This is a list of notable paleontologists who have made significant contributions to the field of

paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

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Othenio Abel Othenio Lothar Franz Anton Louis Abel (June 20, 1875 – July 4, 1946) was an Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Together with Louis Dollo, he was the founder of "paleobiology" and studied the life and environment of fossilized or ...

(Australia, 1875-1946) * William Abler (United States) *

Karel Absolon Karel Absolon (16 June 1877 – 6 October 1960) was a Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist, and speleologist. He was born in Boskovice. Absolon was the grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel. During his studies at Charles ...

(Czech Republic, 1877-1960) *

Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he rec ...

(Switzerland / United States, 1807-1873) *

Emiliano Aguirre Emiliano Aguirre Enríquez (5 October 1925 – 11 October 2021) was a Spanish paleontologist, known for his works at archaeological site of Atapuerca, whose excavations he directed from 1978 until his retirement in 1990. He received the Princ ...

(Spain, 1925-2021) * Per E. Ahlberg (Sweden) * Gustava Aigner (Austria, 1906-1987) *

Luis Alcalá Luis Alcalá Martínez is a Spanish paleontologist. Biography Dr. Luis Alcalá is a Spanish Paleontologist. He is the director of Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis, in Teruel, Spain. He is one of the discoverers of ''Turi ...

(Spain) *

Truman H. Aldrich Truman Heminway Aldrich (October 17, 1848 – April 28, 1932) was a civil engineer, a mining company executive, and a paleontologist, and briefly served in the United States House of Representatives and as Postmaster of Birmingham. He is the so ...

(United States, 1848-1932) *

Richard Aldridge Richard John Aldridge (16 December 1945 – 4 February 2014) was a British palaeontologist and academic, who was Bennett Professor of Geology at the University of Leicester. Academic career Aldridge's career began at Southampton University befor ...

(England, 1945-2014) *

Annie Montague Alexander Annie Montague Alexander (29 December 1867 - 10 September 1950) was an explorer, naturalist, paleontological collector, and philanthropist. She founded the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoolo ...

(Kingdom of Hawaii / United States, 1867-1950) *

John Alroy John Alroy is a paleobiologist born in New York in 1966 and now residing in Sydney, Australia. Area of expertise Alroy specializes in diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine inver ...

(United States / Australia, 1966- ) *

Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (russian: Владимир Прохорович Амалицкий; 1860–1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a Russian paleontologist and professor at Warsaw University who was involved in the discovery a ...

(Russia, 1860-1917) *

Carlos Ameghino Carlos Ciriaco Ameghino (16 June 1865 – 12 April 1936) was an Argentine paleontologist and explorer who accompanied his brother Florentino Ameghino throughout Argentina searching for fossils. Scientific career Carlos Ameghino was educated ...

(Argentina, 1865-1936) * Florentino Ameghino (Argentina, 1854-1911) * Charles Anderson (Scotland / Australia, 1876-1944) *

Elaine Anderson Elaine Anderson (January 8, 1936 – March 26, 2002) was an American paleontologist. She is best known for her work on vertebrate paleontology. Biography Elaine Anderson was born in Salida, Colorado, on January 8, 1936. She was the only child ...

(United States, 1936-2002) *

Johan Gunnar Andersson Johan Gunnar Andersson (3 July 1874 – 29 October 1960)"Andersson, Johan Gunnar" in ''The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and ge ...

(Sweden, 1874-1960) * Gábor Andreánszky (Hungary, 1895-1967) *

Charles William Andrews Charles William Andrews (30 October 1866 – 25 May 1924) F.R.S., was a British palaeontologist whose career as a vertebrate paleontologist, both as a curator and in the field, was spent in the services of the British Museum, Department of Ge ...

(England, 1866-1924) *

Henry Nathaniel Andrews Henry Nathaniel Andrews, Jr. (born June 15, 1910, Melrose, Massachusetts; d. March 3, 2002 Concord, New Hampshire) was an American paleobotanist recognized as an expert in plants of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods. He was a fellow of t ...

(United States, 1910-2002) *

Mahala Andrews Mahala Andrews (9 February 1939 – 27 October 1997) was a British vertebrae palaeontology, palaeontologist who worked for the National Museum of Scotland. Early years and education Andrews was born Sheila Mahala Andrews on 9 February 1939 in ...

(Scotland, 1939-1997) *

Roy Chapman Andrews Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed ...

(United States, 1884-1960) * Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov (Russia, 1861-1924) *

Alberto Angela Alberto Angela (; born 8 April 1962) is an Italian paleontologist, writer and journalist. Angela is a famous history and science communicator in Italy. Biography Alberto Angela was born in Paris, where his father worked as correspondent for ...

(Italy, 1962- ) * Ernesto Pérez d'Angelo (Chile, 1932-2013) *

Mary Anning Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for the discoveries she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel ...

(England, 1799-1847) *

Miguel Telles Antunes Dr. Miguel Telles Antunes (born 11 January 1937; Lisbon) is a famous Portuguese academic, specializing in paleontology, zooarchaeology, and geology. Antunes is a ranking member of various institutions, including the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, N ...

(Portugal, 1937- ) *

Esther Applin Esther Applin (November 24, 1895 – July 23, 1972) was an American geologist and paleontologist. She completed her undergraduate degree in 1919 from the University of California, Berkeley. Later, she completed a master's degree which was focuse ...

(United States, 1895-1972) *

Camille Arambourg Camille Arambourg ( February 3, 1885– November 19, 1969) was a French vertebrate paleontologist. He conducted extensive field work in North Africa. In the 1950s he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian. Du ...

(France, 1885-1969) * Edward Alexander Newell Arber (England, 1870-1918) *

Adolphe d'Archiac Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac (24 September 180224 December 1868) was a French geologist and paleontologist. Early life He was born at Reims and educated at the Military School of St. Cyr. He served for nine yea ...

(France, 1802-1868) *

William Joscelyn Arkell William Joscelyn Arkell FGS, FRS (9 June 1904 – 18 April 1958) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century. Childhood Arkell was born in Hi ...

(England, 1904-1958) * Chester A. Arnold (United States, 1901-1977) *

Juan Luis Arsuaga Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras (born 1954 in Madrid) is a Spanish paleoanthropologist and author known for his work in the Atapuerca Archaeological Site. He obtained a master's degree and a doctorate in Biological Sciences at the Universidad Comp ...

(Spain, 1954- ) *

Berhane Asfaw Berhane Asfaw (Amharic: በርሃነ አስፋው) (born August 22, 1954 in Gondar, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian paleontologist of Rift Valley Research Service, who co-discovered human skeletal remains at Herto Bouri, Ethiopia later classified as ...

(Ethiopia) * Hermann Martin Asmuss (Estonia, 1812-1859) * Sava Athanasiu (Romania, 1861-1946) *

Walter Auffenberg Walter Auffenberg ( – ) was an American biologist who spent almost 40 years in field research, studying reptile and amphibian paleontology and the systematics and biology of numerous reptile species, including alligators and Komodo dragons. Ea ...

(United States, 1928-2004) *

Stanley Awramik Stanley Awramik (born 1946) is an American biogeologist and paleontologist. He is best known for his work related to the Precambrian. In 2013, he was inducted as a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Career Born in New England, he first ...

(United States, 1946- )

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Catherine E. Badgley Catherine E. Badgley (born November 15, 1950) is an American paleontologist and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The focus of Badgley's research is the evolution and fossi ...

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William Hellier Baily William Hellier Baily (7 July 18196 August 1888) was an England, English paleontology, palaeontologist. His uncle was Edward Hodges Baily, E.H. Baily, a sculpture, sculptor. William Hellier Baily was born at Bristol on 7 July 1819. From 1837 t ...

(England, 1819-1888) *

Andrew Geddes Bain Andrew Geddes Bain (baptised 11 June 1797 – 20 October 1864), was a South African geologist, road engineer, palaeontologist and explorer. Life history The only child of Alexander Bain and Jean Geddes, both of whom died when Bain was still a ...

(South Africa, 1797-1864) * Robert T. Bakker (United States, 1945- ) *

Jean-Christophe Balouet Jean-Christophe Balouet (12 November 1956 − 31 March 2021) was a French palaeontologist. He has collaborated extensively with Storrs Olson of the Smithsonian Institution on palaeornithological research on the extinct birds of New Caledonia in t ...

(France, 1956-2021) * Harlan Parker Banks (United States, 1913-1998) * Mário Costa Barberena (Brazil, 1934-2013) *

Erwin Hinckly Barbour Erwin Hinckley Barbour (April 5, 1856 – May 10, 1947) was an American geologist and paleontologist. He was born near Oxford, Ohio, and was educated at Miami University and at Yale, where he graduated in 1882. He was assistant paleontologist ...

(United States, 1856-1947) *

Joachim Barrande Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799 – 5 October 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Career Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique and École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées at Paris. A ...

(France, 1799-1883) *

Charles Barrois Charles Eugene Barrois (21 August 18515 November 1939) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Life Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the Jesuit College of St Joseph in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Goss ...

(France, 1851-1939) *

Rinchen Barsbold , Rinchyengiin Barsbold, born December 21, 1935 in Ulaanbaatar) is a Mongolian paleontologist and geologist. He works with the Institute of Geology, at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He is an expert in vertebrate paleontology and Mesozoic stratigraphy. Bar ...

(Mongolia, 1935- ) * Ray S. Bassler (United States, 1878-1961) *

Dorothea Bate Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to underst ...

(England, 1878-1951) * Francis Arthur Bather (England, 1863-1934) *

Georg Baur Georg Baur (1859–1898) was a German vertebrate paleontologist and Neo-Lamarckian who studied reptiles of the Galapagos Islands, particularly the Galápagos tortoises, in the 1890s. He is perhaps best known for his subsidence theory of the or ...

(United States, 1859-1898) * George Bax Holmes (England, 1803-1887) * Allan Bé (United States, died 1983) *

William Bean William Bean (December 9, 1721-May 1782) was an American pioneer, longhunter, and Commissioner of the Watauga Association. He is accepted by historians as the first permanent European American settler of Tennessee. Biography William Bean was b ...

(England, 1787-1866) * K. Christopher Beard (United States) * William Beard (England, 1772-1868) *

Samuel Beckles Samuel Husbands Beckles (12 April 1814, in Barbados – 4 September 1890, in Hastings) was a Bajan/English 19th-century lawyer, turned dinosaur hunter, who collected remains in Sussex and the Isle of Wight. In 1854 he described bird-like trackw ...

(England, 1814-1890) *

Charles Emerson Beecher Charles Emerson Beecher (October 9, 1856 – February 14, 1904) was an American paleontologist most famous for the thorough excavation, preparation and study of trilobite ventral anatomy from specimens collected at Beecher's Trilobite Bed. ...

(United States, 1856-1904) * Hermann Behmel (Germany, 1939- ) * Kay Behrensmeyer (United States) * Walter A. Bell (Canada, 1889-1969) * Romeu Beltrão (Brazil, 1913-1977) * Etheldred Benett (England, 1776-1845) *

Michael Benton Michael James Benton One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences ...

(Scotland, 1956- ) *

Georg Karl Berendt Georg Karl (or Carl) Berendt (13 July 1790 – 4 January 1850) was a German physician and paleontologist who was a native of Danzig. He studied medicine and botany at the University of Königsberg, and from 1814 practiced medicine in Danzig. He is ...

(Germany, 1790-1850) * Wolfgang H. Berger (Germany / United States, 1937-2017) *

Annalisa Berta Annalisa Berta (born 23 July 1952) is an American paleontologist and professor emerita in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University. The focus of her research is the evolution and fossil history of whales and other marine mammals, ...

(United States) * Charles Eugène Bertrand (France, 1851-1917) *

Paul Bertrand Paul Charles Édouard Bertrand (10 July 1879, Loos-lez-Lille – 24 February 1944, Paris) was a French paleobotanist. He was the son of botanist Charles Eugène Bertrand (1851–1917). He studied at the University of Lille, receiving his de ...

(France, 1879-1944) *

Heinrich Ernst Beyrich Heinrich Ernst Beyrich (31 August 1815 – 9 July 1896) was a German palaeontologist. Life Born in Berlin, he was educated at the university in that city, and afterwards at Bonn, where he studied under Georg August Goldfuss and Johann Jakob N ...

(Germany, 1815-1896) * Gertruda Biernat (Poland, 1923-2016) * Peter von Bitter (Canada) *

Alexander Bittner Alexander Bittner (16 March 1850, in Friedland – 31 March 1902, in Vienna) was an Austrian paleontologist and geologist. Following graduation from the University of Vienna in 1873, he remained in Vienna as an assistant to Eduard Suess. In 1874 ...

(Austria, 1850-1902) *

Hans C. Bjerring Hans Christian Bjerring (born May 30, 1931) is a Danish- Swedish vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist. He has spent his career at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, Sweden, as curator at the Department of Palaeozool ...

(Sweden, 1931- ) *

Philip R. Bjork Philip Reese Bjork is an American geologist and paleontology, paleontologist known for his work in unearthing dinosaur species in United States, America. Career Bjork received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. Bjork's Master ...

(United States) * Richard S. Boardman (United States, 1923-2011) *

Birger Bohlin Dr. Anders Birger Bohlin (26 March 1898 – 28 November 1990) was a Swedish palaeontologist. As well as his work on dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals, Bohlin was part of the group that established the existence of Peking Man ''(Sinanthropus ...

(Sweden, 1898-1990) *

Johannes Böhm Johannes Böhm (1857–1938) was a German geologist and palaeontologist. He was a researcher in the Prussian Geological Institute in Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 milli ...

(Germany, 1857-1938) *

José Bonaparte José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 – 18 February 2020) was an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists . One of the best-known Argentine paleo ...

(Argentina, 1928-2020) *

Matthew Bonnan Matthew Bonnan is an American paleobiologist, a Professor of Biological Sciences at Stockton University, and as of 2021 a singer/songwriter. His research combines traditional descriptive and anatomical study with computer-aided morphometric an ...

(United States) *

Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra (1905 – 1975) was a South African palaeontologist whose work focused on the therapsida, mammal-like reptiles of the Middle ( Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, ''Tapinocephalus'' Assemblage Zone) and Late Permian, whose fossil ...

(South Africa, 1905-1975) *

Pramatha Nath Bose Pramatha Nath Bose (12 May 1855 – 1934) was a pioneering Indian geologist and paleontologist. Bose was educated at Krishnagar Government College and later at St. Xavier's College of the University of Calcutta when he obtained a Gilchrist sc ...

(India, 1855-1934) *

Marcellin Boule Pierre-Marcellin Boule (1 January 1861 – 4 July 1942), better known as merely Marcellin Boule, was a French palaeontologist, geologist, and anthropologist. Early life and education Pierre-Marcellin Boule was born in Montsalvy, France. Care ...

(France, 1861-1942) * Michael Boulter (England, 1942- ) * James Scott Bowerbank (England, 1797-1877) *

Henry Bowman Brady Henry Bowman Brady (23 February 1835 Gateshead, England – 10 January 1891 Bournemouth) was a British micropalaeontologist. Life He was the second son of Henry Brady, Surgeon of Gateshead, and his wife Hannah Bowman of Derbyshire. Henry an ...

(England, 1835-1891) *

Charles Kimberlin Brain Charles Kimberlin Brain, also known as C. K. "Bob" Brain (born 7 May 1931, in Southern Rhodesia, now modern Harare, Zimbabwe), is a South African paleontologist who has studied and taught African cave taphonomy for more than fifty years. Biogr ...

(South Africa) *

Wilhelm von Branca Carl Wilhelm Franz von Branca Until 1895: Wilhelm Branco; 1895-1907: Wilhelm von Branco (9 September 1844 – 12 March 1928) was a German geologist and paleontologist. Biography Von Branca was born in Potsdam. After having been an officer, ...

(Germany, 1844-1928) * Leonard R. Brand (United States, 1941- ) *

Martin Brasier Martin David Brasier FGS, FLS (12 April 1947 – 16 December 2014) was an English palaeobiologist and astrobiologist known for his conceptual analysis of microfossils and evolution in the Precambrian and Cambrian. He was Professor of Palae ...

(England, 1947-2014) *

Auguste Bravard (Pierre Joseph) Auguste Bravard (18 June 1803 – 28 March 1861) was a French mining engineer turned palaeontologist. He hunted fossils in the Vaucluse, Allier and his native Puy de Dôme. Biography Bravard emigrated to Argentina in the winter of ...

(France, 1803-1861) * William J. Breed (United States, 1928-2013) * Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski (Bulgaria, 1934-2004) * Derek Briggs (Ireland / United States, 1950- ) * Mitja Brodar (Slovenia, 1921-2012) * Srečko Brodar (Slovenia, 1893-1987) *

Pierce Brodkorb William Pierce Brodkorb (September 29, 1908, Chicago – July 18, 1992, Gainesville, Florida) was an American ornithologist and paleontologist. Interested in birds since childhood, he was taught to prepare birds at the age of 16. Later, he rec ...

(United States, 1908-1992) *

Magnus Bromelius Magnus Bromelius, ennobled Von Bromell, born in Stockholm in 1679, died in 1731, was a Swedish physician and paleontologist. He was the son of the physician and botanist Olof Bromelius and Agnes Svinhufvud af Qvalstad. Bromelius became a doctor o ...

(Sweden, 1679-1731) *

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart () FRS FRSE FGS (14 January 1801 – 18 February 1876) was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneeri ...

(France, 1801-1876) *

Heinrich Georg Bronn Heinrich Georg Bronn (3 March 1800 – 5 July 1862) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first to translate Charles Darwin's ''On the Origin of Species'' into German in 1860, although not without introducing his own interpretation ...

(Germany, 1800-1862) *

Robert Broom Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 6 April 1951) was a British- South African doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow. From 1903 to 1910, he ...

(Scotland / South Africa, 1866-1951) *

Barnum Brown Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. Named after the circus showman P. T. Barnum, he discovered the first documented remains of '' Tyrannosaurus'' during a career ...

(United States, 1873-1963) *

Michel Brunet Michel Brunet may refer to: * Michel Brunet (historian) (1917–1985), Canadian historian * Michel Brunet (paleontologist) Michel Brunet (born April 6, 1940) is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France. In 2001 Brunet anno ...

(France, 1940- ) * Stephen L. Brusatte (United States, 1984-) *

Christian Leopold von Buch Christian Leopold von Buch (26 April 1774 – 4 March 1853), usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder (now a part of Angermünde, Brandenburg) and is remembered as one of the most im ...

(Germany, 1774-1853) * Walter Hermann Bucher (Germany / United States, 1888-1965) * Mary Buckland (England, 1797-1857) *

William Buckland William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster. He was also a geologist and palaeontologist. Buckland wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named ' ...

(England, 1784-1856) *

Sydney Savory Buckman Sydney Savory Buckman (3 April 1860, in Cirencester – 26 February 1929) was a British palaeontologist and stratigrapher. He is known for his studies of extinct marine invertebrates, especially the Brachiopoda and Ammonoidea of the Jurassic e ...

(England, 1860-1929) *

Graham Budd Graham Edward Budd is a British palaeontologist. He is Professor and head of palaeobiology at Uppsala University. Budd's research focuses on the Cambrian explosion and on the evolution and development, anatomy, and patterns of diversification ...

(England, 1968- ) *

Oliver Bulman Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman (20 May 1902 – 18 February 1974) was a British palaeontologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge. Early life Oliver Bulman was born in Chelsea to artist Henry Herbert Bulma ...

(England, 1902-1974) * Emanuel Bunzel (Austria, 1828-1895) *

George Busk George Busk FRS FRAI (12 August 1807 – 10 August 1886) was a British naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist. Early life, family and education Busk was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the son of the merchant Robert Busk and his ...

(England, 1807-1886) * Charles Butts (United States, 1863-1946) *

Alexey Bystrow Alexey Petrovich Bystrow, sometimes spelled Alexey Petrovich Bystrov and Aleksei Petrovich Bystrow, (russian: Алексе́й Петро́вич Быстро́в; February 1, 1899 – August 29, 1959) was a Soviet paleontologist, anatomist, ...

(Russia / Soviet Union, 1899-1959)

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* Susan Cachel (United States) * André Cailleux (France, 1907-1986) * Jaci Antonio Louzada Tupi Caldas (Brazil, 1898-1946) * Mary Gordon Calder (Scotland, 1906-1992) *

Jorge O. Calvo Jorge Orlando Calvo (27 April 1961 – 10 January 2023) was an Argentine geologist and paleontologist working for "Centro de Investigaciones Paleontológicas Lago Barreales" (National University of Comahue). Dr. Jorge Orlando Calvo was born in C ...

(Argentina, 1961- ) *

Adriaan Gilles Camper Adriaan Gilles Camper (March 31, 1759 – February 5, 1820) was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years. He was the son of Petrus Camper i ...

(Netherlands, 1759-1820) * Gustave Campiche (Switzerland, 1809-1871) *

Ferdinand Canu Ferdinand Canu (1863–1932) was a French paleontologist and author. In 1923 he was awarded Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for meritorious work in zoology or paleonto ...

(France, 1863-1932) *

Giovanni Capellini Giovanni Capellini (23 August 1833 – 28 May 1922) was an Italian geologist and paleontologist. He was a Senator of the Kingdom of Italy in the seventeenth legislature. Birth and education Giovanni Capellini was born on 23 August 1833 in L ...

(Italy, 1833-1922) *

Eudald Carbonell Eudald Carbonell i Roura (born 17 February 1953, Ribes de Freser, Girona) is a Catalan archaeologist, anthropologist and paleontologist. Educated in Girona, Barcelona and Paris, he holds a PhD in geology of the Quaternary from Pierre and Marie C ...

(Spain, 1953- ) *

Daniel Cargnin (paleontologist) Daniel Cargnin (1930–2002) was a Brazilian priest and amateur paleontologist born in Nova Palma, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1930. He died in 2002, and at his request was buried in the town of Mata. An autodidact and amate ...

(Brazil, 1930-2002) *

Kenneth Carpenter Kenneth Carpenter (born September 21, 1949, in Tokyo, Japan) is a paleontologist. He is the former director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life. His main research interests ...

(Japan, 1949- ) * Robert L. Carroll (United States, 1938-2020) *

Rodolfo Casamiquela Rodolfo Magín Casamiquela (December 11, 1932 in Ingeniero Jacobacci, Río Negro Province – December 5, 2008 in Cipolletti, Río Negro) was an Argentinian paleontologist, archeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of ...

(Argentina, 1932-2008) * Ermine Cowles Case (United States, 1871-1953) * Meemann Chang (China, 1936- ) * Frederick Chapman (England / Australia, 1864-1943) * Wilfrid Chapman (England, 1891-1955) *

Alan Charig Alan Jack Charig (1 July 1927 – 15 July 1997) was an English palaeontologist and writer who popularised his subject on television and in books at the start of the wave of interest in dinosaurs in the 1970s. Charig was, though, first and fo ...

(England, 1927-1997) *

Edward Charlesworth Edward Charlesworth (5 September 1813 – 28 July 1893) was an English geologist and palaeontologist. Edward Charlesworth was the eldest son of the Rev John Charlesworth. He studied medicine but abandoned a career in this discipline in 1836 to wo ...

(England, 1813-1893) *

Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee (born May 28, 1943) is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University. He earned his Ph. D. from the University o ...

(United States) *

James Chatters James C. Chatters (born March 20, 1949) is an American archaeologist and paleontologist. , he is the owner of forensics consulting firm, Applied Paleoscience; and serves as a Research Associate in the Office of Graduate Studies, Research, and Co ...

(United States, 1949- ) * Alan Cheetham (United States, 1928- ) *

Feodosy Chernyshov Feodosy Nikolayevich Chernyshov or Feodosii Nikolaevich Chernyshev (russian: Феодо́сий Никола́евич Чернышёв; – ) was a geologist and a paleontologist. He was among the first to produce high resolution geological maps ...

(Russia, 1856-1914) * Luis M. Chiappe (Argentina) *

Karen Chin Karen Chin is an American paleontology, paleontologist and taphonomy, taphonomist who is considered one of the world's leading experts in coprolites. Biography Chin loved studying living things as a child, and enjoyed memorizing the names of spe ...

(United States) * Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan (South Africa) *

Henry Christy Henry Christy (26 July 1810 – 4 May 1865) was an English banker and collector, who left his substantial collections to the British Museum. Early life Christy was born at Kingston upon Thames, the second son of William Miller Christy of Woodbi ...

(England, 1810-1865) *

Jenny Clack Jennifer Alice Clack, (''née'' Agnew; 3 November 1947 – 26 March 2020) was an English palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist. She specialised in the early evolution of tetrapods, specifically studying the "fish to tetrapod" transition: ...

(England, 1947-2020) * T. H. Clark (Canada, 1893-1996) *

John Mason Clarke John Mason Clarke (April 15, 1857 – May 29, 1925) was an American teacher, geologist and paleontologist. __TOC__ Early career Born in Canandaigua, New York, the fifth of six children of Noah Turner Clarke and Laura Mason Merrill, he attended ...

(United States, 1857-1928) *

Preston Cloud Preston Ercelle Cloud, Jr. (September 26, 1912 – January 16, 1991) was an American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist. He served in the United States Navy (in which he was a bantamweight boxing champion), and led ...

(United States, 1912-1991) *

Grigore Cobălcescu Grigore Cobălcescu (September 22, 1831 – May 21, 1892) was a Moldavian, later Romanian geologist and paleontologist who is credited with introducing both fields into his country. Born in Iași, he graduated from the local Engineering and A ...

(Romania, 1831-1892) * Alberto Cobos (Spain) *

Edwin Harris Colbert Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad ''The New York Times'', November 25, 2001. was a distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author. Born in Clarinda, Iowa, h ...

(United States, 1905-2001) * Desmond H. Collins (Canada) * Fabio Colonna (Italy, 1567-1640) * William Conybeare (England, 1787-1857) *

Isabel Clifton Cookson Isabel Clifton Cookson (25 December 1893 – 1 July 1973) was an Australian botanist who specialised in palaeobotany and palynology. Early years and education Cookson was born at Hawthorn, Victoria, Hawthorn, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, an ...

(Australia, 1893-1973) *

Edward Drinker Cope Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interes ...

(United States, 1840-1897) *

Rodolfo Coria Rodolfo Aníbal Coria (born in Neuquén June 1, 1959), is an Argentine paleontologist. He is best known for having directed the field study and co-naming of '' Argentinosaurus'' (possibly the world's largest land animal ever) in 1993, and ''Giga ...

(Argentina, 1959- ) *

Shirley Coryndon Shirley Cameron Coryndon (1926–1976) was a British paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoc ...

(1926-1976) *

Maurice Cossmann Maurice Cossmann, full name Alexandre Édouard Maurice Cossmann (18 September 1850 – 17 May 1924) was a French paleontologist and malacologist. Maurice Cossmann's father was an artist draughtsman and a talented lithographer. His early educatio ...

(France, 1850-1924) *

Joseph Pitty Couthouy Joseph Pitty Couthouy (6 January 1808 – 4 April 1864) was an American naval officer, conchologist, and invertebrate palaeontologist. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he entered the Boston Latin School in 1820. He married Mary Greenwood Wi ...

(United States, 1808-1864) * Carlos de Paula Couto (Brazil, 1910-1982) * Leslie Reginald Cox (England, 1897-1965) * Henry Crampton (United States, 1875-1956) * Carl Hermann Credner (Germany, 1841-1913) * Irene Crespin (Australia, 1896-1980) *

Walter Drawbridge Crick Walter Drawbridge Crick (15 Dec. 1857, Hanslope – 23 Dec. 1903) was an English businessman, amateur geologist and palaeontologist. He published with Charles Darwin. He was the grandfather (by his son Harry) of Francis Crick, the molecular gene ...

(England, 1857-1903) * Margaret Crosfield (England, 1859-1952) * Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha (Brazil, 1930-2011) * Ethel Currie (Scotland, 1899-1901) *

Philip J. Currie Philip John Currie (born March 13, 1949) is a Canadian palaeontologist and museum curator who helped found the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta and is now a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. In the ...

(Canada, 1949- ) *

Kristina Curry Rogers Kristina "Kristi" Curry Rogers (born June 20, 1974) is an American vertebrate paleontologist and a professor in Biology and Geology at Macalester College. Her research focuses on questions of dinosaur paleobiology, bone histology, growth, and e ...

(United States) *

Georges Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in na ...

(France, 1769-1832) *

Jan Czerski Jan Stanisław Franciszek Czerski (russian: Иван Дементьевич Черский; 3 May 1845, in Swolna – 25 June 1892, nr. Kolyma) was a Polish paleontologist, osteologist, geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia. He was e ...

(Poland, 1845-1892)

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Ted Daeschler Edward B. 'Ted' Daeschler is an American vertebrate paleontologist and Associate Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Biology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He is a specialist in fish paleontology, especially in the Late Devonian, ...

(United States) * Anne Dambricourt-Malassé (France, 1959- ) *

Wilhelm Dames Wilhelm Barnim Dames (9 June 1843, in Stolp – 22 December 1898, in Berlin) was a German paleontologist of the Berlin University, who described the first complete specimen of the early bird ''Archaeopteryx'' in 1894. This specimen is currently in ...

(Germany, 1843-1898) * Robert Damon (England, 1814-1889) * Thomas Davidson (Scotland, 1817-1885) * A. Morley Davies (England) * William Davies (England, 1814-1891) *

John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. Life and work John William Dawson was born on 13 October 1820 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he attended and graduated from Pictou Academy. Of Scotti ...

(Canada, 1820–1899) *

Mary R. Dawson Mary R. Dawson (February 27, 1931 – November 29, 2020) was a vertebrate paleontologist and curator emeritus at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Education and career Dawson was raised in Michigan, receive ...

(United States) *

Henry De la Beche Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS (10 February 179613 April 1855) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He was the ...

(England, 1796-1855) *

Tao Deng Deng Tao (; born June 1963) is a Chinese palaeontologist at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has made important fossil discoveries on Cenozoic mammals. He is a professor of v ...

(China, 1963- ) *

Charles Depéret Charles Jean Julien Depéret (25 June 1854 – 18 May 1929) was a French geologist and paleontologist. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences, the Société géologique de France

(France, 1854-1929) *

Peter Dodson Peter Dodson (born August 20, 1946) is an American paleontologist who has published many papers and written and collaborated on books about dinosaurs. An authority on Ceratopsians, he has also authored several papers and textbooks on hadrosaurs a ...

(United States) *

Louis Dollo Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (Lille, 7 December 1857 – Brussels, 19 April 1931) was a Belgian palaeontologist, known for his work on dinosaurs. He also posited that evolution is not reversible, known as Dollo's law. Together with the Austria ...

(France / Belgium, 1857-1931) *

Dong Zhiming Dong Zhiming (Chinese: 董枝明, Pinyin: ''Dǒng Zhimíng''; born January 1937) is a Chinese vertebrate paleontologist formerly employed at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing. He began working at th ...

(China, 1937- ) *

Philip Donoghue Philip Conrad James Donoghue FRS is a British palaeontologist and Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol. Education Donoghue was educated at the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in geolo ...

(England) * Stephen Donovan (England, 1954- ) *

François Doumergue François Doumergue (11 May 1858, Carcassonne – 24 December 1938, Oran, Algeria) was a French naturalist remembered for his scientific investigations within the department of Oran. From September 1886 onward, he taught classes at the ''Lycée ...

(France, 1858-1938) * Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé (France, 1846-1937) *

Eugène Dubois Marie Eugène François Thomas Dubois (; 28 January 1858 – 16 December 1940) was a Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist. He earned worldwide fame for his discovery of ''Pithecanthropus erectus'' (later redesignated ''Homo erectus''), or "Java ...

(Netherlands, 1858-1940) * Émilien Dumas (France, 1804-1873) *

William Sutherland Dun William Sutherland Dun (1 July 1868 – 7 October 1934) was an Australian palaeontologist, geologist and president of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Dun was the son of Major Percy Henderson Dun, formerly of the East India Company's army, an ...

(Australia, 1868-1934) * Carl Owen Dunbar (United States, 1891-1979) * Peter Martin Duncan (England, 1824-1891) *

Wilhelm Dunker Wilhelm Dunker, full name Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker (21 February 1809, Eschwege – 13 March 1885, Marburg) was a German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist (specifically a malacologist). Wilhelm Dunker studied mining and ...

(Germany, 1809-1885) *

David Dunkle David Hosbrook Dunkle (September 9, 1911 – January 3, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Dunkle was curator of vertebrate paleontology for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and later associate curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natu ...

(United States, 1911-1984) * Gareth J. Dyke (Ireland)

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Tilly Edinger Johanna Gabrielle Ottilie "Tilly" Edinger (13 November 1897 – 27 May 1967) was a German-American paleontologist and the founder of paleoneurology. Personal life Early life Tilly Edinger was born to a wealthy Jewish family in 1897. Her fat ...

(Germany / United States, 1897-1967) *

Dianne Edwards Professor Dianne Edwards CBE, FRS, FRSE, FLS, FLSW (born 1942) is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions. Early life Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales, and spent much of h ...

(England, 1942- ) *

Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet FRS (13 November 1806 – 5 April 1881) was an English palaeontologist and Conservative politician from the Egerton family. He sat in the House of Commons variously between 1830 and his death in 1 ...

(England, 1806-1881) * Niles Eldredge (United States, 1943- ) * Andrzej Elżanowski (Poland, 1950- ) * Ashton F. Embry (Canada, 1946- ) *

Cesare Emiliani Cesare Emiliani (8 December 1922 – 20 July 1995) was an Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography, developing the timescale of marine isotope stages, which despite modifications remains in ...

(Italy / United States, 1922-1995) *

Douglas Emlong Douglas Ralph Emlong (April 17, 1942–June 1980) was an amateur fossil collector from the Oregon Coast in the northwestern United States. His collections contributed to the discovery and description of numerous extinct marine mammal species, man ...

(United States, 1942-1980) *

Hermann Friedrich Emmrich Hermann Friedrich Emmrich ( Meiningen, February 7, 1815 – Meiningen, 24 January 1879) was a German geologist. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy and taught at the Institute of Meiningen (Henfling-Gymnasium Meiningen). He described the tri ...

(Germany, 1815-1879) *

Michael S. Engel Michael S. Engel, FLS, FRES (born September 24, 1971) is an American paleontologist and entomologist, notable for contributions to insect evolutionary biology and classification. In connection with his studies he has undertaken field expedit ...

(United States, 1971- ) *

Bruce Erickson Bruce R. Erickson (1933 – January 16, 2022) was an American paleontologist and the former Fitzpatrick Chair of Paleontology at the Science Museum of Minnesota. During the course of his lifetime and his 55 years as a paleontologist, he has "colle ...

(United States, 1933-2022) * Gregory M. Erickson (United States) * Gundolf Ernst (Germany, 1930-2002) *

Douglas Erwin Douglas Erwin is a paleobiologist, Curator of Paleozoic Invertebrates at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Chair of the Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is a member of the Editorial Board for ''Current Biology ''Curre ...

(United States) *

Kirill Eskov Kirill Yuryevich Eskov (russian: Кири́лл Ю́рьевич Есько́в; born 16 September 1956) is a Russian writer, biologist and paleontologist. As an author he is known for '' The Gospel of Afranius'' in which he presents an atheistic ...

(Russia, 1956- ) *

Robert Etheridge Robert Etheridge FRS FRSE FGS (3 December 1819 – 18 December 1903) was an English geologist and palaeontologist. Biography Etheridge was born at Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire, the son of Thomas Etheridge and his wife Hannah Pardoe. After an ...

(England, 1819-1903) *

Robert Etheridge, Junior Robert Etheridge (23 May 1847 – 4 January 1920) was a British palaeontologist who made important contributions to the Australian Museum.Australian Museum, 2015Walsh, 1981Serle, 1949 Biography Etheridge was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire ...

(England / Australia, 1847-1920) * Constantin von Ettingshausen (Austria, 1826-1897) *

Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (10 March 1830 – 21 December 1889) was a French paleontologist and naturalist born in Caen, the son of paleontologist Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps (1794–1867). He died at Château Matthieu, Calvados. Arou ...

(France, 1830-1889) *

Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps (17 January 179417 January 1867) was a French naturalist and paleontologist. His son, Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps (1830–1889), was also a paleontologist. He was born at Caen in Normandy. His parents, though poor ...

(France, 1794-1867) * Susan E. Evans (England)

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Hugh Falconer Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam,Burma,and most of the Mediterranean islands a ...

(Scotland, 1808-1865) * Paul Fallot (France, 1889-1960) *

Mikhail Fedonkin Academician Mikhail Aleksandrovich Fedonkin (russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Федо́нкин; born June 19, 1946) is a Russian paleontologist specializing in documentation of the earliest animals' body fossils, tracks, an ...

(Russia, 1946- ) *

Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (also Baron Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, Baron Nopcsa, Ferenc Nopcsa, báró felsőszilvási Nopcsa Ferenc, Baron Franz Nopcsa, and Franz Baron Nopcsa; May 3, 1877 – April 25, 1933) was a Hungarian aristoc ...

(Hungary, 1877-1933) *

Carroll Lane Fenton Carroll Lane Fenton (February 12, 1900, Butler County, Iowa – November 16, 1969, New Brunswick, New Jersey) was a geologist, paleontologist, neoichnologist, and historian of science. Fenton was the author and illustrator of numerous books on ...

(United States, 1900-1969) *

Mildred Adams Fenton Mildred Adams Fenton (November 14, 1899 – December 7, 1995) trained in paleontology and geology at the University of Iowa. She coauthored dozens of general science books with her husband, Carroll Lane Fenton, including ''Records of Evolution' ...

(United States, 1899-1995) *

Egidio Feruglio Egidio Feruglio (10 September 1897 – 14 July 1954) was an Italian-born geologist who spent most of his career in Argentina. Early life The seventh of twelve sons, Feruglio finished grammar school in 1914, and then enrolled at the University ...

(Italy, 1897-1954) *

Harold John Finlay Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist. Biography Finlay was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901. He was left a paraplegic after contracting poliomyelitis at ...

(New Zealand, 1901-1951) *

Clive Finlayson Prof. Clive Finlayson MBE FLS (born 15 January 1955) is a Gibraltarian zoologist, paleoanthropologist and paleontologist. He is the incumbent Director of the Gibraltar Museum. Finlayson has published various works mainly based on his resear ...

(Gibraltar, 1955- ) *

Geraldine Finlayson Geraldine Finlayson (born 31 October 1960) is a Gibraltarian Deputy Head of Heritage, as well as Director of the Institute for Gibraltarian Studies and Chief Laboratory Scientist of the Gibraltar Museum. She was Director of the John Mackintosh ...

(Gibraltar) *

Anthony Fiorillo Anthony Ricardo Fiorillo is a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University, but for many years he was vice president of research & collections and chief curator at the Perot Museum of Nature & S ...

(United States) *

Paul Henri Fischer Paul Henri Fischer (also spelled Paul-Henri Fischer), (7 July 1835 Paris – 29 November 1893) was a French physician, zoologist and paleontologist. He is generally known as Paul Fischer. Biography He studied science and medicine, securing do ...

(France, 1835-1893) *

Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (russian: Григо́рий Ива́нович Фи́шер фон Ва́льдгейм, translit=Grigórij Ivánovič Fíšer fon Vál'dgejm; 13 October 1771 – 18 October 1853) was a Saxon anatomist, entomol ...

(Germany, 1771-1853) *

Tim Flannery Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist, conservationist, explorer, author, science communicator, activist and public scientist. He was awarded Australian of the Yea ...

(Australia, 1956- ) * Rousseau H. Flower (United States, 1913-1988) *

August Foerste August F. Foerste (1862–1936) was an American geologist, science teacher, and paleontologist. Biography Foerste was born on May 7, 1862, in Dayton, Ohio. He studied geology at Denison University, from which he received a bachelor's degree in ...

(United States, 1862-1936) * Michael Foote (United States, 1963- ) *

Edward Forbes Edward Forbes FRS, FGS (12 February 1815 – 18 November 1854) was a Manx naturalist. In 1846, he proposed that the distributions of montane plants and animals had been compressed downslope, and some oceanic islands connected to the mainlan ...

(Isle of Man, 1815-1854) *

Carlo Fornasini ''Cavaliere dottore'' Carlo Fornasini (3 November 185424 December 1931) was an Italian micropalaeontologist who specialised in Foraminifera ('forams'). He was a pioneer in using fossil forams to sequence marine sedimentary deposits by their rel ...

(Italy, 1854-1931) * Mikael Fortelius (Finland, 1954- ) *

Catherine Forster Catherine Ann Forster is an American paleontologist, taxonomist and expert in ornithopod evolution and ''Triceratops ''Triceratops'' ( ; ) is a genus of herbivorous chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maa ...

(United States) *

Clive Forster-Cooper Sir Clive Forster Cooper, FRS (3 April 1880 – 23 August 1947) was an English palaeontologist and Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and Natural History Museum in London. He was the first to describe ''Paraceratherium'', al ...

(England, 1880-1947) *

Richard Fortey Richard Alan Fortey FRS FRSL (born 15 February 1946 in London) is a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as president of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007. Ea ...

(England, 1946- ) *

William Parker Foulke William Parker Foulke (1816–1865) discovered the first full dinosaur skeleton in North America (''Hadrosaurus foulkii'', which means "Foulke's big lizard") in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1858. Born in Philadelphia, and a descendant of Welsh ...

(United States, 1816-1865) * William Fox (England, 1813-1881) *

Eberhard Fraas Eberhard Fraas (26 June 1862 – 6 March 1915) was a German scientist, geologist and paleontologist. He worked as a curator at the Stuttgarter Naturaliensammlung and discovered the dinosaurs of the Tendaguru formation in then German East Afri ...

(Germany, 1862-1915) * Georgii Frederiks (Russia / Soviet Union, 1889-1938) * Childs Frick (United States, 1883-1965) *

Antonin Fritsch Antonin may refer to: People * Antonin (name) Places ;Poland * Antonin, Jarocin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship * Antonin, Ostrów ...

(Czech Republic, 1832-1913) *

Karl von Fritsch Karl Wilhelm Georg von Fritsch (11 November 1838, in Weimar – 9 January 1906) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He studied forestry at the academy in Eisenach, followed by studies in natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, whe ...

(Germany, 1838-1906) * Michael Frogley (United Kingdom)

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William More Gabb William More Gabb (January 16, 1839 – May 30, 1878) was an American paleontologist. Gabb was born and educated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the leading center of American science at the time. He graduated from Jefferson Grammar School at ...

(United States, 1839-1878) *

Eugene S. Gaffney Eugene S. Gaffney is an American paleontologist and leading authority on the morphology and evolutionary history of turtles. Biography Gaffney graduated from Rutgers University, Rutgers State University in 1965 and received his PhD in 1969 with a ...

(United States) *

Peter Galton Peter Malcolm Galton (born 14 March 1942 in London) is a British vertebrate paleontologist who has to date written or co-written about 190 papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosa ...

(England, 1942- ) * Taiping Gao (China, 1984- ) * Kenneth Garrett (United States, 1953- ) *

Bartolomeo Gastaldi Bartolomeo Gastaldi (10 February 1818 – 5 January 1879) was an Italian geologist and palæontologist, and one of the founders of the Club Alpino Italiano. Gastaldi was born in Turin, then capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia. As a child he develo ...

(Italy, 1818-1879) * Charles-Théophile Gaudin (Switzerland, 1822-1866) *

Jean Albert Gaudry Jean Albert Gaudry (16 September 1827 – 27 November 1908) was a French geologist and palaeontologist. He was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the Catholic Collège Stanislas de Paris. He was a notable proponent of theistic evol ...

(France, 1827-1908) *

Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser (born 25 June 1965) is a German archaeologist. She is a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz and Director of the Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for human behavioural Evolution of th ...

(Germany, 1965- ) *

Jacques Gauthier Jacques Armand Gauthier (born June 7, 1948 in New York City) is an American vertebrate paleontologist, comparative morphologist, and systematist, and one of the founders of the use of cladistics in biology. Life and career Gauthier is the so ...

(United States) * Charles Lewis Gazin (United States, 1904-1995) * Henry Gee (England, 1962- ) *

Ross Geller Ross Geller, portrayed by David Schwimmer, is one of the six main characters of the NBC sitcom ''Friends''. Ross is considered by many to be the most intelligent member of the group and is noted for his goofy but lovable demeanor. His relatio ...

(United States) *

Paul Gervais Paul Gervais full name François Louis Paul Gervais (26 September 1816 – 10 February 1879) was a French palaeontologist and entomologist. Biography Gervais was born in Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of doctor of science and of medicine ...

(France, 1816-1879) * James W. Gidley (United States, 1866-1931) *

Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel (13 September 1820 – 14 November 1881) was a German zoologist and palaeontologist. He was a professor of zoology at the University of Halle where he managed the zoology collections at the museum. His interests ...

(Germany, 1820-1881) *

Edmund Dwen Gill Edmund Dwen Gill (11 December 1908 – 13 July 1986) was a prolific Australian scientist specialising in geology, museology, palaeontology and geomorphology. He was also known for his work as deputy director of the National Museum of Victoria, pre ...

(Australia, 1908-1986) * David Gillette (United States) * Charles W. Gilmore (United States, 1874-1945) *

Philip D. Gingerich Philip Dean Gingerich (born March 23, 1946) is a paleontologist and educator. He is Professor Emeritus of Geology, Biology, and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He directed the Museums at the University of Michigan#Museum ...

(United States, 1946- ) * George Herbert Girty (United States, 1869-1939) *

Bernard du Bus de Gisignies Bernard Amé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (21 June 1808 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode – 6 July 1874 in Bad Ems) was a Dutch nobleman and later on a Belgian politician, ornithologist and paleontologist. He was the second son of Leonard Pierre J ...

(Netherlands / Belgium, 1808-1874) *

Martin Glaessner Martin Fritz Glaessner Order of Australia, AM (25 December 1906 – 23 November 1989) was a geologist and paleontology, palaeontologist. Born and educated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for geoscientif ...

(Austria-Hungary / Australia, 1906-1989) * Ludwig Glauert (England / Australia, 1879-1963) *

Ernst Friedrich Glocker Ernst Friedrich Glocker (1 May 1793 – 18 July 1858) was a German mineralogist, geologist and paleontologist. Biography From 1810 he studied theology, philosophy and sciences at the University of Tübingen, and afterwards continued his educatio ...

(Germany, 1793-1858) *

Pascal Godefroit Pascal Godefroit is a Belgian paleontologist. He discovered dinosaurs like '' Olorotitan'' in 2003. Godefroit is the director of earth and life sciences This list of life sciences comprises the branches of science that involve the scientific st ...

(Belgium) *

Georg August Goldfuss Georg August Goldfuss (Goldfuß, 18 April 1782 – 2 October 1848) was a German palaeontologist, zoologist and botanist. Goldfuss was born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. He was educated at Erlangen, where he graduated PhD in 1804 and became profes ...

(Germany, 1782-1848) *

Heinrich Göppert Johann Heinrich Robert Göppert (25 July 1800 – 18 May 1884) was a German botanist and paleontologist. Career He was born in Sprottau, Lower Silesia, and died at Breslau. In 1831 he became a professor of botany, as well as curator of the botan ...

(Germany, 1800-1884) * Mackenzie Gordon, Jr. (United States, 1913–1992) *

Maria Gordon Dame Maria Matilda Gordon (née Ogilvie; 30 April 1864 – 24 June 1939), sometimes known as May Ogilvie Gordon or May Gordon, was an eminent Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, and politician. She was the first woman to be awarded a Doctor ...

(Scotland, 1864–1939) *

Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger (born October 25, 1856 in Zagreb, died December 24, 1936, Zagreb) was a Croatian geologist, paleontologist, and archeologist. Education Dragutin finished his elementary education in Zagreb, Croatia, as well as t ...

(Croatia, 1856-1936) *

Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Goul ...

(United States, 1941-2002) *

David J. Gower David J. Gower is a palaeontologist. Before making his debut for the Strongroom CC in 2000, he was a herpetology researcher at the Museum of Natural History in London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, ...

(England) *

Amadeus William Grabau Amadeus William Grabau (January 9, 1870 – March 20, 1946) was an American geologist who worked in China. Biography Grabau's grandfather, J.A.A. Grabau, led a group of dissident Lutheran immigrants from Germany to Buffalo, New York. His educa ...

(United States / China, 1870-1946) *

Walter W. Granger Walter Willis Granger (November 7, 1872 – September 6, 1941) was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia. Early life and career Born in Mid ...

(United States, 1872-1941) *

Bruno Granier Bruno R.C. Granier is Professor of Geology at the University of Brest (France) (also locally referred to as the Université de Bretagne Occidentale), a post he held in 2004. He is the author of over 90 scientific papers. He is also editor of the ...

(France) *

Richard E. Grant Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swazi-English actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy ''Withnail and I'' (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Mar ...

(United States, 1927-1995) * Vadim Gratshev (Soviet Union / Russia, 1963-2006) * Joseph T. Gregory (United States, 1914-2007) * William King Gregory (United States, 1876-1970) *

Amanz Gressly Amanz Gressly (17 July 1814 – 13 April 1865) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist. He introduced the use of the term facies in geology, and is considered one of the founders of modern stratigraphy and paleoecology. He initially stud ...

(Switzerland, 1814-1865) * David Grimaldi (United States, 1957- ) *

Vera Gromova Vera Isaakovna Gromova ( rus, Вера Исааковна Громова, March 8, 1891 – January 21, 1973) was a Soviet paleontologist known for her studies of fossil ungulates (hoofed mammals). She worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences ...

(Russia / Soviet Union, 1891-1973) * Walter R. Gross (Germany, 1903-1974) * Józef Grzybowski (Poland, 1869-1922)

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* George Haas (Austria, 1905-1981) *

Julius von Haast Sir Johann Franz Julius von Haast (1 May 1822 – 16 August 1887) was a German-born New Zealand explorer, geologist, and founder of the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch. Early life Johann Franz Julius Haast was born on 1 May 1822 in Bo ...

(Germany, 1822-1887) *

Jules Haime Jules Haime (28 March 1824, Tours – 28 September 1856, Paris) was a French geologist, paleontologist and zoologist known for his research of coral. After studying medicine in Tours, he focused his energies towards natural history. Subsequent ...

(France, 1824-1856) * James Hall (United States, 1811-1898) * Valerie Hall (Ireland) * Anthony Hallam (England, 1933-2017) *

Beverly Halstead Lambert Beverly Halstead (13 June 1933 – 30 April 1991), who also went by Lambert Beverly Halstead Tarlo or just Beverly Halstead, was a British paleontologist and professor of Geology & Zoology and popularizer of science. He was noted for his c ...

(England, 1933-1991) * David Harper (England) * Tom Harris England) *

John Bell Hatcher John Bell Hatcher (October 11, 1861 – July 3, 1904) was an American paleontologist and fossil hunter known as the "king of collectors" and best known for discovering ''Torosaurus'' and ''Triceratops'', two genera of dinosaurs described by O ...

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Edwin Hennig Edwin Hennig (27 April 1882 – 12 November 1977) was a German paleontologist. Career Edwin Hennig was one of five children of a merchant who died when Hennig was 10 years old. Starting in 1902, Hennig studied natural sciences, anthropolog ...

(Germany, 1882-1977) *

Gunnar Henningsmoen Gunnar Henningsmoen (17 September 1919 – 23 April 1996) was a Norwegian palaeontologist. He was born in Kristiania, as a son of the Colonel Nils H. Henningsmoen. In 1962 he married Kari Egede Larssen. He became a student in 1939 and graduated ...

(Norway, 1919-1996) * Victoria Herridge (England) *

Franz Martin Hilgendorf Franz Martin Hilgendorf (5 December 1839 – 5 July 1904) was a German zoologist and paleontologist. Hilgendorf's research on fossil snails from the Steinheim crater in the early 1860s became a palaeontological evidence for the theory of ev ...

(Germany, 1839-1904) *

Edward Hitchcock Edward Hitchcock (May 24, 1793 – February 27, 1864) was an American geologist and the third President of Amherst College (1845–1854). Life Born to poor parents, he attended newly founded Deerfield Academy, where he was later principal, ...

(United States, 1793-1864) *

Scott Hocknull Scott Hocknull (born 1977) is a vertebrate palaeontologist and Senior Curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. He was the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award. He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a ...

(Australia) *

Ove Arbo Høeg Ove Fredrik Arbo Høeg (25 November 1898 – 7 July 1993) was a Norwegian botanist. Personal life Høeg was born in Larvik as a son of consul Thomas Arbo Høeg (1852–1930) and Sigrid Bugge (1862–1945). His first marriage was to physician ...

(Norway, 1898-1993) * Johann Leonard Hoffmann (Netherlands, 1710-1782) * Hans J. Hofmann (Germany / Canada, 1936-2010) *

William Jacob Holland Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD (August 16, 1848 – December 13, 1932) was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontolo ...

(United States, 1848-1932) * J. Alan Holman (United States, 1931-2006) * Keith Holmes (Australia) *

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. Thomas Richard Holtz Jr. (born September 13, 1965) is an American vertebrate palaeontologist, author, and principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology. He has published extensively on the phylogeny, morphology, ecomorp ...

(United States, 1965- ) * Dave Hone (United States) *

Dirk Albert Hooijer Dirk Albert Hooijer (30 May 1919 – 26 November 1993) was a Dutch paleontologist. Hooijer was born in Medan on Sumatra, but spent his youth in Bogor on Java. In 1932, his family moved to The Hague where he finished his high school education at Da ...

(Netherlands, 1919-1993) * Reginald Hooley (England, 1865-1923) *

James Hopson James Allen Hopson (born 1935) is an American paleontologist and professor (now retired) at the University of Chicago. His work has focused on the evolution of the synapsids (a group of amniotes that includes the mammals), and has been focused on ...

(United States, 1935- ) * Jack Horner (United States, 1946- ) * Moritz Hornes (Austria, 1815-1868) *

Lukas Hottinger Lukas Hottinger (25 February 1933, Düsseldorf – 4 September 2011, Basel) was a paleontologist, biologist and geologist. Hottinger collaborated with the Natural History Museum of Basel (Switzerland). Hottinger was one of the major experts on pr ...

(Switzerland, 1933-2011) * Nicholas Hotton III (United States, 1920/21-1999) *

Hildegarde Howard Hildegarde Howard (April 3, 1901 – February 28, 1998) was an American pioneer in paleornithology, mentored by the famous ornithologist, Joseph Grinnell, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) and in avian paleontology.Joyce Harvey & Marilyn ...

(United States, 1901-1998) *

Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe. He also made key contributions about v ...

(Germany, 1875-1969) * Alois Humbert (Switzerland, 1829-1887) *

Julian P. Hume Julian Pender Hume (born 3 March 1960) is an English palaeontologist, artist and writer who lives in Wickham, Hampshire. He was born in Ashford, Kent, and grew up in Portsmouth, England. He attended Crookhorn Comprehensive School between 1971 an ...

(England, 1960- ) * Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot (France, 1790-1845) * Pierre Hupé (France, 1907-2003) * Jørn Hurum (Norway, 1967- ) *

Thomas Henry Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist specialising in comparative anatomy. He has become known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The stori ...

(England, 1825-1895) *

Alpheus Hyatt Alpheus Hyatt (April 5, 1838 – January 15, 1902) was an American zoologist and palaeontologist. Biography Alpheus Hyatt II was born in Washington, D.C. to Alpheus Hyatt and Harriet Randolph (King) Hyatt. He briefly attended the Mary ...

(United States, 1838-1902)

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Nizar Ibrahim Nizar Ibrahim (born in 1982) is a German-Moroccan vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist. He is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth. Ibrahim has led several expeditions to Africa's Sahara and is notable for ...

(Germany / Morocco, 1982- ) * Thomas Image (England, 1772-1856) * Wataru Ishijima (Japan, 1906-1980) *

Arturo Issel Arturo Issel (Genoa April 11, 1842 – Genoa November 27, 1922) was an Italian geologist, palaeontologist, malacologist and archaeologist, born in Genoa. He is noted for first defining the Tyrrhenian Stage in 1914. Issel was also renowned at th ...

(Italy, 1842-1922)

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David Jablonski David Ira Jablonski (born 1953) is an American professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses upon the ecology and biogeography of the origin of major novelties, the evolutionary role of mass extinctions—i ...

(United States, 1953- ) *

Auguste Jaccard Auguste Jaccard (6 July 1833, in Culliairy near Sainte-Croix – 5 January 1895, in Le Locle) was a Swiss geologist and paleontologist. His scientific research, for the most part, was associated with the Jura Mountains. In around 1845, he moved ...

(Switzerland, 1833-1895) * Louis L. Jacobs (United States, 1948- ) *

Sohan Lal Jain Sohan Lal Jain (born 15 December 1929 in Dehradun) is an Indian paleontologist, who worked for 33 years at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur genus ''Jainosaurus'', was named in his honour afte ...

(India) * Helen F. James (United States, 1956- ) *

Werner Janensch Werner Ernst Martin Janensch (11 November 1878 – 20 October 1969) was a German paleontologist and geologist. Biography Janensch was born at Herzberg (Elster). In addition to Friedrich von Huene, Janensch was probably Germany's most impo ...

(Germany, 1878-1969) *

Philippe Janvier Philippe Janvier is a French paleontologist, specialising in Palaeozoic vertebrates, who currently works at the Museum National de l’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. He has written several books and scientific papers on Palaeozoic vertebrates and co ...

(France) *

Erik Jarvik Anders Erik Vilhelm Jarvik (30 November 1907 – 11 January 1998) was a Swedish paleontologist who worked extensively on the sarcopterygian (or lobe-finned) fish ''Eusthenopteron''. In a career that spanned some 60 years, Jarvik produced some ...

(Sweden, 1829-1901) *

Dick Jefferies Richard P.S. Jefferies was a paleontologist famous for developing the Calcichordate Theory of the origin of chordates, now widely discredited. Jefferies joined the British Museum in 1960, and was largely based there for the remainder of his caree ...

(England) * Farish Jenkins (United States, 1940-2012) *

James A. Jensen James Alvin Jensen (August 2, 1918 – December 14, 1998), was an American paleontologist. His extensive collecting program at Brigham Young University in the Utah-Colorado region which spanned 23 years was comparable in terms of the number of ...

(United States, 1918-1998) *

Kirk Johnson Kirk Cyron Johnson (born June 29, 1972) is a Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2010, and challenged once for the WBA heavyweight title in 2002. Amateur career Johnson represented Canada at the 1992 Olympics in Bar ...

(United States, 1960- ) * Frederik Johnstrup (Denmark, 1818-1894) * Theobald Jones (Ireland, 1790-1868) *

Thomas Rupert Jones Thomas Rupert Jones FRS (1 October 181913 April 1911) was a British geologist and palaeontologist. Biography Jones was born on 1 October 1819 in Cheapside, London, the son of John Jones, silk merchant, and his wife Rhoda (née Burberry) Jones o ...

(England, 1819-1911)

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* Josephine Kablick (Czech Republic, 1787-1863) * Myra Keen (United States, 1905-1986) *

Gerta Keller Gerta Keller (born 7 March 1945) is a geologist and paleontologist who contests the Alvarez hypothesis that the impact of the Chicxulub impactor, or another large celestial body, directly caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Kel ...

(Switzerland / United States, 1945- ) *

Alexander Kellner Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner (born September 26, 1961) is a Brazilian geologist and paleontologist who is a leading expert in the field of studying pterosaurs. His research has focused mainly on fossil reptiles from the Cretaceous Period, i ...

(Brazil, 1961- ) *

Remington Kellogg Arthur Remington Kellogg (5 October 1892 – 8 May 1969) was an American naturalist and a director of the United States National Museum. His work focused on marine mammals. Early life and career Kellogg was born in Davenport, Iowa, and quic ...

(United States, 1892-1969) *

Doris Kermack Doris Mary Kermack FLS (née Carr; 1923 – 2003) was a British paleontologist and marine zoologist at Imperial College London. She completed her PhD thesis entitled 'The anatomy and physiology of the gut of ''Arenicola marina'' L.' at Unive ...

(England, 1923-2003) *

Kenneth Kermack Kenneth A. Kermack (1919 – 2000) was a British palaeontologist at University College London most notable for his work on early mammals with his wife, Doris Mary Kermack. Among Kermack's other significant contributions was the observation ...

(England, 1919-2000) * Andre Keyser (South Africa, 1938-2010) *

Alexander Keyserling Alexander Friedrich Michael Lebrecht Nikolaus Arthur Graf von Keyserling (15 August 1815 – 8 May 1891) was a Baltic German geologist and paleontologist from the Keyserlingk family of Baltic German nobility. Career Alexander von Keyse ...

(Russia, 1815-1891) *

Johan Aschehoug Kiær Johan Aschehoug Kiær (October 11, 1869 – October 31, 1931) was a Norwegian paleontologist and geologist. Biography Johan Kiær was born in Drammen, Norway. He was the son of parish priest Hagbarth Kiær (1829–1903) and grandson of shipown ...

(Norway, 1869–1931) *

Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (25 April 1925 – 13 March 2015) was a Polish paleobiologist. In the mid-1960s, she led a series of Polish-Mongolian paleontological expeditions to the Gobi Desert. She was the first woman to serve on the executive commit ...

(Poland, 1925-2015) * Caitlín R. Kiernan (United States, 1964- ) * Kamoya Kimeu (Kenya, 1940- ) *

William King William King may refer to: Arts * Willie King (1943–2009), American blues guitarist and singer *William King (author) (born 1959), British science fiction author and game designer, also known as Bill King *William King (artist) (1925–2015), Am ...

(Ireland / England, 1809-1886) * James Kirkland (United States, 1954- ) *

James Kitching James William Kitching (6 February 1922 – 24 December 2003) was a South African vertebrate palaeontologist and regarded as one of the world’s greatest fossil finders. Career His work in the southern hemisphere, including Antarctica, led ...

(South Africa, 1922-2003) *

Andrew H. Knoll Andrew Herbert Knoll (born 1951) is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and a Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1951, Andrew Knoll graduated from Lehigh U ...

(United States, 1959- ) *

Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald Gustav Heinrich Ralph (often cited as G. H. R.) von Koenigswald (13 November 1902 – 10 July 1982) was a German-Dutch paleontologist and geologist who conducted research on hominins, including ''Homo erectus''. His discoverie ...

(Germany / Netherlands, 1902-1982) * Anastas Kondo (Albania, 1937-2006) *

Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (3 May 1809 – 16 July 1887) was a Belgian palaeontologist and chemist, born at Leuven. He studied medicine in the university of his native town, and in 1831 he became assistant in the chemical schools. He pu ...

(Belgium, 1809-1887) * Andreas Kornhuber (Austria, 1824-1905) *

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(Russia, 1842-1883) * Roman Kozłowski (Poland, 1889-1977) * Jaroslav Kraft (Czech Republic, 1940-2007) *

Miklós Kretzoi Miklós Kretzoi (9 February 1907 – 15 March 2005) was a Hungarian geologist, paleontologist and paleoanthropologist and Széchenyi Prize winner. Exhibition in the Hungarian National Museum, 9 February - 24 May 2004 Kretzoi studied A ...

(Hungary, 1907-2005) * Afrikan Nikolaevich Krishtofovich (Russia, 1885-1953) *

Evgeny Kurochkin Yevgeny Nikolayevich Kurochkin (Евгений Николаевич Курочкин; 12 July 1940 - 13 December 2011) was a Russian paleornithologist at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He served as President of t ...

(Russia, 1940-2011) * Sergei Kurzanov (Russia, 1947- ) * Björn Kurtén (Finland, 1924-1988) *

Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov ( rus, Николай Яковлевич Кузнецов; May 23, 1873 in Saint Petersburg – April 8, 1948 in Leningrad) was a Russian Empire and Soviet entomologist, paleoentomologist and physiologist, since 1910 ...

(Russia, 1873-1948)

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* Philippe de La Harpe (Switzerland, 1830-1882) *

Kenneth Lacovara Kenneth John Lacovara (born March 11, 1961) is an American paleontologist and geologist at Rowan University and fellow of the Explorers Club, known for the discovery of the titanosaurian dinosaur '' Dreadnoughtus'' and his involvement in the di ...

(United States) * Matt Lamanna (United States) *

Lawrence Lambe Lawrence Morris Lambe (August 27, 1863 – March 12, 1919) was a Canadian geologist, palaeontologist, and ecologist from the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from th ...

(Canada, 1863-1919) * Charles Lamberton (France, 1876-1960) *

Kálmán Lambrecht Kálmán Lambrecht (1889–1936) was a Hungarian palaeontologist, best known for his work on fossil birds. He authored the “Handbuch der Palaeornithologie”, an exhaustive review of fossil birds published in 1933. Positions held include librar ...

(Hungary, 1889-1936) *

Archibald Lamont Archibald Lamont (21 October 1907 – 16 March 1985) was a Scottish geologist, palaeontologist, Scottish Nationalist writer, poet and politician. He named the trilobite genus '' Wallacia'' after William Wallace. Life Born on 21 October 1907 ...

(Scotland, 1907-1985) * Wann Langston, Jr. (United States, 1921-2013) *

Jia Lanpo Jia Lanpo (; November 25, 1908 in Yutian, Hebei – July 8, 2001 in Beijing) was a Chinese palaeoanthropologist, considered a founder of Chinese anthropology. He graduated from the Huiwen Academy in Beijing in 1929 and went on to work as a ...

(China, 1908-2001) * Albert-Félix de Lapparent (France, 1905-1975) *

Peter Larson Peter Lars Larson (born 1952) is an American fossil expert and president of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. He led the team that excavated " Sue", one of the largest and most complete specimen of ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' found to ...

(United States, 1952- ) *

Édouard Lartet Édouard Lartet (15 April 180128 January 1871) was a French geologist and paleontologist, and a pioneer of Paleolithic archaeology. Biography Lartet was born near Castelnau-Barbarens, ' of Gers, France, where his family had lived for more than ...

(France, 1801-1871) *

Louis Lartet Louis Lartet (1840 – 1899) was a French geologist and paleontologist. He discovered the original Cro-Magnon 1, Cro-Magnon skeletons. Louis Lartet was born in Castelnau-Magnoac, in Seissan in the ''département in France, département'' ...

(France, 1840-1899) * Gustav Karl Laube (Germany / Czech Republic, 1839-1923) * Charles Léopold Laurillard (France, 1783-1853) *

Michel Laurin Michel Laurin is a Canadian-born French vertebrate paleontologist whose specialities include the emergence of a land-based lifestyle among vertebrates, the evolution of body size and the origin and phylogeny of lissamphibians. He has also made impo ...

(Canada) * René Lavocat (France) *

Louise Leakey Princess Louise de Merode (''née'' Leakey, born 21 March 1972) is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist. She conducts research and field work on human fossils in Eastern Africa. Early life and education Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, ...

(Kenya, 1972- ) *

Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conse ...

(Kenya, 1944–2022) *

Alfred Nicholson Leeds Alfred Nicholson Leeds (9 March 184725 August 1917) was an English amateur palaeontologist. Biography Leeds was born at Eyebury, Peterborough, the youngest of the eight children of Edward Thurlow Leeds (180251) and Eliza Mary Leeds (née Nichols ...

(England, 1847-1917) *

Serge Legendre Serge Legendre is a research scientist in the field of paleobiology with the Institute of Paleoenvironment & PaleoBiosphere, University of Lyon and editor-in-chief of Geobios, a scientific journal published bi-monthly. Publications *''Correlation o ...

(France) *

Joseph Leidy Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore ...

(United States, 1823-1891) *

André Leroi-Gourhan André Leroi-Gourhan (; ; 25 August 1911 – 19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection. B ...

(France, 1911-1986) *

Don Lessem "Dino" Don Lessem (born 1951) is a writer of more than 50 popular science books, specializing in dinosaurs. He was the founder of the Dinosaur Society and the Jurassic Foundation, which collectively have raised millions of dollars for dinosaur res ...

(United States, 1951- ) * Riccardo Levi-Setti (Italy, 1927-2018) *

Giancarlo Ligabue Giancarlo Ligabue (30 October 1931 – 25 January 2015) was an Italian paleontologist, scholar, politician and businessman. Born in Venice, Ligabue graduated in Economics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and in Geology at la Sorbonne, and ...

(Italy, 1931-2015) *

Venceslau de Sousa Pereira de Lima Venceslau de Sousa Pereira de Lima, ComTe, GCTE, ComSE, GCSE, ComC, GCC, ComNSC, GCNSC (15 November 1858 in Porto – 24 December 1919 in Lisbon), also known as Venceslau de Lima and anglicized as Wenceslau de Sousa Pereira de Lima or Wence ...

(Portugal, 1858-1919) *

Jere H. Lipps Jere Henry Lipps (August 28, 1939) is Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley, and Curator of Paleontology at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Lipps was the ninth Director of the museum (1989–1 ...

(United States, 1939- ) *

Martin Lockley Martin G. Lockley (born 1950) is a Welsh palaeontologist. He was educated in the United Kingdom where he obtained degrees (BSc and PhD) and post-doctoral experience in Geology in the 1970s. Since 1980 he has been a professor at the University ...

(England) *

Alfred R. Loeblich Jr Alfred R. Loeblich Jr (1914–1994) was an American micropaleontologist. He was married to Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich and the two co-authored a number of important works on the Foraminifera and related organisms. Biography Alfred R. Loeblich ...

(United States, 1914-1994) *

Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich (October 12, 1917 – August 18, 2004) was an American micropaleontologist who was a professor of geology at the University of California, Los Angeles, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) biostratigrapher, a ...

(United States, 1917-2004) *

John A. Long John Albert Long (born 1957) is an Australian paleontologist who is currently Strategic Professor in Palaeontology at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. He was previously the Vice President of Research and Collections at the Natur ...

(Australia, 1957- ) * Albert Heber Longman (England / Australia, 1880-1954) * Jane Longstaff (England, 1855-1935) *

William Lonsdale William Lonsdale (9 September 1794 in Bath11 November 1871 in Bristol), English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals. Biography He was educated for the army and i ...

(England, 1794-1871) * Frederic Brewster Loomis (United States, 1873-1937) *

Perceval de Loriol Charles Louis Perceval de Loriol (24 July 1828, Geneva – 23 December 1908, Cologny Cologny () is a municipality in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. History Cologny is first mentioned in 1208 as ''Colognier''. The oldest trace of a ...

(Switzerland, 1828-1908) *

Lü Junchang Lü Junchang (; 1965 – 9 October 2018) was a Chinese palaeontologist and professor at the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. An expert on Mesozoic reptiles, he described and named dozens of dinosaur and pterosaur taxa ...

(China, 1965–2018) *

Spencer G. Lucas Spencer George Lucas is an American paleontologist and stratigrapher, and curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His main areas of study are late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils ...

(United States) * R. S. Lull (United States, 1867-1957) *

Peter Wilhelm Lund Peter Wilhelm Lund (14 June 1801 – 25 May 1880) was a Danish paleontologist, zoologist, and archeologist. He spent most of his life working and living in Brazil. He is considered the father of Brazilian paleontology as well as archaeology. He ...

(Denmark / Brazil, 1801-1880) *

Tyler Lyson Tyler R. Lyson (born 1982 or 1983) is an American paleontologist. He is the discoverer of the dinosaur fossil Dakota, a fossilized mummified hadrosaur. He has done significant research on the evolution of turtles and on the rise of mammals after th ...

(United States)

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* James "Jim" Henry Madsen Jr. (United States, 1932-2009) *

Evgeny Maleev Evgeny Aleksandrovich Maleev (, ; 25 February 1915 – 12 April 1966) was a Soviet and Russian paleontologist who did most of his research on reptiles and Asian fossils, such as the naming of the ankylosaur '' Talarurus'' and theropods '' Tar ...

(Soviet Union, 1915-1966) * Mirko Malez (Croatia, 1924-1990) * Francesco Mallegni (Italy) * V. Standish Mallory (United States, 1919-2003) *

Gideon Mantell Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was a British obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of ''Iguanodon'' began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in ...

(England, 1790-1852) * Alexander V. Markov (Russia, 1965- ) * Brian John Marples (England / New Zealand, 1907-1997) *

Othniel Charles Marsh Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American professor of Paleontology in Yale College and President of the National Academy of Sciences. He was one of the preeminent scientists in the field of paleontology. Among ...

(United States, 1831-1899) * Anthony J. Martin (United States) *

Larry Martin Larry Dean Martin (December 8, 1943 – March 9, 2013) was an American vertebrate paleontologist and curator of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas. Among Martin's work is research on the Trias ...

(United States, 1943-2013) * Paul S. Martin (United States, 1928-2010) * William Martin (England, 1767-1810) *

Nieves López Martínez Nieves López Martínez (Burgos, 5 February 1949 - Madrid, 15 December 2010) was a Spanish paleontologist specializing in research on the vertebrate fossil record and part of a group of paleontologists who were responsible for the modernization ...

(Spain, 1949-2010) *

Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov (russian: Андрей Васильевич Мартынов; 21 August 1879 – 29 January 1938) was a Russian Empire and Soviet entomologist and palaeontologist, a founder of the Russian palaeoentomological schoo ...

(Russia, 1879-1938) *

John Marwick John Marwick (3 February 1891 – 17 August 1978) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and geologist. Early life and family Marwick was born near Oamaru, New Zealand, on 3 February 1891, the son of Hugh Marwick, and his wife, Jane née Cuthbert. W ...

(New Zealand, 1891-1978) *

Teresa Maryańska Teresa Maryańska (1937 – 3 October 2019) was a Polish paleontologist who specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs, particularly pachycephalosaurians and ankylosaurians. Peter Dodson (1998 p. 9) states that in 1974 Maryanska together with Hals ...

(Poland) *

Octávio Mateus Octávio Mateus (born 1975) is a Portuguese dinosaur paleontologist and biologist Professor of Paleontology at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He graduated in Universidade de Évora and received his PhD at ...

(Portugal, 1975- ) *

William Diller Matthew William Diller Matthew FRS (February 19, 1871 – September 24, 1930) was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils, although he also published a few early papers on mineralogy, petrological geology, one on botany, one on ...

(United States, 1871-1930) *

Vratislav Mazák Vratislav Mazák (; 22 June 1937 – 9 September 1987) was a Czech biologist who specialized in paleoanthropology, mammalogy and taxonomy. He was also a painter, often illustrating his books about animals and men. Born at Kutná Hora, he was a p ...

(Czech Republic, 1937-1987) *

J. C. McConnell James Culbertson McConnell,Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009) American Malacological Society, 830 pp. + 32 pp. nnex of Collations usually abbreviated as J. C. McConnell (born 1844 – died July 25, 1904, Liberty, New York ...

(United States, 1844-1904) *

Frederick McCoy Sir Frederick McCoy (1817 – 13 May 1899), was an Irish palaeontologist, zoologist, and museum administrator, active in Australia. He is noted for founding the Botanic Garden of the University of Melbourne in 1856. Early life McCoy was the so ...

(Ireland / Australia, 1817-1899) * Malcolm McKenna (United States, 1930-2008) *

Mark McMenamin Mark A. S. McMenamin (born c. 1957) is an American paleontologist and professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College. He has contributed to the study of the Cambrian explosion and the Ediacaran biota. He is the author of several books, most re ...

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Fielding Bradford Meek Fielding Bradford Meek (December 10, 1817 – December 22, 1876) was an American geologist and a paleontologist who specialized in the invertebrates. Biography The son of a lawyer, he was born in Madison, Indiana. In early life he was in bu ...

(United States, 1817-1876) * Felipe Mendez (Argentina, 1897-?) * Peter Merian (Switzerland, 1795-1883) *

John Campbell Merriam John Campbell Merriam (October 20, 1869 – October 30, 1945) was an American paleontologist, educator, and conservationist. The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of ver ...

(United States, 1869-1945) *

Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy (25 May 1786 – 9 July 1867, in Versailles) was a French malacologist and palaeontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior ...

(France, 1786-1867) *

John Samuel Miller John Samuel Miller (26 February 1779 – 24 May 1830) was an English naturalist.Rudwick, Martin ''Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform'' (2008) p. 427 Miller, who was born Johann Müller, lived in Bristol. He ...

(England, 1779-1830) *

Pierre-Aimé Millet Pierre-Aimé Millet de la Turtaudière (1783 in Angers – 1873) was a French naturalist. He was Secrétaire Général de la Société d'Agriculture d' Angers. Works Partial list *1813: Mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles, observés dans le ...

(France, 1783-1873) *

Angela Milner Angela Cheryl Milner (3 October 1947 – 13 August 2021) was a British paleontologist who, in 1986 alongside Alan Charig, described the dinosaur ''Baryonyx''. Early life Milner was born Angela Girven in Gosforth, daughter of Cyril and Luc ...

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Dick Mol Dick "Sir Mammoth" Mol (born June 26, 1955) is a Dutch paleontologist - a specialist in the field of mammoths for almost three decades. He is a research associate of several museums. Mol's primary focus is on mammals of the Quaternary period, incl ...

(Netherlands, 1955- ) * Neale Monks (England, 1971- ) * Raymond C. Moore (United States, 1892-1974) * John Morris (England, 1810-1886) *

Simon Conway Morris Simon Conway Morris (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated in ...

(England, 1951- ) * J.A. Moy-Thomas (England, 1908-1944) * Salvador Moyà-Solà (Spain, 1955- ) *

Benjamin Franklin Mudge Benjamin Franklin Mudge (August 11, 1817 – November 21, 1879) was an American lawyer, geologist and teacher. Briefly the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts, he later moved to Kansas where he was appointed the first State Geologist. He led the ...

(United States, 1817-1879) * Atílio Munari (Brazil, 1901-1941) *

Francisco Javier Muñiz Francisco Javier Muñiz (21 December 1795 – 8 April 1871) was an Argentine colonel, legislator, and medical doctor. He treated patients and died during the Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1871. He was considered the first important naturalist fr ...

(Argentina, 1795-1871) * Dmitrii Mushketov (Russia, 1882-1938)

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Darren Naish Darren William Naish is a British vertebrate palaeontologist, author and science communicator. As a researcher, he is best known for his work describing and reevaluating dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles, including '' Eotyrannus'', '' Xenop ...

(England, 1975- ) * Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (Sweden, 1850-1921) * Theodor Anton Neagu (Romania, 1932-2017) *

Sterling Nesbitt Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs. He is currently an associate professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of ...

(United States, 1982- ) *

Edwin Tulley Newton Edwin Tulley Newton (4 May 1840 – 28 January 1930) was a British paleontologist. Newton originally worked at handicrafts, but was able to attend Thomas Henry Huxley's lectures and by 1865, was appointed as his assistant. In 1882, he becam ...

(England, 1840-1930) * Elizabeth Nicholls (Canada, 1946-2004) *

Henry Alleyne Nicholson Henry Alleyne Nicholson FRS FRSE FGS FLS (11 September 1844 – 19 January 1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist. Life The son of John Nicholson (1809–1886), a biblical scholar, and his wife Annie Elizabeth Waring, he was born ...

(Scotland, 1844-1899) * Adolf Carl Noé (Austria / United States, 1873-1939) *

Alexander von Nordmann Alexander von Nordmann (24 May 1803 in Ruotsinsalmi (now Kotka), Finland – 25 June 1866 in Helsinki) was a 19th-century Finnish biologist, who contributed to zoology, parasitology, botany and paleontology.Leikola A (2001Nordmann, Alexander ...

(Finland, 1803-1866) * Mark Norell (United States, 1957- ) *

David B. Norman David Bruce Norman (born 20 June 1952 in the United Kingdom) is a British paleontologist, currently the main curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University. From 1991 to 2011, Norman has also been the Sedgwick Mu ...

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Fernando Novas Fernando Emilio Novas (born 1960) is an Argentine paleontologist working for the Comparative Anatomy Department of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Nestor Ivanovich Novozhilov Nestor Ivanovich Novozhilov was a Soviet paleontologist. In 1948, Novozhilov described a pliosaur specimen discovered on the banks of Russia's Volga Riveras a new species, ''Pliosaurus rossicus''. The specimen, while large, was damaged during the e ...

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Vladimir Obruchev Vladimir Afanasyevich Obruchev (russian: Влади́мир Афана́сьевич О́бручев; , Klepenino near Rzhev, Tver Oblast, Russian Empire – June 19, 1956, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialize ...

(Russia, 1863-1956) * Klaus Oeggl (Austria, 1955- ) * Chonosuke Okamura (Japan) *

Thomas Oldham Thomas Oldham (4 May 1816, Dublin – 17 July 1878, Rugby) was an Anglo-Irish geologist. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and studied civil engineering at the University of Edinburgh as well as geology under Robert Jameson. In 183 ...

(Ireland / England, 1816-1878) *

Walter Oliver Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (7 September 1883 – 16 May 1957) was a New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, malacologist, and museum curator. Biography Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Oliver emigrated with his family to New Zealand in 1896, set ...

(Australia / New Zealand, 1883-1957) * Paul E. Olsen (United States, 1953- ) * Stanley John Olsen (United States, 1919-2003) *

Everett C. Olson Everett Claire Olson (November 6, 1910 – November 27, 1993) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, and geologist noted for his seminal research of origin and evolution of vertebrate animals. Through his research studying terrestrial verte ...

(United States, 1910-1993) *

Armin Öpik Armin Aleksander Öpik (24 June 1898, in Kunda – 15 January 1983, in Canberra) was an Estonian paleontologist who spent the second half of his career (from 1948) at the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Australia. Early life He was born on a ...

(Estonia / Australia, 1898-1983) *

Alcide d'Orbigny Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropol ...

(France, 1802-1857) * Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (Russia, 1893-1966) * Tor Ørvig (Sweden, 1916-1994) *

Henry Fairfield Osborn Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. He was the president of the American Museum of Natural History for 25 years and a cofounder of the American Euge ...

(United States, 1857-1935) * Halszka Osmólska (Poland, 1930-2008) * John Ostrom (United States, 1928-2005) *

Richard Owen Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkable gift for interpreting fossils. Ow ...

(England, 1804-1892) * Katsura Ōyama (Japan, 1917-1995)

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* Kevin Padian (United States, 1951- ) * Miquel Crusafont i Pairó (Spain, 1910-1983) * Allison R. Palmer (United States, 1927- ) * C. Phil Palmer (England) * Katherine Van Winkle Palmer (United States, 1895–1982) * Heinz Christian Pander (Russia, 1794-1865) * James Parkinson (England, 1755-1824) * William Parks (paleontologist), William Parks (Canada, 1868-1936) * Bryan Patterson (England / United States, 1909-1979) * Colin Patterson (biologist), Colin Patterson (England, 1933-1998) * Gregory S. Paul (United States, 1954- ) * Alexei Petrovich Pavlov (Russia, 1854-1929) * Maria Pavlova (Russia, 1854-1938) * Rajko Pavlovec (Slovenia, 1932-2013) * Frank Peabody (United States, 1914-1958) * Pei Wenzhong (China, 1904-1982) * David P. Penhallow (United States / Canada, 1854-1910) * Ernesto Pérez d'Angelo (Chile, 1932–2013) * Altangerel Perle (Mongolia, 1945- ) * Jaroslav Perner (Czech Republic, 1869-1947) * Léon Pervinquière (France, 1873-1913) * Luigi Piacenza (Italy, 1935-2009) * Josef Ladislav Píč (Czech Republic, 1847-1911) * Martin Pickford (England / Kenya) * Elizabeth Philpot (England, 1780-1857) * Guy Ellcock Pilgrim (England, 1875-1943) * Irajá Damiani Pinto (Brazil, 1919-2014) * Edna P. Plumstead (South Africa, 1903-1989) * P. David Polly (United States / United Kingdom) * Auguste Pomel (France, 1821-1898) * Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (Russia, 1936-2016) * Jean-François-Albert du Pouget (France, 1818-1904) * Vicentino Prestes de Almeida (Brazil, 1900-1954) * Llewellyn Ivor Price (Brazil, 1905-1980) * Donald Prothero (United States, 1954- ) * Mark Purnell (England)

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* Heinrich Quiring (Germany, 1883-1964)

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* Anton Ramovš (Slovenia, 1924-2011) * Alexandr Rasnitsyn (Russia) * Guilherme Rau (Brazil, ?-1953) * David M. Raup (United States, 1933-2015) * Emily Rayfield (England) * Manfred Reichel (Switzerland, 1896-1984) * Osvaldo Reig (Argentina, 1929-1992) * Roy Herbert Reinhart (United States, 1919-2005) * Zeev Reiss (Israel, 1917-1996) * Robert R. Reisz (Canada, 1947- ) * Bernard Renault (botanist), Bernard Renault (France, 1836-1904) * Eugène Renevier (Switzerland, 1831-1906) * Charles Repenning (United States, 1922-2005) * Charles E. Resser (United States, 1889-1943) * Gregory Retallack (United States, 1951- ) * August Emanuel von Reuss (Austria, 1811-1873) * Emma Richter (Germany 1888-1956) * Armand de Ricqlès (France, 1938-1963) * Elmer S. Riggs (United States, 1869-1963) * François Jules Pictet de la Rive (Switzerland, 1809-1872) * John T. Robinson (South Africa, 1923-2001) * Boris Rohdendorf (Russia, 1904-1977) * Josef Victor Rohon (Austria, 1845-1923) * Alfred Romer (United States, 1894-1973) * Marcus R. Ross (United States, 1976- ) * Claudia Roth (paleobiologist), Claudia Roth (France) * Santiago Roth (Switzerland / Argentina, 1850-1924) * Rafael Royo-Torres (Spain) * Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky (Russia, 1920-1983) * John Ruben (United States) * Rudolf Ruedemann (United States, 1864-1956) * Bruce Runnegar (Australia, 1941- ) * Dale Russell (Canada / United States, 1937-2019) * Marcello Ruta (Italy) * Vasiliy E. Ruzhentsev (Russia, 1899-1978) * Natalia Rybczynski (Canada)

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* Karol Sabath (Poland, 1963-2007) * John William Salter (England, 1820-1869) * Scott D. Sampson (Canada, 1961- ) * William J. Sanders (United States) * Ivan Sansom (Wales) * Gaston de Saporta (France, 1823-1895) * Henri Émile Sauvage (France, 1842-1917) * R. J. G. Savage (UK, 1927-1998) * Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh (Sweden, 1910-1948) * Steven Schafersman (United States) * Viera Scheibner (Slovakia, 1935- ) * Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (Switzerland, 1672-1733) * Judith Schiebout (United States) * Erich Maren Schlaikjer (United States, 1905-1972) * Philippe-Charles Schmerling (Netherlands / Belgium, 1790-1836) * Robert M. Schoch (United States) * J. William Schopf (United States, 1941- ) * Frederick Schram (United States, 1943- ) * Charles Schuchert (United States, 1858-1942) * Mary Higby Schweitzer (United States) * William Berryman Scott (United States, 1858-1947) * Samuel Hubbard Scudder (United States, 1837-1911) * Harry Seeley (England, 1839-1909) * Adolf Seilacher (Germany, 1925-2014) * Brigitte Senut (France, 1954–) * Jack Sepkoski (United States, 1948-1999) * Paul Sereno (United States, 1957- ) * Ethel Shakespear (England, 1871-1946) * Nathaniel Shaler (United States, 1841-1906) * Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov (Russia) * Charles Davies Sherborn (England, 1861-1942) * Neil Shubin (United States, 1960- ) * Christian Sidor (United States) * Gloria Jean Siebrecht (United States, 1940- ) * Ion Th. Simionescu (Romania, 1873-1944) * George Gaylord Simpson (United States, 1902-1984) * Martin I. Simpson (England) * Christopher P. Sloan (United States, 1954- ) * M. Paul Smith (England) * Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov (Russia, 1914-2013) * Leonard Frank Spath (England, 1882-1957) * Zdeněk Špinar (Czech Republic, 1916-1995) * Robert Masterman Stainforth (England, 1915-2002) * Herbert F. Standing (Madagascar) * Steven M. Stanley (United States, 1941- ) * Hans Georg Stehlin (Switzerland, 1870-1941) * Erik Stensiö (Sweden, 1891-1984) * Charles Hazelius Sternberg (United States, 1850-1943) * Charles Mortram Sternberg (United States / Canada, 1885-1981) * Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (Czech Republic, 1761-1838) * Charles Stokes (collector), Charles Stokes (England, 1780s-1853) * Ferdinand Stoliczka (Austria / Czech Republic, 1838-1874) * Henry Stopes (England, 1852-1902) * Marie Stopes (England, 1880-1958) * Antonio Stoppani (Italy, 1824-1891) * Leif Størmer (Norway, 1905-1979) * J. Willis Stovall (United States, 1891-1953) * George William Stow (England / South Africa, 1822-1882) * Ernst Stromer (Germany, 1871-1952) * Samuel Stutchbury (England, 1798-1859) * Hans-Dieter Sues (United States) * Robert M. Sullivan (United States, 1951- ) * William Elgin Swinton (Scotland / Canada) * Władysław Szajnocha (Poland, 1857-1928)

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* Mignon Talbot (United States, 1869-1950) * Darren Tanke (Canada, 1960- ) * Philippe Taquet (France, 1940- ) * Paul Tasch (United States, 1910-2001) * Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov (Russia, 1926-2011) * Ian Tattersall (England / United States, 1945- ) * Juan Tavera (Chile, 1917-1991) * Mike P. Taylor (England, 1968- ) * Richard H. Tedford (United States, 1929-2011) * Curt Teichert (Germany / United States, 1905-1996) * Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (France, 1881-1955) * Geneviève Termier (France, 1917-2005) * Henry Testot-Ferry (France, 1826-1869) * Nicolas Théobald (France, 1903-1981) * Robert C. Thorne (United States, 1898-1960) * Raymond Thorsteinsson (Canada, 1921-2012) * Richard A. Thulborn (England) * Bruce H. Tiffney (United States) * Eduard Toll (Russia) * Zsófia Torma (Hungary, 1832-1899) * Ramsay Traquair (Scotland, 1840–1912) * Georges de Tribolet (Switzerland, 1830-1873) * Ronald Pearson Tripp (England, 1914-2001) * Gustaf Troedsson (Sweden, 1891-1954) * Joseph Tyrrell (Canada, 1858-1957)

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* Viktor Uhlig (Austria, 1857-1911) * Edward Oscar Ulrich (United States, 1857-1944) * Franz Unger (Austria, 1800-1870)

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* Pierre-Joseph van Beneden (Belgium, 1809-1894) * Gerard Frederick van Tets (England / Canada / Australia, 1929-1995) * Blaire Van Valkenburgh (United States) * Trevor Valle (United States, 1975- ) * Geerat J. Vermeij (Netherlands / United States, 1946- ) * Édouard de Verneuil (France, 1805-1873) * Patricia Vickers-Rich (United States / Australia, 1944- ) * Emily H. Vokes (United States, 1930- ) * Alexander von Volborth (Russia, 1800-1876) * Giovanni Serafino Volta (Italy, 1764-1842) * Elisabeth Vrba (United States, 1942- ) * Vishnu-Mittre (India, 1924-1991)

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* Charles Wachsmuth (United States, 1829-1896) * C. H. Waddington (England, 1905-1975) * Mary Wade (paleontologist), Mary Wade (Australia, 1928-2005) * Peter J. Wagner (United States, 1964- ) * Norman Arthur Wakefield (Australia, 1918-1972) * Charles Doolittle Walcott (United States, 1850-1927) * Alick Walker (England, 1925-1999) * Cyril Walker (palaeontologist), Cyril Walker (England, 1939-2009) * Arthur Bache Walkom (Australia, 1889-1976) * Xiaoming Wang (paleontologist), Xiaoming Wang (China / United States) * Wang Yuan (palaeontologist), Wang Yuan (China) * Jindřich Wankel (Czech Republic, 1821-1897) * David Ward (palaeontologist), David Ward (England, 1948- ) * Peter Ward (paleontologist), Peter Ward (United States, 1949- ) * Matt J. Wedel (United States) * Wesley Wehr (United States, 1929-2004) * David B. Weishampel (United States, 1952- ) * Samuel Paul Welles (United States, 1907-1997) * John W. Wells (United States, 1907-1994) * Lars Werdelin (Sweden, 1955- ) * Richard Gilbert West (England, 1926-2020) * Charles M. Wheatley (United States, 1822-1882) * Charles Abiathar White (United States, 1826-1910) * Joseph Frederick Whiteaves (England / Canada, 1835-1909) * Harry B. Whittington (England, 1916-2010) * Christopher H. Whittle (United States, 1959- ) * Joan Wiffen (New Zealand, 1922-2009) * Paul Wignall (England, 1964- ) * James Steele Williams (United States, 1896-1957) * Samuel Wendell Williston (United States, 1851-1918) * Alice Wilson (Canada, 1881-1964) * Jeffrey A. Wilson (United States) * Carl Wiman (Sweden, 1867-1944) * Tiberius Cornelis Winkler (Netherlands, 1822-1897) * Henry Witham (England, 1779-1844) * Lawrence Witmer (United States) * Mark P. Witton (England) * Jack A. Wolfe (United States, 1936-2005) * Searles Valentine Wood (England, 1798-1880) * Henry Woods (geologist), Henry Woods (England, 1868-1952) * Arthur Smith Woodward (England, 1864-1944) * Henry Woodward (geologist), Henry Woodward (England, 1832-1921) * Amos Henry Worthen (United States, 1813-1888) * Trevor H. Worthy (New Zealand, 1957- ) * Claud William Wright (England, 1917-2010) * Thomas Wright (geologist), Thomas Wright (Scotland, 1809-1884) * Andre Wyss (United States)

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* Xu Xing (paleontologist), Xu Xing (China)

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* Yang Zhongjian (China, 1897-1979) * Lorenzo Gordin Yates (United States, 1837-1909) * Ivan Yefremov (Russia, 1908-1972) * Xiaobo Yu (China)

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* Mikhail Zalessky (Russia, 1877-1946) * Lindsay Zanno (United States) * Otto Zdansky (Austria, 1894-1988) * Charles René Zeiller (France, 1847-1915) * Zhao Xijin (China) * Vladimir Zherikhin (Russia) * Zhou Ming-Zhen (China, 1918-1996) * Zhou Zhonghe (China, 1965- ) * Jiri Zidek (paleontologist), Jiri Zidek (Czech Republic / United States) * Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker (Netherlands / South Africa, 1907-2002)

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