Academics
| Name | Lifetime | Montana connection | Comments | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambrose, Stephen E.Stephen E. Ambrose | 1936–2002 | Lived in Helena during retirement | Professor; Historian; biographer | |
| Bearss, EdEd Bearss | 1923–present | Born in Billings | Historian specializing in the American Civil War and World War II; chief historian of the National Park Service (1981–1994); National Park Service Historian Emeritus | |
| Blunt, JudyJudy Blunt | 1954–present | Born near Malta; attended college in and resides in Missoula | Memoirist; associate professor at the University of Montana | |
| Flores, DanDan Flores | 1948–present | Lives in Missoula | Historian and writer on the Western United States; professor and A.B. Hammond Chair in Western History at the University of Montana | |
| Knowles, MalcolmMalcolm Knowles | 1913–1997 | Born in Livingston | Educator noted for the adoption of the theory of Andragogy | |
| Maclean, NormanNorman Maclean | 1902–1990 | Moved to Missoula in 1909 | Author; scholar; Dean of Students and William Rainey Harper Professor of English at University of Chicago | |
| Pease, JanineJanine Pease | 1949–present | Lives on the Crow Indian Reservation | Founded Little Big Horn College | |
| Renne, RolandRoland Renne | 1905–1989 | President of Montana State College (1943–1964) in Bozeman | Agricultural Economics professor; active in Washington D.C. and overseas agricultural economics work; Democratic candidate for governor of Montana (1964) | |
| Thurow, LesterLester Thurow | 1938–present | Born in Livingston | Rhodes Scholar; Economist; former dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management; author of numerous bestsellers on economics; columnist | |
| Toole, K. RossK. Ross Toole | 1920–1981 | Born, raised and college student in Missoula; lived in Missoula and Red Lodge | Historian; history writer; A.B. Hammond Professor of Western History at the University of Montana | |
| Welch, JamesJames Welch | 1940–2003 | Born in Browning; attended college and lived in Missoula | Poet; history writer; taught at University of Washington, Cornell University, and University of Montana; 1997 recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas |
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