Louis Dupree (August 23, 1925 – March 21, 1989) was an American archaeologist, anthropologist, and scholar of Afghan culture and history.
He left Greenville High School around 1943 without graduating to serve in World War II,[1] where he joined the United States Merchant Marine and was stationed in the Philippines.
When World War II ended, he began Asian archeology and ethnology studies at Harvard University.
After receiving his B.A., M.A., and PhD degrees, he planned to re-visit the Philippines for research purposes but was rejected by its government.
[3][4] Dupree died of lung cancer on March 21, 1989, at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, just a month after the last Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan.