Lloyd Fallers

{{Short description|American anthropologist (1925–1974)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Lloyd Fallers

| image = Robert_McCormick_Adams,_Elizabeth_Munk_Oppenheim,_A._Leo_Oppenheim,_and_Lloyd_Fallers.jpg

| caption = Lloyd Fallers (far right) with (from left to right) Robert McCormick Adams, Elizabeth Munk Oppenheim, and A. Leo Oppenheim

| birth_name = Lloyd Ashton Fallers Jr.

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|08|29}}

| birth_place = Nebraska City, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|07|04|1925|08|29}}

| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

| occupation = Professor

|known for=

| spouse = Margaret Fallers{{cite news|last1=Megan|first1=Graydon|title=Margaret Fallers, anthropologist and U. of C. administrator, dies|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/ct-margaret-fallers-obituary-met-20150305-story.html|accessdate=11 July 2015|work=Chicago Tribune|date=March 12, 2015}}

| children = 2{{cite web|work=The New York Times|date= July 5, 1974|access-date=February 10, 2024|title=Lloyd A. Fallers|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/05/archives/lloyd-a-fallers.html|location=Chicago, Illinois}}

| alma_mater = University of Chicago

| website =

| footnotes =

}}

Lloyd Ashton "Tom" Fallers Jr. (August 29, 1925 – July 4, 1974) was an American social and cultural anthropologist who was the A. A. Michelson Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of anthropology and sociology at the University of Chicago.{{cite web|title=Guide to the Lloyd A. Fallers Papers 1937-1977|url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.FALLERS|website=University of Chicago Library|accessdate=11 July 2015}} Fallers' work in social and cultural anthropology focused on social stratification and the development of new states in East Africa (especially Buganda) and Turkey.{{cite journal|last1=Bendix|first1=Reinhard|title=On Fallers|journal=American Journal of Sociology|date=July 1975|volume=81|issue=1|pages=169–73|jstor=2777063|doi=10.1086/226043|s2cid=145447121 }}