Editing List of historians (section)

==Modern historians==
===Historians flourishing post-1815, born post-1770===
{{see|Historiography of the French Revolution#Contemporary and 19th-century historians}}

*[[Lucy Aikin]] (1781–1864), English historical writer and biographer
*[[Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet|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 (Denmark)|Historisk Tidsskrift]]'' (1839)
*[[John Neal]] (1793–1876), US Revolutionary War<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sears |first=Donald A. |title=John Neal |publisher=Twayne Publishers |location=Boston, Massachusetts |year=1978 |isbn=9780805772302 |page=40}}</ref> and US literature<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pattee |first=Fred Lewis |editor-last=Pattee |editor-first=Fred Lewis |chapter=Preface |page=v |title=American Writers: A Series of Papers Contributed to Blackwood's Magazine (1824–1825) |publisher=Duke University Press |location=Durham, North Carolina |year=1937 |url= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001026497 |oclc=464953146 |author-link=Fred Lewis Pattee}}</ref>
*[[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 (American politician)|George Tucker]] (1775–1861), US history
*[[Isaak Markus Jost]] (1793-1860), Jewish history
*[[Leopold Zunz]] (1794–1886), Jewish history
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===Historians born in the 19th century===
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====A====
*[[John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton|Lord Acton]] (1834–1902), Europe
*[[Henry Brooks Adams|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
*[[Mário de Andrade]] (1893–1945), Brazil, History of art
*[[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 Illarionovich Artamonov|Mikhail Artamonov]] (1898–1972), founder of [[Khazar]] studies
*[[William Ashley (economic historian)|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 (country)|Georgia]] and the [[Caucasus]]
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====B====
*[[Dmytro Bahalii]] (1857–1932), Ukraine, Russia
*[[Jacques Bainville]] (1879–1936), France
*[[Meir Balaban]] (1877-1942), Polish-Jewish
*[[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
*[[Salo Baron]], (1895-1989), Jewish history
*[[Harry Elmer Barnes]] (1889–1968), World War I; ideas
*[[Vasily Bartold|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
*[[Max Beer]] (1864–1943), Imperialism
*[[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.
*[[Karl Bittel]] (1892–1969), Germany
*[[I. M. E. Blandin]] (1838–1912), Southern 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, 1st Viscount Bryce|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
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*[[Helen Cam]] (1885–1968), English medieval
*[[Pierre Caron (historian)|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
*[[David Cassel]] (1818–1893), Jewish studies
*[[Américo Castro]] (1885–1972), Spanish identity
*[[Bruce Catton]] (1899–1978), American Civil War
*[[Baron de César Bazancourt|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 (historian)|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 [[Interdisciplinarity|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
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*[[Felix Dahn]] (1834–1912), medieval
*[[Angie Debo]] (1890–1988), Native American and Oklahoma history
*[[Léopold Victor Delisle|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 (ambassador)|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 Duff-Sutherland-Dunbar, 6th Baronet|Sir George Dunbar]] (1878–1962), India
*[[Hermann Duncker]] (1874–1960), Social history, political history
*[[Ariel Durant]] (1898–1981), Europe
*[[Will Durant]] (1885–1981), Europe
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====E====
*[[Norbert Elias]] (1897–1990), process of civilization
*[[Ephraim Emerton]] (1851–1935), medieval Europe
*[[Friedrich Engels]] (1820–1895), historical materialism
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*[[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 
*[[H. A. L. Fisher|Herbert A. L. Fisher]] (1865–1940)
*[[Walter L. Fleming]] (1874–1932), US reconstruction
*[[Vilmos Fraknói]] (1843–1924), Hungary, Hungarian ecclesiastical history
*[[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
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*[[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
*[[Heinrich Graetz]] (1817–1891), Jewish history
*[[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 civilization|Etruscan]] history
*[[John Richard Green]] (1837–1883), English
*[[Mary Anne Everett Green]] (1818–1895), English
*[[Arthur Griffiths (author)|Arthur Griffiths]] (1838–1908), military history
*[[Ioseb Grishashvili]] (1889–1965), Georgian literature
*[[Lionel Groulx]] (1878–1967), Quebec
*[[René Grousset]] (1885–1952), Oriental history
*[[James Guillaume]] (1844–1916), Labor history
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*[[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
* [[John Donald Hicks]] (1890-1972), American politics
*[[Auguste Himly]] (1823–1906), French history and geography
*[[Otto Hintze]] (1861–1940), German
*[[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 history
*[[Hu Sheng]] (1918–2000), Chinese
*[[Johan Huizinga]] (1872–1945), Dutch historian, author of ''Waning of the Middle Ages''
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====I====
*[[Ibn Zaydan]] (1873–1946), Moroccan historian
*[[Dmitry Ilovaisky]] (1832–1920), Russian history
*[[Marilla Baker Ingalls]] (1828–1902), Burmese missionary and historian
*[[Harold Innis]] (1894–1952), Canadian economic history
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====J====
*[[Mohammed ibn Jaafar al-Kattani]] (1858–1927), Moroccan
*[[Muhammad Jaber]] (1875–1945), history of the [[Levant]] and the [[Middle-East]]
*[[William James (naval historian)|William James]] (1780–1827), historian of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars
*[[Ivane Javakhishvili]] (1876–1940), [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] historian
*[[Arthur Johnson (historian)|Arthur Johnson]] (1845–1927), historian at Oxford University
*[[Ellen Jørgensen (historian)|Ellen Jørgensen]] (1877–1948), Danish historian and historiographer
*[[J. B. Bury]] (1851–1927), Anglo-Irish historian of the Medieval Roman epoch.
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====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
*[[Eckart Kehr]] (1902–1933), Germany, social history, economic history
*[[Korneli Kekelidze]] (1879–1962), Georgian literature
*[[François Christophe Edmond de Kellermann]] (1802–1868), French political historian
*[[Hans Kelsen]] (1881–1973), legal
*[[P. M. C. Kermode|Philip Moore Callow Kermode]] (1855–1932), [[Isle of Man|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 (scholar)|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 Fuat Köprülü|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
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====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 (historian)|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
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====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
*[[John Marriott (British politician)|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 
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====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
*[[Theodor Neubauer]] (1890–1945), Germany, political history
*[[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
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====O====
*[[Charles Oman]] (1860–1946), 19th-century military
*[[Herbert L. Osgood]] (1855–1918), American colonial
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====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
*[[Adam Próchnik]] (1892–1942), Poland, French Revolution, social history
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====Q====
*[[Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat|Jules Quicherat]] (1814–1882), Middle Ages
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====R====
*[[David Riazanov]] (1893–1974), political history and history of philosophy
*[[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
*[[Cecil Roth]] (1899-1970), Jewish history
*[[Hans Rothfels]] (1891–1976), modern German
*[[Roman Rosdolsky]], (1898–1967), Eastern Europe
*[[Sergei Rudenko]] (1885–1969), Ukraine, Russian archaeology
*[[Simon Rutar]] (1851–1903), Slovenian
*[[Ilarion Ruvarac]] (1832–1905), Serbian
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====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
*[[Gershom Scholem]] (1897-1982), Jewish mysticism
*[[Moses Schorr]] (1874-1941), Polish-Jewish
*[[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
*[[Endre Sík]] (1891–1978), Hungary
*[[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 (historian)|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
*[[Moritz Steinschneider]] (1816-1907), Jewish studies and Jewish history
*[[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
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====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), [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] historian
*[[Frederick Jackson Turner]] (1861–1932), US frontier
*[[Renáta Tyršová]] (1854–1937), Czech ethnography and art history
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====U====
*[[Frank Underhill]] (1889–1971), Canadian
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====V====
*[[Alfred Vagts]], (1892–1986), Germany, military
*[[Paul Vinogradoff]] (1854–1925), medieval England
*[[Vyacheslav Volgin]], (1879–1962), Communism
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====W====
*[[Annie Russell Wall]] (1835–1920), English historian
*[[Spencer Walpole]] (1839–1907), English historian
*[[Charles Webster (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 Williamson (historian)|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
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====Y====
*[[Yemelyan Yaroslavsky]] (1878–1943), Soviet Union
*[[Yi Byeongdo]] (이병도, 1896–1989), Korea
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====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
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===Historians born in the 20th century {{anchor|20th century}}===
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====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 (historian)|Maurice Ashley]] (1907–1994), 17th-century England
*[[Steven Attewell]] (1984-2024), public policy in 20th century America
*[[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
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====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 (historian)|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
*[[Roland Bauer]] (1928–2017), Germany, political history
*[[Yehuda Bauer]] (1926–2024), 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 (historian)|David Bell]] (living), Early Modern France, cultural history
*[[James Belich (historian)|James Belich]] (born 1956), New Zealand
*[[Esther Benbassa]] (1950-), Jewish history
*[[Abdelmajid Benjelloun (historian)|Abdelmajid Benjelloun]] (born 1944), Morocco
*[[Laurence Bergreen]] (born 1950), biography
*[[Isaiah Berlin]] (1909–1997), ideas
* [[Rowland Berthoff]] (1921– 2001), American culture
*[[Giuseppe Berti]] (1901–1979), Italy, political history
*[[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
*[[Robert Bonfil]], (1937-), Jewish history
*[[Daniel J. Boorstin]] (1914–2004), US
*[[Georges Bordonove]] (1920–2007), France
*[[Alfredo Bosi]] (1936–2021), Brazilian literature
*[[John Boswell]] (1947–1994), medievalist
*[[Robert Bothwell]] (born 1944), Canada
*[[Gérard Bouchard]] (born 1943), Canada
*[[Joanna Bourke]] (born 1963), military
*[[Steven Bowman]], Jewish history
*[[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 (author)|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
*[[Michael Brenner (historian)|Michael Brenner]] (1964-), Jewish history
*[[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 (historian)|David Brody]] (born 1930), American labor
*[[Timothy Brook (historian)|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 (historian)|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
*[[Colin Bundy]] (born 1944), South Africa
*[[Peter Burke (historian)|Peter Burke]] (born 1937), modern period, cultural history
*[[Michael Burlingame (historian)|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
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====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 
*[[Edison Carneiro]] (1912–1972), Brazil, afro-brazilian, political history, cultural history
*[[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
*[[Borivoj Celovsky|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]] (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 (historian)|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
*[[Chris Clark (historian)|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 (historian)|Martin Conway]] (born 1960), British scholar of European history
*[[John M. Cooper (historian)|John Milton Cooper]] (born 1940), Woodrow Wilson
*[[Peter Cottrell]] (born 1964), Anglo-Irish
*[[Mario Coyula Cowley]] (1935–2014), Cuban architecture
*[[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 Araneta|Gemma Cruz]] (born 1943), [[José Rizal|Rizaliana]], Philippines
*[[Barry Cunliffe]] (born 1939), archaeology
*[[Bruce Cumings]] (born 1943), East Asia, Korea
*[[Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui]] (born 1949), Bolivia
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====D====
*[[Vahakn N. Dadrian]] (1926–2019), Armenia
*[[Robert Dallek]] (born 1934), 20th-century US presidents
*[[William Dalrymple (historian)|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
*[[Mahir Darziev]] (born 1957), Azerbaijan
*[[Saul David]] (born 1966), military
*[[John Davies (historian)|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
*[[Ralph Henry Carless Davis|R. H. C. Davis]] (1918–1991), Middle Ages
*[[Lucy Dawidowicz]] (1915–1990), Holocaust
*[[David Day (historian)|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 (film critic and historian)|Wu Di]] (吴迪, born 1951), China
*[[Igor M. Diakonov]] (1914–1999), Ancient Near East
*[[Hasia Diner]] (1946-), American-Jewish
*[[Arif Dirlik]] (1940–2017), China, economic history, cultural history
*[[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 (historian)|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 von der Dunk|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
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====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 (historian)|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
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====F====
*[[Frantz Fanon]] (1925–1961), history of colonialism
*[[Esther Farbstein]] (born 1946), Israeli, Holocaust
*[[Grahame Farr]] (1912–1983), maritime, south-west England
*[[Brian Farrell (broadcaster)|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
*[[Sérgio Ferro]] (born 1938), Architecture
*[[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 (historian)|Fritz Fischer]] (1908–1999), Germany
*[[Frances FitzGerald (journalist)|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
*[[David Flusser]] (1917-2000), early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism
*[[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 (historian)|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
*[[Elizabeth Fox-Genovese]] (1941–2007), US South, cultural and social, women
*[[Andre Gunder Frank]] (1929–2005), Latin America, economic history, agriculture
*[[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
*[[Amos Funkenstein]] (1937-1995), Jewish history
*[[François Furet]] (1927–1997), French Revolution
*[[Halima Ferhat]] (born 1941), Middle Ages of the [[Maghreb]]
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====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 (historian)|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 (historian)|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 Rivera|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 (naval historian)|Andrew Gordon]] (born 1951), British naval history
*[[Yefim Gorodetsky]] (1907–1993), Soviet history
*[[Svetlana Gorshenina]] (born 1969), Central Asian history
*[[Kurt Gossweiler]] (1917–2017), Economics of fascism
*[[Lewis L. Gould]] (born 1939), US presidents and First Ladies
*[[Gerald S. Graham]] (1903–1988), British imperial
*[[Jack Granatstein]] (born 1939), Canada
*[[Michael Grant (classicist)|Michael Grant]] (1914–2004), ancient
*[[Abigail Green]] British historian of modern Europe
*[[Peter Green (historian)|Peter Green]] (1924–2024), ancient
*[[Rev. Vivian Green|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
*[[Ramchandra Guha|Ramachandra Guha]] (born 1958), India, environment
*[[Ranajit Guha]] (1923–2023), Indian
*[[Lev Gumilyov]] (1912–1992), Soviet
*[[Oliver Gurney]] (1911–2001), Assyria, Hittites
*[[John Guy (historian)|John Guy]] (born 1949), Tudor England
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====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
*[[Orit Halpern]], historian and cyberneticist
*[[Pekka Hämäläinen]] (born 1967), Native American history
*[[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 [[peon]]age of African-American sharecroppers
*[[Dick Harrison]] (born 1966), Swedish and Medieval
*[[Peter Harrison (historian)|Peter Harrison]] (born 1955), early modern intellectual
*[[Edgar Hartwig]] (born 1928), Germany, Political history
*[[Gerhart Hass]] (1931–2008), Germany
*[[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 (historian)|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 (historian)|Michael Hicks]] (born 1948), late medieval England
*[[Raul Hilberg]] (1926–2007), Holocaust
*[[Klaus Hildebrand]] (born 1941), 19th/20th-century Germany
*[[Christopher Hill (historian)|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 (historian)|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 (author)|Tom Holland]] (born 1968), Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages
*[[C. Warren Hollister]] (1930–1997), Middle Ages
*[[George Holmes (professor)|George Holmes]] (1927–2009), medieval
*[[Richard Holmes (historian)|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 (historian)|Michael Howard]] (1922–2019), military
*[[Ray Huang]] (1918–2000), China
*[[Robert Hughes (critic)|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 (historian)|Andrew Hunt]] (born 1968), Cold War America
*[[Tristram Hunt]] (born 1974)
*[[Mark C. Hunter]] (born 1974), naval
*[[Paula Hyman]] (1946-2011), American-Jewish social history
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====I====
*[[Moshe Idel]] (1947-), Jewish history
*[[Georg Iggers]] (1926–2017), Germany, Historiography
*[[Halil Inalcik]] (1916–2016), Ottoman Empire
*[[Kiyoshi Inoue]] (1913–2001), Japan
*[[Jonathan Israel]] (born 1946), Netherlands, Enlightenment, Jewry
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====J====
*[[Eberhard Jäckel]] (1929–2017), Nazi Germany
*[[J. Arch Getty|John Archibald Getty]] (born 1950)
*[[Julian T. Jackson]] (born 1954), French
*[[C. L. R. James]] (1862–1935), Trinidad/England
*[[Harold James (historian)|Harold James]] (born 1956), modern Germany
*[[Nikoloz Janashia]] (1931–1982), [[Georgia (country)|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 (historian)|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 (writer)|Paul Johnson]] (1928–2023), Britain, Western civilization
*[[Robert Erwin Johnson]] (1923–2008), US naval
*[[Mauno Jokipii]] (1924–2007), Finnish, World War II
*[[Arnold Hugh Martin Jones|A. H. M. Jones]] (1904–1970), later Roman Empire
*[[George Hilton Jones, III (historian)|George Hilton Jones III]] (1924–2008), England
*[[Gwyn Jones (author)|Gwyn Jones]] (1907–1999), medieval
*[[Loe de Jong]] (1914–2005), Netherlands
*[[Tony Judt]] (1948–2010), 20th-century European, postwar
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====K====
*[[Donald Kagan]] (1932–2021), ancient Greek
*[[George McTurnan Kahin]] (1918–2000), Southeast Asia
*[[Michel Kaplan]] (born 1946), French [[Byzantine studies|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 (historian)|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 (historian)|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 
*[[Alfred Klahr]] (1904–1944), Austria
*[[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
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====L====
*[[Dubravko Lovrenović]] (1956–2017) Bosnian and Yugoslav historian
*[[Benjamin Woods Labaree]] (1927–2021), U.S. colonial and maritime
*[[Leopold Labedz]] (1920–1993), Soviet
*[[Walter LaFeber]] (1933–2021), diplomatic, Cold War
*[[Brij Lal (historian)|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
*[[Eusebio Leal]] (1942–2020), Cuba
*[[Robert Leckie (author)|Robert Leckie]] (1920–2001), U.S. military
*[[Ulrich L. Lehner]] (born 1976), intellectual and cultural history
*[[Lee Ki-baek]] (1924–2004), Korean
*[[William Leuchtenburg]] (1922–2025), U.S. 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
*[[Raffaele Licinio]] (1945–2018), Medieval Italy
*[[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 Pakenham, Countess of Longford|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
*[[Cesare Luporini]] (1909–1993), History of philosophy
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====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 (Canadian historian)|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 (historian)|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 Hardy McNeill|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 (historian)|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
*[[Michael A. Meyer]], (1937-), Jewish history
*[[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
*[[Arnaldo Momigliano]] (1908-1987), ancient world
*[[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
*[[Franco Moretti]] (born 1950), Italy, literary history
*[[Edmund Morgan (historian)|Edmund Morgan]] (1916–2013), American colonial and Revolution
*[[Kenneth O. Morgan]] (born 1934), British politics, Wales
*[[William J. Morgan (historian)|William J. Morgan]] (1917–2003), US naval
*[[Samuel Eliot Morison]] (1887–1976), US colonial and naval
*[[Benny Morris]] (born 1948), Middle East
*[[Ian Mortimer (historian)|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
*[[David N. Myers]] (1960-), Jewish history
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====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

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====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
*[[Neil Oliver]] (born 1967)
*[[Melanie Oppenheimer]] (living), Australia 
*[[Vincent Orange (historian)|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
*[[Marius Ostrowski]] (born 1988), European social democracy
*[[Fernand Ouellet]] (1926–2021), French Canada
*[[Richard Overy]] (born 1947), World War II
*[[Steven Ozment]] (1939–2019), Germany
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====P====
* [[Dominic A. Pacycga]] (born 1949), Chicago
*[[George Padmore]] (1903–1959), Africa
*[[Thomas Pakenham (historian)|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 (historian)|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 (historian)|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
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====Q====
*[[Carroll Quigley]] (1910–1977), classical, western history, theorist of civilizations
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====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 (historian)|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
*[[Gavriel D. Rosenfeld]] (1967-), Jewish history
*[[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
*[[Marina Rustow]], Jewish history
*[[Cornelius Ryan]] (1920–1974), World War II, popular
*[[Boris Rybakov]] (1908–2001), Soviet
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====S====
*[[Tatshat Sahakyan]] (1916–1999), Armenia
*[[Edgar V. Saks]] (1910–1984), Estonia
*[[Andrey Sakharov (historian)|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
*[[Ismar Schorsch]] (1935-), Jewish history
*[[Carl Emil Schorske]] (1915–2015), Vienna, Modernism, intellectual
*[[Paul W. Schroeder]] (1927–2020), European diplomacy
*[[Wolfgang Schröder]] (1935–2010), Germany, labor
*[[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 Wallach Scott|Joan Scott]] (born 1941), feminism
*[[William Henry Scott (historian)|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), Israel
*[[Lorelle D. Semley]] (born 1969), US historian of Africa
*[[Robert Service (historian)|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
*[[Nancy E. Sheppard]] (born 1983), early American military airship development
*[[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
*[[Ishimoda Shō]] (1912–1986), Ancient Japan
*[[He Shu]] (born 1948), Chinese cultural revolution
*[[Dhimitër Shuteriqi]] (1915–2003), Albanian literature
*[[Arkady Sidorov]], (1900–1966), Russia
*[[Jack Simmons (historian)|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
*[[Christopher Smout|T. C. Smout]] (born 1933), Scottish environmental and social
*[[John Smolenski (historian)|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
*[[Nelson Werneck Sodré]] (1911–1999), Brazil, cultural history, political history, literature
*[[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 (historian)|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 (historian)|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
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====T====
*[[Manfredo Tafuri]] (1935–1994), architecture
*[[Ronald Takaki]] (1939–2009), America, ethnic studies
*[[J. L. Talmon]] (1916–1980), [[Modern history|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
*[[Adam J. Teller]] (1962-), Jewish history
*[[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 (historian)|Hugh Thomas]] (1931–2017), Spanish Civil War, Atlantic slave trade
*[[Keith Thomas (historian)|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 (historian)|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
*[[José Ramos Tinhorão]] (1928–2021), Brazil, brazilian culture, music
*[[John Toland (author)|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
*[[Éric Toussaint]] (born 1954), Economic history
*[[Marc Trachtenberg]] (born 1946), Cold War
*[[Enzo Traverso]], (born 1957), Holocaust, totalitarianism, historiography
*[[Hugh Trevor-Roper]] (1914–2003), Nazi; British
*[[Francesca Trivellato]] (1970-), Italian, Jewish early modern period
*[[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
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====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
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====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
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====W====
* [[P. B. Waite]],  (1922 –2020), Canadian politics
*[[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 (intellectual historian)|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 (writer)|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 Henry Whyte|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 (historian)|Andrew Wilson]] (born 1961), Ukraine
*[[Clyde N. Wilson]] (born 1941), 19th-century US South
*[[Ian Wilson (writer)|Ian Wilson]] (born 1941), religious
*[[Keith Windschuttle]] (born 1942), Australia; historiography
*[[Heinrich August Winkler|Henry Winkler]] (born 1938), German
*[[Robert S. Wistrich]] (1945–2015), Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Jews
*[[John Baptist Wolf|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 (historian)|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 (historian)|Gordon Wright]] (1912–2000), modern France
*[[Lawrence C. Wroth]] (1884–1970), US printing
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====Y====
*[[Yen Ching-hwang]] (顏清湟, born 1937), writer, works on Overseas Chinese history
*[[Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi]] (1932-2009), Jewish history
*[[Robert J. Young]] (born 1942), French Third Republic
*[[Robert M. Young (academic)|Robert M. Young]] (1935–2019), medicine
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====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 (historian)|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
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