page_title: List of fictional anthropologists
section_title: TV
hierarchical_section_title: List of fictional anthropologists / TV
caption_attribution_description: Emily Deschanel speaking at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
context_page_description: Fictional anthropologists appear in novels, short stories, comics, movies, and radio and television series. The following list excludes characters designated as exclusively archaeologists.
context_section_description: In the television series, Bones:
  Finn Abernathy, intern under Bones, played by Luke Kleintank (seasons 7–9)
  Zack Addy, forensic anthropologist portrayed by Eric Millegan.
  Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (born Joy Keenan), played by Emily Deschanel; a protagonist of the television series, loosely based on author and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.
  Wendell Bray, intern in forensic anthropology in Bones
  Colin Fisher, forensic physical anthropologist in Bones
  Katherine Reichs, fictional anthropologist created by the fictional anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan in the television program.
  Constance Wright, played by the real forensic scientist Kathy Reichs; forensic anthropologist on the board conducting Zack Addy's dissertation defense.
  Clark Thomas Edison, forensic physical anthropologist played by Eugene Byrd (season 3–12)
  Dr. Douglas Filmore is a Canadian Forensic Podiatrist, a subfield of forensic anthropology in which his is the leading authority
  Rodolfo Fuentes, forensic anthropologist from Cuba, interning under Dr. Brennan (seasons 9–12). Played by Ignacio Serricchio.
  Arastoo Vaziri, cultural anthropologist, played by Pej Vahdat (seasons 4–12)
  Oliver Wells, polymath
  In the Star Trek universe:
  Chakotay, played by Robert Beltran in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
  Michael Burnham, a xenoanthropologist played by Sonequa Martin-Green in the television series Star Trek: Discovery
  Mary Albright, played by Jane Curtin in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
  Dr. Alex Blake, forensic linguist (not specified as an anthropologist) in the television series Criminal Minds
  Alfred Hofstadter, father of Leonard Hofstadter an experimental physicist in the television series The Big Bang Theory
  Daniel Jackson, linguist and archaeologist in the 1994 science-fiction movie Stargate and the spin-off television series Stargate SG-1, played respectively by Michael Shanks and James Spader
  Charlotte Lewis, played by Rebecca Mader; cultural anthropologist on the ABC television series Lost
  Uncle Martin in the television sitcom My Favorite Martian, Martian anthropologist interested in Earth culture
  Noah is a cultural anthropologist abducted by pirates in two episodes of the TV show Archer. In the escape from mutinying pirates, Noah must leave the only copy of his unfinished dissertation, and all his notes, behind.
  Blair Sandburg, an anthropologist in The Sentinel TV series, played by Garett Maggart.
  June Bauer, the anthropology professor played by Betty White in the second season of Community
caption: Emily Deschanel, who plays Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan
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