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.[1]
Antiquity
Greco-Roman world
Classical period
- Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories, which established Western historiography
 - Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponnesian War
 - Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates
 - Ctesias (early 4th century BCE), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history
 
Hellenistic period
- Ephorus of Cyme (c. 400–330 BCE), Greek history
 - Theopompus (c. 380 – c. 315 BCE), Greek history
 - Eudemus of Rhodes (c. 370 – c. 300 BCE), Greek historian of science
 - Ptolemy I Soter (367 – c. 283 BCE), general of Alexander the Great, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty
 - Duris of Samos (c. 350 – post-281 BCE), Greek history
 - Berossus (early 3rd century BCE), Babylonian historian
 - Timaeus of Tauromenium (c. 345 BCE – c. 250 BCE), Greek history
 - Manetho (3rd century BCE), Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos (ancient Egyptian: Tjebnutjer) living in the Ptolemaic era
 - Quintus Fabius Pictor (born c. 254 BCE), Roman history
 - Artapanus of Alexandria (late 3rd – early 2nd centuries BCE), Jewish historian of Ptolemaic Egypt
 - Cato the Elder (234–149 BCE), Roman statesman and historian, author of the Origines
 - Cincius Alimentus (late 2nd century BCE), Roman history
 - Gaius Acilius (fl. 155 BCE), Roman history
 - Agatharchides (fl. mid–2nd century BCE), Greek history
 - Polybius (203 – c. 120 BCE), early Roman history (in Greek)
 - Sempronius Asellio (c. 158 – post-91 BCE), early Roman history
 - Valerius Antias (1st century BCE), Roman history
 - Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (1st century BCE), Roman history
 - Diodorus of Sicily (1st century BCE), Greek history
 - Posidonius (c. 135 – 51 BCE), Greek and Roman history
 - Theophanes of Mytilene (fl. mid 1st-century BCE), Roman history
 
Roman Empire
- Julius Caesar (100 – c. 44 BCE), Gallic and civil wars
 - Sallust (86–34 BCE), Roman history
 - Dionysius of Halicarnassus (c. 60 – post-7 BCE), Roman history
 - Livy (c. 59 BCE – c. 17 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. 46–120), 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 – post-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 (441/443–510/515), 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 Zuo zhuan, history of Spring and Autumn period
 - Sima Tan (司馬談, 165–110 BCE), historian and father of Sima Qian, who completed his Records of the Grand Historian
 - Sima Qian (司馬遷, c. 145 – c. 86 BCE), founder of Chinese historiography, compiled Records of the Grand Historian (though preceded by Book of Documents and Zuo zhuan)
 - Liu Xiang (劉向, 77–76 BCE) (Chinese Han dynasty), Chinese history
 - Ban Biao (班彪, CE 3–54) (Chinese Han dynasty), the Book of Han, completed by son and daughter
 - Ban Gu (班固, CE 32–92) (Chinese Han dynasty), Chinese history
 - Ban Zhao (班昭, CE 45–116) (Chinese Han dynasty, China's first female historian)
 - Chen Shou (陈寿, 233–297) (Chinese Jin dynasty) compiled Records of the Three kingdoms
 - Faxian (法顯, c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese Buddhist monk and historian
 - Fan Ye (范曄, 398–445), Chinese history, compiled the Book of Later Han
 - Shen Yue (沈約, 441–513), Chinese history of the Liu Song dynasty (420–479)
 
Middle Ages
Byzantine sphere
- Procopius (c. 500 – c. 565), writings on reigns of Justinian and Theodora
 - Constantine of Preslav (late 9th – early 10th c.), Bulgarian historian
 - Nestor the Chronicler (c. 1056 – c. 1114, in Kiev), author of the Primary Chronicle
 - Anna Komnene (1083–1153), Byzantine princess
 - Joannes Zonaras (12th c.), Byzantine chronicler
 - Nicetas Choniates (died c. 1220)
 - Domentijan (1210–1264), Serbian monk and chronicler
 
Latin sphere
Early Middle Ages
- Gregory of Tours (538–594), A History of the Franks
 - Baudovinia (fl. c. 600), Frankish nun who wrote a biography of Radegund
 - Cogitosus (fl. c. 650), Irish historian
 - Tírechán (fl. c. 655), Irish biographer of Saint Patrick
 - Muirchu moccu Machtheni (7th c.), Irish historian
 - Adamnan (625–704), Irish historian
 - Bede (c. 672–735), Anglo-Saxon England
 - Paul the Deacon (8th c.), Langobards
 - Einhard (9th c.), biographer of Charlemagne
 - Nennius (c. 9th c.), Wales
 - Notker of St Gall (9th c.), anecdotal biography of Charlemagne
 - Martianus Hiberniensis (819–875), Irish teacher and historian
 - Asser, Bishop of Sherborne (died 908/909), Welsh historian
 - Regino of Prüm (died 915)
 
High Middle Ages
10th century
- Widukind of Corvey (925–973), Ottonian chronicler
 - Liutprand of Cremona (922–972), Byzantine affairs
 - Heriger of Lobbes (925–1007), theologian and historian
 - Richerus (fl. 10th century), French monk and historian
 
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
In alphabetical order:
- 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 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
 
Far East
- Fang Xuanling (房玄齡, 579–648, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the Book of Jin.
 - Yao Silian (姚思廉, died 637, Chinese Tang dynasty) compiled the Book of Liang and Book of Chen.
 - Wei Zheng (魏徵, 580–643), Chinese historian and lead editor of the Book of Sui
 - Liu Zhiji (劉知幾, 661–721), Chinese history, author of Shitong, the first Chinese work on Chinese historiography and methods
 - Ō no Yasumaro (太安万侶, died 723), Japanese chronicler and editor of Kojiki and Nihon Shoki
 - Liu Xu (劉昫,888–947), Chinese historian and lead editor of Old Book of Tang
 - Li Fang (李昉, 925–996), Chinese editor of Four Great Books of Song
 - Song Qi (宋祁, 998–1061), Chinese historian and co-author of New Book of Tang
 - Ouyang Xiu (歐陽脩, 1007–1072), Chinese historian and co-author of New Book of Tang
 - Sima Guang (司馬光, 1019–1086), Chinese historiographer and politician
 - Kim Bu-sik (김부식, 1075–1151), Korean historian, author of Samguk Sagi
 - Il-yeon (일연, 1206–1289), Korean historian, author of Samguk Yusa
 - Lê Văn Hưu (黎文休, 1230–1322), Vietnamese history
 - Toqto'a (脫脫, 1314–1356) (Chinese Yuan dynasty), Mongol historian who compiled History of Song
 - Song Lian (宋濂, 1310–1381) (Chinese Ming dynasty), wrote History of Yuan
 - Zhu Quan (朱權, 1378–1448), Chinese history
 
India
- Kalhana (c. 12th century), historian of Kashmir and Indian Subcontinent
 - Hemachandra (12th century), Jain polymath
 - Abdul Malik Isami (14th century), Indian historian and poet
 - Jonaraja (15th century) Kashmiri historian and Sanskrit poet
 - Padmanābha (15th century), Indian poet and historian
 - Yahya bin Ahmad Sirhindi (15th century), Delhi Sultanate
 
Renaissance to early modern
Renaissance Europe
- Western historians during the Italian Renaissance or Northern Renaissance; those born post-1600 listed under "early modern"
 
- Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), humanist historian
 - Flavio Biondo (1392–1463), humanist historian
 - Philippe de Commines (1447–1511), French historian
 - Robert Fabyan (died 1513), London alderman and chronicler
 - Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), author of Florentine Histories
 - Hector Boece (1465–1536), Scottish philosopher and historian, author of Historia Gentis Scotorum
 - Albert Krantz (1450–1517), German historian
 - Polydore Vergil (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
 - Stephanus Brodericus (1480–1539), Croatian Hungarian bishop. Stephani Broderici narratio de praelio quo ad Mohatzium anno 1526 Ludovicus Hungariae rex periit(De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohacz verissima historia)
 - Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540), historian of the Italian Wars, "Storia d'Italia"
 - Paolo Giovio (1486–1552), historian of the Italian Wars and the Renaissance Papacy, Historiae
 - Paolo Sarpi (1552–1623), historian of the Council of Trent
 - Olaus Magnus (c. 1490–1570), Swedish ecclesiastic
 - Kaspar Helth (1490–1574), Transylvanian Saxon historian and Protestant preacher.[2]
 - Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), Hungarian/Wallachian chronicler.[3] 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[4]
 - 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[5]
 - 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[6]
 - 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
 
Far East
- Qian Qianyi (銭謙益, 1582–1664, late Chinese Ming dynasty)
 - Zhang Tingyu (張廷玉, 1672–1755, Chinese Qing dynasty) compiled the History of Ming.
 - Qian Daxin (錢大昕, 1728–1804, Chinese Qing dynasty)
 - Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng (章學誠, 1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
 - Yu Deuk-gong (유득공, 1749–1807), Korean historian
 
Modern historians
Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770
In alphabetical order:
- 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[7] and US literature[8]
 - Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1776–1831), German historian
 - František Palacký (1798–1876), Czech
 - William H. Prescott (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
 - Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), European diplomacy; influential German historian
 - Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
 - George Tucker (1775–1861), US history
 
Historians born in the 19th century
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
- Jacques Bainville (1879–1936), France
 - George Bancroft (1800–1891), US to 1789
 - Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), Native Americans and the Western United States
 - R. Mildred Barker (1897–1990), Shakers, religion
 - Harry Elmer Barnes (1889–1968), World War I; ideas
 - Wilhelm Barthold (1869–1930), Muslim and Turkic studies
 - Charles Bean (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
 - Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), US, economic interpretation, historiography
 - Mary Ritter Beard (1876–1958), US, women's history
 - Carl L. Becker (1873–1945), Enlightenment
 - Winthrop Pickard Bell (1884–1965), Nova Scotia
 - Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), Europe
 - Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), Massachusetts, U.S.
 - Isabella Margaret Elizabeth Blandin (1838-1912), U.S.
 - Marc Bloch (1886–1944), medieval France; Annales School
 - Herbert Eugene Bolton (1870–1953), Spanish-US borderlands
 - Erich Brandenburg (1868–1946), Modern Germany
 - George Williams Brown (1894–1963), Canada
 - Otto Brunner (1898–1982), medieval and early modern Austria
 - Geoffrey Bruun (1899–1988), Europe
 - Arthur Bryant (1888–1985), Pepys; English warfare
 - James Bryce, (1838–1922), Europe, America, Middle East
 - Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), England, History of Civilization
 - Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art history, Europe, Renaissance
 - John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
 - J. B. Bury (1861–1927), classical, Europe
 
C
- Helen Cam (1885–1968), English medieval
 - Pierre Caron (1875–1952), French revolution
 - E. H. Carr (1892–1982), Soviet history, methodology
 - Henri Raymond Casgrain (1831–1904), French Canada
 - Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (1828–1897), Spanish historian
 - Américo Castro (1885–1972), Spanish identity
 - Bruce Catton (1899–1978), American Civil War
 - Cesar de Bazancourt (1810–1865), Crimean War
 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999), India
 - Boris Chicherin (1828–1904), Russian historian, history of Russian law
 - Hiram M. Chittenden (1858–1917), US West, fur trade
 - Winston Churchill (1874–1965), world wars, British Empire
 - Augustin Cochin (1876–1916), French Revolution
 - Stephen F. Cohen (1938–2020), Russia
 - R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943), philosophy of history
 - Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), historian and interdisciplinarian
 - Julian Corbett (1854–1922), British naval
 - Vladimir Ćorović (1885–1941), Serbia
 - Avery Craven (1885–1980), US South
 - Edward Shepherd Creasy (1812–1878), warfare
 - Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), historiography
 - Margaret Campbell Speke Cruwys (1894–1968), Devon
 - John Shelton Curtiss (1899–1983), Soviet Union
 
D
- Felix Dahn (1834–1912), medieval
 - Angie Debo (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
 - Léopold Delisle (1826–1910), French historian and librarian
 - Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955), US West
 - Margarita Diez-Colunje y Pombo (1838–1919), Colombia
 - Edith Dobie (1887–1975), Great Britain
 - William Dodd (1869–1940), US South
 - David C. Douglas (1898–1982), Norman England
 - Johann Gustav Droysen (1808–1884), German history
 - Sir George Dunbar (1878–1962), India
 - Ariel Durant (1898–1981), Europe
 - Will Durant (1885–1981), Europe
 
E
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990), process of civilization
 - Ephraim Emerton (1851–1935), medieval Europe
 - Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), historical materialism
 
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), a 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
 - Lawrence Henry Gipson (1882–1970), British Empire before 1775
 - Arthur Giry (1848–1899), diplomacy
 - Gustave Glotz (1862–1935), Ancient Greece
 - George Peabody Gooch (1873–1968), modern diplomacy
 - Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937), political history
 - Timofey Granovsky (1813–1855), medieval Germany
 - Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887), Etruscan history
 - John Richard Green (1837–1883), English
 - Mary Anne Everett Green (1818–1895), English
 - Arthur Griffiths (1838–1908), military history
 - Lionel Groulx (1878–1967), Quebec
 - René Grousset (1885–1952), Oriental history
 
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
 - Mihály Horváth (1809–1878), Hungary
 - Henry Hoyle Howorth (1842–1923), British historian and geologist
 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934), Ukrainian historian
 - Johan Huizinga (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
 
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
- Samuel Kamakau (1815–1876), Hawaiian historian
 - Konstantin Kavelin (1818–1885), Russian historian, history of Russian laws
 - François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann (1802–1868), French political historian
 - Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), legal
 - Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855–1932), Manx crosses and runic inscriptions
 - Erenzhen Khara-Davan (1883–1942), Russian-Kalmyk historian
 - Alexander William Kinglake (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
 - William Kingsford (1819–1898), Canadian
 - Vasily Klyuchevsky (1841–1911), Russian history
 - David Knowles (1896–1974), English medieval
 - Lilian Knowles (1870–1926), English economic historian
 - Dudley Wright Knox (1877–1960), US naval historian
 - Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, botanist and music historian
 - Mihail Kogălniceanu (1817–1891), Romanian
 - Hans Kohn (1891–1971), European nationalism
 - Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925), Byzantine art
 - Mehmet Fuad Köprülü (1890–1966), Turkish historian
 - Mykola Kostomarov (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
 - Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921), economics, sociology and political history
 - Godefroid Kurth (1847–1916), Belgian historian
 
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
 - 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
 - Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), intellectual history
 - Arthur R. M. Lower (1889–1988), Canadian
 - György Lukács (1885–1971), history of literature, art history and philosophy of history
 
M
- Thomas Macaulay (1800–1859), British
 - R. B. McCallum (1898–1973) British
 - J. D. Mackie (1887–1978), Scottish
 - William Archibald Mackintosh (1895–1970), Canadian economic
 - Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840–1914), naval
 - Frederic William Maitland (1850–1906), English legal, medieval
 - Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (1888–1980), Indian history
 - J. A. R. Marriott (1859–1945), modern Britain and Europe
 - Karl Marx (1818–1883), European society and economy
 - Albert Mathiez (1874–1932), French Revolution
 - Franz Mehring (1846–1919), political history, history of philosophy
 - Friedrich Meinecke (1862–1954), German intellectual and cultural
 - Krste Misirkov (1874–1926), Macedonian historian and author
 - Auguste Molinier (1851–1904), Middle Ages
 - Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903), Roman Empire
 - Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), Spain
 - Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976), naval, American colonial
 - John Lothrop Motley (1814–1877), the Netherlands
 - Lewis Mumford (1895–1988), cities
 
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
 - Stojan Novaković (1842–1915), Serbian
 
O
- Charles Oman (1860–1946), 19th-century military
 - Herbert L. Osgood (1855–1918), American colonial
 
P
- K. M. Panikkar (1895–1963), Indian historian
 - Cesare Paoli (1840–1902), Italian history
 - Gaston Paris (1839–1903), Middle Ages
 - Jane Marsh Parker (1836–1913), US history
 - Francis Parkman (1823–1893), colonial North America
 - Herbert Paul (1853–1935), 19th-century UK
 - Henry Francis Pelham (1846–1907), Roman
 - Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843–1916), Pennsylvania history
 - Dexter Perkins (1889–1984), US history
 - David Pietrusza (1949–), US history
 - Ivy Pinchbeck (1898–1982), English women and children
 - Henri Pirenne (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
 - Sergey Platonov (1860–1933), Russian
 - Mikhail Pokrovsky (1868–1932), economics and Soviet history
 - Albert Pollard (1869–1948), Tudor England
 - Delia Lyman Porter (1858–1933), US history
 - Datto Vaman Potdar (1890–1979), Indian historian
 - Eileen Power (1889–1940), Middle Ages
 - F. M. Powicke (1879–1963, English medieval
 - H. F. M. Prescott (1896–1972), biographer of Mary I of England and medieval History
 
Q
- Jules Quicherat (1814–1882), Middle Ages
 
R
- William Pember Reeves (1857–1932), New Zealand
 - Pierre Renouvin (1893–1974), diplomatic historian
 - Herbert Richmond (1871–1946), British naval
 - James Riker (1822–1889), New York
 - B. H. Roberts (1857–1933), Mormon
 - James Harvey Robinson (1863–1936), European
 - James Rodway (1848–1926), British Guiana
 - Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), US west and naval history
 - John Holland Rose (1855–1942), modern Europe, Britain and France
 - Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952), ancient history
 - Hans Rothfels (1891–1976), modern German
 - Simon Rutar (1851–1903), Slovenian
 - Ilarion Ruvarac (1832–1905), Serbian
 
S
- Abram L. Sachar (1899–1993), modern European history
 - Govind Sakharam Sardesai (1865–1959), Indian
 - Salamon Ferenc (1825–1892), Ottoman Hungary
 - Richard G. Salomon (1884–1966), medieval and church
 - Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958), history of India
 - George Sarton (1884–1956), history of science
 - Gustave Schlumberger (1844–1929), French
 - Otto Seeck (1850–1921), German
 - John Robert Seeley (1834–1895), British Empire
 - J. Salwyn Schapiro (1879–1973), fascism
 - Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. (1888–1965) US social history
 - W. C. Sellar (1898–1951), co-author of 1066 and All That
 - Ekaterina Shchepkina (1854–1938), Russia
 - Shin Chaeho (신채호, 1880–1936), Korean
 - Adam Shortt (1859–1931), Canadian
 - Charlotte Fell Smith (1851–1937), English early modern
 - Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), British and Canadian
 - Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930), Mexican–American War
 - Sergey Solovyov (1820–1879), Russian historian
 - Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), world; The Decline of the West
 - Stanoje Stanojević (1874–1937), Serbia
 - Wickham Steed (1871–1956), Eastern Europe
 - Frank Stenton (1880–1967), English medieval
 - Doris Mary Stenton (1894–1971), English medieval
 - Floyd Benjamin Streeter (1888–1956), Kansas, American West
 - William Stubbs (1825–1902), English law
 - László Szalay (1813–1864) Hungarian historian
 
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
 - Mikheil Tsereteli (1878–1965), Georgian historian
 - Frederick Jackson Turner (1861–1932), US frontier
 - Renáta Tyršová (1854–1937), Czech ethnography and art history
 
U
- Frank Underhill (1889–1971), Canadian
 
V
- Alfred Vagts, (1892–1986), Germany, military
 - Paul Vinogradoff (1854–1925), medieval England
 
W
- Annie Russell Wall (1835–1920), English historian
 - Spencer Walpole (1839–1907), English historian
 - Charles Webster (1886–1961), British diplomatic history
 - Curt Weibull (1886–1991), Swedish historian
 - Lauritz Weibull (1873–1960), Swedish historian
 - Spenser Wilkinson (1853–1937), Britain, military historian
 - Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1878–1944), Latin America
 - James A. Williamson (1886–1964), Britain, maritime historian and historian of exploration
 - Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford (1882–1971), England
 - Justin Winsor (1831–1897), America, Narrative and Critical History of America
 - Carl Frederick Wittke (1892–1971), US ethnics
 - Ernest Llewellyn Woodward (1890–1971), British history and international relations
 - 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
 - Johann Kaspar Zeuss (1806–1856), Celts
 - Faddei Zielinski (1859–1944), ancient Greece
 
Historians born in the 20th century
A
- Raouf Abbas (1939–2008), Egyptian
 - Irving Abella (1940–2022), Canadian
 - Aberjhani (born 1957), African American, Harlem Renaissance, Literary
 - David Abulafia (born 1949), Mediterranean
 - Ezequiel Adamovsky (born 1971), Argentina
 - Donald Adamson (born 1939), Britain
 - Teodoro Agoncillo (1912–1985), Philippines
 - Donald Akenson (born 1941), Irish
 - Dean C. Allard (1933–2018), US naval
 - Robert C. Allen (born 1947), British economy
 - Gar Alperovitz (born 1936), America, Hiroshima
 - 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
 - Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), French, Nazi occupation of France
 - 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
- Nigel Bagnall (1927–2002), Ancient Rome, Greece
 - Bernard Bailyn (1922–2020), early America; Atlantic
 - 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
 - H. Arnold Barton (1929–2016), Scandinavia
 - Paul R. Bartrop (born 1955), Holocaust, genocide
 - Jacques Barzun (1907–2012), cultural
 - Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), Peru
 - 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
 - Robert Bickers (born 1964), modern China and colonialism
 - Anthony Birley (1937–2020), Ancient Rome
 - Yael Bitrán (b. 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 (born 1936), Mexican history
 - William Brandon (1914–2002), American West
 - Fernand Braudel (1902–1985), world, Mediterranean
 - Ahron Bregman (born 1958), Arab-Israeli conflict
 - 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
 - Gregory S. Brown (living), Early Modern French History, Cultural History
 - Peter Brown (born 1935), medieval
 - Christopher Browning (born 1944), Holocaust
 - 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
- 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
 - 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
 - Maher Charif (living), Arabic intellectual history and political movements
 - 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
 - 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
 
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
 - Natalie Zemon Davis (born 1928), 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
 - Harold James Dyos (1921–1978), British urban
 
E
- Elizabeth Eisenstein (1923–2016), French Revolution, printing
 - Geoff Eley (born 1949), German
 - 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
- 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
 - 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
 - Orlando Figes (born 1957), Russian
 - Robert O. Fink (1905–1988), classical
 - 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
 - Judith Flanders (born 1959), Victorian British social
 - Robin Fleming (born 1950s), medieval Britain
 - Robert Fogel (1926–2013), US economic, cliometrics
 - Eric Foner (born 1943), Reconstruction
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), US cultural
 - Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women
 - Albert Hourani (1915–1993), Middle Eastern
 - Youssef Hourany (1931–2019), Lebanon, ancient
 - Michael Howard (1922–2019), military
 - Robert Hughes (1938–2012), Australia, cities
 - Marnie Hughes-Warrington (born 1970), historiography, philosophy of history
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - David S. Katz (born 1953), early modern England
 - Elie Kedourie (1926–1992), Middle East
 - Rod Kedward (1937–2023), 20th-century France
 - John Keegan (1934–2012), military
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - Philip A. Kuhn (1933–2016), China
 - Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996), science
 - Myoma Myint Kywe (1960–2021), Burmese writer and historian
 
L
- 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
 - 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 (born 1929), 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
 - Bernard Lewis (1916–2018), Oriental studies
 - David Levering Lewis (born 1936), African American, Harlem Renaissance
 - Li Ao (1935–2018), Chinese
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - Arthur Marder (1910–1980), British naval
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 
N
- 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
 - 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
- Thomas Pakenham (born 1933), Africa
 - Madhavan K. Palat (born 1947), Russia and Europe
 - Ilan Pappé (born 1954), Israel
 - 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
 - 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
 - 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
 - Kwok Kin Poon (born 1949), Chinese Southern and Northern dynasties
 - Barbara Corrado Pope (born 1941), America, Belle Époque, women's studies
 - Roy Porter (1946–2002), medicine, British social and cultural
 - Norman Pounds (1912–2006), geography and England
 - Caio Prado Júnior (1907–1990), Brazil
 - Gordon W. Prange (1910–1980), World War II Pacific
 - Joshua Prawer (1917–1990), Crusades
 - 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
 - Marcus Rediker (born 1951), Piracy and the Middle Passage
 - Robert V. Remini (1921–2013), Jacksonian U.S.
 - René Rémond (1918–2007), French politics
 - 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
 - J. M. Roberts (1928–2003), Europe
 - Nicholas A. M. Rodger (born 1949), British naval
 - William Ledyard Rodgers (1860–1944), ancient naval
 - Walter Rodney (1942–1980), Guyana
 - 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
 - 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
- Edgar V. Saks (1910–1984), Estonia
 - Dominic Sandbrook (born 1974), recent Britain and America
 - Usha Sanyal (living), Asian, Islam, Sufism
 - S. Srikanta Sastri (1904–1974), Indian
 - Simon Schama (born 1945), British, Dutch, US, French
 - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), Andrew Jackson, New Deal, politics
 - Jean-Claude Schmitt (born 1946), Middle Ages
 - David Schoenbaum (born 1935), modern German and US–Israeli relations
 - Carl Emil Schorske (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
 - Paul W. Schroeder (1927–2020), European diplomacy
 - D. M. Schurman (1924–2013), British imperial and naval
 - Karl Schweizer (living), 18th-century European
 - Dorothy Schwieder, (1933–2014), Iowa
 - Joan Scott (born 1941), feminism
 - William Henry Scott (1921–1993), Philippines
 - Howard Hayes Scullard (1903–1983), ancient
 - Jules Sedney (1922–2020), Surinamese historian and former prime minister
 - Tom Segev (born 1945), Israeli
 - Lorelle D. Semley (born 1969), US historian of Africa
 - Robert Service (born 1947), Soviet, Russian
 - Dasharatha Sharma (1903–1976), Rajasthan
 - Ram Sharan Sharma (1919–2011), ancient India
 - James J. Sheehan (born 1937), modern Germany
 - Michael S. Sherry (born 1945), 20c American military; LGBTQ
 - William L. Shirer (1904–1993), 20c Europe, Third Reich
 - He Shu (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution
 - Jack Simmons (1915–2000), English historian, railway history
 - Keith Sinclair (1922–1993), New Zealand
 - Helene J. Sinnreich (born 1975), Holocaust
 - Nathan Sivin (1931–2022), China
 - Quentin Skinner (born 1940), early modern Britain
 - Alexandre Skirda (1942–2020), Russia
 - Theda Skocpol (born 1947), institutions and comparative method; sociological
 - Richard Slotkin (born 1942), US environment and West
 - Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (1913–2004), military history, American Old West
 - Digby Smith (born 1935), 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
 - Viktor Suvorov (born 1947), Soviet
 - Ronald Syme (1903–1989), ancient
 - David Syrett (1939–2004), British naval
 
T
- Ronald Takaki (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
 - J. L. Talmon (1916–1980), Modern, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy
 - Alasdair and Hettie Tayler (1870–1937/1869–1951), Scotland
 - A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), Britain, modern Europe
 - Abdelhadi Tazi (1921–2015), Moroccan
 - Antonio Tellez (1921–2005), Spanish Anarchism, anti-fascist resistance
 - Harold Temperley (1879–1939), 19th and early 20th-century diplomacy
 - Romila Thapar (born 1931), ancient India
 - Françoise Thébaud (born 1952), history of women
 - Stephan Thernstrom (born 1934), US ethnic
 - Barbara Thiering (1930–2015), Biblical
 - Joan Thirsk (1922–2013), agriculture
 - Hugh Thomas (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
 - Keith Thomas (born 1933), early modern Britain, culture
 - E. P. Thompson (1924–1993), British labor history
 - Mark Thompson (born 1959), Balkans, World War I Italy
 - Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963), Viking Age, Middle Ages
 - Charles Tilly (1929–2008), Modern Europe; politics and society
 - Louise A. Tilly (1930–2018), modern Europe; women, family
 - John Toland (1912–2004), World War I and World War II
 - K. Ross Toole (1920–1981), Montana
 - Ahmed Toufiq (born 1943), Moroccan
 - Marc Trachtenberg (born 1946), Cold War
 - Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), Nazi; British
 - Gil Troy (born 1961), modern US, the Presidency
 - Marcel Trudel (1917–2011), New France, slavery in Canada
 - Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989), 20th-century military
 - Robert C. Tucker (1918–2010), Stalin
 - Peter Turchin (born 1957), Russian historian of historical dynamics
 - Henry Ashby Turner, Jr. (1932–2008), 20th-century German
 - Denis Twitchett (1925–2006), China
 - David Tyack (1930–2016), US education
 
U
- Walter Ullmann (1910–1983), medieval
 - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born 1938), early America
 - David Underdown (1925–2009), 17th-century England
 - Mladen Urem (born 1964), Croatian literary
 - Robert M. Utley (1929–2022), 19th-century US West
 
V
- Hans van de Ven (born 1958), Britain, modern China
 - Frank Vandiver (1925–2005), US Civil War
 - Jan Vansina (1929–2017), Belgian; African history
 - Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007), French, ancient Greece
 - Paul Veyne (1930–2022), French, ancient Greece and Rome
 - César Vidal Manzanares (born 1958), Spanish
 - Pierre Vidal-Naquet (1930–2006), French, ancient Greece, civil rights activist
 - Richard Vinen (living), British
 - Jaime Vicens Vives (1910–1960), Spain
 - Andrekos Varnava (born 1979), Australia, modern 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
 - Christopher Whatley (living), Scotland
 - John Wheeler-Bennett (1902–1975), Germany
 - John Whyte (1928–1990), Northern Ireland, divided societies
 - Christopher Wickham (born 1950), medieval
 - Robert H. Wiebe (1930–2000), American business and society
 - Toby Wilkinson (born 1969), ancient Egypt
 - Eric Williams (1911–1981), Guiana, Caribbean
 - Glanmor Williams (1920–2005), Wales
 - Glyndwr Williams (1932–2022), exploration
 - William Appleman Williams (1921–1990), US diplomacy
 - John Willingham (born 1946), Texas
 - Andrew Wilson (born 1961), Ukraine
 - Clyde N. Wilson (born 1941), 19th-century US South
 - Ian Wilson (born 1941), religious
 - Keith Windschuttle (born 1942), Australia; historiography
 - Henry Winkler (born 1938), German
 - Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
 - John B. Wolf (1907–1996), French
 - Michael Wolffsohn (born 1947), German Jewish
 - Herwig Wolfram (born 1934), medieval
 - Gordon S. Wood (born 1933), American Revolution
 - Michael Wood (born 1948), England
 - Thomas Woods (born 1972), America, conservatism
 - C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999), American South
 - Daniel Woolf (born 1958), Britain, historiography
 - Lucy Worsley (born 1973), Britain
 - Gordon Wright (1912–2000), modern France
 - Lawrence C. Wroth (1884–1970), US printing
 
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
 - Howard Zinn (1922–2010), US
 - Rainer Zitelmann (born 1957), German
 - Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961), Poland, Kraków
 
See also
- General
 
- Lists of historians
 
References
- ↑ For a longer list and detailed biographies see "Chronological list of historians": Kelly Boyd, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. Taylor and Francis. pp. xxvii–xxxii.
 - ↑ [Krónika az magyaroknak viselt dolgairól – Chronicle about deeds of Hungarians. http://mek.oszk.hu/06400/06417/html/heltaiga0070001.html.]
 - ↑ Olah Miklós: Hungaria (in Hungarian)
 - ↑ Nicolai IsthuanfI Pannoni Historiarum de rebus Vngaricis libri 34, Antoni Hierati, 1622 .
 - ↑ Matthiaie Belii: De Vetere Litteratura Hunno-Scythica Exarcitatio. .
 - ↑ Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus no civilis
 - ↑ Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 40. ISBN 9780805772302.
 - ↑ Pattee, Fred Lewis (1937). "Preface". In Pattee, Fred Lewis (ed.). American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. p. v. OCLC 464953146.
 
Bibliography
- The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, ed. by Mary Beth Norton and Pamela Gerardi (3rd ed. 2 vol, Oxford UP, 1995), 2064 pages; annotated guide to 27,000 of the most important English language history books in all fields and topics vol 1 online, vol 2 online
- Allison, William Henry et al. eds. A guide to historical literature (1931), comprehensive bibliography for scholarship to 1930 as selected by scholars from the American Historical Association online edition
 
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External links
- "Making History", covering British historians and institutions from Institute of Historical Research
 
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