30 December - Luís da Câmara Cascudo, anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, historian, lawyer, and lexicographer (died 1986)
Arthur William Moore (1853–1909), Manx historian, folklorist and politician
Alice Bertha Gomme, Lady Gomme, born Merck (4 January 1853, London - 5 January 1938, London) was a leading British folklorist, and a pioneer in the study of children's games.
Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches is a book composed by the American folklorist Charles Godfrey Leland that was published in 1899.
Arnold Rüütel is married to Ingrid Rüütel (born November 3, 1935), a folklorist and ethnographer.
Arthur Gorovei (b. February 19, 1864, Fălticeni - d. March 19, 1951, Bucureşti) was a Romanian writer, folklorist and ethnographer.
Arthur William Moore CVO SHK JP MA (1853–1909) was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man.
Samad Behrangi (1939-1967), Azeri-Iranian teacher, writer, social critic, folklorist and translator
Her voice, folk style and lyrics have continued the legacy of Violeta Parra's legacy, the most important Chilean folklorist.
In her review of the book published in Folklore, the journal of the Folklore Society, the English folklorist Jacqueline Simpson described Wilby's theories as "bold stuff", but argued that while "I found her theory stimulating", she did not think that it was "wholly convincing".
Kevin Danaher (Caoimhín Ó Danachair), (1913–2002), author and prominent Irish folklorist
Richard Dorson (1916–1981), American folklorist, writer and academic
Douglas A. Boyd is an oral historian, folklorist and author and currently directs the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky.
Social activist Mary Neal was one of the first to do so (she was principally known for her work in ritual dances), but folklorist Cecil Sharp was the best-known and most influential.
Matthias Johann Eisen was another folklorist and writer who studied folk legends and reworked them into literary form.
Grace Akello (born 1950, Uganda) is a Ugandan poet, essayist, folklorist and politician.
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein (born 1972), Icelandic folklorist and ethnologist
Hanns In der Gand was the pen name of Ladislaus Krupski (born 25 February 1882 in La Vernaz, France (formerly Savoy); died 24 May 1947 in Zumikon, canton of Zurich) was a Swiss folklorist and collector of traditional and military songs.
Folklorist, theologist, linguist and national awakening figure Jakob Hurt (1839–1907) was born as the son of a local schoolteacher in Himmaste.
Most of the material was recorded on site in Liberia by Herzog, who was primarily a folklorist and ethnomusicologist.
Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, writer and folklorist from Sierra Leone
It was the boyhood home of noted American linguist and folklorist Jeremiah Curtin and is part of the Trimborn Farm estate in Greendale, Wisconsin.
Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough O.B.E., M.C. (b. Guisborough 16 January 1883; d. Westerdale 1 January 1976) a.k.a. "Jack" was an author, folklorist and writer, and a man of many parts.
Judah Leib Cahan (1881, Vilna, Lithuania – 1937, New York City) was a Yiddish folklorist.
Throughout his life Maurer was a close friend to the Icelandic scholar Guðbrandur Vigfússon, the Norwegian folklorist Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, playwright Henrik Ibsen und writer Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.
Gershon Legman ( 1917 – 1999), American cultural critic and folklorist
In 1959, Hopkins was contacted by folklorist Mack McCormick who hoped to bring him to the attention of the broader musical audience which was caught up in the folk revival.
Luís Romano de Madeira Melo (Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 10 June 1922 - Brasil, 22 January 2010) was a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist who has written in Portuguese and the Capeverdean Crioulo of Santo Antão.
Mr P.R.Thippeswamy, the well known artist and folklorist from Mysore was instrumental in the development of this museum.
The 20th century folklorist, Shinobu Orikuchi, student of the great Japanese folklore scholar, Kunio Yanagita, was the first to bring the ancient concept of ‘marebito’ to modern attention.
Michael L. Murray (born 1974), folklorist currently on faculty of Princeton University
W. F. H. Nicolaisen (born 1927) German folklorist, linguist, medievalist, and scholar
Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky (May 19, 1878 – November 2, 1961) - Russian historian, ethnographer, folklorist, lexicographer of Chuvash ethnicity.
No More Fish, No Fishermen is a song, the lyrics for which were composed by Canadian folklorist Shelley Posen, about the demise of the Newfoundland fishery.
According to folklorist Adrienne Mayor, these supposed arrowheads were likely fossil belemnites, which were compared to missiles by other indigenous American cultures, like the Zuni people.
Folklorist and historian of science Adrienne Mayor of Stanford University has suggested that the exquisitely preserved fossil skeletons of Protoceratops and other beaked dinosaurs, found by ancient Scythian nomads who mined gold in the Tian Shan and Altai Mountains of Central Asia, may have been at the root of the image of the mythical creature known as the griffin.
At the same time Rinzler was also a diligent folklorist who began helping American folk singers who were not at that time well known, including Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Hazel Scott, and others.
An author, humorist and folklorist, Welsch was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and today lives outside of Dannebrog, Nebraska.
Ingrid Rüütel (born 1935), folklorist and philologist, First Lady of Estonia 2001–2006, wife of President Arnold Rüütel
While living in Shady, she sold her large library of books on Folklore and Folk Music to raise money for folklorist Vance Randolph, who needed funds to help him deal with medical problems.
His popularization of flamenco through the café cantante was first objected by folklorist Demófilo, who wrote the first biography of Silverio in his book Colección de cantes flamencos.
The stories that circulated most widely in the 1980s have been retold by the noted Swedish folklorist Bengt af Klintberg, and later featured in the December 10, 1997 installment of Det spökar, a television series dedicated to allegedly real ghost stories and haunted houses.
Gaster was born in England, the son of the folklorist Moses Gaster, then Chief Rabbi of the English Sephardi community, who was Romanian by birth and a well-known linguist and scholar of Judaica.
The basis of much of the group's works are the books of the Estonian folklorist Oskar Loorits, while musically they are considered a fusion between authentic Livonian folk music and jazz.
While at Harvard, MacKenzie was among members of an increasingly prominent group of English professors influenced by the work of Francis Child, an American folklorist who collected what is now known as the Child Ballads.
In the latter years of World War I, British folklorist Cecil Sharp and his assistant Maud Karpeles traveled extensively across Central and Southern Appalachia in hopes of finding British ballads that had been passed down to the inhabitants of the more remote parts of the region from their British and Scottish ancestors.
Wayland Debs Hand (March 19, 1907, Auckland, New Zealand – October 22, 1986, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, United States) was an American folklorist.
The Whimple Wassail is an orchard-visiting wassail ceremony and was first mentioned by the Victorian author and folklorist; the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould in his book Devon Characters and Strange Events (published 1908).