Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1945.

• Mortimer Wheeler excavates at Arikamedu in Puducherry.

• December - Nag Hammadi library in Egypt.

• W. F. Grimes succeeds Mortimer Wheeler as director of the London Museum.

• January 13 - Francis Pryor, English archaeologist
• February 19 - Barbara Adams, English egyptologist (d. 2002)^[1]
• April 16 - Vladas Žulkus, Lithuanian underwater archaeologist
• October 25 - J. P. Mallory, Irish American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist
• James Peter Allen, American Egyptologist

• March 31 - Harriet Boyd Hawes, American archaeologist (b. 1871)^[2]
• May 5 - Edgar James Banks, American antiquarian (b. 1866)
• May 31 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (b. 1865)
• 9 December - Alfred Lucas, English analytical chemist and archaeologist, part of Howard Carter's team at the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb (b. 1867)