1. Franz Boas (79.49)
German-American anthropologist
2. Margaret Mead (71.44)
American anthropologist
3. Ruth Benedict (70.50)
American anthropologist and folklorologist
4. Bronisław Malinowski (69.47)
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA
5. Alfred L. Kroeber (65.95)
American anthropologist
6. Edward Sapir (65.47)
American linguist and anthropologist
7. Clifford Geertz (64.56)
American anthropologist
8. Lewis H. Morgan (63.12)
United States ethnologist
9. Edward Burnett Tylor (62.77)
English anthropologist
10. Marcel Mauss (62.70)
French sociologist and anthropologist
11. Émile Durkheim (61.16)
French sociologist (1858-1917)
12. Julian Steward (60.99)
American anthropologist
13. Mary Douglas (60.86)
British anthropologist
14. Juan Comas (60.83)
Spanish academic
15. Edmund Leach (60.24)
British anthropologist
16. Eric Wolf (59.59)
American anthropologist
17. Pierre Bourdieu (59.48)
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
18. Marshall Sahlins (59.44)
American anthropologist
19. Meyer Fortes (59.30)
South African anthropologist
20. Robert Lowie (59.02)
American anthropologist
21. George Marcus (58.88)
anthropologist, university professor, magazine editor
22. Michel Foucault (58.81)
French philosopher
23. Max Weber (58.77)
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist
24. Marvin Harris (58.61)
American anthropologist
25. Gregory Bateson (57.96)
English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist
26. Sidney Mintz (57.47)
American anthropologist
27. Victor Turner (57.40)
British cultural anthropologist
28. Max Gluckman (57.11)
South African anthropologist
29. Leslie White (57.01)
American anthropologist
30. George J. Armelagos (56.64)
American anthropologist
31. Melville J. Herskovits (56.49)
American anthropologist
32. Herbert Spencer (55.92)
English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist
33. Dell Hymes (55.63)
American anthropologist and linguist
34. James George Frazer (55.12)
Scottish social anthropologist
35. Zora Neale Hurston (55.09)
American folklorist, novelist, short story writer
36. Merrill Singer (55.00)
Medical anthropologist
37. David M. Schneider (54.48)
American anthropologist
38. Samuel George Morton (54.23)
American physician
39. Ibn Khaldun (54.05)
Arab historiographer and historian
40. Stephen D. Glazier (53.96)
American anthropologist
41. Marilyn Strathern (53.85)
British anthropologist
42. Immanuel Kant (53.69)
German philosopher
43. Ralph Linton (53.64)
American anthropologist
44. David G. Anderson (53.55)
American archaeologist
45. Raymond Firth (53.19)
Ethnologist from New Zealand
46. Clark Wissler (53.02)
American anthropologist
47. Alfred Cort Haddon (52.93)
British anthropologist
48. Rudolf Virchow (52.82)
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist and politician
49. John Comaroff (52.75)
South African anthropologist
50. George Murdock (52.70)
American anthropologist
51. Božo Škerlj (52.68)
Slovenian anthropologist
52. Manuel Gamio (52.65)
Mexican academic
53. William Halse Rivers Rivers (52.61)
English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist and psychiatrist
54. Ulf Hannerz (52.61)
Swedish anthropologist
55. Arthur Kleinman (52.56)
American psychiatrist
56. George Devereux (52.13)
ethnologist
57. Clyde Kluckhohn (52.08)
American anthropologist
58. Taja Kramberger (51.98)
Slovenian writer and historian
59. James Clifford (51.73)
American historian
60. Phyllis Kaberry (51.70)
Australian anthropologist
61. Paul Rivet (51.68)
French ethnologist
62. Paul Broca (51.63)
French anthropologist
63. Isaac Schapera (51.46)
British anthropologist
64. Carleton S. Coon (51.42)
American anthropologist
65. Vere Gordon Childe (51.41)
British historian and archaeologist
66. Madison Grant (50.99)
American lawyer, eugenicist, and conservationist
67. Jean Rouch (50.55)
French film director
68. Fei Xiaotong (50.46)
Chinese politician
69. Sherry Ortner (50.39)
American anthropologist
70. Louis Leakey (50.20)
British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa
71. Torii Ryūzō (50.20)
Japanese archaeologist
72. Mircea Eliade (50.11)
Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosopher
73. Alain Testart (49.95)
French social anthropologist; specialist of primitive societies.
74. Paul Rabinow (49.90)
American anthropologist
75. Jean Comaroff (49.83)
American anthropologist
76. Genevieve Bell (49.62)
Australian anthropologist
77. Michael Taussig (49.57)
Australian anthropologist
78. James Hunt (49.39)
English speech therapist
79. Derek Freeman (49.29)
New Zealand anthropologist
80. Alexander Lesser (49.19)
American anthropologist
81. Daniel Miller (49.00)
British anthropologist
82. Leslie Spier (48.97)
American anthropologist
83. Christoph Wulf (48.93)
German anthropologist
84. Josiah C. Nott (48.82)
American surgeon
85. Laura Bohannan (48.82)
cultural anthropologist
86. Kristen R. Ghodsee (48.79)
American ethnographer and a Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Bowdoin College
87. Owen Lovejoy (48.68)
anthropologist
88. Vera Green (48.66)
American anthropologist and academic
89. Marvin Opler (48.66)
American anthropologist
90. Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán (48.62)
anthropologist
91. Ota Benga (48.43)
Mbuti pygmy featured in an anthropology exhibit in 1904
92. Maurice Godelier (48.43)
French anthropologist
93. William Henry Holmes (48.32)
American academic, painter and illustrator
94. Napoleon Chagnon (48.32)
American anthropologist
95. Alan H. Goodman (48.24)
anthropologist
96. Frank Speck (48.17)
American anthropologist
97. René Girard (47.97)
French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
98. Abram Kardiner (47.90)
American anthropologist
99. Loïc Wacquant (47.79)
French sociologist
100. Johann Jakob Bachofen (47.76)
Swiss legal and classical scholar
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