List of anthropologists
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- Nigel Barley
- Fredrik Barth
- Vasily Bartold
- Keith H. Basso
- Daisy Bates
- Gregory Bateson
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- Richard Bauman
- Ruth Behar
- Ruth Benedict
- Dorothy A. Bennett
- Carl H. Berendt
- Lee Berger
- Brent Berlin
- Catherine Helen Webb Berndt
- Catherine L. Besteman
- Theodore C. Bestor
- Lewis Binford
- Evelyn Blackwood
- Wilhelm Bleek
- Maurice Bloch
- Anton Blok
- Franz Boas
- Tom Boellstorff
- Paul Bohannan
- Dmitri Bondarenko
- Pere Bosch-Gimpera
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Philippe Bourgois
- Charles L. Briggs
- Paul Broca
- Christian Bromberger
- Kari Bruwelheide
- Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa)
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- Abdellah Hammoudi
- Michael Harkin
- Michael Harner
- John P. Harrington
- Marvin Harris
- K. David Harrison
- Kirsten Hastrup
- Jacquetta Hawkes
- Brian Douglas Hayden
- Rose Oldfield Hayes
- Stephen C. Headley
- Thor Heyerdahl
- Arthur Maurice Hocart
- Ian Hodder
- E. Adamson Hoebel
- Earnest Hooton
- Robin W.G. Horton
- Aleš Hrdlička
- Eva Verbitsky Hunt
- Dell Hymes
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- William Labov
- George Lakoff
- Harold E. Lambert
- Edmund Leach
- Eleanor Leacock
- Murray Leaf
- Louis Leakey
- Mary Leakey
- Richard Leakey
- Richard Borshay Lee
- Charles Miller Leslie
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Ellen Lewin
- C. Scott Littleton
- Albert Buell Lewis
- Oscar Lewis
- Phillip Harold Lewis
- Roland Littlewood
- Robert Lowie
- Nancy Lurie
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- Alan Macfarlane
- Saba Mahmood
- Bronisław Malinowski
- George Marcus
- Jonathan M. Marks
- Karl Marx
- John Alden Mason
- Michael Atwood Mason
- Marcel Mauss
- Phillip McArthur
- Irma McClaurin
- Charles Harrison McNutt
- Margaret Mead
- Mervyn Meggitt
- Josef Mengele
- Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
- Emily Martin
- Horace Mitchell Miner
- Sidney Mintz
- Ashley Montagu
- James Mooney
- Henrietta L. Moore
- John H. Moore
- Lewis H. Morgan
- Desmond Morris
- George Murdock
- Yolanda Murphy
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- Marshall Sahlins
- Noel B. Salazar
- Roger Sandall
- Edward Sapir
- Patricia Sawin
- Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- Wilhelm Schmidt
- Tobias Schneebaum
- James C. Scott
- Thayer Scudder
- Elman Service
- Afanasy Shchapov
- Gerald F. Schroedl
- Florence Connolly Shipek
- Sydel Silverman
- Audra Simpson
- Cathy Small
- Christen A. Smith
- Jacques Soustelle
- Melford Spiro
- James Spradley
- Julian Steward
- Herbert Spencer
- Marilyn Strathern
- William Sturtevant
- Niara Sudarkasa
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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
- Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the television series Star Trek: Discovery
- Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks, James Spader) in the television series and film Stargate SG-1
- Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) in the television series Lost
- Korekiyo Shinguji
See also
- List of female anthropologists
- List of Black Anthropologists
- List of Chinese sociologists and anthropologists