This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region.
Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries.
Hunter-gatherers
Nomadic hunting and gathering, following seasonally available wild plants and game, is the oldest human method of subsistence.
Africa
Hadza people
Berbers
Pygmies
Twa people
Mbuti
San people
Americas
Abenaki
Aché
Alaskan Athabaskans
Aleut
Alutiiq
Apache
Beothuk
Blackfoot
Cheyenne
Chichimeca
Chiquillanes
Chitimacha
Chumash
Chono
Clovis culture
Cody complex
Comanches
Crow
Dalton tradition
Dene
Dorset culture
Eyak
Folsom culture
Greenlandic Inuit
Guarani
Haida
Hell Gap complex
Indigenous peoples of California
Ingalik
Innu
Inuit
Iñupiat
Karankawa
Kawésqar
Koyukon
Lakota
Makah
Maritime Archaic
Menominee
Navajo (until the sixteenth century with the introduction of sheep, and the adoption of agriculture from the Puebloans) Nez Perce Norton tradition Nukak-Makú Ojibwe Oshara tradition Oxbow complex Paiute Paleo-Arctic tradition Pirahã Plains Indians Plano culture Puelche Red Ocher people Red Paint People Sioux (from around the 17th century onwards, they were previously a farming people who lived in the Ohio River Valley) Tehuelche Thule people Tlingit Utes Yaghan Yahi Yanomami Yupik
Asia
Adivasi
Aeta
Ainu
Altai
Andamanese
Great Andamanese
Jarawa
Lodha
Onge
Sabar
Sentinelese
Shompen
Ati
Mongolian
Batek
Chukchi
Denisova hominine
Dolgans
Kazakh { before USSR}
Ket
Meenas
Nganasan
Nicobarese
Papuans
Penan
Raute
Sakai
Selkup
Semang
Siberian Yupik
Yakuts
Homo erectus (Paleolithic era)
Oceania
Most Indigenous Australians prior to Western contact
Spinifex People
Tasmanian Aborigines
Tiwi
Most Papuans prior to Western contact
Europe
Cro-Magnon
Aurignacian
Gravettian
Magdalenian
Hamburg
Solutrean
Neanderthals (during the Paleolithic) Sami (formerly, up until the fifteenth century)
Pastoralists
Pastoralists raise herds, driving them or moving with them, in patterns that normally avoid depleting pastures beyond their ability to recover. The pastoralists are sedentary, remaining within a local area, but moving between permanent spring, summer, autumn and winter (or dry and wet season) pastures for their livestock.
Africa
Ababdeh
Afars
Beja
Berbers
Borana Oromo
Dinka
Fulanis
Gabra
Karamojong
Maasai (originally, now settled or semi-nomadic) Mrazig of Tunisia Nuer Pokot Rendille Sahrawis Samburu Somalis Tuaregs Toubou Trekboers Turkana