This is a list of historians.

The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialised.

Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.

Ancient historians
Herodotus, (485—c.420 BC), Halicarnassian "Father of History"
Thucydides, (c.460–400 BC), Peloponnesian War
Xenophon, (431—c.360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
Julius Caesar, (c.100–44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
Flavius Josephus, (37–100), Jewish history
Sima Qian, (c.140 BC), Chinese history
Plutarch, (c. 46–120 AD)
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56—c. 120), early Roman Empire
Suetonius, (75–160)

Medieval historians/chroniclers
Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
Procopius, (d. c. 565), Byzantines
Bede, (c. 632–735), Anglo-Saxons
Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
ibn Khaldun, (1332–1406)
Christine de Pizan, (c.1365—c.1430), historian, poet, philosopher
Snorri Sturluson, author of Younger Edda and Heimskringla; d. in  1241

Historians from the time period 1600--1900
Sharaf Khan Bidlisi, died in 1603
Voltaire, (1694–1778), French Enlightenment philosopher, historian, and novelist, author of Candide.
Edward Gibbon, (1737–1794), Roman Empire
Leopold von Ranke, (1795–1886), German
William H. Prescott, (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
 Mary Sheldon Barnes, (1850-1898), American
 Henri Pirenne - "one of the most eminent scholars of the Middle Ages and of Belgian national development", says Encyclopædia Britannica; the Belgian died in 1935

Historians after 1900

Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), history of ideas
Winston Churchill (1874–1965), U.K. prime minister; World Wars I and II, English-speaking peoples
Robert Conquest (1917–2015), Russia, Soviet Union
John Davies (1938–2015), Welsh historian
Michel Foucault (1926–1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
Francis Fukuyama, (b. 1955)
Martin Gilbert (1936–2015)
Christopher Hill, (1912–2003), 17th century England
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), British historian, labour history
Paul Kennedy (born 1945), British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
Thomas Kuhn, (1922–1996), history of science, author of The Copernican Revolution, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, and the influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Hans Mommsen (1930–2015), German social history
Richard Pipes (1923–2018), conservative Polish-born American historian, Russian and Soviet history
Janko Prunk (born 1942), Slovenian historian of modern history
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), American president and historian, War of 1812, frontier
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (d. 2008), Russian historian and novelist
David Starkey (born 1945), Tudor history
Conrad Totman (born 1934), American historian, wrote A History of Japan
Eric Williams, (1911–1981), Guyanese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
Robert M. Young (academic) (d. 2019), American historian, history of medicine and human sciences
Howard Zinn (1922–2010), American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.

Related pages 
 List of historians by country

References

Historians