List of marine biologists
This is a list of marine biologists.
- Donald Putnam Abbott, American marine invertebrate zoologist
- Isabella Aiona Abbott, American marine botanist
- Ali Abdelghany, Egyptian marine biologist
- Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf, Swedish marine zoologist
- Leanne Armand, Australian marine scientist
- Samuel Stillman Berry, American marine zoologist
- Henry Bryant Bigelow, American marine biologist
- Jean Bouillon, Belgian marine zoologist
- Rachel Carson, American marine biologist and author
- María Elena Caso, Mexican marine biologist
- Carl Chun, German marine biologist
- Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist
- Malcolm Clarke, British cephalopod expert
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker
- Charles Darwin, wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs while aboard
- Paul K. Dayton, American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology
- Finn Devold, Norwegian marine biologist
- Anton Dohrn, German marine biologist
- Nicole Dubilier, American marine microbiologist, head of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- Patricia Louise Dudley American zoologist specializing in copepods
- Sylvia Earle, American oceanographer
- Austin Gallagher, marine biologist
- Ruth Gates, American marine biologist noted for work on coral reefs
- George Brown Goode, American ichthyologist
- Philip Henry Gosse, English marine zoologist
- J. Frederick Grassle, American marine biologist
- Judith Grassle, marine ecologist
- David Gruber Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.
- Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- Ernst Haeckel, German physician, zoologist, marine biologist and evolutionist
- Benjamin Halpern, American marine conservationist
- Hans Hass, Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer
- Gotthilf Hempel, German marine biologist
- Stephen Hillenburg, American animator ; previously worked as a marine biology teacher for several years
- Hirohito, the Shōwa Emperor, jellyfish taxonomist
- Johan Hjort, Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
- Bruno Hofer, German fisheries scientist
- Martin W. Johnson, American marine biologist and biological oceanographer
- Benjamin Kahn, Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist
- Uwe Kils, German marine biologist
- Otto Kinne, German marine biologist
- Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea
- August David Krohn, Russian/German zoologist
- Paul L. Kramp, Danish zoologist working on jellyfish
- William Elford Leach, English zoologist and marine biologist
- Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
- Melissa Cristina Márquez, "Mother of Sharks," marine biologist and science communicator
- Flower Msuya, Tanzanian phycologist
- Sir John Murray, Scots-Canadian marine biologist
- Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae
- Robert T. Paine, American marine zoologist known for developing the "keystone species" concept
- Joseph R. Pawlik, American marine biologist
- Ronald C. Phillips, American marine botanist, co-author of Seagrasses ; worldwide development of seagrass science told in autobiographical Travels with Seagrass
- Syed Zahoor Qasim, Indian marine biologist
- Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology
- Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
- Anne Rudloe, American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
- Jack Rudloe, 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, British marine biologist known for his work on zooplankton.
- Georg Sars, Norwegian marine biologist
- Michael Sars, Norwegian theologian and biologist
- Oscar Elton Sette, American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography
- Bell M. Shimada, American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering studies of tuna stocks in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
- Ronald Shimek, American marine biologist noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods
- Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish marine biologist
- Gunnar Thorson, Danish marine biologist
- Anne Thynne, British marine zoologist
- Takasi Tokioka, Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates
- Ruth Turner, marine biologist
- Anna Weber-van Bosse, marine phycologist