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.
 * Alexis Carrel 🇫🇷 Innovative surgeon, Nobel laureate, advocated compulsory sterilization and euthanasia, Nazi collaborator.
 * Charles Kirk Clarke 🇨🇦
 * C. D. Darlington 🇬🇧 cytologist.
 * Charles Galton Darwin 🇬🇧 &mdash; physicist, grandson of Charles Darwin.
 * Leonard Darwin 🇬🇧 &mdash; economist, son of Charles Darwin.
 * Charles Davenport 🇺🇸 &mdash; prominent American biologist, founder of the Eugenics Record Office.
 * John Derbyshire 🇺🇸 &mdash; author and columnist at National Review.
 * Wickliffe Draper 🇺🇸 &mdash; 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 🇬🇧 &mdash; British statistician, co-creator of the modern synthesis of evolutionary theory.
 * Joseph Fletcher 🇺🇸
 * Francis Galton🇬🇧 &mdash; 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 🇺🇸 &mdash; American psychologist, author of The Kallikak Family.
 * Charles Goethe 🇺🇸 &mdash; American philanthropist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization and immigration restriction.
 * E.S. Gosney 🇺🇸 &mdash; American philanthropist, founder of the Human Betterment Foundation, which lobbied for compulsory sterilization legislation.
 * Robert Klark Graham 🇺🇸 &mdash; American inventor, founded "Nobel Prize" sperm bank (may or may not have actually had Nobel Prize winners as donors).
 * Madison Grant 🇺🇸 &mdash; 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 🇺🇸 &mdash; American scientist, president of Stanford University and Indiana University.
 * Harry H. Laughlin 🇺🇸 &mdash; 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 🇬🇧 &mdash; emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster.
 * Josef Mengele &mdash; Nazi doctor, infamous for abusive and unethical experimentation on prisoners.
 * Henry Fairfield Osborn 🇺🇸
 * Karl Pearson 🇬🇧 &mdash; British statistician and socialist.
 * Plato 🇬🇷 Classical greek philosopher. The earliest proponent of eugenics known by name.
 * Alfred Ploetz
 * Paul Popenoe 🇺🇸 &mdash; American biologist, lobbied for compulsory sterilization laws, especially in California.
 * Ernst Rüdin &mdash; German psychiatrist, founder of the German Racial Hygiene movement which gained much support from Nazi Germany.
 * Margaret Sanger 🇺🇸 &mdash; American birth control advocate, also sometimes advocated certain types of eugenic programs.
 * F.C.S. Schiller 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 &mdash; Pragmatist philosopher.
 * Carl Hans Heinze Sennhenn
 * William Shockley 🇺🇸 &mdash; American Nobel Prize winner for inventing the transistor, controversially argued for eugenics during 1960s.
 * Lothrop Stoddard 🇺🇸 &mdash; 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 &mdash; German geneticist, did work on heredity during Nazi Germany with the aid of "specimens" from Mengele.
 * Werner Villinger
 * Robert Yerkes 🇺🇸 &mdash; American primatologist, did early work on intelligence testing arguing for immigration restriction.

See also: List of people by occupation