This is a list of historians, but only for those with a biographical entry in Wikipedia. Major chroniclers and annalists are included and names are listed by the person's historical period. The entries continue with the specializations, not nationality.
Antiquity
Greco-Roman world
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 (64 BCE – 12 CE), Roman history
Memnon of Heraclea (fl. 1st century CE), Greek and Roman history
Strabo (63 BCE – 24 CE), geography, Greek history
Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BCE – c. 31 CE), Roman history
Claudius (10 BCE – 54 CE), Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history
Pamphile of Epidaurus (female historian active under Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history
Marcus Cluvius Rufus, (fl. 41–69), Roman history
Quintus Curtius Rufus (c. 60–70), Greek history
Flavius Josephus (37–100), Jewish history
Dio Chrysostom (c. 40 – c. 115 CE), history of the Getae
Thallus (early 2nd c. CE), Roman history
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56–120), early Roman Empire
Plutarch (c. 45 – 125), Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans
Criton of Heraclea (fl. 100), history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars
Suetonius (c. 69 – post-122), Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty
Appian (c. 95 – c. 165), Roman history
Arrian (c. 92–175), Greek history
Granius Licinianus (2nd century), Roman history
Criton of Pieria (2nd century), Greek history
Lucius Ampelius (c. 2nd c. CE), Roman history
Dio Cassius (c. 160 – after 229), Roman history
Marius Maximus (c. 160 – c. 230), biography of Roman emperors
Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 230), history of Greek philosophers
Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240), early Christian
Herodian (c. 170 – c. 240), Roman history
Publius Anteius Antiochus (early 3rd c.)
Gaius Asinius Quadratus (fl. 248), Roman history
Dexippus (c. 210 – 273), Roman history
Ephorus the Younger (late 3rd century), Roman history
Acholius (late 3rd century), Roman history
Callinicus (died 273), history of Alexandria
Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275 – c. 339), early Christian
Praxagoras of Athens (fl. early 4th century), Greek and Roman history
Festus (fl. 370), Roman history
Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390), Roman history
Eutropius (died 390), Roman history
Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394), Roman history
Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late 4th century), Roman history
Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 340–410), early Christian
Eunapius (346–414), biographies of philosophers and universal history
Orosius (c. 375 – post-418), early Christian
Philostorgius (368 – c. 439), early Christian
Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – unknown date), early Christian
Agathangelos (5th century), Armenian history
Priscus (5th century), Byzantine history
Sozomen (c. 400 – c. 450), early Christian
Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 457), early Christian
Movses Khorenatsi (13 January 410–488), Armenian history
Hydatius (c. 400 – c. 469), chronicler of Hispania
Salvian (c. 400/405 – c. 493), early Christian
Faustus of Byzantium (5th c.), Armenian history
Ghazar Parpetsi (441– after 515), Armenian history
Zosimus (fl. 491–518), late Roman history
Jordanes (6th century), history of the Goths
John Malalas (c. 491–578), Early Christian
China
Zuo Qiuming (左丘明, 556–451 BCE), attributed author of the Zuo Zhuan, a history of Spring and Autumn period
Sima Tan (司馬談, 165–110 BCE), began the Records of the Grand Historian, completed by his son Sima Qian
Sima Qian (司馬遷, c. 145 – c. 86 BCE), customary father of Chinese historiography, compiled the Records of the Grand Historian
Liu Xiang (劉向, 77–76 BCE) (Han dynasty), organized the Han imperial library
Ban Biao (班彪, CE 3–54) (Han dynasty), began the Book of Han, completed by his son and daughter
Ban Gu (班固, CE 32–92) (Han dynasty), compiled the Book of Han, completed by his sister Ban Zhao
Ban Zhao (班昭, CE 45–116) (Han dynasty, China's first female historian, completed the Book of Han
Chen Shou (陈寿, 233–297) (Jin dynasty) compiled the Records of the Three Kingdoms
Faxian (法顯, c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and traveler, wrote an important memoir of his travels to India
Fan Ye (范曄, 398–445), compiled the Book of Later Han
Shen Yue (沈約, 441–513), wrote the Book of Song on the Liu Song dynasty (420–479)
Middle Ages
Byzantine sphere
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 Britain
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
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
Hrostvitha of Gandersheim (935-978), Saxon canoness, poet 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
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
Ibn Rustah (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995–1077), Persian historian and author
Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923), Persian historian
Al-Biruni (973–1048), Persian historian
Ibn Hayyan (987–1075), Al-Andalus historian
Ibn Hazm (994–1064), Al-Andalus historian
Al-Udri (born 1003), Al-Andalus historian
Mohammed al-Baydhaq (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188)
Ali ibn al-Athir (1160–1233)
Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185), Moroccan historian
Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239), Moroccan historian
Ata al-Mulk Juvayni (1226–1283), Persian historian
Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (died 1298), Moroccan historian
Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315), Moroccan historian
Ibn Idhari (late 13th/early 14th c.), Moroccan historian
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1317), Persian historian
Abdullah Wassaf (1299–1323), Persian historian
Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387–1406), Moroccan historian
East Asia
Fang Xuanling (房玄齡, 579–648, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the Book of Jin.
Yao Silian (姚思廉, died 637, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the Book of Liang and Book of Chen.
Wei Zheng (魏徵, 580–643), Chinese historian and lead editor of the Book of Sui
Liu Zhiji (劉知幾, 661–721), Chinese history, author of Shitong, the first Chinese work on Chinese historiography and methods
Ō no Yasumaro (太安万侶, died 723), Japanese chronicler and editor of Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
Liu Xu (劉昫,888–947), Chinese historian and lead editor of Old Book of Tang
Li Fang (李昉, 925–996), Chinese editor of Four Great Books of Song
Song Qi (宋祁, 998–1061), Chinese historian and co-author of New Book of Tang
Ouyang Xiu (歐陽脩, 1007–1072), Chinese historian and co-author of New Book of Tang
Sima Guang (司馬光, 1019–1086), Chinese historiographer and politician
Kim Bu-sik (김부식, 1075–1151), Korean historian, author of Samguk Sagi
Il-yeon (일연, 1206–1289), Korean historian, author of Samguk Yusa
Lê Văn Hưu (黎文休, 1230–1322), Vietnamese history
Toqto'a (脫脫, 1314–1356) (Chinese Yuan dynasty), Mongol historian who compiled History of Song
Song Lian (宋濂, 1310–1381) (Chinese Ming dynasty), wrote History of Yuan
Zhu Quan (朱權, 1378–1448), Chinese history
India
Kalhana (c. 12th century), historian of Kashmir and Indian Subcontinent
Hemachandra (12th century), Jain polymath
Abdul Malik Isami (14th century), Indian historian and poet
Jonaraja (15th century) Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet
Padmanābha (15th century), Indian poet and historian
Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi (15th century), Delhi Sultanate
Renaissance to early modern
Renaissance Europe
Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern"
Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian
Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian
Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian
Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories
Hector Boece (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, author of Historia Gentis Scotorum
Albert Krantz (1450–1517), German historian
Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
Stephanus Brodericus (1480–1539), Croatian Hungarian bishop. Stephani Broderici narratio de praelio quo ad Mohatzium anno 1526 Ludovicus Hungariae rex periit(De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohacz verissima historia)
Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"
Paolo Giovio (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, Historiae
Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian of the Council of Trent
Olaus Magnus (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic
Kaspar Helth (1490–1574), Transylvanian Saxon historian and Protestant preacher.
Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), Hungarian/Wallachian chronicler. H
João de Barros (1496–1570), Portuguese historian
Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572), Swiss historian
Oliver Mathews (c. 1520–c. 1618), Welsh chronicler
Josias Simmler (1530–1576), Swiss classicist
Ferenc Forgách, Bishop of Várad (1530–1577), Hungarian historian
Arild Huitfeldt (1546–1609), Denmark
Raphael Holinshed (died c. 1580), chronicler, source for Shakespeare plays
Caesar Baronius (1538–1607), ecclesiastical historian
Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
Miklós Istvánffy (1538–1615) Hungarian historian
Paolo Paruta (1540–1598), Venetian historian
Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), Spanish historian of Inca history
Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin (fl. 1579–1590). Irish historian
Early modern period
Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815
John Hayward (1564–1627)
James Ussher (1581–1656), chronology of the history of the world
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
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
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
Archibald Alison (1792–1867), English historian
Thomas Arnold (1795–1842), English historian and educator
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), French Revolution, Germany
Simonas Daukantas (1793–1864), Lithuanian
Charles Dezobry (1798–1871), French historian and historical novelist
John Colin Dunlop (c. 1785–1842), Scottish historian
George Finlay (1799–1875), Greece
Erik Gustaf Geijer (1783–1847), Swedish nationalist historian
François Guizot (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
Henry Hallam (1777–1859), Medieval European history
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835), German historian and polymath
Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861), Polish historian
Heinrich Leo (1799–1878), Prussian historian
John Lingard (1771–1851), England
Louis Gabriel Michaud (1773–1858), French
Jules Michelet (1798–1874), French
François Mignet (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
Christian Molbech (1783–1857), Danish history, founder of Historisk Tidsskrift (1839)
John Neal (1793–1876), US Revolutionary War and US literature
Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), German historian
František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech
William H. Prescott (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), European diplomacy; influential German historian
Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
George Tucker (1775–1861), US history
Historians born in the 19th century
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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), U.S. to 1789
Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), Native Americans and the Western United States
R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion
Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas
Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies
Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), US, economic interpretation, historiography
Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), US, women's history
Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), Enlightenment
Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), political history, social history and philosophy of history
Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S.
Isabella Margaret Elizabeth Blandin (1838–1912), 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-US borderlands
Amadeo Bordiga (1889–1970), political history and social 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
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
Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), historian and interdisciplinarian
Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval
Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia
Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South
Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare
Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historiography
Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon
John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet Union
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
Edith Dobie (1887–1975), Great Britain
William Dodd (1869–1940), US South
David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England
Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history
Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India
Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe
Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe
E
Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization
Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe
Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism
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Cyril Falls (1888–1971), military, world wars
Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), France
Keith Feiling (1884–1977), England, conservatism
Herbert Feis (1893–1972), World War II diplomacy, international finance
Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England
Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940)
Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), US reconstruction
Vilmos Fraknói (27 February 1843 – 20 November 1924), Hungarian historian and expert in Hungarian ecclesiastical history e. g. Popes and Hungarian kings diplomatic relations
Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English politics
Egon Friedell (1878–1938), cultural history of the modern age
James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), Tudor England
J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), military
Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), France
John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), Burma, Southeast Asia
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), antiquity, France
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François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), medieval history
Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), 17th-century England
Alice Gardner (1854–1927), ancient history
Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of Thuringia
Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch
Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775
Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy
Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy
Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), political history
Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany
Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887), Etruscan history
John Richard Green (1837–1883), English
Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English
Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history
Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec
René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history
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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
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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
J. B. Bury (1851–1927), Anglo-Irish historian of the Medieval Roman epoch.
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Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian
Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws
François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), French political historian
Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), legal
Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855–1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
Erenzhen Khara-Davan (1883–1942), Russian-Kalmyk historian
Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian
Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history
David Knowles (1896–1974), English medieval
Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian
Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960), US naval historian
Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, botanist and music historian
Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian
Hans Kohn (1891–1971), European nationalism
Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Byzantine art
Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1966), Turkish historian
Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history
Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historian
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Leonard Woods Labaree (1897–1980), editor of the Benjamin Franklin papers
Harold Lamb (1892–1962), US
Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915), German art and economic history
William L. Langer (1896–1977), US historian, world and diplomatic history
John Knox Laughton (1830–1915), British naval historian
Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922), French history
William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903), England and Ireland
Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French Revolution
Elisabeth Lemke (1849–1925) German history
Anna Lewis (1885–1961), South-western US
Liang Qichao (梁啓超, 1873–1929), Chinese and Western history and historiography
John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), Welshness
Ferdinand Lot (1866–1952), Middle Ages
John Lord (1810–1894), Middle Ages, ancient history, historical survey
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), intellectual history
Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian
György Lukács (1885–1971), history of literature, art history and philosophy of history
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
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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
David Pietrusza (1949–), US history
Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children
Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian
Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and Soviet history
Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Tudor England
Delia Lyman Porter (1858–1933), US history
Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian
Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages
F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval
H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
Q
Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages
R
David Riazanov (1893–1974), political histoy and history of philosohy
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
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
Ekaterina Shchepkina (1854–1938), Russia
Shin Chaeho (신채호, 1880–1936), Korean
Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian
Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937), English early modern
Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), British and Canadian
Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), Mexican–American War
Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), Russian historian
Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; The Decline of the West
Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia
Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe
Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval
Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval
Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West
William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law
László Szalay (1813–1864) Hungarian historian
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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
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
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
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
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
Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), World War II, popular
Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), Soviet
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Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonia
Andrey Sakharov (1930–2019), Russia
Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974), recent Britain and America
Usha Sanyal (living), Asian, Islam, Sufism
S. Srikanta Sastri (1904–1974), Indian
Simon Schama (born 1945), British, Dutch, US, French
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), Middle Ages
David Schoenbaum (born 1935), modern German and US–Israeli relations
Carl Emil Schorske (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020), European diplomacy
D. M. Schurman (1924–2013), British imperial and naval
Marjan Schwegman (living), Dutch
Karl Schweizer (living), 18th-century European
Dorothy Schwieder, (1933–2014), Iowa
Joan Scott (born 1941), feminism
William Henry Scott (1921–1993), Philippines
Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983), ancient
Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinamese historian and former prime minister
Tom Segev (born 1945), Israeli
Lorelle D. Semley (born 1969), US historian of Africa
Robert Service (born 1947), Soviet, Russian
Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976), Rajasthan
Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011), ancient India
James J. Sheehan (born 1937), modern Germany
Michael S. Sherry (born 1945), 20c American military; LGBTQ
William L. Shirer (1904–1993), 20c Europe, Third Reich
Avi Shlaim (born 1945), Israel and the Middle East
He Shu (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution
Jack Simmons (1915–2000), English historian, railway history
Keith Sinclair (1922–1993), New Zealand
Helene J. Sinnreich (born 1975), Holocaust
Nathan Sivin (1931–2022), China
Quentin Skinner (born 1940), early modern Britain
Alexandre Skirda (1942–2020), Russia
Theda Skocpol (born 1947), institutions and comparative method; sociological
Richard Slotkin (born 1942), US environment and West
Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004), military history, American Old West
Digby Smith (1935–2024), military
Henry Nash Smith (1906–1986), US cultural
Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019), US foreign policy, constitutional law, biography
Page Smith (1917–1995), U.S.
Richard Norton Smith (born 1953), US presidential
T. C. Smout (born 1933), Scottish environmental and social
John Smolenski, (born 1973), American colonial period
Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993), German nationalism
Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969), Eastern Europe
Albert Soboul (1913–1982), French revolution
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian Gulag
Pat Southern (born 1948), ancient Rome
R. W. Southern (1912–2001), medieval
E. Lee Spence (born 1947), shipwrecks
Jonathan Spence (1936–2021), China
Jonathan Sperber (born 1952), US historian of Europe.
Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939), world
Kenneth Stampp (1912–2009), U.S. South, slavery
George Stanley (1907–2002), Canada
David Starkey (born 1945), Tudor
Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913—2004), world
James M. Stayer (born 1935), German Reformation
Valerie Steele (born 1955), fashion
Jonathan Steinberg (1934–2021), US historian of Germany
Jean Stengers (1922–2002), Belgian
Fritz Stern (1926–2016), Germany and Jewish
Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020), fascism
William N. Still, Jr. (1932–2022), US naval
Dan Stone (living), recent Europe
Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), early modern British social, economic and family
Norman Stone (1941–2019), military
Hew Strachan (born 1949), military
Barry S. Strauss (born 1953), ancient military
Michael Stürmer (born 1938), modern German
Ronald Suleski (born 1942), China
Ronald Grigor Suny (born 1940), Soviet Union, Armenia, Russia
Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), Soviet Union
Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient
David Syrett (1939–2004), British naval
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Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
Françoise Thébaud (born 1952), history of women
Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), US ethnic
Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
Keith Thomas (born 1933), early modern Britain, culture
E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, World War I Italy
Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963), Viking Age, Middle Ages
Charles Tilly (1929–2008), Modern Europe; politics and society
Louise A. Tilly (1930–2018), modern Europe; women, family
John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
Adam Tooze (1967), economic history
Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
Gil Troy (born 1961), modern US, the Presidency
Marcel Trudel (1917–2011), New France, slavery in Canada
Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military
Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin
Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics
Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German
Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China
David Tyack (1930–2016), US education
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
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Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China
Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), US Civil War
Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgium, Africa
Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), France, ancient Greece
Paul Veyne (1930–2022), France, ancient Greece and Rome
César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spain
Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), France, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
Richard Vinen (born 1963), Britain
Lynne Viola (born 1955), Soviet Union
Jaime Vicens Vives (1910–1960), Spain
Andrekos Varnava (born 1979), Australia, modern history
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John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinea
J. Samuel Walker (living), nuclear energy and weapons
Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), world-systems theory
Retha Warnicke (born 1939), Tudor and gender issues
Peter Watson (born 1943), intellectual history
Eugen Weber (1925–2007), modern French
Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997), 16th and 17th-century Europe
Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), 19th-century German social
Russell Weigley (1930–2004), military
Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928), Germany, World War II
Roberto Weiss (1906–1969), Renaissance
Emma J. Wells (born 1986), church history
Frank Welsh (1931–2023), British imperial
Christopher Whatley (living), Scotland
John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), Germany
John Whyte (1928–1990), Northern Ireland, divided societies
Christopher Wickham (born 1950), medieval
Robert H. Wiebe (1930–2000), American business and society
Toby Wilkinson (born 1969), ancient Egypt
Eric Williams (1911–1981), Guiana, Caribbean
Glanmor Williams (1920–2005), Wales
Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022), exploration
William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), US diplomacy
John Willingham (born 1946), Texas
Andrew Wilson (born 1961), Ukraine
Clyde N. Wilson (born 1941), 19th-century US South
Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious
Keith Windschuttle (born 1942), Australia; historiography
Henry Winkler (born 1938), German
Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
John B. Wolf (1907–1996), French
Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947), German Jewish
Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), medieval
Gordon S. Wood (born 1933), American Revolution
Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016), Marxist political and economic history
Michael Wood (born 1948), England
Thomas Woods (born 1972), America, conservatism
C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American South
Daniel Woolf (born 1958), Britain, historiography
Lucy Worsley (born 1973), Britain
Gordon Wright (1912–2000), modern France
Lawrence C. Wroth (1884–1970), US printing
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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
Yuri Zhukov (1938–2023), Soviet
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
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External links
"Making History", covering British historians and institutions from Institute of Historical Research