List of ornithologists
This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also Category:Ornithologists.
A-D
- Humayun Abdulali – India
- Prince Akishino – Japan
- Christopher James Alexander – UK
- Horace Alexander – UK, US
- Wilfred Backhouse Alexander – UK
- Salim Ali – India
- Joel Asaph Allen – US
- Dean Amadon – US
- Yves Aubry – Canada
- Jean Victoire Audouin – France
- John James Audubon – France, US
- Oliver L. Austin – US
- Spencer Fullerton Baird – US
- E. C. Stuart Baker – UK
- Outram Bangs – US
- Phyllis Barclay-Smith – UK
- Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland
- Brian Bell - New Zealand
- Charles Bendire – US
- E. Alexander Bergstrom – US
- Hans von Berlepsch – Germany
- Thomas Bewick – UK
- Eugene P. Bicknell – US
- Biswamoy Biswas – India
- Johann Heinrich Blasius – Germany
- Edward Blyth – UK
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte – France
- James Bond – US
- Franco Andrea Bonelli – Italy
- Mark Brazil – UK
- Christian Ludwig Brehm – Germany
- Thomas Mayo Brewer – US
- William Brewster – US
- Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke – UK
- Thomas Browne – UK, early British amateur (17th century)
- Carl Friedrich Bruch – Germany
- Morten Thrane Brünnich – Denmark
- Walter Buller – New Zealand
- Sergei Buturlin – Russia
- John Cassin – US
- Jean Cabanis – Germany
- Frank Chapman – US
- Glen Chilton – Canada, Australia
- Phillip Clancey – South Africa
- Nigel Cleere – UK
- Charles B. Cory – US
- Elliott Coues – US
- John Courtney – Australia
Stefan Danko - Slovakia
- Priya Davidar – India
- Elio Augusto Di Carlo – Italy
- Charles-Eusèbe Dionne – Canada (Quebec)
- John Disney – UK, Australia
- Jean Dorst – France
- Henry Eeles Dresser – UK
E-H
- George Edwards – UK, "Father of British ornithology"
- Elon Howard Eaton – US
- Eugene Eisenmann – US
- Carlo von Erlanger – Germany
- Arthur Humble Evans – UK
- Robert Falla – New Zealand
- Otto Finsch – Germany
- R. S. R. Fitter – UK
- John W. Fitzpatrick – US
- Jim Flegg – UK
- Joseph Forshaw – Australia
- Percy Evans Freke – Ireland
- Kilian Frensch – Germany
- Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil
- William Gambel – US
- Heinrich Gaetke – Germany
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – France
- Frank Gill – US
- Theodore Gill – US
- Robert Gillmor – UK
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin – Germany
- Frederick DuCane Godman – UK
- Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez – Spain
- Derek Goodwin – UK
- Philip Henry Gosse – UK
- John Gould – UK
- George Robert Gray – UK
- John Edward Gray – UK (brother of the above)
- Andrew Jackson Grayson – US
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon – UK
- Ludlow Griscom – US
- Johan Ernst Gunnerus – Norway
- Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany
- Ernst Hartert – Germany
- Gustav Hartlaub – Germany
- Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale – UK
- George Morrison Reid Henry – British Empire (British Ceylon)
- Henry Wetherbee Henshaw – US
- Theodor Von Heuglin – Germany
- John_Hobbs – UK, Australia
- Carl Peter Holbøll – Denmark
- Alexander von Homeyer – Germany
- Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer – Germany
- Thomas Horsfield – US
- Eliot Howard – UK
- William Henry Hudson – Argentina, UK
- Allan Octavian Hume – British Empire (British India)
- Rob Hume – UK
- Syed Abdulla Hussain – India
- Frederick Wollaston Hutton – British Empire, New Zealand
I-L
- Tom Iredale – UK – Australia
- Hussein Adan Isack – Kenya
- Helen F. James – US
- Thomas Jefferson – US
- Thomas C. Jerdon – British Empire, British India
- Hans Johansen – Russia – Denmark
- Hermann Johansen – Russia
- Richard F. Johnston – US
- Christian Jouanin – France
- George Junge – Netherlands
- Janet Kear – UK
- Lavkumar Khachar – India
- Jared Kirtland – US
- Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany
- Maria Koepcke – Peru
- Niels Krabbe – Denmark
- Nagamichi Kuroda – Japan
- Sayako Kuroda – Japan
- David Lack – UK
- Bill Lane – Australia
- John Latham – UK
- George Newbold Lawrence – US
- William Elford Leach – UK
- René Lesson – France
- Martin Lichtenstein – Germany
- Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford – UK
- Konrad Lorenz – Austria
- Michel Louette – Belgium
- Percy Lowe – UK
M-P
- William MacGillivray – UK
- Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary
- Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany
- Stephen Marchant – Australia
- Charles Henry Tilson Marshall – British Empire, British India
- Gregory Mathews – Australia
- Ernst Mayr – US
- John Porter McCown – US
- Charles McKay – US
- Chris Mead – UK
- Edgar Alexander Mearns – US
- Annie Meinertzhagen – UK
- Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen – UK
- C. Hart Merriam – US
- Olivier Messiaen – France
- Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee – US
- Clive Minton – Australia
- Robert Thomas Moore – US
- Burt Monroe – US
- George Montagu – UK
- John J. Montgomery – US
- Guy Mountfort – UK
- Robert Cushman Murphy – US
- Durno Murray – Australia
- René de Naurois – France
- Eric Neumann - US
- Oscar Neumann – Germany
- Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia
- Alfred Newton – UK
- Ian Newton – UK
- Margaret Morse Nice – US
- Max Nicholson – UK
- Alexander von Nordmann – Finland
- Harry C. Oberholser – US
- Bill Oddie – UK
- Storrs L. Olson – US
- Peter Simon Pallas – Germany
- Theodore A. Parker III – US
- Kenneth C. Parkes – US
- Titian Peale – US
- Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US
- James Lee Peters – US
- Roger Tory Peterson – US
- William Henry Phelps – US
- William H. Phelps, Jr. – Venezuela
- Robert Allan Phillips - US
- Graham Pizzey – Australia
- Poornachandra Tejaswi – India
Q-T
- Vo Quy – Vietnam
- Stamford Raffles – UK, Singapore
- Anton Reichenow – Germany
- Pauline Reilly – Australia
- Bernhard Rensch – Germany
- John Richardson – UK, Scotland
- Charles Wallace Richmond – US
- Robert S. Ridgely – US
- John Livzey Ridgway – US
- Robert Ridgway – US
- Sidney Dillon Ripley – US
- Edward Hearle Rodd, – UK
- Theodore Roosevelt – US
- Ben Rosen – US
- Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild – UK
- Sir Edward Sabine – UK
- Finn Salomonsen – Denmark
- Tommaso Salvadori – Italy
- Osbert Salvin – UK
- Howard Saunders – UK
- Paolo Savi – Italy
- Hermann Schlegel – Germany, Netherlands
- Philip Lutley Sclater – UK
- William Lutley Sclater – UK
- Giovanni Antonio Scopoli – Austria, Tyrol
- J. Michael Scott – US
- Peter Scott – UK
- Richard Bowdler Sharpe – UK
- Althea Sherman – US
- Hadoram Shirihai – Israel
- Lester L. Short – US
- Charles Sibley – US
- Helmut Sick – Brazil
- Ken Simpson – Australia
- Alexander Skutch – UA
- Andrew Smith – UK, Scotland
- Bertram E. Smythies – UK
- David Snow and Barbara Snow – UK
- Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden
- Daniel Spinelli - US
- Isaac Sprague – US
- Joseph Beal Steere – US
- Leonhard Stejneger – Norway – US
- Georg Steller – Germany
- Leo Stepanyan – USSR, Armenia
- Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic
- Robert W. Storer – US
- Erwin Stresemann – Germany
- Hugh Edwin Strickland – UK
- J. Denis Summers-Smith – UK
- Carl Jakob Sundevall – Sweden
- Petr Sushkin – Russia
- William Swainson – UK
- Charles Swinhoe – UK
- Robert Swinhoe – UK
- Colonel W. H. Sykes – UK
- Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Netherlands
- Johannes Thienemann – Germany
- Arthur Landsborough Thomson – UK
- Samuel Tickell – India
- Niko Tinbergen – Netherlands
- Walter Edmond Clyde Todd – US
- John Kirk Townsend – US
- Alberto O. Treganza – US
- Henry Baker Tristram – UK
- Johann Jakob von Tschudi – Switzerland
- Bernard Tucker – UK
- Marmaduke Tunstall – UK
- William Turner – UK
U-Z
- Tatsuo Utagawa – Japan
- Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot – France
- Jacques Van Impe – Belgium
- Édouard Verreaux – France
- Jules Verreaux – France
- Keith Vinicombe – UK
- Karel Voous – Netherlands
- Will Wagstaff – UK
- Lawrence H. Walkinshaw – US
- Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay – UK
- George Waterston – UK
- Hugo Weigold – Germany
- Alexander Wetmore – US
- Hugh Whistler – India
- Gilbert White – UK
- Iolo Williams – Wales
- Francis Willughby – UK
- Alexander Wilson – Scotland, US
- Kerry-Jayne Wilson – NZ
- Scott Barchard Wilson – UK
- Marie Winn – US
- Harry Witherby – UK
- Hans Edmund Wolters – Germany
- John Xantus – Hungary
- Yoshimaro Yamashina – Japan
- William Yarrell – UK
- Nikolai Zarudny – Ukraine
- John Todd Zimmer – US
- Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy
