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 Rüdin — 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

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