List of archaeologists

This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains.

A

 * Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919) American; advocate of early occupation of Americas
 * Kamyar Abdi (born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age
 * Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012) Brazilian; Brazil
 * Johann Michael Ackner (1783–1862) Transylvanian; Roman Dacia
 * Dinu Adameșteanu (1913–2004) Romanian-Italian; aerial photography and survey of sites
 * James M. Adovasio (born 1944) U.S.; New World (esp. Pre-Clovis) and perishable technologies
 * Anagnostis Agelarakis (born 1956) Greek; archaeological and physical anthropology
 * Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age
 * Julius Ailio (1872–1933) Finnish; Karelian Isthmus
 * Edward R. Ayrton (1882–1914) English Egyptologist and archaeologist
 * Ekrem Akurgal (1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia
 * Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Roman Portugal
 * William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist
 * Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain
 * Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces
 * Miranda Aldhouse-Green (born 1947) British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic
 * Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) Iranian; Iran
 * Jim Allen, (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita, Polynesian
 * Penelope Allison (born 19??) household and Roman archaeology
 * Sedat Alp (1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology
 * Ruth Amiran (1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad
 * Atholl Anderson (born 1943) New Zealand; New Zealand and the Pacific
 * David G. Anderson (born 1949) U.S.; eastern North America
 * Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960) Swedish; China
 * E. Wyllys Andrews IV (1916–1971) American; Maya
 * Manolis Andronicos (1919–1992) Greek; Greece
 * Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia)
 * Khaled al-Asaad (1934–2015) Syrian; Palmyra
 * J. R. Aspelin (1842–1915) Finnish; Scandinavia and the Ural region
 * Mick Aston (1946–2013) English; popularizer
 * Miriam Astruc (1904–1963) French; Phoenician-Punic people
 * Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994) English; England
 * Val Attenbrow (born 1942) Australian; Aboriginal stone tools, archaeology of aboriginal Sydney
 * Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 1957) French; Black Death/bubonic plague
 * Anthony Aveni (born 1938) U.S.; archaeoastronomy
 * Nahman Avigad (1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada
 * Hasan Awad (born 1912/13) Bedouin; excavator
 * Massoud Azarnoush (1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

B

 * Churchill Babington (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
 * Paul Bahn (born 1953) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island
 * Geoff Bailey (born 19??) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
 * Senake Bandaranayake (1938–2015) Sri Lankan; South Asia
 * Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) American; American South-West, Mexico
 * Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) Italian; Etruscans & art
 * Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930) Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture
 * Edward B. Banning (born 1955) Canadian; Near Eastern archaeology, archaeological survey
 * Luisa Banti (1894–1978) Italian; Etruscology
 * Taha Baqir (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
 * Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard)


 * Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937–2020) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites


 * Gabriel Barkay (born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy, Iron Age glyptics, Ketef Hinnom)
 * Graeme Barker (born 1946) British; Italian Bronze Age, Roman Libya, landscape archaeology
 * Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
 * John C. Barrett (born 1949) British; archaeological theory and European prehistory
 * Alessandro Barsanti (1858–1917) Italian; Egypt (Zawyet El Aryan)
 * Diane Barwick (1938–1986) Australian; Aboriginal culture and society
 * George Bass (1932–2021) American; underwater archaeology
 * Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
 * Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)*Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia


 * Mary Beaudry (1950–2020) American; eastern U.S., Scotland, Caribbean, gastronomy


 * Sergei Beletzkiy (1953–2022) Russian; Medieval Russia
 * Anna Belfer-Cohen (born 1949) Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant
 * Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum (now Iraqi Museum)
 * Harry Charles Purvis Bell (1851–1937) British civil servant; first Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon
 * Peter Bellwood (born 1943) Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide)| interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology
 * Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian; Egypt*Erez Ben-Yosef (born 19??) Israeli; archaeometallurgy


 * Norbert Benecke (born 1954) German; zooarchaeology
 * Crystal Bennett (1918–1987) British; Jordan
 * James Theodore Bent (1852–1897) British; eastern Med, Africa, and Arabia.
 * Dumitru Berciu (1907–1998) Romanian; South-Eastern and Central Europe, Geto-Dacians, Thracians and Celts
 * Lee Berger (born 1965) U.S.; paleo-anthropology
 * Gerhard Bersu (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.)
 * Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece
 * Paolo Biagi (born 1948) Italian; Eurasian Mesolithic and Neolithic, Pakistan prehistory
 * Geoffrey Bibby (1917–2001) British; Arabia
 * Penny Bickle (born 19??) British; bioarchaeology, Neolithic
 * Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
 * Martin Biddle (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain
 * Manfred Bietak (born 1940) Austrian; Egypt
 * Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
 * Lewis Binford (1930–2011) American; U.S., France, theory
 * Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) U.S.; discovered Machu Picchu
 * Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) Italian; Rome
 * Avraham Biran (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
 * Caroline Bird (born 19??) Australia; heritage and indigenous studies research
 * Judy Birmingham (born 19??) Australian; historical archaeology in Australia, Irrawang pottery, Tasmania
 * Glenn Albert Black (1900–1964) U.S.; US Mid-West
 * Carl Blegen (1888–1971) U.S.; Troy
 * Elizabeth Blegen (1888–1966) U.S.; Greece, educator
 * Frederick Jones Bliss (1857–1939) U.S.; Palestine
 * John Boardman (born 1927) British; Classical archaeology, especially Greek architecture
 * Jean Boisselier (1912–1996) French; Khmer, Southeast Asia
 * Nicole Boivin (born 19??) Canadian; migration out of Africa, long-distance maritime trade
 * Larissa Bonfante (1931–2019) U.S.; Etruscans
 * Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
 * Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938) German; Egypt (Amarna)
 * François Bordes (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
 * Barbara Borg (born 1960) German; Classical archaeology
 * Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) French; France
 * Stephen Bourke (born 19??) Australian; Pella
 * Jole Bovio Marconi (1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily
 * Sandra Bowdler (born 1947) Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia
 * Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945) American; Greece and Crete; Minoan
 * Richard Bradley (born 1946) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain)
 * Linda Schreiber Braidwood (1909–2003) U.S.; Near East
 * Robert John Braidwood (1907–2003) U.S.; Turkey
 * Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
 * James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) U.S.; Egypt
 * Adela Breton (1849–1923) British; Mexico
 * Eric Breuer (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
 * Jacques Breuer (born 1956) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
 * Robert Brier (born 1943) U.S.; Egypt paleopathology
 * Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
 * Srečko Brodar (1893–1987) Slovene; Upper Paleolithic
 * Mary Brodrick (c. 1858–1933) English; Egyptology
 * Alison S. Brooks (born 19??) American; Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa
 * Myrtle Florence Broome (c. 1888–1978) English; Egyptology, illustrator
 * Don Brothwell (1933–2016) British; paleopathology
 * Frank Edward Brown (1908–1988) American; Mediterranean
 * Elizabeth Brumfiel (1945–2012) U.S.; Mesoamerica
 * Caitlin E. Buck (born 1964) British; statistics, radiocarbon dating
 * Hallie Buckley (born 19??) New Zealand; bioarchaeology
 * Sue Bulmer (1933–2016) American; New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
 * Heather Burke (born 1966) Australian; historical archaeology, field methods
 * Aubrey Burl (1926–2020) British; British megalithic monuments
 * Les Bursill (1945–2019) Australian; Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra
 * Karl Butzer (1934–2016) U.S.; environmental archaeology

C

 * Errett Callahan (1937–2019) American; experimental archaeology
 * Frank Calvert (1828–1908) English; Troy
 * Raissa Calza (1894–1979) Ukrainian; Italy (Ostia)
 * Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell (1893–1971) American; California
 * Scott Cane (born 1954) Australian; Australia, desert people of Australia
 * Luigi Canina (1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way)
 * Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (1937–2019) Romanian; Romania
 * Bob Carr (born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians
 * Maureen Carroll (born 1953) British; Roman archaeology
 * Martin Carver (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
 * Howard Carter (1874–1939) English; Egypt
 * Alfonso Caso (1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico
 * Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888–1985) English; Egyptm
 * Helena Cehak-Holubowiczowa (1902–1979) Polish; Poland
 * C. W. Ceram (1915–1972) German; popularizer
 * Dilip Chakrabarti (born 1941) Indian; South Asia (Ganges Plain)
 * John Leland Champe (1895–1978) American?; Great Plains
 * Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) French; Egypt
 * Kwang-chih Chang (1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China
 * Doris Emerson Chapman (1903–1990) British; prehistory
 * Arlen F. Chase (born 1953) American; Mesoamerica
 * Diane Zaino Chase (born 1953) American; Mesoamerica
 * George Henry Chase (1874–1952) American; Heraion of Argos
 * Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) Mexican; Mexico
 * Chen Mengjia (1911–1966) Chinese; China
 * Chen Tiemei (1935–2018) Chinese; scientific archaeology and radiocarbon dating
 * Chen Xingcan(born 1964) Chinese; China, history of Chinese archaeology
 * John F. Cherry (born 19??) Welsh; Aegean prehistory
 * Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic
 * Choi Mong-lyong (born 1946) Korean; Korea (Mumin pottery period)
 * Neil Christie (born 19??) British; Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
 * Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834) Italian; Italy
 * Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914) Turkish; Sumerology
 * Jacques Cinq-Mars (died 2021) Canadian; Yukon, early man in North America
 * Amanda Claridge (1949–2022) British; Rome
 * John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa
 * Grahame Clark (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy
 * Kate Clark (19??) industrial archaeology and museum
 * Bob Clarke (Historian) (born 1964) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
 * David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory
 * Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
 * Albert Tobias Clay (1866–1925) American; Assyriology
 * John Clegg (1935–2015) Australian; rock art
 * Eric H. Cline (born 1960) American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
 * Juliet Clutton-Brock (1933–2015) English; zooarchaeology
 * Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West
 * Bryony Coles (born 1946) British; prehistoric archaeology, wetland archaeology, Somerset Levels, Doggerland
 * John Coles (1930–2020) British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age, experimental archaeology
 * Donald Collier (1911–1995) American; Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology
 * John Collis (born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe
 * Dominique Collon (born 1940) Belgian; cylinder seals of the Near East
 * Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838) English, England
 * Margaret Conkey (born 1943) American; Upper Paleolithic France
 * Robin Coningham (born 1965) British; South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics
 * Diane Atnally Conlin (born 1963) American; Roman art and architecture
 * Niculae Conovici (1948–2005) Romanian; Romania, amphorae
 * Graham Connah (born 1934) South Africa; historical archaeology
 * Richard Cooke (1946–2023) British?; Panama, archaeozoology
 * Gudrun Corvinus (1931–2006) German; India/Nepal/Africa
 * Peter Coutts (born 1934) Australian; historical archaeology
 * George Cowgill (1929–2018) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
 * O.G.S. Crawford (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology
 * Aedeen Cremin (born 1940) Irish born, Australian. NSW and Canberra


 * Luther Cressman (1897–1994) American; Paleo-Indians, Oregon
 * Roger Cribb (1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds and Australian Aborigines
 * Ion Horaţiu Crişan (1928–1994)Romanian; Geto-Dacians and Celts
 * William (Bill) Culican (1928–1984) Australian; Middle East, Australian historical archaeology
 * Joseph George Cumming (1812–1868) English; Isle of Man
 * Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) British; Iron Age Europe, Celts
 * Ben Cunnington (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire)
 * Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893) English; "Father of Indian Archaeology"
 * Maud Cunnington (1869–1951) Welsh; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
 * William Cunnington (1754–1810) English; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
 * James Curle (1861?–1944) Scottish; Roman Scotland (Trimontium), Gotland
 * Florin Curta (born 1965) American; Eastern Europe
 * Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German; Greece
 * Clive Eric Cussler (1931–2020) American; underwater archaeology

D

 * Gaetano d'Ancora (1751–1816) Italian; Italy
 * Albéric d'Auxy (1836–1914) Belgian; Belgium
 * Bruno Dagens (born 1935) French; Khmer and India
 * Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973) Romanian; Romania
 * Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (1865–1937) epigraphist and archaeologist; Sri Lanka
 * Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900–1976) Sri Lankan; paleontologist, zoologist; director of the National Museum of Ceylon from 1961 to 1964
 * George F. Dales (1927–1992) American; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
 * Mary Dallas (1952–2023) Scottish-born Australian, Aboriginal cultural heritage management
 * Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
 * Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
 * Ken Dark (born 1961) British; Roman Europe
 * Raymond Dart (1893–1988) Australian; paleoanthropology: Australopithecus africanus
 * Raksha Dave (Born 1977) British; Field and Public Archaeologist, current President of Council for British Archaeology
 * Janet Davidson (born 19?) New Zealand; New Zealand, Pacific Islands
 * Theodore M. Davis (1837–1915) American; Egypt
 * William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
 * Touraj Daryaee (born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
 * Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art, heritage management
 * Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man
 * Corinne Debaine-Francfort (born 19??) French; Eastern Central Asian and protohistoric China
 * James Deetz (1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology
 * Warren DeBoer (died May 24, 2020) American; North and South America, ethnoarchaeology; ceramics
 * James P. Delgado (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist


 * Arthur Demarest (fl. 2000 AD) American; Maya
 * Robin Dennell (born 1947) British; prehistoric archaeologist
 * Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1942–2021) Sri Lankan archaeologist and historian, who served as the Director-General of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2001
 * Donald Brian Doe (1920–2005) British; Arabia
 * Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land
 * Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man
 * Rúaidhrí de Valera (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
 * Dragotin Dežman (1821–1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marsh, Iron Age in Lower Carniola
 * Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
 * Tom D. Dillehay (born 19??) American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
 * Kelly Dixon (born 19??) American; historical archaeology of the American West
 * Brian Dobson (1931–2012) British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army
 * Dong Zuobin (1895–1963) Chinese/Taiwanese; oracle bones, Yinxu
 * Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director
 * Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) German; Greece
 * Trude Dothan (1922–2016) Austrian; Israel
 * Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
 * Penelope Dransart (born 19??) British?; South American anthropology
 * Carol van Driel-Murray (born 1950) British; gender archaeology, Roman archaeology, and leather
 * Angela von den Driesch (1934–2012) German; osteoarchaeology
 * Hilary du Cros (born 19??) Australian; history of Australian archaeology
 * Duan Qingbo (1964–2019) Chinese; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
 * Roger Duff (1912–1978) New Zealander; New Zealand
 * Katherine Dunbabin (born 19??) British?; classical archaeology; Roman art
 * Robert Dunnell (1947–2010) American; theory, U.S. Mid-West
 * Louis Dupree (1925–1989) American; Afghanistan
 * E. C. L. During Caspers (1934–1996) Dutch; Prehistoric Mesopotamia, South Asian, and Persian Gulf
 * Robert H. Dyson (1927–2020) American; Near Eastern archaeology

E

 * Elizabeth Eames (1918–2008) British; specialist in English medieval tiles
 * Hella Eckardt (born 19??) British; Roman archaeology; material culture
 * Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938) British; Cyclades and Hellenistic Egypt, papyrology specialist
 * Amelia Edwards (1831–1892) British; Egypt
 * Ricardo Eichmann (born 1955) German; Near Eastern archaeology
 * George Eogan (1930–2021) Irish; Knowth (Ireland)
 * Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
 * Ufuk Esin (1933–2008) Turkish; prehistoric Anatolia, archaeometry
 * Roland Étienne (born 1944) French; ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
 * Damian Evans (19??-2023) Australian-Canadian; Angkor; lidar
 * Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B)
 * Sir John Evans (1823–1908) English; British archaeology

F

 * Georg Fabricius (1516–1571) German; Roman epigraphy
 * Brian M. Fagan (born 1936) British; generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
 * Panagiotis Faklaris (born 1950) Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
 * Fan Jinshi (born 1938) Chinese; Dunhuang
 * William Fash (born 1954) American; Maya
 * Charles H. Faulkner (1937–2022) American; Tennessee, historic archaeology
 * Neil Faulkner (1958–2022) British; Norfolk, Jordan
 * Rev. Bryan Faussett (1720–1776) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England)
 * Carlo Fea (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
 * Gary M. Feinman (born 1951) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
 * Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860) British; Asia Minor
 * Karl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808) German; Roman archaeology
 * J. Walter Fewkes (1850–1930) American; south-west USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)*
 * Irving Finkel (born 1951) British; cuneiform tablets
 * Israel Finkelstein (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel)
 * George R. Fischer (1937–2016) American; underwater archaeology
 * Peter M. Fischer (born 1967) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
 * Christopher T. Fisher (born19??) American; Meso-America, LiDAR, Earth Archive
 * Cleo Rickman Fitch (1910–1995) American; Roman archaeology
 * William W. Fitzhugh (born 1943) American; circumpolar archaeology
 * Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica
 * Josephine Flood (born 1938) Australian; Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia Cloggs Cave
 * Robert Bruce Foote (1834–1912) British; India: "the father of Indian prehistory"
 * Adam Ford (born 19??) Australian; host of documentary series Who's Been Sleeping in My House?
 * James A. Ford (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States
 * Sally Foster (born 19??) Scottish; Medieval Scotland
 * Alfred Foucher (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art) and southern Africa
 * Aileen Fox (1907–2005) British; South West England
 * Cyril Fox (1882–1967) English; Wales
 * William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology
 * David Frankel (born 19??) Australian; Cyprus, Syria, Koongine Cave (Australia)
 * Barry L. Frankhauser (1943–2014) Australian; archaeometry, residue analysis, Maori earth ovens, sourcing Australian ochres
 * Elizabeth French (1931–2021) British; Mycenaean Greece, especially the site of Mycenae, and Mycenaean terracottas
 * George Frison (1924–2020) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools, pale-oarchaeology
 * Gayle J. Fritz (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
 * Honor Frost (1924–2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
 * Dorian Fuller (born 19??) American; archaeobotany, domestication

G

 * Charles Godakumbura (1907–1977 ) Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1967.;
 * Christopher Gaffney (born 1962) British; geophysics
 * Vincent Gaffney (born 1958) British; landscape archaeology
 * Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (1938–2019) Iraqi; Mesopotamian archaeology
 * Antoine Galland (1646–1715) French; numismatics, Middle East
 * Thomas Gann (1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya
 * Sandor (Alexander) Gallus (1907–1996) Australian; Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation Koonalda Cave South Australia Dry Creek archaeological site Keilor
 * Carl Jacob Gardberg (1926–2010) Finnish; director of the Finnish Heritage Agency
 * Jean-Claude Gardin (1925–2013) French; Bactria, theory in archaeology, computing in archaeology
 * Andrew Gardner (born 19??) Roman archaeology
 * Percy Gardner (1846–1937) English; classical archaeology
 * Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956) Israeli; Israel
 * Peter Garlake (1934–2011) Zimbabwean; Zimbabwe
 * Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) British; paleolithic
 * John Garstang (1876–1954) British; Anatolia, Southern Levant
 * Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954) American; US West; archaeological fiction
 * William Gell (1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology
 * Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome
 * Roman Ghirshman (1895–1979) French; Persian sites in Iran and Afghanistan
 * Diane Gifford-Gonzalez American (born 19??) zooarchaeology
 * John Wesley Gilbert (1864–1923) first African-American archaeologist; Classical
 * Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994) Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age
 * Pere Bosch-Gimpera (1891–1974) Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain
 * Einar Gjerstad (1897–1988) Swedish; Cyprus and Rome
 * Kathryn Gleason (born 1957) American; Specialist in the archaeology of landscape architecture
 * Albert Glock (1925–1992) American; Palestinian archaeology
 * Franck Goddio (born 1947) French; underwater archaeology, Heracleion (Egypt)


 * John Mann Goggin (1916–1963) American; typology, colonial Caribbean


 * Lynne Goldstein (born 1953) American; prehistoric eastern North America, mortuary


 * Jack Golson (1926–2023) Australian; Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia Savai'i island, Samoa
 * Albert Goodyear (born 19??) American; Paleo-Indians
 * Alice Gorman (born 1964) Australian; Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools, orbital debris, space as a cultural landscape
 * Carlos J. Gradin (1918–2002) Argentine; Patagonian Paleo-Indians
 * Ian Graham (1923–2017) British; Mayans
 * Boris Grakov (1899–1970) Soviet/Russian; Scythians and Sarmatians
 * Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887) Italy; Etruscans
 * Roger Green (1932–2009) American; New Zealand, Pacific Islands
 * Kevin Greene (born 19??) British; classical archaeology
 * J. Patrick Greene (born 19??) British; Medieval England
 * Canon William Greenwell (1820–1918) British; Neolithic England
 * Alan Greaves (born 1969) British; Turkey
 * James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America
 * W. F. Grimes (1905–1988) Welsh; London
 * Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany)
 * Nikolai Grube (born 1962) German; Mayan epigraphy
 * Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) Italian; Classical
 * Prishantha Gunawardena (born 1968) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
 * Guo Moruo (1892–1978) Chinese; China
 * Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973) Swedish; Classical

H

 * Joseph Hackin (1886–1941) French; Afghanistan
 * Marie Hackin (1905–1941) French; Afghanistan
 * Robert Hall (1927–2012) American; U.S. Mid-West
 * Abdulameer al-Hamdani (1967–2022) Iraqi; Iraq, digital database, artifact rescue
 * Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
 * Robert Hamilton (1905–1995) British; Near Eastern archaeology
 * Norman Hammond (born 1944) British; Afghanistan, Maya
 * Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America
 * Alexander Hardcastle (1872–1933) English; Agrigento, Sicily
 * Anthony Harding (born 1946) British; Bronze Age Europe
 * Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping
 * James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean
 * J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology
 * Emil Haury (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States
 * Francis J. Haverfield (1860–1919) English; Roman Britain
 * Zahi Hawass (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt
 * Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology
 * Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996) English; prehistory of England, Europe, Minoa
 * Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (1933–1999) English; European archaeology, early medieval archaeology
 * Lotte Hedeager (born 1948) Danish; Iron Age Scandinavia
 * Jakob Heierli (1853–1912) Swiss; prehistoric Switzerland
 * Robert Heizer (1915–1979) American; California
 * Hans Helbæk (1907–1981) Danish; palaeobotany
 * John Basil Hennessy (1925–2013) Australian; Near East
 * Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law
 * Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) Saxon-German; classics
 * Eric Higgs (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology
 * Charles Higham (born 1939) British; South East Asia
 * Thomas Higham (born 19??) New Zealand; radiocarbon dating
 * Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology
 * Ida Hill (1875–1958) American; classical archaeology
 * Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology
 * Gordon Hillman (1943–2018) British; archaeobotany
 * Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England
 * Hermann Hinz (1916–2000) German; Germany (Colonia Ulpia Traiana)
 * Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran)
 * Anna-Liisa Hirviluoto (1929–2000) Finnish; Iron Age
 * Peter Hiscock (born 1957) Australian; ancient technology
 * Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory, Catalhoyuk
 * Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American; North American Indians
 * Richard Hodges (born 1952) British; Middle Ages
 * Birgitta Hoffmann (born 1969); Gask Ridge in Scotland
 * Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology
 * Alexander Hubert Arthur Hogg (1908–1989) British; hillforts
 * Frank Hole (born 1931) American; Near East
 * Vance T. Holliday (born 1950) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
 * Mads Kähler Holst (born 1973) Danish; Bronze Age and Iron Age wetland sites in Denmark
 * Sinclar Hood (1917–2021) British; Knossos
 * Jeannette Hope (born 19??) Australian; Western New South Wales
 * John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain
 * Youssef Hourany (1931–2019) Lebanese; Middle East
 * Huang Wenbi (1893–1966) Chinese; China
 * Huang Zhanyue (1926–2019) Chinese; China from the Han dynasty to the Tang dynasty
 * John Hurst (1927–2003) British; English medieval archaeology
 * Elinor Mullett Husselman (1900–1996) American; Coptic historian, papyrologist

I

 * Richard Indreko (1900–1961) Estonian; Estonia
 * Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology
 * Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology
 * Hideshi Ishikawa (born 1954) Japanese; Japanese and Korean archaeology
 * Fumiko Ikawa-Smith (born 1930) Japanese-Canadian; East Asian and Japanese archaeology

J

 * Roger Jacobi (1947–2009) British; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Britain
 * Otto Jahn (1813–1869) German; classical world (art)
 * Jean-François Jarrige (1940–2014) French; South Asia
 * Jacques Jaubert (born 1957) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
 * Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) U.S. President; Virginia prehistory
 * Arthur J. Jelinek (1928–2022) American; Eurasian Paleolithic
 * Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) American; New World
 * Llewellyn Jewitt (1816–1886) English; British antiquities
 * Donald Johanson (born 1943) American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia
 * Jotham Johnson (1905–1967) American; Minturno (Italy), past president of the Archaeological Institute of America


 * Alexandra Jones (born 19??) American; U.S. historical archaeology
 * Margaret Ursula Jones (1916–2001) British; Mucking, England
 * Rebecca Jones (born 19??) British; Roman Britain
 * Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania
 * Martha Joukowsky (1936–2022) American; Middle East (Petra), field methods


 * Rosemary A. Joyce (born 1956) American; Honduras
 * Chris Judge (born 19??) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian)
 * Elsie Jury (1910–1993) Canadian; historical archaeology of Ontario

K

 * Lili Kaelas (1919–2007) Swedish; Stone and Bronze Age
 * Gilbert Kaenel (1949–2020) Swiss; Iron Age, La Tène culture
 * Barbara Kaim (born 1952) Polish; ancient Iran, Parthian and Sasanian periods.
 * Eduard von Kallee (1818–1888) German; Germany: found 4 Roman castra on the Limes Germanicus
 * Richard Kallee (1854–1933) German; studied 102 Alemannic tombs
 * Seifollah Kambakhshfard (1929–2010) Iranian; Iron Age Temple of Anahita
 * Johan Kamminga (born 19??); University of Sydney; use-wear and residues
 * Panagiotis Kavvadias (1850–1928) Greek; Greece
 * Simon Keay (1954–2021) English; Roman Portus, surveys of Roman Spain and Italy
 * Phoebe Keef (1898–1978) British; prehistoric archaeology, Sussex
 * Bennie Carlton Keel (born 1934) American; Southeast USA, Public Archaeology, Cherokee archaeology
 * Alice Beck Kehoe (born 1934) American; North America: early contact
 * J. Charles Kelley (1913–1997) American; north-west Mexico
 * Arthur Randolph Kelly (1900–1979) American; Southeastern USA
 * Robert Laurens Kelly (born 1957) American; Western USA
 * Francis Kelsey (1858–1927) American; Middle East, papyrology
 * Clyde C. Kennedy (1917–1987) Canadian; Ontario, archaic period
 * David L. Kennedy (born 1948) British and Australian; Roman Near East
 * Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (born 1952) American; Indus Valley Civilization
 * Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho)
 * Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
 * T. R. Kidder (born 1960) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
 * Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea
 * Karl Frederik Kinch (1853–1921) Danish; Ancient Macedonia, Rhodes, and Roman Greece / Byzantine Greece
 * Keith Kintigh (born 19??) American; quantitative archaeology, Southwestern USA archaeology
 * Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) German; Egyptian hieroglyphics ("the father of Egyptology")
 * Ella Kivikoski (1901–1990) Finnish; Finnish Iron Age
 * Kristian Kristiansen (born 1948) Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory
 * Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe)
 * Amos Kloner (1940–2019) Israeli; Talpiot Tomb (Israel), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology
 * Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953) English; anthropology and prehistory
 * Alice Kober (1906–1950) American; Linear B
 * Robert Koldewey (1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon)
 * Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy)
 * Hamit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
 * Paul Kosok (1896–1959) American; Nazca geoglyphs
 * Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept)
 * Raiko Krauss (born 1973) German; prehistory
 * Pasko Kuzman (born 1947) Macedonian; Ohrid, North Macedonia

L

 * Robert Laffineur (born 19??) Belgian; Mycenaeanologist
 * B. B. Lal (1921–2022) Indian; India
 * Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology
 * Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
 * Nancy Lapp (born 1930) American; Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology
 * Pierre Henri Larcher (1726–1812) French; classical archaeology
 * Donald Lathrap (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West
 * Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902–2001) French; Egypt
 * Bo Lawergren (born 19??) American?; music archaeology; Mesopotamia
 * T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
 * Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
 * Estelle Lazer (born 19??) Australian; human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii
 * Foss Leach (born 1942) New Zealand; New Zealand
 * Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
 * Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
 * Richard Leakey (1944–2022) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
 * Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955) British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–1945


 * Anthony J. Legge (1939–2013) British; archaeozoology
 * Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander (born 1934) Finnish; Iron Age
 * Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
 * François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
 * Mark P. Leone (born 1940) American; theory, historical archaeology
 * Dana Lepofsky (born 1958) Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast
 * André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986) French; theory, art, Paleolithic
 * Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848) French; Greece, Rome, Egypt
 * Gerson Levi-Lazzaris (born 1979) Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology
 * Carenza Lewis (born 1963) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
 * Jodie Lewis (born 19??) British; prehistoric archaeology
 * Madeline Kneberg Lewis (1901–1996) American; typologist, Illustrator
 * Mary Lewis (born 19??) British; bioarchaeologist
 * David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) South African; cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art
 * Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
 * Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China Yinxu and Yangshao culture


 * Li Ji (1896–1979) Chinese; China
 * Li Xueqin (1933–2019) Chinese; early China
 * Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
 * Li Liu (born 1953) Chinese/American; neolithic and Bronze Age China, "the father of Chinese archaeology"
 * Gary Lock (born 19??) British; computational archaeology, European prehistory
 * Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
 * Helen Loney (born 19??) British? prehistoric archaeology and pottery studies
 * Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892–1965) American; Central and South America and the Caribbean
 * Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt and Southern Africa
 * William A. Longacre (1937–2015) American; southwestern USA, "New Archaeology
 * Harry Lourandos (born 1945) Australian; hunter-gatherer intensification
 * Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
 * Adam Łukaszewicz (born 1950) Polish; Roman period in Egypt, papyrologist
 * Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France
 * Cajsa S. Lund (sv) (born 1940) Swedish; music archaeology
 * Frances Lynch (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
 * Albert Lythgoe (1868–1934) American; Egyptologist and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

M

 * Ma Chengyuan (1927–2004) Chinese; authority on ancient Chinese bronzes
 * Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
 * Burton MacDonald (born 1939) Canadian; biblical archaeology
 * Eve MacDonald (born 19??) classical archaeologist
 * John MacEnery (1797–1841) Irish; Paleolithic
 * Richard MacNeish (1918–2001) American; Canada, Iroquois (U.S./Canada), Meso-America, discovered origins of maize
 * Aren Maeir (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
 * Mai Yinghao (1929–2016) Chinese; archaeology of the Nanyue kingdom in Guangzhou
 * Arenw Maeir (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
 * Yousef Majidzadeh (born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
 * Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (1940–2020) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
 * Alexis Mallon (1875–1934) French; Levantine prehistory
 * James Patrick Mallory (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
 * Max Mallowan (1904–1978) British; Middle East
 * John Manley (born 1952) British; Roman Britain
 * Joyce Marcus (born 19??) American; Latin America
 * Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt
 * Spyridon Marinatos (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
 * Alexander Marshack (1918–2004) American; Paleolithic era
 * Fiona Marshall (born 19??) American;zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology
 * James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks
 * John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila, Crete
 * Pamela Marshall (born 19??) buildings archaeologist and castellologist
 * Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and Middle East
 * J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
 * Ronald J. Mason (born 1929) Upper Great Lakes
 * Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) French; Egypt
 * Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967) Danish; Arctic region
 * Peter Mathews (born 1951) Australian; Maya hieroglyphs
 * Galina Ivanovna Matveeva (1933–2008) Russian; Central Russia/Volga region
 * Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans
 * Valerie Maxfield (born 19??) Roman archaeology
 * Sally Kate May (born 1979) Australian; indigenous rock art
 * Amihai Mazar (born 1942) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
 * Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
 * Eilat Mazar (1956–2021) Israeli; Jerusalem, Phoenicians
 * Gaby Mazor (born 1944) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
 * August Mau (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
 * Sally McBrearty (born 19??) American; Palaeolithic archaeology
 * Isabel McBryde (born 1934) Australian; "Mother of Australian Archaeology," axe sourcing studies
 * Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
 * Anna Marguerite McCann (1933–2017) American; Underwater Archaeology
 * Fred McCarthy (1905–1997) Australian; Australia's Aborigines
 * Aleksandra McClain (born 19??) medieval and church archaeology
 * Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
 * Betty Meehan (born 1933) Australian; Maningrida, Australia
 * Vincent Megaw (born 1934) Australian; Early Celtic Art in Britain
 * Betty Meggers (1921–2012) American; South America
 * Chuck Meide (1971–) American; maritime and underwater archaeology; discovered the shipwrecks  La Belle  (1686), Storm Wreck (1782), and Anniversary Wreck (ca. 1760s-1800)
 * James Mellaart (1925–2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük
 * Paul Mellars (1939–2022) British; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
 * Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics
 * Roger Mercer (1944–2018) British; Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles
 * Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) French; French monuments
 * Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981) Polish; Mediterranean archaeology
 * Jerald T. Milanich (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
 * Walter Minchinton (1921–1996) British; industrial archaeology
 * Sir Ellis Minns (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
 * Keneiloe Molopyane (born 1987) South African
 * Oscar Montelius (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia)
 * Pierre Montet (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
 * Harri Moora (1900–1968) Estonian; Iron Age Baltics
 * Andrew M.T. Moore (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East
 * Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936) American; southern United States
 * Warren K. Moorehead (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States
 * Robert Morkot (born 1957) Egyptology
 * Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
 * Ann Axtell Morris (1900–1945) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
 * Earl H. Morris (1889–1956) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
 * Dan Morse (born 1935) American; Central Mississippi Valley
 * Kate Morse (1958–2023) Australian; Western Australia Pleistocene
 * Phyllis Morse (Anderson) (born 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley
 * John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) English; England (barrows)
 * Mike Morwood (1950–2013) Australian; Homo floresiensis*Sabatino Moscati (1922–1997) Italian; Phoenicians
 * Amini Aza Mturi Tanzanian; Palaeolithic archaeology
 * Keith Muckelroy (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
 * David Mullin (born 19??) prehistoric archaeology
 * William Mulloy (1917–1978) American; Polynesia
 * John Mulvaney (1925–2016) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
 * Ken Mulvaney (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal engagement, Burrup Peninsula rock art
 * Natalie Munro (born 19??) American; zooarchaeology
 * Stephen Munro (born 19??) Australian; engraved fossil shell from Java
 * Margaret Murray (1863–1963) Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist
 * Tim Murray (born 1955) Australian; history of archaeology
 * Oscar White Muscarella (1931–2022) American; Persia, Anatolia

N

 * Nabonidus (6th century B.C.) Babylonian; Babylon," world's first archaeologist"
 * Ramachandran Nagaswamy (1930–2022) Indian; south-Indian statues
 * Maysoon al-Nahar (born 19??) Jordanian; Palaeoarchaeology of the Southern Levant
 * Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) American; Greece
 * Alma Mekondjo Nankela (born 19??) Namibian; Namibia, rock art
 * Ezzat Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran
 * Sarah Milledge Nelson (1931–2020) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender
 * Ion Nestor (1905–1974) Romanian; Balkans (Sirmium)
 * Ehud Netzer (1934–2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture)
 * René Neuville (1899–1952) French; prehistory of the Southern Levant
 * Lisa Nevett (born 19??) British; Greece
 * Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) British; Classical archaeology
 * Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor (1900–1968) Romania; Romanian prehistory
 * Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913–2011) French; Egypt (Nubian temples)
 * Francisco Nocete (born 1961) Spanish; Spain
 * Ivor Noël Hume (1927–2017) British; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology

O

 * Hugh O'Neill Hencken (1902–1981) American; Iron Age Europe
 * Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
 * Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806) Alsatian; Biblical archaeology, philology
 * Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) Romanian; history of archaeology
 * Neil Oliver (born 1967) Scottish; popularizer and television presenter: northern Europe
 * Akinwumi Ogundiran (born 1966); Nigerian-American archaeologist; Yoruba people; African studies
 * Katsuhiko Ohnuma (born 1944) Japanese, Lithic expert, flintknapper, prehistorian, (Syria, Iraq, Iran)
 * Bjørnar Olsen (born 1958) Norwegian; theory, material culture, Arctic
 * John W. Olsen (born 1955) American; prehistory, Paleolithic, Central Asia
 * Stanley John Olsen (1919–2003) American; historical archaeology and zooarchaeology
 * Jocelyn Orchard (1936–2019) British Trinidadian; Near Eastern archaeology, Oman
 * Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria
 * Marthe Oulié (1901–1941) French; Crete

P

 * Athanasios Papageorgiou (1931–2022) Greek Cypriot; Cyprus
 * Senarath Paranavithana (1896–1972) Sri Lankan, Archeological Commissioner in 1940
 * Bertha Parker (1907–1978) Abenaki, Seneca; Southwest US archaeology and ethnology
 * André Parrot (1901–1980) French; ancient Near East
 * Timothy Pauketat (born 19??) American; Mississippian culture
 * Vasile Pârvan (1882–1927) Romanian; classical archaeology (Hitria)
 * Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths)
 * Mike Parker Pearson (born 1957) English; Neolithic British Isles, archaeology of death and burial
 * Richard J. Pearson (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific
 * Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982) Chinese; China
 * William Pengelly (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic
 * Francis Penrose (1817–1903) British; classical
 * Peter N. Peregrine (born 1963) American; Mississippian culture, cross-cultural studies
 * Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American; Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma


 * John Shae Perring (1813–1869) British; Egyptian pyramids
 * Hilda Petrie (1871–1957) British; Egyptology
 * William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
 * Stewart Perowne (1901–1989) British; Imadia and Beihan
 * Alejandro Peschard Fernández (born 19??) Mexican; Meso-America
 * Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
 * Alexandre Piankoff (1897–1966) Russian; Egypt
 * Stuart Piggott (1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain)
 * John Pinkerton (1758–1826) Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history
 * Dolores Piperno (born 1949) American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama
 * Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) British; Britain (especially Dorset), method
 * Kyriakos Pittakis (1798–1863) Greek; Greece
 * Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete
 * Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908) British-American; photographer and antiquarian specializing in Pre-Columbian high cultures


 * Ina Plug (born 1941) South African; archaeozoology
 * Aleks Pluskowski (born 19??) environmental archaeology; medieval Europe
 * Natalia Polosmak (born 1956) Russian; Siberia: Altay: Pazyryk culture
 * Cristian Popa (born 19??) Romanian; Coţofeni culture
 * Rachel Pope (born 19??) British; Iron Age Europe
 * Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics)
 * Gregory Possehl (1941–2011) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
 * Timothy W. Potter (1944–2000) British; Classical archaeology
 * Timothy Potts (born 1958) Australian; Middle East and Mediterranean
 * Gary Presland (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal landscapes in Victoria


 * Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909–1985) Russian-American; Mayan hieroglyphs


 * Francis Pryor (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages
 * Senarath Paranavithana (1896–1972) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka

Q

 * Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat (1814–1882) French; ancient Europe

R

 * Wulf Raeck (born 1950) German; classical archaeology, Pergamon, Greek barbarian portrayals
 * Philip Rahtz (1921–2011) British; United Kingdom
 * José Ramos Muñoz (born 19??) Spanish; Europe, northern Africa
 * Sir Andrew Ramsay (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
 * Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) Scottish; Asia Minor and New Testament
 * Don Ranson (born 19??) Australian; Tasmanian prehistory Kutikina Cave
 * Claude Rapin (born 19??) French?; Central Asia
 * Charles Rau (1826–1887) American; curator at the Smithsonian
 * Katharina C. Rebay (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
 * William Rathje (1945–2012) American; early civilizations, modern material culture studies, Mesoamerica
 * Desire Raoul Rochette (1790–1854) French; Greece
 * Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813–1900) French; Classical sculpture
 * Marion Rawson (1899–1980) American; classical archaeology
 * Shahrokh Razmjou (born 19??) Iranian; Achaemenid Archaeology
 * Nicholas Reeves (born 1956) British; Egypt
 * Ronny Reich (born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem
 * George Reisner (1867–1942) American; Ancient Egypt, Nubia,Palestine


 * Colin Renfrew (born 1937) English; history of language, archaeogenetics
 * Caspar Reuvens (1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands
 * Andrew Reynolds (born 19??) English; Medieval archaeology
 * Julian C. Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer
 * Julian D. Richards (born 19??), British; Anglo-Saxons, Viking Age
 * Emil Ritterling (1861–1928) German; archaeology
 * Uzma Z. Rizvi (born 1973) American; Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
 * Anne Strachan Robertson (1910–1997) Scottish; Numismatics
 * Derek Roe (1937–2014) British; paleolithic
 * Wil Roebroeks (born 1955) Dutch; The Netherlands
 * Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California
 * John Romer (born 1941) British; Egypt, popularizer
 * Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia
 * Irving Rouse (1913–2006) American; Caribbean and migration
 * Katherine Routledge (1866–1935) British; Easter Island
 * John Howland Rowe (1918–2004) American; Peru
 * Valentine Roux (born 1956) French; ceramic production in the Levant
 * Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) British; environmental archaeology
 * Martin Rundkvist (born 1972) Swedish; Bronze, Iron, and Middle Ages of Scandinavia.
 * Adrian Andrei Rusu (born 1951) Romanian; Medieval archaeology, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca
 * Simon Rutar (1851–1903) Slovenian; Slovenia
 * Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (1906–1979) Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America
 * Donald P. Ryan (born 1957) American; Egypt (Valley of the Kings)

S

 * Jeremy Sabloff (born 1944) American; Maya
 * Sadeq, Moain (Mohammedmoin) (born 1955) Palestinian; Palestine and the Gulf region
 * Saad Abbas Ismail (born 1980) Kurdish; International archaeologist, Syria
 * Antonio Sagona (1956–2017); Australian; Near East, Caucasus
 * Sharada Srinivasan (born 1966) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
 * Roderick Salisbury (born 1967) American; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic)
 * William T. Sanders (1926–2008) American; Mesoamerica
 * Viktor Sarianidi (1929–2013) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
 * Otto Schaden (1937–2015) American; Egypt
 * Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit
 * Michael Brian Schiffer (born 1947) American (born in Canada); behavioural archaeology, method and theory
 * Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
 * Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
 * Klaus Schmidt (1953–2014) German; Göbekli Tepe, Turkey
 * Alain Schnapp (born 1946) French; Classical archaeology: iconography of Greek vases
 * Carmel Schrire (born 1941) Australian; Australia, South Africa
 * Francesco Scipone (1675–1755) Italian; Etruscans
 * Mercy Seiradaki (1910–1993) English; Knossos
 * Ovid R. Sellers (1884–1975) American; Biblical Old Testament
 * Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art
 * Veronica Seton-Williams (1910–1992) Australian; Egyptology and prehistory, Near East
 * Thomas Sever (born 19??) American?; NASA’s only archaeologist, Maya, South America
 * Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (1942–2006) Iranian; Iran
 * Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory
 * Thurstan Shaw (1914–2013) English; Africa (especially Nigeria)
 * Anna Shepard (1903–1971) American; ceramic analysis
 * Alison Sheridan (19??) British; Bronze and Neolithic ages
 * Andrew Sherratt (1946–2006) English; prehistory
 * Susan Sherratt (born 1949) U.K. citizenship; Mediterranean archaeology
 * Yoko Shindo (1960–2018), Japanese; Islamic glass
 * Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
 * Elizabeth Simpson (born 1947) American; Ancient Near East, Anatolia
 * Frederic Slater (c. 1880–1947) Australian; Aboriginal place names
 * Claire Smith (born 1957) Australian; Indigenous archaeology, rock art
 * Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) Australian; (anatomist) hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory
 * Mike Smith (1955–2022) Australian, Central Australia
 * William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar
 * Stanley South (1928–2016) American; historical archaeology
 * Janet D. Spector (1944–2011) American; North America
 * Sarah Speight (born 19??) British; castle studies and medieval archaeology
 * E. Lee Spence (born 1947) American; marine archaeology
 * Dirk HR Spennemann (born 19??) Australian; futures studies
 * Victor Spinei (born 1943) Romanian; medieval cult objects
 * Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt
 * Frederick Spurrell (1824–1902) English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex)
 * Dragoslav Srejović (1931–1996) Serbian; Mesolithic Iron Gates culture of the Balkans: Lepenski Vir
 * Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) British; Ashkelon
 * John Steane (born 1931) British; historic landscape
 * Julie K. Stein, (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites
 * Eunice Stebbens (1893–1992) American; Roman coins
 * Louise Steel (born 19??) British; prehistoric Cyprus
 * Paulette Steeves (born 19??) Canadian, Cree, Métis; decolonizing archaeology, Paleo-Indians
 * Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia
 * Margareta Steinby (born 1938) Finnish; classical archaeology
 * Hans-Georg Stephan (born 1950) German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles
 * Marion Stirling Pugh (1911–2001) American; Mesopotamian archaeology
 * James B. Stoltman (1935–2019) American; ceramic analysis, Great Lakes (North America)
 * James R. Stewart (1913–1962) Australian; Cyprus and the Ancient Near East
 * Joseph Stevens (archaeologist) (1818–1899) British; first curator of Reading Museum
 * Eugene Stockton (born 1934) Australian; Middle East, Australia
 * David Stuart (born 1965) American; Mayan epigraphy
 * George E. Stuart III (1935–2014) American; Mayan archaeology
 * William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
 * Su Bai (1922–2018) Chinese; Chinese Buddhism, grottoes
 * Su Bingqi (1909–1997) Chinese; ancient China
 * Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
 * Sharon Sullivan, Australian heritage conservation
 * Pál Sümegi (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary
 * Glenn Summerhayes (born 195?) Australian; East Asia and Pacific archaeology, trade and exchange, development of social complexity, archaeometry
 * Rachel Swallow (born 19??) British?; medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, and castle studies
 * Naomi Sykes (born 19??) British?; zooarchaeology
 * Jadwiga Szeptycka (1883–1939) Polish; Roman-period Poland

T

 * Takaku Kenji (born 19??) Japanese; Korea
 * Aarne Michaël Tallgren (1885–1945) Finnish; East European Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age
 * Zemaryalai Tarzi (born 1939) Afghan; Afghanistan
 * Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983) Scottish; maritime archaeology, Cyprus
 * Joan J. Taylor (1940–2019) American; British prehistory
 * Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. (1913–1997) American; theory, Coahuila (Mexico)
 * Julio C. Tello (1880–1947) Peruvian; Peru
 * Petros Themelis (1936–2023)Greek; Messene
 * Alexander Thom (1894–1985) Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge
 * Charles Thomas (1928–2016) British; Cornish studies
 * David Hurst Thomas (born 1945) American; Spanish Borderlands, repatriation
 * Julian Thomas (born 1959) British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age
 * Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900–2001) American; Hellenistic terracotta figurines
 * [[Homer Armstrong Thompson (1906–2000) British; Greece
 * John Arthur Thompson (1913–2002) Australian; Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist
 * J. Eric S. Thompson (1898–1975) English; Maya
 * Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) Danish; originator of the Three-Age System
 * Alan Thorne (1939–2012) Australian; Aboriginal Australian origins and the human genome, Lake Mungo, Kow Swamp
 * Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963) Swedish; Viking Age, Nordic Middle Ages
 * Christopher Tilley (born 19??) British; theory, Britain
 * Norman Tindale (1900–1993) Australian; mapping Australian tribes
 * Tong Enzheng (1935–1997) Chinese; China
 * Malcolm Todd (1939–2013) British; classical archaeology
 * Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) American; Mesoamerica (Maya)
 * Arthur Dale Trendall (1909–1995) Australian; Greek ceramics at Apulia
 * John C. Trever (1916–2006) American; Biblical archaeologist
 * Bruce Trigger (1937–2006) Canadian; archaeological theory, comparative civilizations, Huronia, Nubia, Egyptology
 * Christos Tsountas (1857–1934) Greek; Greece
 * Olena Vasylivna Tsvek (1931–2020) Ukrainian; Trypillia culture
 * James Tuck (1940–2019) American; eastern Canadian historical archaeology
 * Ronald F. Tylecote (1916–1990) British; founder of archaeometallurgy
 * Grigore Tocilescu (1850–1909) Romanian; Dacia
 * Henrieta Todorova (1933–2015) Bulgarian; Neolithic Bulgaria, excavations at Durankulak
 * Vassilios Tzaferis (1936–2015) Greek–Israeli; biblical archaeology, Byzantine monasticism

U

 * Peter Ucko (1938–2007) British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics
 * Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936) Italian; Albania
 * Gary Urton (born 1948) American; Andes
 * David Ussishkin (born 1935) Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel Valley and Megiddo

V

 * Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 1936) Lithuanian; Medieval Lithuania
 * Heiki Valk (born 1959) Estonian; Medieval Estonia
 * Ron Vanderwal (1938–2021), Australian; Torres Strait, New Guinea
 * Parviz Varjavand (1934–2007) Iranian; ancient Iran (Persia)
 * William Jones Varley (died 1976) British; English Iron Age hill forts
 * Miloje Vasić (1869–1956) Serbian; Neolithic archaeological culture: Vinča culture
 * Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
 * Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
 * Bruce Veitch (1957–2005) Australian; Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia; Bruce Veitch Award
 * Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics
 * Zdenko Vinski (1913–1996) Croatian; Croatia


 * Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) German; Pomeranian hill-forts
 * Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art
 * Alexandru Vulpe (1931–2016) Romanian; Hallstatt

W

 * Alan Wace (1879–1957) English; Greece (especially Mycenae
 * Marc Waelkens (1948–2021) Belgian; Turkish archaeology
 * Tony Waldron (died 2021) British; palaeopathologist and palaeoepidemiologist
 * Alice Leslie Walker (1885–1954) American, classical archaeologist
 * Lynley A. Wallis (born 19??) Australian; Indigenous and historical archaeology
 * Wang Tao (archaeologist) (born 1962) Chinese-British; Chinese archaeology
 * Wang Zhongshu (1925–2015) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology
 * Graeme K. Ward (born 1943) Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art
 * John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history
 * Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
 * Helen Waterhouse (1913–1999), British; classical archaeology
 * William Thompson Watkin (1836–1888), British; Roman Britain
 * Trevor Watkins (born 19??) British; Near Eastern archaeology
 * Patty Jo Watson (born 1932) American; North American archaeology
 * Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
 * Robert Wauchope (1909–1979) American; Maya, south-eastern U.S.
 * Karl Jakob Weber (1712–1764) Swiss; Pompeii
 * Mildred Mott Wedel (1912–1995) American; Great Plains prehistory
 * Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory
 * Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology
 * Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
 * Fred Wendorf (1924–2015) American; archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
 * David Wengrow (born 1972) English; comparative archaeology
 * Boyd Wettlaufer (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
 * Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) British; method, South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
 * Tessa Verney Wheeler (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, co-founder of Institute of Archaeology
 * Joyce White (born 19??) American; prehistoric Southeast Asia
 * Theodore E. White (1905–1977) American; archaeozoology
 * Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead (1928–1983) American; classical archaeology
 * John C. Whittaker (born 1953) American; experimental archaeology, Palaeolithic
 * Alasdair Whittle (born 1949) British; European Neolithic
 * Caroline Wickham-Jones (1955–2022) British; Orkney, mesolithic, submerged sites
 * Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
 * Malcolm H. Wiener (born 1935) American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP
 * Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker (1940–2021) Dutch; archaeozoology
 * Gordon Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory
 * Stephen Williams (1926–2017) American; North America
 * Hugh Willmott (born 1972) British; Middle Ages and monastic archaeology
 * Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
 * Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) American; Palestine
 * Peter Woodman (1943–2017), Irish; Irish Mesolithic
 * Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia
 * Hannah Wormington (1914–1994) American; American Southwest and Paleo-Indians
 * Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
 * George Roy Haslam (Mick) Wright (1924–2014) Australian; Middle East
 * Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937–2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador
 * Alison Wylie (born 1954) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
 * John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic

X

 * Xia Nai (1910–1985) Chinese; China
 * Xu Xusheng (1888–1976) Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture

Y

 * Yigael Yadin (1917–1984) Israeli; Masada, Hazor
 * Yang Jianhua (born 1955) Chinese; Mesopotamia, eastern Eurasia
 * Yusra (20th century) Palestinian; Tabun, Neanderthals

Z

 * Inger Zachrisson (born 1936); Swedish; Sami people since the Iron Age
 * Louise Zarmati (born 1958) Australian; Archaeology in schools; women in archaeology; Australia, Crete, Cyprus


 * Melinda A. Zeder (born ca. 1952) American; zooarchaeology
 * Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies
 * Zhao Kangmin (1936–2018) Chinese; discoverer of the Terracotta Army
 * Zheng Zhenduo (1898–1958) Chinese; China
 * Zheng Zhenxiang (born 1929) Chinese; discoverer of the Tomb of Fu Hao
 * Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art
 * Andreas Zimmermann (born 1951) German; Neolithic (LBK)
 * Ezra B. W. Zubrow (born 1945) American; theory, GIS, demography, ecology, Circumpolar
 * R. Tom Zuidema (1927–2016) Dutch or American?; Incas
 * Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology)
 * Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) Czech; European Stone Age