The following is a list of lists of ethnic groups:
By region
By linguistic phylum
- Further information: List of language families
By country
By status
By alphabet
A
- Abazinz - minority in Abkhazia, Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygeya of Russia
- Abenaki - Native Americans of Quebec, Vermont, New Hampshire, and possibly Maine and Nova Scotia (Algonquin people)
- Abipones - An ethnic minority in Argentina
- 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
- Acelmese - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Acholi
- Achomawi - Native Americans of California
- Acoma - Native Americans of the southwest United States and Mexico
- Adi - ethnic minority in Africa
- Adyghe - Minority in Russia, in the north Caucasus region and Turkey.
- Adyhaffe
- Afar - in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Also known as Danakil
- Afghan - Afghan and Pashtoon are the same nation. Inhabitants of Afghanistan and western Pakistan.
- African-American - citizens of the United States of West 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
- Agta - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- 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
- Aynu of China - different from the Ainu of Japan and Russia.
- Aja - Minority group in Benin
- Ajaria
- Aka
- Akie - ethnic minority in Africa
- 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 - an ethnic minority in Thailand
- Akuapem - People living in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana
- Akhvakhs
- 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, Kosovo, southern Serbia, western Macedonia 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
- Aliutors
- Altaic peoples - Non-homogeneous peoples of the Altay Mountains region
- Amahuaca - An ethnic minority in Bolivia
- 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 - 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.
- Andis
- Andorrans - Catalan sub-group native to Andorra
- Anga - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- 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
- Araon - an ethnic minority in China
- Aramean-Syriac people
- Aragonese - Inhabitants of Aragon (Iberian Peninsula). One of the nationalities of Spain. Ethnic Aragonese live primarily in Upper Aragon.
- Arapaho - Native American people, formerly inhabiting Colorado and Wyoming, now living in Oklahoma and Wyoming
- Arawak - natives of the Caribbean
- Archis
- 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 population group of Greece, Serbia, the Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Bulgaria
- Arubans - population of Aruba, a Dutch island in the Caribbean
- Arvanites - a population group in Greece
- Atoni - an ethnic minority in Timor-Leste
- 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 - 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.
- Atta - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Ati - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- 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
- Ayta - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Azerbaijanis (Azeris) - an ethnic group in Azerbaijan, northern Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Turkey.
- Aztecs - Native North American people, descendants widespread in Mexico
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- Babongo - ethnic minority in Gabon
- Badui - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Ba Na - inhabitants of Vietnam
- Baggara or Baqqarah - Sudan
- Baguirmi - inhabitants of Chad
- Bagulals
- 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. They live in Cameroon and its surrounding area. See also Twa, Aka, Mbuti, Binga and Gelli Efé.
- Bakhtiyari - an ethnic minority in Iran
- 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 Burma
- Bambara - group living chiefly in Mali and Guinea
- Bamileke - majority inhabitants of Cameroon
- Banat Swabians - Germans of Romania and Vojvodina, Serbia
- Banawa
- Banda - one of the peoples of the Central African Republic
- Bandjabi - Inhabitants of Gabon
- Banjar - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- 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
- Bartangs
- Basarwa - ethnic minority in Botswana
- Bashkirs - Turkic people
- 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
- Batak - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Batak (Negrito) - an ethnic minority in the Philippines
- Bateke - minority group in the Republic of the Congo
- Bats people
- Batswana - largest ethnic group in Botswana
- Baya-Mandjia
- Beaver - Indian group in the USA
- 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
- Bemba - an ethnic minority group in Zambia
- 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
- Bezhtas
- 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.
- Black Indians - African Americans who have Native American ancestry and/or African Americans who were historically assimilated into Native American tribes
- Bo Y - Vietnamese ethnic group
- Boere-Afrikaners
- Bohemians - people living in the Bohemia region of Czech Republic
- 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. Regional term recently became ethnic.
- Botlikhs
- 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 Ukrainian mountain people in Central Europe
- Bozo - an ethnic minority group in Mali
- Brau
- Bretons - a people indigenous to Brittany in northwest France
- British-Canadian - Anglophone Canadians, largely of British descent.
- Britons - indigenous minority 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
- Budukhs
- Bugis is one of the ethnics 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
- Bunjevci - Slavic people of the Balkans
- Buryats - Mongolic people
- Bushongo - inhabitants of the Congo basin region
- Buyi - national minority of the People's Republic of China
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- Caddo - Native American peoples formerly residing in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, now located in central Oklahoma.
- Cahuilla
- Campa - An ethnic minority in Bolivia
- 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
- Castilian people - inhabitants of tableland and centre-north of Spain
- Caprivian - inhabitants of the Caprivi Strip in northeastern Namibia
- Caribbean - people with Mestizo ancestry with European and 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
- Chaldean - Middle Eastern, mainly in Iraq with large diaspora worldwide
- Cham - a people of Indonesian stock living in Cambodia and central Vietnam
- Chambri - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Chamalals
- 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
- Chickahominy
- 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 Louisiana
- Cho Ro
- Choctaw - Native American people of Mississippi and Alabama, now mostly living in Oklahoma with many still living in Mississippi
- Chukchansi
- Chukchis
- Chulym Tatars
- 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
- Coalhuiltec - Native American people
- 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
- Copper - Native American people
- 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
- 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
- Cypriot Greeks - ethnic Greek population in Cyprus
- Czechs - Slavic people of central Europe, consisting of Bohemians and Moravians
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- Iatmul - an ethnic minority group in Papua
- Iban - an ethnic minority in Indonesia
- Ibanag - A Filipino minority ethnic group.
- Ibibio - West Africa (Nigeria)
- Icelanders - People that descended from Iceland.
- 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
- Ingessana - an ethnic minority group in Ethiopia
- Ingrians
- Ingushes - Ingushetia, northern Caucasus
- Innu - Native Americans of eastern Canada
- Inuit - Widespread in Alaska and northern Canada
- 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
- Ishkashmis
- 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
- Itelmens
- Itsekiri - A Nigerian minority ethnic group, located in Delta State in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, West Africa
- Izhorians
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