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
