2 Thor Heyerdahl
3 Desmond Morris

4 Edward Sapir

Edward Sapir was an anthropologist-linguist. He played a pivotal role in the development of the discipline of linguistics in USA. He studied Germanic linguistics at Columbia and later researched Native American languages. He was an expert in the study of Athabascan languages and Chinookan languages. He also worked with Yiddish, Hebrew, and Chinese languages.
5 W. H. R. Rivers

English anthropologist and psychologist W. H. R. Rivers is best remembered for his work on the Todas of the Nilgiri Hills. A qualified physician, he also taught at Cambridge and worked extensively on medical psychology. One of his best-known works is Kinship and Social Organisation.
6 Georg Forster

7 Augustus Pitt Rivers
8 Arnold van Gennep

9 Henry Schoolcraft

10 Leo Frobenius

11 Miguel Covarrubias

Miguel Covarrubias donned many hats, and apart from being a painter and caricaturist, he was also a fine writer, an anthropologist, and an ethnologist. He explored the cultures of South East Asians and North American Indians and also co-discovered the Olmec Mesoamerican civilization. He designed theater sets and costumes, too.
12 Adolf Bastian

13 Frances Densmore

14 Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvas

15 James Mooney

16 Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay

17 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl

Lucien Lévy-Bruhl was a French scholar best remembered for his contributions to the fields of ethnology and sociology. Although he was trained in philosophy, Lévy-Bruhl helped further anthropology. His work had a major influence on the works of Carl Gustav Jung, especially his psychological theory.
18 Hubert Howe Bancroft

19 Jovan Cvijić

20 Clinton Hart Merriam

21 Alsarah

22 Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen

Ludwig Mylius-Erichsen was a Danish ethnologist, explorer, and author. He is renowned for his explorations of Greenland. Mylius-Erichsen is credited with proving the nonexistence of the Peary Channel, thereby proving that American explorer Robert Peary was wrong. It was assumed that the channel existed until Ejnar Mikkelsen found Mylius-Erichsen's report in a cairn after Mylius-Erichsen’s death during his last exploration.
23 Wilhelm Schmidt

24 Amadou Hampâté Bâ

25 Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied

26 Raymond Firth

27 Charles Gabriel Seligman

28 Eric von Rosen

Eric von Rosen was a Swedish explorer and ethnographer. An important figure in the Swedish upper class, Rosen gifted the newly independent state of Finland an aircraft in 1918, which signified the dawn of the Finnish Air Force. Eric von Rosen is also credited with popularizing the swastika in Sweden as he used the symbol as a personal owner's mark.
29 Frank Hamilton Cushing

30 Gonçalves Dias

Gonçalves Dias was a Brazilian lawyer, poet, playwright, ethnographer, and linguist. A major figure of Brazilian Romanticism, he is credited with having composed Canção do exílio, often considered the best known poem of Brazilian literature. He was posthumously awarded the title of national poet of Brazil and is the patron of the 15th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
31 Alice Cunningham Fletcher

32 Robert Ranulph Marett

33 Alfred Cort Haddon

A pioneer of British anthropology, Alfred Cort Haddon is remembered for his contribution of over three decades to Cambridge. While he initially went to the Torres Strait to study marine biology, he later devoted himself to the study of the indigenous people. His History of Anthropology remains his best-known work.
34 James Cowles Prichard

35 Natalie Curtis

36 Matthias Castrén

Matthias Castrén was a Finnish Swedish philologist and ethnologist. He served as an educator, linguist, and author at the University of Helsinki. Castrén is best remembered for his research in the ethnography and linguistics of the Finnic, Samoyedic, and Ugric peoples. In 1990, the M. A. Castrén Society was established in Helsinki in his honor.
37 Ella Cara Deloria

38 William Bascom

39 Francis La Flesche

40 Shtjefën Gjeçovi

41 Paul Rivet

42 William Churchill

43 William John McGee

44 Abraham Zevi Idelsohn

45 Walter Baldwin Spencer

English biologist and anthropologist Walter Baldwin Spencer is remembered for his pioneering study of the indigenous population of Australia. He initially taught biology but later drifted to anthropology. He was also knighted but died while on an expedition to study the Ushuaia of the Tierra del Fuego.
46 Paul-Émile Victor

47 Horatio Hale

48 Alfred Métraux

49 Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg

50 John Ferguson McLennan
