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John James Audubon
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter (1785–1851)
Ernst Mayr
German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)
Joel Asaph Allen
American zoologist and ornithologist (1838–1921)
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, museum curator, and the 2nd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1823-1887)
James Bond
American ornithologist and inspiration for the name of the fictional spy (1900-1989)
Thomas Horsfield
U.S. naturalist and physician (1773-1859)
William Beebe
American naturalist and explorer (1877–1962)
Robert Ridgway
American ornithologist (1850-1929)
Clinton Hart Merriam
American zoologist and ornithologist (1855-1942)
William Bartram
American naturalist (1739-1823)
Frank M. Chapman
American ornithologist (1864–1945)
Leonhard Hess Stejneger
biologist (1851-1943)
Florence Merriam Bailey
American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer (1863 – 1948)
Alexander Wilson
Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator (1766-1813)
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist (1842–1899)
George Newbold Lawrence
American businessman and amateur ornithologist (1806-1895)
Charles Wallace Richmond
American ornithologist (1868-1932)
Daniel Giraud Elliot
American zoologist (1835–1915)
Charles Sibley
American ornithologist and molecular biologist (1917-1998)
George Ord
American naturalist, ornithologist and writer
Charles B. Cory
American ornithologist and amateur golfer (1857-1921)
Pamela C. Rasmussen
American ornithologist
Margaret Morse Nice
American ornithologist (1883–1974)
Titian Peale
American ornithologist, entomologist, photographer, artist and explorer (1799-1885)
Outram Bangs
American ornithologist (1863–1932)
John Cassin
U.S. ornithologist (1813–1869)
James Chapin
American ornithologist and scientific collector (1889–1964)
Wilfred Hudson Osgood
American zoologist (1875-1947)
John Abbot
British born, American entomologist, ornithologist and scientific illustrator (1751-1840)
Alexander Wetmore
American ornithologist and avian paleontologist (1886-1978)
Jon Edward Ahlquist
American molecular biologist, ornithologist (1944–2020)
Sidney Dillon Ripley
American ornithologist and 8th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1913–2001)
Edward William Nelson
American naturalist (1855-1934)
Glover Morrill Allen
American zoologist (1879-1942)
George Latimer Bates
American naturalist (1863-1940)
Storrs L. Olson
American biologist and ornithologist (1944–2021)
Edgar Alexander Mearns
American ornithologist and field naturalist (1856-1916)
Harry C. Oberholser
American ornithologist (1870–1963)
John Todd Zimmer
American ornithologist, entomologist (1889 - 1957)
James Lee Peters
American ornithologist (1889–1952)
Jean Théodore Delacour
French-American ornithologist (1890-1985)
Dean Conant Worcester
U.S. zoologist and ornithologist (1866–1924)
Dean Amadon
American ornithologist (1912–2003)
John Kirk Townsend
U.S. ornithologist (1809-1851)
William Brewster
American ornithologist (1851–1919)
Ludlow Griscom
American ornithologist, botanist, ichthyologist and museum professional (1890-1959)
Theodore Sherman Palmer
U.S. zoologist (1868–1955)
Robert Cushman Murphy
American ornithologist and museum curator (1887–1973)
Henry Boardman Conover
American soldier and amateur ornithologist (1892-1950)
Louis Agassiz Fuertes
United States ornithological artist (1874-1927)
Donald Ryder Dickey
American ornithologist
Joseph Beal Steere
American ornithologist (1842-1940)
William H. Phelps, Sr.
American ornithologist and businessman (1875-1965)
Charles Haskins Townsend
American zoologist (1859–1944)
Walter Edmond Clyde Todd
American ornithologist (1874–1969)
Pierce Brodkorb
American ornithologist and paleontologist (1908–1992)
Samuel Washington Woodhouse
American ornithologist (1821–1904)
Henry Wetherbee Henshaw
American ornithologist (1850-1930)
Charles Vaurie
American ornithologist (1906–1975)
Harriet Mann Miller
American author, naturalist, ornithologist (1831-1918)