List of famous ornithologists

ornithologists

A-D

• Humayun Abdulali (India)
• Horace Alexander (UK, later USA)
• Wilfred Backhouse Alexander (UK)
• Salim Ali (India)
• Joel Asaph Allen (USA)
• Dean Amadon (USA)
• Jean Victoire Audouin (France)
• John James Audubon (USA)
• Jean Francois Emmanuel Baillon
• Spencer Fullerton Baird (USA)
• Thomas Bewick (UK)
• Biswamoy Biswas (India)
• Johann Heinrich Blasius (Germany)
• Edward Blyth (UK)
• Charles Lucien Bonaparte (France)
• James Bond (USA)
• Franco Andrea Bonelli (Italy)
• Christian Ludwig Brehm, (Germany)
• Thomas Mayo Brewer (USA)
• Walter Buller (New Zealand)
• John Cassin (USA)
• Charles B. Cory (USA)
• Elliott Coues (USA)
• Georgii Petrovitch Dementiev (Russia)
• Jean Dorst (France)

E-H

• George Edwards (UK), the "Father of British ornithology"
• Otto Finsch (Germany)
• Jim Flegg (UK)
• Frank B. Gill (USA)
• N. A. Gladkov
• Frederick DuCane Godman (UK)
• John Gooders (UK)
• Philip Henry Gosse (UK)
• John Gould (UK)
• Janez Gregori (Slovenia)
• George Robert Gray (UK)
• John Edward Gray (UK; brother of the above)
• Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (UK)
• Iztok Geister (Slovenia)
• Ernst Hartert (Germany)
• Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (UK)
• Theodor Von Heuglin (Germany)
• William Henry Hudson
• Allan Octavian Hume (UK) (India)
• Rob Hume (UK)

I-L

• Thomas C. Jerdon (UK) (India)
• Nagamichi Kuroda (Japan)
• David Lack (UK)
• John Latham (UK)
• Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (UK)
• Konrad Lorenz (Austria)
• Gail Carter Lott (UK)

M-P

• William MacGillivray (UK)
• Charles Henry Tilson Marshall (India/UK)
• Gregory Mathews (Australia)
• Chris Mead (UK)
• Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen (UK)
• George Montagu (UK)
• Guy Mountfort (UK)
• Alfred Newton (UK)
• Margaret Morse Nice (USA)
• Max Nicholson (UK)
• Bill Oddie (UK)
• Peter Simon Pallas (Germany)
• James Lee Peters (USA)
• Roger Tory Peterson (USA)
• Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr (USA)

Q-T

• Robert Ridgway (USA)
• Sidney Dillon Ripley (USA)
• Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (UK)
• Sir Edward Sabine (UK)
• Paolo Savi (Italy)
• Peter Scott (UK)
• Charles Sibley (USA)
• Bertram E. Smythies (UK)
• Tony Soper (UK)
• Georg Steller (Germany)
• Ferdinand Stoliczka (Austria)
• Hugh Edwin Strickland (UK)
• William Swainson (UK)
• Robert Swinhoe (UK)
• Colonel W. H. Sykes (UK)
• Coenraad Jacob Temminck (Netherlands)
• Arthur Landsborough Thomson (UK)
• Samuel Tickell (India)
• Niko Tinbergen (Netherlands)
• Bernard Tucker (UK)
• Marmaduke Tunstall (UK)
• William Turner (UK)

U-Z

• Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (France)
• Karel Voous (Netherlands)
• Joel Carl Welty (USA)
• Hugh Whistler (UK, India)
• Gilbert White (UK)
• Francis Willughby (UK)
• Alexander Wilson (USA)
• Harry Witherby (UK)
• William Yarrell (UK)