
Sir Frank Ezra Adcock, was a British classical historian who was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge between 1925 and 1951. In addition to his academic work, he also served as a cryptographer in both World War I and World War II.

Kathleen Mary Tyrer Atkinson, née Chrimes was an ancient historian and archaeologist working in Britain, Greece, and Cyprus; she was the first woman professor at Queen's University Belfast, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, is an English scholar of Ancient Roman civilisation. The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible".

Karl Julius Beloch was a German classical and economic historian.

George Law Cawkwell was a classical scholar who specialised in the ancient history of Greece in the 4th century BC.

John Gillies was a Scottish tutor, historian and man of letters.

Emily Greenwood is John M. Musser Professor of Classics and Chair of the Department of Classics at Yale University. Her research focuses on Ancient Greek historiography, particularly Thucydides and Herodotus, and the development of History as a genre and a modern critical discipline. She also explores the appropriation and reinvention of Greco-Roman classical antiquity from the late nineteenth century to the present.

George Grote was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece.

Shelley P. Haley is the Edward North Chair of Classics and Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College, New York, and President-Elect of the Society for Classical Studies. She is an expert in applying Black feminist and critical race approaches to the study and teaching of Classics.

William George Hardy was a Canadian professor, writer, and ice hockey administrator. He lectured on the Classics at the University of Alberta from 1922 to 1964, and served as president of the Canadian Authors Association. He was an administrator of Canadian and international ice hockey, and served as president of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA), the International Ice Hockey Association, and the International Ice Hockey Federation.

Adolf Holm was a German historian of antiquity.

Donald Kagan is an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He formerly taught in the Department of History at Cornell University. At present, Kagan is considered among the foremost American scholars of Greek history.

Rebecca Futo Kennedy is Associate Professor of Classics, Women's and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies at Denison University; and the Director of the Denison Museum. Her research focuses on the political, social, and cultural history of Classical Athens, Athenian tragedy, ancient immigration, ancient theories of race and ethnicity, and the reception of those theories in modern race science.

Robin James Lane Fox is an English classicist, ancient historian, and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College, Oxford and Reader in Ancient History, University of Oxford. Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College from 1977 to 2014, he serves as Garden Master and as Extraordinary Lecturer in Ancient History for both New and Exeter Colleges. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history.

Grace Harriet Macurdy was an American classicist, and the first American woman to gain a PhD from Columbia University. She taught at Vassar College for 44 years, despite a lengthy conflict with Abby Leach, her first employer.

William Mitford was an English Member of Parliament and historian, best known for his The History of Greece (1784–1810).
Reviel Netz is an Israeli scholar of the history of pre-modern mathematics, who is currently a professor of classics and of philosophy at Stanford University.

Robert C. T. Parker, FBA is a British historian of the ancient world specialising in ancient Greek religion.

Stefan Lorenz Radt was a Dutch historian, author and academic specializing in ancient Greek geography.

Frank William Walbank was a scholar of ancient history, particularly the history of Polybius. He was born in Bingley, Yorkshire, and died in Cambridge.

Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster was a British archaeologist and Classicist, known for his studies of Greek comedy.