List of historians

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)

Irfan Habib (born 1931), India
Sheldon Hackney (d. 2013), US South
Kenneth J. Hagan (born 1936), US naval
John Haldon (born 1948), Byzantine Empire 
John Whitney Hall (d. 1997), Japan
Bruce Barrymore Halpenny (d. 2015), World War II air war
N. G. L. Hammond (d. 2001), ancient Greek history
Nahema Hanafi (born 1983), modern and contemporary history
Victor Davis Hanson (born 1953), ancient warfare
Syed Nomanul Haq (born 1948), history and philosophy of science
Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976), Israeli, military, Medieval
Donna Haraway (born 1944), History of consciousness
Mohamed Harbi (born 1933), Algeria
Antoinette Harrell (born 1960), post-slavery peonage of African-American sharecroppers
Dick Harrison (born 1966), Swedish and Medieval
Peter Harrison (born 1955), early modern intellectual
Max Hastings (born 1945), military, WWII 
John Hattendorf (born 1941), maritime
Ragnhild Hatton (d. 1995), 17th–18th-century European international
Georges Haupt (d. 1978), Romania, Hungary, political history, labor history, history of literature
Denys Hay (d. 1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
John Daniel Hayes (d. 1991), US naval
Peter Hayes (born c. 1947), Holocaust
Joel Hayward (born 1964), Islamic, maritime, military
Ingo Heidbrink (born 1968), maritime history, history of technology
Michael Heinrich (born 1957), philosophy
Jean van Heijenoort (d. 1986), mathematical logic
Klaus Hentschel (born 1961), historian of science and of visual cultures
Ulrich Herbert (born 1951), modern Germany 
Jeffrey Herf (born 1947), Germany, Europe
Arthur L. Herman (born 1956), America, Britain
Michael Hicks (born 1948), late medieval England
Raul Hilberg (d. 2007), Holocaust
Klaus Hildebrand (born 1941), 19th/20th-century Germany
Christopher Hill, (1912–2003), 17th century England
Andreas Hillgruber (d. 1989), 20th-century Germany
Richard L. Hills (d. 2019), technology
Rodney Hilton (d. 2002), late medieval period
Gertrude Himmelfarb (d. 2019), Britain
Harry Hinsley (d. 1998), British intelligence, World War II
Gerhard Hirschfeld (born 1946), 20th-century Germany, World War I, World War II
Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012), labour history, Marxism, British historian
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin (d. 1982), Africa
Marshall Hodgson (d. 1968), Islamic
Peter Hoffmann (d. 2023), National Socialism
Richard Hofstadter (d. 1970), US political
David Hoggan (d. 1988), neo-Nazi
Hajo Holborn (d. 1969), Germany
Tom Holland (born 1968), Ancient Greece, Rome, Middle Ages
C. Warren Hollister (d. 1997), Middle Ages
George Holmes (d. 2009), medieval
Richard Holmes (d. 2011), military
Ed Hooper (born 1964), Southern Appalachia, Tennessee, Old South
A. G. Hopkins (born 1938), Britain
Keith Hopkins (d. 2004), ancient
Michiel Horn (born 1939), Canada
Alistair Horne (d. 2017), modern French
Gerald Horne (born 1949), US history, African-American, political history, labor history
Daniel Horowitz (born 1954), US cultural
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born 1942), women
Albert Hourani (d. 1993), Middle East
Youssef Hourany (d. 2019), Lebanon, ancient
Michael Howard (1922–2019), military
Ray Huang (d. 2000), China
Robert Hughes (d. 2012), Australia, cities
Marnie Hughes-Warrington (born 1970), historiography, philosophy of history
Gershon Hundert (d. 2023), Jewish, early modern Eastern Europe
Andrew Hunt (born 1968), Cold War America
Tristram Hunt (born 1974)
Mark C. Hunter (born 1974), naval

Paul Kennedy (born 1945), British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
Thomas Kuhn, (d. 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 (d. 2015), German social history
Richard Pipes (d. 2018), conservative Polish-born American historian, Russian and Soviet history
Janko Prunk (born 1942), Slovenian historian of modern history
Theodore Roosevelt (d. 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, (d. 1981), Guyanese historian, Caribbean history, anti-imperialist themes
Robert M. Young (academic) (d. 2019), American historian, history of medicine and human sciences
Howard Zinn (d. 2010), American historian, popular U.S. history, the Left in the U.S.
Frederick Jackson Turner (d. 1932), historian of the Western United States

 Related pages 
 List of historians by continent

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