List of ethnic groups

This is a list of ethnic groups.

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A

• Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia (Algonquin people)
• Abgaal - majority in southern Somalia, (living around the capital until Mudugh region).
• Abkhazs - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, perhaps plurality (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia
• Aborigines, indigenous peoples of mainland Australia.
• Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
• Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
• Achang - Yunnan, the People's Republic of China
• Acholi
• Achomawi - Native Americans of California
• Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
• Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.
• Adyhaffe
• Afar - A tribal people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
• African-American - citizens of United States of sub-Saharan African origin
• Afrikaners - South African descendants of mostly Dutch ancestry, but also including the descendants of French Huguenot and German Protestant refugees, who intermarried with the Dutch settlers and adopted Afrikaans as their mother tongue - e.g., the French name 'Le Clerque' became the Afrikaans name 'De Klerk.'
• Afro-Trinidadian
• Aftsarians or Isaurians
• Agaw - ethnic group in northern Ethiopia
• Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire
• Aguls - Dagestani minority group
• Ahtna - Alaska Natives, along the Copper River
• Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
• Ainu - Natives of Hokkaidō, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshū, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
• Ainu of China - Completely different from the Ainu of Japana and Russia.
• Aja - Minority group in Benin
• Ajaria
• Ak Chin - Native American group now resident in Pinal County, Arizona on the Tohono O'odham reservation
• Akan - People of West Africa, inhabiting principally Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire; linguistic group, not quite an ethnic group
• Akha
• Akuapem - People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
• Akyem - People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
• Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
• Alak - from Laos
• Albanians - a Balkan people, living in Albania, southern Serbia, (Kosovo), western Macedonia, Greece (South Epirus) and Montenegro
• Alemannic - Germanic people found in Swabia, Southern Baden, Vorarlberg, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Alsace
• Aleut - Alaska Natives, mainly in the Aleutian Islands, as well as Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
• Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada; Language group
• Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altay Mountains region
• Americo-Liberians - Mulatto African Americans were given reparations for slavery in the form of their own country back in their homeland and this is Liberia, so they are Liberians.
• Amhara - Non-Homogenous people of central Ethiopia
• Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
• Amungme - inhabitants of Indonesian Ethnic Group from Papua Province
• Andalusians - Latin people. Inhabitants of southern Iberia.
• Andorrans - Catalan sub-group native to Andorra
• Anglo-Celtic Australian - Majority inhabitants of Australia with mixed English and Celtic ancestry.
• Anglo-Indian - People of mixed Indian and English ancestry, living in India and England
• Anglo-Saxon - Historically, a collective name for the Germanic tribes resident Great Britain since the 5th century, especially prior to the Norman Conquest.
• Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.
• Ansar people or Ansarie
• Antiguan
• Antillean
• Anuak - a people living in southwestern Sudan and western Ethiopia
• Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States
• Apinaje - Indigenous group of Brazil
• Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
• Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
• Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
• Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest United States
• Armenians - natives of Eastern Anatolia, living primarily in Armenia, Russia, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey with a large worldwide diaspora
• Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a minority population of Northern Greece, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
• Arubans - population of Aruba, a Dutch island in the Caribbean
• Arvanites
• Aryans - Indo-Iranians, ancient inhabitants of South Asia (excluding Southern India), Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, but it can also refer to Indo-Aryans, who are inhabiting the majority of South Asia, as well as Afghanistan
• Asante (Ashanti)
• Asheninka Indigenous groups of Peru
• Ashkenazi - Jewish Mainly Jews who migrated north west out of the Levant and settled (and travelled) in Eastern Europe and Russia.
• Asmat - Indonesian Ethnic Group from Papua Province
• Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
• Assyrians - Middle Eastern, principally in Iraq and Syria with large diaspora
• Asturians- an ethnic and linguistic group in northwestern Spain, next to Galicia.
• Atikamekw
• Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
• Atsugewi
• Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
• Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
• Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
• Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
• Azerbaijanis (Azeris) - an ethnic group in Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey.
• Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico

B

• Ba Na - inhabitants of Vietnam
• Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
• Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
• Bahamian
• Bai - national minority of the People's Republic of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
• Bajau - Ethnic group of in Borneo and the Philippines; Known as Sea Gypsies, they touch land only to bury their dead.
• Baka - one of the Pygmy peoples of central Africa. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli Efé.
• Bakongo - majority population of the Republic of the Congo; also living in Angola
• Balkars - people of the northern Caucasus, mainly inhabiting the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria
• Baloch (also Baluch) - traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Balochistan in SW Pakistan and SE Iran
• Baltic Germans
• Bamar - the majority ethnic group of Myanmar
• Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
• Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
• Banat Swabians - Germans of Romania and Yugoslavia
• Banawa
• Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
• Bandjabi - Inhabitants of Gabon
• Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa
• Baoule - major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire
• Bapou
• Barbadian
• Barbudan
• Bariba - national minority in Benin
• Barians- Ethnic group native to the Province of Bari in Italy
• Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
• Bashkirs (or Bashkhirs) - Turkic people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
• Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
• Basques - a region located in the Pyrenees between Spain and France
• Bassa - people of Liberia
• Bassari
• Baster (also known as Baaster) - people descended from the offspring of Dutch speaking whites and black African women
• Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
• Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
• Baya-Mandjia
• Bedouins - nomadic group throughout North Africa and western Middle East
• Beja - nomadic group in northern Eritrea, southern Egypt, and northeastern Sudan
• Belarusians - Slavic people of eastern Europe, Belarus
• Bengalis - South Asian Indo-Aryan people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
• Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
• Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews
• Betamaribe - Benin ethnic group
• Bethio
• Beti-Pahuin - group of peoples from Central Africa
• Bhotia - majority population of Bhutan, of Tibetan descent
• Biafrans - inhabitant of eastern Nigerian region (see also Ibo)
• Bicolano - A Filipino ethnic group.
• Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains of the United States, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
• Bo Y - Vietnamese ethnic group
• Bonairean - population of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
• Bonan
• Bosniaks - South Slavic people living mainly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Sandžak region of Serbia and Montenegro. Descendants of indigenous converts to Islam during Bosnia's Ottoman period
• Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
• Boyar - Boyars are mainly found in South India as Hindu Telugu speaking community and non-pure kshatriyas.
• Boyko - the mountain people in Central Europe
• Brau
• Bretons - a people indigenous to Brittany in northwest France
• British-Canadian - Anglophone Canadians, largely of British descent.
• Britons - indigenous majority of Great Britain.
• Brong - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
• Brulé - Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples
• Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam
• Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko
• Bugis is one of the etnics in Indonesia and Malaysia, mostly inhabiting South Sulawesi of Indonesia and state of Sabah of Malaysia.
• Bulang
• Bulgarians - Slavic people of the Balkans
• Bulgars - an ancient people of central Asia
• Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans
• Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia
• Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo basin region
• Buyi - national minority of the People's Republic of China

C

• Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
• Cahuilla
• Caingang
• Cajun - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
• Caldoche - French people of New Caledonia
• Canaanites - ancient people of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea
• Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
• Cape Malay - population descended from people of the Malay archipelago in the Western Cape Province of South Africa
• Cape Verdean - inhabitants of Cape Verde
• Caprivian - inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
• Caribbean - people with Mestizo ancestry with African descent
• Caribs - group of Native American peoples of northern South America, the Lesser Antilles, and the east coast of Central America; now mostly extinct
• Caripuna
• Catalans - inhabitants of north-eastern Spain, southwestern France and Andorra
• Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States, now resident in western South Carolina
• Caymanian
• Cayuga - Native American people of New York state, now resident in Wisconsin and Oklahoma; one of the Iroquois group of peoples
• Cayuse - Native American people of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington
• Ceylon Moors - people who are of Arab stock living in Sri Lanka
• Chagga - a people of Bantu stock (Niger-Congo-B) living in Kilimanjaro Region in Tanzania
• Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
• Chamorro - the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands
• Chechens - inhabitants of northern Caucasus, chiefly in Chechnya in Russia
• Chehalis
• Chemakum
• Chemehuevi - Native American people of the southwest United States
• Chepang
• Chere
• Cherokee - Native American people originally of eastern and central Tennessee, most of Kentucky, southern West Virginia, western Virginia, northern Georgia, northern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina, and western North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
• Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States
• Chicanos - a term used by some United States citizens of Mexican origin
• Chickahominee
• Chickasaw - Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi, west Tennessee, and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma
• Chilcotin - Native American inhabitants of British Columbia
• Chinese - Han Chinese people, the dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China
• Chinese Filipino - Overseas Chinese that have settled in the Philippines
• Chinese Singaporean - Immigrant Chinese that have settled in Singapore
• Chinookan - members of a number of Native American peoples living in the Columbia River valley in Washington and Oregon
• Chipewyan - Native American people of northwest Canada
• Chippewa - Native American people inhabiting the Great Lakes region of Canada and also living in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana
• Chitimacha - Native American people of southeastern Louisianna
• Cho Ro
• Choctaw - Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma with many still living in Mississippi
• Chukchansi
• Chumash - Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
• Chuncho
• Chut
• Chuvash - A Turkic people in Russia
• Ciboney - Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct
• Circassians or Cherkezians see Adyghe minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.
• Clayoquot - Native American people of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• Co
• Co Ho
• Co Lao
• Co Tu
• Coast Salish - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Cochiti - Native American people of the southwestern United States
• Cocopah
• Coeur d'Alene - Native American people of the Rocky Mountains
• Coharie
• Colchians or Kolchians
• Colombians - People from the South American country of Colombia.
• Coloured - term used to denote mixed-race inhabitants of South Africa. See also Cape Coloured
• Colville - Native American people inhabiting Washington; one of the Salish tribes
• Comanche - Native American people inhabiting Oklahoma, Texas, California and New Mexico
• Comorian
• Cong
• Coquille
• Cornish - a British people originating in Cornwall and the South West of Great Britain.
• Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
• Cossack - inhabitants of the southern steppe regions of Eastern Europe
• Costanoan - Native American people of central California, one of the Mission Indian peoples
• Coushatta - Native American now resident in Texas. See also Alabama
• Cowichan - Native American inhabitants of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• Cowlitz - Native American people of western Washington; one of the Salish peoples
• Cree - widely dispersed Native American people inhabiting the northern United States and Canada
• Creek - Native American people originally of Alabama but now mostly residing in Oklahoma
• Créole - referring either to people of Iberian or French ancestry in the Americas, or people of mixed Native American and European ancestry in Alaska. See Louisiana Creole people
• Crimean Germans
• Crimean Goths
• Crimean Tatars - a Turkic people of Crimea
• Croats - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
• Crow - Native American people of the northern Great Plains, now chiefly residing in southeast Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
• Cuban
• Cumans
• Cupeño
• Curaçaoan - people of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
• Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe

D

• Daasanach - southern Ethiopia
• Dadhich
• Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)
• Dakelh - First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples
• Dakota: the autonym of the Santee Sioux, sometimes applied to all Sioux
• Damara
• Danish - Germanic people of Scandinavia
• Danmin
• Dargins - Dagestani
• Daur
• De'ang
• Deg Hit'an - Alaska Natives
• Degar (Montagnards)
• Delaware - Eastern United States Native American
• Dena'ina (also known as the Tanaina) - Athabascan Alaska Natives
• Dendi - Benin ethnic group
• Derbish
• Dhodia- Dhodia Tribes of India
• Diegueno
• Dinka
• Diola
• Djerma Songhai from Niger
• Dogon - The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in Mali, West Africa.
• Dom - A Dalit or untouchable caste of India.
• Doma - Wandering Gypsies of the Middle East
• Dominican - from Dominica
• Dominican - from the Dominican Republic
• Dong
• Dongxiang
• Dorze - southern Ethiopia
• Dravidians - inhabitants of Southern India and Sri Lanka
• Drung
• Druze-Also a Religion
• Du
• Duala people from the coast of Cameroon
• Dutch - Germanic people of northern Europe

E

• E De
• East Indian - inhabitants of the East Indies (South Asia and South-East Asia)
• Egyptians - native people of eastern North Africa.
• English - British people native to England
• Enxet
• Eritrean - of Eritrea, on the Red Sea
• Eshira
• Eskimo - see also Inuit and Yupik
• Esselen
• Estonians - Finnic people in Estonia, northeastern Europe
• Eurasian Avars
• Evenks
• Ewe

F

• Falasha/Beta Israel - Jewish ethnic group from Ethiopia; beginning in 1984, most now live in Israel.
• Fante - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
• Faroese - Germanic group of the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Scotland.
• Fars - native name for Persians
• Fereydan
• Fernandinos
• Fijian - Polynesian group, central South Pacific Ocean
• Filipino - The "national" identity of a person from the Philippines
• - Philippine citizens of Italian descent
• Filipinos of Spanish descent
• Finns - Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia
• Flemish - Northern Belgium
• Fon - Togo, Benin
• Franco-Mauritian - people of French origin living in Mauritius
• Franco-Réunionnaise - a French people of Reunion, island in the Indian Ocean
• Franks - Germanic people of northwest Europe who settled in France in the time of the Roman Empire
• French - the people of France (more than disputed; Ernest Renan's definition of a nation on subjective criteria is opposed to Fichte's definition of the German people as a Volk - an "ethnic group").
• French American - United States person of French descent
• French Canadian - of French Canadian culture, historically self-identified as Canadiens, then later as Canadiens-français and those today living in the province of Quebec as Québécois. See also Québécois, Métis and Acadians.
• Frisians - Germanic group native to the "German Bight" along the North Sea
• Fula (also called Fulfulde, Fulani, or Fulbe)
• Fulni-o
• Fur - western Sudan (Darfur)

G

• Ga - people of southern Ghana
• Gaels - a Celtic people originating in the British Isles
• Gagauz - Turkic people in southern Moldova and southwestern Ukraine (in Budjak)
• Galicians - ethnic group of Galicia, in the Iberian peninsula
• Gaoshan - aboriginal people of Taiwan
• Garifuna/Garinagu - a Central American people of mixed Amerindian and African descent
• Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
• Geba Buru - inhabitants of the Buru Island in the center of mollucas
• Gelao
• Georgian - Caucasus region, of Georgia
• German Americans
• German Brazilians
• Germanic peoples - ethnic branch of Indo-European peoples, originating in Northern Europe
• Germans - Germanic people of Central Europe; relating to German culture, German language or ethnic Germans outside of Germany.
• Gia Rai
• Giay
• Gie Trieng
• Gitanos - Gypsies in Spain
• Gongduk
• Gorani - Slavic people in Serbia
• Goshute
• Goulaye
• Greeks
• Greenlander - inhabitants of the island in the northern Atlantic
• Grenadian
• Grenadinian
• Griqua - South Africa
• Gros Ventre
• Gruzinim - Georgian-speaking Jews from Georgia in the Caucasus.
• Guadeloupean
• Guajajara
• Guarani
• Gujaratis, inhabiting the state of Gujarat in Western India
• Gullah
• Gurage - Ethiopia
• Guria
• Guruks
• Gurung
• Guyanese - people from the country of Guyana or whose parents are guyanese

H

• Haida - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
• Haitian Creole
• Haitians
• Hakka - a people of the People's Republic of China and Taiwan
• Haliwa-Saponi
• Hamer - southern Ethiopia
• Hamshenis - An Armenian ethnic group in Turkey
• Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of the People's Republic of China and largest ethnic group in the world
• Ha-Nhi
• Hani
• Hausa West-Africa
• Havasupai
• Haw
• Hawaiian - Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Hazara - inhabitants of Afghanistan and Pakistan, who have mixed, Indo-Aryan, Iranian/Persian and Turkic descent.
• Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Bosnian Bosniaks Herzegovina
• Herero
• Hesquiat
• Hezhen
• Hidatsa
• Himba
• Hispanics - Americans with origins in (as defined by law, in Cuba, Puerto Rico, or other Spanish-Speaking Cultures.
• Hmar
• Hmong - Southeast Asia
• Hoa
• Ho-Chunk
• Hoh
• Hohokam
• Hoklo - A people of Taiwan and Fujian (Hokkien)
• Holikachuk
• Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States
• Houma
• H'Re
• Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica
• Huastec
• Hui Chinese
• Hungarians - people in Hungary, central Europe
• Huns
• Hupa
• Hurrians
• Huron - Eastern United States Native American
• Hutsuls - mountain people of Ukraine and Poland
• Hutu - Rwanda
• Hyksos -

I

• Ibanag - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Ibibio - West Africa (Nigeria)
• Icelandic - North Atlantic island
• Igbo - West Africa (Nigeria)
• Igorot - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Illiniwek, also known as the Illini, Illinois, or Illinois Confederacy
• Ilocano - Third largest Philippine ethnic group.
• Ilonggo - A Filipino ethnic group.
• Imereti
• Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
• Indian - inhabitants of India (refers to many ethnic groups)
• Indo-Aryan - speakers of Indo-Aryan languages originating from Northern India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (refers to many ethnic groups)
• Indo-Caribbean - Caribbean people (found mostly in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica) and South American people (found mostly in Guyana, Suriname)of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Indo-Europeans - hypothetical pre-historic people that spoke the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language
• Indo-Guyanese - Guyanese people of South Asian origins India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
• Indo-Iranians - speakers of Aryan/Indo-Iranian languages originating from the Indian subcontinent, Iranian plateau and Central Asia (refers to many ethnic groups)
• Indo-Trinidadian - Trinidad and Tobago people of South Asian origins India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• Ingalik - see Deg Hit'an
• Ingushes - Ingushetia, northern Caucasus
• Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada
• Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
• Iowa
• Irani - religious and ethnic community of the Indian subcontinent. See also Parsi.
• Iranian - Aryan speakers of Iranian languages inhabiting the Iranian plateau, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (refers to a number of ethnic groups including Persians and Kurds)
• Irish - the native people of Ireland
• Irish Traveller - nomadic people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britain and the United States
• Irish-American - Americans of Irish descent
• Iroquois - Native Americans once widespread in the eastern United States and Canada
• Isleta - Natives from New Mexico
• Isoko
• Istro-Romanians - Istria
• Italian - from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe
• Italian Australian
• Italian-American - Americans of Italian descent
• Italian Canadian
• Italkim - the Jews of Italy
• Itsekiri - A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa

J

• Jakaltek people - Maya people of Guatemala
• Jamaican - mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean
• Japanese people, ethnic Japanese - from the islands off the east coast of Asia (Yamato people, Ryukyuan people, Ainu people)
• Jat
• Javanese - especially central and eastern part of Java, Indonesia
• Jebala - an ethnic group of northern Morocco
• Jemez
• Jewish
• Jing
• Jingpo
• Jino
• Jivaroan
• Jola
• Jopadhola
• Jri

K

• Kabardin - A Caucasian people living in Russia
• Kabyle - a Berber people in North Africa
• Kaibartta - a people in South Asia
• Kakheti
• Kalasha of Chitral - an ethnic group in Pakistan
• Kalenjin
• Kalispel
• Kanembu
• Kapauku -- a Papuan ethnic group speaking Ekari
• Kapampangan - A Filipino ethnic group.
• Karachay - A Turkic people in Russia (primarily Karachay-Cherkessia)
• Karaja
• Karakalpaks - A Turkic people in Central Asia
• Karamanlides - Turkish-speaking people native to the Karaman and Cappadocia regions of Anatolia Turkey also in Greece
• Karamojong
• Karelians - Finnic people in Finland and Karelia, northeastern Europe
• Karen - Southeast Asia
• Karok
• Kashubians - a Slavic people of northern Europe
• Katang
• Kato
• Katuquina
• Kavango
• Kaw
• Kazakhs - Turkic people of North and Central Asia
• Keresan
• Khakas - A Turkic people of Russia, primarily Khakassia
• Khang
• Khazars - Turkic people from Central Asia, many of whom converted to Judaism. The Khazar empire fell to Kievan Rus in the 11th century.
• Khevi
• Khevsureti
• Khmer - Southeast Asia, Cambodia
• Khmu
• Kho Mu
• Khoikhoi - Southern Africa
• Khojas - people of Indian descent
• Khomani or Nu
• Kickapoo
• Kĩkũyũ
• Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese
• Kiowa - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
• Kittitian
• Klallam
• Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Klikitat
• Kolchan
• Kootenai
• Korean - from the Korean peninsula in Asia and southern Manchuria.
• Koskimo
• Koyukon - Natives of Alaska
• Kpelle - Group from Guinea, western Africa
• Kraho - Natives of northwestern Brazil
• Kri - Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa
• Kumeyaay
• Kumyks - Turkic people of northern Caucasus
• Kurds - Indigenous people of Middle East.
• Kuruba Gowda - Indigenous people of India.
• Kutenai - Indigenous people of British Columbia and Idaho
• Kwakwaka'wakw - Indigenous peoples of the central British Columbia coast
• Kyrgyz - Turkic people of Central Asia

L

• La Chi
• La Ha
• La Hu
• Laguna
• Lahu
• Laigain - from the northwestern region of Gaul
• Lakota - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada
• Laks - Caucasus
• Lamet
• Lanka Moors- Sri Lankan Muslims of Arab origin
• Lao - southeast Asia
• Lao Sung - the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Laos
• Lao Theung - Laos
• Latgalians - Baltic people in eastern part of Latvia, northeastern Europe
• Latinos - Americans with origins in Latin America
• Latvians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
• lavae
• Laven
• Laz
• Lazoi
• Lebanese Australian
• Lebou
• Lemkos - mountain people of Central Europe
• Lenca
• Lezgis - Dagestani
• Lhoba
• Lhotshampa
• Li Chinese
• Limbus
• Lipka Tatars
• Lipovans - Danube Delta, Romania
• Lisu
• Lithuanians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
• Livonians - Finnic people in Latvia, northeastern Europe
• Lo Lo
• Lobi
• Lotuko
• Louisiana Creole people - United States Louisiana
• Low Saxon - Northern Germany
• Lozi
• Lua - A minority cultural group of Laos, people in Laos, Southeast Asia
• Luba
• Lue
• Luiseno
• Lumad - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Lumbee
• Lummi
• Luo
• Lusitanians
• Luxembourgers - people native to Luxembourg

M

• Maasai - people of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania
• Macedonians - South Slavic nation of Balkans, mix between slavic tribes nad ancient Macedonians
• Macuxi
• Madurese
• Magar people
• Maharashtrians a.k.a. Marathi people - ethnic group of Maharashtra, a western state in India
• Mahican - Native Americans from New England
• Mahorian
• Maidu
• Maingtha - see Achang
• Maka - people of southern Cameroon
• Makah
• Makong
• Makua
• Malay - located primarily in the Malay peninsula, and parts of Sumatra and Borneo.
• Malayalee People of Kerala State, South India
• Maliseet
• Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean
• Mam - a Maya people of Guatemala
• Manchu - Manchuria, now part of the People's Republic of China, north of Korea
• Mandan
• Mang people
• Mangyan - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Manx - indigenous people of the Isle of Man
• Maonan
• Māori - indigenous people of New Zealand
• Mapuche - Non-homogeneous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
• Maratha - People of Western India, formerly emperors of undivided India
• Mari - Ugro-Finnic
• Maricopa
• Marquesas - Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific
• Martiniquais
• Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
• Matabele - Southern Africa
• Mattaponi
• Maubere
• Mauritian
• Maya - collective term for diverse groups of indigenous peoples of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread
• Mazandarenis Southern Caspian people
• M'Baka
• Mbochi
• Mbuti
• Megleno-Romanians - in Greece
• Meherrin
• Melungeon
• Memon - India and Pakistan
• Menba
• Menominee - Eastern United States Native American
• Mentawai - Mentawai Islands, West Sumatra, Indonesia
• Meskhetians
• Métis
• Me-Wuk
• Miami
• Miao, better known as the Hmong
• Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American
• Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
• Mina - Meenas, Meena or Mina is a community mainly found in Rajasthan, India.
• Midwesterner
• Minahasa - Indonesia
• Minangkabau - West Sumatra, Indonesia
• Mingo
• Miskito - native people of coastal Nicaragua
• Mission
• Miwok
• Mixtec - Central American natives
• Mizrahi - Jewish communties of the Middle East and North Africa, (not to be confused with Sephardim), whose prescence predates Arab– conquest.
• Mnong
• Modoc
• Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
• Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
• Mohegan
• Moldovan - ethnic group that lives mainly in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine
• Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Thailand
• Monacan - Native American ethnic group from the Eastern United States, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
• Monegasque - people living in Monaco, who speak a Ligurian dialect
• Mongo
• Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and the People's Republic of China
• Mono - Native Americans from Eastern California and Nevada
• Montaukett
• Montenegrins - a South Slavic Dinaric people of southeastern Europe
• Moor - people living mainly in Western Sahara, Morocco and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, from which the latter country derives its name.
• Moravians - people living in the Moravia region of Czech Republic
• Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
• Morisco - Spanish Muslims who converted to Christianity
• Moro, also Muslim Filipino - The largest and most dominant non-Christian minority in the Philippines.
• Mossi
• Muckleshoot
• Mudéjar - Muslims of Al-Andalus, who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista
• (Mudulood)People living in central and south Somalia
• Mulam
• Mulatto - Descendants from European and African ancestry.
• Mundas
• Muong
• Mursi
• Museu
• Myene

N

• Nahanni
• Nahua (Nahuatl-speaking groups of Mexico)
• Namaqua
• Nansemond
• Narragansett - natives of New England
• Nauruan - Micronesian group of islands in the Pacific Ocean
• Navajo - Native Americans of the southwest United States
• Naxi
• Ndau
• Neapolitans - Specifically people from the Campania region of Italy but generally any southern Italian
• Negrito - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
• Nenets - indigenous people living in Russia
• Nepalese - south Asia, between India and the People's Republic of China
• Nespelem - alternate spelling Nespelim or Nespilim; Salish Native Americans of eastern Washington State
• Nevisian
• Newar
• Nez Percé - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Ngac'ang - See Achang
• Ngae
• Nhahuen
• Nhuon
• Nigerian
• Niominka
• Nipmuc
• Nishka
• Nisqually
• Niuean - Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean
• Ni-Vanuatu - of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Njem - people of southern Cameroon
• Nogais - Tatars of Dagestan
• Nomlaki
• Nooksack - Native Americans of Washington
• Northern Thai
• Norwegians
• Nu
• N/u or Khomani
• Nubians - an African people native to the upper Nile Valley, between Egypt and Sudan
• Nuer - southern Sudan and western Ethiopia
• Nung
• Nuu-chah-nulth - Native Americans of the Pacific northwest of North America.
• Nzema - People living in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

O

• O Du
• Occitans
• Odawa
• Ogaden
• Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
• Ogoni
• Ojibwa
• Okamba
• Okande
• Omaha
• Oneida
• Onondaga
• Orcadians
• Oromo - Ethiopia
• Oroqin
• Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas)
• Ossetians - Iranian speaking people of the Caucasus
• Otoe-Missouria
• Ottawa
• Ovambo

P

• Pa Then
• Paiute
• Pākehā - Caucasian New Zealanders with no or little defined European links, typically of British, Irish and Dutch extraction
• Pakistanis - inhabitants of Pakistan.
• Pakoh
• Paliyan
• Pamunkey
• Panamanian - A Hispanic ethnic group
• Pangasinense - A Filipino ethnic group.
• Panoan
• Pa-O - Myanmar
• Parsi - ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent (etymologically related to, but not to be confused with Persian language word for a person from Pars)
• Pashtun (Pathan) - large group inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistan (with smaller communities in Iran and the United Arab Emirates) who have mixed Indo-Aryan, Persian/Iranian, Turkic, Kurdish, Mediterranean, Mongol and Central Asian descent
• Passamaquoddy
• Patagonian - southern tip of South America, Argentina
• Pataxo
• Paugusset
• Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American
• Pennsylvania Dutch - members of Plain sects who conduct religious services in Pennsylvania German, a dialect very similar to the German spoken in the lower Rhine area, from which they came.
• Pennsylvania German - people of many religious affiliations whose families were formerly Pennsylvania Dutch. Called Pennsylvania Dutch by some.
• Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American
• Peoria
• Persians - (Persian) speaking Iranian peoples in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia (linguistically belong to the Aryan/Indo-Iranian branch).
• Petchenegs
• Phoenicians
• Phong
• Phu La
• Phu Noi
• Phu Thai
• Pied-noir - French people who live(d) in North Africa
• Piegan
• Pima
• Pit River Indians
• Pitcairn-Norfolk
• Polabian Slavs
• Polish - Slavic people of Central Europe
• Pomaks - Slavic Muslims found in Bulgaria,Turkey and Greece
• Pomo - Western United States Native American
• Ponca
• Pontians, also known as Pontic Greeks, live chiefly along the Black Sea Coast in northeastern Turkey.
• Poospatuck
• Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
• Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American
• Potiguara
• Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American
• Proto-Indo-Europeans - pre-historic speakers of the hypothetical Proto-Indo-European language
• Pu Peo
• Pueblo people - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
• Puelche
• Puerto Rican
• Puget Sound Salish - of Washington
• Pumi
• Punjabis - Indo-Aryan group inhabiting the Punjab, located between India and Pakistan
• Puyallup

Q

• Qashqai - minority group of South-Western Iran
• Qiang
• Quahatika
• Quapaw
• Quebecois- French-speaking population of Québec
• Quechan
• Quechuas - South American people (various ethnic groups speaking Quechua) of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, and Chile
• Quiché
• Quileute
• Quinault
• Quinqui - semi-nomadic group of Spain

R

• Ra Glai
• Rais
• Rakhine - Rakhine State, Myanmar
• Ramapough Mountain Indians
• Rappahannock - of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
• Rashaida - minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin
• Rèunionnaise
• Ro Mam
• Rohingya - Muslim minority group in North western Myanmar
• Roma - one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent
• Romanian - Eastern European
• Rotuman - Native of Rotuma, Fiji
• Russian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
• Russian Germans
• Rusyns (Ruthenes)
• Rutuls - Dagestani
• Ryukyuans - the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200 km southwest of the Japanese mainland. They are usually subgrouped as follows: Northern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Amamians and Okinawans, and Southern Ryukyuans are further subdivided into Miyakoans, Yaeyamans, and Yonagunians

S

• Sadang
• Saek
• Saho - northern Ethiopia
• Sahrawis of Western Sahara
• Saingolo
• Salar
• Salish - of Washington and British Columbia
• Salvadorean- native people of El Salvador
• Samanthan
• Samaritan
• Samegrelo
• Sami - indigenous people of northern Scandinavia and Siberia
• Sammarinese - natives of San Marino
• Samoans - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Samogitians - Baltic people in western part of Lithuania, northeastern Europe
• Samtao
• San
• San Chay
• San Diu
• Saponi - Native American people of North Carolina - related to the Catawba
• Sara
• Sarakatsani - transhumant shepherds across the Southern Balkans
• Sardinians - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
• Sauk
• Sauk-Suiattle
• Scandinavian
• Scanger
• Scots-Irish, or Scotch-Irish - descendants of Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America
• Scottish - British people native to Scotland
• Sekani
• Selk'nam
• Seminole - natives of Florida
• Sena
• Seneca - Native Americans of the New York area
• Sentinelese
• Sephardi - Jewish Jews who entered Spain with the Arabs, who after the exodus from Spain settled in North Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, the Balkans, and Amsterdam. Sephardim who remained in Spain and Portugal hiding their Jewish identity are known as Crypto Jews.
• Serbs - South Slavic Orthodox people of southeastern Europe (Balkans) living in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) as well as Croatia and Macedonia
• Serer
• Serer-Ndut
• Seychellois
• Shan
• Shangaan
• Shasta
• Shawnee
• She
• Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalaya
• Shetland Islanders
• Shinnecock
• Shoalwater Bay Tribe
• Shona
• Shoshone
• Shui
• Si La
• Sicilian - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
• Sidamo - southern Ethiopia
• Siddi
• Siksika
• Silesians - inhabitants of Silesia
• Siletz
• Sindhis - Indo-Aryans mainly inhabiting and residing a province named after them in Southern Pakistan (SE Pakistan) and Hindu refugees Permanently settled in India since partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947.
• Singmun
• Sinhalese - inhabitants of Sri Lanka
• Sinti - one of the two main groups of Gypsies, who are of North Indian/Indo-Aryan descent
• Sioux - Northern Central United States
• Siuslaw
• S'Klallam
• Skokomish
• Sḵwxwú7mesh
• Slavic
• Slovak - Slavic people of central Europe
• Slovene - Slavic people of central Europe
• Slovincian - in Pomerania
• Somali - eastern Africa
• Somba
• Songhai- Western Africa
• Sorbic - concentrated Slavic minority in Germany
• Soso- Guinea, Conakry
• Souei
• Southern Tutchone
• Southerner
• Spanish - southwestern Europe
• Spokane
• Squaxin Island Tribe
• Sri Lankan Moors- People of mixed Arab descent in Sri Lanka
• Stillaguamish
• Sudanese Australian Australian people of Sudanese decent.
• Sundanese - western part of Java, Indonesia
• Suquamish
• Susu
• Suyá - tribe of Brazil
• Svans
• Swazi - southern Africa, Swaziland
• Swedes - Germanic people of Scandinavia
• Swinomish

T

• Ta Oi
• Tabasarans - Dagestani
• Tache
• Tachi
• Tagalog - The second largest Filipino Ethnic group
• Tagish
• Tahitian - Pacific Ocean island, Polynesia
• Taíno - natives of the Caribbean
• Taiwanese
• Taiwanese aborigines
• Tajik - specific ethnic group of central Asia
• Tajik - one of 56 nationalities officially recognized by the People's Republic of China
• Taliang
• Talysh are an ethnic group in Iran and Azerbaijan
• Tamang - group in Nepal and the Himalaya
• Tamil - Dravidian group widespread in Southern India and parts of Sri Lanka
• Tanana
• Taos
• Tapuia
• Tarahumara - Native Americans of the Mexican state of Chihuahua
• Tarascan
• Tatars - Turkic people
• Tats - an ethnic group in Azerbaijan and Dagestan
• Tay
• Tehuelche
• Teimani Jewish Jews of Yemenite extraction
• Tejano - Latino immigrants to Texas
• Teotihuacan
• Terena
• Tetons - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Tewa
• Thai - southeast Asia
• Tharu
• Thin
• Tho
• Tibetan - currently under Chinese rule, Central Asia
• Ticuna
• Tigray-Tigrinia - Ethiopia, Eritrea
• Tigua
• Tlakluit
• Tlingit - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
• Tobagonian
• Tocharian
• Tohono O'odham
• Tokelauan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Tolowa
• Toltec - Central America
• Tonga - East Africa
• Tongan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Tongva
• Tonkawa
• Topachula
• Toraja
• Torres Strait Islanders - Indigenous Australians
• Totonac
• Toubou
• Transylvanian Saxons - Germans of Romania
• Trinidadian
• Tsakhurs - Dagestani
• Tsetsaut
• Tsimishian - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
• Tsonga - Southern Africa
• Tsuu T'ina
• Tswana - Southern Africa (see also Batswana)
• Tuareg - Berber people of Sahara
• Tujia
• Tukanoan
• Tukolor
• Tulalip
• Tulutni
• Tum
• Tumbuka
• Tungus
• Tunica-Biloxi
• Tupian
• Turks and Caicos Islanders - Natives of the Turks and Caicos Islands - also known as "Belongers"
• Turkmen - Turkic people of Central Asia
• Turks (sometimes referred to as Ottoman Turks) - Turkic people of Anatolia and Southeastern Europe.
• Tusheti
• Tutsi - of Rwanda and southern Africa
• Tuvaluan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
• Tuvans - Central Asian group in Russia
• Twa
• Tzigane

U

• Ubykh - minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey
• Ukrainian - widespread Slavic people north of the Black Sea, Ukraine
• Ulster-Scots descendants of Scots who migrated to Ulster
• Umatilla
• Umpqua
• Upper Skagit
• Ute - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
• Uyghur - large Turkic Muslim minority in the People's Republic of China
• Uzbek - Turkic people of central Asia, Uzbekistan

V

• Vaccaei - ancient people group in Northern Spain
• Vandals - ancient Germanic people living in North Africa
• Vaturanga - a people of the Guadalcanal
• Venda - South Africa
• Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing or archaically Annamites
• Visayan - The largest Filipino ethnic group.
• Volga Germans
• Volga Tatars

W

• Wa
• Waccamaw
• Wailaki
• Walla Walla
• Wampanoag
• Wasco
• Washoe
• Welayta people - people of southern Ethiopia
• Welsh - a British people native to Wales
• Wends - Slavic people from north-central Europe
• West Indian
• White Mountain Apache
• Wichita
• Wintun
• Wiyot - northern California
• Wolof - Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
• Wyandot
• Wyyanaha

X

• Xacriaba
• Xavante
• Xerente
• Xhosa - of South Africa
• Xibe
• Xinh Mun
• Xo Dang
• Xtieng
• Xucuru
• Xueda

Y

• Yae
• Yakama
• Yakuts - Turkic people of Siberia in eastern Russia
• Yang
• Yanomami - the Amazon River basin, Brazil
• Yao
• Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
• Yawanawa
• Yi
• Yocha-Dehe
• Yokut
• Yoruba - western Africa
• Yörük - semi-nomadic Turkish people of Balkans and Anatolia
• Yuchi
• Yugur
• Yuki - Native Americans of northwestern California
• Yuma
• Yumbri
• Yupik
• Yurok

Z

• Zaghawa of Northeast Africa.
• Zapotec - Central America
• Zeibeks - people of Thracian origin in Izmir, Turkey
• Zazas - people of Iranian origin in Eastern Turkey, Turkey
• Zhonghua minzu - Chinese pseudo-ethnic group.
• Zhuang
• Zou[1]
• Zulian - People of Western Venezuela from the state of Zulia.
• Zulu - of southern Africa
• Zuni - of the southwestern United States

See also

• List of stateless ethnic groups
• List of people by nationality
• List of indigenous peoples
• List of African ethnic groups
• European ethnic groups
• Indigenous peoples of the Americas
• Native Americans in the United States
• Alaska Natives
• Native Hawaiians
• Pacific Islanders
• Aboriginal peoples in Canada
• List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
• List of Chinese ethnic groups, Ethnic groups in Chinese history
• Indigenous people of Brazil
• Ethnic groups of the Philippines
• Indigenous cultures, kingdoms and ethnic groups of Senegal
• List of ethnic groups in Vietnam
• List of ethnic groups in Laos
• Northern indigenous peoples of Russia
• Ethnic groups of Siberia
• Peoples of the Caucasus
• Uncontacted peoples