- Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20 1804-December 18 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. - Hugh Falconer
Hugh Falconer MD, FRS (February 29 1808 - January 31 1865), was a distinguished Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and made the first discovery of the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium. He may have been the first to discover a fossil ape, as well. Falconer was the youngest son of David Falconer of Forres, Elginshire. - William Buckland
William Buckland (Axminster, 12 March, 1784 - 24 August, 1856) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur. He was a proponent of Old Earth creationism and Flood geology, who later became convinced by the glaciation theory of Louis Agassiz. - Darren Naish
Darren Naish (b. 1975) is a vertebrate palaeontologist and science writer, presently based at the University of Portsmouth where he works on theropod dinosaurs, particularly those from the Wealden Group rocks of Early Cretaceous England. He obtained a geology degree at the University of Southampton and later studied vertebrate palaeontology under British palaeontologist David Martill at the University of Portsmouth, where he obtained both an M. Phil. - Tim Flannery
Professor Timothy Fridtjof Flannery (born 28 January 1956) is an Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and global warming activist. Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and presently an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. His controversial views on shutting down conventional coal burning for electricity in the medium term are frequently cited in the media. - Gideon Mantell
Gideon Algernon Mantell (February 3, 1790 - November 10 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. He is credited with discovering the first fossils identified as originating from a dinosaur, which were teeth belonging to an "Iguanodon". - Robert Broom
Professor Robert Broom was a South African doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow. In 1893 he married Mary Baird Baillie. From 1903 to 1910 he was professor of zoö and geology at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and subsequently he became keeper of vertebrate palaeontology at the South African Museum, Cape Town. - Phil Currie
Phil Currie, formerly the head of Dinosaur Research at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta is now a researcher and prominent palaeontologist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Over the last 25 years he has worked on fossil discovery in Mongolia, Argentina, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Dry Island Provincial Park and many other locations. - Frederick McCoy
Sir Frederick McCoy, FRS, (1817 – 16 May, 1899) was a British palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia. - Karl Alfred von Zittel
Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (September 25, 1839 - January 5, 1904), German palaeontologist, was born at Bahlingen in Baden. He was educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna. In 1863 he became teacher of geology and mineralogy in the polytechnic at Karlsruhe, … - Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule was a French palaeontologist who helped to inform the public about the hoax, Piltdown man. Boule recognized that the jaw belonged to that of an ape, rather than an ancient human. He studied and published his analysis of the La Chapelle Neandertal and characterized it as Brutish, Bent Kneed and not a fully erect biped. As a result Neandertals were viewd as highly primitive creatures in subsequent years. - George Busk
George Busk FRS (12 August 1807 - 10 August 1886), was a British surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist. He was born in St Petersburg, the son of the merchant, Robert Busk. He studied surgery in London, at both St Thomas' and St Bartholomew's hospitals, and was an excellent operator. He was appointed assistant-surgeon to the Greenwich Hospital in 1832, and served as naval surgeon first in the "HMS Grampus", … - Scott Hocknull
Scott Hocknull is a vertebrate palaeontologist and assistant curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. He is the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award. He is the youngest Australian to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera - Alpheus Hyatt
Alpheus Hyatt (April 5, 1838 - January 15, 1902) was an American zoologist and palaeontologist. - Thomas Davidson
Thomas Davidson (May 17, 1817 - October 14, 1885), British palaeontologist, was born in Edinburgh. His parents possessed considerable landed property in Midlothian. Educated partly in the university of Edinburgh and partly in France, Italy and Switzerland, and early acquiring an interest in natural history, he benefited greatly by acquaintance with foreign languages and literature, and with men of science in different countries. - Kenneth Oakley
Kenneth Page Oakley was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist. Kenneth Oakley, known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content, was instrumental in the exposure in the 1950s of the Piltdown Man hoax. - Joachim Barrande
Joachim Barrande was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique at Paris. Although he had received the training of an engineer, his first appointment was that of tutor to the duc de Bordeaux (afterwards known as the comte de Chambord), grandson of Charles X, and when the king abdicated in 1830, Barrande accompanied the royal exiles to England and Scotland, and afterwards to Prague. - Ferdinand Stoliczka
Ferdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology. He died of high altitude sickness during an expedition across the Himalayas. - Robert Etheridge
Robert Etheridge was an English geologist and palaeontologist. Etheridge was born at Ross-on-Wye, in Herefordshire. After an ordinary school education in his native town, he obtained employment in a business house in Bristol. There he devoted his spare time to natural history pursuits, and in 1850 was appointed curator of the museum attached to the Bristol Philosophical Institution. He also became lecturer on botany in the Bristol medical school. - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps
Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps, French naturalist and palaeontologist, was born at Caen in Normandy. His parents, though poor, contrived to give him a good education, and he studied medicine in his native town to such good effect that in 1812 he was appointed assistant-surgeon in the navy, and in 1815 surgeon assistant major to the military hospital of Caen. Soon afterwards he proceeded to Paris to qualify for the degree of doctor of surgery, … - William Lonsdale
William Lonsdale (September 9, 1794 - November 11, 1871), English geologist and palaeontologist, was born at Bath. He was educated for the army and in 1810 obtained a commission as ensign in the 4th (King's Own) regiment. He served in the Peninsular War at the battles of Salamanca and Waterloo, for both of which he received medals; and he retired as lieutenant. - Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson (September 11,1844 - January 4,1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist. The son of Dr. John Nicholson, a biblical scholar, was born at Penrith, Cumbria on September 11th, 1844. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and at the universities of Gottingen (Ph.D., 1866) and Edinburgh (D.Sc., 1867; M.D., 1869). Geology had early attracted his attention, and his first publication was a thesis for his D.Sc. - Frederick Chapman
Frederick Chapman was an English-born Australian Palaeontologist. Chapman was born in Camden Town, London and studied at Royal College of Science, London where he was initially an assistant to John Wesley Judd. Chapman qualified as a teacher of geology and physiography at the college and was encouraged by Judd's study of boring samples from around London. He went on to become a world authority on Foraminifera. Chapman was Palaeontologist to the National Museum, Melbourne, … - Martin Glaessner
Martin Fritz Glaessner (25 December, 1906 - 23 November, 1989) was a geologist and palaeontologist. Born and educated in Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for oil companies in Russia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Australia. Glaessner also did early work on the classification of the pre-Cambrian lifeforms now known as the Ediacaran biota, which he proposed were the early antecedents of modern lifeforms. - James Kirkland
James Ian Kirkland (born 1954) is an American paleontologist and geologist. He has worked with dinosaur remains from the south west United States of America and has been responsible for discovering new and important genera. He named (or worked with others in naming) "Animantarx" (Carpenter, Kirkland, Burge, and Bird, 1999), "Eohadrosaurus" (Kirkland, 1997 "[nomen nudum]"), now named "Eolambia" (Kirkland, 1998), "Gastonia" (Kirkland, 1998), … - Paul Gervais
Paul Gervais was a French palaeontologist. Gervais was born at Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of doctor of science and of medicine, and in 1835 he began palaeontological research as assistant in the laboratory of comparative anatomy at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. In 1841 he obtained the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier, of which he was in 1856 appointed dean. - Melchior Neumayr
Melchior Neumayr (October 24, 1845 - January 29, 1890), German palaeontologist, was born at Munich, the son of Max von Neumayr, a Bavarian Minister of State. He was educated in the university of Munich, and completed his studies at Heidelberg, where he graduated Ph.D. After some experience in field-geology under KW von Gumbel he joined the Austrian geological survey in 1868. - Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck, Belgian palaeontologist and chemist, was born at Leuven. He studied medicine in the university of his native town, and in 1831 he became assistant in the chemical schools. He pursued the study of chemistry in Paris, Berlin and Gießen, and was subsequently engaged in teaching the science at Ghent and Liège. In 1856 he was appointed professor of chemistry in the Liège University, and he retained this post until the close of his life. - Lawrence Lambe
Lawrence Morris Lambe was a famous geologist and palaeontologist from the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). He was Canada's first great geologist. His published work, describing the diverse and plentiful dinosaur discoveries from the fossil beds in Alberta, did much to bring dinosaurs into the public eye and helped usher in the "Golden Age of Dinosaurs" in the province. - Louis Dollo
Louis Antoine Marie Joseph Dollo (1857-1931) was a French-born Belgian palaeontologist, known for formulating Dollo's law. In 1878, he supervised the excavation of the famous, multiple Iguanodon find, at Bernissart, Belgium. - Digby McLaren
Dr. Digby Johns McLaren Ph.D. FRSC (December 11, 1919 - December 8, 2004) was a Canadian geologist and palaeontologist. Born in Carrickfergus, Ireland, he received a Bachelor of Arts in geology from the University of Cambridge. During World War II, he fought in the Middle East and Europe with the Royal Regiment of Artillery. After the war, he received a Master of Arts in geology from the University of Cambridge in 1948. - David B. Weishampel
Professor David B. Weishampel (born November 16, 1952) is an American palaeontologist in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Weishampel received his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. His research focuses include dinosaur systematics, European dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, jaw mechanics and herbivory, cladistics and heterochrony and the history of evolutionary biology. - Gerard Krefft
Johann Ludwig (Louis) Gerard Krefft, one of Australia's first and greatest zoologists and palaeontologists. In addition to many scientific papers, his books include "The Snakes of Australia", "A Catalogue of the Minerals and Rocks in the Australian Museum" and "A Short Guide to the Australian Fossil Remains in the Australian Museum". He published the scientific description of the Queensland Lungfish, a fascinating "living fossil". - Graham Budd
Graham Edward Budd is a British-Swedish palaeontologist, associate professor of paleobiology at Uppsala University. Budd’s research primarily has focused on the anatomy and evolutionary significance of Paleozoic arthropods. He has also contributed to the theoretical understanding of the role of functional morphology in evolution. - Charles Barrois
Charles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist. Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet. His first comprehensive work was "Recherches sur le terrain crétacé supérieur de l’Angleterre et de l'Irlande", published in the "Mémoires de la societé geologique du Nord" in 1876. - Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton
Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet (13 November 1806 - 6 April 1881) was an English palaeontologist and the son of Sir Philip Grey Egerton, the 9th baronet. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1828. While at college his interest in geology was aroused by the lectures of William Buckland, and by his acquaintance with William D. Conybeare. - Alan Templeton
Alan Templeton is an United States geneticist and statistician from Washington University in St. Louis, known for his theories regarding the lack of genetic differences between humans of different races. According to Templeton's research, perceived differences in races are more related to cultural perceptions and biases than any underlying genetic reality. - Antonio Stoppani
Antonio Stoppani was an Italian geologist and palaeontologist. He was born in Lecco. Born in Lecco, he became professor of geology in the Royal Technical Institute of Milan, and was distinguished for his researches on the Triassic and Liassic formations of northern Italy. - Jean Albert Gaudry
Jean Albert Gaudry (September 16, 1827 - November 27, 1908), French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye, and was educated at the college Stanislas. At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece, residing in the latter country from 1855 to 1860. He then investigated the rich deposit of fossil vertebrata at Pikermi and brought to light a remarkable mammalian fauna, Miocene in age, and intermediate in its forms between European, … - Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (September 3, 1801 - April 2, 1869) was a German palaeontologist. He was born at Frankfurt am Main. In 1832 von Meyer issued a work entitled "Palaeologica", and in course of time he published a series of memoirs on various fossil organic remains: molluscs, crustaceans, fishes and higher vertebrata, including the Triassic predator "Teratosaurus", the earliest bird "Archaeopteryx lithographica" (1861), …
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