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A. R. Venkatachalapathy
A. R. Venkatachalapathy (ஆ.இரா. வேங்கடாசலபதி) is an Indian historian and Tamil writer, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai known for research on Tamil print culture.
Abdallah Laroui
Abdallah Laroui (عبد الله العروي; born 1933) is a Moroccan historian, novelist, and political theorist, author of over 30 books on Arab modernity and historicism.
Abdul Wahid Aresar
Abdul Wahid Aresar (عبدالواحد آريسر; 1949–2015) was a Sindhi nationalist politician, historian, and writer who led the Jeay Sindh Mahaz and chaired one Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz faction.
Abu al-Qasim Saadallah
Abu al-Qasim Saadallah (أبو القاسم سعد الله; 1930–2013) was an Algerian historian and literary critic known as the dean of Algerian historians, best known for his multivolume Cultural History of Algeria.
Ahmed Rasim
Ahmed Rasim (1865–1932) was an Ottoman and Turkish journalist, writer, and composer who wrote over a hundred books, best known for his Istanbul chronicles Şehir Mektupları.
Ahmed Toufiq
Ahmed Toufiq (أحمد التوفيق), born 1943, is a Moroccan historian, novelist, and manuscript scholar who has been Morocco's Minister of Habous and Islamic Affairs since 2002.
Al-Utbi
Al-Utbi (Abu Nasr Mohammad al-Utbi) was a Persian historian and secretary at the Ghaznavid court who wrote the Arabic Kitab al-Yamini on Mahmud of Ghazna.
Alexander Baumgartner
Alexander Baumgartner (1841–1910) was a Swiss Jesuit priest, poet, and literary historian known for a three-volume Goethe biography and an unfinished six-volume history of world literature.
Alexandre Herculano
Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (1810–1877) was a Portuguese poet, novelist, and historian who, with Almeida Garrett, introduced Romanticism and is considered the father of modern Portuguese historiography.
Alexandru Odobescu
Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) was a Romanian writer and archaeologist, a founder of Romanian archaeology and author of the historical novellas Mihnea Vodă cel Rău and Doamna Chiajna.
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330–395) was a Greek-speaking soldier and historian from Antioch whose Latin Res Gestae is the principal surviving source for the mid-fourth-century Roman Empire.
Andrew Morton (writer)
Andrew Morton, British journalist and royal biographer, author of Diana: Her True Story (1992), written with Princess Diana's secret tape-recorded cooperation via Dr James Colthurst; also biographer of Meghan Markle, Wallis Simpson, and Queen Elizabeth II.
Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Fraser (born 27 August 1932, London), née Pakenham, is a British historian and biographer. Breakthrough Mary Queen of Scots (1969); also Cromwell, Marie Antoinette, the Jemima Shore mysteries; wife of Harold Pinter.
Antonio de la Calancha
Antonio de la Calancha (1584–1654) was a criollo Augustinian friar and chronicler of the Viceroyalty of Peru, best known for his Corónica moralizada, a principal source on indigenous religion and customs in Peru and Bolivia.
Ari Þorgilsson
Ari Þorgilsson, known as Ari the Wise (1067–1148), was an Icelandic priest and historian whose Íslendingabók, the oldest Icelandic vernacular history, made him the founder of Icelandic historiography.
Arrian
Arrian, in full Lucius Flavius Arrianus, was a Greek historian and Roman official of Nicomedia in Bithynia in the second century CE, best known for the Anabasis of Alexander.
Bayani (historian)
Bayani, born Muhammad Yusuf Bek, was a Khivan poet, historian, and court official under the Khiva khans who wrote the Shajara-yi khwarazmshahi, a general history of Khorezm, before his death in 1923.
Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre (born 1963) is a British historian and Times columnist-author of Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, The Spy and the Traitor, and Redwood, distinct from Alasdair MacIntyre, Stuart Macintyre, and Linden MacIntyre.
Bhudev Mukhopadhyay
Bhudev Mukhopadhyay (ভূদেব মুখোপাধ্যায়, 1827–1894) was a Bengali essayist and historian who helped establish the essay as a genre in Bengali and rose to Director of Public Instructions in British India.
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, born Tadeu Hâjdeu, was a Romanian writer, philologist, historian, and folklorist who held the first chair of Indo-European comparative linguistics at Bucharest and left unfinished the dictionary Etymologicum Magnum Romaniae.
Bryan Edwards (historian)
Bryan Edwards (1743–1800) was a Jamaican planter, merchant, Member of Parliament, and historian whose 1793 History of the British West Indies became an instant bestseller while defending the slave trade.
Carl Friedrich Glasenapp
Carl Friedrich Glasenapp (1847–1915) was a Baltic German philologist, schoolteacher, and music writer in Riga, best known for the first monumental six-volume biography of Richard Wagner.
Catharine Macaulay
Catharine Macaulay, née Sawbridge (1731–1791), was an English republican historian and political writer whose eight-volume History of England made her a celebrated voice of eighteenth-century British radicalism.
Charles de Rochefort
Charles de Rochefort (1605–1683) was a French Protestant pastor in Rotterdam whose 1658 book on the Antilles is one of the most important early European descriptions of the Caribbean.
Chit Phumisak
Chit Phumisak (จิตร ภูมิศักดิ์) was a Thai Marxist historian, poet, and linguist, remembered as one of Thailand's most influential left-wing intellectuals until his death in 1966.
Curtius Rufus
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably active in the 1st century CE, who wrote the only surviving Latin history of Alexander the Great, the Historiae Alexandri Magni.
David Grann
David Grann (born 1967, New York) is an American narrative nonfiction author and New Yorker staff writer since 2003, known for Killers of the Flower Moon, The Lost City of Z, and The Wager.
David McCullough
David McCullough (1933–2022) was an American popular historian, author of Truman, John Adams, 1776, The Great Bridge, and The Pioneers, two-time Pulitzer and National Book Award winner and narrator of The Civil War.
Dinesh Chandra Sen
Dinesh Chandra Sen (দীনেশচন্দ্র সেন; 1866–1939) was a Bengali educator and historian of Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta who pioneered collecting Bengali folk ballads, including Maimansingha Gitika.
Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius was a Greek author of the early third century CE whose Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is the main ancient source on Greek philosophy.