France Vinton Scholes (January 26, 1897 – February 11, 1979) was an American scholar and historian noted for his research on the history of New Spain, especially Spanish Yucatan and Southwestern United States.

[1] Much of his research was conducted in the General Archive of the Indies in Seville, Spain, where he was sent in 1935 by the Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C., as part of a larger study on the Yucatan which was led by Alfred Kidder.

In 1940, the study on Yucatan lost financial support from the Carnegie Institute and much of the literature and research was transferred over to the Library of Congress of the United States in the city of Washington.

[1] He served for over sixty years in academia specializing in the field of historical research.

Before he died he wrote about the life of Hernán Cortés, leaving an unfinished book and giving the manuscript to the University of Tulane.