List of ornithologists

A

• John Abbot – US
• Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US
• William Louis Abbott – US
• Humayun Abdulali — India
• Joseph H. Acklen – US
• Humayun Abdulali – India
• Jon E. Ahlquist – US
• Prince Akishino – Japan
• Luigi d'Albertis – Italy
• John Warren Aldrich – US
• Boyd Alexander – England
• Christopher James Alexander – England
• Horace Alexander – England/US
• Wilfred Backhouse Alexander – England
• Salim Ali – India
• Arthur Augustus Allen – US
• Elsa Guerdrum Allen – US
• Glover Morrill Allen – US
• Joel Asaph Allen – US
• Robert Porter Allen – US
• György Almásy – Hungary/Austria
• Per Alström – Sweden
• Bernard Altum – Germany
• Dean Amadon – US
• George W. Archibald – Canada/US
• John Ash – England
• Edwin Ashby – Australia
• Henry Philemon Attwater – England/Canada/US
• Yves Aubry – Canada
• Jean Victoire Audouin – France
• John James Audubon – France/US
• Oliver L. Austin – US
• Félix de Azara – Spain

  B

• Walther Bacmeister – Germany
• Alfred Marshall Bailey – US
• Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey – US
• Jean-Baptiste Bailly – France
• Spencer Fullerton Baird – US
• E. C. Stuart Baker – England
• Russell Balda – US
• August Carl Eduard Baldamus – Germany
• Jean-Christophe Balouet – France
• Vladimir Balthasar – Czech Republic
• Betsy Bang – US
• Outram Bangs – US
• V. B. Banjkovski – Russia
• Richard C. Banks – US
• David Armitage Bannerman – UK
• Phyllis Barclay-Smith – UK
• Pierre Barrère – France
• Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland
• Walter B. Barrows – US
• George A. Bartholomew – US
• Edward Bartlett – UK
• William Bartram – US
• Charles Foster Batchelder – US
• George Latimer Bates – US
• E. V. Baxter – Scotland
• Robert Cecil Beavan – England
• Johann Matthäus Bechstein – Germany
• Rollo Beck – US
• Jean-Baptiste Bécœur – France
• William Beebe – US
• Bruce Beehler – US
• William H. Behle – US
• Lyman Belding – US
• Brian Bell – New Zealand
• John Graham Bell – US
• Lev Osipovich Belopolsky – USSR
• Charles Bendire – US
• Constantine Walter Benson – England
• Arthur Cleveland Bent – US
• Andrew John Berger – US
• E. Alexander Bergstrom – US
• Hans von Berlepsch – Germany
• Grace Berlin – US
• Jacques Berlioz - France
• Victor Besaucèle – France
• Thomas Bewick – England
• Valentin Bianchi – Russia
• Eugene P. Bicknell – US
• Tim Birkhead – UK
• Biswamoy Biswas – India
• Gladys Black – US
• Emmet Reid Blake – US
• William Thomas Blanford – England
• August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius – Germany
• Johann Heinrich Blasius – Germany
• Rudolf Blasius – Germany
• Edward Blyth – England
• George Augustus Boardman – US/Canada
• José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage – Portugal
• Walter Joseph Bock – US
• Pieter Boddaert – Netherlands
• Hans von Boetticher – Germany
• Nikolay Boev – Bulgaria
• Zlatozar Boev – Bulgaria
• Friedrich Boie – Germany
• Auguste Boissonneau – France
• Charles Lucien Bonaparte – France
• James Bond – US
• Franco Andrea Bonelli – Italy
• J. Lewis Bonhote – England
• Bernard Borggreve – Germany
• José Ignacio Borrero – Cuba
• Donald J. Borror – US
• Adolphe Boucard – France
• Rudyerd Boulton – US
• Jules Bourcier – France
• Frank Swift Bourns – US
• Louis Hippolyte Bouteille – France
• Johann Friedrich von Brandt – Germany/Russia
• Rex Brasher – US
• Mark Brazil – England/Japan
• Alfred Brehm – Germany
• Christian Ludwig Brehm – Germany
• Thomas Mayo Brewer – US
• William Brewster – US
• Mathurin Jacques Brisson – France
• Pierce Brodkorb – US
• Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke – England
• Allan Brooks – Canada
• William Edwin Brooks – Ireland/India
• Herbert Brown – US
• Nathan Clifford Brown – US
• Thomas Browne – England
• Carl Friedrich Bruch – Germany
• Friedrich Brüggemann – Germany
• Morten Thrane Brünnich – Denmark
• William Alanson Bryan – US
• Henry Bryant – US
• Theodor Bühler-Lindenmeyer – Switzerland
• Walter Buller – New Zealand
• William John Burchell – England
• Hermann Burmeister – Germany
• Edward H. Burtt Jr. – US
• Arthur Lennox Butler – India/England
• Edward Arthur Butler – England
• Johann Büttikofer – Switzerland/Netherlands/Liberia
• Sergei Buturlin – Russia

  C

• Jean Cabanis – Germany
• Samuel Cabot III – US
• Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo – Brazil
• Archibald George Campbell – Australia
• Archibald James Campbell – Australia
• Melbourne Armstrong Carriker – US
• John Cassin – US
• Montague Chamberlain – Canada/US
• James Chapin – US
• Frank Chapman – US
• Frederick Nutter Chasen – England/Singapore
• Robert Ernest Cheesman – England
• Tso-hsin Cheng – China
• George Kruck Cherrie – US/Costa Rica
• John Lewis Childs – US
• Glen Chilton – Canada/Australia
• Leslie Christidis – Australia
• Tadeusz Chrostowski – Poland
• Charles Chubb – England
• Phillip Clancey – South Africa
• Austin Hobart Clark – US
• Nigel Cleere – England
• James Clements – US
• Stanley Cobb – US
• Herbert L. Coggins – US
• Leon Jacob Cole – US
• Peter Colston – UK
• Herbert Thomas Condon – Australia
• Boardman Conover – US
• William G. Conway – US
• Wells Cooke – US
• Emilio Cornalia – Italy
• Charles B. Cory – US
• Elliott Coues – US
• John Courtney – Australia
• Lee Crandall – US
• Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar – Germany
• Maunsell Crosby – US
• Georges Cuvier – France
• Ede Czynk – Hungary

  D

• Roberto Dabbene – Italy/Argentina
• Raymond de Dalmas – France
• François Marie Daudin – France
• Priya Davidar – India
• William Leon Dawson – US
• William Ryan Dawson – US
• Charles Walter De Vis – England/Australia
• C. Douglas Deane – UK
• Ruthven Deane – US
• Côme-Damien Degland – France
• Dudley DeGroot – US
• Herbert Girton Deignan – US
• Jean Théodore Delacour – France/US
• Jacques Delamain – France
• Adolphe Delattre – France
• Georgi Petrovich Dementiev – USSR
• Louis Denise – France
• Antoon Emeric Marcel De Roo – Belgium
• Jean-Marie Derscheid – Belgium
• René Louiche Desfontaines – France
• Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs – France
• Barbara DeWolfe – US
• Douglas Dewar – England
• Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji – India
• Elio Augusto Di Carlo – Italy
• Jared Diamond – US
• Elizabeth Dickens – US
• Edward C. Dickinson – English
• Donald Ryder Dickey – US
• Charles-Eusèbe Dionne – Canada
• John Disney – UK, Australia
• Viktor Rafaelyevich Dolnik – USSR/Russia
• Janusz Domaniewski – Poland
• Caroline Dormon – US
• Jean Dorst – France
• Henry Eeles Dresser – England
• Rudolf Drost – Germany
• Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois – Belgium
• Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Netherlands/Belgium
• Armando Dugand – Colombia
• Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix – France
• Andrzej Dunajewski – Poland
• William Dutcher – US
• Jonathan Dwight – US
• Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki – Poland

  E

• George Edwards – England, "Father of British ornithology"
• Elon Howard Eaton – US
• Scott V. Edwards – US
• Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg – Germany
• Eugene Eisenmann – US
• Walter Elmer Ekblaw – US
• Carl R. Eklund – US
• Daniel Giraud Elliot – US
• Sir Hugh Elliott, 3rd Baronet – England
• Christian Érard – France
• Carlo von Erlanger – Germany
• Carl Euler – Switzerland
• Arthur Humble Evans – England
• Eduard Friedrich Eversmann – Germany
• Thomas Campbell Eyton – England

  F

• Frederik Faber – Denmark
• Robert Falla – New Zealand
• Donald S. Farner – US
• Norman Joseph Favaloro – Australia
• Walter Faxon – US
• Alan Feduccia – US
• Christoph Feldegg – Austria
• Frank Finn – England
• Otto Finsch – Germany
• Gustav Fischer – Germany
• Albert Kenrick Fisher – US
• James Maxwell McConnell Fisher – England
• Kenneth Fisher – England
• R. S. R. Fitter – England
• John W. Fitzpatrick – US
• Jon Fjeldså – Norway
• Jim Flegg – England
• Charles Fleming – New Zealand
• James Henry Fleming – Canada
• Edward Howe Forbush – US
• Joseph Forshaw – Australia
• Johann Reinhold Forster – Poland-Lithuania/England
• James Franklin – England/India
• Louis Fraser – England
• Percy Evans Freke – Ireland
• Herbert Friedmann – US
• Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil
• János Frivaldszky – Hungary
• Louis Agassiz Fuertes – US
• Max Fürbringer – Germany

  G

• Gaszton Gaál – Hungary
• Hans Friedrich Gadow – Germany
• Joseph Paul Gaimard – France
• Tim Gallagher – US
• William Gambel – US
• Wulf Gatter – Germany
• Heinrich Gaetke – Germany
• Prosper Garnot – France
• Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – France
• Zéphirin Gerbe – France
• Hans Freiherr Geyr von Schweppenburg – Germany
• Enrico Hillyer Giglioli – Italy
• Frank Gill – US
• Theodore Gill – US
• Ernest Thomas Gilliard – US
• Robert Gillmor – England
• Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov – USSR
• Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger – Germany
• Johann Friedrich Gmelin – Germany
• Frederick DuCane Godman – England
• Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen – England
• Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez – Spain
• Derek Goodwin – England
• Philip Henry Gosse – England
• John Gould – England
• Claude H. B. Grant – England
• Rolf Grantsau – Germany/Brazil
• George Robert Gray – England
• John Edward Gray – England
• Andrew Jackson Grayson – US
• James Greenway – US
• Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon – England
• Joseph Grinnell – US
• Ludlow Griscom – US
• Hermann Grote – Germany
• Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard – France
• Johan Ernst Gunnerus – Norway
• Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning – Netherlands/South Africa
• John Henry Gurney Jr. – UK
• John Henry Gurney Sr. – UK
• Eberhard Gwinner – Germany
• Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe – Sweden