List of anthropologists

Anthropologist

A

 * John Adair
 * B. R. Ambedkar
 * Giulio Angioni
 * Jon Altman
 * Arjun Appadurai
 * Talal Asad
 * Timothy Asch
 * Scott Atran
 * Marc Augé

B

 * Nigel Barley
 * Fredrik Barth
 * Vasily Bartold
 * Keith H. Basso
 * Daisy Bates
 * Gregory Bateson
 * Mary Catherine Bateson
 * Richard Bauman
 * Ruth Behar
 * Ruth Benedict
 * Dorothy A. Bennett
 * Carl H. Berendt
 * Lee Berger
 * Brent Berlin
 * Catherine Helen Webb Berndt
 * Catherine L. Besteman
 * Theodore C. Bestor
 * Lewis Binford
 * Evelyn Blackwood
 * Wilhelm Bleek
 * Maurice Bloch
 * Anton Blok
 * Franz Boas
 * Tom Boellstorff
 * Paul Bohannan
 * Dmitri Bondarenko
 * Pere Bosch-Gimpera
 * Pierre Bourdieu
 * Philippe Bourgois
 * Charles L. Briggs
 * Paul Broca
 * Christian Bromberger
 * Kari Bruwelheide
 * Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa)

C

 * Julio Caro Baroja
 * Edmund Carpenter
 * Napoleon Chagnon
 * Pierre Clastres
 * Mabel Cook Cole
 * Malcolm Carr Collier
 * Harold C. Conklin
 * Carleton S. Coon
 * Frank Hamilton Cushing

D

 * Regna Darnell
 * Raymond Dart
 * Emma Lou Davis
 * Wade Davis
 * Ernesto de Martino
 * Ella Cara Deloria
 * Raymond J. DeMallie
 * Philippe Descola
 * Stanley Diamond
 * Mary Douglas
 * Cora Du Bois
 * Eugene Dubois
 * Robin Dunbar
 * Ann Dunham
 * Katherine Dunham
 * Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
 * Émile Durkheim

E

 * Mary Lindsay Elmendolf
 * Verrier Elwin
 * Matthew Engelke
 * Friedrich Engels
 * Arturo Escobar
 * E. E. Evans-Pritchard

F

 * James Ferguson
 * Raymond Firth
 * Raymond D. Fogelson
 * Meyer Fortes
 * Gregory Forth
 * Dian Fossey
 * Kate Fox
 * Robin Fox
 * James Frazer
 * Lina Fruzzetti

G

 * Clifford Geertz
 * Alfred Gell
 * Ernest Gellner
 * Herb Di Gioia
 * Max Gluckman
 * Maurice Godelier
 * Jane Goodall
 * Marjorie Harness Goodwin
 * Igor Gorevich
 * Harold A. Gould
 * David Graeber
 * Hilma Granqvist
 * J. Patrick Gray
 * Marcel Griaule
 * Jacob Grimm
 * Wilhelm Grimm

H

 * Abdellah Hammoudi
 * Michael Harkin
 * Michael Harner
 * John P. Harrington
 * Marvin Harris
 * K. David Harrison
 * Kirsten Hastrup
 * Jacquetta Hawkes
 * Brian Douglas Hayden
 * Rose Oldfield Hayes
 * Stephen C. Headley
 * Thor Heyerdahl
 * Arthur Maurice Hocart
 * Ian Hodder
 * E. Adamson Hoebel
 * Earnest Hooton
 * Robin W.G. Horton
 * Aleš Hrdlička
 * Eva Verbitsky Hunt
 * Dell Hymes

I

 * Miyako Inoue
 * Bill Irons

J

 * Ira Jacknis
 * John M. Janzen
 * Thomas Des Jean
 * F. Landa Jocano
 * Alfred E. Johnson
 * William Jones
 * Michal Josephy
 * Jeffrey S. Juris

K

 * Sergei Kan
 * Jomo Kenyatta
 * David Kertzer
 * Alice Beck Kehoe
 * Anatoly Khazanov
 * Dolly Kikon
 * Richard G. Klein
 * Chris Knight
 * Eduardo Kohn
 * Dorinne K. Kondo
 * Andrey Korotayev
 * Conrad Kottak
 * Charles H. Kraft
 * Grover Krantz
 * Alfred L. Kroeber
 * Theodora Kroeber
 * Lars Krutak
 * Adam Kuper

L

 * William Labov
 * George Lakoff
 * Harold E. Lambert
 * Edmund Leach
 * Eleanor Leacock
 * Murray Leaf
 * Louis Leakey
 * Mary Leakey
 * Richard Leakey
 * Richard Borshay Lee
 * Charles Miller Leslie
 * Claude Lévi-Strauss
 * Ellen Lewin
 * C. Scott Littleton
 * Albert Buell Lewis
 * Oscar Lewis
 * Phillip Harold Lewis
 * Roland Littlewood
 * Robert Lowie
 * Nancy Lurie

M

 * Alan Macfarlane
 * Saba Mahmood
 * Bronisław Malinowski
 * George Marcus
 * Jonathan M. Marks
 * Karl Marx
 * John Alden Mason
 * Michael Atwood Mason
 * Marcel Mauss
 * Phillip McArthur
 * Irma McClaurin
 * Charles Harrison McNutt
 * Margaret Mead
 * Mervyn Meggitt
 * Josef Mengele
 * Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
 * Emily Martin
 * Horace Mitchell Miner
 * Sidney Mintz
 * Ashley Montagu
 * James Mooney
 * Henrietta L. Moore
 * John H. Moore
 * Lewis H. Morgan
 * Desmond Morris
 * George Murdock
 * Yolanda Murphy

N

 * Laura Nader
 * Moni Nag
 * Jeremy Narby
 * Raoul Naroll
 * Josiah Nott
 * Erland Nordenskiöld

O

 * Gananath Obeyesekere
 * Kaori O'Connor
 * Aihwa Ong
 * Marvin Opler
 * Morris Opler
 * Sherry Ortner
 * Keith F. Otterbein
 * Evelia Edith Oyhenart

P

 * Elsie Clews Parsons
 * Bronisław Piłsudski
 * Thomas J. Pluckhahn
 * Hortense Powdermaker
 * A.H.J. Prins
 * Harald E.L. Prins

Q

 * Buell Quain
 * James Quesada

R

 * Paul Rabinow
 * Wilhelm Radloff
 * Laurence Ralph
 * Lucinda Ramberg
 * Roy Rappaport
 * Hans Ras
 * Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
 * Margaret Read
 * Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
 * Kathy Reichs
 * Audrey Richards
 * W. H. R. Rivers
 * Paul Rivet
 * Uzma Z. Rizvi
 * Joel Robbins
 * Renato Rosaldo
 * Gayle Rubin
 * Robert A. Rubinstein

S

 * Marshall Sahlins
 * Noel B. Salazar
 * Roger Sandall
 * Edward Sapir
 * Patricia Sawin
 * Nancy Scheper-Hughes
 * Wilhelm Schmidt
 * Tobias Schneebaum
 * James C. Scott
 * Thayer Scudder
 * Elman Service
 * Afanasy Shchapov
 * Gerald F. Schroedl
 * Florence Connolly Shipek
 * Sydel Silverman
 * Audra Simpson
 * Cathy Small
 * Christen A. Smith
 * Jacques Soustelle
 * Melford Spiro
 * James Spradley
 * Julian Steward
 * Herbert Spencer
 * Marilyn Strathern
 * William Sturtevant
 * Niara Sudarkasa

T

 * Michael Taussig
 * Sharika Thiranagama
 * Edward Burnett Tylor
 * Colin Turnbull
 * Victor Turner
 * Bruce Trigger

V

 * Karl Verner
 * L. P. Vidyarthi
 * Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
 * Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf

W

 * Anthony F. C. Wallace
 * Lee Henderson Watkins
 * Camilla Wedgwood
 * Hank Wesselman
 * Kath Weston
 * Douglas R. White
 * Isobel Mary White
 * Leslie White
 * Tim White
 * Benjamin Whorf
 * Unni Wikan
 * Clark Wissler
 * Eric Wolf
 * Alvin Wolfe
 * Sol Worth

Y

 * Nur Yalman
 * Kim Yeshi

Z

 * Jarrett Zigon
 * R. Tom Zuidema

Fictional anthropologists

 * Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
 * Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) in the television series Bones
 * Temperance Brennan in the novel series Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reichs
 * Chakotay (Robert Beltran) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
 * Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the television series Star Trek: Discovery
 * Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks, James Spader) in the television series and film Stargate SG-1
 * Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) in the television series Lost
 * Korekiyo Shinguji