Category

American naturalists

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Edward O. Wilson

American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)

Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)

Ernest Thompson Seton

British/American author, artist and naturalist, and one of the founders of the scouting movement (1860–1946)

author, poet, and naturalist

Benjamin Banneker

free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer (1731–1806)

American naturalist (1787-1834)

American naturalist and explorer (1877–1962)

Benjamin Smith Barton

American physician, professor, and botanist (1766-1815)

Charles Conrad Abbott

American archaeologist and naturalist (1843-1919)

Alexander Wilson

Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator (1766-1813)

Lester Russell Brown

American environmental analyst

American naturalist and essayist (1837-1921)

George Rogers Clark

American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer (1752–1818)

Edward William Nelson

American naturalist (1855-1934)

Samuel L. Mitchill

American politician (1764-1831)

George Schaller

American naturalist

Anna Botsford Comstock

American academic, artist, educator, conservationist (1854–1930)

Robin Wall Kimmerer

American environmentalist

American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, nature photographer (1864–1926)

American-Australian zoologist, conservationist and television host

Frances Theodora Dana

American botanist, naturalist and writer (1861 – 1952)

American biologist, botanist and entomologist (1830-1923)

Louis Agassiz Fuertes

United States ornithological artist (1874-1927)

John Eatton Le Conte

American naturalist (1784-1860)

Robert Kennicott

American zoologist (1835-1866)

Mary Vaux Walcott

American artist, photographer, botanist and naturalist (1860-1940)

Harriet Mann Miller

American author, naturalist, ornithologist (1831-1918)

American naturalist and conchologist (1798-1864)

American mycologist

American entomologist

Alpheus Spring Packard

American entomologist, palaeontologist (1839-1905)

Charles Baker Adams

United States educator and naturalist (1814-1853)

George Kruck Cherrie

American zoologist (1865-1948)

Alice Lounsberry

American botanist, dendrologist and author (1872-1949)

William Earl Dodge Scott

U.S. ornithologist (1852–1910)

Frederic Ward Putnam

United States archaeologist, ethnologist and curator (1839–1915)

Graceanna Lewis

American ornithologist, naturalist, illustrator and abolitionist (1821–1912)

painter from the United States (1784-1865)

Charles Johnson Maynard

American ornithologist

Herbert Huntingdon Smith

American naturalist (1851-1919)

Patrick Hemingway

American author, safari guide, son to Ernest Hemingway (1928–2025)

Gustavus Augustus Eisen

Swedish-American zoologist, entomologist and naturalist (1847–1940)

Stephen Alfred Forbes

American naturalist (1844–1930)

William Ruschenberger

United States Navy officer and naturalist (1807-1895)

Samuel Stehman Haldeman

American naturalist and philologist (1812–1880)

Charles Sedgwick Minot

American anatomist (1852–1914)

American physician

American zoologist (1823-1849)

James L. Patton

American zoologist (born 1941)

naturalist and author

Thomas Bellerby Wilson

American ornithologist, entomologist and naturalist (1807-1865)

Richard G. Zweifel

U.S. herpetologist (1925-2019)

Mary Jobe Akeley

American explorer and naturalist (1878–1966)

Henry Wood Elliott

American artist (1846-1930)

William Dietrich

American writer

Jared Potter Kirtland

American politician and zoologist (1793–1877)

William Alanson Bryan

American ornithologist, zoologist, botanist and museum curator (1875-1942)

American author and environmentalist (1883–1980)

Katharine Jeannette Bush

American zoologist (1855-1937)

Rebecca Merritt Austin

American botanist and plant collector (1832–1919)