- male, deceased (1935)
- Milman Parry (1902 -December 31935) was a scholar of epic poetry and the founder of the discipline of oral tradition. He studied at the University...
- male
- Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as t...
- male, deceased (1988)
- Eric Alfred Havelock (June 3 1903 - April 4 1988) was a British classicist who spent most of his life in Canada and the United States. He was a...
- male, deceased (1623)
- John Middleton (1578-1623) was an English giant commonly known as the "Childe of Hale". Most of what is known about him is based on oral tradition...
- male, deceased (1255)
- Sundiata Keita or Sundjata Keyita or Mari Djata I was the founder of the Mali Empire and celebrated as a hero of the Mandé people of West Africa i...
- male, deceased (1980)
- Charles Parker (1919-1980) was a BBC Radio producer based in Birmingham from 1954-1972 who specialised in Documentary Radio and Theatre. In...
- male, deceased (1218)
- Naré Maghann Konaté was a 12th-century faama (king) of the Mandinka people, in what is today Mali. He was the father of Sundiata, founder of the Ma...
- male
- Born in Vienna on December 10th, 1934, Gerhard Kubik studied ethnology, musicology and African languages at the University of Vienna. He published...
- male
- Kemp Malone (Minter, Mississippi, March 14, 1889-October 13, 1971) was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer...
- male, 71 years old
- Bengt Knut Erik af Klintberg is a Swedish ethnologist who has become known for his work on modern urban legends and reached a large audience with...
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