List of anthropologists
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- Nigel Barley
 - Fredrik Barth
 - Vasily Bartold
 - Keith H. Basso
 - Daisy Bates
 - Gregory Bateson
 - Mary Catherine Bateson
 - Richard Bauman
 - Ruth Behar
 - Ruth Benedict
 - Dorothy A. Bennett
 - Carl H. Berendt
 - Lee Berger
 - Brent Berlin
 - Catherine Helen Webb Berndt
 - Catherine L. Besteman
 - Theodore C. Bestor
 - Lewis Binford
 - Evelyn Blackwood
 - Wilhelm Bleek
 - Maurice Bloch
 - Anton Blok
 - Franz Boas
 - Tom Boellstorff
 - Paul Bohannan
 - Dmitri Bondarenko
 - Pere Bosch-Gimpera
 - Pierre Bourdieu
 - Philippe Bourgois
 - Charles L. Briggs
 - Paul Broca
 - Christian Bromberger
 - Kari Bruwelheide
 - Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hīroa)
 
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- Abdellah Hammoudi
 - Michael Harkin
 - Michael Harner
 - John P. Harrington
 - Marvin Harris
 - K. David Harrison
 - Kirsten Hastrup
 - Jacquetta Hawkes
 - Brian Douglas Hayden
 - Rose Oldfield Hayes
 - Stephen C. Headley
 - Thor Heyerdahl
 - Arthur Maurice Hocart
 - Ian Hodder
 - E. Adamson Hoebel
 - Earnest Hooton
 - Robin W.G. Horton
 - Aleš Hrdlička
 - Eva Verbitsky Hunt
 - Zora Neale Hurston
 - Dell Hymes
 
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- William Labov
 - George Lakoff
 - Harold E. Lambert
 - Edmund Leach
 - Eleanor Leacock
 - Murray Leaf
 - Louis Leakey
 - Mary Leakey
 - Richard Leakey
 - Nataliia Lebedeva
 - Richard Borshay Lee
 - Charles Miller Leslie
 - Claude Lévi-Strauss
 - Ellen Lewin
 - C. Scott Littleton
 - Albert Buell Lewis
 - Oscar Lewis
 - Phillip Harold Lewis
 - Roland Littlewood
 - Robert Lowie
 - Nancy Lurie
 
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- Alan Macfarlane
 - Saba Mahmood
 - Bronisław Malinowski
 - George Marcus
 - Jonathan M. Marks
 - Karl Marx
 - John Alden Mason
 - Michael Atwood Mason
 - Marcel Mauss
 - Phillip McArthur
 - Irma McClaurin
 - Charles Harrison McNutt
 - Margaret Mead
 - Mervyn Meggitt
 - Josef Mengele
 - Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
 - Emily Martin
 - Horace Mitchell Miner
 - Sidney Mintz
 - Louis Molet
 - Ashley Montagu
 - James Mooney
 - Henrietta L. Moore
 - John H. Moore
 - Lewis H. Morgan
 - Desmond Morris
 - George Murdock
 - Yolanda Murphy
 
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- Marshall Sahlins
 - Noel B. Salazar
 - Roger Sandall
 - Edward Sapir
 - Patricia Sawin
 - Nancy Scheper-Hughes
 - Wilhelm Schmidt
 - Tobias Schneebaum
 - James C. Scott
 - Thayer Scudder
 - Elman Service
 - Afanasy Shchapov
 - Gerald F. Schroedl
 - Florence Connolly Shipek
 - Sydel Silverman
 - Audra Simpson
 - Cathy Small
 - Christen A. Smith
 - Jacques Soustelle
 - Melford Spiro
 - James Spradley
 - Julian Steward
 - Herbert Spencer
 - Marilyn Strathern
 - William Sturtevant
 - Niara Sudarkasa
 
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Fictional anthropologists
- Mary Albright (Jane Curtin) in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun
 - Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) in the television series Bones
 - Temperance Brennan in the novel series Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reichs
 - Chakotay (Robert Beltran) in the television series Star Trek: Voyager
 - Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the television series Star Trek: Discovery
 - Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks, James Spader) in the television series and film Stargate SG-1
 - Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader) in the television series Lost
 - Korekiyo Shinguji
 
See also
- List of female anthropologists
 - List of Black Anthropologists
 - List of Chinese sociologists and anthropologists