Alfred Trübner Nutt was a prominent English publisher, folklorist, and Arthurian and Celtic scholar. Born in 1856 into a literary family in London, he took over his late father's publishing business in 1878 after studying in France and extensive European business apprenticeships.
Jacqueline Simpson is a prolific, award-winning British researcher and author on folklore.
Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, and Peter Mason Opie were an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play, in studies such as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). They were also noted anthologists, assembled large collections of children's literature, toys, and games and were regarded as world-famous authorities on children's lore and customs.
Eliza Gutch (1840-1931) was an English author, contributor to Notes and Queries, and founding member of the Folklore Society. She made immense contributions to the establishment of folklore and dialect studies.
Violet Alford was an internationally recognised authority on folk dancing and its related music, costume, and folk customs. She believed that a common prehistoric root explained the similarities found across much of Europe.
Ethel Rudkin was an English writer, historian, archaeologist and folklorist from Lincolnshire. She pioneered the collection of folk material, particularly from Lincolnshire, and her collections are now part of several public institutions, including the North Lincolnshire Museum.
Walter Leo Hildburgh (1876-1955) was an American art collector, sportsman, traveller, scientist and philanthropist.
Arthur Robinson Wright, better known as A. R. Wright was a British folklorist who was elected President of the Folklore Society, fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He also conducted influential work at the Patent Office.
Venetia Newall (1935–2017) was an English-American folklorist who was elected president of the Folklore Society and fellow of the American Folklore Society.
Sona Rosa Burstein (1897–1971) was a museum curator, folklorist and historian of gerontology.
Stewart Forson Sanderson (1924–2016) was a Scottish folklorist and linguist.
Roy Judge (1929–2000) was a British folklorist and historian.
J.D.A. (John) Widdowson is a British linguist and folklorist.
Arthur Allan Gomme (1882-1955) was a British librarian, historian of technology and folklorist.
Patricia Lysaght is an Irish folklorist. She is Professor Emerita of European Ethnology, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Thomas East Lones (1860–1944) was a British folklorist, noted for his research into British calendar customs.
Christina Hole was an award-winning British folklorist and author, who was described as “for many years the leading authority on English folk customs and culture”.
Alex Helm (1920–1970) was an award-winning British folklorist, described as "one of the most important figures in the study of calendar custom and [folk] dance in post-war England".
Thomas Fairman Ordish (1855-1924), sometimes also referred to as T. Fairman Ordish was a British folklorist, noted for his interest in traditional drama and folk play, early theatre and the history of London. He is credited as having undertaken "the first major investigation of British traditional drama".
David Hopkin is a British historian, who specialises in European social history and folklore in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
