35 Folklorists

Antti Amatus Aarne was a Finnish folklorist.

Grace Akello is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist, and politician. She is the Uganda Ambassador to India.

Phya Anuman Rajadhon, was one of modern Thailand's most remarkable scholars. He was a self-trained linguist, anthropologist and ethnographer who became an authority on the culture of Thailand. His name was Yong Sathiankoset ; Phraya Anuman Rajadhon was his noble title. He also took his family name, Sathiankoset, as a pen name by which he is well known.

Ömer Şükrü Asan is a Turkish folklorist, photographer and writer.

Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev was a Russian Empire philologist, art historian, and folklorist who represented the Mythological school of comparative literature and linguistics. He was profoundly influenced by Jacob Grimm and Theodor Benfey.

Henri Gaidoz (1842–1932), was a collector and researcher of materials relating to folklore. His works and expertise was in the fields of philology, Celtic studies, archaeology, religion, and mythology.

William Wyatt Gill was an English missionary, active in Australia and the South Pacific region after 1851.

Eugenie Goldstern (1884-1942) was an Austrian anthropologist who conducted research on Alpine folk culture in Switzerland.

Galit Hasan-Rokem is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald professor of folklore at the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Author and editor of numerous works, including co-editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Folklore (2012), her research interests include proverbs, folklore and culture of the Middle East, and folklore genres and narratives. She is also a published poet and translator of poetry, and a Pro-Palestinian activist. The Jerusalem Post has called her "a figure of some prominence in Jerusalem intellectual circles".

Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Semyon Prokopyevich Kadyshev was a Khakas Haiji storyteller, Dastan author, and member of the Writers Union of the USSR. He was considered a master of traditional Khakas instruments, such as the Jadagan.

Kesar Lall was a Nepalese folklorist and writer. He has published more than 50 books of stories and poetry. He wrote in Nepali, Nepal Bhasa and English.

Juan Liscano Velutini was a Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic. Director of Monte Ávila Editores, among his poetic work emphasizes: Nuevo mundo Orinoco (1959), Cármenes (1966) and Fundaciones (1981). Also wrote: Panorama de la literatura venezolana actual (1973) Espiritualidad y literatura: una relación tormentosa (1976), Los fuegos apagados (1990) and El origen sigue siendo (1991). In 1990 published a personal Anthology, a route for his poetic trajectory. He won the National Prize for Literature in 1951.

Marshfield is a town in the local government area of South Gloucestershire, England, on the borders of the counties of Wiltshire and Somerset. Toponomy derives from the Old English language word "March" meaning a border, hence Border Field would be the literal translation. It is not to do with "marsh" in the sense of bog.

Maria del Pilar Maspons i Labrós was a Spanish poet, novelist and writer of Catalan descent. Writing under the pseudonym Maria de Bell-lloc, that she used her entire career, she is notable as one of the first Spanish women folklorists and the first woman novelist to be published in Catalan.

Margot Mayo was an American dance instructor, educator, and collector of folk music.

Achille Millien was a French poet and folklorist.

Costantino, count Nigra was an Italian diplomat.

Isabel Oyarzábal Smith was a Spanish-born journalist, writer, actress and diplomat, also known as Isabel de Palencia.

Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the Tradiciones peruanas.

Fermín Pardo Pardo is a Spanish folklore researcher, and is one of the most notable scholars of traditional music in the Land of Valencia.

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible structural units.

Nathanael Salmon was an English antiquary who wrote books on Roman and other antiquities to be found in the south-east of England. He was not well respected as a scholar in his time or subsequently, but he was industrious and well travelled, and he recorded many local customs and much folklore.

Seok Ju-seon was a scholar of traditional Korean clothing and a folklorist. Her works include The History of Korean Dresses and Ornaments.

José María Soler García was a Spanish archaeologist, historian, researcher and folklorist. He is one of the persons who most deeply studied Villena and its surrounding area, since the vast majority of his research was focused on what concerned his hometown.

Dag Alvar Strömbäck was a Swedish philologist and ethnologist who was a professor at Uppsala University and a specialist in Old Norse studies.

Jakob Stutz (1801–1877) was a Swiss writer.

Ahmed Tawfik Taymour Pasha (1871–1930) was an Egyptian writer and historian. Taymour Pasha was born on 6 November 1871 in Cairo to a family of the Egyptian elite, his father Isma'il Taymur being of Kurdish origin and his mother of Turkish descent.

William John Thoms was a British writer credited with coining the term "folklore" in 1846. Thoms's investigation of folklore and myth led to a later career of debunking longevity myths, and he was a pioneer demographer.

Nellie Sloggett was an author and folklorist who wrote under the names Enys Tregarthen and Nellie Cornwall.

Stefan or Stjepan Ilija Verković was a 19th-century Bosnian ethnographer and folklorist. Born to Bosnian Croat parents, he identified as South Slav and initially he supported the Serbian and later the Bulgarian national cause.

Wentworth Webster was an Anglican clergyman, scholar, and collector of folk tales of the Basque Country.

Karl Felix Wolff was a journalist, poet, author and self-taught folklorist of the South Tyrol who collected and published Ladinian legends.

Karlis Zalts was a Latvian mathematician with wide-ranging interests in topics such as mechanical calculators, statistics and nomography as well as folklore, education, and philosophy. His publications on folklore prevented him from publishing after 1946 by the Soviet Union.

Rodolfo Zapata was an Argentine singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He had an extensive career, and was popular throughout Latin America.