Category
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Benjamin Lee Whorf
American linguist (1897–1941)

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
French naturalist (1783-1840)

Yuri Knorozov
Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999)
Diego de Landa
Spanish Bishop of Yucatán (1524-1579)
John Lloyd Stephens
American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805–1852)
Sylvanus Morley
American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S. (1883–1948)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)
Frederick Catherwood
British Mesoamericanist, explorer, artist, architect, and photographer (1799-1854)
Lyle Campbell
American Mesoamericanist
Teoberto Maler
German Mesoamericanist (1842–1917)
Ernst Förstemann
German historian, archivist and librarian (1822-1906)
Michael D. Coe
American Mesoamericanist (1929-2019)
Alfred Maudslay
British explorer and scholar (1850–1931)
Désiré Charnay
French archaeologist and photographer (1828–1915)
Frans Blom
Danish Mesoamericanist (1893–1963)
Juan Galindo
Guatemalan Mesoamericanist (1802–1839)
Edward Herbert Thompson
American mesoamericanist (1857–1935)
Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
Mexican mesoamericanist (1906–1979)
Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
French Mesoamericanist (1814–1874)
Augustus Le Plongeon
British photographer and archaeologist (1825–1908)
Gertrude Blom
Swiss Mesoamericanists (1901–1993)
Thomas Gann
British physician and archaeologist (1867–1938)
Merle Greene Robertson
American Mesoamericanist (1913-2011)
Cyrus Thomas
American Mesoamericanist and entomologist (1825-1910)
Francisco Ximénez
Mayanist
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
English photographer, archaeologist, traveller and author (1851–1910)
Nikolai Grube
German Mesoamericanist
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist (1885-1963)
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
French antiquarian, explorer, artist (1766-1875)
Floyd Lounsbury
American mesoamericanist (1914–1998)
Thomas Barthel
German Mesoamericanist (1923-1997)
Linda Schele
American mesoamericanist
David Stuart
American Mayanist, linguist and epigrapher
mayanist
Anthony Aveni
American astronomer and anthropologist
J. Eric S. Thompson
English Mesoamerican archaeologist (1898–1975)
Terrence Kaufman
American academic (1937–2022)
Joyce Marcus
American archaeologist
Ian Graham
British Mesoamericanist (1923–2017)
Karl Taube
American Mesoamericanist
Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo
Spanish archaeologist
Adrián Recinos
Guatemalan scholar and diplomat (1886–1962)
Alfred Tozzer
American anthropologist (1877–1954)
Yuriy Polyukhovych
Ukrainian historian and diplomat
Peter Mathews
Australian anthropologist and archaeologist
Mary Miller
American art historian and Dean of Yale College
Arthur Demarest
American anthropologist

Anabel Ford
archaeologist from the United States specializing in Mayan culture, also discovered the El Pilar site
Galina Yershova
Soviet and Russian academic
Inga Clendinnen
Australian historian
Stephen D. Houston
American Mesoamericanist

Robert Sharer
American archaeologist (1940–2012)
Norman Hammond
British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar
Søren Wichmann
Danish linguist and mesoamericanist
David H. Kelley
American genealogist (1924-2011)
Evon Z. Vogt
American anthropologist
Herbert Spinden
American anthropologist, archeologist and art historian
Elin C. Danien
American anthropologist
Elizabeth P. Benson
American Mesoamericanist
Pierre Colas
German Mesoamericanist (1976–2008)