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Nicholas Roerich
Russian painter, writer, archaeologist and philosopher (1874–1947)
Michael Palin
English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter (born 1943)
Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, topographer, explorer, photographer, travel writer and illustrator (1865-1952)
Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist, lichenologist, and surgeon (1817–1911)
Alexandra David-Néel
French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, Taoist, anarchist and writer
Alexander Cunningham
British army engineer and amateur archaeologist (1814-1893)
Brian Houghton Hodgson
British diplomat and naturalist (1800/1801–1894)
Austrian Academy of Sciences
science academy in Austria
Salim Ali
Indian ornithologist (1896-1987)
Sándor Kőrösi Csoma
Hungarian philologist and orientalist (1784-1842)
Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist (1928–2016)
Ruskin Bond
Indian writer of British descent (born 1934)
Rahul Sankrityayan
Indian scholar and author (1893 – 1963)
Elizabeth Hawley
journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions (1923–2018)
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Swedish activist and documentary director
Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist and indologist (1863–1935)
Giuseppe Tucci
Italian orientalist (1894–1984)
Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark
anthropologist, specialising in Tibetan beliefs and customs
Ferdinand Stoliczka
Czech traveller, geologist and paleontologist (1838–1874)
George Schaller
American naturalist
Michael Aris
British academic (1946–1999)
Hope Cooke
American author, historian and former Queen of Sikkim
George de Roerich
Russian tibetologist (1902–1960)
Sherry Ortner
American anthropologist
Wolfson College
college of the University of Oxford
Sonam Wangchuk
Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist
George King
British botanist (1840-1909)
Namita Gokhale
Indian writer
Chandi Prasad Bhatt
Indian environmentalist
National Museum of Bhutan
Museum in Asia
Michel Peissel
French ethnologist, author and explorer (1937–2011)
Victor Jacquemont
French botanist (1801-1832)
Satya Mohan Joshi
Nepalese historian, researcher, writer
Manjushree Thapa
Nepali writer
Adolf von Schlagintweit
German botanist and explorer (1829–1857)
Laurence Waddell
British explorer (1854-1938)
Hermann von Schlagintweit
German explorer and naturalist (1826-1882)
Namgyal Institute of Tibetology
Tibet museum in Gangtok, Sikkim, India
National Museum of Nepal
museum
Ernest Binfield Havell
British art historian specializing in Indian art and architecture (1861-1934)
Samuel Bourne
British photographer (1834-1912)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
organization
Messner Mountain Museum
group of museums in Italy
Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf
Austrian ethnologist (1909–1995)
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi
Swiss geologist (1910-2012)
Aparajita Datta
Indian wildlife conservationist
David Snellgrove
British Tibetologist (1920-2016)
Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt
German anthropologist (1892-1965)
Uma Bhatt
Indian scholar, writer, magazine editor
Baburam Acharya
Historian, scholar
Alan Macfarlane
British anthropologist
Hugh Whistler
British ornithologist (1889–1943)
Robert von Schlagintweit
German explorer (1833–1885)
William Moorcroft
18th/19th-century English traveler
Marco Pallis
Buddhist scholar and mystic (1895–1989)
Françoise Pommaret
French Tibetologist
Bruno Messerli
Swiss geographer and university professor (1931-2019)
Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
Indian geologist (1883–1969)
Mohinder Singh Randhawa
Indian art historian and botanist (1909-1986)
Toni Hagen
Swiss geologist (1917–2003)