- Freight Train Riders of America (freighthoppers in United States)
- Romani people
- Various indigenous peoples (indigenous peoples, including uncontacted peoples)
- Afar people in Horn of Africa
- Bajau people of Philippines
- Banjara of India
- Bedouin (nomadic Arab people of the desert)
- Beja people in North Africa
- Bushmen of Southern Africa
- Dom people in North Africa and Western Asia
- Eurasian nomads of Eurasian Steppe
- Ghilzai in South-Central Asia
- Indigenous Australians
- Indigenous Norwegian Travellers
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Irish Travellers
- Kuchi people of Afghanistan
- Nomads of India
- Pygmy peoples in Equatorial Africa and parts of Southeast Asia
- Quinqui in northeren half of Spain)
- Scottish Travellers
- Yeniche people in Europe
- Carnies (travelling show-people)
- Hippies, including New Age travellers and Rainbow Travellers
- Jossers (circus artists)
- Kobzari (musicians of Ukraine)
- Lightermen (bargees in England)
- Peredvizhniki (realist artists of Russia)
- Swagmen (homeless transients in Australia and New Zealand)
- Circuit riders and Gyrovagues (Christian ministers and monks)
- Bhikkhus (Buddhist monks)
- Mendicants (beggars of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism and Buddhism)
- Pilgrims (religious travellers)
- Sadhus (Jain monks)
