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