Notable historians:
The names are arranged by order of the period in which they were writing, which is not necessarily the same as the period in which they specialised.
Chroniclers and annalists, though they are not historians in the true sense, are also listed here for convenience.
- Dio Cassius, Roman historian
- Lucius Ampelius, Roman historian
- Herodotus, (485 BC?-c. 420 BC?), around 480-425 B.C.
- Thucydides, (c. 460-400 BC), around 460-400 B.C.
- Xenophon, (431 BC-c. 360 BC), an Athenian knight and an associate of Socrates
- Polybius, (c. 203-120 BC), around 203-120 B.C.
- C. Julius Caesar, (circa 100 BC-44 BC), 100-44 B.C.
- Flavius Josephus, (AD 37-AD 100), Jewish historian
- Sima Qian, (140 BC-135 BC), around late 2nd century BC-86 BC
- Livy, (c. 59 B.C. - 17 A.D.), historian
- Cremutius Cordus, - 25 AD
- Sallust, (86 BC-34 BC), historian
- Plutarch, (AD 46?-120?), A.D. 46?-120?
- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, (AD 56-120), A.D. 56?-117?
- C. Suetonius Tranquillus, (75-160), A.D. 69-140?
- Eusebius of Caesarea, historian
- Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 325 - c. 391),
- Arrian, historian
- Procopius, (died c. 565), historian
- Gregory of Tours, (538-594), historian
- Bede, (c. 632-735), scholastic philosopher, historian
- Nennius, historian
- Geoffrey of Monmouth, churchman/historian
- Albert of Aix, historian of the first crusade
- Sima Guang (1019-1086), historiographer and politician
- Saxo Grammaticus, (12th century), Danish historian
- Geoffroi de Villehardouin, (c. 1160-1212), historian
- Matthew Paris, (died 1259), historian
- Jean de Joinville, (1224-1319), historian
- Piers Langtoft, (died c. 1307), historian
- Jean Froissart, (c. 1337-c. 1405), historian
- Alphonsus A Sancta Maria, (1396-1456), 15th century Spanish historian
- Josias Simmler, (1530-1576), theologian, historian
- Raphael Holinshed, (died c. 1580), historian
- Caesar Baronius, (1538-1607), historian
- Henry Adams, (1838-1918), Democracy: An American Novel
- Jacob Burckhardt[?], (1818-1897), art historian
- Lucien Febvre[?], historian
- Edward Gibbon, (1737-1794), Roman Empire
- Frederick W. Maitland[?], historian
- Theodor Mommsen, (1817-1903), Roman Empire
- Henri Pirenne, (1862-1935), Belgian historian
- William H. Prescott, (1796-1859), US historian of Spain, Mexico]], Peru
- Zacharius Topelius, (1818-1898), journalist, historian
- Arnold Toynbee, (1852-1883), British historian
- Leopold Von Ranke[?], historian
- Ludwig von Köchel, (1800-1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
- Robert G. Albion[?] - maritime history[?]
- Stephen Ambrose, (1936-2002), historian
- Marc Bloch (1886-1944) - medieval France
- John Boswell, (1947-1994), mediævalist and gay history
- Ferdinand Braudel[?], historian
- Robin Briggs[?], historian
- Peter Brown[?], historian
- Alan Bullock, historian
- Jeffrey Burton Russell[?], historian
- Angus Calder - Great Britain
- Lionel Casson[?], historian
- Howard I. Chapelle[?] - maritime history[?]
- John Davies[?], (1569-1626), historian
- Georges Duby, (1924-1996), Middle Ages
- Trevor Dupuy[?], historian
- Ronan Fanning[?], Irish historian
- Brian Farrell[?], historian and emeritus Associated Professor of Politics, UCD
- Antonia Fraser, England
- Sheppard Frere[?], historian
- Francis Fukuyama, (born 1955), historian
- Pieter Geyl[?], Dutch historian
- Peter Green[?] - ancient history
- Christopher Hill, (1912-2003), historian
- Eric Hobsbawm, historian
- Richard Holmes[?], historian
- Michael Howard[?]
- Tristram Hunt, (born 1974), historian
- Pawel Jasienica, (1909-1970), Poland
- John Keegan[?] - military history
- Michael Laffan[?] - Irish historian
- Barbara Levick, English; specialising in Roman emperors
- Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie[?], historian
- Li Ao, (born 1935), Chinese historian, author
- John Edward Lloyd, historian
- Sr. Margaret MacCurtain[?], Irish mediævalist[?]
- Charles B. MacDonald[?] - World War II
- Rosamond McKitterick[?], historian
- Ramsay MacMullen[?], historian
- Alfred Thayer Mahan, (1840-1914), naval history
- Tyrone G. Martin, (died 2003), USS Constitution
- Rev. F.X. Martin[?] - Irish mediævalist and campaigner
- Kenneth O Morgan[?], historian
- Samuel Eliot Morison[?] - naval history
- Henry Newbolt, (1862-1938), historian, poet
- Peter Paret[?] - military history
- Harry W. Pfanz[?] - American Civil War
- Richard Pipes[?] - Russia, Soviet Union
- Ludwig Quidde, (1858-1941), historian and pacifist
- William L. Rodgers[?], historian
- Sheila Rowbotham[?], historian
- A L Rowse, (1903-1997), historian
- Steven Runciman[?] - Crusades
- Cornelius Ryan[?] - World War II
- Simon Schama[?], historian
- Goldwin Smith, (1823-1910), historian
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (born 1918), Russian historian and novelist
- David Starkey, (born 1945), Tudor historian and TV presenter
- Frank Stenton[?], historian
- Ronald Syme, (1903-1989), historian
- A J P Taylor, (1906-1990), historian
- E. P. Thompson, (1924-1993), historian
- Arnold J. Toynbee, (1889-1975), A Study of History
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, (1914-2003), historian and British peer
- Frederick Jackson Turner, (1861-1932), historian
- Retha M Warnicke, (born 1939), Tudor history & gender issues
- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, (1910-1997), British historian
- John Whyte[?] - focused on Northern Ireland and on divided societies
- Eric Williams, (1911-1981), Caribbean
- Glanmor Williams[?], historian
- Mary Wilhelmine Williams[?], historian
- Michael Wood, historian
- Howard Zinn - United States
- David B. Danbom, historian
- C. J. Everon, (born 1971), historian and novelist: Justice Better Attained
- Lionel Groulx, (1878-1967), priest, historian
- France Kidric[?], (1880-1950), literary historian.
- Anton Tomaz Linhart[?], (1756-1795), dramatist and historian.
- Johannes von Müller, (1752-1809), historian
- Leo Niehorster, military historian
- Christine de Pizan, (circa 1365-circa 1430), historian, poet, philosopher
- Ivan Prijatelj[?], (1875-1937), literary historian.
- Simon Rutar[?], (1851-1903), historian, geographer, archaeologist and geologist.
- Pierre Vidal-Naquet[?], historian and Civil Rights activist
- Henri Raymond Casgrain[?], priest, author, historian
- Peter Englund[?], Swedish historian
- Walter Frank[?], (1905-1945), Nazi historian and anti-Semitic writer
- Justo Gonzalez[?], historian and theologian
- Claude Mossé[?], (Ms), historian
- Albert Soboul[?], historian
- Jean-Pierre Vernant[?], historian
- Pierre Vilar[?], historian