List of Egyptologists
This is a partial list of Egyptologists. An Egyptologist is any archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specializes in Egyptology, the scientific study of Ancient Egypt and its antiquities. 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 Egyptian antiquities is an "Egyptologist", the field of Egyptology is not exclusive to such practitioners.
A
- Barbara G. Adams
- Johan David Åkerblad
- Cyril Aldred
- James Peter Allen
- Maurice Alliot
- Hartwig Altenmüller
- Émile Amélineau
- Alessia Amenta
- Guillemette Andreu
- Tadeusz Andrzejewski
- Jan Assmann
- Éric Aubourg
- Sydney Hervé Aufrère
- A.-C.-T.-Émile Prisse d'Avennes
- Edward Russell Ayrton
B
- Alexander Badawy
- John Robert Baines
- Pascale Ballet
- Émile Baraize
- Alessandro Barsanti
- Hussein Bassir
- Michel Baud
- Alfred Chester Beatty
- Nathalie Beaux-Grimal
- Jürgen von Beckerath
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni
- Georges Aaron Bénédite
- Yosef Ben-Jochannan
- Margaret Benson
- Susanne Bickel
- Manfred Bietak
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing
- Fernand Bisson de la Roque
- Aylward Manley Blackman
- Edward Bleiberg
- Martin Bommas
- Charlotte Booth
- Ludwig Borchardt
- Käthe Bosse-Griffiths
- Urbain Bouriant
- Peter J. Brand
- James Henry Breasted
- Edda Bresciani
- Bob Brier
- Edwin C. Brock
- Mary Brodrick
- Myrtle Florence Broome
- Émile Brugsch
- Heinrich Karl Brugsch
- Guy Brunton
- Betsy Bryan
- E. A. Wallis Budge
- Harry Burton
- James Burton
C
- Agnès Cabrol
- Arthur Callender
- Amice Calverley
- Ricardo Caminos
- Jean Capart
- George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon
- Howard Carter
- Giovanni Battista Caviglia
- Jaroslav Černý
- François Chabas
- Jean-François Champollion
- Émile Gaston Chassinat
- Charles Chipiez
- Somers Clarke
- Jean Clédat
- Kathlyn M. Cooney
- Jean-Pierre Corteggiani
- Pearce Paul Creasman
- Winifred M. Crompton
- Silvio Curto
D
- Alec Naylor Dakin
- Alicia Daneri
- Georges Émile Jules Daressy
- François Daumas
- Françoise Dunand
- Nina de Garis Davies
- Norman de Garis Davies
- Theodore M. Davis
- Théodule Devéria
- Cheikh Anta Diop
- Sergio Donadoni
- Günter Dreyer
- Étienne Drioton
- Bernardino Drovetti
- Johannes Dümichen
E
- Bendix Ebbell
- Georg Ebers
- Dorothy Eady
- Amelia Edwards
- Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards
- August Eisenlohr
- Walter Bryan Emery
- Jean-Yves Empereur
- Reginald Engelbach
- Adolf Erman
F
- Raymond O. Faulkner
- Cecil Mallaby Firth
- Henry George Fischer
- Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert
- Joann Fletcher
- Georges Foucart
- Detlef Franke
- Henri Frankfort
- Henning Franzmeier
- George Willoughby Fraser
- Renée Friedman
- Elizabeth Frood
G
- Marc Gabolde
- Alan Gardiner
- Jean Sainte-Fare Garnot
- John Garstang
- Henri Gauthier
- Joseph Étienne Gautier
- John Gee
- Paul Ghalioungui
- Stephen Ranulph Kingdon Glanville
- Orly Goldwasser
- Vladimir Golenishchev
- Zakaria Goneim
- Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
- Janet Gourlay
- Georges Goyon
- Pierre Grandet
- Hermann Grapow
- Eugène Grébaut
- Bernard Pyne Grenfell
- Francis Llewellyn Griffith
- Nora Griffith
- Nicolas Grimal
- Sarah Israelit Groll
- Battiscombe Gunn
H
- Labib Habachi
- Hermine Hartleben
- Selim Hassan
- Zahi Hawass
- William C. Hayes
- Wolfgang Helck
- Johann Jakob Hess
- James K. Hoffmeier
- Erik Hornung
- Arthur Surridge Hunt
- Brian M. Hauglid
I
- Ibn Wahshiyya
- Salima Ikram
- Sergei Ignatov
J
- Christian Jacq
- Thomas Garnet Henry James
- Gustave Jéquier
- Jean-Baptiste Jollois
- Edme-François Jomard
- Pierre Jouguet
- Hermann Junker
K
- László Kákosy
- Ahmed Kamal
- Naguib Kanawati
- Peter Kaplony
- Barry Kemp
- Jean Kérisel
- Athanasius Kircher
- Kenneth Anderson Kitchen
- Giovanni Kminek-Szedlo
- Jirō Kondō
- Charles Kuentz
L
- Pierre Lacau
- Violette Lafleur
- Jean-Philippe Lauer
- Jean Leclant
- Conradus Leemans
- Eugène Lefébure
- Gustave Lefebvre
- Georges Legrain
- Mark Lehner
- Oscar Lemm
- Charles Lenormant
- Karl Richard Lepsius
- Leonard H. Lesko
- František Lexa
- Nestor L'Hôte
- Miriam Lichtheim
- Jens Lieblein
- Victor Loret
- Paul D. Lynn
M
- Arthur Cruttenden Mace
- Auguste Ferdinand François Mariette
- Gaston Maspero
- Bernard Mathieu
- Bernadette Menu
- Barbara Mertz
- Kazimierz Michałowski
- Béatrix Midant-Reynes
- Nicholas Millet
- Sir Robert Mond
- Pierre Montet
- Ludwig David Morenz
- Alexandre Moret
- Jacques de Morgan
- Rosalind Moss
- Tycho Q. Mrsich
- Kerry Muhlestein
- William J. Murnane
- Margaret Alice Murray
- Karol Myśliwiec
N
- Édouard Naville
- Alessandra Nibbi
- Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
O
- David O'Connor
- Boyo Ockinga
P
- Laure Pantalacci
- Sarah Parcak
- Richard Anthony Parker
- Thomas Eric Peet
- John Pendlebury
- John Shae Perring
- Hilda Petrie
- William Flinders Petrie
- Willem Pleyte
- André Pochan
- Paule Posener-Kriéger
Q
- Joachim Friedrich Quack
- James Edward Quibell
- Stephen Quirke
R
- David Randall-MacIver
- Maarten Raven
- John D. Ray
- Donald B. Redford
- Nicholas Reeves
- Adolphe Reinach
- George Andrew Reisner
- Peter le Page Renouf
- Eugène Revillout
- Alexander Henry Rhind
- Herbert Ricke
- Robert K. Ritner
- David Roberts
- Gay Robins
- David Rohl
- Ippolito Rosellini
- Emmanuel de Rougé
- François Michel de Rozière
- Otto Rubensohn
- Donald P. Ryan
- Kim Ryholt
S
- Henry Salt
- Helmut Satzinger
- Serge Sauneron
- Claude-Étienne Savary
- Otto Schaden
- Hans Heinrich Schaeder
- Jean-Vincent Scheil
- Ernesto Schiaparelli
- René Schwaller de Lubicz
- Girolamo Segato
- Kurt Heinrich Sethe
- Gustav Seyffarth
- Ian Shaw
- David P. Silverman
- William Kelly Simpson
- Edwin Smith
- Grafton Elliot Smith
- Wilhelm Spiegelberg
- Rainer Stadelmann
- Danijela Stefanovic
- Georg Steindorff
- Vasily Vasilievich Struve
- Zbigniew Szafrański
T
- Mahmoud Maher Taha
- Rifa'a al-Tahtawi
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Herbert Thompson
- Claude Traunecker
- Bruce Trigger
- Boris Turayev
- Joyce Tyldesley
U
- Peter Ucko
V
- Jeanne Marie Thérèse Vandier d'Abbadie
- Alexandre Varille
- Luigi Vassalli
- Jean Vercoutter
- Jozef Vergote
- Miroslav Verner
- Édouard de Villiers du Terrage
- Richard William Howard Vyse
W
- William Ayres Ward
- Kent R. Weeks
- Arthur Weigall
- Josef W. Wegner
- Fred Wendorf
- Willeke Wendrich
- Edward Frank Wente
- Marcelle Werbrouck
- Wolfhart Westendorf
- Charles Edwin Wilbour
- John Gardner Wilkinson
- Richard H. Wilkinson
- Toby Wilkinson
- John A. Wilson
- Herbert Eustis Winlock
- Walter Wreszinski
Y
- Sakuji Yoshimura
- Thomas Young
- Jean Yoyotte
Z
- Zbyněk Žába
- Louis Vico Žabkar
- Hilde Zaloscer
- Christiane Ziegler
Fictional egyptologists
- Evelyn Carnahan
- Lara Croft
- Amelia P. Emerson and the Emerson Family
- Daniel Jackson
- Indiana Jones
- Sarah Page
- Sophocles Sarcophagus