This is a partial list of Egyptologists. An Egyptologist is any

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingu ...

, or

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, ...

who specializes in

Egyptology Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , '' -logia''; ar, علم المصريات) is the study of ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end of its native relig ...

, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its

antiquities Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures. Artifacts from earlier periods such as the Meso ...

. Demotists are Egyptologists who specialize in the study of the Demotic language and field of Demotic Studies. Although a practitioner of the disciplined study of Ancient Egypt and

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning the North Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via a land bridg ...

ian antiquities is an "Egyptologist", the field of Egyptology is not exclusive to such practitioners.

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* Barbara G. Adams (British, 1945–2002) *

Johan David Åkerblad Johan David Åkerblad (6 May 1763, Stockholm – 7 February 1819, Rome) was a Swedish diplomat and orientalist. Career In 1778 he began his studies of classical and oriental languages at the University of Uppsala. In 1782 he defended his gr ...

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Cyril Aldred Cyril Aldred (19 February 1914 – 23 June 1991) was an English Egyptologist, art historian, and author. Early life Cyril Aldred was born in Fulham, London, the son of Frederick Aldred and Lilian Ethel Underwood, and the sixth of seven child ...

(British, 1914–1991) * James Peter Allen (American, born 1945) * Maurice Alliot (French, 1903–1960) *

Hartwig Altenmüller Hartwig Altenmüller Hamburg University biography (in German) (born 1938, in Saulgau, Württemberg, Germany) is a German Egyptologist. He became professor at the Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg in 1971. He worked as an ar ...

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Émile Amélineau Émile Amélineau (1850 – 12 January 1915 at Châteaudun) was a French Coptologist, archaeologist and Egyptologist. His scholarly reputation was established as an editor of previously unpublished Coptic texts. But his reputation was destroye ...

(French, 1850–1915) * Alessia Amenta (Italian) * Guillemette Andreu (French, born 1948) *

Tadeusz Andrzejewski Tadeusz Andrzejewski (1923–1961) was a Polish archeologist and Egyptologist. Life Andrzejewski was born in Łódź. After leaving school, he joined the staff of the Warsaw National Museum in the 1940s, and was appointed to a post in University ...

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Jan Assmann Jan Assmann (born Johann Christoph Assmann; born 7 July 1938) is a German Egyptologist. Life and works Assmann studied Egyptology and classical archaeology in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris, and Göttingen. In 1966–67, he was a fellow of the G ...

(German, born 1938) * Éric Aubourg (French) * Sydney Hervé Aufrère (French, born 1951) * A.-C.-T.-Émile Prisse d'Avennes (French, 1807–1879) * Edward Russell Ayrton (British, 1882–1914)

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* Alexander Badawy (Egyptian, 1913–1986) * John Robert Baines (British, born 1946) * Pascale Ballet (French, born 1953) *

Émile Baraize Émile Baraize (28 August 1874 – 15 April 1952) was a French Egyptologist. Life In 1912 he succeeded Alessandro Barsanti as director of the director of works within the Egyptian Antiquities Service. Throughout his life, he worked to restor ...

(French, 1874–1952) *

Alessandro Barsanti Alessandro Barsanti (1858–1917) was an Italian architect and Egyptologist who worked for the Egyptian Antiquities Service. He excavated throughout Egypt (most notably he 'discovered' the tomb of Akhenaten in 1891–1892). He was also in ...

(Italian, 1858–1917) *

Hussein Bassir Hussein Bassir is an Egyptian archaeologist of Giza Pyramids and one of the directors (field director) of the excavation team in the Valley of the Golden Mummies at Bahariya Oasis. In 1994, he got his BA in Egyptology from Cairo University. In ...

(Egyptian, born 1973) * Michel Baud (French, 1963–2012) * Alfred Chester Beatty (American, 1875–1968) * Nathalie Beaux-Grimal (French, born 1960) *

Jürgen von Beckerath Jürgen von Beckerath (19 February 1920, Hanover – 26 June 2016, Schlehdorf) was a German Egyptologist. He was a prolific writer who published countless articles in journals such as '' Orientalia'', ''Göttinger Miszellen'' (GM), '' Journal o ...

(German, 1920–2016) *

Giovanni Battista Belzoni Giovanni Battista Belzoni (; 5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven-ton ...

(Italian, 1778–1823) *

Georges Aaron Bénédite Georges Aaron Bénédite (10 August 1857 26 March 1926) was a French Egyptologist and curator at the Louvre. He was born at Nîmes, the son of Samuel Bénédite and Isabelle Bénédite born Lisbonne, whose second husband Georges Lafenestre, was ...

(French 1857–1926) *

Yosef Ben-Jochannan Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan (; December 31, 1918 – March 19, 2015), referred to by his admirers as "Dr. Ben", was an American writer and historian. He was considered to be one of the more prominent Afrocentric scholars by some Black ...

(American, 1918–2015) * Margaret Benson (English, 1865–1916) * Susanne Bickel (Swiss, born 1960) * Manfred Bietak (Austrian, born 1940) *

Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing (22 April 1873, Potsdam – 12 January 1956, Oberaudorf am Inn) was a German Egyptologist. He was the son of Prussian general Moritz Ferdinand von Bissing (1844–1917). He studied classical philology, archaeology, ...

(German, 1873–1956) * Fernand Bisson de la Roque (French, 1885–1958) * Aylward Manley Blackman (British, 1883–1956) * C. Blankenberg-van Delden (Dutch, 1906–1994) * Edward Bleiberg (American, born 1951) * Martin Bommas (German, born 1967) *

Charlotte Booth Charlotte Booth (born 6 April 1975) is a British archaeologist and writer on ancient Egypt. Biography Booth earned both her Bachelor's and her master's degrees in Egyptian Archaeology at University College London. After graduating, Booth ...

(British, born 1975) *

Ludwig Borchardt Ludwig may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ludwig (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters * Ludwig (surname), including a list of people * Ludwig Ahgren, or simply Ludwig, American YouTube live streamer and co ...

(German, 1863–1938) *

Käthe Bosse-Griffiths Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (16 July 1910 – 4 April 1998) was an eminent Egyptologist. Born in Germany, she moved to Britain as a political refugee and married a Welshman. She became a writer in the Welsh language, and made a unique contributio ...

(German-British, 1910–1998) * Urbain Bouriant (French, 1849–1903) *

Peter J. Brand Peter James Brand (born 5 April 1967) is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto, Ontario. He is also a naturalized American citizen. He completed his PhD in 1998 at the University of Toronto with his dissertation ''The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphi ...

(Canadian-American, born 1967) *

James Henry Breasted James Henry Breasted (; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he ...

(American, 1865–1935) *

Edda Bresciani Edda Bresciani (23 September 1930 – 29 November 2020) was an Italian Egyptologist. Life Bresciani was born in Lucca, and graduated in 1955 from the University of Pisa. She excavated at several places in Egypt and is mainly known for her work a ...

(Italian, 1930–2020) * Bob Brier (American, born 1943) *

Edwin C. Brock Edwin C. Brock (20 April 1946 - 22 September 2015) was an American Egyptologist, who worked for the Theban Mapping Project at the American University in Cairo. He worked on royal sarcophagi in the Valley of the Kings. He also worked in the tombs of ...

(American, 1946–2015) * Mary Brodrick (British, 1858–1933) * Myrtle Florence Broome (British, 1888–1978) * Émile Brugsch (German, 1842–1930) *

Heinrich Karl Brugsch Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also ''Brugsch-Pasha'') (18 February 18279 September 1894) was a German Egyptologist. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of Egyptology at Cairo, producin ...

(German, 1827–1894) *

Guy Brunton Guy Brunton (1878 in London, England – 17 October 1948 in White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa) was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the Badarian predynastic culture. He married Winifred Newberry on 28 April 1906. ...

(English, 1878–1948) * Betsy Bryan (American, born 1949) * E. A. Wallis Budge (British, 1857–1934) * Harry Burton (British, 1879–1940) *

James Burton James Edward Burton (born August 21, 1939, in Dubberly, Louisiana) is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001 (his induction speech was given by longtime fan Keith Richards), Burton has also been recognized ...

(British, 1788–1862)

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* Agnès Cabrol (French, 1964–2007) * Arthur Callender (British, 1875–1936) *

Amice Calverley Amice Calverley (9 April 1896 – 10 April 1959) was an English-born Canadian Egyptologist who was instrumental to the recording and publication of the decoration in the temple of King Sethos I at Abydos. During and after World War II she engage ...

(British-Canadian, 1896–1959) * Ricardo Caminos (Argentinian, 1916–1992) * Jean Capart (Belgian, 1877–1947) *

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, (26 June 1866 – 5 April 1923), styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of T ...

(English, 1866–1923) *

Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the ...

(British, 1874–1939) * Giovanni Battista Caviglia (Italian, 1770–1845) * Jaroslav Černý (Czech, 1898–1970) * François Chabas (French, 1817–1882) *

Jean-François Champollion Jean-François Champollion (), also known as Champollion ''le jeune'' ('the Younger'; 23 December 17904 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in t ...

(French, 1790–1832) * Émile Gaston Chassinat (French, 1868–1948) * Charles Chipiez (French, 1835–1901) * Somers Clarke (English, 1841–1926) * Jean Clédat (French, 1871–1943) * Kathlyn M. Cooney (American) *

Jean-Pierre Corteggiani Jean-Pierre Corteggiani (1942 – 15 March 2022) was a French Egyptologist. Career In 1993, a dyke was to be built on the alleged site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. A rescue operation was entrusted to Jean-Yves Empereur and Jean-Pierre Cor ...

(French, born 1942) * Pearce Paul Creasman (American, born 1981) * Gwendolen Crewdson (British, 1872-1913) * Winifred M. Crompton (British, 1870–1932) *

Silvio Curto Silvio Curto (August 20, 1919 – September 24, 2015) was an Italian Egyptologist. Biography Born in 1919 in Bra, Piedmont, Curto obtained his degree in Roman archaeology in 1941. After the war, he became an inspector for the ''Soprintendenza all ...

(Italian, 1919–2015)

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Alec Naylor Dakin Alec Naylor Dakin (3 April 1912 – 14 June 2003) was a Fellow of Oxford College, a cryptologist at Bletchley Park, an Egyptologist and schoolmaster. Early life and family Alec Dakin was born in Mytholmroyd in the West Riding of Yorkshire in ...

(English, 1912–2003) * Alicia Daneri (Argentine, born 1942) * Georges Émile Jules Daressy (French, 1864–1938) *

François Daumas François Felix Eugene Daumas (3 January 1915 - 6 October 1984) was a French Egyptologist who was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (or IFAO), also known as the French Inst ...

(French, 1918–1984) * Françoise Dunand (French, born 1934) * Colleen Darnell (American, born 1980) * John Coleman Darnell (American, born 1962) * Nina de Garis Davies (American, 1881–1965) * Norman de Garis Davies (American, 1865–1941) * Theodore M. Davis (American, 1837–1915) *

Théodule Devéria Théodule Charles Devéria (; 1 July 1831 – 31 January 1871) was a French photographer and Egyptologist who lived in the 19th century. He is known for his collaboration with Auguste Mariette. His younger brother was Gabriel Devéria. Life Thé ...

(French, 1831–1871) *

Aidan Dodson Aidan Mark Dodson (born 1962) is an English Egyptologist and historian. He has been honorary professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol since 1 August 2018. Academic career Dodson, born in London on 11 September 1962, studied at Langl ...

(English, born 1962) * Sergio Donadoni (Italian, 1914–2015) *

Günter Dreyer Günter Dreyer (5 October 1943 – 12 March 2019) was an Egyptologist at the German Archaeological Institute. In southern Egypt, Dreyer discovered records of linen and oil deliveries which have been carbon-dated to between 3300 BCE and 3200 BCE, ...

(German, born 1943) * Étienne Drioton (French, 1889–1961) * Bernardino Drovetti (Italian, 1776–1852) *

Johannes Dümichen Johannes Dümichen (15 October 1833, Weißholz bei Großglogau7 February 1894, Strasbourg) was a German Egyptologist. Biography Dümichen was born near Glogau. He studied philology and theology in Berlin and Breslau. Subsequently he became a ...

(German, 1833–1894)

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* Bendix Ebbell (Norwegian, 1865–1941) *

Georg Ebers Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, 1 March 1837 – Tutzing, Bavaria, 7 August 1898) was a German Egyptologist and novelist. He is best known for his purchase of the Ebers Papyrus, one of the oldest Egyptian medical documents in the world. Life Ge ...

(German, 1837–1898) *

Dorothy Eady Dorothy Louise Eady (16 January 1904 – 21 April 1981), also known as ''Omm Sety'' or ''Om Seti'', was a British antiques caretaker and folklorist. She was keeper of the Abydos Temple of Seti I and draughtswoman for the Department of Egypt ...

(English, 1904–1981) * Campbell Cowan Edgar (British, 1870–1938) *

Amelia Edwards Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story "The Phantom Coach" (1864), the novel ...

(British, 1831–1892) *

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, (21 July 1909 – 24 September 1996) — known as I. E. S. Edwards— was an English Egyptologist and curator, considered to be a leading expert on the pyramids. Biography Born in London, he was the son of Edwar ...

(British, 1909–1996) * August Eisenlohr (German, 1832–1902) * Walter Bryan Emery (British, 1903–1971) *

Jean-Yves Empereur Jean-Yves Empereur (; born 1952) is a French archeologist. He studied classic literature in the University Paris IV Sorbonne ( DEA, CAPES, Agrégation de lettres in 1975, Doctorat in archeology in 1977). He is a former member (since 1978) a ...

(French, born 1952) * Reginald Engelbach (British, 1888–1946) *

Adolf Erman Johann Peter Adolf Erman (; 31 October 185426 June 1937) was a renowned German Egyptologist and lexicographer. Life Born in Berlin, he was the son of Georg Adolf Erman and grandson of Paul Erman and Friedrich Bessel. Educated at Leipzig and ...

(German, 1854–1937)

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Raymond O. Faulkner Dr Raymond Oliver Faulkner, FSA, (26 December 1894 – 3 March 1982) was an English Egyptologist and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language. He was born in Shoreham, Sussex, and was the son of bank clerk Frederick Arthur Faulkner a ...

(British 1894–1982) * Cecil Mallaby Firth (British, 1878–1931) *

Henry George Fischer Henry George Fischer (May 10, 1923 – January 11, 2006) was an American Egyptologist and poet. Biography Born on May 10, 1923, in Philadelphia, Fischer graduated from Princeton University in 1945, after that he was sent teaching English ...

(American, 1923–2006) *

Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (abbreviated Hans-W.; born 2 September 1954) is a German professor of Egyptology at the ''Institut für Ägyptologie'', University of Leipzig, Germany.Tait (2003), p. ix. He received his Ph.D, written under the directi ...

(German, born 1954) *

Joann Fletcher Joann Fletcher (born 30 August 1966) is an Egyptologist and an honorary visiting professor in the department of archaeology at the University of York. She has published a number of books and academic articles, including several on Cleopatra, and ...

(British, born 1966) *

Georges Foucart Georges Foucart (11 December 1865, Paris – 1943) was a French historian and Egyptologist. He was the son of archaeologist Paul Foucart (1836–1926), a professor of ancient Greek studies at the Collège de France. From 1898 to 1906, he was ...

(French, 1865–1943) *

Detlef Franke Detlef Franke (November 24, 1952 in Lüneburg – September 2, 2007) was a German Egyptologist specialist of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. Biography Detlef Franke received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg in 1983 with his thesis "''A ...

(German, 1952–2007) * Henri Frankfort (Dutch, 1897–1954) * Henning Franzmeier (German) * George Willoughby Fraser (British, 1866–1923) * Renée Friedman (American) * Elizabeth Frood (New Zealand)

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Marc Gabolde Marc Gabolde (born 30 May 1957 in Nantes) is a French Egyptologist, specialist of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the Amarna period. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University Lumière Lyon 2 in 1992, he joined Scientific IFAO (1993-1997 ...

(French, born 1957) *

Alan Gardiner Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner, (29 March 1879 – 19 December 1963) was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar. He is regarded as one of the premier Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century. Personal life G ...

(British, 1879–1963) *

Jean Sainte-Fare Garnot Jean Sainte-Fare Garnot (26 July 1908 – 20 June 1963) was a French Egyptologist. He was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale from 1953 to 1959, professor in Sorbonne, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes é ...

(French, 1908–1963) *

John Garstang John Garstang (5 May 1876 – 12 September 1956) was a British archaeologist of the Ancient Near East, especially Egypt, Sudan, Anatolia and the southern Levant. He was the younger brother of Professor Walter Garstang, FRS, a marine bi ...

(British, 1876–1956) * Henri Gauthier (French, 1877–1950) *

Joseph Étienne Gautier Joseph Étienne Gautier (6 September 1861, Oullins – 10 February 1924, Paris) was a French archaeologist. He received his education in his hometown of Oullins and at the ''École pratique des hautes études'' (EPHE) in Paris. From 1884 to 18 ...

(French, 1861–1924) *

John Gee John Laurence Gee (born 1964) is an American Latter-day Saint scholar, apologist and an Egyptologist. He currently teaches at Brigham Young University (BYU) and serves in the Department of Near Eastern Languages. He is known for his writings in ...

(American, born 1964) *

Paul Ghalioungui Paul Ghalioungui or Ghalioungi (1908–1987) ( ar, بول غليونجي), MD (Cairo), MRCP (Lond), Professor of Medicine and former Chairman of Internal Medicine department, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine. An Egyptian endocrinologist ...

(Egyptian, 1908–1987) *

Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville, (26 April 1900 – 26 April 1956) was an English historian and egyptologist. He was Edwards Professor of Egyptology at University College London from 1935 to 1946. He was then Sir Herbert Thompson Professor ...

(British 1900–1956) * Orly Goldwasser (Israeli) * Vladimir Golenishchev (Russian, 1856–1947) *

Zakaria Goneim Muhammed Zakaria Goneim (زكريا غنيم) (alt. spelling: Muhammad Zakarīya Ghunaim, 1905–1959) was an Egyptian archaeologist, known for his discoveries in and around Saqqara. He is best known for discovering the Step Pyramid of Sekhe ...

(Egyptian, 1905–1959) * Charles Wycliffe Goodwin (English, 1817–1878) * Janet Gourlay (Scottish, 1863–1912) * Georges Goyon (French, 1905–1996) * Pierre Grandet (French, born 1954) *

Hermann Grapow Hermann Grapow (1 September 1885 in Rostock – 24 August 1967 in Berlin) was a German Egyptologist. Works *Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache The ''Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache'' (''Dictionary of the Egyptian Language''), abbrevi ...

(German, 1885–1967) * Eugène Grébaut (French, 1846–1915) *

Bernard Pyne Grenfell Bernard Pyne Grenfell FBA (16 December 1869 – 18 May 1926) was an English scientist and Egyptologist. Life Grenfell was the son of John Granville Grenfell FGS and Alice Grenfell. He was born in Birmingham and brought up and educated at Cli ...

(British, 1869–1926) * Francis Llewellyn Griffith (British, 1862–1934) *

Nora Griffith Nora Griffith (7 December 1870 – 21 October 1937) was a Scottish Egyptologist, archaeologist, illustrator and conservator. On the death of her husband, the eminent Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith, she founded and endowed the Griffi ...

(British, 1870–1937) * Nicolas Grimal (French, born 1948) * Sarah Israelit Groll (Israeli, 1925–2007) *

Battiscombe Gunn Battiscombe George "Jack" Gunn, (30 June 1883 – 27 February 1950) was an English Egyptologist and philologist. He published his first translation from Egyptian in 1906. He translated inscriptions for many important excavations and sites, i ...

(English, 1883–1950)

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* Labib Habachi (Egyptian, 1906–1984) *

Hermine Hartleben Hermine Ida Auguste Hartleben (2 June 1846 – 18 July 1919) was a German Egyptologist. She was the daughter of a forest officer in Altenau. Later, she studied in Hanover and became a teacher. She studied Greek archaeology at the Sorbonne, taught ...

(German, 1846–1918) *

Selim Hassan Selim Hassan ( ar, سليم حسن; born on 15 April 1886 – 1961) was an Egyptian Egyptologist. He was the first native Egyptian to be appointed Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cairo, a post he held from 1936 to 1939. He was then ...

(Egyptian, 1887–1961) * Zahi Hawass (Egyptian, born 1947) * William C. Hayes (American, 1903–1963) * Wolfgang Helck (German, 1914–1993) *

Johann Jakob Hess Johann Jakob Hess (also ''Jean Jaques Hess''; Freiburg im Üechtland, (Fr. Fribourg), Switzerland, 11 January 1866 – Zurich, Switzerland, 29 April 1949), was a Swiss Egyptologist and Assyriologist and an expert in other Oriental languages. ...

(Swiss, 1866–1949) * James K. Hoffmeier (American, born 1951) * Erik Hornung (Swiss, born 1933) *

Arthur Surridge Hunt Arthur Surridge Hunt, FBA (1 March 1871 – 18 June 1934) was an English papyrologist. Hunt was born in Romford, Essex, England. Over the course of many years, Hunt, along with Bernard Grenfell, recovered many papyri from excavation sites i ...

(British, 1871–1934) * Brian M. Hauglid (American, born 1954)

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Salima Ikram Salima Ikram ( ur, سلیمہ اکرام; born 17 May 1965) is a Pakistani professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo, a participant in many Egyptian archaeological projects, the author of several books on Egyptian archaeology, a ...

(Pakistani, born 1965) * Sergei Ignatov (Bulgarian, born 1960)

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Christian Jacq Christian Jacq (; born 28 April 1947) is a French author and Egyptologist. He has written several novels about ancient Egypt, notably a five book series about pharaoh Ramses II, a character whom Jacq admires greatly. Biography Born in Paris, ...

(French, born 1947) *

Thomas Garnet Henry James Thomas Garnet Henry James, (8 May 1923 – 16 December 2009), known as Harry James, was a British Egyptologist, epigrapher, and museum curator. He is best known for his career long association with the British Museum, serving with the Departmen ...

(British, 1923–2009) * Gustave Jéquier (Swiss, 1868–1946) *

Jean-Baptiste Jollois Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois (4 January 1776 – 24 June 1842) was a French engineer who together with Édouard de Villiers du Terrage journeyed with Napoleon to Egypt, and prepared the ''Description de l'Égypte The ''Description ...

(French, 1776–1842) *

Edme-François Jomard Edme-François Jomard (; 1777 – September 22, 1862) was a French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist. He edited the ''Description de L'Égypte'' and was a member of the Institut d'Egypte established by Napoleon. He supervised the educati ...

(French, 1777–1862) *

Pierre Jouguet Pierre Jouguet (14 May 1869 – 9 July 1949) was a French Egyptologist and classical philologist. In 1890 he studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, obtaining his agrégation for grammar in 1893. For three years thereafter he was asso ...

(French, 1869–1949) * Hermann Junker (German, 1877–1962)

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* László Kákosy (Hungarian, 1932–2003) * Ahmed Kamal (Egyptian, 1851–1923) * Naguib Kanawati (Egyptian-Australian, born 1941) *

Peter Kaplony Peter Árpád Kaplony (June 15, 1933 in Budapest – February 11, 2011 in Zurich) was a Hungarian-born Swiss egyptologist. Life Kaplony, son of a Hungarian military officer, emigrated to Switzerland as a child in December 1944. He became a Sw ...

(Hungarian-Swiss, 1933–2011) * Barry Kemp (British) *

Jean Kérisel Jean Lehuérou Kérisel (18 November 1908 – 22 January 2005) was a French engineer and Egyptologist. He was a specialist in soil mechanics and geotechnics. After studying at Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, ...

(French, 1908–2005) *

Athanasius Kircher Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fe ...

(German, 1602–1680) *

Kenneth Anderson Kitchen Kenneth Anderson Kitchen (born 1932) is a British biblical scholar, Ancient Near Eastern historian, and Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and honorary research fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, Univ ...

(British, born 1932) *

Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo, née Jan Kmínek-Szedlo (April 22, 1828 – November 24, 1896) was a Czech–Italian Egyptologist. He is usually remembered as the first Egyptologist from what nowadays is the Czech RepublicDawson, W. R. & Uphill, E. T., ...

(Czech-Italian, 1828–1896) * Jirō Kondō (Japanese, born 1951) * Charles Kuentz (French, 1895–1978)

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* Pierre Lacau (French, 1873–1963) *

Violette Lafleur Violette Lafleur (sometimes Violet Lafleur; 1897–1965) was a Canadian conservator and curator for the Department of Egyptology and Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London. Education and career She attended the Grove Scho ...

(Canadian, 1897–1965) * Jean-Philippe Lauer (French, 1902–2001) *

Jean Leclant Jean Leclant (8 August 1920 – 16 September 2011) was a renowned Egyptologist who was an Honorary Professor at the College of France, Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions and Letters of the Institut de France, and Honorary S ...

(French, 1920–2011) *

Conradus Leemans Conradus Leemans (24 April 1809 – 14 October 1893) was a Dutch Egyptologist. Early life Conradus Leemans was born in 1809 in Zalt-Bommel, Netherlands, and was the eldest son of physician Dr. Willem Leemans and Hillegonda Rachel Ganderheijden. H ...

(Dutch, 1809–1893) * Eugène Lefébure (French, 1838–1908) * Gustave Lefebvre (French, 1879–1957) * Georges Legrain (French, 1865–1917) *

Mark Lehner Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist with more than 30 years of experience excavating in Egypt. He was born in North Dakota in 1950. His approach, as director of Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), is to conduct interdisciplinary archaeo ...

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Oscar Lemm Oscar Eduardovich Lemm (russian: Оскар Эдуардович Лемм, 1856-1918) was a Russian Egyptologist and Coptologist who specialized in the study of Coptic writings. Life Lemm had studied at the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum and the University ...

(Russian, 1856–1918) *

Charles Lenormant Charles Lenormant (1 June 1802, Paris – 22 November 1859, Athens) was a French archaeologist. Biography After pursuing his studies at the Lycée Charlemagne and the Lycée Napoléon, he took up law, but a visit to Italy and Sicily (182 ...

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Karl Richard Lepsius Karl Richard Lepsius ( la, Carolus Richardius Lepsius) (23 December 181010 July 1884) was a pioneering Prussian Egyptologist, linguist and modern archaeologist. He is widely known for his magnum opus '' Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopie ...

(German, 1810–1884) *

Leonard H. Lesko Leonard H. Lesko (born 1938) was Chairman of the Department of Egyptology at Brown University and held the Charles Edwin Wilbour Professorship. In 1961, he received a B.A. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago, and his masters in 1964. In 196 ...

(American, born 1938) * František Lexa (Czech, 1876–1960) * Nestor L'Hôte (French, 1804–1842) * Miriam Lichtheim (Israeli, 1914–2004) * Jens Lieblein (Norwegian, 1827–1911) * Victor Loret (French, 1859–1946)

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Arthur Cruttenden Mace Arthur Cruttenden Mace (17 July 1874 – 6 April 1928) was a Tasmanian-born English archaeologist and Egyptologist. He is best known for his work for the New York Metropolitan Museum, and as a part of Howard Carter's team during the excavatio ...

(British, 1874–1928) * Auguste Ferdinand François Mariette (French, 1821–1881) *

Gaston Maspero Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, became a notable sinologist and scholar of East Asia ...

(French, 1846–1916) * Bernard Mathieu (French, born 1959) * Bernadette Menu (French, born 1942) *

Barbara Mertz Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the Univer ...

(American, 1927–2013) *

Kazimierz Michałowski Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (born December 14, 1901 in Tarnopol – January 1, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, art historian, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor ordinarius of the Univer ...

(Polish, 1901–1981) * Béatrix Midant-Reynes (French) * Nicholas Millet (American, 1934–2004) *Sir Robert Mond (British, 1867–1938) * Pierre Montet (French, 1885–1966) * Ludwig David Morenz (German, born 1965) *

Alexandre Moret Alexandre Moret (; 19 September 1868, Aix-les-Bains – 2 February 1938, Paris) was a French Egyptologist. Life From 1906 to 1923 Moret was curator of the Musée Guimet. In 1918 Moret succeeded Émile Amélineau as Director of Studies for the Re ...

(French, 1868–1938) *

Jacques de Morgan Jean-Jacques de Morgan (3 June 1857, Huisseau-sur-Cosson, Loir-et-Cher – 14 June 1924) was a French mining engineer, geologist, and archaeologist. He was the director of antiquities in Egypt during the 19th century, and excavated in Memp ...

(French, 1857–1924) * Rosalind Moss (British, 1890–1990) * Tycho Q. Mrsich (German, 1925–2022) * William J. Murnane (American, 1945–2000) * Margaret Alice Murray (Anglo-Indian, 1863–1963) * Karol Myśliwiec (Polish, born 1943)

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Édouard Naville Henri Édouard Naville (14 June 1844 – 17 October 1926) was a Swiss archaeologist, Egyptologist and Biblical scholar. Born in Geneva, he studied at the University of Geneva, King's College, London, and the Universities of Bonn, Paris, an ...

(Swiss, 1844–1926) * Alessandra Nibbi (Australian, 1923–2007) * Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (French, 1913–2011)

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* David O'Connor (Australian, born 1938) *

Boyo Ockinga Boyo Ockinga is an Egyptologist, epigrapher, and philologist of the ancient Egyptian language, who holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Biography Ockinga gr ...

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* Laure Pantalacci (French) *

Sarah Parcak Sarah Helen Parcak is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist, who has used satellite imagery to identify potential archaeological sites in Egypt, Rome and elsewhere in the former Roman Empire. She is a professor of Anthropology and director o ...

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Richard Anthony Parker Richard Anthony Parker (December 10, 1905 – June 3, 1993) was a prominent Egyptologist and professor of Egyptology. Originally from Chicago, he attended Mt. Carmel High School (then known as St. Cyril) with acclaimed author James T. Farrell. He ...

(American, 1905–1993) *

Richard B. Parkinson Richard Bruce Parkinson (born 25 May 1963) is a British Egyptologist and academic. He is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and a fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. Until December 2013 he was a curator in the Department of ...

(British, born 1963) *

Thomas Eric Peet Thomas Eric Peet (12 August 1882, Liverpool – 22 February 1934, Oxford) was an English Egyptologist. Biography Thomas Eric Peet (professionally he used the form T. Eric Peet) was the son of Thomas and Salome Peet. He was educated at Merchant ...

(British, 1882–1934) * John Pendlebury (British, 1904–1941) *

John Shae Perring John Shae Perring (1813–1869) was a British engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist, most notable for his work excavating and documenting Egyptian pyramids. In 1837 Perring and British archaeologist Richard William Howard Vyse began e ...

(British, 1813–1869) * Hilda Petrie (Irish, 1871–1957) * William Flinders Petrie (British, 1853–1942) * Karl Piehl (Swedish, 1853–1904) * Willem Pleyte (Dutch, 1836–1903) * André Pochan (French, 1891–19??) *

Paule Posener-Kriéger Paule Violette Posener-Kriéger (18 April 1925 - 11 May 1996) was a French Egyptologist who was director of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale from 1981 to 1989. While in Abusir, she excavated the pyramid complex of Neferefre where she ...

(French, 1925—1996)

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Joachim Friedrich Quack Joachim Friedrich Quack (born 10 June 1966 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German Egyptologist and Demotic Language specialist. Education He studied Egyptology, Semitic and Biblical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen and abroad at t ...

(German, born 1966) * James Edward Quibell (British, 1867–1935) * Stephen Quirke (British)

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* David Randall-MacIver (British-American, 1873–1945) * Maarten Raven (Dutch, born 1953) *

John D. Ray John David Ray (born 22 December 1945) is a British Egyptologist and academic. He is the current Sir Herbert Thompson Professor of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge. His principal field of interest covers the Late and Hellenistic periods ...

(British, born 1945) * Donald B. Redford (Canadian, born 1934) *

Nicholas Reeves Carl Nicholas Reeves, FSA (born 28 September 1956), is a British Egyptologist, archaeologist and museum curator. Background A specialist in Egyptian history and material culture, Reeves is a graduate (first class honours) in Ancient History f ...

(English, born 1956) *

Adolphe Reinach Adolphe Joseph Reinach (12 January 1887 – 30 August 1914) was a French archaeologist and Egyptologist who participated in excavations in Greece and Egypt and published works on the Gauls. Working in Egypt for the Société française des fou ...

(French, 1887–1914) *

George Andrew Reisner George Andrew Reisner Jr. (November 5, 1867 – June 6, 1942) was an American archaeologist of Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Palestine. Biography Reisner was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents were George Andrew Reisner I and Mary Elizabeth ...

(American, 1867–1942) * Peter le Page Renouf (English, 1822–1897) * Eugène Revillout (French, 1843–1913) *

Alexander Henry Rhind Alexander Henry Rhind (; 26 July 1833 – 3 July 1863) was a Scottish antiquarian and archaeologist. Biography Born in Wick on 26 July 1833 in the Scottish Highlands, Rhind studied at the University of Edinburgh. He has often been erroneously r ...

(Scottish, 1833–1863) *

Herbert Ricke Herbert Rüdiger Ricke (27 September 1901 – 22 March 1976), was a German archaeologist, Egyptologist and architectural historian who is best known for his works on ancient Egyptian architecture. Biography H. Ricke studied architecture from 1 ...

(German, 1901–1976) * Robert K. Ritner (American, 1953–2021) * David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864) * Gay Robins (British-American, born 1951) *

David Rohl The New Chronology is an alternative chronology of the ancient Near East developed by English Egyptologist David Rohl and other researchers beginning with ''A Test of Time: The Bible - from Myth to History'' in 1995. It contradicts mainstream ...

(British, born 1950) *

Ippolito Rosellini Niccola Francesco Ippolito Baldassarre Rosellini, known simply as Ippolito RoselliniBardelli 1843, p. 4 (13 August 1800 – 4 June 1843) was an Italian Egyptologist. A scholar and friend of Jean-François Champollion, he is regarded as t ...

(Italian, 1800–1843) * Emmanuel de Rougé (French, 1811–1872) * François Michel de Rozière (French, 1775–1842) * Otto Rubensohn (German, 1867–1964) * Donald P. Ryan (American, born 1957) *

Kim Ryholt Kim Steven Bardrum Ryholt (born 19 June 1970) is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen and a specialist on Egyptian history and literature. He is director of the research centeCanon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Litera ...

(American/Danish, born 1970)

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* Henry Salt (Brite, 1780–1827) * Helmut Satzinger (Austrian, born 1938) *

Serge Sauneron Serge Sauneron (3 January 1927 – 3 June 1976) was a French Egyptologist. He was Director of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale The Institut français d'archéologie orientale (or IFAO), also known as the French Institute for Orient ...

(French, 1927–1976) *

Claude-Étienne Savary Claude-Étienne Savary (1750 in Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine – 1788) was an orientalist, pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the Qur'an. Publications *1782–1783: ''Le Coran, traduit de l'arabe, accompagné de notes, et précédé d'un abrég� ...

(French, 1750–1788) *

Otto Schaden Otto John Schaden (August 26, 1937 – November 23, 2015) was an American Egyptologist. He was the field director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis (Tennessee). In addition to his work on the tomb of Amenmesse ( KV10) in t ...

(American, 1937–2015) * Hans Heinrich Schaeder (German, 1896–1957) *

Jean-Vincent Scheil Father Jean-Vincent Scheil (born 10 June 1858, Kœnigsmacker – died 21 September 1940, Paris) was a French Dominican scholar and Assyriologist. He is credited as the discoverer of the Code of Hammurabi in Persia. In 1911 he came into possessio ...

(French, 1858–1940) * Ernesto Schiaparelli (Italian, 1856–1928) * René Schwaller de Lubicz (French, 1887–1961) *

Girolamo Segato Girolamo Segato (13 June 1792 – 3 February 1836) was an Italian naturalist, cartographer, Egyptologist, and anatomist. He is perhaps best known for his work in the artificial petrifaction of human cadavers. Segato was born in the Carthusian mo ...

(Italian, 1792–1836) *

Kurt Heinrich Sethe Kurt Heinrich Sethe (30 September 1869 – 6 July 1934) was a noted German Egyptologist and philologist from Berlin. He was a student of Adolf Erman. Sethe collected numerous texts from Egypt during his visits there and edited the '' Urkunde ...

(German, 1869–1934) * Gustav Seyffarth (German-American, 1796–1885) * Ian Shaw (British, born 1961) *

David P. Silverman David P. Silverman is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist. He received an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University where he majored in art history. He later studied Egyptology as a graduate student at the University of Chicago whe ...

(American, born 1943) *

William Kelly Simpson William Kelly Simpson (January 3, 1928 – March 24, 2017) was an American professor of Egyptology, Archaeology, Ancient Egyptian literature, and Afro-Asiatic languages at Yale University.The Cambridge University Catalogue. (2009)The Great Pyramid ...

(American, 1928–2017) * Edwin Smith (American, 1822–1906) *

Grafton Elliot Smith Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian- British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory. He believed in the idea that cultural innovations occur only once a ...

(Australian, 1871–1937) * Wilhelm Spiegelberg (German, 1870–1930) *

Rainer Stadelmann Dr. Rainer Stadelmann (24 October 1933 – 14 January 2019) was a German Egyptologist. He was considered an expert on the archaeology of the Giza Plateau. Biography After studying in Neuburg an der Donau in 1933, he studied Egyptology, orienta ...

(German, 1933–2019) * Danijela Stefanovic (Serbian, born 1973) * Georg Steindorff (German, 1861–1951) * Vasily Vasilievich Struve (Russian, 1889–1965) * Zbigniew Szafrański (Polish)

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Mahmoud Maher Taha Mahmoud Maher Taha (Arabic language, Arabic: محمود ماهر طه (born 21 December 1942, in Cairo, Egypt) is an Egyptian Egyptologist. Taha obtained his B.A. in Egyptology from Cairo University (Department of Archeology) in 1963 and complete ...

(Egyptian, born 1942) * Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (Egyptian, 1801–1873) * Elizabeth Thomas (American, 1907–1986) * Herbert Thompson (British, 1859–1944) * Claude Traunecker (French, born 1943) * Bruce Trigger (Canadian, 1937–2006) *

Boris Turayev Boris Alexandrovich Turayev (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Тура́ев; , Navahrudak – July 23, 1920, Petrograd) was a Russian scholar who studied the Ancient Near East (mainly Ancient Egypt and Nubia). He was adm ...

(Russian, 1868–1920) * Joyce Tyldesley (British, born 1960)

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Peter Ucko Peter John Ucko FRAI FSA (27 July 1938 – 14 June 2007) was an influential English archaeologist. He served as Director of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL), and was a Fellow of both the Royal Anthropological ...

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* Jeanne Marie Thérèse Vandier d'Abbadie (French, 1899–1977) *

Alexandre Varille Alexandre Varille (12 March 1909, Lyon – 1 November 1951, Joigny) was a French Egyptologist. Life From a cultured family from Lyon, he studied Economics and Letters. During his studies he met Victor Loret, his Egyptology professor at the Unive ...

(French, 1909–1951) * Luigi Vassalli (Italian, 1812–1887) * Jean Vercoutter (French, 1911–2000) *

Jozef Vergote Jozef Antoon Leo Maria Vergote (1910–1992) was a Flemish Egyptologist and Coptologist. He was born on 16 March 1910 in Gent, Belgium. He received his doctorate degree in classical philology and oriental languages in 1932 from the Catholic Univer ...

(Belgian, 1910–1992) *

Miroslav Verner Miroslav Verner (born October 31, 1941 in Brno) is a Czech egyptologist, who specializes in the history and archaeology of Ancient Egypt of the Old Kingdom and especially of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt. Biography Verner was the director of th ...

(Czech, born 1941) * Édouard de Villiers du Terrage (French, 1780–1855) * Richard William Howard Vyse (British, 1784–1853)

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William Ayres Ward William Ayres Ward (June 10, 1928 – September 13, 1996) was an American Egyptologist. Biography Born in Chicago, Ward studied at the Butler University in Indianapolis and received his B.A. in History of religions in 1951. Then, he attained a ...

(American, 1928–1996) *

Kent R. Weeks Kent R. Weeks (born December 16, 1941) is an American Egyptologist. Biography He was born in Everett, Washington, on December 16, 1941. He remembers deciding to be an Egyptologist at the age of eight. Weeks attended R. A. Long High School in ...

(American, born 1941) * Arthur Weigall (British, 1880–1934) * Josef W. Wegner (American, born 1967) * Fred Wendorf (American, 1924–2015) * Willeke Wendrich (Dutch-American, born 1961) * Edward Frank Wente (American, born 1930) * Marcelle Werbrouck (Belgian, 1889–1959) *

Wolfhart Westendorf Wolfhart Westendorf (18 September 1924 – 23 February 2018) was a German Egyptologist. He was a student of Hermann Grapow, and with him, was a co-author of the ''Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter'' (''Plan of Medicine of the Ancient ...

(German, 1924–2018) *

Charles Edwin Wilbour Charles Edwin Wilbour (March 17, 1833 – December 17, 1896) was an American journalist and Egyptologist. Wilbour is noted as one of the discoverers of the Elephantine Papyri and the creator of the first English translation of ''Les Misérables' ...

(American, 1833–1896) *

John Gardner Wilkinson Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (5 October 1797 – 29 October 1875) was an English traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist of the 19th century. He is often referred to as "the Father of British Egyptology". Childhood and education Wilkinson ...

(British, 1797–1875) *

Richard H. Wilkinson Richard H. Wilkinson (born 1951) is an archaeologist in the field of Egyptology. He is Regents Professor Emeritus, Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and founding director of the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition. He conducted research and ...

(American, born 1951) * Toby Wilkinson (British, born 1969) * Hilary Wilson (British, born mid 20th century) * John A. Wilson (American, 1899–1976) *

Herbert Eustis Winlock Herbert Eustis Winlock (February 1, 1884 – January 27, 1950)Note: ''Who Was Who'' notes death on January 27, Spring 1998 ''KMT magazine'' article states January 25. was an American Egyptologist and archaeologist, employed by the Metropolitan Mu ...

(American, 1884–1950) *

Walter Wreszinski Walter Wreszinski (March 18, 1880, in Mogilno (now Poland) – 9 April 1935) was a German Egyptologist and professor at Albertus University of Königsberg. Education He studied in Leipzig from 1898 to 1899, then in Berlin from 1899 to 1904 (und ...

(German, 1880–1935)

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Sakuji Yoshimura is a Japanese Egyptologist. He currently is Director of the Institute of Egyptology,
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(Japanese, born 1943) * Thomas Young (scientist), Thomas Young (British, 1773–1829) *

Jean Yoyotte Jean Yoyotte (4 August 1927 – 1 July 2009) was a French Egyptologist, Professor of Egyptology at the Collège de France and director of research at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). Biography Born in 1927 at Lyon, he attended th ...

(French, 1927–2009)

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* Zbyněk Žába (Czech, 1917–1971) * Louis Vico Žabkar (1914–1994) *

Hilde Zaloscer Prof. Dr. Hilde (Hildegard) Zaloscer (Zaloszer) (15 June 1903 – 20 December 1999) was an art historian, Egyptologist, Coptologist, essayist, novelist and a prominent expert of Coptic history and art. Biography Zaloscer was born in Tuzla, Bosnia H ...

(Austrian, 1903–1999) * Christiane Ziegler (French, born 1942)

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