Women orientalists

American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)

Swiss explorer and author (1877-1904)

German scholar of Islam (1922-2003)

Turkish Sumerologist (1914–2024)

Filipino sinologist

Danish Orientalist and historian (1945–2015)

Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist, and writer (1905-1970)

Azerbaijani historian (1906–2001)

Azerbaijani academic (1939–1992)

Dutch model

German academic

American writer and anthropologist

French writer

Ukrainian scientist

German politician

English journalist and author

German linguist and art historian (1901–1993)

Buryat historian (1928–2004)

French diplomat

American historian (born 1955)

Croatian philosopher and writer (born 1945)

American orientalist

Swedish photographer (1864-1943)

American scholar of Islam (1897–1981)

Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist (1924–2024)

Australian academic, translator, author and editor.

Italian translator and historian of Chinese Religion, Daoism (1962-2011)

Jewish philanthropist, businesswoman and scholar

Azerbaijani politician and academician

American writer and priest

Austrian anthropologist, Assyriologist and writer

German sinologist and film maker (1950–2024)

British art historian and sinologist (born 1943)

French historian & academic

American scholar of ancient China

Israeli professor of African studies

academic, economist

Iraqi archaeologist

professor of cultural anthropology

American historian

translator, essayist and novelist