List of historians

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This is a list of historians only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included. Names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Antiquity
* 1.1 Greco-Roman world
* 1.1.1 Classical period
* 1.1.2 Hellenistic period
* 1.1.3 Roman Empire
* 1.2 China
* 2 Middle Ages
* 2.1 Byzantine sphere
* 2.2 Latin sphere
* 2.2.1 Early Middle Ages
* 2.2.2 High Middle Ages
* 2.2.3 10th century
* 2.2.4 11th century
* 2.2.5 12th century
* 2.2.6 13th century
* 2.2.7 Late Middle Ages
* 2.3 Islamic world
* 2.4 Far East
* 2.5 South Asia
* 3 Renaissance to early modern
* 3.1 Renaissance Europe
* 3.2 Early modern period
* 3.3 Middle East and Islamic Empires
* 3.4 Far East
* 4 Modern historians
* 4.1 Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770
* 4.2 Historians born in the 19th century
* 4.2.1 A
* 4.2.2 B
* 4.2.3 C
* 4.2.4 D
* 4.2.5 E
* 4.2.6 F
* 4.2.7 G
* 4.2.8 H
* 4.2.9 I
* 4.2.10 J
* 4.2.11 K
* 4.2.12 L
* 4.2.13 M
* 4.2.14 N
* 4.2.15 O
* 4.2.16 P
* 4.2.17 Q
* 4.2.18 R
* 4.2.19 S
* 4.2.20 T
* 4.2.21 U
* 4.2.22 V
* 4.2.23 W
* 4.2.24 Y
* 4.2.25 Z
* 4.3 Historians born in the 20th century
* 4.3.1 A
* 4.3.2 B
* 4.3.3 C
* 4.3.4 D
* 4.3.5 E
* 4.3.6 F
* 4.3.7 G
* 4.3.8 H
* 4.3.9 I
* 4.3.10 J
* 4.3.11 K
* 4.3.12 L
* 4.3.13 M
* 4.3.14 N
* 4.3.15 O
* 4.3.16 P
* 4.3.17 Q
* 4.3.18 R
* 4.3.19 S
* 4.3.20 T
* 4.3.21 U
* 4.3.22 V
* 4.3.23 W
* 4.3.24 Y
* 4.3.25 Z
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 Bibliography
* 8 External links

## Antiquity

### Greco-Roman world

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

#### Classical period

* Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), 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
* Gaius Acilius (fl. 155 BCE), Roman history
* Agatharchides (fl. mid–2nd century BCE), Greek history
* Polybius (203 – c. 120 BCE), early Roman history (in Greek)
* Sempronius Asellio (c. 158 – post-91 BCE), early Roman history
* Valerius Antias (1st century BCE), Roman history
* Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (1st century BCE), Roman history
* Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BCE), Greek history
* Posidonius (c. 135 – 51 BCE), Greek and Roman history
* Theophanes of Mytilene (fl. mid 1st-century BCE), Roman history

#### Roman Empire

* Julius Caesar (100 – c. 44 BCE), Gallic and civil wars
* Sallust (86–34 BCE), Roman history
* Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 – post-7 BCE), Roman history
* Livy (c. 59 BCE – c. 17 CE), Roman history
* Memnon of Heraclea (fl. 1st century CE), Greek and Roman history
* Strabo (63 BCE – 24 CE), geography, Greek history
* Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BCE – c. 31 CE), Roman history
* Claudius (10 BCE – 54 CE), Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history
* Pamphile of Epidaurus (female historian active under Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history
* Marcus Cluvius Rufus, (fl. 41–69), Roman history
* Quintus Curtius Rufus (c. 60–70), Greek history
* Flavius Josephus (37–100), Jewish history
* Dio Chrysostom (c. 40 – c. 115 CE), history of the Getae
* Thallus (early 2nd c. CE), Roman history
* Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56–120), early Roman Empire
* Plutarch (c. 46–120), Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans
* Criton of Heraclea (fl. 100), history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars
* Suetonius (c. 69 – post-122), Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty
* Appian (c. 95 – c. 165), Roman history
* Arrian (c. 92–175), Greek history
* Granius Licinianus (2nd century), Roman history
* Criton of Pieria (2nd century), Greek history
* Lucius Ampelius (c. 2nd c. CE), Roman history
* Dio Cassius (c. 160 – post-229), Roman history
* Marius Maximus (c. 160 – c. 230), biography of Roman emperors
* Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 230), history of Greek philosophers
* Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240), early Christian
* Herodian (c. 170 – c. 240), Roman history
* Publius Anteius Antiochus (early 3rd c.)
* Gaius Asinius Quadratus (fl. 248), Roman history
* Dexippus (c. 210 – 273), Roman history
* Ephorus the Younger (late 3rd century), Roman history
* Acholius (late 3rd century), Roman history
* Callinicus (died 273), history of Alexandria
* Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275 – c. 339), early Christian
* Praxagoras of Athens (fl. early 4th century), Greek and Roman history
* Festus (fl. 370), Roman history
* Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390), Roman history
* Eutropius (died 390), Roman history
* Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
* Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394), Roman history
* Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late 4th century), Roman history
* Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 340–410), early Christian
* Eunapius (346–414), biographies of philosophers and universal history
* Orosius (c. 375 – post-418), early Christian
* Philostorgius (368 – c. 439), early Christian
* Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – unknown date), early Christian
* Agathangelos (5th century), Armenian history
* Priscus (5th century), Byzantine history
* Sozomen (c. 400 – c. 450), early Christian
* Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 457), early Christian
* Movses Khorenatsi (13 January 410–488), Armenian history
* Hydatius (c. 400 – c. 469), chronicler of Hispania
* Salvian (c. 400/405 – c. 493), early Christian
* Faustus of Byzantium (5th c.), Armenian history
* Ghazar Parpetsi (441/443–510/515), Armenian history
* Zosimus (fl. 491–518), late Roman history
* Jordanes (6th century), history of the Goths
* John Malalas (c. 491–578), Early Christian

### China

Further information: Historiography of China

* Zuo Qiuming (左丘明, 556–451 BCE), attributed author of Zuo zhuan, history of Spring and Autumn period
* Sima Tan (司馬談, 165–110 BCE), historian and father of Sima Qian, who completed his Records of the Grand Historian
* Sima Qian (司馬遷, c. 145 – c. 86 BCE), founder of Chinese historiography, compiled Records of the Grand Historian (though preceded by Book of Documents and Zuo zhuan)
* Liu Xiang (劉向, 77–76 BCE) (Chinese Han dynasty), Chinese history
* Ban Biao (班彪, CE 3–54) (Chinese Han dynasty), the Book of Han, completed by son and daughter
* Ban Gu (班固, CE 32–92) (Chinese Han dynasty), Chinese history
* Ban Zhao (班昭, CE 45–116) (Chinese Han dynasty, China's first female historian)
* Chen Shou (陈寿, 233–297) (Chinese Jin dynasty) compiled Records of the Three kingdoms
* Faxian (法顯, c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
* Fan Ye (范曄, 398–445), Chinese history, compiled the Book of Later Han
* Shen Yue (沈約, 441–513), Chinese history of the Liu Song dynasty (420–479)

## Middle Ages

### 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

Further information: Historians of England in the Middle Ages

#### Early Middle Ages

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

#### High Middle Ages

Further information: Recueil des historiens des croisades

#### 10th century

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

#### 11th century

* Thietmar of Merseburg (25 July 975 – 1 December 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

In alphabetical order:

* Albert of Aix (fl. c. 1100), 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.
* 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
* 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 (fl. 1333–1349), Irish historian
* Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372), Irish historian
* Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373)
* John of Fordun (died 1384), Scottish chronicler
* Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387), Irish historian
* Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
* Dietrich of Nieheim (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastical history
* Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet and philosopher
* Álvar García de Santa María (1370–1460)
* Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418)
* John Capgrave (1393–1464)
* Alfonso de Cartagena (1396–1456)
* Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400–1453), French chronicler
* Georges Chastellain (c. 1405 or 1415–1475), Burgundian chronicler
* Thomas Basin (1412–1491), French historian
* Jan Długosz (1415–1480), Polish historian and chronicler
* Mathieu d'Escouchy (1420–1482), French chronicler
* Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), Burgundian chronicler
* Antonio Bonfini(1424–1502), Italian chronicler
* Johannes de Thurocz(1435–1489), Hungarian chronicler
* Jean Molinet (1435–1507), French chronicler
* Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (1439–1498), compiler and annalist
* Philippe de Commines (1447–1511)

### Islamic world

Further information: Historiography of early Islam

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

### Far East

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

### South Asia

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

## Renaissance to early modern

### Renaissance Europe

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

* Baldassarre Bonaiuti (1336–1385), chronicler and historian of the 14th century
* Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian
* Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian
* Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian
* Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler
* Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories
* Hector Boece (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, author of Historia Gentis Scotorum
* Albert Krantz (1450–1517), German historian
* Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
* Stephanus Brodericus (1480–1539), Croatian Hungarian bishop. Stephani Broderici narratio de praelio quo ad Mohatzium anno 1526 Ludovicus Hungariae rex periit(De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohacz verissima historia)
* Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"
* Paolo Giovio (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, Historiae
* Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian of the Council of Trent
* Olaus Magnus (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic
* Kaspar Helth (1490–1574), Transylvanian Saxon historian and Protestant preacher.[2]
* Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), Hungarian/Wallachian chronicler.[3] H
* João de Barros (1496–1570), Portuguese historian
* Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), Swiss historian
* Oliver Mathews (c. 1520–c. 1618), Welsh chronicler
* Josias Simmler (1530–1576), Swiss classicist
* Ferenc Forgách, Bishop of Várad (1530–1577), Hungarian historian
* Arild Huitfeldt (1546–1609), Denmark
* Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580), chronicler, source for Shakespeare plays
* Caesar Baronius (1538–1607), ecclesiastical historian
* Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
* Miklós Istvánffy (1538–1615) Hungarian historian[4]
* Paolo Paruta (1540–1598), Venetian historian
* Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), Spanish historian of Inca history
* István Szamosközy (1570–1612), Hungarian historian.[5]
* Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590). Irish historian

### Early modern period

Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, 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 (fl. 1627–1636), 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
* 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
* 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[6]
* 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[7]
* Francesco Maria Appendini (1768–1837), Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa
* Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German historian

### Middle East and Islamic Empires

Further information: Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire, and Ottoman Empire

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

### Far East

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

## Modern historians

### Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770

Further information: Historiography of the French Revolution § Contemporary and 19th-century historians

In alphabetical order:

* Lucy Aikin (1781–1864), English historical writer and biographer
* Archibald Alison (1792–1867), English historian
* Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), English historian and educator
* Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), French Revolution, Germany
* Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), Lithuanian
* Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist
* John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), Scottish historian
* George Finlay (1799–1875), Greece
* Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), Swedish nationalist historian
* François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
* Henry Hallam (1777–1859), Medieval European history
* Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
* Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), German historian and polymath
* Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), Polish historian
* Heinrich Leo (1799–1878), Prussian historian
* John Lingard (1771–1851), England
* Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773–1858), French
* Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French
* François Mignet (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
* Christian Molbech (1783–1857), Danish history, founder of Historisk Tidsskrift (1839)
* John Neal (1793–1876), US Revolutionary War[8] and US literature[9]
* Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), German historian
* František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech
* William H. Prescott (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
* Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), European diplomacy; influential German historian
* Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
* George Tucker (1775–1861), US history

### Historians born in the 19th century

#### 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
* 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

* Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France
* George Bancroft (1800–1891), US to 1789
* Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), Native Americans and the Western United States
* R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion
* Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas
* Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies
* Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
* Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), US, economic interpretation, historiography
* Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), US, women's history
* Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), Enlightenment
* Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia
* Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe
* Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S.
* Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School
* Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands
* Erich Brandenburg (1868–1946), Modern Germany
* George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canada
* Otto Brunner (1898–1982), medieval and early modern Austria
* Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), Europe
* Arthur Bryant (1888–1985), Pepys; English warfare
* James Bryce, (1838-1922), Europe, America, Middle East
* Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), England, History of Civilization
* Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance
* John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
* J. B. Bury (1861–1927), classical, Europe

#### 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
* Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish identity
* Bruce Catton (1899–1978), American Civil War
* Cesar de Bazancourt (1810–1865), Crimean War
* Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), India
* Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian historian, history of Russian law
* Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), US West, fur trade
* Winston Churchill (1874–1965), world wars, British Empire
* Augustin Cochin (1876–1916), French Revolution
* Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020), Russia
* R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosophy of history
* Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval
* Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia
* Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South
* Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare
* Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historiography
* Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon
* John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet Union

#### D

* Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval
* Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
* Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
* Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), US West
* Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838–1919), Colombia
* William Dodd (1869–1940), US South
* David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England
* Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history
* Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India
* Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe
* Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe

#### 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
* Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England
* Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940)
* Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), US reconstruction
* Vilmos Fraknói (27 February 1843 – 20 November 1924), a Hungarian historian and expert in Hungarian ecclesiastical history e. g. Popes and Hungarian kings diplomatic relations
* Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English politics
* Egon Friedell (1878–1938), cultural history of the modern age
* James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), Tudor England
* J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), military
* Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), France
* John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), Burma, Southeast Asia
* Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), antiquity, France

#### 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
* Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775
* Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy
* Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
* George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy
* Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), political history
* Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany
* Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887), Etruscan history
* John Richard Green (1837–1883), English
* Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English
* Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history
* Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec
* René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history

#### H

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

#### I

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

#### J

* Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan
* Muhammad Jaber (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
* William James (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
* Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940), Georgian historian
* Arthur Johnson (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University
* Ellen Jørgensen (1877–1948), Danish historian and historiographer

#### K

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

#### L

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

#### 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
* 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 historian and author
* 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
* Allan Nevins (1890–1971), US political and business; Civil War; biography
* A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire
* 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
* Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian history
* Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Middle Ages
* Jane Marsh Parker (1836-1913), US history
* Francis Parkman (1823–1893), colonial North America
* Herbert Paul (1853–1935), 19th-century UK
* Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), Roman
* Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history
* Dexter Perkins (1889–1984), US history
* Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children
* Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
* Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian
* Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and Soviet history
* Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Tudor England
* Delia Lyman Porter (1858-1933), US history
* Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian
* Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages
* F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval
* H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History

#### Q

* Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages

#### R

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

#### S

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

#### T

* Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French Revolution
* Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1853–1920), ancient art history
* Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), Russian historian
* 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)
* 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
* Mikheil Tsereteli (1878–1965), Georgian historian
* Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), US frontier

#### U

* Frank Underhill (1889–1971), Canadian

#### V

* Alfred Vagts, (1892–1986), Germany, military
* Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England

#### W

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

#### Y

* Yi Byeongdo (이병도, 1896–1989), Korea

#### Z

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

### Historians born in the 20th century

#### A

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

#### B

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

#### C

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

#### D

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

#### E

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

#### F

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

#### G

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

#### H

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

#### I

* Georg Iggers (1926-2017), Germany, Historiography
* Halil Inalcik (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire
* Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry

#### J

* Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), Nazi Germany
* John Archibald Getty (born 1950)
* Julian T. Jackson (born 1954), French
* C. L. R. James (1862–1935), Trinidad/England
* Harold James (born 1956), modern Germany
* Nikoloz Janashia (1931–1982), Georgia and Caucasus
* Simon Janashia (1900–1947), Georgia and Caucasus
* Marius Jansen (1922–2000), Japan
* Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970), Poland
* Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (born 1942), US intelligence
* Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution
* Richard J. Jensen (born 1941), America
* Khasnor Johan (living), Malaysian historian
* Paul Johnson (born 1928), 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 Greek
* Michel Kaplan (born 1946), French Byzantinist
* David S. Katz (born 1953), early modern England
* Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East
* Rod Kedward (born 1937), 20th-century France
* John Keegan (1934–2012), military
* John H. Kemble (1912–1990), US maritime
* Paul Murray Kendall (1911–1973), late Middle Ages
* Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born 1938), medieval
* George F. Kennan (1904–2005), US–Soviet relations
* James Kennedy (born 1963), Netherlands
* Paul Kennedy (born 1945), world, military
* W. Hudson Kensel (1928–2014), western America
* Ian Kershaw (born 1943), Nazi Germany, Hitler
* Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939), science
* Khan Roshan Khan (1914–1988), Pakistan
* Khoo Kay Kim (1937–2019), Malaysia
* Kim Jung-bae (born 1940), Korea
* Michael King (1945–2004), New Zealand
* Patrick Kinross (1904–1976), Ottoman Empire
* Henry Kissinger (born 1923), 19th-century Europe; late 20th-century
* Martin Kitchen (born 1936), modern Europe
* Simon Kitson (born c. 1967), Vichy France
* Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), Germany
* Matti Klinge (born 1936), Finnish
* Felix Klos (born 1992), American/Dutch, Modern European
* R.J.B. Knight (born 1944), British naval
* Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), historical linguist
* Eberhard Kolb (born 1933), German
* Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), US
* Claudia Koonz (born 1940), Nazi Germany
* Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), economic, Near East, Islamic and pre-Islamic
* Ernst Kossmann (1922–2003), Low Countries
* Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China
* Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science
* Myoma Myint Kywe (1960–2021), Burmese writer and historian

#### L

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

#### M

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

#### N

* Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology
* Mark E. Neely Jr. (born 1944), American Civil War
* Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), history of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
* Cynthia Neville (living), late medieval, Scotland and England, Gaelic culture
* Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992), 19th c. German history
* Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), German, fascism and communism

#### O

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

#### P

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

#### R

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

#### S

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

#### T

* Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
* J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
* Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
* A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
* Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
* Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
* Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
* Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
* Françoise Thébaud (born 1952), history of women
* Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), US ethnic
* Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
* Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
* Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
* Keith Thomas (born 1933), early modern Britain, culture
* E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
* Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, World War I Italy
* Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963), Viking Age, Middle Ages
* Charles Tilly (1929–2008), Modern Europe; politics and society
* Louise A. Tilly (1930–2018), modern Europe; women, family
* John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
* K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
* Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
* Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
* Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
* Gil Troy (born 1961), modern US, the Presidency
* 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), US Civil War
* Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgian; African history
* Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French, ancient Greece
* Paul Veyne (1930–2022), French, ancient Greece and Rome
* César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spanish
* Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), French, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
* Richard Vinen (living), British
* Jaime Vicens Vives (1910–1960), Spain
* Andrekos Varnava (born 1979), Australia, modern history

#### W

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

#### Y

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

#### 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
* Howard Zinn (1922–2010), US
* Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), German
* Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961), Poland, Kraków

## See also

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

## References

1. ↑ For a longer list and detailed biographies see "Chronological list of historians": Kelly Boyd, ed (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis. pp. xxvii–xxxii. https://books.google.com/books?id=0121vD9STIMCandpg.
2. ↑ [Krónika az magyaroknak viselt dolgairól – Chronicle about deeds of Hungarians. http://mek.oszk.hu/06400/06417/html/heltaiga0070001.html.]
3. ↑ Olah Miklós: Hungaria (in Hungarian)
4. ↑ Nicolai IsthuanfI Pannoni Historiarum de rebus Vngaricis libri 34, Antoni Hierati, 1622 [1].
5. ↑ Analecta lapidum vetustorum, et nonnullarum in Dacia antiquitatum, ad generosum et illustrem dominum Volffangum, Kovachocium, Regni Transylvaniae Cancell. summum etc. [2].
6. ↑ Matthiaie Belii: De Vetere Litteratura Hunno-Scythica Exarcitatio. [3].
7. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus no civilis
8. ↑ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 40. ISBN 9780805772302.
9. ↑ Pattee, Fred Lewis (1937). "Preface". in Pattee, Fred Lewis. American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. v. OCLC 464953146. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001026497.

## Bibliography

* The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford UP, 1995), 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics vol 1 online, vol 2 online
* Allison, William Henry et al. eds. A guide to historical literature (1931), comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930 as selected by scholars from the American Historical Association online edition
* Barnes, Harry Elmer. A history of historical writing (1962)
* Barnes, Harry Elmer. History, its rise and development: a survey of the progress of historical writing from its origins to the present day (1922), online
* Barraclough, Geoffrey. History: Main Trends of Research in the Social and Human Sciences, (1978)
* Bentley, Michael. ed., Companion to Historiography, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 9780415285575; 39 chapters by experts
* Boyd, Kelly, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis 2 vol.. ISBN 9781884964336. https://books.google.com/books?id=JBqWbDmFsfEC. ; detailed coverage of historians and major themes
* Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-226-07278-9
* Elton, G. R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to 1000 history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles. online
* Gilderhus, Mark T. History and Historians: A Historiographical Introduction, 2002, ISBN 0-13-044824-9
* Gooch, G. P. History and historians in the nineteenth century (1913), online
* Iggers, Georg G. Historiography in the 20th Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge (2005)
* Kramer, Lloyd, and Sarah Maza, eds. A Companion to Western Historical Thought Blackwell 2006. 520pp; ISBN 978-1-4051-4961-7
* Momigliano, Arnaldo. The Classical Foundation of Modern Historiography, 1990, ISBN 978-0-226-07283-8
* 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.vol 1 of 1942 first edition; vol 2 of 1942 first edition; 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

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