List of archaeologists

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.

Well-known archaeologists include:

• Mick Aston
• Richard Atkinson
• Churchill Babington
• Gerhard Bersu
• Lewis Binford
• Karl Butzer
• Howard Carter
• Vere Gordon Childe
• Grahame Clark
• David Clarke
• O.G.S. Crawford
• Barry Cunliffe
• James Curle
• Glyn Daniel
• James Deetz
• Sir Arthur Evans
• Kent Flannery
• Alfred Foucher
• Cyril Fox
• William Flinders Petrie
• Percy Gardner
• Dorothy Garrod
• Pere Bosch-Gimpera
• William Greenwell
• Gustaf VI Adolf
• Phil Harding
• Christopher Hawkes
• Marcel Homet
• Glynn Isaac
• Donald Johanson
• Kathleen Kenyon
• Gustav Kossinna
• Louis Leakey
• Richard Leakey
• Carenza Lewis
• Sir Max Mallowan
• John Hubert Marshall
• Charles McBurney
• Paul Mellars
• Sir Ellis Minns
• John Robert Mortimer
• Evzen Neustupný
• Kenneth Oakley
• Augustus Pitt Rivers
• George Pitt Rivers
• Timothy Potter
• Colin Renfrew
• Julian Richards
• Heinrich Schliemann
• J. Eric S. Thompson
• Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
• Chris Tilley
• Peter Ucko
• Mortimer Wheeler
• Leonard Woolley
• Ezra Zubrow