Dilip Hiro

Dilip Hiro

male
Playwright, Larkana, Hindu, islam, Central Asia, CentralAsianStudies
Dilip Hiro (born Larkana) is a playwright and analyst specializing in Islamic countries, ranging from Iraq and Lebanon to the Central Asian...
Mustafa Chokaev

Mustafa Chokaev

male
Muslim, Shokay, Shokai, Turkestan Legion, Mustafa Chokayev, Turkestani nationalist movement…Central Asian, CentralAsianStudies
Mustafa Chokaev (also spelled Mustafa Chokayev, Çokay, Cokay, Shokay, and Shokai; Kazakh: "Мұстафа Шоқайұлы", Russian: "Мустафа Шокай",...
Zeyno Baran

Zeyno Baran

female
Washington D.C., CentralAsianStudies, Hudson Institute, Terrorism in Central Asia, Center for Eurasia Policy, House of Representative
Zeyno Baran is the Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Washington D.C.. From...
Nikolai Przhevalsky

Nikolai Przhevalsky

male, deceased (1888)
only extant species of wild horse, Explorer of the Himalayas, Przewalski's Horse, Mountain climber, Russian military personnel, central…Central Asia, CentralAsianStudies
Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky, also spelled Przewalski and Prjevalsky, was a Russian geographer and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia....

Vasily Bartold

male, deceased (1930)
Soviet historian, leningrad, soviet, Khazar studies, Anthropologist, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences…Central Asia, CentralAsianStudies, Islamic politics and Islamic world studies
Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (also known as Wilhelm Barthold; in Saint Petersburg - 19 August 1930 in Leningrad) was a Russian and Soviet historian...

Peter Benjamin Golden

male
Columbia University, CentralAsianStudies, Turkology, Turkic peoples, Khazar studies, CUNY
Peter Benjamin Golden (born 1941) is Professor of History at Rutgers University.<br /> He earned his bachelors degree from CUNY Queens College in...
Boris Marshak

Boris Marshak

male, deceased (2006)
Archaeologist, Russian, Boris Ilich Marshak, Soviet archaeologist, archeologist, Russian archaeologist…CentralAsianStudies
Boris Ilich Marshak was an archeologist who spent more than fifty years excavating the Sogdian ruins at Panjakent, Tajikistan.

René Grousset

male, deceased (1952)
historian, French, asiatic, oriental, from Languedoc-Roussillon, CentralAsianStudies
René Grousset was a French historian specializing in Asiatic and Oriental history.

Hélène Carrère D'Encausse

female, 80 years old
historian, Member of the Académie française, russian history, Alumni of Sciences Po, Sciences Po, Académie Française…CentralAsianStudies, Paris Institute of Political Studies
Hélène Carrère d'Encausse is the permanent secretary of the Académie Française (elected in 1990). Her birth name is Hélène Zourabichvili and she is...
Vladimir Obruchev

Vladimir Obruchev

male, deceased (1956)
professor, Geographer, science fiction writer, Geologist, Siberia, Explorer of Asia…Central Asia, central, CentralAsianStudies, Central Asian, Central Asian Railway
Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (village of Klepenino, now in Rzhevsky District, Tver Oblast - June 19, 1956, Moscow) was a Russian geologist,...