Archaeology is a discipline that was virtually unknown until the 19th century. Archaeology, originally an amateur pastime, is becoming increasingly popular, and it is now possible for archaeologists to become minor celebrities as a result of media exposure.

This is a list of eminent and well-known archaeologists.

A

• William F. Albright
• Manolis Andronicos
• Mick Aston
• Richard Atkinson

B

• Churchill Babington
• Paul Bahn
• Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
• Philip Barker
• Thomas Bateman
• Gerhard Bersu
• Charles Ernest Beule
• Martin Biddle
• Lewis Binford
• Flavio Biondo
• Frederick Jones Bliss
• Harriet Boyd-Howes
• Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
• Richard Bradley
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
• James Henry Breasted
• Eric Breuer
• Jaques Breuer
• Aisling Bronach
• Don Brothwell
• Bernard Bruyère
• Aubrey Burl
• Karl Butzer

C

• Frank Calvert
• Luigi Canina
• Howard Carter
• Joanna Casey
• Jaroslav Cerny
• Dilip Chakrabarti
• Jean-François Champollion
• Vere Gordon Childe
• Leopoldo Cicognara
• Grahame Clark
• David Clarke
• John Coles
• John Collis
• Sir Richard Colt Hoare
• Graham Connah
• O.G.S. Crawford
• Georg Friedrich Creuzer
• Joseph George Cumming
• Barry Cunliffe
• William Cunnington
• James Curle
• Ernst Curtius

D

• Glyn Daniel
• Théodore Davies
• William Boyd Dawkins
• James Deetz
• Jules Desnoyers
• Adolphe Napoleon Didron
• Wilhelm Dörpfeld
• Hans Dragendorff

E

• Sir Arthur Evans
• Sir John Evans

F

• Georg Fabricius
• Rev. Brian Faussett
• Carlo Fea
• Sir Charles Fellows
• Karl Ludwig Fernow
• Kent Flannery
• Alfred Foucher
• Cyril Fox
• William Flinders Petrie

G

• Antoine Galland
• Percy Gardner
• Dorothy Garrod
• William Gell
• Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard
• Marija Gimbutas
• Pere Bosch-Gimpera
• Canon William Greenwell
• Alan Greaves.
• W. F. Grimes
• Gustaf VI Adolf

H

• Phil Harding
• Christopher Hawkes
• Christian Gottlob Heyne
• Eric Higgs
• Catherine Hills
• Ian Hodder
• Marcel Homet
• John Horsley
• Jean-Louis Huot

I

• Glynn Isaac

J

• Otto Jahn
• Llewellyn Jewitt
• Donald Johanson
• Gregory Johnson
• Martin Jones

K

• Kathleen Kenyon
• Robert Koldewey
• Gustav Kossinna

L

• C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
• Luigi Lanzi
• Pierre Henri Larcher
• Jean-Philippe Lauer
• Sir Austen Henry Layard
• Louis Leakey
• Richard Leakey
• Charles Lenormant
• François Lenormant
• Jean Antoine Letronne
• Carenza Lewis
• William D. Lipe
• Edward Llwyd
• Georg Loeschke
• Victor Loret
• William A. Longacre
• Sir John Lubbock
• Rev. W. C. Lukis

M

• Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
• Father John MacEnery
• Sir Max Mallowan
• John Manley
• Auguste-Édouard Mariette
• Spyridon Marinatos
• John Hubert Marshall
• Gaston Maspero
• Amihai Mazar
• Benjamin Mazar
• Eilat Mazar
• Charles McBurney
• Paul Mellars
• Michael Mercati
• Prosper Mérimée
• Sir Ellis Minns
• Oscar Montelius
• Pierre Montet
• John Robert Mortimer

N

• Evzen Neustupný
• Charles Thomas Newton

O

• Kenneth Oakley
• Jeremie Jacques Oberlin

P

• William Pengelly
• Alessandro Pezzati
• Stuart Piggott
• John Pinkerton
• Augustus Pitt Rivers
• George Pitt Rivers
• Nikolaos Platon
• Reginald Stuart Poole
• Georges Posener
• Timothy Potter
• Francis Pryor

Q

• Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat

R

• Sir Andrew Ramsay
• Desire Raoul Rochette
• Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien
• Colin Renfrew
• Julian Richards
• Derek Roe
• Emmanuel de Rouge

S

• Yannis Sakellarakis
• Victor Sarianidi
• Claude Schaeffer
• Heinrich Schliemann
• Philippe-Charles Schmerling
• Carmel Schrire
• Francesco Scipione
• Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt
• Michael Shanks
• Thurstan Shaw
• Isobel Smith
• William Robertson Smith
• Steven Snape (Egyptologist)
• Marc Aurel Stein
• William Duncan Strong

T

• Jean Michel de Tarragon
• Alexander Thom
• Julian Thomas
• J. Eric S. Thompson
• Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
• John Thurman
• Christopher Tilley
• Bruce Trigger

U

• Peter Ucko
• David Ussishkin

V

• Henri de Vaux
• Dominique Vivant Denon

W

• Charles Warne
• Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
• Mortimer Wheeler
• Theodor Wiegand
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann
• Leonard Woolley
• Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

X

Y

• Norman Yoffee

Z

• Ezra Zubrow

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• Fictional Archaeologists -- characters from film, video and computer games, and fiction.