List of historians by continent
This is a list of historians. It is sorted by continent.
Africa
[change | change source]Botswana
[change | change source]- Thomas Tlou (d. 2010)
Egypt
[change | change source]- Samir Farid, d. in 2017
- Manetho, lived in the early 3rd century BC
Morocco
[change | change source]- Ibn Khaldun, d. in 1406
- Abdelhadi Tazi, was a Moroccan ambassador; d. in 2015
- Pages appear in Category:Moroccan historians
Nigeria
[change | change source]- Adiele Afigbo, d. 2009
Senegal
[change | change source]- Iba Der Thiam, also known as I. D. Thiam (d. 2020)
South Africa
[change | change source]- Karel Schoeman, he won the Hertzog Prize for prose; d. in 2017
Tunisia
[change | change source]- 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
[change | change source]- Aeneas Chigwedere, d. 2021
Asia
[change | change source]Armenia
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Armenian historians
Azerbaijan
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Azerbaijani historians
China
[change | change source]- Huang Xianfan, d. in 1982
- Sima Qian, d. in 86 BC
- Pages appear in Category:Chinese historians
India
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Indian historians
Iran
[change | change source]- Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, d. in 2014
- Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, d. in 923 AD
- Pages appear in Category:Iranian historians
Israel
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Israeli historians
Lebanon
[change | change source]- Salah Stétié (d. 2020)
Japan
[change | change source]- 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;[1] he died in 1948
Laos
[change | change source]- Maha Sila Viravong - "an important scholar of traditional Lao literature, history, and culture", according to Encyclopædia Britannica[2]
Malaysia
[change | change source]- Khoo Kay Kim, d. 2019
Pakistan
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Pakistani historians
Russia
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Russian historians
Taiwan
[change | change source]- Li Ao, d. 2018
- Su Beng, wrote the book Taiwan's 400 Year History; d. 2019
Thailand
[change | change source]- Suthachai Yimprasert, d. in 2017
Turkey
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Turkish historians
Vietnam
[change | change source]- Đinh Xuân Lâm, d. 2017
- Phan Huy Lê, d. 2018
Europe
[change | change source]North America
[change | change source]Barbados
[change | change source]- Kamau Brathwaite, d. 2020
Canada
[change | change source]- Benoît Lacroix, d. in 2016
- Cyril Leonoff, d. in 2016
- Pages appear in Category:Canadian historians
Cuba
[change | change source]- Harry Villegas (d. 2019)
Dominican Republic
[change | change source]- Juan Bosch, was President of the Dominican Republic; d. in 2001
United States
[change | change source]- George Bancroft - known as the "father of American History";[3] he died in 1891
- Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; he died in 1919
Oceania
[change | change source]Australia
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Australian historians
New Zealand
[change | change source]- Dick Scott (historian), d. 2020
- Don Neely, d. 2022
South America
[change | change source]Argentina
[change | change source]- Alejandro Betts, d. 2020
Bolivia
[change | change source]- 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
[change | change source]- José Arraño, d. in 2009
- Pages appear in Category:Chilean historians
Equador
[change | change source]- Jorge Núñez Sánchez, d. 2020
Mexico
[change | change source]- Pages appear in Category:Mexican historians
Peru
[change | change source]- Armando Nieto, died in 2017
Venezuela
[change | change source]- Ramón José Velásquez, acting president of Venezuela; d. in 2014
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ Cohen, Warren I. (1996). Pacific Passage: the Study of American-East Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century, p. 42.
- ↑ "Lao literature". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ↑ "George Bancroft (American historian) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". britannica.com. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
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