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page 120th-century Mesoamericanists
Tzvetan Todorov
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (1939-2017)

Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist (1897–1941)
Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)

Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
Sylvanus Morley
American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S. (1883–1948)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)
Oliver La Farge
American novelist, anthropologist (1901–1963)
Alex Hrdlicka
Czech-American anthropologist
Teoberto Maler
German Mesoamericanist (1842–1917)
Alfred Maudslay
British explorer and scholar (1850–1931)
Leonardo López Luján
Archaeologist
Michael D. Coe
American Mesoamericanist (1929-2019)

Miguel León Portilla
Mexican academic (1926–2019)
Frans Blom
Danish Mesoamericanist (1893–1963)
Edward Herbert Thompson
American mesoamericanist (1857–1935)
Jacques Soustelle
French politician and member of the Resistance (1912-1990)
Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
Mexican mesoamericanist (1906–1979)
William Henry Holmes
American academic, painter and illustrator (1846-1933)
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)
Alfonso Caso
Mexican archaeologist (1896-1970)
Thomas Gann
British physician and archaeologist (1867–1938)
Gertrude Blom
Swiss Mesoamericanists (1901–1993)
Ronald Langacker
Professor emeritus in the field of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego.
Carl Sofus Lumholtz
Norwegian explorer (1851-1922)
Robert Redfield
American anthropologist (1897–1958)
Miguel Covarrubias
Mexican painter, caricaturist and art historian (1904–1957)
William Bright
American linguist (1928–2006)
Merle Greene Robertson
American Mesoamericanist (1913-2011)
R. H. Barlow
American anthropologist (1918–1951)

Paul Kirchhoff
German anthropologist (1900-1972)
Anne Chapman
American anthropologist (1922–2010)
Manuel Gamio
Mexican academic (1883–1960)
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
English photographer, archaeologist, traveller and author (1851–1910)

Matthew Stirling
American Mesoamericanist (1896–1975)
Gordon Willey
American archaeologist (1913–2002)
Floyd Lounsbury
American mesoamericanist (1914–1998)
Linda Schele
American mesoamericanist
Thomas Barthel
German Mesoamericanist (1923-1997)
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist (1885-1963)
Anthony Aveni
American astronomer and anthropologist
George Kubler
American art historian (1912-1996)
Karl Sapper
German traveller, explorer, antiquarian and linguist (1866–1945)
David Stuart
American Mayanist, linguist and epigrapher
Joyce Marcus
American archaeologist
Terrence Kaufman
American academic (1937–2022)
Konrad Theodor Preuss
German ethnologist (1869–1938)
Ian Graham
British Mesoamericanist (1923–2017)
Karl Taube
American Mesoamericanist
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Mexican archaeologist
J. Eric S. Thompson
English Mesoamerican archaeologist (1898–1975)
Ignacio Bernal
Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist (1910–1992)
Adrián Recinos
Guatemalan scholar and diplomat (1886–1962)
John Alden Mason
American archaeological anthropologist and linguist (1885–1967)
Maarten Jansen
Dutch academic and professor of Mesoamerican archaeology and history
Nigel Davies
British anthropologist and historian (1920-2004)
Alfredo López Austin
Mexican Mesoamericanist (1936–2021)
Ángel María Garibay K.
Mexican Mesoamericanist Holi (1892–1967)
Dorothy Popenoe
English botanist and archaeologist (1899-1932)
Alfred Tozzer
American anthropologist (1877–1954)
Galina Yershova
Soviet and Russian academic