List of anthropologists
A
- John Adair
- Giulio Angioni
- Talal Asad
- Timothy Asch
B
- Florence Babb
- Nigel Barley
- Fredrik Barth
- Vasily Bartold
- Keith H. Basso
- Daisy Bates
- Gregory Bateson
- Ruth Behar
- Ruth Benedict
- Lee Berger
- Theodore C. Bestor
- Lewis Binford
- Wilhelm Bleek
- Anton Blok
- Tom Boellstorff
- Franz Boas
- Dmitri Bondarenko
- Pere Bosch-Gimpera
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Brent Berlin
- Paul Broca
- Sir Peter Buck
C
- Mauro Campagnoli
- Edmund Carpenter
- Napoleon Chagnon
- Alberto Mario Cirese
- Pierre Clastres
- Carleton S. Coon
- Frank Hamilton Cushing
- Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
D
E
F
G
H
- Michael Harkin
- Michael Harner
- John P. Harrington
- Marvin Harris
- Jacquetta Hawkes
- Ryan De Guzman
- Arthur Maurice Hocart
- Earnest Hooton
- Robin W.G. Horton
- Ian Hodder
- E. Adamson Hoebel
- Aleš Hrdlička
- Patrick Hunout
- Karl Edman Floresca
- Dell Hymes
I
J
K
- Sergei Kan
- Jomo Kenyatta
- David Kertzer
- Anatoly Khazanov
- Richard G. Klein
- Dorinne K. Kondo
- Andrey Korotayev
- Conrad Kottak
- Grover Krantz
- Charles H. Kraft
- Alfred L. Kroeber
- Theodora Kroeber
- Lars Krutak
- Adam Kuper
L
M
- Alan Macfarlane
- Saba Mahmood
- Bronisław Malinowski
- George Marcus
- Fran Mascia-Lees
- John Alden Mason
- Marcel Mauss
- Phillip McArthur
- Margaret Mead
- Mervyn Meggitt
- Josef Mengele
- Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay — Asia-Pacific (Maclay Coast), Papua New-Guinea; Australia
- Emily Martin
- Sidney Mintz
- Ashley Montagu
- James Mooney
- Henrietta L. Moore
- John H. Moore
- Lewis H. Morgan
- Desmond Morris
- George Murdock
N
O
- Gananath Obeyesekere
- Marvin Opler
- Morris Opler
- Sherry Ortner
- Keith F. Otterbein
P
- Bruce Parry (television show host)
- Elsie Clews Parsons
- Bronislav Pilsudski
- Hortense Powdermaker
- A.H.J. Prins
- Harald E.L. Prins
Q
R
- Paul Rabinow
- Wilhelm Radloff
- Roy Rappaport
- Hans Ras
- Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
- Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
- Kathy Reichs
- Audrey Richards
- W. H. R. Rivers
- Paul Rivet
- Eric Ross
- Gayle Rubin
- Robert A. Rubinstein
S
T
- Michael Taussig
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- Colin Turnbull
- Terence S. Turner
- Victor Turner
- Bruce Trigger
V
W
- Alyise Waterston
- Camilla Wedgwood
- Hank Wesselman
- Douglas R. White
- Leslie White
- Tim White
- Benjamin Whorf
- Unni Wikan
- Clark Wissler
- Eric Wolf
- Sol Worth
Z
Fictional anthropologists
- Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) in the Sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) in the television series Bones
- Temperance Brennan in the novel series Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reichs
- Chakotay (Robert Beltran) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
- Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks, James Spader) in the television series and film Stargate SG-1
- Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) in the television series Lost