An antiquarian is one concerned with antiquities or things of the past. More narrowly, the term is often used for those who studied history with special attention to the physical traces of the past. Antiquarianism is usually considered to have emerged in the sixteenth century; by the nineteenth century it had become transformed and bifurcated into the academic disciplines of archaeology and philology.

Some antiquarians

• Patrick Abercromby
• Elias Ashmole
• John Aubrey
• Sir James Balfour
• Thomas Baker
• George Buck
• William Camden
• Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan
• Robert Stephen Hawker
• John Leland - to king Henry VIII. He was appointed Royal Antiquarian in 1533
• Edward Lhuyd
• Dorning Rasbotham
• Fred Rosenstock
• William Forbes Skene
• George Vertue
• Olaus Wormius
• Thomas Wright
• John Stow
• Robert Crowley
• John Foxe
• Richard Grafton
• John Bale

See also

• Historian
• Antiquary by Sir Walter Scott