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- Franz Boas - | birth_place = Minden, Germany
- George Hunt (ethnologist) - George Hunt (1854-1933) was a Tlingit consultant to the anthropologist Franz Boas who through his contributions is considered a linguist and ethnologist in his own right. He was Tlingit by birth but through marriage and adoption became an expert on the traditions of the Kwakwaka'wakw people (then known as "Kwakiutl") of coastal British Columbia.
- Leo J. Franchtenberg - Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim (1883-1930) was an anthropologist who studied the Native American languages. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1910 under Franz Boas on the Coosan language of Oregon.
- Quesalid - Quesalid was a First Nations shaman who lived on Vancouver Island, Canada. He wrote an autobiography in Kwak'wala, the Kwakiutl language, discovered by Franz Boas and well known by anthropologists, in which he recounted his experiences as a shaman from an authentic view.
- Nicholas Dirks - Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Profressor of Anthropology and Professor of History at Columbia University, where he is also Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture, primarily concerned with the impact ...