List of eugenicists

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This list includes famous eugenicists, contributors, and supporters; some of the people may not be eugenicists but are included here because of their notable involvement.

Alexander Graham Bell Inventor of the telephone.
Joseph Bloch Modern proponent of non-racist eugenics. Also a transhumanist.
Alexis Carrel Innovative surgeon, Nobel laureate, advocated compulsory sterilization and euthanasia, Nazi collaborator.
Charles Kirk Clarke
C. D. Darlington cytologist.
Charles Darwin British naturalist.
Charles Galton Darwin — physicist, grandson of Charles Darwin.
Leonard Darwin — economist, son of Charles Darwin.
Charles Davenport — prominent American biologist, founder of the Eugenics Record Office.
John Derbyshire — author and columnist at National Review.
Wickliffe Draper — American philanthropist, founder of the Pioneer Fund.
W.E.B. DuBois African-american community leader. Advocated blacks using eugenics to improve their race.
Eugen Fischer
Irving Fisher
R.A. Fisher — British statistician, co-creator of the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory.
Joseph Fletcher
Francis Galton — British statistician, first developed notion of eugenics, coined term.
Marcus Garvey African-american community leader. Advocated blacks using eugenics to improve their race.
Henry H. Goddard — American psychologist, author of The Kallikak Family.
Charles Goethe — American philanthropist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization and immigration restriction.
E.S. Gosney — American philanthropist, founder of the Human Betterment Foundation, which lobbied for compulsory sterilization legislation.
Robert Klark Graham — American inventor, founded "Nobel Prize" sperm bank (may or may not have actually had Nobel Prize winners as donors).
Madison Grant — American lawyer, author of The Passing of the Great Race, lobbied for immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation legislation.
James L. Hart
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. United States Supreme Court judge who wrote the opinion in Buck v. Bell, "Three generations of imbeciles is enough."
David Starr Jordan — American scientist, president of Stanford University and Indiana University.
Harry H. Laughlin — prominent American eugenicist, director of the Eugenics Record Office, lobbied for immigration restriction and compulsory sterilization laws, early founder of the Pioneer Fund.
Richard Lynn — emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster.
Josef Mengele — Nazi doctor, infamous for abusive and unethical experimentation on prisoners.
Henry Fairfield Osborn
Karl Pearson — British statistician and socialist.
Plato Classical greek philosopher. The earliest proponent of eugenics known by name.
Alfred Ploetz
Paul Popenoe — American biologist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization laws, especially in California.
Ernst Rüdin — German psychiatrist, founder of the German Racial Hygiene movement which gained much support from Nazi Germany.
Margaret Sanger — American birth control advocate, also sometimes advocated certain types of eugenic programs.
F.C.S. Schiller — Pragmatist philosopher.
Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn
William Shockley — American Nobel Prize winner for inventing the transistor, controversially argued for eugenics during 1960s.
Lothrop Stoddard — American author, wrote The Rising Tide of Color.
Nikola Tesla American inventor from Croatia. Recommended that eugenics be greatly expanded in the future.
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer — German geneticist, did work on heredity during Nazi Germany with the aid of "specimens" from Mengele.
Werner Villinger
H.G. Wells Science fiction writer
Robert Yerkes — American primatologist, did early work on intelligence testing arguing for immigration restriction.