List of eugenicists
This list includes famous eugenicists, contributors, and supporters; some of the people may not be eugenicists but are included here because of their notable involvement.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor of the telephone. - Joseph Bloch
Modern proponent of non-racist eugenics. Also a transhumanist. - Alexis Carrel
Innovative surgeon, Nobel laureate, advocated compulsory sterilization and euthanasia, Nazi collaborator. - Charles Kirk Clarke
- C. D. Darlington
cytologist. - Charles Darwin
British naturalist. - Charles Galton Darwin
— physicist, grandson of Charles Darwin. - Leonard Darwin
— economist, son of Charles Darwin. - Charles Davenport
— prominent American biologist, founder of the Eugenics Record Office. - John Derbyshire
— author and columnist at National Review. - Wickliffe Draper
— American philanthropist, founder of the Pioneer Fund. - W.E.B. DuBois
African-american community leader. Advocated blacks using eugenics to improve their race. - Eugen Fischer

- Irving Fisher

- R.A. Fisher
— British statistician, co-creator of the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory. - Joseph Fletcher

- Francis Galton
— British statistician, first developed notion of eugenics, coined term. - Marcus Garvey
African-american community leader. Advocated blacks using eugenics to improve their race. - Henry H. Goddard
— American psychologist, author of The Kallikak Family. - Charles Goethe
— American philanthropist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization and immigration restriction. - E.S. Gosney
— American philanthropist, founder of the Human Betterment Foundation, which lobbied for compulsory sterilization legislation. - Robert Klark Graham
— American inventor, founded "Nobel Prize" sperm bank (may or may not have actually had Nobel Prize winners as donors). - Madison Grant
— American lawyer, author of The Passing of the Great Race, lobbied for immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation legislation. - James L. Hart

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
United States Supreme Court judge who wrote the opinion in Buck v. Bell, "Three generations of imbeciles is enough." - David Starr Jordan
— American scientist, president of Stanford University and Indiana University. - Harry H. Laughlin
— prominent American eugenicist, director of the Eugenics Record Office, lobbied for immigration restriction and compulsory sterilization laws, early founder of the Pioneer Fund. - Richard Lynn
— emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster. - Josef Mengele
— Nazi doctor, infamous for abusive and unethical experimentation on prisoners. - Henry Fairfield Osborn

- Karl Pearson
— British statistician and socialist. - Plato
Classical greek philosopher. The earliest proponent of eugenics known by name. - Alfred Ploetz

- Paul Popenoe
— American biologist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization laws, especially in California. - Ernst RĂ¼din
— German psychiatrist, founder of the German Racial Hygiene movement which gained much support from Nazi Germany. - Margaret Sanger
— American birth control advocate, also sometimes advocated certain types of eugenic programs. - F.C.S. Schiller
— Pragmatist philosopher. - Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn

- William Shockley
— American Nobel Prize winner for inventing the transistor, controversially argued for eugenics during 1960s. - Lothrop Stoddard
— American author, wrote The Rising Tide of Color. - Nikola Tesla
American inventor from Croatia. Recommended that eugenics be greatly expanded in the future. - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer
— German geneticist, did work on heredity during Nazi Germany with the aid of "specimens" from Mengele. - Werner Villinger

- H.G. Wells
Science fiction writer - Robert Yerkes
— American primatologist, did early work on intelligence testing arguing for immigration restriction.
See also: List of people by occupation
Categories
Lists of health professionals | Lists of pseudo-scientists | Eugenicists
