List of ornithologists

List of famous ornithologists

• Horace Alexander (UK, later USA)
• John James Audubon (USA)
• Jean Francois Emmanuel Baillon
• Spencer Fullerton Baird (USA)
• Thomas Bewick (UK)
• Edward Blyth (UK)
• Charles Lucien Bonaparte (France)
• James Bond
• Franco Andrea Bonelli (Italy)
• Thomas Mayo Brewer (USA)
• John Cassin (USA)
• Elliott Coues (USA)
• George Edwards (UK), the "Father of British ornithology"
• Frederick DuCane Godman (UK)
• John Gooders (UK)
• John Gould (UK)
• Janez Gregori (Slovenia)
• George Robert Gray (UK)
• John Edward Gray (UK; brother of the above)
• Edward Grey (Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Baronet, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon; UK)
• Iztok Geister (Slovenia)
• Theodor Von Heuglin (Germany)
• William Henry Hudson
• John Latham (UK)
• Thomas Littleton Powys the Fourth Baron Lilford (UK)
• Konrad Lorenz (Austria)
• William MacGillivray (UK)
• Chris Mead (UK)
• George Montagu (UK)
• Guy Mountfort (UK)
• Alfred Newton (UK)
• Margaret Morse Nice (USA)
• Max Nicholson (UK)
• Bill Oddie (UK)
• Peter Simon Pallas (Germany)
• Roger Tory Peterson (USA)
• Lionel Walter Rothschild (UK)
• Sir Edward Sabine (UK)
• Paolo Savi (Italy)
• Peter Scott (UK)
• Charles Sibley (USA)
• Tony Soper (UK)
• Georg Steller (Germany)
• Hugh Edwin Strickland (UK)
• William Swainson (UK)
• Colonel W. H. Sykes (UK)
• Coenraad Jacob Temminck (Netherlands)
• Arthur Landsborough Thomson (UK)
• Niko Tinbergen (Netherlands)
• Bernard Tucker (UK)
• William Turner (UK)
• Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (France)
• Gilbert White (UK)
• Francis Willughby (UK)
• Alexander Wilson (USA)
• Harry Witherby (UK)