List of eugenicists

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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 [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Canada|22x20px|Template:Country alias Canada]] [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] Inventor of the telephone.
Alexis Carrel [[Image:Template:Country flag alias France|22x20px|Template:Country alias France]] Innovative surgeon, Nobel laureate, advocated compulsory sterilization and euthanasia, Nazi collaborator.
Charles Kirk Clarke [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Canada|22x20px|Template:Country alias Canada]]
C. D. Darlington cytologist.
Charles Galton Darwin — physicist, grandson of Charles Darwin.
Leonard Darwin — economist, son of Charles Darwin.
Charles Davenport [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — prominent American biologist, founder of the Eugenics Record Office.
John Derbyshire [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — author and columnist at National Review.
Wickliffe Draper [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American philanthropist, founder of the Pioneer Fund.
W.E.B. DuBois [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] African-american community leader. Advocated blacks using eugenics to improve their race.
Eugen Fischer [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Nazi Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Nazi Germany]]
Irving Fisher [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]]
R.A. Fisher — British statistician, co-creator of the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory.
Joseph Fletcher [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]]
Francis Galton — British statistician, first developed notion of eugenics, coined term.
Marcus Garvey [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] African-american community leader. Advocated blacks using eugenics to improve their race.
Henry H. Goddard [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American psychologist, author of The Kallikak Family.
Charles Goethe [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American philanthropist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization and immigration restriction.
E.S. Gosney [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American philanthropist, founder of the Human Betterment Foundation, which lobbied for compulsory sterilization legislation.
Robert Klark Graham [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American inventor, founded "Nobel Prize" sperm bank (may or may not have actually had Nobel Prize winners as donors).
Madison Grant [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American lawyer, author of The Passing of the Great Race, lobbied for immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation legislation.
James L. Hart [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]]
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] United States Supreme Court judge who wrote the opinion in Buck v. Bell, "Three generations of imbeciles is enough."
David Starr Jordan [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American scientist, president of Stanford University and Indiana University.
Harry H. Laughlin [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — 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 [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Nazi Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Nazi Germany]] — Nazi doctor, infamous for abusive and unethical experimentation on prisoners.
Henry Fairfield Osborn [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]]
Karl Pearson — British statistician and socialist.
Plato [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Greece|22x20px|Template:Country alias Greece]] Classical greek philosopher. The earliest proponent of eugenics known by name.
Alfred Ploetz [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Nazi Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Nazi Germany]]
Paul Popenoe [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American biologist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization laws, especially in California.
Ernst Rüdin [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Nazi Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Nazi Germany]] — German psychiatrist, founder of the German Racial Hygiene movement which gained much support from Nazi Germany.
Margaret Sanger [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American birth control advocate, also sometimes advocated certain types of eugenic programs.
F.C.S. Schiller [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — Pragmatist philosopher.
Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Nazi Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Nazi Germany]]
William Shockley [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American Nobel Prize winner for inventing the transistor, controversially argued for eugenics during 1960s.
Lothrop Stoddard [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American author, wrote The Rising Tide of Color.
Nikola Tesla [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Croatia|22x20px|Template:Country alias Croatia]] [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] American inventor from Croatia. Recommended that eugenics be greatly expanded in the future.
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Nazi Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Nazi Germany]] — German geneticist, did work on heredity during Nazi Germany with the aid of "specimens" from Mengele.
Werner Villinger [[Image:Template:Country flag alias Nazi Germany|22x20px|Template:Country alias Nazi Germany]]
Robert Yerkes [[Image:Template:Country flag alias USA|22x20px|Template:Country alias USA]] — American primatologist, did early work on intelligence testing arguing for immigration restriction.

See also: List of people by occupation