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Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Historian and Bishop of St Asaph, Wales (c.1095–1155)
William Jones
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746-1794)
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
Margaret Murray
Anglo-Indian Egyptologist (1863–1963)
Edith Durham
British artist (1863-1944)
Victor Turner
British cultural anthropologist (1920-1983)
Robin Dunbar
British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist
Arthur Keith
British anatomist and anthropologist (1866–1955)
Alfred Cort Haddon
British anthropologist (1855–1940)
Marilyn Strathern
British anthropologist, born 1941
Christopher B. Stringer
British paleoanthropologist
Richard William Howard Vyse
British soldier and politician, anthropologist and egyptologist (1784-1853)
Walter Baldwin Spencer
English-Australian biologist and anthropologist. (1860–1929)
John Shae Perring
British academic (1813-1869)
Robert Ranulph Marett
British ethnologist (1866–1943)
Geraldine Finlayson
Gibraltarian historian
Brian M. Fagan
English archaeologist
Maurice Bloch
anthropologist
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
British anthropologist (born 1966)
Clive Finlayson
zoologist
Alan Macfarlane
British anthropologist
Bertha Phillpotts
British academic & college headmistress (1877–1932)
Frederic Wood Jones
British anthropologist (1879-1954)
Stephen Corry
British anthropologist and activist
Alison Spedding
British anthropologist
William Turner
British anatomist (1832–1916)
Herbert Hope Risley
British ethnographer and colonial administrator
Lucy Suchman
British sociologist
Daniel Miller
British anthropologist
William Scoresby Routledge
British ethnographer, anthropologist and adventurer (1859–1939)
E. S. Drower
British cultural anthropologist and philologist
Isaac Schapera
British anthropologist (1905-2003)
Mark Turin
British anthropologist
Christopher Pinney
British anthropologist
Thomas Athol Joyce
British anthropologist (1878-1942)
Walter Roth
Australian anthropologist (1861–1933)
R. E. Dennett
English trader operating out of the Kongo (present day Republic of Congo) in the early 20th century who wrote a number of books that were influential on sociological and anthropological research on the cultures of West Africa
Farideh Heyat
British-Iranian anthropologist
Iain Chambers
British anthropologist and sociologist (1949-)
Tudor Parfitt
British historian, writer, traveller, broadcaster, adventurer
Richard Carnac Temple
British commissioner (1850–1931)
Hugh Raffles
British anthropologist
Robin Fox
British anthropologist (1934–2024)
Sarah Green
social anthropologist
Barbara Harrisson
German archeologist and museum director
Arthur Maurice Hocart
anthropologist (1883-1939)
Edwin Sidney Hartland
British folklorist (1848–1927)
Gordon Hillman
British archaeobotanist (1943-2018)
Don Brothwell
British archaeologist
James Hunt
English speech therapist (1833–1869)
George Thomas Bettany
British historian and anthropologist (1850-1891)