# List of marine biologists

This is a list of marine biologists.
* Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist
* Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919–2010), American marine botanist
* Ali Abdelghany (born 1944), Egyptian marine biologist
* Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist
* Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist
* Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), American marine zoologist
* Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), American marine biologist
* Jean Bouillon (1926–2009), Belgian marine zoologist
* Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American marine biologist and author
* Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
* Eugenie Clark (1922–2015), American marine biologist
* Malcolm Clarke (1930–2013), British cephalopod expert
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker
* Charles Darwin (1809–1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard HMS Beagle
* Paul K. Dayton (born 1941), American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology
* Finn Devold (1902–1977), Norwegian marine biologist
* Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist
* Nicole Dubilier, American marine microbiologist, head of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
* Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004) American zoologist specializing in copepods
* Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer
* Austin Gallagher, marine biologist
* Ruth Gates (1962–2018), American marine biologist noted for work on coral reefs
* Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), English marine zoologist
* J. Frederick Grassle (1939–2018), American marine biologist
* Judith Grassle, marine ecologist
* David Gruber Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.
* Gordon Gunter (1909–1998), American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico
* Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German physician, zoologist, marine biologist and evolutionist
* Benjamin Halpern, American marine conservationist
* Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer
* Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist
* Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator (creator of SpongeBob SquarePants); previously worked as a marine biology teacher for several years
* Hirohito, the Shōwa Emperor (1901–1989), jellyfish taxonomist
* Johan Hjort (1869–1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
* Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist
* Martin W. Johnson (1893–1984), American marine biologist and biological oceanographer
* Benjamin Kahn (born 1955), Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist
* Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist
* Otto Kinne (1923-2015), German marine biologist
* Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea (2010)
* August David Krohn (1803–1891), Russian/German zoologist
* Paul L. Kramp (1887–1975), Danish zoologist working on jellyfish
* William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
* Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846–1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
* Melissa Cristina Márquez, "Mother of Sharks," marine biologist and science communicator
* Flower Msuya (born 1959), Tanzanian phycologist
* Sir John Murray (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist
* Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816–1872), Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae
* Robert T. Paine (1933–2016), American marine zoologist known for developing the "keystone species" concept
* Joseph R. Pawlik (born 1960), American marine biologist
* Ronald C. Phillips (1932–2005), American marine botanist, co-author of Seagrasses (1980); worldwide development of seagrass science told in autobiographical Travels with Seagrass (2013)
* Syed Zahoor Qasim (born 1926), Indian marine biologist
* Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology
* Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
* Anne Rudloe (1947–2012), American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
* Jack Rudloe (born 1943), 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 (1897–1984), British marine biologist known for his work on zooplankton.
* Georg Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist
* Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist
* Oscar Elton Sette (1900–1972), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography
* Bell M. Shimada (1922–1958), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering studies of tuna stocks in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
* Ronald Shimek (born 1948), American marine biologist noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods
* Charles Wyville Thomson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist
* Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971), Danish marine biologist
* Anne Thynne (1800–1866), British marine zoologist
* Takasi Tokioka (1913–2001), Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates
* Ruth Turner (1915–2000), marine biologist
* Anna Weber-van Bosse (1852–1942), marine phycologist
* María Elena Caso (1915-1991), Mexican marine biologist