List of historians
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.
Antiquity
Greco-Roman world
Classical period
- Herodotus, Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories that established Western historiography.
- Thucydides, Peloponnesian War
- Xenophon, Athenian knight and student of Socrates
- Ctesias, Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history
Hellenistic period
- Ephorus of Cyme, Greek history
- Theopompus, Greek history
- Eudemus of Rhodes, Greek historian of science
- Ptolemy I Soter, general of Alexander the Great, founder of Ptolemaic Dynasty
- Duris of Samos, Greek history
- Berossus, Babylonian historian
- Timaeus of Tauromenium, Greek history
- Manetho, Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos living in the Ptolemaic era
- Quintus Fabius Pictor, Roman history
- Artapanus of Alexandria, Jewish historian of Ptolemaic Egypt
- Cato the Elder, Roman statesman and historian, author of the Origines
- Cincius Alimentus, Roman history
- Gaius Acilius, Roman history
- Agatharchides, Greek history
- Polybius, early Roman history
- Sempronius Asellio, early Roman history
- Valerius Antias, Roman history
- Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius, Roman history
- Diodorus of Sicily, Greek history
- Posidonius, Greek and Roman history
- Theophanes of Mytilene, Roman history
Roman Empire
- Julius Caesar, Gallic and civil wars
- Sallust, Roman history
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman history
- Livy, Roman history
- Memnon of Heraclea, Greek and Roman history
- Strabo, geography, Greek history
- Marcus Velleius Paterculus, Roman history
- Claudius, Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history
- Pamphile of Epidaurus, Greek history
- Marcus Cluvius Rufus,, Roman history
- Quintus Curtius Rufus, Greek history
- Flavius Josephus, Jewish history
- Dio Chrysostom, history of the Getae
- Thallus, Roman history
- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, early Roman Empire
- Plutarch, Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans
- Criton of Heraclea, history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars
- Suetonius, Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty
- Appian, Roman history
- Arrian, Greek history
- Granius Licinianus, Roman history
- Criton of Pieria, Greek history
- Lucius Ampelius, Roman history
- Dio Cassius, Roman history
- Marius Maximus, biography of Roman emperors
- Diogenes Laërtius, history of Greek philosophers
- Sextus Julius Africanus, early Christian
- Herodian, Roman history
- Publius Anteius Antiochus
- Gaius Asinius Quadratus, Roman history
- Dexippus, Roman history
- Ephorus the Younger, Roman history
- Acholius, Roman history
- Callinicus, history of Alexandria
- Eusebius of Caesarea, early Christian
- Praxagoras of Athens, Greek and Roman history
- Festus, Roman history
- Aurelius Victor, Roman history
- Eutropius, Roman history
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman history
- Virius Nicomachus Flavianus, Roman history
- Sulpicius Alexander, Roman history
- Rufinus of Aquileia, early Christian
- Eunapius, biographies of philosophers and universal history
- Orosius, early Christian
- Philostorgius, early Christian
- Socrates of Constantinople, early Christian
- Agathangelos, Armenian history
- Priscus, Byzantine history
- Sozomen, early Christian
- Theodoret, early Christian
- Movses Khorenatsi, Armenian history
- Hydatius, chronicler of Hispania
- Salvian, early Christian
- Faustus of Byzantium, Armenian history
- Ghazar Parpetsi, Armenian history
- Zosimus, late Roman history
- Jordanes, history of the Goths
- John Malalas, Early Christian
China
- Zuo Qiuming, attributed author of Zuo zhuan, history of Spring and Autumn period
- Sima Tan, historian and father of Sima Qian, who completed his Records of the Grand Historian
- Sima Qian, founder of Chinese historiography, compiled Records of the Grand Historian
- Liu Xiang , Chinese history
- Ban Biao , the Book of Han, completed by son and daughter
- Ban Gu , Chinese history
- Ban Zhao
- Chen Shou compiled Records of the Three Kingdoms.
- Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
- Fan Ye, Chinese history, compiled the Book of Later Han.
- Shen Yue, Chinese history of the Liu Song Dynasty
Middle Ages
Byzantine sphere
- Procopius, writings on reigns of Justinian and Theodora
- Constantine of Preslav, Bulgarian historian
- Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Primary Chronicle
- Joannes Zonaras, Byzantine chronicler
- Nicetas Choniates
- Domentijan, Serbian monk and chronicler
Latin sphere
Early Middle Ages
- Gregory of Tours, A History of the Franks
- Baudovinia, Frankish nun who wrote a biography of Radegund
- Cogitosus, Irish historian
- Tírechán, Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
- Muirchu moccu Machtheni, Irish historian
- Adamnan, Irish historian
- Bede, Anglo-Saxon England
- Paul the Deacon, Langobards
- Einhard, biographer of Charlemagne
- Nennius, Wales
- Notker of St Gall, anecdotal biography of Charlemagne
- Martianus Hiberniensis, Irish teacher and historian
- Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, Welsh historian
- Regino of Prüm
High Middle Ages
fl. 10th century
- Widukind of Corvey, Ottonian chronicler
- Liutprand of Cremona, Byzantine affairs
- Heriger of Lobbes, theologian and historian
fl. 11th century
- Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
- Michael Psellus, Greek politician and historian
- Marianus Scotus, Irish chronicler
- Michael Attaleiates, Byzantine historian
- Guibert of Nogent, Benedictine historian
- Eadmer, post-Conquest English history
- Adam of Bremen, historian of Scandinavia, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum
fl. 12th century
- Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
- Florence of Worcester, English chronicler
- Symeon of Durham, English chronicler
- Alured of Beverley, English chronicler
- William of Malmesbury, English historian
- Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess and historian
- John of Worcester, English chronicler
- Saxo Grammaticus, Danish chronicler
- Ambroise, Anglo-Norman writer verse narrative of the Third Crusade
- Galbert of Bruges, Flemish chronicler
- Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
- Svend Aagesen, Danish historian
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
- Helmold of Bosau, German chronicler
- Otto of Freising, German chronicler
- William of Tyre
- William of Newburgh, English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
- Geoffroi de Villehardouin
fl. 13th century
- Giraldus Cambrensis
- Wincenty Kadlubek, Polish historian
- Adam of Eynsham, English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey
- Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian
- Matthew Paris
- Salimbene di Adam, Italian
- Jans der Enikel
- Templar of Tyre, end of the Crusades
Late Middle Ages
''Historians of the Italian Renaissance are listed under "Renaissance".''
- Piers Langtoft
- Jean de Joinville
- Giovanni Villani, Italian chronicler from Florence who wrote the ''Nuova Cronica'
- John Clyn, Irish historian
- Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, Irish historian
- Adhamh Ó Cianáin
- John of Fordun, Scottish chronicler
- Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin, Irish historian
- Jean Froissart, chronicler
- Dietrich of Nieheim, ecclesiastic history
- Christine de Pizan, historian, poet and philosopher
- Álvar García de Santa María
- Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh
- John Capgrave
- Alfonso de Cartagena
- Enguerrand de Monstrelet, French chronicler
- Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler
- Thomas Basin, French historian
- Jan Długosz, Polish historian and chronicler
- Mathieu d'Escouchy, French chronicler
- Olivier de la Marche, Burgundian chronicler
- Jean Molinet, French chronicler
- Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa, compiler and annalist
- Philippe de Commines
Islamic world
- Ibn Rustah, Persian historian and traveler
- Muhammad al-Tabari, Great Persian historian
- Al-Biruni, Persian historian
- Mohammed al-Baydhaq, Moroccan historian
- Usamah ibn Munqidh
- Ali ibn al-Athir
- Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi, Moroccan historian
- Ibn al-Khabbaza, Moroccan historian
- Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, Persian historian
- Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi, Moroccan historian
- Ibn Abi Zar, Moroccan historian
- Ibn Idhari, Moroccan historian
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Persian historian
- Abdullah Wassaf, Persian historian
- Ibn Khaldun, North African historian "of the world"
- Ismail ibn al-Ahmar, Moroccan historian
- Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, Persian historian
Far East
- Fang Xuanling compiled the Book of Jin.
- Yao Silian compiled the Book of Liang and Book of Chen.
- Wei Zheng, Chinese historian and lead editor of the Book of Sui
- Liu Zhiji, Chinese history, author of the Shitong, the first Chinese work on Chinese historiography and methods
- Ō no Yasumaro, Japanese chronicler and editor of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
- Liu Xu, Chinese historian and lead editor of the Old Book of Tang
- Li Fang, Chinese editor of the Four Great Books of Song
- Song Qi, Chinese historian and co-author of the New Book of Tang
- Ouyang Xiu, Chinese historian and co-author of the New Book of Tang
- Sima Guang, Chinese historiographer and politician
- Kim Bu-sik, Korean historian, author of the Samguk Sagi
- Il-yeon, Korean historian, author of the Samguk Yusa
- Lê Văn Hưu, Vietnamese history
- Toqto'a , Mongol historian who compiled the History of Song
- Song Lian wrote the History of Yuan.
- Zhu Quan, Chinese history
South Asia
- Kalhana, historian of Kashmir and Indian Subcontinent
- Hemachandra, Jain polymath
- Abdul Malik Isami, Indian historian and poet
- Jonaraja Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet
- Padmanābha, Indian poet and historian
- Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi, Delhi Sultanate
Renaissance to early modern
Renaissance Europe
- Baldassarre Bonaiuti, chronicler and historian of the 14th century
- Leonardo Bruni, humanist historian
- Flavio Biondo, humanist historian
- Philippe de Commines, French historian
- Robert Fabyan, London alderman and chronicler
- Niccolò Machiavelli, author of Florentine Histories
- Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian, wrote Historia Gentis Scotorum.
- Albert Krantz, German historian
- Polydore Vergil, Tudor history
- Francesco Guicciardini, historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"
- Paolo Giovio, historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, Historiae
- Paolo Sarpi, historian of the Council of Trent
- Olaus Magnus, Swedish ecclesiastic
- João de Barros, Portuguese historian
- Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian
- Josias Simmler, Swiss classicist
- Arild Huitfeldt, Denmark
- Raphael Holinshed, chronicler, source for Shakespeare plays
- Caesar Baronius, ecclesiastical historian
- Sigismund von Herberstein, Muscovite affairs
- Paolo Paruta, Venetian historian
- Garcilaso de la Vega, Spanish historian of Inca history
- Pilip Ballach Ó Duibhgeannáin. Irish historian
Early modern period
- John Hayward
- James Ussher, chronology of the history of the world
- Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch Republic
- William Bradford, Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
- Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Irish historian
- Tadhg Óg Ó Cianáin, Irish historian
- Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh , Irish historian
- Sir James Ware, Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian
- Arthur Wilson, 16th-century Britain
- Placido Puccinelli, Italian historian
- Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
- Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and Irish historian
- Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain, Irish historian
- Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian
- Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, ecclesiastical historian
- Christoph Cellarius, German universal historian
- John Strype, English historian
- Thomas Rymer, English historian and antiquary
- Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
- Geoffrey Keating/Seathrún Céitinn, Irish historian
- Đorđe Branković, Serbian history
- Josiah Burchett, British naval historian and Admiralty official
- Laurence Echard, England
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italy
- Manuel Teles da Silva, 3rd Marquis of Alegrete, Portuguese historian
- Moses Williams, Welsh scholar and antiquarian
- Archibald Bower, historian of Rome
- Vasily Tatishchev, first historian of modern Russia
- Giambattista Vico, Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history
- Voltaire, writer on Europe and France
- Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, Lutheran historian
- Charlotta Frölich, Swedish historian
- David Hume, History of England
- Thomas Hutchinson, colonial Massachusetts
- Francisco Jose Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist
- William Robertson, Scottish historian
- Zaharije Orfelin, Austrian Serb historian
- Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian
- Edward Hasted, Kent, England
- Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian historian
- August Ludwig von Schlözer, German historian
- John Barrow, English naval historian and geographer
- Edward Gibbon, Roman Empire and Byzantium
- Alexander Hewat , colonial Carolina and Georgia
- Benjamin Incledon, English antiquary and school historian
- Philip Yorke, Welsh historian and politician
- Johann Gottfried Herder, philosophy of the history of mankind
- Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra, Spanish historian
- David Ramsay, American Revolution; South Carolina
- Johannes von Müller, Switzerland
- Anton Tomaz Linhart, known for Slovenian history
- Friedrich Schiller, German historian
- Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian historian, Russian Empire
- Francesco Maria Appendini, Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa
- Ernst Moritz Arndt, German historian
Middle East and Islamic Empires
- Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, Indo-Persian historian
- Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, Moroccan historian
- Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali, Moroccan historian
- Bahrey, Ethiopian monk and historian; wrote Zenahu le Galla
- Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi, Moroccan historian
- Mohammed al-Ifrani, Moroccan historian
- Mohammed al-Qadiri, Moroccan historian
- Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani, Moroccan historian and poet
- Sulayman al-Hawwat, Moroccan historian
- Mohammed al-Duayf, Moroccan historian
- Abbasgulu Bakikhanov, history of Azerbaijan and the Middle East
- George Grote, classical Greece
- Teimuraz Bagrationi, history of Georgia and the Caucasus
- Mohammed Akensus, Moroccan historian
Far East
- Qian Qianyi
- Zhang Tingyu compiled the History of Ming.
- Qian Daxin
- Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
- Yu Deuk-gong, Korean historian
Modern historians
Historians flourishing after 1815, born after 1770
In alphabetical order:- Lucy Aikin, English historical writer and biographer
- Archibald Alison, English historian
- Thomas Arnold, English historian and educator
- Thomas Carlyle, French Revolution, Germany
- Simonas Daukantas, Lithuanian
- Charles Dezobry, French historian and historical novelist
- John Colin Dunlop, Scottish historian
- George Finlay, Greece
- Erik Gustaf Geijer, Swedish nationalist historian
- François Guizot, French historian of general French, English history
- Henry Hallam, Medieval European history
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher of history
- Joachim Lelewel, Polish historian
- Heinrich Leo, Prussian historian
- John Lingard, England
- Louis Gabriel Michaud, French
- Jules Michelet, French
- François Mignet, French historian of the Revolution, Middle Ages
- Christian Molbech, Danish history, founder of Historisk Tidsskrift
- Barthold Georg Niebuhr, German historian
- František Palacký, Czech
- William H. Prescott, U.S. historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
- Leopold von Ranke, European diplomacy; most influential German historian
- Adolphe Thiers, French historian of the Revolution, Empire
- George Tucker, American history
Historians born during the 19th century
A
- Lord Acton, Europe
- Henry Adams, U.S. 1800–1816
- Grace Aguilar, Jewish history
- Robert G. Albion, maritime
- Charles McLean Andrews, American; U.S. colonial history
- Alfred von Arneth, history of the Austrian Empire
- Mikhail Artamonov, founder of Khazar studies
- William Ashley, British economic history
- Octave Aubry
- François Victor Alphonse Aulard, French Revolution and Napoleon I
- Zurab Avalishvili, history of Georgia and the Caucasus
B
- Jacques Bainville, France
- George Bancroft, United States to 1789
- R. Mildred Barker, Shakers, religion
- Harry Elmer Barnes, World War I; ideas
- Wilhelm Barthold, Muslim and Turkic studies
- Charles Bean, Australia in World War I
- Charles A. Beard, American, economic interpretation, historiography
- Mary Ritter Beard, American, women's history
- Winthrop Pickard Bell, Nova Scotia
- Hilaire Belloc, Europe
- Marc Bloch, medieval France; Annales School
- Herbert Eugene Bolton, Spanish-American borderlands
- Erich Brandenburg, Modern Germany
- George Williams Brown, Canada
- Otto Brunner, medieval and early modern Austria
- Geoffrey Bruun, Europe
- Arthur Bryant, Pepys; English warfare
- Henry Thomas Buckle, England, History of Civilization
- Jacob Burckhardt, art history, Europe, Renaissance
- John Hill Burton, Scottish Jacobin history
- J.B. Bury, classical, Europe
C
- Helen Cam, English medieval
- Pierre Caron, French revolution
- E.H. Carr, Soviet history, methodology
- Henri Raymond Casgrain, French Canada
- Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, Spanish historian
- Américo Castro, Spanish identity
- Bruce Catton, American Civil War
- Cesar de Bazancourt, Crimean War
- Nirad C. Chaudhuri, India
- Boris Chicherin, Russian historian, history of Russian law
- Hiram M. Chittenden, American West, fur trade
- Winston Churchill, world wars
- Augustin Cochin, history of French Revolution
- R. G. Collingwood, philosophy of history
- Julian Corbett, British naval
- Vladimir Ćorović, Serbia
- Avery Craven, American South
- Edward Shepherd Creasy, warfare
- Benedetto Croce
- Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys, Devon
- John Shelton Curtiss, Soviet Union
D
- Felix Dahn, medieval
- Angie Debo, Native American and Oklahoma history
- Léopold Delisle, French historian and librarian
- Bernard DeVoto, American West
- William Dodd, American South
- David C. Douglas, Norman England
- Johann Gustav Droysen, German history
- Sir George Dunbar, India
- Ariel Durant, Europe
- Will Durant, Europe
E
- Ephraim Emerton, medieval Europe
- Friedrich Engels, historical materialism
- Norbert Elias, process of civilisation
F
- Cyril Falls, military, world wars
- Lucien Febvre, France
- Keith Feiling, England, conservatism
- Herbert Feis, World War II diplomacy, international finance
- Charles Harding Firth, 17th-century England
- Herbert A. L. Fisher
- Walter Lynwood Fleming, U.S. reconstruction
- Edward Augustus Freeman, English politics
- Egon Friedell, cultural history of the modern age
- James Anthony Froude, Tudor England
- J.F.C. Fuller, military
- Frantz Funck-Brentano, France
- John Sydenham Furnivall, Burma, Southeast Asia
- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, antiquity, France
G
- François-Louis Ganshof, medieval history
- Samuel Rawson Gardiner, 17th-century England
- Alice Gardner, ancient history
- Pieter Geyl, Dutch
- Lawrence Henry Gipson, British Empire before 1775
- Arthur Giry, diplomacy
- Gustave Glotz, Ancient Greece
- George Peabody Gooch, modern diplomacy
- Timofey Granovsky, medieval Germany
- Elizabeth Caroline Gray, Etruscan history
- John Richard Green, English
- Mary Anne Everett Green, English
- Arthur Griffiths, military history
- Lionel Groulx, Quebec
- René Grousset, Oriental history
H
- Henry Hoyle Howorth was a British Conservative politician, barrister and amateur historian and geologist
- Élie Halévy, French historian of 19th-century Britain
- Louis Halphen, Middle Ages
- Clarence H. Haring, Latin American history
- Charles H. Haskins, medieval
- Henri Hauser, French historian, economist, geographer
- Julien Havet, Middle Ages
- Paul Hazard, modern France
- Eli Heckscher, Swedish economic historian
- Auguste Himly, French historian and geographer
- Mihály Horváth, Hungarian
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian historian
- Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
I
- Ibn Zaydan, Moroccan historian
- Dmitry Ilovaisky, Russian history
- Harold Innis, Canadian economic history
J
- Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani, Moroccan
- Muhammad Jaber, history of the Levant and the Middle-East
- William James, historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
- Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian
- Arthur Johnson, historian at Oxford University
K
- Samuel Kamakau, Hawaiian historian
- Konstantin Kavelin, Russian historian, history of Russian laws
- François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann, French political historian
- Hans Kelsen, legal
- Philip Moore Callow Kermode, Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
- Alexander William Kinglake, works on the Crimean War
- William Kingsford, Canadian
- Vasily Klyuchevsky, Russian history
- David Knowles, English medieval
- Dudley Wright Knox, American naval historian
- Ludwig von Köchel, writer, botanist and music historian
- Mihail Kogălniceanu, Romanian
- Hans Kohn, European nationalism
- Nikodim Kondakov, Byzantine art
- Mehmet Fuad Köprülü, Turkish historian
- Nikolay Kostomarov, Russian and Ukrainian history
- Peter Kropotkin, economics, sociology and political history
- Godefroid Kurth, Belgian historian
L
- Leonard Woods Labaree, editor of the Benjamin Franklin papers
- Harold Lamb, American
- Karl Lamprecht, German art and economic history
- William L. Langer, U.S. historian, world and diplomatic history
- John Knox Laughton, British naval historian
- Ernest Lavisse, French history
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky, England and Ireland
- Georges Lefebvre, French Revolution
- Anna Lewis, Southwestern United States
- Liang Qichao, Chinese and Western history and historiography
- B.H. Liddell Hart, military
- John Edward Lloyd, Welshness
- Ferdinand Lot, Middle Ages
- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, intellectual history
- Arthur R.M. Lower, Canadian
M
- Thomas Macaulay, British
- R. B. McCallum British
- J. D. Mackie, Scottish
- William Archibald Mackintosh, Canadian economic
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, naval
- Frederic William Maitland, English legal, medieval
- Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Indian history
- J. A. R. Marriott, modern Britain and Europe
- Karl Marx, European society and economy
- Albert Mathiez, French Revolution
- Friedrich Meinecke, German intellectual and cultural
- Krste Misirkov, Macedonian historian and author
- Auguste Molinier, Middle Ages
- Theodor Mommsen, Roman Empire
- Alfred Morel-Fatio, Spain
- Samuel Eliot Morison, naval, American colonial
- John Lothrop Motley, the Netherlands
- Lewis Mumford, cities
N
- Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th-century British and 20th-century diplomatic history
- Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri, Moroccan
- J. E. Neale, Elizabethan England
- Allan Nevins, U.S. political and business; Civil War; biography
- A. P. Newton, British Empire
- Stojan Novaković, Serbian
O
- Charles Oman, 19th-century military
- Herbert L. Osgood, American colonial
P
- K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian
- Cesare Paoli, Italian history
- Gaston Paris, Middle Ages
- Francis Parkman, colonial North America
- Herbert Paul, 19th-century Britain
- Henry Francis Pelham, Roman
- Samuel W. Pennypacker, Pennsylvania history
- Dexter Perkins, American history
- Ivy Pinchbeck, English women and children
- Henri Pirenne, Belgian and medieval European history
- Sergey Platonov, Rucxian
- Mikhail Pokrovsky, economics and soviet history
- Datto Vaman Potdar, Indian historian
- Eileen Power, Middle Ages
- F. M. Powicke, biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
Q
- Jules Quicherat, Middle Ages
R
- William Pember Reeves, New Zealand
- Pierre Renouvin, diplomatic historian
- Herbert Richmond, British naval
- James Riker, New York
- B. H. Roberts, Mormon
- James Harvey Robinson, European
- Theodore Roosevelt, American west and naval history
- John Holland Rose, modern Europe, Britain and France
- Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
- Hans Rothfels, modern German
- Simon Rutar, Slovenian
- Ilarion Ruvarac, Serbian
S
- Abram L. Sachar, modern European history
- Govind Sakharam Sardesai, Indian
- Richard G. Salomon, medieval and church
- Jadunath Sarkar, history of India
- George Sarton, history of science
- Gustave Schlumberger, French
- Otto Seeck, German
- John Robert Seeley, British Empire
- J. Salwyn Schapiro, fascism
- Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. American social history
- Shin Chaeho, Korean
- Adam Shortt, Canadian
- Charlotte Fell Smith, English early modern
- Goldwin Smith, British and Canadian
- Justin Harvey Smith, Mexican–American War
- Sergey Solovyov, Russian historian
- Oswald Spengler, world; The Decline of the West
- Stanoje Stanojević, Serbia
- Frank Stenton, English medieval
- Doris Mary Stenton, English medieval
- William Stubbs, English law
T
- Hippolyte Taine, French Revolution
- Frank Bigelow Tarbell, ancient art history
- Yevgeny Tarle, Russian historian
- A. Wyatt Tilby, Britain, The English People Overseas
- Alexis de Tocqueville, France
- Zacharias Topelius
- Thomas Frederick Tout, England
- Arnold J. Toynbee, world history, A Study of History
- Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke, German historian and nationalist
- George Macaulay Trevelyan, British
- Mikheil Tsereteli, Georgian historian
- Frederick Jackson Turner, American frontier
U
- Frank Underhill, Canadian
V
- Paul Vinogradoff, medieval England
W
- Spencer Walpole, English historian
- Charles Webster, British diplomatic history
- Curt Weibull, Swedish historian
- Lauritz Weibull, Swedish historian
- Spenser Wilkinson, Britain, military historian
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams, Latin America
- James A. Williamson, Britain,maritime historian and historian of exploration
- Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, England
- Justin Winsor, America, Narrative and Critical History of America
- Carl Frederick Wittke, American ethnics
- Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, British history and international relations
- Muriel Hazel Wright, Oklahoma, Native Americans
- George MacKinnon Wrong, Canadian
Y
- Yi Byeongdo, Korea
Z
- Nicolas Zafra, Philippines
- Johann Kaspar Zeuss, Celts
- Faddei Zielinski, ancient Greece
Historians born in the 20th century
A
- Raouf Abbas, Egyptian
- Irving Abella, Canadian
- Aberjhani, African American, Harlem Renaissance, Literary
- David Abulafia, Mediterranean history
- Ezequiel Adamovsky, Argentina
- Donald Adamson, Britain
- Teodoro Agoncillo, Philippines history
- Dean C. Allard, American naval
- Robert C. Allen, British economy
- Gar Alperovitz, America, Hiroshima
- Ida Altman, America, colonial Spain and Latin America
- Mor Altshuler, Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism
- Abbas Amanat Iran, America
- Stephen Ambrose, World War II, U.S. political
- Henri Amouroux, French, Nazi occupation of France
- Perry Anderson, British and European history
- Joyce Appleby, U.S. early national
- Herbert Aptheker, African American history
- Leonie Archer, England
- Philippe Ariès, French medieval, childhood
- Karen Armstrong, British religious
- Andrea Aromatico, Italian esotericism and Hermetic iconography
- Leonard J. Arrington, America, Mormons
- Thomas Asbridge, Crusades
- Maurice Ashley, 17th-century England
- Paul Avrich, Russian, the Anarchist movement
- Ali Azaykou, Moroccan
- Eiichiro Azuma, American
B
- Nigel Bagnall, Ancient Rome, Greece
- Bernard Bailyn, early America; Atlantic
- David E. Barclay, German
- Juliet Barker, late Middle Ages, literary biography
- Frank Barlow, medieval biography
- Linda Diane Barnes, American
- Geoffrey Barraclough, Germany, world
- G.W.S. Barrow, Scotland
- H. Arnold Barton, Scandinavia
- Paul R. Bartrop, Holocaust, genocide
- Jacques Barzun, cultural
- Jorge Basadre, Peru
- Hanna Batatu, Palestinian, modern Iraq
- K. Jack Bauer, U.S. naval, military, and maritime
- Yehuda Bauer, Holocaust
- Stephen B. Baxter, late 17th – early 18th-century English
- David Bebbington, Evangelicalism
- Antony Beevor, World War II
- David Bell, Early Modern France, cultural history
- James Belich, New Zealand
- Abdelmajid Benjelloun, Morocco
- Laurence Bergreen, biography
- Isaiah Berlin, ideas
- Michael Beschloss, Cold War
- Nicholas Bethell, Soviet
- Robert Bickers, modern China and colonialism
- Anthony Birley, Ancient Rome
- David Blackbourn, German
- Geoffrey Blainey, Australian
- Lesley Blanch, English
- Gisela Bock, German feminist
- Brian Bond, British military
- Chrystelle Trump Bond, American dance historian
- Daniel J. Boorstin, American
- Georges Bordonove, France
- John Boswell, medievalist
- Robert Bothwell, Canada
- Gérard Bouchard, Canada
- Joanna Bourke, military
- Paul S. Boyer, American morality
- Karl Dietrich Bracher, modern German
- Jim Bradbury, Middle Ages
- James C. Bradford, American naval
- David Brading, Mexican history
- William Brandon, American West
- Fernand Braudel, world, Mediterranean
- Ahron Bregman, Arab-Israeli conflict
- Carl Bridenbaugh, American colonial
- Asa Briggs, British social history
- Timothy Brook, China
- Martin Broszat, Nazi Germany
- Gregory S. Brown, Early Modern French History, Cultural History
- Peter Brown, medieval
- Christopher Browning, Holocaust
- Alan Bullock, 1940s
- Peter Burke
- Michael Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln
- Briton C. Busch, British diplomatic and American maritime
- Richard Bushman, American colonial and Mormon
- Herbert Butterfield, historiography
C
- Angus Calder, Second World War
- Philip L. Cantelon, United States
- Julio Caro Baroja, anthropologist
- Sir Raymond Carr, Spain and Latin America
- Paul Cartledge, classicist
- Lionel Casson, classicist
- Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
- Iris Chang, China
- Howard I. Chapelle, maritime
- Maher Charif, Arab
- Louis Chevalier, France
- Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scotland
- Thomas Childers, war and society, both world wars
- Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri, India
- I. R. Christie, Britain
- Alan Clark, World Wars
- Christopher Clark, Prussia
- J.C.D. Clark, British
- Manning Clark, Australia
- Oliver Edmund Clubb, China
- Patrick Collinson, Elizabethan England and Puritanism
- Robert Conquest, Russia
- Margaret Conrad, Canada
- John Milton Cooper, Woodrow Wilson
- Peter Cottrell, Anglo-Irish
- Gordon A. Craig, German and diplomatic
- Donald Creighton, Canadian
- Vincent Cronin, European and art history
- William Cronon, American environmental
- Pamela Kyle Crossley, China
- Dan Cruickshank, Britain, architecture
- Gemma Cruz, Rizaliana, Philippines
- Barry Cunliffe, archaeology
D
- Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenia
- Robert Dallek, 20th-century U.S. presidents
- William Dalrymple, Scottish
- David B. Danbom, American rural
- Ahmad Hasan Dani, South Asia
- Robert Darnton, 18th-century France
- Saul David, military
- John Davies, Wales
- Norman Davies, Poland, Britain
- Kenneth S. Davis, Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Natalie Zemon Davis, early modern France, film
- R. H. C. Davis, Middle Ages
- Lucy Dawidowicz, Holocaust
- David Day, Australia
- Renzo De Felice, Italian fascism
- Carl N. Degler, American
- Len Deighton, British military
- Esther Delisle, French-Canadian
- Jean Delumeau, Catholic Church
- Marcel Detienne, ancient Greece
- Alexandre Deulofeu, Catalan
- Isaac Deutscher, Soviet
- Wu Di, China
- Igor M. Diakonov, Ancient Near East
- David Herbert Donald, American Civil War
- Gordon Donaldson, Scotland
- Susan Doran, Elizabethan England
- William Doyle, French Revolution
- Georges Duby, Middle Ages
- William S. Dudley, American naval
- Robert Dudley Edwards, Ireland
- Eamon Duffy, 15th–17th-century religious
- Hermann Walther von der Dunk, 20th-century Dutch and German
- Mary Maples Dunn, early American, women's history
- Richard Slator Dunn, early American, slavery
- A. Hunter Dupree, American science and technology
- Trevor Dupuy, military
- Jean-Baptiste Duroselle, French diplomacy
- Harold James Dyos, British urban
E
- Elizabeth Eisenstein, French Revolution, books
- Geoff Eley, German
- John Elliott, Spanish
- Joseph J. Ellis, American early Republic
- Geoffrey Elton, Tudor England
- Peter Englund, Sweden
- Robert Malcolm Errington, Britain
- Richard J. Evans, German social
- Alf Evers, America
F
- Esther Farbstein, Israeli, Holocaust
- Grahame Farr, maritime, south-west of England
- Brian Farrell, Ireland
- John Lister Illingworth Fennell, medieval Russia
- Niall Ferguson, military, business, imperial
- Božidar Ferjančić, medieval
- Robert H. Ferrell, American history, the U.S. presidency, World War I, U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy, Harry S. Truman
- Marc Ferro, World War I
- Joachim Fest, Nazi Germany
- David Feuerwerker, Jewish
- Heinrich Fichtenau, medieval, diplomacy
- David Kenneth Fieldhouse, British Empire
- Orlando Figes, Russian
- Robert O. Fink, classical
- Moses Finley, ancient, especially economic
- David Hackett Fischer, American Revolution, cycles
- Fritz Fischer, Germany
- Frances FitzGerald, Vietnam, history textbooks
- Judith Flanders, Victorian British social
- Robert Fogel, American economic, cliometrics
- Eric Foner, Reconstruction
- Shelby Foote, American Civil War
- Amanda Foreman, Georgian England, American Civil War, women's history
- Michel Foucault, ideas
- Jo Fox, 20th-century film and propaganda
- Robin Lane Fox, ancient
- Stephen Fox, U.S. in World War II
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, American South, cultural and social, women
- Walter Frank, Nazi historian
- H. Bruce Franklin, Vietnam War
- Antonia Fraser, England
- Frank Freidel, Franklin Roosevelt
- Joseph Friedenson, Holocaust
- Henry Friedlander, Holocaust
- Saul Friedländer, Holocaust
- Sheppard Frere, anthropologist, Roman Empire
- David Fromkin, Middle East
- Francis Fukuyama, world
- Bruno Fuligni, French history
- François Furet, French Revolution
- Halima Ferhat, Middle Ages of the Maghreb
G
- Femme Gaastra, Dutch
- John Lewis Gaddis, Cold War
- Lloyd Gardner, U.S. diplomatic
- Edwin Gaustad, religion in America
- Peter Gay, psycho-history, Enlightenment and 19th-century social
- Eugene Genovese, U.S. South, slavery
- Imanuel Geiss, 19th/20th-century Germany
- François Géré, military
- Christian Gerlach, Holocaust
- N.H. Gibbs, military
- William Gibson, ecclesiastical history
- Martin Gilbert, Holocaust
- Carlo Ginzburg, social history
- Jan Glete, Swedish
- Eric F. Goldman, 20th-century American
- James Goldrick, Australian
- Adrian Goldsworthy, ancient history
- Guillermo Gómez, Philippines history
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, American presidential
- Andrew Gordon, British naval history
- Svetlana Gorshenina, Central Asian history
- Gerald S. Graham, British imperial
- Jack Granatstein, Canada
- Michael Grant, ancient
- Peter Green, ancient
- Vivian H.H. Green, Christianity
- John Robert Greene, American presidency
- Roger D. Griffin, fascism, political and religious fanaticism
- Ramchandra Guha, India, environment
- Ranajit Guha, Indian
- Lev Gumilyov, Soviet
- Oliver Gurney, Assyria, Hittites
- John Guy, Tudor England
H
- Irfan Habib, India
- Sheldon Hackney, U.S. South
- Kenneth J. Hagan, U.S. naval
- John Whitney Hall, Japan
- Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, World War II air war
- N. G. L. Hammond, ancient Greek history
- Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
- Syed Nomanul Haq, history and philosophy of science
- Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli, military, Medieval, prehistorical
- Dick Harrison, Swedish and Medieval
- Peter Harrison, early modern intellectual
- Max Hastings, military, WWII
- John Hattendorf, maritime
- Ragnhild Hatton, 17th–18th-century European international
- Denys Hay, medieval and Renaissance Europe
- John Daniel Hayes, American naval
- Peter Hayes, Holocaust
- Joel Hayward, Islamic, maritime, military
- Ingo Heidbrink, maritime history, history of technology
- Jeffrey Herf, Germany, Europe
- Arthur L. Herman, America, Britain
- Michael Hicks, late medieval England
- Raul Hilberg, Holocaust
- Klaus Hildebrand, 19th/20th-century Germany
- Christopher Hill, 17th-century England
- Andreas Hillgruber, 20th-century Germany
- Richard L. Hills, technology
- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Britain
- Harry Hinsley, British intelligence, World War II
- Gerhard Hirschfeld, 20th-century Germany, WWI, WWII
- Eric Hobsbawm, labour; Marxism
- Marshall Hodgson, Islamic
- Peter Hoffmann, National Socialism
- Richard Hofstadter, American political
- David Hoggan, neo-Nazi
- Hajo Holborn, Germany
- Tom Holland, Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages
- C. Warren Hollister, Middle Ages
- George Holmes, medieval
- Richard Holmes, military
- Ed Hooper, Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
- A.G. Hopkins, Britain
- Keith Hopkins, ancient
- Michiel Horn, Canada
- Alistair Horne, modern French
- Daniel Horowitz, American cultural
- Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, women
- Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern
- Youssef Hourany, Lebanon, ancient
- Michael Howard, military
- Robert Hughes, Australia, cities
- Andrew Hunt, Cold War America
- Tristram Hunt
- Mark C. Hunter, naval
I
- Halil Inalcik, Ottoman Empire
- Jonathan Israel, Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry
J
- Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
- Julian T. Jackson, French
- Harold James, modern Germany
- Nikoloz Janashia, Georgia and Caucasus
- Simon Janashia, Georgia and Caucasus
- Marius Jansen, Japan
- Pawel Jasienica, Poland
- Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, American intelligence
- Merrill Jensen, American Revolution
- Richard J. Jensen, America
- Khasnor Johan, Malaysian historian
- Paul Johnson, Britain, Western civilization
- Robert Erwin Johnson, American naval
- Mauno Jokipii, Finnish, World War II
- A. H. M. Jones, later Roman Empire
- George Hilton Jones III, England
- Gwyn Jones, medieval
- Loe de Jong, Netherlands
- Tony Judt, 20th-century European, postwar
K
- Donald Kagan, ancient Greek
- Michel Kaplan, French Byzantinist
- David S. Katz, early modern English religious
- Elie Kedourie, Middle East
- Rod Kedward, 20th-century France
- John Keegan, military
- Nushiravan Keihanizadeh, Iran
- John H. Kemble, American maritime
- Paul Murray Kendall, late Middle Ages
- Elizabeth Topham Kennan, medieval
- George F. Kennan, U.S.-Soviet relations
- James Kennedy, Netherlands
- Paul Kennedy, world, military
- W. Hudson Kensel, western America
- Ian Kershaw, Nazi Germany, Hitler
- Daniel J. Kevles, science
- Khan Roshan Khan, Pakistan
- Kim Jung-bae, Korea
- Michael King, New Zealand
- Patrick Kinross, Ottoman Empire
- Henry Kissinger, 19th-century Europe; late 20th-century
- Martin Kitchen, modern Europe
- Simon Kitson, Vichy France
- Matti Klinge, Finnish
- Felix Klos, American/ Dutch, Modern European
- R.J.B. Knight, British naval
- Yuri Knorozov, historical linguist
- Eberhard Kolb, German
- Gabriel Kolko, American
- Claudia Koonz, Nazi Germany
- Andrey Korotayev, economic, Near East, Islamic and pre-Islamic
- Ernst Kossmann, Low Countries
- Philip A. Kuhn, China
- Thomas Kuhn, science
- Myoma Myint Kywe, Burmese writer and historian
L
- Benjamin Woods Labaree, American colonial and maritime
- Leopold Labedz, Soviet
- Walter LaFeber, diplomatic, Cold War
- Brij Lal, Fiji
- K. S. Lal, Medieval India
- Andrew Lambert, British naval
- Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea, haciendas in Western Mexico
- Dieter Langewiesche, 19th–20th century, nationalism and liberalism
- Abdallah Laroui, Maghreb
- David Lavender, American West
- Jacques Le Goff, medieval
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French
- Daniel Leab, 20th century
- Robert Leckie, American military
- Ulrich L. Lehner, intellectual and cultural history
- Lee Ki-baek, Korean
- William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal
- Barbara Levick, Roman emperors
- David Levering Lewis, African American, Harlem Renaissance
- Li Ao, Chinese
- Leon F. Litwack, America, African-American
- Xinru Liu, Ancient Indian and Chinese
- Mario Liverani, ancient Middle East
- Radoš Ljušić, Serbia
- David Loades, Tudor England
- Roger Lockyer, Stuart England
- James W. Loewen, America
- Elizabeth Longford, Victorian England
- Erik Lönnroth, Scandinavia
- Walter Lord, America
- John Lukacs, modern Europe
M
- Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
- Stuart Macintyre, Australia
- Piers Mackesy, British military
- Margaret MacMillan, 20th-century international relations
- William Miller Macmillan, liberal South African historiography
- Ramsay MacMullen, Roman
- Magnus Magnusson, Norse
- Charles S. Maier, 20th-century Europe
- Paul L. Maier, ancient history
- Pauline Maier, early America
- Leonard Maltin, film
- William Manchester, Churchill
- Golo Mann, general
- Susan Mann, Canadian
- Susan L. Mann, history of China and women
- Adel Manna, Palestine in Ottoman period
- Philip Mansel, France, Ottoman Empire
- Arthur Marder, British naval
- Michael Marrus, French and Jewish
- Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
- Henri-Jean Martin, the book
- Laurence Marvin, American, French medievalist
- Timothy Mason, Nazi Germany
- Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
- Ernest R. May, 20th-century warfare and international relations
- Richard J. Maybury, America, WW I, WW II, Middle East
- Arno J. Mayer, World War I and Europe
- Mark Mazower, Balkans, Greece
- David McCullough, American
- Forrest McDonald, early national America, presidency, business
- K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
- William S. McFeely, American Civil War
- W. David McIntyre, Commonwealth, New Zealand
- Neil McKendrick, modern economic and social history
- Ross McKibbin, 20th-century Britain
- Rosamond McKitterick, medieval
- William McNeill, world
- James M. McPherson, American Civil War
- D. W. Meinig, American geography
- Evaldo Cabral de Mello, Dutch Brazil
- Russell Menard, colonial American
- Thomas C. Mendenhall, history of sport
- Josef W. Meri, Islamic world, Jews
- Barbara Metcalf, India
- Rade Mihaljčić, medieval Serbia
- Perry Miller, American intellectual
- Giles Milton, exploration
- Zora Mintalová – Zubercová, food history and material culture of Central Europe
- Yagutil Mishiev, Derbent, Dagestan, Russia
- Hans Mommsen, Germany
- Wolfgang Mommsen, Britain, Germany
- Indro Montanelli general
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Russia, Middle East
- Theodore William Moody, Ireland
- Edmund Morgan, American colonial and Revolution
- Kenneth O. Morgan, British politics, Wales
- William J. Morgan, American naval
- Samuel Eliot Morison, American colonial and naval
- Benny Morris, Middle East
- Ian Mortimer, Middle Ages
- W.L. Morton, Canada
- George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist, sexual
- Roland Mousnier, early modern France
- Mubarak Ali, Pakistan
N
- Joseph Needham, Chinese science and technology
- Cynthia Neville, late medieval, Scotland and England, Gaelic culture
- Thomas Nipperdey, 19th c. German history
- Ernst Nolte, German, fascism and communism
O
- Josiah Ober, ancient Greece
- Heiko Oberman, Reformation
- Ambeth Ocampo, Philippines
- W. H. Oliver, New Zealand
- Robin O'Neil, Holocaust
- Vincent Orange, military, World War II, aviation
- Michael Oren, modern Middle East
- Margaret Ormsby, Canada
- İlber Ortaylı, Turkey
- Fernand Ouellet, French Canada
- Richard Overy, World War II
- Steven Ozment, Germany
P
- Thomas Pakenham, Africa
- Madhavan K. Palat, Russia and Europe
- Ilan Pappé, Israel
- Peter Paret, military
- Geoffrey Parker, early modern military
- Simo Parpola, ancient Middle East
- J. H. Parry, maritime
- T. T. Paterson, archaeologist and sociologist
- Fred Patten, science fiction
- Stanley G. Payne, Spain, fascism
- Abel Paz, Spanish anarchist movement
- William Armstrong Percy, Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality
- Bradford Perkins, U.S. diplomatic
- Detlev Peukert, everyday life in Weimar and Nazi eras
- Liza Picard, London
- William B. Pickett, American history, Dwight D. Eisenhower
- David Pietrusza, American
- Boris B. Piotrovsky, Urartu, Scythia
- Richard Pipes, Russian and Soviet
- J.H. Plumb, 18th-century Britain
- J. G. A. Pocock, early modern intellectual
- Kwok Kin Poon, Chinese Southern and Northern Dynasties
- Barbara Corrado Pope, America, Belle Époque, women's studies
- Roy Porter, medicine, British social and cultural
- Norman Pounds, geography and England
- Gordon W. Prange, World War II Pacific
- Joshua Prawer, Crusades
- Michael Prestwich, medieval England
- Clement Alexander Price, America
- Francis Paul Prucha, American Indians
- Janko Prunk, Slovenia
Q
- Carroll Quigley, classical, western history, theorist of civilizations
R
- Marc Raeff, Russian Empire
- Werner Rahn, German naval
- Jack N. Rakove, U.S. Constitution and early politics
- Šerbo Rastoder, Montenegrin
- René Rémond, French politics
- Timothy Reuter, Medieval Germany
- Henry A. Reynolds, Australia
- Susan Reynolds, medieval
- Richard Rhodes, World War II, hydrogen bomb
- Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Russia
- Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
- Blaze Ristovski, Macedonia
- Charles Ritcheson, Anglo-American relations 1775–1815
- Gerhard A. Ritter, Germany
- Andrew Roberts, Britain
- J. M. Roberts, Europe
- Nicholas A. M. Rodger, British naval
- William Ledyard Rodgers, ancient naval
- Walter Rodney, Guyana
- Theodore Ropp, military
- W. J. Rorabaugh, 19th and 20th-century U.S.
- Ron Rosenbaum, Hitler
- Charles E. Rosenberg, medicine and science
- Stephen Roskill, British naval
- Maarten van Rossem, 20th-century U.S.
- María Rostworowski, Peruvian
- Sheila Rowbotham, feminism, socialism
- Herbert H. Rowen, Netherlands
- A. L. Rowse, English
- Miri Rubin, social, Europe 1100–1600
- George Rudé, French revolution
- R. J. Rummel, genocide
- Steven Runciman, Crusades
- Leila J. Rupp, feminist
- Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell, 17th-century Britain
- Cornelius Ryan, World War II, popular
- Boris Rybakov, Soviet
S
- Edgar V. Saks, Estonia
- Dominic Sandbrook, recent Britain and America
- Usha Sanyal, Asian, Islam, Sufism
- S. Srikanta Sastri, Indian
- Simon Schama, British, Dutch, American, French
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
- Jean-Claude Schmitt, Middle Ages
- David Schoenbaum, modern German and American–Israeli relations
- Carl Emil Schorske, Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
- Paul W. Schroeder, European diplomacy
- D. M. Schurman, British imperial and naval
- Dorothy Schwieder,, Iowa
- Joan Scott, feminism
- William Henry Scott, Philippines
- Howard Hayes Scullard, ancient
- Oscar Secco Ellauri, Uruguayan historian and politician
- Jules Sedney, Surinamese historian and former prime minister
- Tom Segev, Israeli
- Robert Service, Soviet, Russian
- Dasharatha Sharma, Rajasthan
- Ram Sharan Sharma, ancient India
- James J. Sheehan, modern Germany
- William L. Shirer, America, Third Reich
- He Shu, Chinese cultural revolution
- Jack Simmons, English historian, railway history
- Keith Sinclair, New Zealand
- Helene J. Sinnreich, Holocaust
- Nathan Sivin, China
- Quentin Skinner, early modern Britain
- Alexandre Skirda, Russia
- Theda Skocpol, institutions and comparative method; sociological
- Richard Slotkin, American environment and West
- Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr., military history, American Old West
- Digby Smith, military
- Henry Nash Smith, U.S. cultural
- Jean Edward Smith, U.S. foreign policy, constitutional law, biography
- Page Smith, U.S.
- Richard Norton Smith, U.S. presidential
- T. C. Smout, Scottish environmental and social
- Louis Leo Snyder, German nationalism
- Timothy D. Snyder, Eastern Europe
- Albert Soboul, French revolution
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian Gulag
- Pat Southern, ancient Rome
- Richard Southern, medieval
- E. Lee Spence, shipwrecks
- Jonathan Spence, China
- Jackson J. Spielvogel, world
- Kenneth Stampp, U.S. South, slavery
- George Stanley, Canada
- David Starkey, Tudor
- Leften Stavros Stavrianos, world
- James M. Stayer, German Reformation
- Wickham Steed, Eastern Europe
- Valerie Steele, fashion
- Jean Stengers, Belgian
- Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon
- Fritz Stern, Germany and Jewish
- Zeev Sternhell, fascism
- Floyd Benjamin Streeter, Kansas, American West
- William N. Still, Jr., U.S. naval
- Lawrence Stone, early modern British social, economic and family
- Norman Stone, military
- Hew Strachan, military
- Barry S. Strauss, ancient military
- Michael Stürmer, modern German
- Ronald Suleski, China
- Viktor Suvorov, Soviet
- Ronald Syme, ancient
- David Syrett, British naval
T
- Ronald Takaki, America, ethnic studies
- J. L. Talmon, Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
- Alasdair and Hettie Tayler, Scotland
- A. J. P. Taylor, Britain, modern Europe
- Abdelhadi Tazi, Moroccan
- Antonio Tellez, Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
- Harold Temperley, 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
- Romila Thapar, ancient India
- Stephan Thernstrom, American ethnic
- Barbara Thiering, Biblical
- Joan Thirsk, agriculture
- Hugh Thomas, Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
- E. P. Thompson, British labor history
- Mark Thompson, Balkans, WW 1 Italy
- John Toland, World War I and World War II
- K. Ross Toole, Montana
- Ahmed Toufiq, Moroccan
- Marc Trachtenberg, Cold War
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Nazi; British
- Gil Troy, modern American, the Presidency
- Barbara Tuchman, 20th-century military
- Robert C. Tucker, Stalin
- Peter Turchin, Russian historian of historical dynamics
- Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., 20th-century German
- Denis Twitchett, China
- David Tyack, American education
U
- Walter Ullmann, medieval
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, early America
- David Underdown, 17th-century England
- Mladen Urem, Croatian literary
- Robert M. Utley, 19th-century American West
V
- Hans van de Ven, Britain, modern China
- Frank Vandiver, U.S. Civil War
- Jan Vansina, Belgian; African history
- Jean-Pierre Vernant, French, ancient Greece
- Paul Veyne, French, ancient Greece and Rome
- César Vidal Manzanares, Spanish
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet, French, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
- Richard Vinen, British
- Klemens von Klemperer German-born, Nazi Germany
W
- John Waiko, Papua New Guinea
- J. Samuel Walker, nuclear energy and weapons
- Immanuel Wallerstein, world-systems theory
- Retha Warnicke, Tudor and gender issues
- Peter Watson, intellectual history
- Eugen Weber, modern French
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, 16th and 17th-century Europe
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 19th-century German social
- Russell Weigley, military
- Gerhard Weinberg, Germany, World War II
- Roberto Weiss, Renaissance
- Frank Welsh, British imperial
- Christopher Whatley, Scotland
- John Wheeler-Bennett, Germany
- John Whyte, Northern Ireland, divided societies
- Christopher Wickham, medieval
- Alexander Wilkinson, early modern European, books
- Toby Wilkinson, ancient Egypt
- Eric Williams, Guiana, Caribbean
- Glanmor Williams, Wales
- Glyndwr Williams, exploration
- William Appleman Williams, U.S. diplomacy
- John Willingham, Texas
- Andrew Wilson, Ukraine
- Clyde N. Wilson, 19th-century U.S. South
- Ian Wilson, religious
- Keith Windschuttle, Australia; historiography
- Henry Winkler, German
- Robert S. Wistrich, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
- John B. Wolf, French
- Michael Wolffsohn, German Jewish
- Herwig Wolfram, medieval
- Gordon S. Wood, American Revolution
- Michael Wood, England
- Thomas Woods, America; conservatism
- C. Vann Woodward, American South
- Daniel Woolf, Britain, historiography
- Lucy Worsley, Britain
- Gordon Wright, modern France
- Lawrence C. Wroth, American printing
Y
- Robert J. Young, French Third Republic
- Robert M. Young, medicine
Z
- Gregorio F. Zaide, Philippines
- Adam Zamoyski, Napoleonic era
- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, German
- Howard Zinn, American
- Rainer Zitelmann, German
- Marek Żukow-Karczewski, Poland, Kraków