Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger

female, deceased (1966)
Feminist, negative eugenics, buried at Green-Wood Cemeter, Birth control activist, American, atheist…eugenicist
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the...
Francis Galton

Francis Galton

male, deceased (1911)
electrocardiograph, Darwin-Wedgwood family, fingerprints, forensic science, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Intelligence researcher…eugenicist
Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 - January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist,...
Madison Grant

Madison Grant

male, deceased (1937)
eugenics, Nazi Germany, Conservationist, lawyer, immigration act of 1924, Race and intelligence controversy…eugenicist
Madison Grant (November 19, 1865 - May 30, 1937) was an American lawyer, known primarily for his work as a eugenicist and conservationist. As a...
Lothrop Stoddard

Lothrop Stoddard

male, deceased (1950)
eugenics, Race and intelligence controversy, American, eugenicist, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, scientific racism
Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883-May 1, 1950), born Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, was an American political theorist, historian, eugenicist, and...
Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley

male, deceased (1975)
world wildlife fund, Fellow of the Royal Society, unesco, From London, English, internationalist…eugenicist
Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, FRS (June 22, 1887 - February 14, 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, author, humanist and internationalist,...
Josef Mengele

Josef Mengele

male, deceased (1979)
Murdering doctor, Holocaust perpetrator, Auschwitz-Birkenau, human experimentation, Holocaust perpetrators, eugenicist
Josef Mengele (March 16 1911 - February 7, 1979), was a German SS officer and a physician in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau....
Charles Davenport

Charles Davenport

male, deceased (1944)
Biologist, Harvard University alumni, Science writer, eugenics, American, biology…eugenicist
Charles Benedict Davenport (June 1, 1866-February 18, 1944) was a prominent American biologist and eugenicist.
Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

male, deceased (1922)
inventor, telephone, scientist, American, immigrant to Canada, immigrant to the United States…eugenicist
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated...
Karl Pearson

Karl Pearson

male, deceased (1936)
Biostatisticians, Old Gower, FRS, sesquicentenary, mathematical statistics, Alumni of King's College, Cambridge…eugenicist
Karl Pearson FRS (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) established the discipline of mathematical statistics. A sesquicentenary conference was held in...
Harry H. Laughlin

Harry H. Laughlin

male, deceased (1943)
epilepsy, Truman State University alumni, eugenics, American, compulsory sterilization, eugenicist
Harry Hamilton Laughlin (March 11, 1880 - January 26, 1943) was a leading American eugenicist in the first half of the 20th century. He was the...