Historians

This is a list of historians.

The names are grouped by order of the historical period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialized.

Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.

See also: List of historians by area of study, List of historians of the French Revolution, English historians in the Middle Ages

Ancient historians

• Appian, Roman history
• Dio Cassius, Roman history
• Herodian, Roman History
• Zosimus, Late Roman history
• Fa-Hien, Chinese Buddhist monk and historian, author of A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hein of his Travels in India and Ceylon (399–414), In Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
• Gaius Acilius, Roman history
• Lucius Ampelius, Roman history
• Herodotus, (485–c. 420 BC), Halicarnassian (Persia), "Father of History"
• Thucydides, (460–c. 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
• Xenophon, (431–c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and student of Socrates
• Berossus, (4th century BC), Babylonian historian
• Timaeus of Tauromenium, (c. 345–c. 250 BC), Greek history
• Polybius, (203–c. 120 BC), Early Roman history (written in Greek)
• Julius Caesar, (100–c. 44 BC), Gallic and civil wars
• Flavius Josephus, (37–100), Jewish history
• Kalhana
• Sima Qian, (c. 140 BC), Chinese history
• Livy, (c. 59 BC–AD 17), Roman history
• Cremutius Cordus
• Sallust, (86–34 BC)
• Plutarch, (c. 46–120)
• Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (c. 56–c. 120), early Roman Empire
• Suetonius, (75–160), Roman emperors up to Flavian dynasty
• Thallus, Roman history
• Priscus, Byzantine history, 5th century
• Eusebius of Caesarea, (c. 275–339) Christian history
• Ammianus Marcellinus, (c. 325–c. 391)
• Arrian, Greek history
• Quintus Fabius Pictor, Roman history
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman history
• Ban Gu, (Han Dynasty)

Medieval historians/chroniclers

• Shen Yue, (441-513), History of the (Liu) Song Dynasty (420-479)
• Jordanes, (6th century), Goths
• Procopius, (died c. 565), Byzantines
• Gregory of Tours, (538–594), Franks
• Bede, (c. 672–735), Anglo-Saxons
• Adamnan, Irish historian, 625-704
• Nennius, shadowy historian of Wales
• Paul the Deacon, (8th century), Langobards
• Tabari, 838–923, great Persian historian
• Ibn Rustah, d. 903, Persian historian and traveler
• Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, (died 908/909) - Welsh monk, Life of Alfred
• Einhard, (9th century) - Biography of Charlemagne
• Notker, (9th century) - anecdotal Biography of Charlemagne
• Regino of Prüm, (died 915)
• Liutprand of Cremona, (922–972), Byzantine affairs
• Al-Biruni, (973–1048), Persian historian
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
• Thietmar of Merseburg, German, Polish, and Russian affairs
• Nestor the Chronicler, author of the Russian Primary Chronicle
• Gallus Anonymus, Polish historian
• Albert of Aix, historian of the First Crusade
• Michael Psellus the Younger, (1018–c. 1078)
• Sima Guang, (1019–1086), historiographer and politician
• Marianus Scotus, (1028–1082/1083), Irish chronicler
• Guibert of Nogent, (1053–1124)
• Florence of Worcester, (died 1118), English chronicler
• Eadmer, (c. 1066–c. 1124), post-Conquest English history
• Symeon of Durham, (died after 1129), English chronicler
• William of Malmesbury, (c. 1080–c. 1143)
• Anna Comnena, (1083–after 1148)
• Usamah ibn Munqidh, (1095–1188)
• Adam of Bremen, great historian of Scandinavia
• Ata al-Mulk Juvayni, (1226-83), Persian historian
• Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish
• Svend Aagesen, (12th century), Danish
• Alured of Beverley, (12th century), English chronicler
• William of Tyre, (c. 1128–1186)
• William of Newburgh, (1135–1198), English historian called "the father of historical criticism"
• John of Worcester, (fl. 1150s), English chronicler
• Giraldus Cambrensis, (c. 1146–c. 1223)
• Wincenty Kadlubek, (1161–1223), Polish historian
• Ambrose the poet, (fl. 1190s)
• Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160–1212)
• Nicetas Choniates, (died c. 1220)
• Matthew Paris, (died 1259)
• Salimbene di Adam, (1221–c. 1290), Italian
• Jean de Joinville, (1224–1319)
• Rashid al-Din, (1247–1317), Persian historian
• ibn Khaldun, (1332–1406)
• Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307)
• Abdullah Wassaf, 13th century, Persian historian
• Jean Froissart, (c. 1337–c. 1405), chronicler
• Dietrich of Nieheim, (c. 1345–1418), ecclesiastic history
• John of Fordun, scottish chronicler (d. 1384 )
• Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396–1456)
• Johannes Longinus, Polish historian and chronicler
• Philippe de Commines, French historian
• Sharaf ad-Din Ali Yazdi, d. 1454, Persian historian
• John Capgrave, (1393–1464)
• Christine de Pizan, (c. 1365–c. 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
• Robert Fabyan, (died 1513)
• Albert Krantz, (1450–1517)
• Polydore Vergil, (c. 1470–1555), Tudor history
• Sigismund von Herberstein, (1486–1566), Muscovite affairs
• João de Barros, (1496–1570)
• Josias Simmler, (1530–1576)
• Paolo Paruta, (1540–1598), Venetian historian
• Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580)
• Hector Boece, Scottish philosopher and historian. Wrote "Historia Gentis Scotorum" (1465-1536)
• Caesar Baronius, (1538–1607)
• Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni, (1540–1615), Indo-Persian historian
• John Hayward, (1564–1627)

Early modern historians (1600–1900)

• Michael O'Clery, Irish historian, c.1590–1643
• Cu Choigriche O Cleirigh, Irish historian, fl.1627–1636
• Fearfeasa O Maoilchonaire, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
• Peregrine O'Duignan, Irish historian, fl.1627-1636
• Seathrún Céitinn/Geoffrey Keating, d.1643, Irish historian
• Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh, fl.1643–1671, Irish historian, annalist, genealogist
• Daibhidh O Duibhghennain, Irish historian, fl.1651–1696/1706
• Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, (1610–1688), Medieval and Byzantine historian and philologist
• Ruaidhri O Flaithbheartaigh, Irish historian, 1629–1716/1718
• Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, (1637–1698), ecclesiastical historian
• Laurence Echard, (c.1670–1730), England
• Ludovico Antonio Muratori, (1672–1750), Italy
• Vasily Tatishchev, (1686–1750), first historian of modern Russia
• Archibald Bower, (1686–1766), ill-proportioned and inaccurate historian
• Johann Lorenz Von Mosheim, (1694–1755), Lutheran historian
• Voltaire, (1694–1778), French Enlightenment philosopher and historian
• Edward Hasted, Kent
• Francisco Jose Freire (1719 – 1773), Portuguese historian and philologist
• Mikhail Shcherbatov, (1733–1790), Russian historian
• Edward Gibbon, (1737–1794), Roman Empire and Byzantium, one of the all-time greats
• Chang Hsüeh-ch'eng, (1738–1801), Chinese historian, local histories and essays on historiography
• Johannes von Müller, (1752–1809)
• Anton Tomaz Linhart, (1756–1795)
• Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, (1766–1826), Russian Empire
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770–1831), German philosopher of history
• John Lingard, (1771–1851), England with a Catholic slant
• Piers Mackesy, (1775–1890), British and US military history
• Teimuraz Bagrationi, (1782–1846), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• John Colin Dunlop, (c. 1785–1842)
• Joachim Lelewel, (1786–1861), Polish historian
• François Guizot, (1787–1874), French historian of general French, English history
• George Grote, (1794–1871), classical Greece
• Leopold von Ranke, (1795–1886), probably the greatest German historian
• François Mignet, (1796–1884), French historian of the Revolution, middle ages
• William H. Prescott, (1796–1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico, Peru
• Charles Upson Clark, Works on the History of Eastern Europe
• Adolphe Thiers, (1797–1877), French historian of the Revolution, Empire
• Jules Michelet, (1798–1874), French
• George Finlay, (1799–1875), Greece
• Thomas Macaulay, (1800–1859), British and Roman
• George Bancroft, (1800–1891), United States
• Ludwig von Köchel, (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
• Alexis de Tocqueville, (1805–1859) French historian, author of The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Democracy in America
• Alexander William Kinglake, (1809–1891), works on the Crimean War
• Edward Shepherd Creasy, (1812–1878), warfare
• Timofey Granovsky, (1813–1855), medieval Germany
• Grace Aguilar, (1816–1847), Jewish history
• Nikolay Kostomarov, (1817–1885), Russian and Ukrainian history
• Theodor Mommsen, (1817–1903), Roman Empire
• Jacob Burckhardt, (1818–1897), art history, European history, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
• Zacharias Topelius, (1818–1898)
• Konstantin Kavelin, (1818–1885), history of Russian laws
• Sergey Solovyov, (1820–1879), Russian historian
• Auguste Himly, (1823–1906), French historian
• Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, (1828–1897), Spanish historian
• Boris Chicherin, (1828–1904), history of Russian laws
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, (1830–1889), antiquity, France
• Justin Winsor, (1831–1897), editor of the Narrative and Critical History of America, (8 vols., 1884-89)
• Dmitry Ilovaisky, (1832–1920), Russian history
• Heinrich von Treitschke, (1834–1896)
• Henry Adams, (1838–1918), Democracy: An American Novel
• Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840–1914), naval history
• Vasily Klyuchevsky, (1841–1911), Russian history
• Nikodim Kondakov, (1844–1925), Byzantine art
• Frederic William Maitland, (1850–1906), legal history
• Cesare Paoli (1840-1902), Italian History
• Simon Rutar, (1851–1903)
• Arnold Toynbee, (1852–1883), British
• Paul Vinogradoff, (1854–1925), later Roman Empire
• Faddei Zielinski, (1859–1944), Ancient Greece
• Sergey Platonov, (1860–1933), Oprichnina and Time of Troubles
• Henri Pirenne, (1862–1935), Belgian and medieval European history
• Wilhelm Barthold, (1869–1930), Muslim studies, Turkology
• Ivane Javakhishvili, (1876–1940), Georgian historian
• Mikheil Tsereteli, (1878–1965), Georgian historian
• Mary Wilhelmine Williams, (1878–1944), teacher, historian, pacifist, and feminist, author of The People and Politics of Latin America

Modern historians (after 1900)

A

• Irving Abella, Canadian historian & author
• Robert G. Albion, maritime history
• Gar Alperovitz, American historian, wrote Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima & Potsdam
• Ida Altman, American historian, colonial Spain & Latin America
• Stephen Ambrose, (1936–2002), American historian, U.S. history
• Charles McLean Andrews, (1863–1943), American historian, U.S. colonial history
• Joyce Appleby, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, France, and United States history
• Herbert Aptheker, (1915–2003), African American history and slave revolts
• Philippe Aries, French historian, medieval history in Europe
• Leonard J. Arrington, (1917–1999), Mormon historian
• Mikhail Artamonov, (1898–1972), founder of Khazar studies
• Jonathan Atkins, American historian, pre-civil war U.S. history
• Zurab Avalishvili, (1876–1944), history of Georgia and the Caucasus

B

• Yehuda Bauer, the Holocaust
• David E. Barclay, German history
• G.W.S. Barrow, Scottish history
• Jacques Barzun, (born 1907), cultural history
• Hanna Batatu, Palestinian historian and author of an authoritative study of modern Iraq
• Charles Bean, (1879–1968), Australia in World War I
• Charles A. Beard, (1874–1948), American historian, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
• Mary Ritter Beard, (1876–1958), American Historian and wife of Charles A. Beard
• Charles Bergquist, American historian, Latin American and labor history, author of Labor in Latin America: Comparative Essays on Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, and Colombia
• Isaiah Berlin, (1909–1997), history of ideas
• Michael Beschloss, (born 1955) American historian and celebrity intellectual, history of the U.S. presidency
• Nicholas Bethell, Soviet history
• David Blackbourn
• Geoffrey Blainey, Australian history
• Marc Bloch, (1886–1944), medieval France.
• Gisela Bock, German feminist historian.
• Daniel J. Boorstin, (1914–2004), intellectual history, American history
• John Boswell, (1947–1994), medievalist and gay history
• Paul Boyer, American historian, author of By the Bomb's Early Light
• Karl Dietrich Bracher, (1922-), modern German history
• William Brandon, (1914–2002), historian of the American West and Native Americans
• Fernand Braudel
• Robin Briggs
• Martin Broszat, (1926-1989) Nazi Germany
• Miland Brown, American historian who maintains the World History Blog
• Peter Brown
• Christopher Browning, the Holocaust
• Alan Bullock, (1914–2004)
• Peter Burke
• Michael Burns - actor and historian
• J. B. Bury, classical history
• John Hill Burton, (1809–1881), Scottish Jacobin history
• Jeffrey Burton Russell
• Herbert Butterfield, author of The Whig Version of History

C

• Angus Calder, British historian, British history
• Otto Maria Carpeaux, (1900–1978) foremost historian of literature
• E. H. Carr, (1892–1982) Soviet history, International Relations
• Lionel Casson
• Boris Celovsky, Czech-German relations
• M. Chahin, Armenian history
• Howard I. Chapelle, maritime history
• Maher Charif, Palestinian historian specialising in modern Arab intellectual history and political movements
• Iris Chang, (1968-2004) Chinese in American & Japanese war crimes
• Rev. Professor Alexander Campbell Cheyne, Scottish Ecclesiastical Historian
• Winston Churchill, (1874–1965) political, biographical, military history
• Robert Conquest, (born 1917) Russia, Soviet Union
• Gordon A. Craig, (1913-) German history & diplomatic history
• Dan Cruickshank, British and architectural history, TV presenter

D-E

• Robert Dallek, American historian, professor at UCLA, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 and Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
• Vahakn N. Dadrian, Armenian genocide
• David B. Danbom
• Lucy Dawidowicz, American historian of Jewish history and the Holocaust.
• Saul David, military history
• John Davies
• Norman Davies, Polish and British history
• Natalie Zemon Davis, feminist cultural historian, early modern France, film and history
• Vernon E. Davis, American historian, author of The Long Road Home: U.S. Prisoner of War Policy and Planning in Southeast Asia
• Graeme Davison, Australian Social Historian
• Renzo De Felice, Italian historian of fascism
• Esther Delisle, (b. 1954), French-Canadian historian & author
• Isaac Deutscher, (1907–1967) British historian and political biographer, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin
• Tom M. Devine, Scottish historian, author of The Scottish Nation: A History, 1700-2000
• Igor M. Diakonov, (1914), Ancient East
• Robert Divine, diplomatic history
• David Herbert Donald
• John W. Dower, American historian, author of War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
• Georges Duby, (1924–1996), Middle Ages
• Eamon Duffy, 15th-17th century religious history
• Trevor Dupuy
• Will Durant, author of the Story of Civilization series
• Geoff Eley
• John Elliott, (born 1941) Early Modern Spain
• Joseph J. Ellis - 2001 Pulitzer Prize in History for Founding Brothers - The Revolutionary Generations and National Book Award winner for American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
• Geoffrey Elton, Tudor England
• Peter Englund, (born 1957), Swedish historian
• Richard J. Evans, German social history
• Alf Evers, (1905-2004) American historian

F

• Ronan Fanning, Irish historian
• Brian Farrell, (born 1929)
• Lucien Febvre, (1878–1956), French historian
• Niall Ferguson, British historian, author of The Pity of War: Explaining World War I
• Marc Ferro, French historian
• Joachim Fest, (born 1926), Nazi Germany
• Orlando Figes, (born 1957)), Russia
• David Hackett Fischer, American economic historian, author of The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
• Fritz Fischer, German historian
• Frances Fitzgerald, American journalist and historian, author of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and Americans in Vietnam
• Robert Fogel, American economic history
• Eric Foner, Reconstruction
• Shelby Foote, (1916–2005), American Civil War
• Michel Foucault, (1926–1984), French historian of ideas / philosopher
• Elizabeth Fox-Genosvse, cultural & social history, women's history and Southern history
• Walter Frank, (1905–1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
• H. Bruce Franklin, American historian of the Vietnam War, author of M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America
• Antonia Fraser, England
• Saul Friedländer , history of the Holocaust
• Karl Friday, Heian Period Japan, early premodern Japanese warfare
• Sheppard Frere
• David Fromkin
• Bruno Fuligni
• Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955)
• François Furet, French historian

G

• John Lewis Gaddis, diplomatic history
• François-Louis Ganshof, medieval history
• Lloyd Gardner, diplomatic history
• Franklin Garrett, history of Atlanta
• Peter Gay, psyochistory
• Eugene Genovese, (1930-) Southern history
• Pieter Geyl, Dutch historian
• Martin Gilbert
• Carlo Ginzburg, pioneer of microhistory
• Carol Gluck, American historian, author of Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
• Andrew Gordon
• Bogo Grafenauer, (1916–1995), Slovene medievalist
• A. Kirk Grayson, Ancient Middle East
• Peter Green, ancient history
• Lionel Groulx, (1878–1967), priest, historian
• Rene Grousset, wrote histories of Central Asia and the Near East
• Ranajit Guha, history of India and critical historiography
• Lev Gumilyov, (1912–1992), Soviet historian
• John Guy, leading Tudor specialist

H-I

• Irfan Habib
• Harland Hagler, Early American, Old South
• Nicholas G. L. Hammond, Macedonia and Greece
• Victor Davis Hanson, ancient warfare
• Charles H. Haskins, Americans first medieval historian
• Denys Hay, (1915–1994), medieval and Renaissance Europe
• Jeffrey Herf, German and European history
• Arthur Herman, American and British history
• Raul Hilberg, history of the Holocaust
• Klaus Hildebrand, 19th-20th German history
• Christopher Hill, (1912–2003), 17th century England
• Andreas Hillgruber, 20th German history
• Gertrude Himmelfarb, (born 1924) 19th century British intellectual, social and cultural history
• Eric Hobsbawm, (born 1917) British historian, labour history
• Richard Hofstadter, (1916–1970), American political historian, intellectual historian, author of The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It, The Age of Reform, and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
• Richard Holmes
• Albert Hourani, Middle Eastern history
• Daniel Horowitz, United States intellectual history; history of consumer culture
• Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, history of women, sexuality, and higher education
• Alistair Horne, modern French history
• Michael Howard
• Johan Huizinga, Dutch historian, author of Waning of the Middle Ages
• Tristram Hunt, (born 1974)
• Michael Ignatieff, (born 1947) author of Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond
• Eiko Ikegami, Japanese historian, author of The Taming of the Samurai
• David John Cawdell Irving, British historian, (born 1938)
• Jonathan Israel, British historian
• Herbert Adams Gibbons

J-K

• Eberhard Jäckel, Nazi Germany
• Nikoloz Janashia, (1931–1982), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Simon Janashia, (1900–1947), history of Georgia and the Caucasus
• Pawel Jasienica, (1909–1970), Polish historian, Polish history
• Marius Jensen, American historian, author of China in the Tokugawa World
• Amy Johnson (I), American historian, modern Egpytian history
• Paul Johnson, (born 1928), British Historian, Western civilization
• Gwyn Jones, medieval history
• Loe de Jong, Dutch historian, author of The Kingdom of the Netherlands during the Second World War
• Gregory J. Kasza, American historian, author of The State and the Mass Media in Japan, 1918-1945
• Donald Kagan, ancient Greek history
• John Keegan, (born 1934) English historian, popular military history
• Elizabeth Topham Kennan - medievalist and former president, Mount Holyoke College
• George F. Kennan, (a.k.a. 'X') American diplomat and historian, history of US-Soviet relations
• Paul Kennedy, British historian, author of influential The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
• Ian Kershaw, German history
• Daniel J. Kevles, history of science, In the Name of Eugenics, and The Physicists
• France Kidrič, (1880–1950), literary history
• Vilen Khlgatyan, History of the ancient Near East
• Gabriel Kolko
• Claudia Koonz, women's history under Nazi Germany.
• Thomas Kuhn, (1922–1996), history of science, author of The Copernican Revolution, Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, and the influential The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

L

• Leopold Labedz, Soviet history
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, French historian, pioneer in the fields of history from below and microhistory
• Michael Laffan, Irish historian
• David Lavender, (1910–2003), history of the American West
• Walter LaFeber, diplomatic history
• Melvyn Leffler, modern international relations
• William Leuchtenburg, American political and legal history
• Barbara Levick, English historian; Roman emperors
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
• Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian
• Leon F. Litwack, American history, African-American history, author of Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
• Mario Liverani Ancient Middle East
• James W. Loewen
• John Edward Lloyd

M

• Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, Irish medievalist
• Charles B. MacDonald, World War II
• K. B. McFarlane, English medievalist
• Robert Machray
• Rosamond McKitterick
• Ramsay MacMullen
• Magnus Magnusson, Norse history
• Leonard Maltin, famous Disney historian
• Charles Maier
• Golo Mann, (1909–1994)
• Robert Mann, American historian of the Vietnam War, wrote A Grand Delusion: America's Descent into Vietnam
• Inga Markovits, author of Imperfect Justice: An East-West German Diary
• Timothy Mason, history of Nazi Germany
• Tyrone G. Martin, USS Constitution
• Rev. F.X. Martin, Irish medievalist and campaigner
• Michael Marrus, French and Jewish history
• William S. McFeely - 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Grant: A Biography
• William McNeill
• Laurence Marvin, American historian, French medievalist
• Yoshihisa Tak Matsutaka, wrote The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932
• Garrett Mattingly, early modern Europe
• Arno J. Mayer
• Richard Maybury, United States, especially WWI, WWII, and the Middle East
• Friedrich Meinecke, German historian
• Russell Menard, Colonial American
• Barbara Metcalf, Indian subcontinent, Muslims of India and Pakistan
• Perry Miller, intellectual historian
• Hans Mommsen
• Wolfgang Mommsen
• Kenneth O Morgan
• Samuel Eliot Morison, naval history
• Benny Morris, Middle-Eastern history
• George Mosse, German, Jewish, fascist and sexual history
• Gary Moulton, Lewis and Clark
• Roland Mousnier, early modern France
• Lewis Mumford, (1895–1988)

N-Q

• Lewis Bernstein Namier, 18th century British history and 20th century diplomatic history
• Leo Niehorster, military history
• Henry Newbolt, (1862–1938)
• Frank Ninkovich
• Ernst Nolte, controversial German historian of fascism and communism
• Robert Novick
• David Oates, Ancient Middle East
• Heiko Oberman, Reformation history
• Charles Oman, 19th century military history
• Gerard Oram, author of Military Executions during World War I
• Richard Overy, modern history
• Steve Ozment
• Michael Parenti, 20th-21st century political analyst and modern/classical historian. Assassination of Julius Caesar was nominated for Pulitzer.
• Simo Parpola, Ancient Middle East
• Thomas Paterson
• Peter Paret, military history
• Geoffrey Parker (historian), early modern military history
• Henry Francis Pelham, Roman history
• Amos Perlmutter
• Hrvoje Petric (historian), early modern history, environmental history, economic history
• Detlev Peukert, historian of Alltagsgeschichte (history of everyday life) in the Weimar & Nazi eras.
• Liza Picard, English historian, history of London
• Harry W. Pfanz, U.S. Civil War
• Boris B. Piotrovsky, (1908–1990), Urartu and Scythia
• Richard Pipes, conservative American historian, Russian and Soviet history
• J. H. Plumb, (1911–2001), British historian of the 18th century
• Roy Porter, (1946–2002), British historian, history of medicine
• Eileen Power, Middle Ages
• Ivan Prijatelj, (1875–1937), literary history
• Ludwig Quidde, (1858–1941), historian and pacifist

R

• Henry A. Reynolds, history of Aboriginal - white relations in Australia
• Jonathan Riley-Smith, Crusades
• Gerhard Ritter, German history
• B. H. Roberts, (1857–1933), Mormon historian and leader
• J.M. Roberts, European history
• William L. Rodgers
• Sue Rabbitt Roff, American science historian, author of Hotspots: The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• Alex Roland, history of technology
• José Luis Romero, Argentina
• Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler
• Theodore Roosevelt, imperialist American president and historian, War of 1812, frontier
• Michael Rostovtzeff, ancient history
• Hans Rothfels, modern German history
• Sheila Rowbotham, (born 1943) Feminist and Socialist historian, author of Women, Resistance and Revolution (1972)
• A. L. Rowse, (1903–