# List of ornithologists

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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also Category:Ornithologists.

## A

* John Abbot – US
* Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US
* William Louis Abbott – US
* Joseph H. Acklen – US
* Humayun Abdulali – India
* Jon E. Ahlquist – US
* Prince Akishino (皇嗣秋筱宮文仁親王) – 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
* 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 (1933–2022) – 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 (1875–1922)
* Bernard Borggreve – Germany
* José Ignacio Borrero – Cuba
* Donald J. Borror – US
* Adolphe Boucard – France
* 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 (1859–1899) – 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 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 (郑作新) – 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
* 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 – Belgium
* 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
* 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
* Jim Flegg – England
* 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
* Enrico Hillyer Giglioli – Italy
* Frank Gill – US
* Theodore Gill – US
* Ernest Thomas Gilliard – US
* Robert Gillmor – England
* Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Netherlands/Belgium
* 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 (brother of George Robert) – 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

## H

* Masauji Hachisuka (蜂須賀正氏) – Japan
* Jack Hailman – United States
* Mihkel Härms – Estonia
* Yngvar Hagen – Norway
* Pat Hall – England
* Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany
* Edward Hargitt – Scotland
* Herbert Hastings Harington – British India
* Edward Harris – US
* Colin Harrison – England
* Tom Harrisson – Argentina/England
* Ernst Hartert – Germany
* Gustav Hartlaub – Germany
* François Haverschmidt – Netherlands
* Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (published as Viscount Walden) – Scotland
* Helen Hays – US
* Cornelis Hazevoet – Netherlands
* Gerhard Heilmann – Denmark
* Ferdinand Heine – Germany
* Bernd Heinrich – US
* Katharina Heinroth – Germany
* Oskar Heinroth – Germany
* Carl Eduard Hellmayr – Austria
* Wilhelm Hemprich – Germany
* George Morrison Reid Henry – British Ceylon/England
* Henry Wetherbee Henshaw – US
* James Hepburn – England/Canada
* Ottó Herman – Hungary
* Johann Hermann – France
* Theodor von Heuglin – Germany
* Joseph Hickey – US
* Warren Billingsley Hitchcock – Australia
* John Hobbs – UK/Australia
* Brian Houghton Hodgson – England/India
* Ralph Hoffmann – US
* Carl Peter Holbøll – Denmark
* Ajoy Home – India
* Richard T. Holmes – US
* Jacques Bernard Hombron – France
* Alexander von Homeyer – Germany
* Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer – Germany
* Andries Hoogerwerf – Netherlands
* Milton N. Hopkins – US
* Thomas Horsfield – US
* Henry Eliot Howard – England
* Thomas Raymond Howell – US
* William Henry Hudson – Argentina/England
* Allan Octavian Hume – England/India
* Rob Hume – England
* Syed Abdulla Hussain – India
* Frederick Hutton – England/New Zealand

## I

* Hermann von Ihering – Germany/Brazil
* Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger – Germany
* Collingwood Ingram – England
* Tom Iredale – UK/Australia
* Michael Patrick Stuart Irwin – Britain/Rhodesia
* Hussein Adan Isack – Kenya
* Yuri Andreyevich Isakov – Russia/USSR

## J

* Pierre Jabouille – France
* Frederick John Jackson – England/Uganda
* Honoré Jacquinot – France
* Helen F. James – US
* Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet – Scotland
* Konstanty Jelski – Poland
* Thomas C. Jerdon – England/India
* Herbert K. Job – US
* Hans Johansen – Russia/Denmark
* Hermann Johansen – Russia
* Richard F. Johnston – US
* Lynds Jones – US
* Christian Jouanin – France
* Henri Jouard – France
* George Junge – Netherlands

## K

* Peter Kaestner – US
* Gisela Kaplan – Australia
* Johann Jakob Kaup – Germany
* Janet Kear – England
* Charles Keeler – US
* John Gerrard Keulemans – Netherlands
* Charles Rollin Keyes – US
* Alexander Keyserling – Germany
* Lavkumar Khachar – India
* Norman Boyd Kinnear – Scotland
* Jared Kirtland – US
* Heinrich von Kittlitz – Germany
* Niels Kjærbølling – Denmark
* Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany
* C. Boden Kloss – England/Malaya
* Karel Kněžourek - Czechoslovakia
* Walter Koelz – US
* Alexander Koenig – Germany
* Maria Koepcke – Peru
* Paul Robert Kollibay – Prussia
* Elizabeth Kozlova – Russia
* Niels Krabbe – Denmark
* K. S. R. Krishna Raju – India
* Heinrich Kuhl – Germany
* Hans Kummerlöwe (or Kumerloeve after World War II) – Germany
* Nagahisa Kuroda (黒田長久) – Japan
* Nagamichi Kuroda (黒田長礼) – Japan
* Sayako Kuroda (黒田清子) – Japan

## L

* David Lack – England
* Elizabeth Lack – England
* Frédéric de Lafresnaye – France
* Hamilton Mack Laing - Canada
* Christian Ludwig Landbeck – Germany
* Bill Lane – Australia
* Amelia Laskey – US
* John Latham – England
* Alfred Laubmann – Germany
* Louis Lavauden – France
* George Newbold Lawrence – US
* Edgar Leopold Layard – England/Ceylon
* Dudley Le Souef – Australia
* Elsie P. Leach – England
* William Elford Leach – England
* John Legg – England
* William Vincent Legge – Australia
* Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler – Germany
* Boonsong Lekagul – Thailand
* Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour – France
* René Lesson – France
* François Levaillant – France
* Paul Leverkühn – Germany
* Graceanna Lewis – US
* Félix Louis L'Herminier – France
* Hinrich Lichtenstein – Germany
* Karl Theodor Liebe – Germany
* Carl Linnaeus – Swedish
* Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford – England
* Bradley C. Livezey – US
* Victor Loche – France
* George Loddiges – England
* Hans Löhrl – Germany
* Einar Lönnberg – Sweden
* Konrad Lorenz – Austria
* Harald von Loudon – Germany
* Michel Louette – Belgium
* Herman L. Løvenskiold – Norway
* Percy Lowe – England
* George Lowery – US
* Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar – Latvia/Germany/Russia
* Hubert Lynes – Wales/England

## M

* James Macdonald – Scotland/Australia
* William MacGillivray – Scotland
* Cyril Mackworth-Praed – England
* Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary
* Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany
* Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky – Russia
* Alfred Malherbe – France
* Louis Mandelli – Italy, India
* Saverio Manetti – Italy
* Stephen Marchant – Australia
* Judy Kellogg Markowsky – US
* Charles Henry Tilson Marshall – England/India
* Kathy Martin – Canada
* Ian J. Mason – Australia
* George Masters – Australia
* Gregory Mathews – Australia
* Ernst Mayr – US
* George A. McCall – US
* Elliott McClure – US/Southeast Asia
* John Porter McCown – US
* Allan Reginald McEvey – Australia
* Edward Avery McIlhenny – US
* Thomas McIlwraith – Canada
* Charles McKay – US
* Chris Mead – England
* Edgar Alexander Mearns – US
* Gerlof Mees – Netherlands
* M. F. M. Meiklejohn – England
* Annie Meinertzhagen – Scotland
* Richard Meinertzhagen – England
* Wilhelm Meise – Germany
* Auguste Ménégaux – France
* Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier – Russia
* Christopher Merret – England
* C. Hart Merriam – US
* Olivier Messiaen – France
* Friedrich Wilhelm Meves - Germany/Sweden
* Adolf Bernhard Meyer – Germany
* Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee – US
* Alden H. Miller – US
* Waldron DeWitt Miller – US
* Alexander William Milligan – Australia
* Alphonse Milne-Edwards – France
* Clive Minton – Australia
* Lacy Irvine Moffett – US
* Juan Ignacio Molina – Chile
* Edgardo Moltoni – Italy
* Burt Monroe – US
* George Montagu – England
* John J. Montgomery – US
* Frederic Moore – England
* Robert Thomas Moore – US
* Reginald Ernest Moreau – England
* Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen – Denmark
* Guy Mountfort – England
* Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller – Germany
* Salomon Müller – Germany
* Étienne Mulsant – France
* Robert Cushman Murphy – US
* Durno Murray – Australia

## N

* Johann Natterer – Austria
* Johann Friedrich Naumann – Germany
* René de Naurois – France
* K. K. Neelakantan – India
* Adolph Nehrkorn – Germany
* Henry Nehrling – US
* Edward William Nelson – US
* Thomas Hudson Nelson – England
* Oscar Neumann – Germany
* Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia
* Alfred Newton – England
* Edward Newton – England
* Ian Newton – England
* Margaret Morse Nice – US
* Michael John Nicoll – UK/Egypt
* John Treadwell Nichols – US
* Max Nicholson – England
* Günther Niethammer – Germany
* Alexander von Nordmann – Finland
* Alfred John North – Australia
* Cornelius Nozeman – Netherlands

## O

* Eugene W. Oates – England/Burma
* Harry C. Oberholser – US
* Bill Oddie – England
* William Robert Ogilvie-Grant – Scotland
* Claes Christian Olrog – Sweden/Argentina
* Storrs L. Olson – US
* Eduard Daniël van Oort – Netherlands
* Alcide d'Orbigny – France
* George Ord – US
* Gordon Orians – US
* Wilfred Hudson Osgood – US
* Émile Oustalet – France

## P

* Peter Simon Pallas – Germany
* Shane A. Parker – England/Australia
* Theodore A. Parker III – US
* Kenneth Carroll Parkes – US
* Carl Parrot – Germany
* Titian Peale – US
* Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US
* August von Pelzeln – Austria
* Thomas E. Penard – US
* Thomas Pennant – Wales
* James Lee Peters – US
* Wilhelm Peters – Germany
* Roger Tory Peterson – US
* Sewall Pettingill – US
* William Henry Phelps – US/Venezuela
* William H. Phelps Jr. – Venezuela
* Rodolfo Amando Philippi – Germany/Chile
* Allan Robert Phillips – US
* John Charles Phillips – US
* Theodor Pleske – Russia
* Olivério Pinto – Brazil
* Frank Pitelka – US
* Graham Pizzey – Australia
* Sally Poncet – Australia
* Pilai Poonswad – Thailand
* John du Pont – US
* Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko – USSR(Ukraine)
* Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. – US
* Josef Prokop Pražák – Bohemia
* Alexandre Prigogine – Belgium
* Aleksandr Promptov – Russia/USSR
* Nikolay Przhevalsky (or Przewalski) – Russia
* Jacques Pucheran – France

## Q

* Jean René Constant Quoy – France
* Vo Quy – Vietnam

## R

* Dioscoro S. Rabor – Philippines
* Stamford Raffles – England/Singapore
* Ralph Raitt – US
* Edward Pierson Ramsay – Australia
* Austin L. Rand – Canada
* Pamela C. Rasmussen – US
* Sushma Reddy – India/US
* Ludwig Reichenbach – Germany
* Anton Reichenow – Germany
* Pauline Reilly – Australia
* Othmar Reiser – Austria
* Bernhard Rensch – Germany
* John Richardson – Scotland/England
* Charles Wallace Richmond – US
* Robert S. Ridgely – US
* John Livzey Ridgway – US
* Robert Ridgway – US
* Joseph Harvey Riley – US
* Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul – Scotland
* Sidney Dillon Ripley – US
* Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania
* Chandler Robbins – US
* Austin Roberts – South Africa
* Thomas Sadler Roberts – US
* Herbert C. Robinson – England/Malaya
* Edward Hearle Rodd – England
* Theodore Roosevelt – US
* Hermann von Rosenberg – Germany
* Adriaan Joseph van Rossem – US
* Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild – England
* Frank Rozendaal – Netherlands
* Eduard Rüppell – Germany
* Karl Russ – Germany(Prussia)
* Erich Rutschke – Germany
* Wladyslaw Rydzewski – Poland

## S

* Edward Sabine – Ireland
* John Hall Sage – US
* Finn Salomonsen – Denmark
* Tommaso Salvadori – Italy
* Osbert Salvin – England
* Howard Saunders – England
* William Edwin Saunders – Canada
* William Savage – US
* Paolo Savi – Italy
* Hans Schaanning – Norway
* Alfred Schifferli – Switzerland
* Eiler Lehn Schiøler – Denmark
* Hermann Schlegel – Germany/Netherlands
* Richard Schodde – Australia
* Henri Schouteden – Belgium
* Ernst Schüz – Germany
* Philip Sclater – England
* William Lutley Sclater – England
* Giovanni Antonio Scopoli – Austria/Tyrol
* J. Michael Scott – US
* Peter Scott – England
* William Earl Dodge Scott - US
* Henry Seebohm – England
* Josef Seilern – Austria/Czech
* Prideaux John Selby – England
* George B. Sennett – US
* Pavel Vladimirovich Serebrovsky – Russia/USSR
* William Serle – Scotland
* Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (or Severtsov) – Russia
* Richard Bowdler Sharpe – England
* George Shaw – England
* Frederick H. Sheldon – US
* George Ernest Shelley – England
* Althea Sherman – US
* Hadoram Shirihai – Israel
* Lester L. Short – US
* Charles Sibley – US
* David Allen Sibley – US
* Helmut Sick – Brazil
* Hendrik Cornelis Siebers – Netherlands
* Eugène Simon – French
* Ken Simpson – Australia
* Vasily Nikolaevich Skalon – Russia/USSR
* Cuthbert John Skead – South Africa
* Alexander Skutch – US
* Tore Slagsvold – Norway
* Andrew Smith – Scotland
* Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby – England
* Bertram E. Smythies – England
* Emilie Snethlage – Germany/Brazil
* David Snow – England
* Barbara Snow – England
* Jan Sokolowski – Poland
* James Mortimer Southwick – US
* Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg – USSR
* Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden
* Johann Baptist von Spix – Germany
* Isaac Sprague – US
* Don Stap – US
* David Steadman – US
* Joseph Beal Steere – US
* Boris K. Stegmann – Russia/USSR
* Joachim Steinbacher – Germany
* Leonhard Stejneger – Norway – US
* Georg Steller – Germany
* Leo Stepanyan – USSR/Armenia
* James Francis Stephens – England
* Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic
* Jean Stolzmann (also as Jan Sztolcman) – Poland
* Witmer Stone – US
* Robert W. Storer – US
* Erwin Stresemann – Germany
* Hugh Edwin Strickland – England
* Robert Stroud – US
* Noah Strycker – US
* Jacob H. Studer – US
* Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm – Germany
* Johann Wilhelm Sturm – Germany
* J. Denis Summers-Smith – Scotland/England
* Carl Jakob Sundevall – Sweden
* Petr Sushkin – Russia
* Ernst Sutter – Switzerland
* George Miksch Sutton – US
* William Swainson – England/New Zealand
* Harry Swarth – US
* Charles Swinhoe – England/India
* Robert Swinhoe – England/Formosa
* William Henry Sykes – England/India
* Jan Bogusław Szczepski – Poland
* Jan Sztolcman (also as Jean Stolzmann) – Poland

## T

* Władysław Taczanowski – Poland
* Léonce de Tarragon – France
* Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Netherlands
* John Kenneth Terres – US
* John Eliot Thayer – US
* Gerhard Thielcke – Germany
* Johannes Thienemann – Germany
* Ludwig Thienemann – Germany
* William Lay Thompson – US
* Arthur Landsborough Thomson – Scotland
* Claud B. Ticehurst – England
* Samuel Tickell – India
* Luuk Tinbergen – Netherlands
* Niko Tinbergen – Netherlands
* Friedrich Tischler – Prussia/Germany
* Walter Edmond Clyde Todd – US
* John David Digues La Touche – England/Ireland
* Charles Haskins Townsend – US
* John Kirk Townsend – US
* Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. – US
* Alberto O. Treganza – US
* Roland Trimen – England/South Africa
* Henry Baker Tristram – England
* Johann Jakob von Tschudi – Switzerland
* Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen – Austria
* Bernard Tucker – England
* Marmaduke Tunstall – England
* William Turner – England
* Konstanty Tyzenhauz – Poland

## U

* Miklós Udvardy – Hungary/Canada
* Richard J. Ussher – Ireland
* Tatsuo Utagawa (宇田川竜男) – Japan

## V

* Dirk Van den Abeele – Belgium
* Jacques Van Impe – Belgium
* Victor Van Someren – Australia/Kenya
* Josselyn Van Tyne – US
* Richard Vaughan – UK
* Charles Vaurie – France/US
* Édouard Verreaux – France
* Jules Verreaux – France
* Louis Pierre Vieillot – France
* Nicholas Aylward Vigors – Ireland/England
* Jack Vincent - England
* Keith Vinicombe – England
* William Vogt – US
* Karel Voous – Netherlands
* Adolphe Vorderman – Netherlands

## W

* Johann Georg Wagler – Germany
* Will Wagstaff – Wales/England
* Veleslav Wahl – Czechoslovakia
* Johan August Wahlberg – Sweden
* Lawrence H. Walkinshaw – US
* Alfred Russel Wallace – England
* Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay – England
* George Robert Waterhouse – England
* George Waterston – Scotland
* Richard Weatherly – Australia
* Hugo Weigold – Germany
* Alexander Wetmore – US
* Hugh Whistler – India
* Joseph Whitaker – Italy/England
* Gilbert White – England
* Henry Luke White – Australia
* Andrew Whittaker – England
* Otto Widmann – US
* Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied – Germany
* John Wiens – US
* George Willett – US
* Lionel William Wiglesworth – England
* Iolo Williams – Wales
* Francis Willughby – UK
* Alexander Wilson – Scotland/US
* Kerry-Jayne Wilson – NZ
* Scott Barchard Wilson – England
* Marie Winn – US
* Harry Witherby – England
* Kazimierz Wodzicki – Poland/New Zealand
* John Woinarski – Australia
* Hans Edmund Wolters – Germany
* Won Hong-gu, 원홍구 – North Korea (father of Won Pyong-oh)
* Won Pyong-oh, 원병오 – South Korea
* Samuel Washington Woodhouse – US
* Dean Conant Worcester – US
* Philogène Wytsman – Belgium

## X

* John Xantus – Hungary

## Y

* Yoshimaro Yamashina (山階芳麿) – Japan
* William Yarrell – England
* John Yealland – England

## Z

* Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny – Ukraine/Russia
* José Castulo Zeledón – Costa Rica
* John Todd Zimmer – US
* Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy