List of marine biologists

List of marine biologists

This is a list of marine biologists.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqua-lung, is well known for popularizing marine biology.

• Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist • Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919–2010), American marine botanist • Ali Abdelghany (born 1944), Egyptian marine biologist • Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist • Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist • Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), American marine zoologist • Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), American marine biologist • Jean Bouillon (1926–2009), Belgian marine zoologist • Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American marine biologist and author • María Elena Caso (1915–1991), Mexican marine biologist • Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist • Eugenie Clark (1922–2015), American marine biologist • Malcolm Clarke (1930–2013), British cephalopod expert • Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard HMS Beagle • Paul K. Dayton (born 1941), American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology • Finn Devold (1902–1977), Norwegian marine biologist • Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist • Nicole Dubilier, American marine microbiologist, head of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology • Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004) American zoologist specializing in copepods • Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer • Austin Gallagher, marine biologist • Ruth Gates (1962–2018), American marine biologist noted for work on coral reefs • George Brown Goode (1851–1896), American ichthyologist • Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), English marine zoologist • J. Frederick Grassle (1939–2018), American marine biologist • Judith Grassle, marine ecologist • David Gruber Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer. • Gordon Gunter (1909–1998), American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico • Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German physician, zoologist, marine biologist and evolutionist • Benjamin Halpern, American marine conservationist • Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer • Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist • Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator (creator of SpongeBob SquarePants); previously worked as a marine biology teacher for several years • Hirohito, the Shōwa Emperor (1901–1989), jellyfish taxonomist • Johan Hjort (1869–1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES • Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist • Martin W. Johnson (1893–1984), American marine biologist and biological oceanographer • Benjamin Kahn (born 1955), Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist • Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist • Otto Kinne (1923–2015), German marine biologist • Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea (2010) • August David Krohn (1803–1891), Russian/German zoologist • Paul L. Kramp (1887–1975), Danish zoologist working on jellyfish • William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist • Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846–1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist • Melissa Cristina Márquez, "Mother of Sharks," marine biologist and science communicator • Flower Msuya (born 1959), Tanzanian phycologist • Sir John Murray (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist • Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816–1872), Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae • Robert T. Paine (1933–2016), American marine zoologist known for developing the "keystone species" concept • Joseph R. Pawlik (born 1960), American marine biologist • Ronald C. Phillips (1932–2005), American marine botanist, co-author of Seagrasses (1980); worldwide development of seagrass science told in autobiographical Travels with Seagrass (2013) • Syed Zahoor Qasim (born 1926), Indian marine biologist • Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology • Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology • Anne Rudloe (1947–2012), American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory • Jack Rudloe (born 1943), American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory and writer of several popular works on the sea including The Sea Brings Forth, and The Erotic Ocean. • Frederick Stratten Russell (1897–1984), British marine biologist known for his work on zooplankton. • Georg Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist • Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist • Helen Scales (fl. 2026), British marine biologist and writer • Oscar Elton Sette (1900–1972), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography • Bell M. Shimada (1922–1958), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering studies of tuna stocks in the equatorial Pacific Ocean • Ronald Shimek (born 1948), American marine biologist noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods • Charles Wyville Thomson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist • Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971), Danish marine biologist • Anne Thynne (1800–1866), British marine zoologist • Takasi Tokioka (1913–2001), Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates • Ruth Turner (1915–2000), marine biologist • Anna Weber-van Bosse (1852–1942), marine phycologist