Many people are said to be the real-life inspiration of the Indiana Jones character—although none of the following have been confirmed as inspirations by Lucas or Spielberg. There are some suggestions, listed here in alphabetical order by last name:
Beloit College professor and paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews.
Italian archaeologist and circus strongman Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823).
Yale University professor, historian, and explorer Hiram Bingham III, who rediscovered and excavated the lost city of Machu Picchu,and chronicled his find in the bestselling book The Lost City of the Incas in 1948.
University of Chicago archaeologist Robert Braidwood.
University of Chicago archaeologist James Henry Breasted.
The British archaeologist Percy Fawcett, who spent much of his life exploring the jungles of northern Brazil, and who was last seen in 1925 returning to the Amazon Basin to look for the Lost City Of Z. A fictionalized version of Fawcett appears to Jones in the book Indiana Jones And The Seven Veils.
British archaeologist and soldier T. E. Lawrence.
The Northwestern University anthropologist, professor and adventurer William Montgomery McGovern.
Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges.
German archaeologist Otto Rahn.
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