List of historians

This is a list of historians.

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)
• 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