James Leonard Brierley Smith
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Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 October 1897 – 7 January 1968) was a South African ichthyologist
Born in Graaff Reinet, he was the first to identify, in 1938, a captured fish as a coelecanth, at the time thought long extinct.
His son is the renowned South African television science and mathematics teacher William Smith.
He took his own life in 1968 by cyanide poisoning after a long illness.
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