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The list Pseudoarchaeologists includes Devaneya Pavanar, Alfred Rosenberg, Robert Ripley, Zecharia Sitchin and Erich von Däniken. The list consists of 45 members and 3 sublists.
  • 1.

    Robert Ripley
    American cartoonist
    Robert Ripley
    Overview: LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur and amateur anthropologist who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series ...
    Date of birth: 25 December 1890
    Date of death: 27 May 1949
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Curator
    Gender: Male
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    Amateur anthropologists 20T
    20th-century anthropologists 766T
    Ripley's Believe It or Not! 18T
  • 2.

    Devaneya Pavanar
    Indian scholar and linguistic writer (1902–1981)
    Devaneya Pavanar
    Overview: Devaneya Pavanar (also known as G. Devaneyan, Ñanamuttan Tevaneyan; 7 February 1902 – 15 January 1981) was a prominent Indian Tamil author who wrote over 35 books. Additionally, he was a staunch proponent ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1902
    Date of death: 15 January 1981
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Pseudolinguistics 6T
    Tirukkural commentators 13T
    Indian male poets 973T
  • 3.

    Erich von Däniken
    Swiss writer (born 1935)
    Erich von Däniken
    Overview: Erich Anton Paul von Däniken (born 14 April 1935) is a Swiss author of several books which make claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, including the best-selling Chariots of the ...
    Date of birth: 14 April 1935
    Age: 90
    Nationality: Swiss
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Ancient astronauts proponents 36T
    21st-century Swiss writers 26T
    20th-century Swiss writers 57T
  • 4.

    Alfred Rosenberg
    Nazi theorist and war criminal (1893–1946)
    Alfred Rosenberg
    Overview: Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (12 January [O.S. 31 December 1892] 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a Baltic German Nazi theorist and ideologue. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart ...
    Date of birth: 12 January 1893
    Date of death: 16 October 1946
    Age: 53 (age at death)
    Nationality: German
    Occupation: Politician
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Members of the Academy for German Law 73T
    Greater German People's Community politicians 7T
    Reichsleiters 23T
  • 5.

    Simcha Jacobovici
    Canadian film director
    Simcha Jacobovici
    Overview: Simcha Jacobovici (born April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel) is an Israeli-Canadian "investigative archaeologist", film director, producer, freelance journalist, and New York Times bestselling author ...
    Date of birth: 4 April 1953
    Age: 72
    Nationality: Israeli
    Occupation: Film Director
    Gender: Male
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    21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers 241T
    21st-century Canadian male writers 821T
    Canadian documentary film directors 170T
  • 6.

    David Childress
    French author and conspiracy theorist
    David Childress
    Overview: David Hatcher Childress (born June 1, 1957) is an American author, and the owner of Adventures Unlimited Press, a publishing house established in 1984 specializing in books on unusual topics such as ancient ...
    Date of birth: 1 June 1957
    Age: 67
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
    Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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    Ancient astronauts proponents 36T
    Atlantis proponents 36T
    American conspiracy theorists 477T
  • 7.

    Zecharia Sitchin
    Azerbaijani-American Author
    Zecharia Sitchin
    Overview: Zecharia Sitchin (July 11, 1920 – October 9, 2010) was an author of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian ...
    Date of birth: 11 July 1920
    Date of death: 9 October 2010
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: Russian
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    Mandatory Palestine expatriates in the United Kingdom 1T
    Ancient astronauts proponents 36T
    Pseudoastronomers 7T
  • 8.

    Colin Wilson
    British author
    Colin Wilson
    Overview: Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred ...
    Date of birth: 26 June 1931
    Date of death: 5 December 2013
    Age: 82 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century English philosophers 57T
    Atlantis proponents 36T
    English male novelists 1,096T
  • 9.

    Frederick Bligh Bond
    British artist
    Frederick Bligh Bond
    Overview: Frederick Bligh Bond (30 June 1864 – 8 March 1945), generally known by his second given name Bligh, was an English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher.
    Date of birth: 30 June 1864
    Date of death: 8 March 1945
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Architect
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    English Old Catholics 5T
    Architects from Bristol 34T
    People educated at Marlborough College 651T
  • 10.

    Michael Cremo
    American alternative archeologist
    Michael Cremo
    Overview: Michael A. Cremo (born July 15, 1948), also known by his devotional name Drutakarmā dāsa, is an American freelance researcher who identifies himself as a Vedic creationist and an "alternative archeologist" ...
    Date of birth: 15 July 1948
    Age: 76
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    Proponents of alternative chronologies 12T
    Writers from Schenectady, New York 25T
    American male writers 5,949T
  • 11.

    Alfred Watkins
    English author and antiquary, 1855–1935
    Alfred Watkins
    Overview: Alfred Watkins (27 January 1855 – 15 April 1935) was an English author, self-taught amateur archaeologist, antiquarian and businessman who, while standing on a hillside in Herefordshire, England, in 1921 ...
    Date of birth: 27 January 1855
    Date of death: 15 April 1935
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Photographer
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    Photographers from Herefordshire 1T
    Amateur archaeologists 20T
    English beekeepers 4T
  • 12.

    William Niven
    mineralogist and archeologist
    William Niven
    Overview: William Niven (2 October 1850 – 2 June 1937) was a mineralogist and archeologist noted for his discovery of the minerals yttrialite, thorogummite, aguilarite and nivenite (named after him), as well as ...
    Date of birth: 6 October 1850
    Date of death: 2 June 1937
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Archaeologist
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    Scottish emigrants to the United States 662T
    Mineralogists 45T
    Scottish archaeologists 46T
  • 13.

    Charles Dawson
    British archaeological forger
    Charles Dawson
    Overview: Charles Dawson (11 July 1864 – 10 August 1916) was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed as frauds ...
    Date of birth: 11 July 1864
    Date of death: 10 August 1916
    Age: 52 (age at death)
    Nationality: English
    Occupation: Hoaxer
    Gender: Male
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    Hoaxers 10T
    Amateur archaeologists 20T
    Controversies in Europe 4T
  • 14.

    Harold T. Wilkins
    American writer
    Harold T. Wilkins
    Overview: Harold Tom Wilkins (June 1891 – 1960) was a British journalist known for his books on treasure hunting and pseudohistoric claims about Atlantis and South America.
    Date of birth: 1891
    Date of death: 1960
    Age: 68 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    Atlantis proponents 36T
    Pseudohistorians 179T
    Treasure hunters 26T
  • 15.

    Robert Charroux
    French writer
    Overview: Robert Charroux was the best-known pen-name of Robert Joseph Grugeau (April 7, 1909 – June 24, 1978). He was a French author known for his writings on the ancient astronaut theme.
    Date of birth: 7 April 1909
    Date of death: 24 June 1978
    Age: 69 (age at death)
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Astronaut
    Gender: Male
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    Ancient astronauts proponents 36T
    Atlantis proponents 36T
    French male non-fiction writers 2,066T
  • 16.

    Semir Osmanagić
    Bosnian author
    Semir Osmanagić
    Overview: Semir Osmanagić (born June 1, 1960), also known as Sam Osmanagich, is a Bosnian businessman and author. He is best known for promoting his pseudo-archaeological project in central Bosnia (near the town ...
    Date of birth: 1 June 1960
    Age: 64
    Occupation: Writer
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    Writers from Zenica 5T
    2012 phenomenon theorists 10T
    Bosnia and Herzegovina Muslims 353T
  • 17.

    David Fasold
    American sailor
    David Fasold
    Overview: David Franklin Fasold (February 23, 1939 – April 26, 1998) was a United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions ...
    Date of birth: 23 February 1939
    Date of death: 26 April 1998
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Sailor
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    Writers from Wheaton, Illinois 15T
    Pseudoarchaeology 94T
    People from Corvallis, Oregon 113T
  • 18.

    Ivan van Sertima
    British Africanist in New Jersey
    Ivan van Sertima
    Overview: Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a Guyanese-born associate professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University in the United States.
    Date of birth: 26 January 1935
    Date of death: 25 May 2009
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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    20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
    British Africanists 18T
    Guyanese Africanists 5T
  • 19.

    Robert M. Schoch
    American geologist
    Robert M. Schoch
    Overview: Robert M. Schoch is an American associate professor of Natural Sciences at the College of General Studies, Boston University. Since 1991, Schoch has been a proponent of the fringe Sphinx water erosion ...
    Date of birth: 24 April 1949
    Age: 76
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Biologist
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    Ancient astronauts proponents 36T
    Columbian College of Arts and Sciences alumni 204T
    American geophysicists 130T
  • 20.

    Ron Wyatt
    American creationist (1933–1999)
    Ron Wyatt
    Overview: Ronald Eldon Wyatt (2 June 1933 – August 4, 1999) was an adventurer noted for advocating the Durupınar site as the site of Noah's Ark, along with almost 100 other Bible-related alleged discoveries. He ...
    Date of birth: 2 June 1933
    Date of death: 4 August 1999
    Age: 66 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Archaeologist
    Gender: Male
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    Amateur archaeologists 20T
    Historical theories and materials on the Exodus 7T
    Pseudoarchaeology 94T
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