Jane Goodall03 April 1934, British
Primatologist
Ann Dunham29 November 1942, American
Barack Obama's Mother
Margaret Mead16 December 1901, American
Cultural Anthropologist
Carlos Castaneda25 December 1925, American
Author
Alice Roberts19 May 1973, British
Anthropologist
René Girard25 December 1923, French
Philosopher
David Harvey31 October 1935, British
Professor of Anthropology & Geography
Louis Leakey07 August 1903, Kenyan, British
Paleoanthropologist and Archaeologist
Paul Farmer26 October 1959, American
Alan Dundes08 September 1934, American
Folklorist
Ralph Regenvanu20 September 1970, Ni-Vanuatu
Ni-Vanuatu Politician
Chris McCandless12 February 1968, American
American adventurer
Pierre Bourdieu01 August 1930, French
Philosopher, Sociologist, Anthropologist,
Kathy Reichs07 July 1948, American
Writer
Jim Yong Kim08 December 1959, American, South Korean
Physician
David Graeber12 February 1961, American
Anthropologist, University teacher, Writer, Trade
Joe Medicine Crow27 October 1913, American
Anthropologist, Historian, Author, Non-fiction
Bruno Latour22 June 1947, French
Philosopher, Anthropologist, Sociologist,
Paul Ekman15 February 1934
Psychologist, Anthropologist, Sociologist,
Gregory Bateson09 May 1904, British, American
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Ivan Illich04 September 1926, Austrian
Writer, Historian, Educationist, Philosopher,
Geert Hofstede02 October 1928
Psychologist, University teacher, Anthropologist,
Steven Erikson07 October 1959, Canadian
Anthropologist, Writer
Clifford Geertz23 August 1926, American
Anthropologist, University teacher, Sociologist
Gayle Rubin1949 AD, American
Anthropologist, university teacher, essayist, LGBT
Ruth Benedict05 June 1887, American
Anthropologist, Folklorist, University teacher,
Edward T. Hall16 May 1914, American
Anthropologist, Sociologist, University teacher
Robert Ripley25 December 1890, American
Cartoonist
Mary Leakey06 February 1913, British
Paleoanthropologist
Spencer Wells06 April 1969, American
Geneticist
Robert Redfield04 December 1897, American
Anthropologist
Continue Reading Below
Arjun Appadurai04 February 1949, Indian, American
anthropologist, sociologist
Talal Asad1933 AD, American
anthropologist
Koenraad Elst07 August 1959, Belgian
Columnist, Anthropologist, Journalist, Writer
Alfred Radcliffe-Brown17 January 1881, British
Anthropologist
Marshall Sahlins27 December 1930, American
Anthropologist, Educationist, University teacher
E. E. Evans-Pritchard21 September 1902, British
Anthropologist
Mary Douglas25 March 1921, Italian, British
Anthropologist
Ernest Gellner09 December 1925, Czech, British
Philosopher
Carleton S. Coon23 June 1904, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian
Victor Turner28 May 1920, British
Anthropologist, Sociologist
Napoleon Chagnon1938 AD, American
anthropologist, university teacher
Marvin Harris18 August 1927, American
Anthropologist, University teacher, Sociologist
Jean Rouch31 May 1917, French
Anthropologist, Film director, Screenwriter
Walter J. Ong30 November 1912, American
Anthropologist, Historian, Writer, University
Ashley Montagu28 June 1905, British, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
Donald Johanson28 June 1943, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Loren Eiseley03 September 1907, American
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Poet
Dell Hymes07 June 1927, American
Anthropologist, Linguist, University teacher,
W. H. R. Rivers12 March 1864, British
Anthropologist
Eric Wolf01 February 1923, Austrian, American
Anthropologist
Yigael Yadin20 March 1917, Israeli
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Politician,
Michael Tomasello18 January 1950, American
Anthropologist, Psychologist
Raymond Dart04 February 1893, Australian
Anatomist
Earnest Hooton20 November 1887, American
Anthropologist
Michael Taussig03 April 1940, Australian
Anthropologist, University teacher
Gilberto Freyre15 March 1900, Brazilian
Sociologist
Theodor Nöldeke02 March 1836, German
Orientalist
Jack Goody27 July 1919, British
Anthropologist, University teacher, Non-fiction
Eugenie Scott24 October 1945, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
Pearl Primus29 November 1919, American
Dancer
Lewis Binford11 November 1931, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, prehistorian,
Melville J. Herskovits10 September 1895, American
Anthropologist
Sidney Mintz16 November 1922, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
Sherry Ortner19 September 1941, American
Anthropologist, University teacher
Leslie White19 January 1900, American
Anthropologist
Nancy Scheper-Hughes25 September 1944, American
anthropologist
Philippe Bourgois1956 AD, American
anthropologist
José María Arguedas18 January 1911, Peruvian
Novelist
Arnold Gehlen29 January 1904, German
Anthropologist, Philosopher, Sociologist,
Lee Rogers Berger22 December 1965, American, South African
Paleoanthropologist
Ralph Linton27 February 1893, American
Anthropologist
Frances Densmore21 May 1867, American
Anthropologist
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl10 April 1857, French
Scholar
Julian Steward31 January 1902, American
Anthropologist
Fei Xiaotong02 November 1910, Chinese
Anthropologist
Scott Atran1952 AD, American
anthropologist, political scientist
Tim D. White24 August 1950, American
Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Prehistorian,
Johnnetta Cole19 October 1936, American
Anthropologist and educator
Te Rangi Hīroa30 September 1877, New Zealander
Doctor
Meave Leakey28 July 1942, British
Paleoanthropologist
Elman Service18 May 1915, American
Anthropologist
Max Gluckman26 January 1911, British, South African
Anthropologist
Aleš Hrdlička29 March 1869, Czech, American
Anthropologist
Oliver La Farge19 December 1901, American
Writer
William Z. Ripley13 October 1867, American
Economist
Alice Cunningham Fletcher15 March 1838, American
Anthropologist
Ella Cara Deloria31 January 1889, American
Educator
Jacques Soustelle03 February 1912, French
Anthropologist
Elsie Clews Parsons27 November 1875, American
Anthropologist
Charles Gabriel Seligman24 December 1873, British
Physician
Helmuth Plessner04 September 1892, German
Philosopher
Hortense Powdermaker24 December 1900, American
Cultural anthropologist
Meyer Fortes25 April 1906, British, South African
Anthropologist