# List of carcinologists

This is a list of notable carcinologists. A carcinologist is a scientist who studies crustaceans or is otherwise involved in carcinology (the science of crustaceans).
| Name | Born | Died | Country |
| Arthur Adams | 1820 | 1878 | United Kingdom |
| Shane T. Ahyong | | | Australia |
| Alfred William Alcock | 1859 | 1933 | United Kingdom |
| Donald Anderson | 1939 | | Australia |
| William Baird | 1803 | 1872 | United Kingdom |
| Heinrich Balss | 1886 | 1957 | Germany |
| Keppel Harcourt Barnard | 1887 | 1964 | South Africa |
| Paul Bartsch | 1871 | 1960 | United States |
| Thomas Bell | 1792 | 1880 | United Kingdom |
| James Everard Benedict | 1854 | 1940 | United States |
| Dorothy E. Bliss | 1916 | 1987 | United States |
| Lancelot Alexander Borradaile | 1872 | 1945 | United Kingdom |
| Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc | 1759 | 1828 | France |
| Edward L. Bousfield | 1926 | 2016 | Canada |
| Geoffrey A. Boxshall | 1950 | | United Kingdom |
| Eugène Louis Bouvier | 1856 | 1944 | France |
| Thomas Elliot Bowman III | 1918 | 1995 | United States |
| George Stewardson Brady | 1832 | 1921 | United Kingdom |
| Johann Friedrich von Brandt | 1802 | 1879 | Germany |
| Gustav Henrik Andreas Budde-Lund | 1846 | 1911 | Denmark |
| Martin Burkenroad | 1910 | 1986 | United States |
| William Thomas Calman | 1871 | 1952 | United Kingdom |
| Fenner Albert Chace, Jr. | 1908 | 2004 | United States |
| Charles Chilton | 1860 | 1929 | New Zealand |
| Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus | 1835 | 1899 | Germany |
| J. Stanley Cobb | 1942 | 2020 | United States |
| Giuseppe Colosi | 1892 | 1975 | Italy |
| Alain G. P. Crosnier | 1930 | 2021 | France |
| Eugen von Daday | 1855 | 1920 | Romania |
| James Dwight Dana | 1813 | 1895 | United States |
| Charles Darwin | 1809 | 1882 | United Kingdom |
| Wilhem de Haan | 1801 | 1855 | Netherlands |
| Johannes Govertus de Man | 1850 | 1930 | Netherlands |
| Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest | 1784 | 1838 | France |
| Johan Christian Fabricius | 1745 | 1808 | Denmark |
| Walter Faxon | 1848 | 1920 | United States |
| Darryl L. Felder | | | United States |
| Milton F. Fingerman | 1928 | | United States |
| Joseph F. Fitzpatrick, Jr. | 1932 | 2002 | United States |
| Jacques Forest | 1920 | 2012 | France |
| Wilhelm Giesbrecht | 1854 | 1913 | Germany |
| Martin Glaessner | 1906 | 1989 | Australia |
| Isabella Gordon | 1901 | 1988 | United Kingdom |
| Karl Grobben | 1854 | 1945 | Austria |
| Jean Abel Gruvel | 1870 | 1941 | France |
| Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville | 1799 | 1874 | France |
| Danièle Guinot | 1933 | | France |
| Robert Gurney | 1879 | 1950 | United Kingdom |
| Hans Jacob Hansen | 1855 | 1936 | Denmark |
| William Aitcheson Haswell | 1854 | 1925 | United Kingdom |
| Adrian Hardy Haworth | 1768 | 1833 | United Kingdom |
| William Perry Hay | 1872 | 1947 | United States |
| Camill Heller | 1823 | 1917 | Austria |
| Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst | 1743 | 1807 | Germany |
| Robert R. Hessler | 1932 | 2020 | United States |
| Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. | 1914 | 1994 | United States |
| Lipke Holthuis | 1921 | 2008 | Netherlands |
| Lauren E. Hughes | | | Australia |
| Arthur Humes | 1916 | 1999 | United States |
| Frederick Hutton | 1836 | 1905 | United Kingdom |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | 1825 | 1895 | United Kingdom |
| Paul Louis Illg | 1914 | 1998 | United States |
| Stanko Luka Karaman | 1889 | 1959 | North Macedonia |
| Stanley Wells Kemp | 1882 | 1945 | United Kingdom |
| Brian Frederick Kensley | 1944 | 2004 | South Africa |
| Friedrich Kiefer | 1897 | 1985 | Germany |
| Henrik Nikolai Krøyer | 1799 | 1870 | Denmark |
| Karl Georg Herman Lang | 1901 | 1976 | Sweden |
| Pierre André Latreille | 1762 | 1833 | France |
| William Elford Leach | 1790 | 1836 | United Kingdom |
| Marie V. Lebour | 1876 | 1971 | United Kingdom |
| Rafael Lemaitre | c. 1956 | | France |
| Dominique Auguste Lereboullet | 1804 | 1865 | France |
| Liu Rui-Yu | | | China |
| James K. Lowry | 1942 | | Australia |
| Allan Riverstone McCulloch | 1885 | 1925 | Australia |
| William Sharp Macleay | 1792 | 1865 | United Kingdom |
| Raymond B. Manning | 1934 | 2000 | United States |
| Eduard von Martens | 1831 | 1904 | Germany |
| Edward J. Miers | 1851 | 1930 | United Kingdom |
| Alphonse Milne-Edwards | 1835 | 1900 | France |
| Henri Milne-Edwards | 1800 | 1885 | France |
| Théodore Monod | 1902 | 2000 | France |
| William A. Newman | 1948 | | United States |
| Guillaume-Antoine Olivier | 1756 | 1814 | France |
| Arnold Edward Ortmann | 1863 | 1927 | Germany |
| Isabel Pérez Farfante | 1916 | 2009 | Cuba |
| Victor Vladimirovich Petryashov | 1956 | 2018 | Russia |
| Gary C. B. Poore | 1944 | | Australia |
| Constantine Samuel Rafinesque | 1783 | 1840 | France |
| John Witt Randall | 1813 | 1892 | United States |
| Mary J. Rathbun | 1860 | 1943 | United States |
| Richard Rathbun | 1852 | 1918 | United States |
| Martin Rathke | 1793 | 1860 | Germany |
| August Emanuel von Reuss | 1811 | 1873 | Austria |
| Harriet Richardson | 1874 | 1958 | United States |
| Antoine Risso | 1777 | 1845 | France |
| Henry Bardt Roberts | 1910 | 1979 | United States |
| Michèle de Saint Laurent | 1926 | 2003 | France |
| George Samouelle | 1790 | 1846 | United Kingdom |
| Georg Ossian Sars | 1837 | 1927 | Norway |
| Michael Sars | 1805 | 1869 | Norway |
| Thomas Say | 1787 | 1834 | United States |
| Octavius Albert Sayce | 1862 | 1911 | Australia |
| Waldo L. Schmitt | 1887 | 1977 | United States |
| Gerhard Scholtz | | | Germany |
| Frederick Schram | 1943 | | United States |
| Raoul Serène | 1909 | 1980 | France |
| Philipp Franz von Siebold | 1796 | 1866 | Germany |
| Dorothy M. Skinner | 1930 | 2005 | United States |
| Alfred Evans Smalley | 1928 | 1994 | United States |
| Sidney Irving Smith | 1843 | 1926 | United States |
| Charles Spence Bate | 1819 | 1889 | United Kingdom |
| Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing | 1835 | 1926 | United Kingdom |
| William Stimpson | 1832 | 1872 | United States |
| Jan Hendrik Stock | 1931 | 1997 | Netherlands |
| Walter Medley Tattersall | 1882 | 1948 | United Kingdom |
| G. M. Thomson | 1848 | 1933 | New Zealand |
| Albert Vandel | 1894 | 1980 | France |
| Victor van Straelen | 1889 | 1946 | Belgium |
| Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff | 1867 | 1945 | Germany |
| Talbot H. Waterman | 1914 | 2010 | United States |
| Friedrich Weber | 1781 | 1823 | Germany |
| Adam White | 1817 | 1879 | United Kingdom |
| Rudolf von Willemoes-Suhm | 1847 | 1875 | Germany |
| Austin Beatty Williams | 1919 | 1999 | United States |
| Donald I. Williamson | 1922 | 2016 | United Kingdom |
| Mildred S. Wilson | 1909 | 1973 | United States |
| James Wood-Mason | 1846 | 1893 | United Kingdom |
| John C. Yaldwyn | 1929 | 2005 | New Zealand |
| Carl Wilhelm Erich Zimmer | 1873 | 1950 | Germany |