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This is list of names of ethnic groups. A group can have several names (e.g., names in English language and in native language, obsolete names, versions of spelling, etc.)
A
- Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine (Algonquin people)
- Abkhaz - Minority in Georgia, Turkey and Russia, majority (since 1993 civil war) in Abkhazia
- Aborigine, an aboriginal inhabitant of Australia.
- Acadian - French-Canadians of the Canadian Maritimes
- Accohannock - Native Americans of Maryland
- Achang - Yunnan, China
- Achomawi - Native Americans of California
- Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
- Adja - Minority in Benin
- Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region.
- Afar - A tribal people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
- African-American - Americans of African descent, especially in the United States
- Afrikaners - descendants of Dutch settlers / French Huguenot refugees & German Protestants of southern Africa
- Afro-Cuban
- Afromestizos
- Afro-Trinidadian
- Agni - minority group in Côte d'Ivoire
- Aguls - Dagestani minority group
- Ahtna - Native Alaskans, along the Copper River
- Aimaks - Minority group in Afghanistan
- Aimaq - Minority group in Afghanistan
- Ainu - Natives of Hokkaido, much of Sakhalin, the Kuriles, and at one time northern Honshu, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Amur River basin
- Aja - Minority group in Benin
- 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, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo
- Akha
- Alabama - Native American people from whom the state takes its name; now sharing a reservation in Texas with the Coushatta
- Alak - from Laos
- Albanians - Natives of the south-west Balkans, principally residing in Albania, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, and Greece.
- Aleut - Natives of Alaska, and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories
- Algonquian - Native Americans of the eastern United States and Canada
- Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altai Mountains region
- American - Heterogeneous population of primarily English and Spanish speaking people with a similar culture living in the United States, although in Latin America, this refers to all inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere.
- Americo-Liberians - Descendants of African slaves repatriated to Liberia
- Amhara - Indigenous people of central Ethiopia
- Amish - North American religious minority, of German descent
- Amungme
- Andorrans - Inhabitants of a small nation between France and Spain
- Anglo-Celtic Australian - Inhabitants of Australia with British descent
- Anglo-Indian - Offspring of mixed Indian and British parents resident in India
- Anglo-Saxon - Often used to mean an English speaker of British ancestry
- Annamites or Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing - A people of Mongolian descent living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.
- Apaches - groups of Native Americans in the western plains of the United States
- Apinaje
- Arab - originally from Arabia, now widespread throughout the Middle East and North Africa
- Aramean - Semitic people of the Middle East, chiefly resident in Syria
- Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
- Araucanian - Non-homogenous peoples of South America, inhabiting Chile and western Argentina
- Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
- Arikara - Native American people from the upper Midwest
- Armenians - natives of the Caucasus region, Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, with a large worldwide diaspora
- Aromanians (or Macedo-Romanians) - a population living as a minority in Northern Greece, Serbia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
- Arubans - Dutch-colonized island in the Caribbean
- Arvanites
- Asheninka
- Assiniboine - Native American people living in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Montana; one of the Sioux peoples
- Assyrians - Middle Eastern, principally in Syria
- Atikamekw
- Atsina - Native American people inhabiting Montana and formerly Saskatchewan
- Atsugewi
- Australian aborigine - generic name for native inhabitants of Australia
- Austrians
- Avars - inhabitants of the Russian republic of Dagestan
- Awá - an endangered Amazonian tribe of hunter-gatherers
- Aymaras - South American people of Bolivia and Peru
- Azeris - Turkic people living in Caucasus, mostly in Azerbaijan, as well as in northwestern parts of Iran
- Aztecs - Central American people, descendants widespread in Mexico
B
- Ba Na
- Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
- Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
- Bai - national minority of China, inhabiting Yunnan province
- Bajau - Sea Gypsies of Borneo; 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 Baluchistan
- Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
- Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
- Banawa
- Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
- Bandjabi
- Bantu - ethnic group widespread in central and southern Africa
- Baoule - major ethnic group in Côte d'Ivoire
- Bapou
- Bariba - national minority in Benin
- Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
- Bashkirs (or Bashkhirs) - people of east central Russia, inhabiting principally Bashkortostan
- Basotho - inhabitants of Lesotho
- Basques - 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
- Bate Boiko
- Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
- Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
- Bavarians - inhabitant of the German state of Bavaria, with a distinctive dialect of High German
- 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 people, inhabiting Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal
- Berbers - a North African people, living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
- Betammaribe
- 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)
- Bit
- Blackfeet (or Blackfoot) - group of Native American peoples of the Great Plains, comprising the Blackfoot, Blood, and Piegan tribes.
- Bo Y
- Bonan
- Bosniak - Muslim Slavic people of southeastern Europe, inhabiting chiefly Bosnia and Serbia
- Bouganvilleans - inhabitants of island near Papua New Guinea
- Brau
- Bretons - Celtic group in northwest France
- Britons - indigenous and majority population of Great Britain encompassing national groups of English, Scottish and Welsh as well as regional groups within these groups. Also used to refer to citizens of the United Kingdom which includes Northern Ireland.
- Bronx Irish Catholic - Irish-Americans from the Bronx section of New York City
- Bru-Van Kieu - Vietnam
- Brulé - Native American people inhabiting parts of Nebraska and South Dakota; one of the Sioux peoples
- Bubi minority ethnic group in Equatorial Guinea Majority Ethnic group on the island of Bioko
- Bulang
- Bulgars - an ancient people of central Asia
- Bulgarians - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
- Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans
- Buryats - people of the eastern Russian republic of Buryatia
- Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo region
- Buyi - national minority of China
C
- Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
- Cahuilla
- Caingang
- Cajuns - French-Americans in Louisiana. See also Acadian.
- Canaanites
- Cape Coloured - mixed-race population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
- Cape Malay - Malay-descended population of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
- Caprivian - inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
- 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 and southwestern France
- Catawba - Native Americans from the Carolina region of the United States, now resident in western South Carolina
- 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
- Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
- 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 Tennessee and North Carolina, now mostly living in Oklahoma
- Cheyenne - Native American people of the Great Plains of the United States
- Chicano - a United States citizen of Mexican origin
- Chickahominee
- Chickasaw - Native American people formerly of northeast Mississippi and northwest Alabama, now living in Oklahoma
- Chilcotin - Native American inhabitants of British Columbia
- 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
- Cho Ro
- Choctaw - Native American people formerly of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma
- Chukchansi
- Chumash - Group of Native American peoples inhabiting coastal southern California
- Chut
- Ciboney - Mesoamerican inhabitants of Cuba, now extinct
- 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
- 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
- Cong
- Coquille
- Cornish - a British people from Cornwall in the South West of Great Britain.
- Corsicans - inhabitants of island off the south coast of France
- 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
- 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
- Cupeno
- Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe
D
- Dagestani peoples - indigenous groups of northern Caucasus
- Dai (Thai, Thai Lue)
- Dakelh - First Nations people of British Columbia, Canada, one of the Athabaskan group of peoples
- Dakota
- Damara
- Dargins - Dagestani
- Dao
- Daur
- De'ang
- Deg Hi'tan - Alaskan natives
- Delaware - Eastern United States Native American
- Dendi
- Danish - Germanic people of Scandinavia
- Diegueno
- Dinka
- Diola
- Dogon - The Dogon are an ethnic group located mainly in the administrative districts of Bandiagara and Douentza in Mali, West Africa.
- Dominican - from the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola
- Dominican - from Dominica
- Dong
- Dongxiang
- Drung
- Du
- Duala peoples - collection of related ethnic groups from the coast of Cameroon
- Dutch - Germanic people of northern Europe
E
- E De
- English - a Germanic people dwelling in the lowlands of Great Britain
- Enxet
- Eritrean - formerly of Ethiopia, on the Red Sea
- Eshira
- Eskimo - see Inuit
- Esselen
- Estonians - Finnic people in Estonia, northeastern Europe
- Evenks
F
- Faroese - Germanic group of the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Scotland.
- Fijian - Polynesian group, central South Pacific Ocean
- Filipino (or in referring to females, 'Filipina')
- Finns - Ethnic group in Finland and Scandinavia
- Flemish - Belgium and the Netherlands
- Fon - Togo, Benin
- Fur - western Sudan (Darfur)
- French - western European
- French American
- French Creole - of Haiti
- 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.
- Frisian - Germanic group on a few islands in the North Sea
- Fula
- Fulani
- Fulbe
- Fulfulde
- Fulni-o
G
- Gaels - Irish, Scottish and Manx Celtic group
- Gagauz
- Galician - people of Celtic origin in northwestern Spain
- Gaoshan - aboriginal people of Taiwan
- Garifuna
- Ge - northern South America, Caribbean coast
- Gelao
- Georgian - Caucasus region, of Georgia
- ethnic German - with to German culture and German language
- Gia Rai
- Giay
- Gie Trieng
- Gongduk
- Gorani - Slavic people in Serbia
- Goshute
- Goulaye
- Greeks, ethnic Greeks - southeastern Europe
- Greenlander - inhabitants of the island in the northern Atlantic
- Griqua - South Africa
- Gros Ventre
- Guajajara
- Guarani
- Gurage - Ethiopia
- Gurung
H
- H'Re
- Ha-Nhi
- Haida - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
- Hakka
- Haliwa-Sapponi
- Han Chinese - dominant ethnic group of China
- Hani
- Havasupai
- Haw
- Hawaiian - Polynesian indigenous people of the island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Hazara
- Hercegovinian - arguably regional group of Croats and Serbs in Herzegovina
- Herero
- Hesquiat
- Hezhen
- Hidatsa
- Himba
- Hmong - Southeast Asia
- Ho-Chunk
- Hoa
- Houma
- Hoh
- Hohokam
- Hoklo
- Holikachuk
- Hopi - Native American, of the southwest United States
- Hui Chinese
- Hungarians - people in Hungary, central Europe
- Hualapai - Natives of Mesoamerica
- Hupa
- Huastec
- Huron - Eastern United States Native American
- Hutu - Rwanda
- Hyksos -
I
- Icelandic - North Atlantic island
- Illinois
- Incan - Of western South America, along the Andes and particularly Peru
- Ingushes - Ingushetia, northern Caucasus
- Ingalik - see Deg Hit'an
- Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada
- Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
- Iowa
- Irish - Island west of Britain, Celtic
- Irish Traveller - nomadic people of Irish origin living in Ireland, Great Britian, 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-Romanian - Istria
- Italian - from the Apennine peninsula in the south of Europe
- Italian-American - Americans of Italian descent
J
- Jamaican - mixture of African slaves, Central American natives and English settlers, Caribbean
- Jacaltec - Maya people in Guatemala
- Japanese people, ethnic Japanese - from the islands off the east coast of Asia
- Javanese - especially middle to eastern part of Java, Indonesia
- Jat
- Jemez
- Jewish - widespread religion and nation, also concentrated in Israel
- Jing
- Jingpo
- Jino
- Jivaroan
- Jola
- Jopadhola
- Jri
K
- Kalispel
- Karaja
- Karamanlides
- Karelians - Finnic people in Finland and Karelia, northeastern Europe
- Karen - southeast Asia
- Karok
- Kashubians - a Slavic people of northern Europe
- Katang
- Kato
- Katu
- Katuquina
- Kavango
- Kaw
- Kaxinawa
- Kazakh - Turkic/Mongol people of central Asia
- Keresan
- Khakas
- Khang
- Khazars
- Khmer - southeast Asia, Cambodia
- Khmu
- Kho Mu
- Khomani or N/u
- Khoikhoi - Southern Africa
- Kickapoo
- Kinh or Jing or Vietnamese
- Kiowa - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States
- Kirghiz - Turkic people of central Asia
- Klallam
- Klamath - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
- Klikitat
- Kolchan
- Kootenai
- Korean - from a peninsula in Asia, south of Manchuria (China) and across the sea from Japan
- Koskimo
- Koyukon - Natives of Alaska
- Kpelle - Group from Guinea, western Africa
- Kraho - Natives of northwestern Brazil
- Kri - Group from Sierra Leone, western Africa
- Kui
- Kumeyaay
- Kumyks - Turkic people of northern Caucacus
- Kurd - large minority in Turkey, Iraq, Iran
- Kutenai
- Kwakiutl - of the Washington/British Columbia area
L
- La Chi
- La Ha
- La Hu
- Laguna
- Lahu
- Laks - Caucacus
- Lakota - Native Americans of the Great Plains of the United States and Canada
- Lamet
- Lao Sung - China, Vietnam, Laos
- Lao Theung - Laos
- Lao - southeast Asia
- Latino - Mixed native South or Central American, Spanish or Portuguese and African
- Latvians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
- lavae
- Laven
- Lavi
- Lebou
- Lenca
- Lezgis - Dagestani
- Lhoba
- Li Chinese
- Limbus
- Lipovans - Danube Delta, Romania
- Lisu
- Lithuanians - Baltic people of northeastern Europe
- Livonians - Finnic people in Latvia, northeastern Europe
- Lobi
- Lo Lo
- Lotuko
- Low Saxon - Northern Germany
- Lu
- Lue
- Luiseno
- Lumbee
- Lummi
M
- M'Baka
- Ma
- Macedonian Slavs - Slavic people of southeastern Europe
- Macuxi
- Madurese
- Magar
- Mahican - Native Americans from New England
- Maidu
- Maingtha - see Achang
- Maka-Njem - people of southern Cameroon
- Makah
- Makua
- Makong
- Malabo
- Malay - dominant ethnic group in south-east Asia specifically Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines.
- Maliseet
- Maltese - syncretist group in the Mediterranean
- Mam - a Maya people of Guatemala
- Manchu - Manchuria, now part of China, north of Korea
- Mandan
- Mang
- Manx - Celts of the Isle of Man
- Maonan
- Mapuche
- Maricopa
- Marquesas - Polynesian island chain in the Eastern Pacific
- Maori - indigenous people of New Zealand
- Mashantucket Pequots - Native Americans of New England
- Mattaponi
- Matabele - Southern Africa
- Maubere
- Maya - natives of south-east Mexico and northern Central America, widespread
- Me-Wuk
- Megleno-Romanians - in Greece
- Meherrin
- Melungeon
- Memon - India and Pakistan
- Menba
- Menominee - Eastern United States Native American
- Métis
- Miami
- Miao
- Miccosukee - Eastern United States Native American
- Mi'kmaq - Eastern United States and Atlantic Canada Native American
- Mina
- Minahasa - Indonesia
- Minangkabau - West Sumatra, Indonesia
- Mingo
- Mission
- Miwok
- Mixtec - Central American natives
- Mnong
- Modoc
- Mohave - Native Americans of the southwest United States
- Mohawk - Eastern United States Native American
- Mohegan
- Moldovan - Romanians people of Moldova, eastern Europe
- Mon - southeast Asia, particularly Thailand
- Monacan - Native American ethnic group, not to be confused with a person from Monaco
- Mongol - Central Asia, between Russia and China
- Mono
- Montaukett
- Montenegrin - Slavicized descendants of the Dinaric peoples of southeastern Europe
- Moor - Descendants of Arab invaders of the Hispanic Peninsula
- Moriori - indigenous ethnic-group of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
- Muckleshoot
- Mulam
- Mundas
- Muong
- Mursi
- Museu
- Myene
N
- Nahanni
- Nama
- 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
- Nepalese - south Asia, between India and China
- Nespelim
- Netizen – The indigenous people of the Internet
- Neapolitans - Specifically people from the Campania region of Italy but generally any southern Italian
- Newar
- Nez Perce - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains area
- Ngac'ang - See Achang
- Ngae
- Nhahuen
- Nhuon
- Ni-Vanuatu - of Vanuatu, an island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Niominka
- Nipmuc
- Nishka
- Nisqually
- Niuean - Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean
- Nogais - Tatars of Dagestan
- Nomlaki
- Nooksack - Native Americans of Washington
- Nu
- N/u or Khomani
- Nung
- Nuu-chah-nulth - Native Americans of the pacific northwest of North America.
O
- O Du
- Occitans
- Oglala - Native Americans of the central United States
- Ojibwa
- Okamba
- Okande
- Olmec
- Omaha
- Oneida
- Onondangua
- Oromo - Ethiopia
- Oroqin
- Osage Nation of Oklahoma (formerly also of Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas)
- Otoe-Missouria
- Ottawa
- Ovambo
P
- Pa Then
- Paiute
- Pakeha - New Zealand born Europeans or European New Zealanders with no or little defined European links, typically of British, Irish and Dutch extraction
- Pakoh
- Palestinian - much-disputed ethnic group of the Middle East
- Pamunkey
- Panoan
- Pashtun - large group in Afghanistan
- Passamaquoddy
- Patagonian - southern tip of South America, Argentina
- Pataxo
- Paugusset
- Pawnee - Eastern United States Native American
- Pennsylvania Dutch - Pennsylvania Dutch speaking people of many religious affiliations in the United States, originally from Germany, Switzerland and Alsace
- Penobscot - Eastern United States Native American
- Peoria
- Persians - Persian speaking people in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan
- Phong
- Phu La
- Phu Noi
- Phu Thai
- Piegan
- Pima
- Pit River Indians
- Pitcairn-Norfolk
- Polish - Slavic people of Central Europe
- Pomaks - in Greece
- Pomo
- Ponca
- Poospatuck
- Portuguese - extreme southwest of Europe
- Potawatomi - Eastern United States Native American
- Potiguara
- Powhatan - Eastern United States Native American
- Pu Peo
- Pueblo people - Native Americans of the Rocky Mountains-area
- Puelche
- Puget Sound Salish - of Washington
- Punjabi
- Pumi
- Puyallup
Q
R
- Ra Glai
- Rais
- Ramapough Mountain Indians
- Rappahannock - of the mid-Atlantic region of the United States
- Rashaida - minority group in Sudan, closely related to the Bedouin
- Ro Mam
- Rohingya - muslim minority group in North western Myanmar
- Roma - one of the two groups more commonly known as Gypsies
- Romanian - Eastern European
- Russian - Slavic people of eastern Europe, originally of Moscow area, now widespread through Siberia and the Urals to the Pacific Ocean
- Rusyns (Ruthenes)
- Rutuls - Dagestani
- Ryukyuans - the native inhabitants of the Ryukyus, a chain of islands starting about 200km 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
- S'Klallam
- Sami - indigenous people of northern Scandinavia and Siberia
- Samoan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Sadang
- Saek
- Salar
- Salish - of Washington and British Columbia
- Samaritan
- Samtao
- San
- San Chay
- San Diu
- Sardinians - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
- Sauk
- Sauk-Suiattle
- Scandinavian
- Scottish - British people dwelling in the north of Great Britain, Celtic
- Scotch-Irish - descendants of Ulster-Scots who migrated to North America
- Sekani
- Seminole - natives of Florida
- Semitic
- Sena
- Seneca - Native Americans of the New York area
- Serbs - Slavic people of southeastern Europe (Balkans)
- Serer
- Serer-Ndut
- Shangaan
- Shankella - Ethiopia
- Shasta tribe
- Shawnee
- She
- Sherpa - group in Nepal and the Himalaya
- Shinnecock
- Shoalwater Bay Tribe
- Shoshone
- Shui
- Si La
- Sicilian - inhabitants of an island in the Mediterranean
- Sidamo - Ethiopia
- Siksika
- Siletz
- Singmun
- Sinhalese - group widespread in southern India and Sri Lanka
- Sinti - one of the two main groups of Gypsies
- Sioux - Northern Central United States
- Siuslaw
- Slavic
- Slovak - Slavic people of central Europe
- Slovene - Slavic people of central Europe
- Slovincian - in Pomerania
- Skokomish
- Somali - eastern Africa
- Somba
- Sorbic - concentrated Slavic minority in Germany
- Soso- Guinea,Conakry
- Souei
- South Side Irish - Irish-Americans on the South Side of Chicago
- Spanish - southwestern Europe
- Spokane
- Squaxin Island Tribe
- Stillaguamish
- Sundanese - western part of Java, Indonesia
- Suquamish
- Swazi - southern Africa, Swaziland
- Swinomish
T
- Ta Oi
- Tabasarans - Dagestani
- Tache
- Tachi
- Tagish
- Tahitian - Pacific Ocean island, Polynesia
- Taíno - natives of the Caribbean
- Tajik - specific ethnic group of central Asia
- Taliang
- Tamil - of India and Sri Lanka
- Tanaina
- Tanana
- Taos
- Tapuia
- Tarascan
- Tatars - Turkic people
- Tats - Dagestani
- Tay
- Tehuelche
- 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
- Tigre - Ethiopia
- Tigua
- Tlakluit
- Tlingit - Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest
- Tohono O'odham
- Tokelauan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Tolowa
- Toltec - Central America
- Tonkawa
- Tongan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Tongva
- Topachula
- Totonac
- Tsakhurs - Dagestani
- Tsetsaut
- Tsimishian - Pacific Northwest Native Americans
- Tsonga - Southern Africa
- Tsuu T'ina
- Tswana - Southern Africa (see also Batswana)
- Tualalip
- Tuareg
- Tujia
- Tukanoan
- Tukolor
- Tulutni
- Tum
- Tumbuka
- Tungus
- Tunica-Biloxi
- Tupian
- Turkish - Turkic people of the Middle East, Turkey
- Turkmen - Turkic people of Central Asia
- Tutchone
- Tutsi - of Rwanda and southern Africa
- Tuvan - Central Asian group in Russia
- Tuvaluan - Polynesian island chain in the Pacific Ocean
- Twa
- Tzigane
U
- Ubykh - minority Northwest Caucasian people of Manyas, Turkey
- Uighur - large Muslim minority in China
- 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
- Uzbek - Turkic people of central Asia, Uzbekistan
V
- Venda - South Africa
- Vietnamese or Kinh or Jing or archaically Annamites- a people of South Mongolian origin living in Vietnam as the dominant majority.
W
- Wa
- Waccamaw
- Wailaki
- Welsh - British people of the west of Great Britain
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wasco
- Washoe
- White Mountain Apache
- Wichita
- Wintun
- Wiyot
- Wolof - Senegal and elsewhere in western Africa
- Wyandot
X
Y
- Yae
- Yakama
- Yakima
- Yakut - in eastern Russia
- Yang
- Yanomami - the Amazon River basin, Brazil
- Yao
- Yavapai: Yavapai-Apache Nation, Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
- Yawanawa
- Yezidi
- Yi
- Yocha-Dehe
- Yokut
- Yoruba - western Africa
- Yugur
- Yuki - Native Americans of northwestern California
- Yupik
- Yuma
- Yumbri
- Yurok
Z
- Zaghawa of Northeast Africa.
- Zapotec - Central America
- Zhonghua minzu - Chinese pseudo-ethnic group.
- Zhuang
- Zulu - of southern Africa
- Zuni - of the southwestern United States
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- List of people by nationality
- Native American
- List of active autonomist and secessionist movements
- List of Chinese ethnic groups, Ethnic groups in Chinese history
- Indigenous people of Brazil
- 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