WHans Heinrich (Enrique) Brüning was a German-born Peruvian ethnologist and collector of antiquities.
WAnvar Chingizoglu is an Azerbaijani historian, ethnologist and genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval Azerbaijan, Iran and the Ottoman Empire.
WJean Victor de Bruijn was a Dutch district officer, soldier, explorer, ethnologist and writer. He spent most of his life in the Dutch East Indies, especially in Dutch New Guinea, working as a colonial administrator and an ethnologist. He gained fame for holding out with native Papuan soldiers in mountainous interior of Western New Guinea against overwhelming Japanese forces, as part of Operation Oaktree, maintaining one of the last Dutch-controlled outposts in the Dutch East Indies during World War II.
WJovan Erdeljanović was a Serbian and Yugoslav ethnologist.
WAndromaqi Gjergji was an Albanian ethnologist who was a specialist in Albanian costumes and dress.
WAntónio dos Santos Graça (1882—1956) was a Portuguese ethnologist, journalist and politician notable for the study and preservation of Poveiro culture, history, and folklore. He was born and also died at Póvoa de Varzim.
WRicardo Eduardo Latcham Cartwright was an English-Chilean archaeologist, ethnologist, folklore scholar and teacher.
WDimitrios "Dimitris" Loukatos (1908–2003), was a folklorist-anthropologist and specialist in Greek folklore.
WBronisław Kasper Malinowski was a Polish-British anthropologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology.
WPieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut, of which he was the director until 1965.
WBrenda Zara Seligman born Brenda Zara Salaman was a British anthropologist who was the winner of the Rivers Memorial Medal in 1933 for five years of fieldwork. She was married to Charles Seligman who has overshadowed her contribution. He died in 1940 and she continued to extend their private museum collections. She rose to be vice-President of the Royal Anthropological Institute and to leave vast collections to leading British museums.
WFranz Baermann Steiner was an ethnologist, polymath, essayist, aphorist, and poet. He was familiar, apart from German, Yiddish, Czech, Greek and Latin, with both classical and modern Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Malay, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, six other Slavic languages, Scandinavian languages and Dutch.
WWolfgang Steinitz was a German linguist and folklorist. Through his rediscovery of hidden social commentary in traditional folk songs, he was an important pioneer of the German folk-revival in both East and West Germany. He researched the language and culture of the Ugric peoples of West Siberia, including the songs that form an important part of the tradition of this endangered ethnic group. Steinitz also left extensive work in other areas of linguistic studies.
WOdo Deodatus I. Tauern was a German ethnologist, physicist, and inventor from a family of nobility who travelled to Southeast Asia as part of an expedition. He made the oldest known recordings of Balinese music on Edison wax cylinders. He collected for the ethnographic museum in Freiburg. He also made innovations in film and cinematography.
WGullu Yologlu - Chairperson of the World Turkology Center, PhD, Doctor of Historical Sciences has contributed ethnology, folklore studies, literature, history, religious studies and other scientific fields in Azerbaijan by providing rich information, analysis and outcomes with her scholarly and scholarly-publicistic articles and books, and her scientific and artistic radio and television programs for more than 20 years. Her main research areas are faiths, traditions, ethnic identities, shamanist past, material and non-material culture of small-numbered Turkic peoples living in countries from the Siberia to the Balkans.