List of historians

This is a list of historians.

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)