List of historians

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

Classical period

 * Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories, which established Western historiography
 * Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponesian War
 * Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates
 * Ctesias (early 4th century BCE), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history

Hellenistic period

 * Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BCE), Greek history
 * Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BCE), Greek history
 * Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 – c. 300 BCE), Greek historian of science
 * Ptolemy I Soter (367 – c. 283 BCE), general of Alexander the Great, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty
 * Duris of Samos (c. 350 – post-281 BCE), Greek history
 * Berossus (early 3rd century BCE), Babylonian historian
 * Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 345 BCE – c. 250 BCE), Greek history
 * Manetho (3rd century BCE), Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) living in the Ptolemaic era
 * Quintus Fabius Pictor (born c. 254 BCE), Roman history
 * Artapanus of Alexandria (late 3rd – early 2nd centuries BCE), Jewish historian of Ptolemaic Egypt
 * Cato the Elder (234–149 BCE), Roman statesman and historian, author of the Origines
 * Cincius Alimentus (late 2nd century BCE), Roman history
 * Gaius Acilius (fl. 155 BCE), Roman history
 * Agatharchides (fl. mid–2nd century BCE), Greek history
 * Polybius (203 – c. 120 BCE), early Roman history (in Greek)
 * Sempronius Asellio (c. 158 – post-91 BCE), early Roman history
 * Valerius Antias (1st century BCE), Roman history
 * Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (1st century BCE), Roman history
 * Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BCE), Greek history
 * Posidonius (c. 135 – 51 BCE), Greek and Roman history
 * Theophanes of Mytilene (fl. mid 1st-century BCE), Roman history

Roman Empire

 * Julius Caesar (100 – c. 44 BCE), Gallic and civil wars
 * Sallust (86–34 BCE), Roman history
 * Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 – post-7 BCE), Roman history
 * Livy (64 BCE – 12 CE), Roman history
 * Memnon of Heraclea (fl. 1st century CE), Greek and Roman history
 * Strabo (63 BCE – 24 CE), geography, Greek history
 * Marcus Velleius Paterculus (c. 19 BCE – c. 31 CE), Roman history
 * Claudius (10 BCE – 54 CE), Roman, Etruscan and Carthaginian history
 * Pamphile of Epidaurus (female historian active under Nero, r. 54–68), Greek history
 * Marcus Cluvius Rufus, (fl. 41–69), Roman history
 * Quintus Curtius Rufus (c. 60–70), Greek history
 * Flavius Josephus (37–100), Jewish history
 * Dio Chrysostom (c. 40 – c. 115 CE), history of the Getae
 * Thallus (early 2nd c. CE), Roman history
 * Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56–120), early Roman Empire
 * Plutarch (c. 45 – 125), Parallel Lives of important Greeks and Romans
 * Criton of Heraclea (fl. 100), history of the Getae and the Dacian Wars
 * Suetonius (c. 69 – post-122), Roman emperors up to the Flavian dynasty
 * Appian (c. 95 – c. 165), Roman history
 * Arrian (c. 92–175), Greek history
 * Granius Licinianus (2nd century), Roman history
 * Criton of Pieria (2nd century), Greek history
 * Lucius Ampelius (c. 2nd c. CE), Roman history
 * Dio Cassius (c. 160 – after 229), Roman history
 * Marius Maximus (c. 160 – c. 230), biography of Roman emperors
 * Diogenes Laërtius (fl. c. 230), history of Greek philosophers
 * Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 – c. 240), early Christian
 * Herodian (c. 170 – c. 240), Roman history
 * Publius Anteius Antiochus (early 3rd c.)
 * Gaius Asinius Quadratus (fl. 248), Roman history
 * Dexippus (c. 210 – 273), Roman history
 * Ephorus the Younger (late 3rd century), Roman history
 * Acholius (late 3rd century), Roman history
 * Callinicus (died 273), history of Alexandria
 * Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 275 – c. 339), early Christian
 * Praxagoras of Athens (fl. early 4th century), Greek and Roman history
 * Festus (fl. 370), Roman history
 * Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390), Roman history
 * Eutropius (died 390), Roman history
 * Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325 – c. 391), Roman history
 * Virius Nicomachus Flavianus (334–394), Roman history
 * Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late 4th century), Roman history
 * Rufinus of Aquileia (c. 340–410), early Christian
 * Eunapius (346–414), biographies of philosophers and universal history
 * Orosius (c. 375 – post-418), early Christian
 * Philostorgius (368 – c. 439), early Christian
 * Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380 – unknown date), early Christian
 * Agathangelos (5th century), Armenian history
 * Priscus (5th century), Byzantine history
 * Sozomen (c. 400 – c. 450), early Christian
 * Theodoret (c. 393 – c. 457), early Christian
 * Movses Khorenatsi (13 January 410–488), Armenian history
 * Hydatius (c. 400 – c. 469), chronicler of Hispania
 * Salvian (c. 400/405 – c. 493), early Christian
 * Faustus of Byzantium (5th c.), Armenian history
 * Ghazar Parpetsi (441– after 515), Armenian history
 * Zosimus (fl. 491–518), late Roman history
 * Jordanes (6th century), history of the Goths
 * John Malalas (c. 491–578), Early Christian

China

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

Byzantine sphere

 * Procopius (c. 500 – c. 565), writings on reigns of Justinian and Theodora
 * Constantine of Preslav (late 9th – early 10th c.), Bulgarian historian
 * Nestor the Chronicler (c. 1056 – c. 1114, in Kiev), author of the Primary Chronicle
 * Anna Komnene (1083–1153), Byzantine princess
 * Joannes Zonaras (12th c.), Byzantine chronicler
 * Nicetas Choniates (died c. 1220)
 * Domentijan (1210–1264), Serbian monk and chronicler

Early Middle Ages

 * Gildas (500-570), On the Ruin of Britain


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

10th century

 * Widukind of Corvey (925–973), Ottonian chronicler
 * Liutprand of Cremona (922–972), Byzantine affairs
 * Heriger of Lobbes (925–1007), theologian and historian
 * Richerus (fl. 10th century), French monk and historian
 * Hrostvitha of Gandersheim (935-978), Saxon canoness, poet and historian

11th century

 * Thietmar of Merseburg (25 July 975 – 1 December 1018), German, Polish, and Russian affairs
 * Michael Psellus (1018 – c. 1078), Greek politician and historian
 * Marianus Scotus (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler
 * Michael Attaleiates (c. 1015 – c. 1080), Byzantine historian
 * Guibert of Nogent (1053–1124), Benedictine historian
 * Eadmer (c. 1066 – c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
 * Adam of Bremen (later 11th century), historian of Scandinavia, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum

12th century

 * Albert of Aix (fl. c. 1100), historian of the First Crusade
 * Alured of Beverley (fl. 1143), English chronicler
 * Ambroise (fl. 1190s), Anglo-Norman writer of verse narrative of the Third Crusade
 * Anna Komnene (Anna Comnena, 1083 – post-1148), Byzantine princess and historian
 * Bele Regis Notarius(late 12th century – early 13th century),Hungarian chronicler. Gesta Hungarorum.
 * Florence of Worcester (died 1118), English chronicler
 * Galbert of Bruges (12th century), Flemish chronicler
 * Gallus Anonymus (fl. 11th – 12th centuries), Polish historian
 * Geoffrey Gaimar (fl. 1130s), Anglo-Norman chronicler
 * Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100 – c. 1155), churchman/historian
 * Geoffroi de Villehardouin (c. 1160–1212)
 * Helmold of Bosau (ca. 1120 – post-1177), German chronicler
 * John of Worcester (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
 * Otto of Freising (c. 1114–1158), German chronicler
 * Pelagius of Oviedo (died 1153), Iberian bishop/historian
 * Saxo Grammaticus (12th century), Danish chronicler
 * Svend Aagesen (c. 1140/1150 – unknown date), Danish historian
 * Symeon of Durham (died post-1129), English chronicler
 * William of Malmesbury (1095–1143), English historian
 * William of Newburgh (1135–1198), English historian known as "the father of historical criticism"
 * William of Tyre (c. 1128–1186)

13th century

 * Giraldus Cambrensis (c. 1146 – c. 1223)
 * Wincenty Kadlubek (1161–1223), Polish historian
 * Adam of Eynsham (died c. 1233), English hagiographer and writer, abbot of Eynsham Abbey
 * Snorri Sturluson (c. 1178–1241), Icelandic historian
 * Matthew Paris (died 1259), English chronicler and illuminator
 * Jans der Enikel (c. 1227 – c. 1290), Viennese historian and poet
 * Templar of Tyre (c. 1230–1314), end of the Crusades
 * Simon of Kéza. End of 13th century. A Hungarian chronicler. (c. 1282–1285: Gesta Hunnorum et Hungarorum)

Late Middle Ages
Historians of the Italian Renaissance listed under "Renaissance"
 * Piers Langtoft (died c. 1307)
 * Jean de Joinville (1224–1319)
 * Giovanni Villani (1276–1348), Italian chronicler from Florence who wrote the Nuova Cronica
 * John of Küküllő (1320–1393)
 * John Clyn (fl. 1333–1349), Irish historian
 * Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin (died 1372), Irish historian
 * Adhamh Ó Cianáin (died 1373)
 * John of Fordun (died 1384), Scottish chronicler
 * Ruaidhri Ó Cianáin (died 1387), Irish historian
 * Jean Froissart (c. 1337 – c. 1405), chronicler
 * Dietrich of Nieheim (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastical history
 * Christine de Pizan (c. 1365 – c. 1430), historian, poet and philosopher
 * Álvar García de Santa María (1370–1460)
 * Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fhirbhisigh (fl. 1390–1418)
 * John Capgrave (1393–1464)
 * Alfonso de Cartagena (1396–1456)
 * Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c. 1400–1453), French chronicler
 * Georges Chastellain (c. 1405 or 1415–1475), Burgundian chronicler
 * Thomas Basin (1412–1491), French historian
 * Jan Długosz (1415–1480), Polish historian and chronicler
 * Mathieu d'Escouchy (1420–1482), French chronicler
 * Olivier de la Marche (1425–1502), Burgundian chronicler
 * Antonio Bonfini(1424–1502), Italian chronicler
 * Johannes de Thurocz(1435–1489), Hungarian chronicler
 * Jean Molinet (1435–1507), French chronicler
 * Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (1439–1498), compiler and annalist
 * Philippe de Commines (1447–1511)

Islamic world

 * Ibn Rustah (10th century), Persian historian and traveler
 * Abu'l-Fadl Bayhaqi (995–1077), Persian historian and author
 * Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (838–923), Persian historian
 * Al-Biruni (973–1048), Persian historian
 * Ibn Hayyan (987–1075), Al-Andalus historian
 * Ibn Hazm (994–1064), Al-Andalus historian
 * Al-Udri (born 1003), Al-Andalus historian
 * Mohammed al-Baydhaq (fl. 1150), Moroccan historian
 * Usamah ibn Munqidh (1095–1188)
 * Ali ibn al-Athir (1160–1233)
 * Abdelwahid al-Marrakushi (born 1185), Moroccan historian
 * Ibn al-Khabbaza (died 1239), Moroccan historian
 * Ata al-Mulk Juvayni (1226–1283), Persian historian
 * Abdelaziz al-Malzuzi (died 1298), Moroccan historian
 * Ibn Kathir (1300-1373), Arab Islamic Historian and Scholar, Mamluk Sultanate
 * Ibn Abi Zar (fl. 1315), Moroccan historian
 * Ibn Idhari (late 13th/early 14th c.), Moroccan historian
 * Rashid-al-Din Hamadani (1247–1317), Persian historian
 * Abdullah Wassaf (1299–1323), Persian historian
 * Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406), North African historian "of the world"
 * Ismail ibn al-Ahmar (1387–1406), Moroccan historian

East Asia

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

India

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

Renaissance Europe

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


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

Early modern period
Western historians of the Early modern and Enlightenment period, c. 1600–1815
 * John Hayward (1564–1627)
 * James Ussher (1581–1656), chronology of the history of the world
 * Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581–1647), Dutch Republic
 * William Bradford (1590–1657), Mayflower/Plymouth Colony of America
 * Mícheál Ó Cléirigh (c. 1590–1643), Irish historian
 * Thomas Fuller (1608–1661), English historian and churchman
 * Tadhg Óg Ó Cianáin (died c. 1614), Irish historian
 * Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh (Peregrine O'Clery) (died c. 1662/1664), Irish historian
 * Sir James Ware (1594–1666), Anglo-Irish historian and antiquarian
 * Arthur Wilson (1595–1652), 16th-century Britain
 * Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685), Italian historian
 * Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
 * Mary Bonaventure Browne (c. 1610 – c. 1670), Poor Clare and Irish historian
 * Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain (fl. 1627–1636), Irish historian
 * Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh (1629–1716/1718), Irish historian
 * Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian
 * Christoph Cellarius (1638–1707), German universal historian
 * John Strype (1643–1737), English historian
 * Thomas Rymer (c. 1643–1713), English historian and antiquary
 * Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh (fl. 1643–1671), Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
 * Geoffrey Keating/Seathrún Céitinn (died 1643), Irish historian
 * Đorđe Branković (1645–1711), Serbian history
 * Josiah Burchett (1666–1746), British naval historian and CEmiralty official
 * Laurence Echard (c. 1670–1730), England
 * Ludovico Antonio Muratori (1672–1750), Italy
 * Manuel Teles da Silva, 3rd Marquis of Alegrete (1682–1736), Portuguese historian
 * Matthias Bel (1684–1749), Lutheran pastor and polymath from Kingdom of Hungary
 * Moses Williams (1685–1742), Welsh scholar and antiquarian
 * Archibald Bower (1686–1766), historian of Rome
 * Vasily Tatishchev (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
 * Giambattista Vico (1688–1744), Italian historian, first modern philosopher of history
 * Voltaire (1694–1778), writer on Europe and France
 * Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
 * Charlotta Frölich (1698–1770), Swedish historian
 * Francis Blomefield (1705–1752), historian of Norfolk, England
 * David Hume (1711–1776), History of England
 * Thomas Hutchinson (1711–1780), colonial Massachusetts
 * Francisco Jose Freire (1719–1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
 * William Robertson (1721–1793), Scottish historian
 * György Pray (1723–1801), Hungarian abbot and historian
 * Zaharije Orfelin (1726–1785), Austrian Serb historian
 * Johann Christoph Gatterer (1727–1799), German historian
 * Edward Hasted (1732–1812), English antiquarian and Kent historian
 * Mikhail Shcherbatov (1733–1790), Russian historian
 * August Ludwig von Schlözer (1735–1809), German historian
 * John Barrow (fl. 1735–1774), English naval historian and geographer
 * Edward Gibbon (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium
 * Alexander Hewat (or Hewatt) (1739–1824), colonial Carolina and Georgia
 * Benjamin Incledon (1730–1796), English antiquary and school historian
 * Philip Yorke (1743–1804), Welsh historian and politician
 * Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803), philosophy of the history of mankind
 * Fray Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra (1745–1813), Spanish historian
 * David Ramsay (1749–1815), American Revolution; South Carolina
 * Johannes von Müller (1752–1809), Switzerland
 * Pauline de Lézardière (1754–1835), French law historian
 * Anton Tomaz Linhart (1756–1795), known for Slovenian history
 * Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German historian
 * Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766–1826), Russian historian, Russian Empire
 * György Fejér (1766–1851) Hungarian author
 * Francesco Maria Appendini (1768–1837), Italian historian, Republic of Ragusa
 * Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), German historian

Middle East and Islamic Empires

 * Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
 * Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1553–1616), Moroccan historian
 * Abd al-Aziz al-Fishtali (1549–1621), Moroccan historian
 * Bahrey (born 1593), Ethiopian monk and historian; wrote Zenahu le Galla (History of the Galla, now the Oromo)
 * Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631–1685), Moroccan historian
 * Mohammed al-Ifrani (1670–1745), Moroccan historian
 * Mohammed al-Qadiri (1712–1773), Moroccan historian
 * Abu al-Qasim al-Zayyani (1734–1833), Moroccan historian and poet
 * Sulayman al-Hawwat (1747–1816), Moroccan historian
 * Mohammed al-Duayf (born 1752), Moroccan historian
 * Abbasgulu Bakikhanov (1794–1847), history of Azerbaijan and the Middle East
 * George Grote (1794–1871), classical Greece
 * Teimuraz Bagrationi (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
 * Mohammed Akensus (1797–1877), Moroccan historian
 * Ahmad ibn Abi Diyaf (1804–1874), Tunisian historian

East Asia

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

Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770

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

A

 * Lord Acton (1834–1902), Europe
 * Henry Adams (1838–1918), US 1800–1816
 * Lucia H. Faxon Additon (1847–1919), Oregon
 * Grace Aguilar (1816–1847), Jewish history
 * Robert G. Albion (1896–1983), maritime
 * Charles McLean Andrews (1863–1943), US; US colonial history
 * Marie Célestine Amélie d'Armaillé (1830–1918), France
 * Alfred von Arneth (1819–1897), history of the Austrian Empire
 * Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies
 * William Ashley (1860–1927), British economic history
 * Octave Aubry (1881–1946)
 * François Victor Alphonse Aulard (1849–1928), French Revolution and Napoleon I
 * Zurab Avalishvili (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus

B

 * Dmytro Bahalii (1857–1932), Ukraine, Russia
 * Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France
 * George Bancroft (1800–1891), U.S. to 1789
 * Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), Native Americans and the Western United States
 * R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion
 * Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas
 * Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies
 * Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879–1943), Ukraine
 * Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
 * Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), US, economic interpretation, historiography
 * Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), US, women's history
 * Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), Enlightenment
 * Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia
 * Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe
 * Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), political history, social history and philosophy of history
 * Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S.
 * Isabella Margaret Elizabeth Blandin (1838–1912), U.S.
 * Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), philosophy of history, political history and social history
 * Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School
 * Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands
 * Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873–1955), Soviet
 * Amadeo Bordiga (1889–1970), political history and social history
 * Erich Brandenburg (1868–1946), Modern Germany
 * George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canada
 * Otto Brunner (1898–1982), medieval and early modern Austria
 * Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), Europe
 * Arthur Bryant (1888–1985), Pepys; English warfare
 * James Bryce, (1838–1922), Europe, America, Middle East
 * Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), England, History of Civilization
 * Serhii Buhoslavskyi (1888–1946), Ukraine, art history
 * Edvard Bull Sr. (1881–1932), Norway
 * Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance
 * John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
 * J. B. Bury (1861–1927), classical, Europe

C

 * Helen Cam (1885–1968), English medieval
 * Pierre Caron (1875–1952), French revolution
 * E. H. Carr (1892–1982), Soviet history, methodology
 * Henri Raymond Casgrain (1831–1904), French Canada
 * Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian
 * Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish identity
 * Bruce Catton (1899–1978), American Civil War
 * Cesar de Bazancourt (1810–1865), Crimean War
 * Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), India
 * Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian historian, history of Russian law
 * Zakaria Chichinadze (1854–1931), Georgian literature
 * V. Gordon Childe (1892–1957), archaeology
 * Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), US West, fur trade
 * Giorgi Chubinashvili (1885–1973), Georgian art
 * Winston Churchill (1874–1965), world wars, British Empire
 * Augustin Cochin (1876–1916), French Revolution
 * Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020), Russia
 * R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosophy of history
 * Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), historian and interdisciplinarian
 * Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval
 * Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia
 * Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South
 * Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare
 * Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historiography
 * Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon
 * John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet Union

D

 * Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval
 * Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
 * Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
 * Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), US West
 * Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838–1919), Colombia
 * Edith Dobie (1887–1975), Great Britain
 * William Dodd (1869–1940), US South
 * David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England
 * Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history
 * W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), Africa, African-American, slavery, political history, cultural history
 * Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India
 * Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe
 * Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe

E

 * Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization
 * Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe
 * Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism

F

 * Cyril Falls (1888–1971), military, world wars
 * Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), France
 * Keith Feiling (1884–1977), England, conservatism
 * Herbert Feis (1893–1972), World War II diplomacy, international finance
 * Charles Harding Firth (1857–1936), 17th-century England
 * Herbert A. L. Fisher (1865–1940)
 * Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932), US reconstruction
 * Vilmos Fraknói (27 February 1843 – 20 November 1924), Hungarian historian and expert in Hungarian ecclesiastical history e. g. Popes and Hungarian kings diplomatic relations
 * Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892), English politics
 * Egon Friedell (1878–1938), cultural history of the modern age
 * James Anthony Froude (1818–1894), Tudor England
 * J. F. C. Fuller (1878–1966), military
 * Frantz Funck-Brentano (1862–1947), France
 * John Sydenham Furnivall (1878–1960), Burma, Southeast Asia
 * Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1830–1889), antiquity, France

G

 * François-Louis Ganshof (1895–1980), medieval history
 * Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1829–1902), 17th-century England
 * Alice Gardner (1854–1927), ancient history
 * Luise Gerbing (1855–1927), history of Thuringia
 * Pieter Geyl (1887–1966), Dutch
 * Ghulam Muhammad Ghobar (1897–1978), Afghanistan
 * Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775
 * Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy
 * Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
 * George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy
 * Emma Graf (1865–1926), Swiss women
 * Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), Italy, political history, social history, cultural history, history of philosophy
 * Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany
 * Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887), Etruscan history
 * John Richard Green (1837–1883), English
 * Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English
 * Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history
 * Ioseb Grishashvili (1889–1965), Georgian literature
 * Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec
 * René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history

H

 * Élie Halévy (1870–1937), modern Britain
 * Louis Halphen (1880–1950), Middle Ages
 * Clarence H. Haring (1885–1960), Latin American history
 * B. H. Liddell Hart (1895–1970), military
 * Charles H. Haskins (1870–1937), medieval
 * Henri Hauser (1866–1946), French historian, economist, geographer
 * Julien Havet (1853–1893), Middle Ages
 * Paul Hazard (1878–1944), modern France
 * Eli Heckscher (1879–1954), Swedish economic historian
 * Auguste Himly (1823–1906), French historian and geographer
 * Otto Hintze (1861–1940), Germany
 * Serafima Hopner (1880–1966), Soviet
 * Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), social history, cultural history, political history
 * Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungary
 * Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923), British historian and geologist
 * Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian historian
 * Hu Sheng (1918–2000), China
 * Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages

I

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

J

 * Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani (1858–1927), Moroccan
 * Muhammad Jaber (1875–1945), history of the Levant and the Middle-East
 * William James (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
 * Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940), Georgian historian
 * Arthur Johnson (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University
 * Ellen Jørgensen (1877–1948), Danish historian and historiographer
 * J. B. Bury (1851–1927), Anglo-Irish historian of the Medieval Roman epoch.

K

 * Sargis Kakabadze (1886–1967), Georgia, Middle Ages
 * Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian
 * Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), Ukrainian historian
 * Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws
 * Korneli Kekelidze (1879–1962), Georgian literature
 * François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), French political historian
 * Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), legal
 * Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855–1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
 * Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
 * William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian
 * Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history
 * David Knowles (1896–1974), English medieval
 * Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian
 * Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960), US naval historian
 * Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, botanist and music historian
 * Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian
 * Hans Kohn (1891–1971), European nationalism
 * Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Byzantine art
 * Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1966), Turkish historian
 * Yannis Kordatos, (1891–1961), Ancient, Byzantine history and Modern Greece
 * Myron Korduba (1876–1947), Ukraine
 * Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
 * Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history
 * Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historian

L

 * Leonard Woods Labaree (1897–1980), editor of the Benjamin Franklin papers
 * Harold Lamb (1892–1962), US
 * Karl Lamprecht (1856–1915), German art and economic history
 * William L. Langer (1896–1977), US historian, world and diplomatic history
 * John Knox Laughton (1830–1915), British naval historian
 * Ernest Lavisse (1842–1922), French history
 * William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838–1903), England and Ireland
 * Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959), French Revolution
 * Elisabeth Lemke (1849–1925) German history
 * Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), labor, political history, cultural history, economic history, social history, history of philosophy
 * Anna Lewis (1885–1961), South-western US
 * Liang Qichao (梁啓超, 1873–1929), Chinese and Western history and historiography
 * John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), Welshness
 * Ferdinand Lot (1866–1952), Middle Ages
 * John Lord (1810–1894), Middle Ages, ancient history, historical survey
 * Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), intellectual history
 * Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian
 * György Lukács (1885–1971), history of literature, art history and philosophy of history
 * Nikolai Lukin (1885–1940), France, Germany, economic history

M

 * Thomas Macaulay (1800–1859), British
 * R. B. McCallum (1898–1973) British
 * J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), Scottish
 * William Archibald Mackintosh (1895–1970), Canadian economic
 * Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), naval
 * Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English legal, medieval
 * Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888–1980), Indian history
 * Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979), social history, cultural history, political history
 * José Carlos Mariátegui (1894–1930), Latin America, Peru, political history, economic history, history of philosophy
 * J. A. R. Marriott (1859–1945), modern Britain and Europe
 * Karl Marx (1818–1883), European society and economy
 * Albert Mathiez (1874–1932), French Revolution
 * Franz Mehring (1846–1919), political history, history of philosophy
 * Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), German intellectual and cultural
 * Krste Misirkov (1874–1926), Macedonian historian and author
 * Auguste Molinier (1851–1904), Middle Ages
 * Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), Roman Empire
 * Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), Spain
 * Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), naval, American colonial
 * John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), the Netherlands
 * Lewis Mumford (1895–1988), cities

N

 * Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888–1960), 18th-century British and 20th-century diplomatic history
 * Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri (1835–1897), Moroccan
 * J. E. Neale (1890–1975), Elizabethan England
 * Allan Nevins (1890–1971), US political and business; Civil War; biography
 * A. P. Newton (1873–1942), British Empire
 * Nikolai Nikolsky, (1877–1959), Oriental studies, religious
 * Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), Serbian

O

 * Charles Oman (1860–1946), 19th-century military
 * Herbert L. Osgood (1855–1918), American colonial

P

 * K. M. Panikkar (1895–1963), Indian historian
 * Anton Pannekoek (1873–1960), History of astronomy
 * Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian history
 * Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Middle Ages
 * Jane Marsh Parker (1836–1913), US history
 * Francis Parkman (1823–1893), colonial North America
 * Herbert Paul (1853–1935), 19th-century UK
 * Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), Roman
 * Arvīds Pelše (1899–1983), political history
 * Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history
 * Dexter Perkins (1889–1984), US history
 * David Pietrusza (1949–), US history
 * Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children
 * Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
 * Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian
 * Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and Soviet history
 * Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Tudor England
 * Delia Lyman Porter (1858–1933), US history
 * Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian
 * Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages
 * F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval
 * H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History

Q

 * Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages

R

 * David Riazanov (1893–1974), political history and history of philosohy
 * William Pember Reeves (1870–1938), New Zealand
 * Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), diplomatic historian
 * Herbert Richmond (1871–1946), British naval
 * James Riker (1822–1889), New York
 * B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), Mormon
 * James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936), European
 * James Rodway (1848–1926), British Guiana
 * Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), US west and naval history
 * John Holland Rose (1855–1942), modern Europe, Britain and France
 * Arthur Rosenberg (1889–1943), Imperial Germany, German Republic, political history
 * Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), ancient history
 * Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), modern German
 * Roman Rozdolsky, (1898–1967), Eastern Europe
 * Sergei Rudenko (1885–1969), Ukraine, Russian archaeology
 * Simon Rutar (1851–1903), Slovenian
 * Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), Serbian

S

 * Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history
 * Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian
 * Salamon Ferenc (1825–1892), Ottoman Hungary
 * Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), medieval and church
 * Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), history of India
 * George Sarton (1884–1956), history of science
 * Gustave Schlumberger (1844–1929), French
 * Otto Seeck (1850–1921), German
 * John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), British Empire
 * J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), fascism
 * Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965) US social history
 * W. C. Sellar (1898–1951), co-author of 1066 and All That
 * Victor Serge (1890–1947), Russia
 * Ekaterina Shchepkina (1854–1938), Russia
 * Andrey Shestakov, (1877–1941), Soviet history, agriculture
 * Shin Chaeho (신채호, 1880–1936), Korean
 * Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian
 * Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937), English early modern
 * Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), British and Canadian
 * Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), Mexican–American War
 * Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), Russian historian
 * Werner Sombart (1863–1941), Germany, economic history
 * Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; The Decline of the West
 * Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878–1953), labor, political history, economic history
 * Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia
 * Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe
 * Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval
 * Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval
 * Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West
 * Dirk Jan Struik (1894–2000), history of mathematics
 * William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law
 * Alexander Svanidze (1886–1941), Ancient
 * László Szalay (1813–1864) Hungarian historian

T

 * Hippolyte Taine (1828–1893), French Revolution
 * Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1853–1920), ancient art history
 * Yevgeny Tarle (1874–1955), Russian historian
 * A. Wyatt Tilby (1880–1948), Britain, The English People Overseas
 * Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), France
 * Zeki Velidi Togan (1890–1970), Turkic history
 * Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898)
 * Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929), England
 * Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975), world history, A Study of History
 * Heinrich Gotthard von Treitschke (1834–1896), German historian and nationalist
 * George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876–1962), British
 * Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), Soviet
 * Mikheil Tsereteli (1878–1965), Georgian historian
 * Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), US frontier
 * Renáta Tyršová (1854–1937), Czech ethnography and art history

U

 * Frank Underhill (1889–1971), Canadian

V

 * Alfred Vagts, (1892–1986), Germany, military
 * Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England
 * Vyacheslav Volgin, (1879–1962), Communism

W

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

Y

 * Yi Byeongdo (이병도, 1896–1989), Korea

Z

 * Nicolas Zafra (1892–1979), Philippines
 * Mao Zedong (1893–1976), China, labor, economic history, political history, cultural history
 * Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856), Celts
 * Faddei Zielinski (1859–1944), ancient Greece

A

 * Pavao Anđelić (1920-1985) Bosnian and Yugoslav archaeologist and historian


 * Raouf Abbas (1939–2008), Egyptian
 * Irving Abella (1940–2022), Canadian
 * Aberjhani (born 1957), African American, Harlem Renaissance, Literary
 * Ervand Abrahamian (born 1940), Iran
 * David Abulafia (born 1949), Mediterranean
 * Erwin Ackerknecht (1906–1988), Cultural history, social history
 * Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina
 * Donald Adamson (1939–2024), Britain
 * Theodor Adorno (1903–1969), Cultural history, social history
 * Teodoro Agoncillo (1912–1985), Philippines
 * Donald Akenson (born 1941), Irish
 * Risto Alapuro (1944–2022), Finland
 * Dean C. Allard (1933–2018), US naval
 * Robert C. Allen (born 1947), British economy
 * James S. Allen (1906–1986), America
 * Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), America, Hiroshima
 * Louis Althusser (1918–1990), history of philosophy, political history, philosophy of history
 * Ida Altman (born 1950), America, colonial Spain and Latin America
 * Mor Altshuler (born 1957), Hasidism, Kabbalism, and Jewish messianism
 * Abbas Amanat (born 1947) Iran, America
 * Stephen Ambrose (1936–2002), World War II, U.S. political
 * Mahdi Amel (1936–1987), Lebanon
 * Yoshihiko Amino (1928–2004), Japan
 * Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), French, Nazi occupation of France
 * Benedict Anderson (1936–2015), Southeast Asia, intellectual and political history
 * Perry Anderson (born 1938), British and European
 * Joyce Appleby (1929–2016), U.S. early national
 * Herbert Aptheker (1915–2003), African-American
 * Leonie Archer (born 1955), England
 * Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), French medieval, childhood
 * Karen Armstrong (born 1944), British religious
 * Andrea Aromatico (born 1966), Italian esotericism and Hermetic iconography
 * Leonard J. Arrington (1917–1999), America, Mormons
 * Thomas Asbridge (born 1969), Crusades
 * Maurice Ashley (1907–1994), 17th-century England
 * Paul Avrich (1931–2006), Russian, the Anarchist movement
 * Gerald Aylmer (1926–2000), 17th-century England
 * Ali Azaykou (1942–2004), Moroccan
 * Eiichiro Azuma (born 1966), US, Japan

B

 * Alain Badiou (born 1937), history of philosophy
 * Nigel Bagnall (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece
 * Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020), early America; Atlantic
 * Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975), archaeology and art history
 * David E. Barclay (born 1948), German
 * Juliet Barker (born 1958), late Middle Ages, literary biography
 * Frank Barlow (1911–2009), medieval biography
 * Linda Diane Barnes (living), US
 * Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–1984), Germany, world
 * G.W.S. Barrow (1924–2013), Scotland
 * Walter Bartel (1904–1992), German political history
 * H. Arnold Barton (1929–2016), Scandinavia
 * Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide
 * Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), cultural
 * Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), Peru
 * Leôncio Basbaum (1907–1969), Brazil
 * Hanna Batatu (1926–2000), Palestinian, modern Iraq
 * K. Jack Bauer (1926–1987), U.S. naval, military, and maritime
 * Yehuda Bauer (born 1926), Holocaust
 * Stephen B. Baxter (1929–2020), late 17th – early 18th-century English
 * David Bebbington (born 1949), Evangelicalism
 * Antony Beevor (born 1946), World War II
 * David Bell (living), Early Modern France, cultural history
 * James Belich (born 1956), New Zealand
 * Abdelmajid Benjelloun (born 1944), Morocco
 * Laurence Bergreen (born 1950), biography
 * Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), ideas
 * Michael Beschloss (born 1955), Cold War
 * Juliette Bessis, (1925–2017), Tunisia
 * Nicholas Bethell (1938–2007), Soviet
 * Charles Bettelheim (1913–2006), political history, economic history
 * Robert Bickers (born 1964), modern China and colonialism
 * Anthony Birley (1937–2020), Ancient Rome
 * Yael Bitrán (born 1965), musicology
 * David Blackbourn (born 1949), German
 * Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930), Australian
 * Lesley Blanch (1904–2007), English
 * Gisela Bock (born 1942), German feminist
 * Brian Bond (born 1936), British military
 * Chrystelle Trump Bond (1938–2020), US dance historian
 * Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), US
 * Georges Bordonove (1920–2007), France
 * John Boswell (1947–1994), medievalist
 * Robert Bothwell (born 1944), Canada
 * Gérard Bouchard (born 1943), Canada
 * Joanna Bourke (born 1963), military
 * Paul S. Boyer (1935–2012), US morality
 * Karl Dietrich Bracher (1922–2016), modern German
 * Jim Bradbury (1937–2023), Middle Ages
 * James C. Bradford (born 1944), US naval
 * David Brading (1936–2024), Mexican history
 * William Brandon (1914–2002), American West
 * Ray Brassier, (born 1965), philosophical history
 * Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean
 * Ahron Bregman (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict
 * Robert Brenner (born 1943), US history, economic history, agriculture
 * Bridget Brereton (born 1946), Trinidad and Tobago
 * Holly Brewer (born 1964), early American history
 * Carl Bridenbaugh (1903–1992), American colonial
 * Asa Briggs (1921–2016), British social history
 * Alan Brinkley (1949–2019), American 1930s
 * David Brody (born 1930), American labor
 * Timothy Brook (born 1951), China
 * Martin Broszat (1926–1989), Nazi Germany
 * Pierre Broué (1926–2005), Trotskyism
 * Gregory S. Brown (living), Early Modern French History, Cultural History
 * Peter Brown (born 1935), medieval
 * Christopher Browning (born 1944), Holocaust
 * Aleks Buda (1910–1993), Albania
 * Nikolai Bugay (born 1941), Soviet Union
 * Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902–1982), Brazil
 * Alan Bullock (1914–2004), 1940s, Hitler studies
 * Peter Burke (born 1937), modern period, cultural history
 * Michael Burlingame (born 1941), Abraham Lincoln
 * Briton C. Busch (1936–2004), British diplomatic and US maritime
 * Richard Bushman (born 1931), US colonial and Mormon
 * Jon Butler (born 1940), US religion
 * Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historiography

C

 * Sima Ćirković (1929–2009) Yugoslav and Serbian historian
 * Claude Cahen (1909–1991), Islamic Middle Ages, social history
 * Angus Calder (1942–2008), Second World War
 * Philip L. Cantelon (born 1940), United States
 * Julio Caro Baroja (1914–1995), anthropologist
 * Sir Raymond Carr (1919–2015), Spain and Latin America
 * Richard Carrier (born 1969), ancient Rome; history of philosophy, science and religion
 * Paul Cartledge (born 1947), classicist
 * Lionel Casson (1914–2009), classicist
 * Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), social history, political history and philosophy of history
 * Boris Celovsky (1923–2008), Czech-German relations
 * David G. Chandler (1934–2004), British historian specializing in Napoleonic history
 * Bipan Chandra (1928–2014), modern India
 * Iris Chang (이병도, 1968–2004), China
 * Howard I. Chapelle (1901–1975), maritime
 * François Châtelet, (1925–1985), philosophical history
 * Maher Charif (living), Arabic intellectual history and political movements
 * Yevhen Chernenko (1934–2007), Ukrainian archaeology
 * Louis Chevalier (1911–2001), France
 * Alexander Campbell Cheyne (1924–2006), Scotland
 * Thomas Childers (born 1976), war and society, both world wars
 * Satyabrata Rai Chowdhuri (1935–2016), India
 * I. R. Christie (1919–1998), Britain
 * Robert M. Citino (born 1958), US military historian of Europe
 * Alan Clark (1928–1999), both world wars
 * Christopher Clark (born 1960), Prussia
 * J. C. D. Clark (born 1951), British
 * Manning Clark (1915–1991), Australia
 * Oliver Edmund Clubb (1901–1989), China
 * Yolande Cohen (born 1950), youth, women, Moroccan Jews
 * Patrick Collinson (1929–2011), Elizabethan England and Puritanism
 * Ann Gorman Condon (1936–2001), Canada
 * Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Russia
 * Margaret Conrad (born 1946), Canada
 * Martin Conway (born 1960), British scholar of European history
 * John Milton Cooper (born 1940), Woodrow Wilson
 * Peter Cottrell (born 1964), Anglo-Irish
 * Gordon A. Craig (1913–2005), German and diplomatic
 * Catherine Crary (1909–1974), American Revolution
 * Donald Creighton (1902–1979), Canadian
 * Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and art history
 * William Cronon (born 1954), US environmental
 * Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China
 * Roger Crowley (born 1951), Mediterranean Sea; Portuguese empire
 * Dan Cruickshank (born 1949), Britain, architecture
 * Robert M. Crunden (1940–1999), US cultural
 * Gemma Cruz (born 1943), Rizaliana, Philippines
 * Barry Cunliffe (born 1939), archaeology
 * Bruce Cumings (born 1943), East Asia, Korea

D

 * Vahakn N. Dadrian (1926–2019), Armenia
 * Robert Dallek (born 1934), 20th-century US presidents
 * William Dalrymple (born 1965), Scottish
 * David B. Danbom (born 1947), US rural
 * Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009), South Asia
 * Robert Darnton (born 1939), 18th-century France
 * Saul David (born 1966), military
 * John Davies (1938–2015), Wales
 * Norman Davies (born 1939), Poland, Britain
 * Kenneth S. Davis (1912–1999), Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * Mike Davis (scholar) (1946–2022), Labor history, economic history
 * Natalie Zemon Davis (1928-2023), early modern France, film
 * R. H. C. Davis (1918–1991), Middle Ages
 * Lucy Dawidowicz (1915–1990), Holocaust
 * David Day (born 1949), Australia
 * Renzo De Felice (1929–1996), Italian fascism
 * Carl N. Degler (1921–2014), US
 * Len Deighton (born 1929), British military
 * Esther Delisle (born 1954), French-Canadian
 * Jean Delumeau (1923–2020), Catholic Church
 * Marcel Detienne (1935–2019), ancient Greece
 * Alexandre Deulofeu (1903–1978), Catalan
 * Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Soviet
 * Wu Di (吴迪, born 1951), China
 * Igor M. Diakonov (1914–1999), Ancient Near East
 * Jay P. Dolan (1936–2023), American Catholics
 * David Herbert Donald (1920–2009), American Civil War
 * Gordon Donaldson (1913–1993), Scotland
 * Susan Doran (living), Elizabethan England
 * Elisabeth Joan Doyle (1922–2009), 19th-century American and British history
 * William Doyle (born 1932), French Revolution
 * Georges Duby (1924–1996), Middle Ages
 * William S. Dudley (born 1936), US naval
 * Robert Dudley Edwards (1909–1988), Ireland
 * Eamon Duffy (born 1947), 15th–17th-century religious
 * Hermann Walther von der Dunk (1928–2018), 20th-century Dutch and German
 * Mary Maples Dunn (1931–2017), early American, women's history
 * Richard Slator Dunn (1928–2022), early American, slavery
 * A. Hunter Dupree (1921–2019), US science and technology
 * Trevor Dupuy (1916–1995), military
 * Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (1917–1994), French diplomacy
 * Enrique Dussel (1934–2023), Latin America
 * Harold James Dyos (1921–1978), British urban

E

 * Terry Eagleton (born 1943), political history, art history, cultural history
 * Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing
 * Geoff Eley (born 1949), German
 * Mircea Eliade (1907–1986), history of religion
 * John Elliott (1930–2022), Spanish
 * Joseph J. Ellis (born 1943), early US
 * Geoffrey Elton (1921–1994), Tudor England
 * Peter Englund (born 1957), Sweden
 * Robert Malcolm Errington (born 1939), Britain
 * Richard J. Evans (born 1947), German social
 * Alf Evers (1905–2004), America

F

 * Frantz Fanon (1925–1961), history of colonialism
 * Esther Farbstein (born 1946), Israeli, Holocaust
 * Grahame Farr (1912–1983), maritime, south-west England
 * Brian Farrell (1929–2014), Ireland
 * Boris Fausto (1930–2023), Brazil
 * John Lister Illingworth Fennell (1918–1992), medieval Russia
 * Niall Ferguson (born 1964), military, business, imperial
 * Božidar Ferjančić (1929–1998), medieval
 * Florestan Fernandes (1920–1995), Brazil, social history, political history
 * Robert H. Ferrell (1921–2018), US history, US presidency, World War I, US foreign policy and diplomacy, Harry S. Truman
 * Marc Ferro (1924–2021), World War I
 * Joachim Fest (1926–2006), Nazi Germany
 * David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Jewish
 * Heinrich Fichtenau (1912–2000), medieval, diplomacy
 * David Kenneth Fieldhouse (1925–2018), British Empire
 * Federico Brito Figueroa (1921–2000), Venezuela
 * Orlando Figes (born 1957), Russian
 * Robert O. Fink (1905–1988), classical
 * Norman Finkelstein (born 1953), Israel, Palestine
 * Moses Finley (1912–1986), ancient, especially economic
 * David Hackett Fischer (born 1935), American Revolution, cycles
 * Fritz Fischer (1908–1999), Germany
 * Frances FitzGerald (born 1940), Vietnam, history textbooks
 * Sheila Fitzpatrick (born 1941), Soviet Union
 * Judith Flanders (born 1959), Victorian British social
 * Simha Flapan (1911–1987), Israel
 * Robin Fleming (born 1950s), medieval Britain
 * Robert Fogel (1926–2013), US economic, cliometrics
 * Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction
 * Philip S. Foner (1910–1994), US history, political history, labor history
 * Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American Civil War
 * Amanda Foreman (born 1968), Georgian England, American Civil War, women's history
 * Michel Foucault (1926–1984), ideas
 * Jo Fox (living), 20th-century film and propaganda
 * Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), ancient
 * Stephen Fox (born 1938), US in World War II
 * Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941–2007), US South, cultural and social, women
 * Walter Frank (1905–1945), Nazi historian
 * H. Bruce Franklin (born 1934), Vietnam War
 * Antonia Fraser (born 1932), England
 * Frank Freidel (1916–1993), Franklin Roosevelt
 * Joseph Friedenson (1922–2013), Holocaust
 * Henry Friedlander (1930–2012), Holocaust
 * Saul Friedländer (born 1932), Holocaust
 * Sheppard Frere (1916–2015), anthropologist, Roman Empire
 * David Fromkin (1932–2017), Middle East
 * Francis Fukuyama (born 1955), world
 * Bruno Fuligni (born 1968), French history
 * François Furet (1927–1997), French Revolution
 * Halima Ferhat (born 1941), Middle Ages of the Maghreb

G

 * Femme Gaastra (born 1945), Dutch
 * John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941), Cold War
 * Lloyd Gardner (born 1934), US diplomatic
 * Delphine Gardey (born 1967, gender and science)
 * Robert Garland, (born 1947, Classical history)
 * Edwin Gaustad (1923–2011), religion in America
 * Peter Gay (1923–2015), psycho-history, Enlightenment and 19th-century social
 * Eugene Genovese (1930–2012), US South, slavery
 * Imanuel Geiss (1931–2012), 19th/20th-century Germany
 * François Géré (born 1950), military
 * Christian Gerlach (born 1963), Holocaust
 * N.H. Gibbs (1910–1990), military
 * William Gibson (born 1959), ecclesiastical history
 * Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), Holocaust
 * Carlo Ginzburg (born 1939), social history
 * Martin Glaberman (1918–2001), US society and political history
 * Jan Glete (1947–2009), Swedish
 * Elizaveta I. Gnevusheva (1916–1994), Dutch India
 * Eric F. Goldman (1916–1989), 20th-century US
 * James Goldrick (1958–2023), Australian
 * Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969), ancient history
 * David Hamilton Golland (born 1971), 20th-century US civil rights, public policy, labor
 * Guillermo Gómez (born 1936), Philippine history
 * Brison D. Gooch (1925–2014), 19th century Europe
 * Ruth Goodman (born 1963), early modern period
 * Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943), US presidential
 * Andrew Gordon (born 1951), British naval history
 * Yefim Gorodetsky (1907–1993), Soviet history
 * Svetlana Gorshenina (born 1969), Central Asian history
 * Lewis L. Gould (born 1939), US presidents and First Ladies
 * Gerald S. Graham (1903–1988), British imperial
 * Jack Granatstein (born 1939), Canada
 * Michael Grant (1914–2004), ancient
 * Abigail Green British historian of modern Europe
 * Peter Green (born 1924), ancient
 * Vivian H.H. Green (1915–2005), Christianity
 * John Robert Greene (born 1955), US presidency
 * Roger D. Griffin (born 1948), fascism, political and religious fanaticism
 * Boris Grushin (1929–2007), political history
 * Ramachandra Guha (born 1958), India, environment
 * Ranajit Guha (1923–2023), Indian
 * Lev Gumilyov (1912–1992), Soviet
 * Oliver Gurney (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites
 * John Guy (born 1949), Tudor England

H

 * Irfan Habib (born 1931), India
 * Sheldon Hackney (1933–2013), US South
 * Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936), US naval
 * John Haldon (born 1948), Byzantine Empire
 * John Whitney Hall (1916–1997), Japan
 * Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (1937–2015), World War II air war
 * N. G. L. Hammond (1907–2001), ancient Greek history
 * Nahema Hanafi (born 1983), modern and contemporary history
 * Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), ancient warfare
 * Syed Nomanul Haq (born 1948), history and philosophy of science
 * Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976), Israeli, military, Medieval
 * Donna Haraway (born 1944), History of consciousness
 * Mohamed Harbi (born 1933), Algeria
 * Antoinette Harrell (born 1960), post-slavery peonage of African-American sharecroppers
 * Dick Harrison (born 1966), Swedish and Medieval
 * Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual
 * Max Hastings (born 1945), military, WWII
 * John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime
 * Ragnhild Hatton (1913–1995), 17th–18th-century European international
 * Georges Haupt (1928–1978), Romania, Hungary, political history, labor history, history of literature
 * Denys Hay (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
 * John Daniel Hayes (1902–1991), US naval
 * Peter Hayes (born c. 1947), Holocaust
 * Joel Hayward (born 1964), Islamic, maritime, military
 * Ingo Heidbrink (born 1968), maritime history, history of technology
 * Michael Heinrich (born 1957), philosophy
 * Jean van Heijenoort (1912–1986), mathematical logic
 * Klaus Hentschel (born 1961), historian of science and of visual cultures
 * Ulrich Herbert (born 1951), modern Germany
 * Jeffrey Herf (born 1947), Germany, Europe
 * Arthur L. Herman (born 1956), America, Britain
 * Michael Hicks (born 1948), late medieval England
 * Raul Hilberg (1926–2007), Holocaust
 * Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941), 19th/20th-century Germany
 * Christopher Hill (1912–2003), 17th-century England
 * Andreas Hillgruber (1925–1989), 20th-century Germany
 * Richard L. Hills (1936–2019), technology
 * Rodney Hilton (1916–2002), late medieval period
 * Gertrude Himmelfarb (1922–2019), Britain
 * Harry Hinsley (1918–1998), British intelligence, World War II
 * Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946), 20th-century Germany, World War I, World War II
 * Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), labour; Marxism
 * Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (1910–1982), Africa
 * Marshall Hodgson (1922–1968), Islamic
 * Peter Hoffmann (1930–2023), National Socialism
 * Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), US political
 * David Hoggan (1923–1988), neo-Nazi
 * Hajo Holborn (1902–1969), Germany
 * Tom Holland (born 1968), Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages
 * C. Warren Hollister (1930–1997), Middle Ages
 * George Holmes (1927–2009), medieval
 * Richard Holmes (1946–2011), military
 * Ed Hooper (born 1964), Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
 * A. G. Hopkins (born 1938), Britain
 * Keith Hopkins (1934–2004), ancient
 * Michiel Horn (born 1939), Canada
 * Alistair Horne (1925–2017), modern French
 * Gerald Horne (born 1949), US history, African-American, political history, labor history
 * Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), US cultural
 * Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women
 * Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle East
 * Youssef Hourany (1931–2019), Lebanon, ancient
 * Michael Howard (1922–2019), military
 * Ray Huang (1918–2000), China
 * Robert Hughes (1938–2012), Australia, cities
 * Marnie Hughes-Warrington (born 1970), historiography, philosophy of history
 * Gershon Hundert (1946-2023), Jewish, early modern Eastern Europe
 * Andrew Hunt (born 1968), Cold War America
 * Tristram Hunt (born 1974)
 * Mark C. Hunter (born 1974), naval

I

 * Georg Iggers (1926–2017), Germany, Historiography
 * Halil Inalcik (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire
 * Kiyoshi Inoue (1913–2001), Japan
 * Jonathan Israel (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry

J

 * Eberhard Jäckel (1929–2017), Nazi Germany
 * John Archibald Getty (born 1950)
 * Julian T. Jackson (born 1954), French
 * C. L. R. James (1862–1935), Trinidad/England
 * Harold James (born 1956), modern Germany
 * Nikoloz Janashia (1931–1982), Georgia and Caucasus
 * Simon Janashia (1900–1947), Georgia and Caucasus
 * Marius Jansen (1922–2000), Japan
 * Pawel Jasienica (1909–1970), Poland
 * Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones (born 1942), US intelligence
 * Merrill Jensen (1905–1980), American Revolution
 * Richard J. Jensen (born 1941), America
 * Julio César Jobet (1912–1980), Chile
 * Khasnor Johan (living), Malaysian historian
 * Paul Johnson (1928–2023), Britain, Western civilization
 * Robert Erwin Johnson (1923–2008), US naval
 * Mauno Jokipii (1924–2007), Finnish, World War II
 * A. H. M. Jones (1904–1970), later Roman Empire
 * George Hilton Jones III (1924–2008), England
 * Gwyn Jones (1907–1999), medieval
 * Loe de Jong (1914–2005), Netherlands
 * Tony Judt (1948–2010), 20th-century European, postwar

K

 * Donald Kagan (1932–2021), ancient Greek
 * Michel Kaplan (born 1946), French Byzantinist
 * Efraim Karsh (born 1953), Israel
 * David S. Katz (born 1953), early modern England
 * Alex J. Kay (born 1979), Nazi Germany
 * Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East
 * Rod Kedward (1937–2023), 20th-century France
 * John Keegan (1934–2012), military
 * Robin Kelley (born 1962), US history, African-American, political history
 * John H. Kemble (1912–1990), US maritime
 * Paul Murray Kendall (1911–1973), late Middle Ages
 * Elizabeth Topham Kennan (born 1938), medieval
 * George F. Kennan (1904–2005), US–Soviet relations
 * James Kennedy (born 1963), Netherlands
 * Paul Kennedy (born 1945), world, military
 * W. Hudson Kensel (1928–2014), western America
 * Ian Kershaw (born 1943), Nazi Germany, Hitler
 * Daniel J. Kevles (born 1939), science
 * Rashid Khalidi (born 1948), Palestine
 * Khan Roshan Khan (1914–1988), Pakistan
 * Khoo Kay Kim (1937–2019), Malaysia
 * Kim Jung-bae (born 1940), Korea
 * Michael King (1945–2004), New Zealand
 * Patrick Kinross (1904–1976), Ottoman Empire
 * Henry Kissinger (born 1923), 19th-century Europe; late 20th-century
 * Martin Kitchen (born 1936), modern Europe
 * Simon Kitson (born c. 1967), Vichy France
 * Klemens von Klemperer (1916–2012), Germany
 * Oleg Khlevniuk (born 1959), Soviet Union
 * Matti Klinge (1936–2023), Finnish
 * Felix Klos (born 1992), American/Dutch, Modern European
 * R.J.B. Knight (born 1944), British naval
 * Yuri Knorozov (1922–1999), historical linguist
 * Frank Kofsky (1935–1997), jazz
 * Eberhard Kolb (born 1933), German
 * Gabriel Kolko (1932–2014), US
 * Claudia Koonz (born 1940), Nazi Germany
 * Andrey Korotayev (born 1961), economic, Near East, Islamic and pre-Islamic
 * Ernst Kossmann (1922–2003), Low Countries
 * Conor Kostick (born 1964), medieval
 * Stephen Kotkin (born 1959), Russia, Soviet Union
 * Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China
 * Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science
 * Myoma Myint Kywe (1960–2021), Burmese writer and historian

L

 * Dubravko Lovrenović (1956-2017) Bosnian and Yugoslav historian
 * Benjamin Woods Labaree (1927–2021), US colonial and maritime
 * Leopold Labedz (1920–1993), Soviet
 * Walter LaFeber (1933–2021), diplomatic, Cold War
 * Brij Lal (1952–2021), Fiji
 * K. S. Lal (1920–2002), Medieval India
 * Đinh Xuân Lâm (1925–2017), Vietnam
 * Andrew Lambert (born 1956), British naval
 * Peter Lampe (born 1954), Hellenistic and late antiquity
 * Ricardo Lancaster-Jones y Verea (1905–1983), haciendas in Western Mexico
 * Dieter Langewiesche (born 1943), 19th–20th century, nationalism and liberalism
 * Abdallah Laroui (born 1933), Maghreb
 * David Lavender (1910–2003), American West
 * Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014), medieval
 * Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1929–2023), French
 * Daniel Leab (1936–2016), 20th century
 * Robert Leckie (1920–2001), US military
 * Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976), intellectual and cultural history
 * Lee Ki-baek (1924–2004), Korean
 * William Leuchtenburg (born 1922), US political and legal
 * Barbara Levick (born 1931), Roman emperors
 * Moshe Lewin (1921–2010), Russia, Soviet Union
 * Bernard Lewis (1916–2018), Oriental studies
 * David Levering Lewis (born 1936), African American, Harlem Renaissance
 * Li Minqi (born 1969), Chinese, social history, political history
 * Li Ao (1935–2018), Chinese
 * Marcel Liebman (1929–1986), Marxism
 * Peter Linebaugh (born 1942), Atlantic, British history, Irish history, labor history
 * Leon F. Litwack (1929–2021), America, African-American
 * Xinru Liu (born 1951), Ancient Indian and Chinese
 * Mario Liverani (born 1939), ancient Middle East
 * David Loades (1934–2016), Tudor England
 * Roger Lockyer (1927–2017), Stuart England
 * James W. Loewen (1942–2021), America
 * Elizabeth Longford (1906–2002), Victorian England
 * Erik Lönnroth (1910–2002), Scandinavia
 * Walter Lord (1917–2002), America
 * Domenico Losurdo (1941–2018), political history
 * John Lukacs (1924–2019), modern Europe

M

 * Joseph A. McCartin (born 1959), American labor
 * Charles B. MacDonald (1922–1990), World War II
 * Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021), Australia
 * Piers Mackesy (1924–2014), British military
 * Margaret MacMillan (born 1943), 20th-century international relations
 * William Miller Macmillan (1885–1974), liberal South African historiography
 * Ramsay MacMullen (1928–2022), Roman
 * Heidrun E. Mader (born 1977), 2nd cent BCE – 2nd cent CE
 * Magnus Magnusson (1929–2007), Norse
 * Charles S. Maier (born 1939), 20th-century Europe
 * Paul L. Maier (born 1930), ancient history
 * Pauline Maier (1938–2013), early America
 * Leonid Makhnovets (1919–1993), Ukrainian literature
 * Leonard Maltin (born 1950), film
 * William Manchester (1922–2004), Churchill
 * Golo Mann (1909–1994), general
 * Susan Mann (born 1941), Canadian
 * Susan L. Mann (born 1943), history of China and women
 * Adel Manna (born 1947), Palestine in Ottoman period
 * María Emma Mannarelli (born 1954), social
 * Philip Mansel (born 1951), France, Ottoman Empire
 * Manning Marable (1950–2011), African-American, political history
 * Arthur Marder (1910–1980), British naval
 * Ruy Mauro Marini (1932–1997), Latin America and economic history
 * Michael Marrus (1941–2022), French and Jewish
 * Rev. F. X. Martin (1922–2000), Irish medievalist and campaigner
 * Henri-Jean Martin (1924–2007), the Book
 * Luis Martínez-Fernández (born 1960), Cuba, the Caribbean
 * Laurence Marvin (living), US, French medievalist
 * Ezequiel González Mas (1919–2007), Spanish literature
 * Timothy Mason (1940–1990), Nazi Germany
 * Garrett Mattingly (1900–1962), early modern Europe
 * Ernest R. May (1928–2009), 20th-century warfare and international relations
 * Richard J. Maybury (born 1946), America, World War I, World War II, Middle East
 * Arno J. Mayer (1926–2023), World War I and Europe
 * Mark Mazower (born 1958), Balkans, Greece
 * Santo Mazzarino (1916–1987), Ancient Rome
 * David McCullough (1933–2022), US
 * Forrest McDonald (1927–2016), early national America, presidency, business
 * K. B. McFarlane (1903–1966), English medievalist
 * William S. McFeely (1930–2019), American Civil War
 * Randall H. McGuire (born 1951), archaeology
 * Maurie McInnis (born 1966), Antebellum art and politics
 * W. David McIntyre (1932–2022), Commonwealth, New Zealand
 * Neil McKendrick (born 1935), modern economic and social history
 * Ross McKibbin (born 1942), 20th-century Britain
 * Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949), medieval
 * William McNeill (1917–2016), world
 * James M. McPherson (born 1936), American Civil War
 * Jon Meacham (born 1969), US presidency
 * D. W. Meinig (1924–2020), US geography
 * Giorgi Melikishvili (1918–2002), Georgia, Caucasus, Middle East
 * Evaldo Cabral de Mello (born 1936), Dutch Brazil
 * Russell Menard (living), colonial American
 * Thomas C. Mendenhall (1910–1998), history of sport
 * Josef W. Meri (born 1969), Islamic world, Jews
 * John M. Merriman(1946–2022), France
 * Barbara Metcalf (born 1941), India
 * Roin Metreveli (born 1939), Georgia and Caucasus
 * Rade Mihaljčić (1937–2020), medieval Serbia
 * Perry Miller (1905–1963), US intellectual
 * Giles Milton (born 1966), exploration
 * Zora Mintalová – Zubercová (born 1950), food history and material culture of Central Europe
 * Steven Mintz (born 1953), US family
 * Yagutil Mishiev (born 1927), Derbent, Dagestan, Russia
 * Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), Germany
 * Wolfgang Mommsen (1930–2004), Britain, Germany
 * Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) general
 * Simon Sebag Montefiore (born 1965), Russia, Middle East
 * Theodore William Moody (1907–1984), Ireland
 * Harri Moora (1900–1968), Estonian archaeology
 * Edmund Morgan (1916–2013), American colonial and Revolution
 * Kenneth O. Morgan (born 1934), British politics, Wales
 * William J. Morgan (1917–2003), US naval
 * Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), US colonial and naval
 * Benny Morris (born 1948), Middle East
 * Ian Mortimer (born 1967), Middle Ages
 * W.L. Morton (1908–1980), Canada
 * George Mosse (1918–1999), German, Jewish, fascist, sexual
 * Roland Mousnier (1907–1993), early modern France
 * Mubarak Ali (born 1941), Pakistan
 * Robert K. Murray (1922–2019), 20th century US
 * David Muskhelishvili (born 1928), Georgia

N

 * J. Milton Nance (1913–1997), American writer on the history of Texas
 * Hernán Ramírez Necochea (1917–1979), Chile
 * Joseph Needham (1900–1995), Chinese science and technology
 * Mark E. Neely Jr. (born 1944), American Civil War
 * Malcolm Neesam (1946–2022), history of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
 * Cynthia Neville (living), late medieval, Scotland and England, Gaelic culture
 * Thomas Nipperdey (1927–1992), 19th c. German history
 * Ernst Nolte (1923–2016), German, fascism and communism

O

 * Josiah Ober (living), ancient Greece
 * Heiko Oberman (1930–2001), Reformation
 * Ambeth Ocampo (born 1961), Philippines
 * Tom O'Lincoln, (1947–2023), Australia
 * W. H. Oliver (1925–2015), New Zealand
 * Robin O'Neil (living), Holocaust
 * Melanie Oppenheimer (living), Australia
 * Vincent Orange (1935–2012), military, World War II, aviation
 * Michael Oren (born 1955), modern Middle East
 * Margaret Ormsby (1909–1996), Canada
 * İlber Ortaylı (born 1947), Turkey
 * Fernand Ouellet (1926–2021), French Canada
 * Richard Overy (born 1947), World War II
 * Steven Ozment (1939–2019), Germany

P

 * George Padmore (1903–1959), Africa
 * Thomas Pakenham (born 1933), Africa
 * Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), Russia and Europe
 * Ilan Pappé (born 1954), Israel
 * Michael Parenti, (born 1933), US history, Ancient
 * Peter Paret (1924–2020), military
 * Geoffrey Parker (born 1943), early modern military
 * Simo Parpola (born 1943), ancient Middle East
 * J. H. Parry (1914–1982), maritime
 * T. T. Paterson (1909–1994), archaeologist and sociologist
 * Fred Patten (1940–2018), science fiction
 * Stanley G. Payne (born 1934), Spain, fascism
 * Abel Paz (1921–2009), Spanish anarchist
 * Brian Pearce (1915–2008),
 * William Armstrong Percy (1933–2022), Medieval Europe and ancient Greek and Roman, homosexuality
 * Bradford Perkins (1925–2008), US diplomatic
 * Detlev Peukert (1950–1990), everyday life in Weimar and Nazi eras
 * John Edward Philips (born 1952), Africa
 * Đặng Phong (1937–2010), Vietnam, economic history
 * Liza Picard (1927–2022), London
 * William B. Pickett (born 1940), US history, Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * David Pietrusza (born 1949), US
 * Boris B. Piotrovsky (1908–1990), Urartu, Scythia
 * Richard Pipes (1923–2018), Russian and Soviet
 * J.H. Plumb (1911–2001), 18th-century Britain
 * J. G. A. Pocock (1924–2023), early modern intellectual
 * Boris Ponomarev, (1905–1995), Soviet history
 * Kwok Kin Poon (born 1949), Chinese Southern and Northern dynasties
 * Barbara Corrado Pope (born 1941), America, Belle Époque, women's studies
 * Boris Porshnev, (1905–1972), France
 * Roy Porter (1946–2002), medicine, British social and cultural
 * Moishe Postone (1942–2018), social history, political history, economic history and intellectual history
 * Norman Pounds (1912–2006), geography and England
 * Caio Prado Júnior (1907–1990), Brazil
 * Gordon W. Prange (1910–1980), World War II Pacific
 * Vijay Prashad (born 1967), India, cultural history, political history
 * Joshua Prawer (1917–1990), Crusades
 * Jean-Claude Pressac (1944–2003), Holocaust
 * Michael Prestwich (born 1943), medieval England
 * Clement Alexander Price (1945–2014), America
 * Francis Paul Prucha (1921–2015), American Indians
 * Janko Prunk (born 1942), Slovenia
 * Alenka Puhar (born 1945), Slovenia

Q

 * Carroll Quigley (1910–1977), classical, western history, theorist of civilizations

R

 * Marc Raeff (1923–2008), Russian Empire
 * Alexander Rabinowitch (born 1934), Russia
 * Werner Rahn (1939–2022), German naval
 * Jack N. Rakove (born 1947), U.S. Constitution and early politics
 * Šerbo Rastoder (born 1956), Montenegrin
 * George Rawick (1929–1990), US history, slavery
 * Marcus Rediker (born 1951), Piracy and the Middle Passage
 * Robert V. Remini (1921–2013), Jacksonian U.S.
 * René Rémond (1918–2007), French politics
 * Francesco Renda, (1922–2013), Sicily
 * Timothy Reuter (1947–2002), Medieval Germany
 * Ofelia Rey Castelao (born 1956), Spanish Galician women
 * Henry A. Reynolds (born 1938), Australia
 * Susan Reynolds (1929–2021), medieval
 * Richard Rhodes (born 1937), World War II, hydrogen bomb
 * Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011), Russia
 * Darcy Ribeiro (1922–1997), Brazil
 * Jonathan Riley-Smith (1938–2016), Crusades
 * Blaze Ristovski (1931–2018), Macedonia
 * Charles Ritcheson (1925–2011), Anglo-US relations 1775–1815
 * Gerhard A. Ritter (1929–2015), Germany
 * Andrew Roberts (born 1963), Britain
 * Geoffrey Roberts (born 1952), World War II, Soviet Union
 * J. M. Roberts (1928–2003), Europe
 * Nicholas A. M. Rodger (born 1949), British naval
 * William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), ancient naval
 * Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004), oriental studies
 * Walter Rodney (1942–1980), Guyana
 * David Roediger (born 1952), political history, labor history, slavery
 * Vadim Rogovin (1937–1998), Soviet Union, Trotskyism
 * Theodore Ropp (1911–2000), military
 * W. J. Rorabaugh (1945–2020), 19th and 20th-century US
 * Ron Rosenbaum (born 1946), Hitler
 * Charles E. Rosenberg (born 1936), medicine and science
 * Stephen Roskill (1903–1982), British naval
 * Maarten van Rossem (born 1943), 20th-century US
 * María Rostworowski (1915–2016), Peruvian
 * Constance Rover (1910–2005), feminism
 * Sheila Rowbotham (born 1943), feminism, socialism
 * Herbert H. Rowen (1916–1999), Netherlands
 * A. L. Rowse (1903–1997), English
 * Maximilien Rubel (1905–1996), political history
 * Miri Rubin (born 1956), social, Europe 1100–1600
 * George Rudé (1910–1993), French revolution
 * Robert W. Thurston (born 1949)
 * R. J. Rummel (1932–2014), genocide
 * Steven Runciman (1903–2000), Crusades
 * Leila J. Rupp (born 1950), feminist
 * Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell (1937–2004), 17th-century Britain
 * Cornelius Ryan (1920–1974), World War II, popular
 * Boris Rybakov (1908–2001), Soviet

S

 * Tatshat Sahakyan (1916–1999), Armenia
 * Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonia
 * Andrey Sakharov (1930–2019), Russia
 * Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974), recent Britain and America
 * Usha Sanyal (living), Asian, Islam, Sufism
 * S. Srikanta Sastri (1904–1974), Indian
 * Waltraut Schälike, (1927–2021), philosophical history
 * Simon Schama (born 1945), British, Dutch, US, French
 * Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
 * Rene Schmerling (1901–1967), Georgian art
 * Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), Middle Ages
 * David Schoenbaum (born 1935), modern German and US–Israeli relations
 * Carl Emil Schorske (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
 * Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020), European diplomacy
 * D. M. Schurman (1924–2013), British imperial and naval
 * Marjan Schwegman (living), Dutch
 * Karl Schweizer (living), 18th-century European
 * Dorothy Schwieder, (1933–2014), Iowa
 * Joan Scott (born 1941), feminism
 * William Henry Scott (1921–1993), Philippines
 * Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983), ancient
 * Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinamese historian and former prime minister
 * Tom Segev (born 1945), Israeli
 * Lorelle D. Semley (born 1969), US historian of Africa
 * Robert Service (born 1947), Soviet, Russian
 * Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976), Rajasthan
 * Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011), ancient India
 * Helena Sheehan (born 1944), political history
 * James J. Sheehan (born 1937), modern Germany
 * Michael S. Sherry (born 1945), 20c American military; LGBTQ
 * William L. Shirer (1904–1993), 20c Europe, Third Reich
 * Avi Shlaim (born 1945), Israel and the Middle East
 * He Shu (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution
 * Dhimitër Shuteriqi (1915–2003), Albanian literature
 * Arkady Sidorov, (1900–1966), Russia
 * Jack Simmons (1915–2000), English historian, railway history
 * Keith Sinclair (1922–1993), New Zealand
 * Helene J. Sinnreich (born 1975), Holocaust
 * Nathan Sivin (1931–2022), China
 * Quentin Skinner (born 1940), early modern Britain
 * Alexandre Skirda (1942–2020), Russia
 * Theda Skocpol (born 1947), institutions and comparative method; sociological
 * Morris Slavin (1913–2006), French Revolution
 * Richard Slotkin (born 1942), US environment and West
 * Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004), military history, American Old West
 * Digby Smith (1935–2024), military
 * Henry Nash Smith (1906–1986), US cultural
 * Jean Edward Smith (1932–2019), US foreign policy, constitutional law, biography
 * Page Smith (1917–1995), U.S.
 * Richard Norton Smith (born 1953), US presidential
 * T. C. Smout (born 1933), Scottish environmental and social
 * John Smolenski, (born 1973), American colonial period
 * Louis Leo Snyder (1907–1993), German nationalism
 * Timothy D. Snyder (born 1969), Eastern Europe
 * Albert Soboul (1913–1982), French revolution
 * Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian Gulag
 * Pat Southern (born 1948), ancient Rome
 * R. W. Southern (1912–2001), medieval
 * E. Lee Spence (born 1947), shipwrecks
 * Jonathan Spence (1936–2021), China
 * Jonathan Sperber (born 1952), US historian of Europe.
 * Jackson J. Spielvogel (born 1939), world
 * Kenneth Stampp (1912–2009), U.S. South, slavery
 * George Stanley (1907–2002), Canada
 * David Starkey (born 1945), Tudor
 * Leften Stavros Stavrianos (1913—2004), world
 * James M. Stayer (born 1935), German Reformation
 * Valerie Steele (born 1955), fashion
 * Jonathan Steinberg (1934–2021), US historian of Germany
 * Jean Stengers (1922–2002), Belgian
 * Fritz Stern (1926–2016), Germany and Jewish
 * Zeev Sternhell (1935–2020), fascism
 * William N. Still, Jr. (1932–2022), US naval
 * Dan Stone (living), recent Europe
 * Lawrence Stone (1919–1999), early modern British social, economic and family
 * Norman Stone (1941–2019), military
 * Hew Strachan (born 1949), military
 * Barry S. Strauss (born 1953), ancient military
 * Michael Stürmer (born 1938), modern German
 * Ronald Suleski (born 1942), China
 * Ronald Grigor Suny (born 1940), Soviet Union, Armenia, Russia
 * Jean Suret-Canale, (1921–2007), Africa
 * Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), Soviet Union
 * Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient
 * David Syrett (1939–2004), British naval

T

 * Manfredo Tafuri (1935–1994), architecture
 * Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
 * J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
 * Ali Tandilava (1913–1985), Laz people
 * Alexander Tarasov, (born 1958), politics and society
 * Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
 * A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
 * Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
 * Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
 * Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
 * Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
 * Françoise Thébaud (born 1952), history of women
 * Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), US ethnic
 * Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
 * Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
 * Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
 * Keith Thomas (born 1933), early modern Britain, culture
 * E. A. Thompson (1914–1995), Ancient, medieval
 * E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
 * Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, World War I Italy
 * Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963), Viking Age, Middle Ages
 * Charles Tilly (1929–2008), Modern Europe; politics and society
 * Louise A. Tilly (1930–2018), modern Europe; women, family
 * John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
 * K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
 * Adam Tooze (1967), economic history
 * Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
 * Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
 * Enzo Traverso, (born 1957), Holocaust, totalitarianism, historiography
 * Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
 * Petro Tronko (1915–2011), Ukrainian history
 * Gil Troy (born 1961), modern US, the Presidency
 * Marcel Trudel (1917–2011), New France, slavery in Canada
 * Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military
 * Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin
 * Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics
 * Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German
 * Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China
 * David Tyack (1930–2016), US education

U

 * Walter Ullmann (1910–1983), medieval
 * Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938), early America
 * David Underdown (1925–2009), 17th-century England
 * Mladen Urem (born 1964), Croatian literary
 * Robert M. Utley (1929–2022), 19th-century US West

V

 * Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China
 * Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), US Civil War
 * Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgium, Africa
 * Horpyna Vatchenko (1923–2004), Ukraine
 * Andrekos Varnava (born 1979), Australia, modern history
 * Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), France, ancient Greece
 * Paul Veyne (1930–2022), France, ancient Greece and Rome
 * César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spain
 * Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), France, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
 * Pierre Vilar, (1906–2003), Catalonia
 * Richard Vinen (born 1963), Britain
 * Lynne Viola (born 1955), Soviet Union
 * Jaime Vicens Vives (1910–1960), Spain
 * Lise Vogel (born 1938), Art history

W

 * John Waiko (born 1944), Papua New Guinea
 * J. Samuel Walker (living), nuclear energy and weapons
 * Immanuel Wallerstein (1930–2019), world-systems theory
 * Retha Warnicke (born 1939), Tudor and gender issues
 * Peter Watson (born 1943), intellectual history
 * Eugen Weber (1925–2007), modern French
 * Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910–1997), 16th and 17th-century Europe
 * Hans-Ulrich Wehler (1931–2014), 19th-century German social
 * Russell Weigley (1930–2004), military
 * Gerhard Weinberg (born 1928), Germany, World War II
 * Roberto Weiss (1906–1969), Renaissance
 * Emma J. Wells (born 1986), church history
 * Frank Welsh (1931–2023), British imperial
 * Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (1901–1979), Germany, US history, Ancient Greece
 * Christopher Whatley (living), Scotland
 * John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), Germany
 * John Whyte (1928–1990), Northern Ireland, divided societies
 * Christopher Wickham (born 1950), medieval
 * Robert H. Wiebe (1930–2000), American business and society
 * Toby Wilkinson (born 1969), ancient Egypt
 * Eric Williams (1911–1981), Guiana, Caribbean
 * Glanmor Williams (1920–2005), Wales
 * Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022), exploration
 * William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), US diplomacy
 * John Willingham (born 1946), Texas
 * Andrew Wilson (born 1961), Ukraine
 * Clyde N. Wilson (born 1941), 19th-century US South
 * Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious
 * Keith Windschuttle (born 1942), Australia; historiography
 * Henry Winkler (born 1938), German
 * Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
 * John B. Wolf (1907–1996), French
 * Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947), German Jewish
 * Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), medieval
 * John Womack (born 1937), Latin American history, Mexico history
 * Gordon S. Wood (born 1933), American Revolution
 * Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942–2016), Marxist political and economic history
 * Michael Wood (born 1948), England
 * C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American South
 * Daniel Woolf (born 1958), Britain, historiography
 * Lucy Worsley (born 1973), Britain
 * Gordon Wright (1912–2000), modern France
 * Lawrence C. Wroth (1884–1970), US printing

Y

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

Z

 * Gregorio F. Zaide (1907–1986), Philippines
 * Adam Zamoyski (born 1949), Napoleonic era
 * Anna Żarnowska (1931–2007), Polish historian
 * Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947), German
 * Yuri Zhukov (1938–2023), Soviet
 * Howard Zinn (1922–2010), US
 * Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), German
 * Vladislav M. Zubok (born 1958), Cold War
 * Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961), Poland, Kraków