Russell Thornton

Russell Thornton
Born	20 February 1942

Academic background
Alma mater	Florida State University Harvard University University of Southern California
Academic work
Discipline	anthropology
Institutions	University of California at Los Angeles
Main interests	population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Russell Thornton (born 20 February 1942) is a Cherokee-American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles, who is known for his studies of the population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.