List of historians by continent

This is a **list of historians**. It is sorted by continent.

## Africa
### Botswana
*Thomas Tlou (d. 2010) 
### Egypt
*Samir Farid, d. in 2017

*Manetho, lived in the early 3rd century BC

### Morocco
*Ibn Khaldun, d. in 1406
*Abdelhadi Tazi, was a  Moroccan ambassador; d. in 2015

:*Pages appear in :Category:Moroccan historians*

### Nigeria
*Adiele Afigbo, d. 2009

### Senegal
*Iba Der Thiam, also known as I. D. Thiam (d. 2020)
### South Africa
*Karel Schoeman, he won the Hertzog Prize for prose; d. in 2017

### Tunisia
*Ibn Khaldun, d. in 1406
*Mohamed Talbi, chief of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts; awarded Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour of France; he died in 2017.
*Hichem Djait, d. 2021

### Zimbabwe
*Aeneas Chigwedere, d. 2021

## Asia
### Armenia
:*Pages appear in :Category:Armenian historians*

### Azerbaijan
:*Pages appear in :Category:Azerbaijani historians*
### China
*Huang Xianfan, d. in 1982

*Sima Qian, d. in 	86 BC

:*Pages appear in :Category:Chinese historians*

### India
:*Pages appear in :Category:Indian historians*

### Iran
*Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, d. in 2014

*Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, d. in 923 AD

:*Pages appear in :Category:Iranian historians*

### Israel
:*Pages appear in :Category:Israeli historians*

### Lebanon
*Salah Stétié (d. 2020)

### Japan
*Kan'ichi Asakawa, professor (in the U.S.); known for speaking against the growth of militarism in Japan, and trying to prevent war between Japan and the United States; he died in 1948

### Laos
*Maha Sila Viravong - "an important scholar of traditional Lao literature, history, and culture", according to Encyclopædia Britannica

### Malaysia
*Khoo Kay Kim, d. 2019

### Pakistan
:*Pages appear in :Category:Pakistani historians*

### Russia
:*Pages appear in :Category:Russian historians*

### Taiwan
*Li Ao, d. 2018
*Su Beng, wrote the book Taiwan's 400 Year History; d. 2019

### Thailand
*Suthachai Yimprasert, d. in 2017

### Turkey
:*Pages appear in :Category:Turkish historians*

### Vietnam
*Đinh Xuân Lâm, d. 2017
*Phan Huy Lê, d. 2018

## Europe
## North  America
### Barbados
*Kamau Brathwaite, d. 2020
### Canada
*Benoît Lacroix, d. in 2016
*Cyril Leonoff, d. in 2016

:*Pages appear in :Category:Canadian historians*

### Cuba
*Harry Villegas (d. 2019) 

### Dominican Republic
*Juan Bosch, was President of the Dominican Republic; d. in 2001

### United States
* George Bancroft - known as the "father of American History"; he died in 1891

*Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; he died in 1919

## Oceania 
### Australia
:*Pages appear in :Category:Australian historians*

### New Zealand
*Dick Scott (historian), d. 2020
*Don Neely, d. 2022

## South America
### Argentina
*Alejandro Betts, d. 2020

### Bolivia
*Teresa Gisbert Carbonell, d. 2018
*Felipe Quispe, leader of Pachakuti Indigenous Movement; secretary general of the largest confederation of peasant workers in Bolivia, *Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia*; d. 2021

### Chile
*José Arraño, d. in 2009

:*Pages appear in :Category:Chilean historians*

### Equador
*Jorge Núñez Sánchez, d. 2020

### Mexico
:*Pages appear in :Category:Mexican historians*

### Peru
*Armando Nieto, died in 2017

### Venezuela
*Ramón José Velásquez, acting president of Venezuela; d. in 2014

## Related pages 
* List of historians

## References