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Alexander Graham Bell

Canadian-American scientist inventor of telephone (1847–1922)

Michael Collins

American astronaut (1930–2021)

German-American anthropologist

Kathryn D. Sullivan

American astronaut (born 1951)

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Sri Lankan Tamil metaphysician (1877–1947)

John Wesley Powell

American geologist (1834-1902)

American biologist (1837–1914)

Margaret Geller

American astronomer

American ornithologist (1850-1929)

British chemist

Charles W. Gilmore

paleontologist (1874-1945)

Charles Wallace Richmond

American ornithologist (1868-1932)

Mary Agnes Chase

U.S. botanist, botanical collector and scientific illustrator (1869–1963)

former United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of the Treasury (1780-1859)

Czech-American anthropologist

William Healey Dall

American malacologist, palaeontologist and explorer (1845 – 1927)

Albert Charles Smith

American botanist (1906-1999)

Mary J. Rathbun

American carcinologist (1860–1943)

George Brown Goode

American ichthyologist (1851-1896)

Frederick W. True

American biologist, mammalogist and curator (1858-1914)

Frances Theresa Densmore

American anthropologist and ethnologist (1867-1957)

William Henry Holmes

American academic, painter and illustrator (1846-1933)

France A. Córdova

American astrophysicist and university president (born 1947)

Albert Spear Hitchcock

American botanist and agrostologist (1865-1935)

Lyman Bradford Smith

U.S. botanist (1904-1997)

British botanist and archaeologist (1831-1911)

American musicologist (1886–1979)

Jewish American historian, scholar, religious leader (1863–1940)

Doris Mable Cochran

American herpetologist (1898-1968)

Ursula B. Marvin

American geologist, mineralogist and historian of science (1921-2018)

John Peabody Harrington

American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the indigenous peoples of California

Joseph Harvey Riley

American ornithologist (1873-1941)

American Mesoamericanist and entomologist (1825-1910)

Hans-Dieter Sues

German-born U.S. paleontologist

Louise H. Emmons

zoologist and neurobiologist

Cleofe Calderon

Argentine botanist, agrostologist and botanical collector (1929 - 2007)

John Merton Aldrich

American entomologist (1866-1934)

Matthew Stirling

American Mesoamericanist (1896–1975)

Leland Ossian Howard

American entomologist (1857-1950)

Randall L. Gibson

Confederate Army general and U.S. Senator (1832-1892)

Leonard Peter Schultz

U.S. ichthyologist

Frank Hamilton Cushing

American anthropologist (1857-1900)

German physician, entomologist, zoologist and arctic researcher (1847–1888)

Richard C. Banks

American ornithologist (1931–2021)

Jesse Walter Fewkes

American anthropologist (1850-1930)

Arthur M. Sackler

American physician, pharmaceutical businessman and art collector (1913-1987)

Matilda Coxe Stevenson

ethnologist (1849-1915)

William Temple Hornaday

American conservationist and zoologist (1854–1937)

William Ralph Maxon

American botanist (1877-1948)

German-American zoologist (1871–1960)

Margaret S. Collins

African-American entomologist, zoologist and civil rights advocate (1922–1996)

James W. Patterson

American politician (1823-1893)

Florence Meier Chase

American botanist (1902-1978)

Albert Samuel Gatschet

Swiss ethnologist, linguist (1832-1907)

Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.

American entomologist (1866-1929)

Henry F. Hollis

American politician (1869-1949)

Richard Sumner Cowan

American botanist (1921–1997)

American botanist for the National Museum of Natural History (1947-2019)

American paleontologist and paleornithologist

Terry Lee Erwin

American entomologist (1940–2020)