500–after 1555)

• Joseph ha-Kohen (1496–1575)

• Elijah Capsali (1483–1555)

• David Gans (1541–1613)

• Azariah de Rossi (1513–78)

• David Conforte (–)

• Jehiel Heilprin (1660–1746)

• Nathan Hannover (d. 1663)

• Menahem Amelander (d. 1767)

• Abraham Braatbard (1699–1786)

• Chaim Azulai (1724–1806)

• Abraham Trebitsch (–)

• Salomo Löwisohn (1789–1821)

Middle East and Islamic Empires

• 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

• Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), English historical writer and biographer

• Lucas Alamán (1792–1853), Mexican historian, conservative statesman and writer

• 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

• Isaak Markus Jost (1793–1860), Jewish history

• 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)

• José María Luis Mora (1792–1853), Mexican priest, lawyer, historian, politician and liberal ideologist

• 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

• Leopold Zunz (1794–1886), Jewish history

Historians born in the 19th century

A

• Lord Acton (1834–1902), Europe

• Henry Adams (1838–1918), US 1800–1816

• Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847–1919), Oregon

• Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), Jewish history

• Robert G. Albion (1896–1983), maritime

• Mário de Andrade (1893–1945), Brazil, history of art

• Charles McLean Andrews (1863–1943), US; US colonial history

• Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918), France

• Alfred von Arneth (1819–1897), history of the Austrian Empire

• Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies

• William Ashley (1860–1927), British economic history

• Octave Aubry (1881–1946)

• François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French Revolution and Napoleon I

• Zurab Avalishvili (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus

B

• Dmytro Bahalii (1857–1932), Ukraine, Russia

• Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France

• Meir Balaban (1877–1942), Polish-Jewish

• George Bancroft (1800–1891), U.S. to 1789

• Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), western United States

• R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion

• Salo Baron (1895–1989), Jewish history

• Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas

• Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies

• Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879–1943), Ukraine

• 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), Age of Enlightenment

• Max Beer (1864–1943), imperialism

• Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia

• Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe

• Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), political history, social history and philosophy of history

• Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S.

• Karl Bittel (1892–1969), Germany

• I. M. E. Blandin (1838–1912), Southern U.S.

• Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosophy of history, political history and social history

• Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School

• Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish–U.S. borderlands

• Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), Soviet

• Amadeo Bordiga (1889–1970), political history and social history

• Octávio Brandão (1896–1980), Brazil, economic history, social history, political history

• 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

• Serhii Buhoslavskyi (1888–1946), Ukraine, art history

• Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938), Russia, political history, social history, economic history

• Edvard Bull Sr. (1881–1932), Norway

• Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance

• John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history

• J. B. Bury (1861–1927), Anglo-Irish historian of the medieval Roman epoch, philologist

C

• 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

• David Cassel (1818–1893), Jewish studies

• 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

• Zakaria Chichinadze (1854–1931), Georgian literature

• V. Gordon Childe (1892–1957), archaeology

• Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), US West, fur trade

• Giorgi Chubinashvili (1885–1973), Georgian art

• 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

• James Connolly (1868–1916), Ireland, political history

• Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval

• Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia

• Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South

• Elizabeth Crawford, British and Irish women's suffrage

• 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

D

• Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval

• Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), historian and interdisciplinarian

• 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

• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), Africa, African-American, slavery, political history, cultural history

• Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India

• Hermann Duncker (1874–1960), social history, political history

• Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe

• Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe

E

• Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization

• Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe

• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism

F

• 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

• Fernando Ortiz Fernández (1881–1969), Afro-Cuban history

• Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England

• Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940)

• Walter L. Fleming (1874–1932), US Reconstruction

• Vilmos Fraknói (1843–1924), Hungary, Hungarian ecclesiastical history

• 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

G

• 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

• Ghulam Muhammad Ghobar (1897–1978), Afghanistan

• Wilhelm von Giesebrecht (1814–1889), Germany, medieval history

• 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

• Herman Gorter (1864–1927), political history, classical

• Emma Graf (1865–1926), Swiss women

• Heinrich Graetz (1817–1891), Jewish history

• Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italy, political history, social history, cultural history, history of philosophy

• 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

• Ioseb Grishashvili (1889–1965), Georgian literature

• Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec

• René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history

• James Guillaume (1844–1916), labor history

• Guo Moruo (郭沫若) (1892–1978), China

H

• Élie Halévy (1870–1937), modern Britain

• Louis Halphen (1880–1950), Middle Ages

• Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960), Latin American history

• Mary Dormer Harris (1867–1936), medieval

• 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

• John Donald Hicks (1890–1972), American politics

• Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French history and geography

• Otto Hintze (1861–1940), German

• Serafima Hopner (1880–1966), Soviet

• Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), social history, cultural history, political history

• Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungary

• Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923), British historian and geologist

• Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian history

• Hu Sheng (1918–2000), Chinese

• Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages

I

• Ibn Zaydan (1873–1946), Moroccan historian

• Dmitry Ilovaisky (1832–1920), Russian history

• Marilla Baker Ingalls (1828–1902), Burmese missionary and historian

• Harold Innis (1894–1952), Canadian economic history

J

• Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan

• Muhammad Jaber Āl Safa (also spelled Jabir Al Safa) (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 the University of Oxford

• Ellen Jørgensen (1877–1948), Danish historian and historiographer

K

• Sargis Kakabadze (1886–1967), Georgia, Middle Ages

• Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian

• Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), Ukrainian historian

• Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws

• Hajime Kawakami (1879–1946), Japan, economic history, political history

• Eckart Kehr (1902–1933), Germany, social history, economic history

• Korneli Kekelidze (1879–1962), Georgian literature

• 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

• Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War

• William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian

• Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history

• Vilhelm Knorin (1890–1939), political 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 Fuat Köprülü, also known as Köprülüzade Mehmed Fuad (1890–1966), Turkish historian

• Yannis Kordatos (1891–1961), ancient, Byzantine history and modern Greece

• Myron Korduba (1876–1947), Ukraine

• Karl Korsch (1886–1961), Germany, political history

• Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history

• Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history

• Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historian

• Otto Kuusinen (1881–1964), Finland, political history, literary history

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

• Johann Martin Lappenberg (1794–1865), German medieval historian

• 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

• Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), labor, political history, cultural history, philosophy of history, economic history, social history, history of philosophy

• Anna Lewis (1885–1961), southwestern 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

• Emil Ludwig (1881–1948), Germany, modern Europe

• György Lukács (1885–1971), history of literature, art history and philosophy of history

• Nikolai Lukin (1885–1940), France, Germany, economic history

• Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919), social history, political history

M

• Thomas Macaulay (1800–1859), British

• R. B. McCallum (1898–1973) British

• J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), Scottish

• William Archibald Mackintosh (1895–1970), Canadian economic

• Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), naval

• Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English legal, medieval

• Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888–1980), Indian history

• Edgar J. March (1897–1971) British maritime history

• Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), social history, cultural history, political history

• José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), Latin America, Peru, political history, economic history, history of philosophy

• J. A. R. Marriott (1859–1945), modern Britain and Europe

• Karl Marx (1818–1883), European society and economy

• Albert Mathiez (1874–1932), French Revolution

• Franz Mehring (1846–1919), political history, history of philosophy

• Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), German intellectual and cultural

• Krste Misirkov (1874–1926), Macedonian philologist, journalist, historian, folklorist and ethnographer

• Auguste Molinier (1851–1904), Middle Ages

• Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), Roman Empire

• Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), Spain

• Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), naval, American colonial

• John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), the Netherlands

• Lewis Mumford (1895–1988), cities

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

• Theodor Neubauer (1890–1945), Germany, political history

• Allan Nevins (1890–1971), US political and business; Civil War; biography

• A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire

• Nikolai Nikolsky, (1877–1959), Oriental studies, religious

• Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), Serbian

O

• Charles Oman (1860–1946), 19th-century military

• Herbert L. Osgood (1855–1918), American colonial

P

• K. M. Panikkar (1895–1963), Indian historian

• Anna Pankratova (1897–1957), Soviet Union

• Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), history of astronomy

• 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

• Arvīds Pelše (1899–1983), political history

• 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

• Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), economic 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

• Adam Próchnik (1892–1942), Poland, French Revolution, social history

Q

• Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages

R

• Christian Rakovsky (1873–1941), political history

• David Riazanov (1893–1974), political history and history of philosophy

• William Pember Reeves (1870–1938), 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

• Arthur Rosenberg (1889–1943), Imperial Germany, German Republic, political history

• Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), ancient history

• Cecil Roth (1899–1970), Jewish history

• Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), modern German

• Roman Rosdolsky, (1898–1967), Eastern Europe

• M. N. Roy (1887–1954), India, political history, social history

• Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), history of economics

• Sergei Rudenko (1885–1969), Ukraine, Russian archaeology

• Simon Rutar (1851–1903), Slovenian

• Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), Serbian

S

• Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history

• Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian

• Ferenc Salamon (1825–1892), Ottoman Hungary

• Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), medieval and church

• Gaetano Salvemini (1873–1957), Italy

• 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

• Gershom Scholem (1897–1982), Jewish mysticism

• Moses Schorr (1874–1941), Polish-Jewish

• Albert Schreiner (1892–1979), Germany

• W. C. Sellar (1898–1951), co-author of 1066 and All That

• Victor Serge (1890–1947), Russia

• Ekaterina Shchepkina (1854–1938), Russia

• Andrey Shestakov, (1877–1941), Soviet history, agriculture

• Shin Chaeho (신채호, 1880–1936), Korean

• Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian

• Endre Sík (1891–1978), Hungary

• 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

• Werner Sombart (1863–1941), Germany, economic history

• Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; The Decline of the West

• Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878–1953), labor, political history, economic history

• Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia

• Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe

• Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907), Jewish studies and Jewish history

• Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval

• Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval

• Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West

• Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000), history of mathematics

• William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law

• Alexander Svanidze (1886–1941), Ancient

• László Szalay (1813–1864), Hungarian historian

T

• Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French Revolution

• Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1853–1920), ancient art history

• Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), Russian historian

• Angelo Tasca (1892–1960), Italy, political history

• A. Wyatt Tilby (1880–1948), Britain, The English People Overseas

• Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), France

• Zeki Velidi Togan (1890–1970), Turkic history

• Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898)

• Dona Torr (1883–1957), political history, social history, cultural history

• Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929), England

• Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), world history, A Study of History

• Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834–1896), German historian and nationalist

• George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962), British

• Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), Soviet

• Mikheil Tsereteli (1878–1965), Georgian historian

• Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), US frontier

• Renáta Tyršová (1854–1937), Czech ethnography and art history

U

• Frank Underhill (1889–1971), Canadian

V

• Alfred Vagts (1892–1986), Germany, military

• Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England

• Vyacheslav Volgin (1879–1962), communism

W

• Annie Russell Wall (1835–1920), English historian

• Spencer Walpole (1839–1907), English historian

• Max Weber (1864–1920), social history, history of religion, economic history

• 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

Y

• Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (1878–1943), Soviet Union

• Yi Byeongdo (이병도, 1896–1989), Korea

Z

• Nicolas Zafra (1892–1979), Philippines

• Mao Zedong (1893–1976), China, labor, economic history, political history, cultural history

• Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856), Celts

• Faddei Zielinski (1859–1944), ancient Greece

Historians born in the 20th century 20th century

A

• Raouf Abbas (1939–2008), Egyptian

• Irving Abella (1940–2022), Canadian

• Aberjhani (born 1957), African American, Harlem Renaissance, literary

• Ervand Abrahamian (born 1940), Iran

• Perseu Abramo (1929–1996), Brazil, social history

• David Abulafia (born 1949), Mediterranean

• Omar Acha (born 1971), Argentina

• Erwin Ackerknecht (1906–1988), cultural history, social history

• Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina

• Donald Adamson (1939–2024), Britain

• Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), cultural history, social history

• 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

• James S. Allen (1906–1986), America

• Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), America, Hiroshima

• Romano Alquati (1935–2010), Italy, labor history, political history

• Louis Althusser (1918–1990), history of philosophy, political history, philosophy of history

• 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

• Mahdi Amel (1936–1987), Lebanon

• Samir Amin (1931–2018), history of economics, political history, social history

• Yoshihiko Amino (1928–2004), Japan

• Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), French, Nazi occupation of France

• Atholl Anderson (born 1943), New Zealand

• Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Southeast Asia, intellectual and political history

• Perry Anderson (born 1938), British and European

• Pavao Anđelić (1920–1985) Bosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian

• Joyce Appleby (1929–2016), U.S. early national

• Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), African-American

• Leonie Archer (born 1955), England

• Giulio Carlo Argan (1909–1992), Italian art

• 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

• Steven Attewell (1984–2024), public policy in 20th-century America

• 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

B

• Alain Badiou (born 1937), history of philosophy

• Nigel Bagnall (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece

• Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020), early America; Atlantic

• Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975), archaeology and art history

• Sergio Bagú (1911–2002), Argentina, economic history

• 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

• Walter Bartel (1904–1992), German political history

• H. Arnold Barton (1929–2016), Scandinavia

• Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide

• Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), cultural

• Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), Peru

• Leôncio Basbaum (1907–1969), Brazil

• Hanna Batatu (1926–2000), Palestinian, modern Iraq

• Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), France, political history, economic history

• K. Jack Bauer (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime

• Roland Bauer (1928–2017), Germany, political history

• Yehuda Bauer (1926–2024), Holocaust

• Angelica Bäumer (1932–2025), Art

• 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

• Esther Benbassa (born 1950), Jewish history

• Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944), Morocco

• Laurence Bergreen (born 1950), biography

• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), ideas

• Rowland Berthoff (1921–2001), American culture

• Giuseppe Berti (1901–1979), Italy, political history

• Michael Beschloss (born 1955), Cold War

• Juliette Bessis, (1925–2017), Tunisia

• Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), Soviet

• Charles Bettelheim (1913–2006), political history, economic history

• Robert Bickers (born 1964), modern China and colonialism

• Judith Binney (1940–2011), New Zealand

• Anthony Birley (1937–2020), Ancient Rome

• Yael Bitrán (born 1965), musicology

• David Blackbourn (born 1949), German

• Robin Blackburn (born 1940), social history

• Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian

• Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English

• Gisela Bock (born 1942), German feminist

• Sandra Boehringer (born 1972), Gender and sexuality

• Brian Bond (1936–2025), British military

• Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938–2020), US dance historian

• Robert Bonfil (born 1937), Jewish history

• Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), US

• Georges Bordonove (1920–2007), France

• Alfredo Bosi (1936–2021), Brazilian literature

• John Boswell (1947–1994), medievalist

• Robert Bothwell (born 1944), Canada

• Gérard Bouchard (born 1943), Canada

• Fay Bound Alberti (born 1971), histories of medicine, emotions, the body

• Joanna Bourke (born 1963), military

• Steven Bowman, Jewish history

• 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

• Ray Brassier (born 1965), philosophical history

• Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean

• Ahron Bregman (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict

• Michael Brenner (born 1964), Jewish history

• Robert Brenner (born 1943), US history, economic history, agriculture

• 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 (born 1968), early-modern French history, cultural history

• Peter Brown (born 1935), medieval

• Christopher Browning (born 1944), Holocaust

• Aleks Buda (1910–1993), Albania

• Nikolai Bugay (born 1941), Soviet Union

• Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982), Brazil

• Alan Bullock (1914–2004), 1940s, Hitler studies

• Colin Bundy (born 1944), South Africa

• Peter Burke (born 1937), modern period, cultural history

• Michael Burlingame (born 1941), Abraham Lincoln

• J. P. T. Bury (1908–1987), modern France

• 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

C

• Xiao Chua (born 1984), Filipino history

• Sima Ćirković (1929–2009) Yugoslav and Serbian historian

• Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973), Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, social history, political history

• Claude Cahen (1909–1991), Islamic Middle Ages, social history

• Angus Calder (1942–2008), World War II

• Alice Piffer Canabrava (1911–2003), Brazil

• Philip L. Cantelon (born 1940), US

• Andrea Carandini (born 1937), Ancient Rome

• Edison Carneiro (1912–1972), Brazil, Afro-Brazilian, political history, cultural history

• 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

• José Murilo de Carvalho (1939–2023), Brazil

• Lionel Casson (1914–2009), classicist

• Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), social history, political history and philosophy of history

• 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 (1968–2004), China

• Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975), maritime

• François Châtelet, (1925–1985), philosophical history

• Maher Charif (living), Arabic intellectual history and political movements

• Yevhen Chernenko (1934–2007), Ukrainian archaeology

• 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

• Jeremy Cowan (1923–2013), Southeast Asia

• Mario Coyula Cowley (1935–2014), Cuban architecture

• 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

• Álvaro Cunhal (1913–2005), Portugal, political history

• Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), archaeology

• Bruce Cumings (born 1943), East Asia, Korea

• Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (born 1949), Bolivia

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

• Mahir Darziev (born 1957), Azerbaijan

• Saul David (born 1966), military

• John Davies (1938–2015), Wales

• Norman Davies (born 1939), Poland, Britain

• Kenneth S. Davis (1912–1999), Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Mike Davis (1946–2022), labor history, economic history

• 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

• Guy Debord (1931–1994), cultural history, social history

• Carl N. Degler (1921–2014), US

• Len Deighton (born 1929), British military

• Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), history of philosophy

• Esther Delisle (born 1954), French-Canadian

• Jean Delumeau (1923–2020), Catholic Church

• Jacques Derrida (1930–2004), social history, history of philosophy

• Marcel Detienne (1935–2019), ancient Greece

• Alexandre Deulofeu (1903–1978), Catalan

• Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Soviet

• T. M. Devine (Tom Devine) (born 1945), Scottish

• Wu Di (吴迪, born 1951), China

• Igor M. Diakonov (1914–1999), ancient Near East

• Hasia Diner (1946-), American-Jewish

• Arif Dirlik (1940–2017), China, economic history, cultural history

• Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983), Political history

• 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

• Hal Draper (1914–1990), political history, history of marxism

• Georges Duby (1924–1996), Middle Ages

• William S. Dudley (born 1936), US naval

• 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

• Enrique Dussel (1934–2023), Latin America

• Harold James Dyos (1921–1978), British urban

E

• Terry Eagleton (born 1943), political history, art history, cultural history

• Robert Dudley Edwards (1909–1988), Ireland

• Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing

• Geoff Eley (born 1949), German

• Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), history of religion

• John Elliott (1930–2022), Spanish

• Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943), early US

• David Eltis, transatlantic slave trade

• Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Tudor England

• Peter Englund (born 1957), Sweden

• Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939), Britain

• Gøsta Esping-Andersen (born 1947), Denmark, social history

• Richard J. Evans (born 1947), German social

• Alf Evers (1905–2004), America

F

• Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), history of colonialism

• 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

• Halima Ferhat (born 1941), Middle Ages of the Maghreb

• Božidar Ferjančić (1929–1998), medieval

• Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazil, social history, political history

• 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

• Sérgio Ferro (born 1938), architecture

• Joachim Fest (1926–2006), Nazi Germany

• David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Jewish

• Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), medieval, diplomacy

• David Kenneth Fieldhouse (1925–2018), British Empire

• Federico Brito Figueroa (1921–2000), Venezuela

• Orlando Figes (born 1957), Russian

• Robert O. Fink (1905–1988), classical

• Norman Finkelstein (born 1953), Israel, Palestine

• Moses Finley (1912–1986), ancient, especially economic

• Edith Firth (1927–2005), early Toronto, art

• 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

• David Flusser (1917–2000), early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism

• Robert Fogel (1926–2013), US economic, cliometrics

• Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction

• Neil Foley (born 1965), US ethnic and racial history

• Philip S. Foner (1910–1994), US history, political history, labor history

• 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

• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), US South, cultural and social, women

• Andre Gunder Frank (1929–2005), Latin America, economic history, agriculture

• Walter Frank (1905–1945), Nazi historian

• H. Bruce Franklin (1934–2024), Vietnam War

• Antonia Fraser (born 1932), England

• Frank Freidel (1916–1993), Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Olival Freire Jr. (born 1954), history of physics

• 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

• Amos Funkenstein (1937–1995), Jewish history

• François Furet (1927–1997), French Revolution

G

• Femme Gaastra (born 1945), Dutch

• John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), Cold War

• Alberto Flores Galindo (1949–1990), Peru

• 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, Age of 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

• Adolfo Gilly (1928–2023), Latin America, political history

• Carlo Ginzburg (1939–2026), social history

• Martin Glaberman (1918–2001), US society and political history

• Jan Glete (1947–2009), Swedish

• Elizaveta I. Gnevusheva (1916–1994), Dutch India

• Vitorino Magalhães Godinho (1930–2016), Portugal, social history, economic history

• Eric F. Goldman (1916–1989), 20th-century US

• Lucien Goldmann (1913–1970), Social history, history of philosophy

• 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

• Yefim Gorodetsky (1907–1993), Soviet history

• Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Central Asian history

• Kurt Gossweiler (1917–2017), economics of fascism

• 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 (1924–2024), 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

• Ramón Grosfoguel (born 1956), Puerto Rico, colonial history

• Boris Grushin (1929–2007), political history

• Serge Gruzinski (born 1949), Latin America

• Ramachandra Guha (born 1958), India, environment

• Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), Indian

• Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet

• Gunnar Gunnarson (1918–2002), Sweden

• Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites

• John Guy (born 1949), Tudor England

H

• Jürgen Habermas (1929–2026), social history

• Rebekka Habermas (1959–2023), historical anthropology

• 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

• Orit Halpern, historian and cyberneticist

• Pekka Hämäläinen (born 1967), Native-American history

• 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

• Donna Haraway (born 1944), history of consciousness

• Mohamed Harbi (1933–2026), Algeria

• Antoinette Harrell (born 1960), post-slavery peonage of African-American sharecroppers

• Aroha Harris (born 1963), New Zealand

• Daniel Gibson Harris (1915–2007). Swedish naval

• Dick Harrison (born 1966), Swedish and medieval

• Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual

• Edgar Hartwig (born 1928), Germany, political history

• Gerhart Hass (1931–2008), Germany

• Max Hastings (born 1945), military, World War II

• John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime

• Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995), 17th/18th-century European international

• Georges Haupt (1928–1978), Romania, Hungary, political history, labor history, history of literature

• 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

• Michael Heinrich (born 1957), philosophy

• Jean van Heijenoort (1912–1986), mathematical logic

• 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

• Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910–1982), Africa

• Marshall Hodgson (1922–1968), Islamic

• Peter Hoffmann (1930–2023), national socialism

• Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), US political

• Richard Hoggart (1918–2014), England, social history

• 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

• Katrina Honeyman (1950–2011), economic

• 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

• Gerald Horne (born 1949), US history, African-American, political history, labor history

• Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), US cultural

• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women

• Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle East

• Youssef Hourany (1931–2019), Lebanon, ancient

• François Houtart (1925–2017), France, history of religion, political history

• Michael Howard (1922–2019), military

• Ray Huang (1918–2000), China

• Leo Huberman (1903–1968), political history

• Robert Hughes (1938–2012), Australia, cities

• Marnie Hughes-Warrington (born 1970), historiography, philosophy of history

• Gershon Hundert (1946–2023), Jewish, early-modern Eastern Europe

• Andrew Hunt (born 1968), Cold War America

• Tristram Hunt (born 1974)

• Mark C. Hunter (born 1974), naval

• Paula Hyman (1946–2011), American-Jewish social history

I

• Octavio Ianni (1926–2004), Brazil, labor history, social history

• Moshe Idel (born 1947), Jewish history

• Georg Iggers (German, 1926–2017), modern Europe, historiography, and European intellectual history

• Halil Inalcik (Turkish, 1916–2016), Ottoman Empire

• Kiyoshi Inoue (Japanese, 1913–2001), modern Japanese history

• Jonathan Israel (British, born 1946), Netherlands, the Age of Enlightenment, Jewry

J

• Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), Nazi Germany

• John Archibald Getty (1950–2025)

• Julian T. Jackson (born 1954), French

• C. L. R. James (1862–1935), Trinidad/England

• Harold James (born 1956), modern Germany

• Frederic Jameson (1934–2024), social history, cultural history

• Nikoloz Janashia (1931–1982), Georgia and Caucasus

• Simon Janashia (1900–1947), Georgia and Caucasus

• Ea Jansen (1921–2005), Finno-Ugric

• 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

• Julio César Jobet (1912–1980), Chile

• Khasnor Johan (born 1968), 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

K

• Donald Kagan (1932–2021), ancient Greece

• George McTurnan Kahin (1918–2000), Southeast Asia

• 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

• Alexander Kazhdan (1922–1997), Bizantine studies

• Anna Keay (born 1974), early-modern England

• Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East

• Rod Kedward (1937–2023), 20th-century France

• John Keegan (1934–2012), military

• Robin Kelley (born 1962), US history, African-American, political history

• 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

• Maina wa Kinyatti (born 1944), Kenya

• Pierre Kipré (born 1945), Ivory Coast

• Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), 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

• Alfred Klahr (1904–1944), Austria

• Fritz Klein (historian) (1924–2011), Germany, political history

• 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

• Leo Kofler (1907–1995), Germany, social history

• Frank Kofsky (1935–1997), jazz

• 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

• Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, (1907–1966), India

• Ernst Kossmann (1922–2003), Low Countries

• Conor Kostick (born 1964), medieval

• Stephen Kotkin (born 1959), Russia, Soviet Union

• Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China

• Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science

• Robert Kurz (1943–2012), social history, economic history

• Myoma Myint Kywe (1960–2021), Burmese historian, journalist and belletrist

L

• Dubravko Lovrenović (1956–2017) Bosnian and Yugoslav historian

• Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021), U.S. 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

• Đinh Xuân Lâm (1925–2017), Vietnam

• 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

• Eusebio Leal (1942–2020), Cuba

• Robert Leckie (1920–2001), U.S. military

• Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), France, history of ideas, social history

• Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976), intellectual and cultural history

• Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004), Korean

• Jill Lepore (born 1966), America

• William Leuchtenburg (1922–2025), U.S. political and legal

• Barbara Levick (1931–2023), 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 Minqi (born 1969), Chinese, social history, political history

• Li Ao (1935–2018), Chinese

• Raffaele Licinio (1945–2018), medieval Italy

• Marcel Liebman (1929–1986), Marxism

• Peter Linebaugh (born 1942), Atlantic, British history, Irish history, labor history

• Kristen Lippincott ( 2026), art and cultural history

• 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

• Domenico Losurdo (1941–2018), political history

• Michael Löwy (born 1938), Social history, political history

• John Lukacs (1924–2019), modern Europe

• Cesare Luporini (1909–1993), history of philosophy

M

• Achille Mbembe (born 1957), Cameroon

• Joseph A. McCartin (born 1959), American labor

• David McLellan (political scientist) (born 1940), political history, social history

• 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-century BCE – 2nd-century CE

• Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), Norse

• Charles S. Maier (born 1939), 20th-century Europe

• Paul L. Maier (1930–2025), ancient history

• Pauline Maier (1938–2013), early America

• Leonid Makhnovets (1919–1993), Ukrainian literature

• Leonard Maltin (born 1950), film

• William Manchester (1922–2004), Churchill

• Ernest Mandel (1923–1995), Belgium, economic history

• 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

• Manning Marable (1950–2011), African-American, political history

• Sam Marcy (1911–1998), Political history

• Arthur Marder (1910–1980), British naval

• Ruy Mauro Marini (1932–1997), Latin America and economic history

• 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

• Paul Mattick (1904–1981), Germany, economic history, political history, labor history

• 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

• Sarah Maza (born ), early modern and modern France

• Mark Mazower (born 1958), Balkans, Greece

• Santo Mazzarino (1916–1987), Ancient Rome

• 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

• Randall H. McGuire (born 1951), archaeology

• 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

• Michael McWilliam (born 1933), British Commonwealth

• Jon Meacham (born 1969), US presidency

• D. W. Meinig (1924–2020), US geography

• Giorgi Melikishvili (1918–2002), Georgia, Caucasus, Middle East

• Evaldo Cabral de Mello (born 1936), Dutch Brazil

• Russell Menard (living), colonial American

• Thomas C. Mendenhall (1910–1998), history of sport

• René Zavaleta Mercado (1937–1984), Bolivia

• Josef W. Meri (born 1969), Islamic world, Jews

• John M. Merriman (1946–2022), France

• Barbara Metcalf (born 1941), India

• Roin Metreveli (born 1939), Georgia and Caucasus

• Michael A. Meyer, (1937-), Jewish history

• Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020), medieval Serbia

• Ralph Miliband (1924–1994), political history, social history

• 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 (1927–2024), Derbent, Dagestan, Russia

• Arnaldo Momigliano (1908–1987), ancient world

• 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

• Harri Moora (1900–1968), Estonian archaeology

• Enrique Ayala Mora (born 1950), Ecuador

• Franco Moretti (born 1950), Italy, literary history

• 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, sexual

• Hans Mottek (1910–1993), Economic history, Germany

• Roland Mousnier (1907–1993), early modern France

• Mubarak Ali (born 1941), Pakistan

• Robert K. Murray (1922–2019), 20th-century US

• David Muskhelishvili (born 1928), Georgia

• David N. Myers (1960-), Jewish history

N

• J. Milton Nance (1913–1997), American writer on the history of Texas

• Hernán Ramírez Necochea (1917–1979), Chile

• Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology

• Antonio Negri (1933–2023), Political history

• Mark E. Neely Jr. (born 1944), American Civil War

• Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), history of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England

• José Paulo Netto (born 1947), Brazil

• 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

O

• Josiah Ober (living), ancient Greece

• Heiko Oberman (1930–2001), Reformation

• Ambeth Ocampo (born 1961), Philippines

• Tom O'Lincoln, (1947–2023), Australia

• W. H. Oliver (1925–2015), New Zealand

• Robin O'Neil (living), Holocaust

• Neil Oliver (born 1967)

• Jean-Marc Olivier (born 1961), aeronautics

• Vincent O'Malley (born 1967), New Zealand

• 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

• Marius Ostrowski (born 1988), European social democracy

• Fernand Ouellet (1926–2021), French Canada

• Richard Overy (born 1947), World War II

• Steven Ozment (1939–2019), Germany

P

• George Padmore (1903–1959), Africa

• Thomas Pakenham (born 1933), Africa

• Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), Russia and Europe

• Ilan Pappé (born 1954), Israel

• Michael Parenti (1933–2026), US history, ancient Rome

• 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

• Kurt Pätzold, (1930–2016), Political history, Germany

• Stanley G. Payne (born 1934), Spain, fascism

• Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish anarchist

• Brian Pearce (1915–2008),

• 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 the Weimar and Nazi eras

• John Edward Philips (born 1952), Africa

• Đặng Phong (1937–2010), Vietnam, economic history

• 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

• Boris Ponomarev, (1905–1995), Soviet history

• Kwok Kin Poon (born 1949), Chinese Southern and Northern dynasties

• Barbara Corrado Pope (born 1941), America, Belle Époque, women's studies

• Boris Porshnev, (1905–1972), France

• Roy Porter (1946–2002), medicine, British social and cultural

• Moishe Postone (1942–2018), social history, political history, economic history and intellectual history

• Nikos Poulantzas (1936–1979), political history

• Norman Pounds (1912–2006), geography and England

• Caio Prado Júnior (1907–1990), Brazil

• Gordon W. Prange (1910–1980), World War II Pacific

• Vijay Prashad (born 1967), India, cultural history, political history

• 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

Q

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

• Aníbal Quijano (1930–2018), Peru, colonial history

• Felipe Quispe (1942–2021), Bolivia, economic history

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

• Jacques Rancière (born 1940), social history, political history, history of philosophy

• Terence Ranger (1929–2015), Zimbabwe

• Arius Raposas (born 1996), Filipino and Asian history

• Šerbo Rastoder (born 1956), Montenegrin

• George Rawick (1929–1990), US history, slavery

• Marcus Rediker (born 1951), piracy and the Middle Passage

• Helmut Reichelt (born 1939), economic history, social history

• Robert V. Remini (1921–2013), Jacksonian democracy in the U.S.

• René Rémond (1918–2007), French politics

• Francesco Renda, (1922–2013), Sicily

• 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

• Jane Robinson (born 1959), women's history

• Nicholas A. M. Rodger (born 1949), British naval

• William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), ancient naval

• Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004), oriental studies

• Walter Rodney (1942–1980), Guyana

• David Roediger (born 1952), political history, labor history, slavery

• 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

• Gavriel D. Rosenfeld (1967-), Jewish history

• 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

• Maximilien Rubel (1905–1996), political history

• 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

• Marina Rustow, Jewish history

• Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), World War II, popular

• Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), Soviet

S

• Emir Sader (born 1943), Brazil, social history, political history

• Heleieth Saffioti (1934–2010), Brazil, social history

• Tatshat Sahakyan (1916–1999), Armenia

• Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonia

• Andrey Sakharov (1930–2019), Russia

• Anne Salmond (born 1945), Pacific and New Zealand anthropology and history

• Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974), recent Britain and America

• Theotônio dos Santos (1936–2018), Latin America, economic history

• Usha Sanyal (living), Asian, Islam, Sufism

• S. Srikanta Sastri (1904–1974), Indian

• Waltraut Schälike (1927–2021), philosophical history

• Simon Schama (born 1945), British, Dutch, US, French

• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics

• Karl Schlögel (born 1948), modern Russian history

• Rene Schmerling (1901–1967), Georgian art

• Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), Middle Ages

• David Schoenbaum (born 1935), modern German and US–Israeli relations

• Ismar Schorsch (born 1935), Jewish history

• Carl Emil Schorske (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual

• Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020), European diplomacy

• Wolfgang Schröder (1935–2010), Germany, labor

• 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), Israel

• Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (born 1966), Spain, cultural history of war

• Lorelle D. Semley (born 1969), American historian of Africa

• Robert Service (born 1947), Soviet, Russian

• Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976), Rajasthan

• Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011), ancient India

• Helena Sheehan (born 1944), political history

• James J. Sheehan (born 1937), modern Germany

• Michael S. Sherry (born 1945), 20th-century American military; LGBTQ

• William L. Shirer (1904–1993), 20th-century Europe, Third Reich

• Avi Shlaim (born 1945), Israel and the Middle East

• Ishimoda Shō (1912–1986), ancient Japan

• He Shu (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution

• Dhimitër Shuteriqi (1915–2003), Albanian literature

• Arkady Sidorov, (1900–1966), Russia

• 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

• Morris Slavin (1913–2006), French Revolution

• 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

• Nelson Werneck Sodré (1911–1999), Brazil, cultural history, political history, literature

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian historian of the 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), American historian of Europe

• Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939), world

• Paolo Spriano (1925–1988), Italy

• 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 (1935–2025), German Reformation

• G. E. M. de Ste. Croix (1910–2000), Ancient Greece

• Valerie Steele (born 1955), fashion

• Jonathan Steinberg (1934–2021), American 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

• Jean Suret-Canale, (1921–2007), Africa

• Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), Soviet Union

• Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient Rome, Roman Empire

• David Syrett (1939–2004), British naval

T

• Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994), architecture

• Volodia Teitelboim (1916–2008), Chile

• Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies

• J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy

• Ali Tandilava (1913–1985), Laz people

• Maik Tändler (born 1979), German psychology and political thought

• Alexander Tarasov, (born 1958), politics and society

• Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland

• A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe

• Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan

• Adam J. Teller (1962-), Jewish history

• Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance

• Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th- and early-20th-century diplomacy

• Eugenia Tenenbaum (born 1996), Art

• Emmanuel Terray (1935–2024), France, political history

• Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India

• Françoise Thébaud (born 1952), history of women

• Stephan Thernstrom (1934–2025), 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. A. Thompson (1914–1995), ancient, medieval

• 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

• José Ramos Tinhorão (1928–2021), Brazil, Brazilian culture, music

• John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II

• Orlando E. Toledo Morales (born 1964), Early Middle Ages

• K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana

• Adam Tooze (1967), economic history

• Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan

• Éric Toussaint (born 1954), economic history

• Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War

• Enzo Traverso, (born 1957), Holocaust, totalitarianism, historiography

• Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British

• Francesca Trivellato (1970-), Italian, Jewish early-modern period

• Petro Tronko (1915–2011), Ukrainian history

• 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

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

V

• Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China

• Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), American Civil War

• Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgium, Africa

• Horpyna Vatchenko (1923–2004), Ukraine

• Andrekos Varnava (born 1979), Australia, modern history

• Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), France, ancient Greece

• Paul Veyne (1930–2022), France, ancient Greece and Rome

• Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), France, ancient Greece; civil-rights activist

• Pierre Vilar, (1906–2003), Catalonia

• Richard Vinen (born 1963), Britain

• Lynne Viola (born 1955), Soviet Union

• Emília Viotti da Costa (1928–2017), Brazil

• Jaime Vicens Vives (1910–1960), Spain

• Lise Vogel (born 1938), art history

• Michel Vovelle (1933–2018), French Revolution

W

• P. B. Waite, (1922 –2020), Canadian politics

• John Waiko (1945–2024), Papua New Guinea

• J. Samuel Walker (born 1946), 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/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

• Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (born 20th century), European, gender and world history

• Roberto Weiss (1906–1969), Renaissance

• Emma J. Wells (born 1986), church history

• Frank Welsh (1931–2023), British imperial

• Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901–1979), Germany, US history, ancient Greece

• Christopher Whatley (born 20th century), 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

• Raymond Williams (1921–1988), cultural history

• 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 (1942–2025), 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

• John Womack (born 1937), Latin American history, Mexico history

• Gordon S. Wood (1933-2026), American Revolution

• Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016), Marxist political and economic history

• Michael Wood (born 1948), England

• C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American South

• Daniel Woolf (born 1958), Britain, historiography

• David Wootton (born 1952), intellectual history, history of science

• Lucy Worsley (born 1973), Britain

• Gordon Wright (1912–2000), modern France

• Lawrence C. Wroth (1884–1970), US printing

Y

• Yen Ching-hwang (顏清湟, born 1937), writer; works on Overseas Chinese history

• Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi (1932–2009), Jewish history

• Robert J. Young (born 1942), French Third Republic

• Robert M. Young (1935–2019), medicine

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

• Vladislav M. Zubok (born 1958), Cold War

• Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961), Poland, Kraków

See also

1. General:

Historiography

• Historiography of the British Empire

• Historiography of the United Kingdom

• Historiography of Canada

• Historiography of China

• Historiography of the French Revolution

• Historiography of Germany

• Historiography of the United States

• Historiography of World War II

• History

• List of history journals

• Lists of historians:

• Area of study

• Canadian

• England (Middle Ages)

French

• Revolution

• Contemporary

• Greek

• Irish

• Jewish

• Russian

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• Rahman, M. M. ed. Encyclopaedia of Historiography (2006), Excerpt and text search

• E. Sreedharan, A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 (2004)

• Thompson, James, and Bernard J. Holm. A History of Historical Writing: Volume I: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Seventeenth Century (2nd ed. 1967), 678 pp.; A History of Historical Writing: Volume II: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2nd ed. 1967), 676 pp.; highly detailed coverage of European writers to 1900

• Woolf, D. R. A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (2 vols. 1998), excerpt and text search

• Woolf, Daniel, et al. The Oxford History of Historical Writing (5 vol 2011–12), covers all major historians since ancient times to present; see vol 1

External links

• "Making History", covering British historians and institutions from Institute of Historical Research