List of marine biologists

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This is a list of marine biologists.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqua-lung, is well known for popularizing marine biology.

• Donald Putnam Abbott (1920-1986), U.S. marine invertebrate zoologist
• Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919-2010), U.S. marine botanist
• Ali Abdelghany (born 1944), Egyptian marine biologist
• Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), Swedish marine zoologist
• Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist
• Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), U.S. marine zoologist
• Jean Bouillon (1926-2009), Belgian marine zoologist
• Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), U.S. marine biologist
• Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American Marine Biologist and Author
• Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
• Eugenie Clark (1922–2015), U.S. marine biologist
• Malcolm Clarke, (1930–2013), British cephalopod expert
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine explorer, conservationist, and film maker
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard the HMS Beagle
• Paul K. Dayton (born 1941), American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology
• Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist
• Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer
• Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German physician, zoologist, marine biologist and evolutionist
• Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer
• Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist
• Johan Hjort (1869–1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
• Stephen Hillenburg (born 1961), American animator (creator of SpongeBob SquarePants). He worked as a marine biologist for several years before eventually deciding to become an animator
• Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist
• Hirohito, the Shōwa Emperor (1901–1989), jellyfish taxonomist
• Martin W. Johnson (1893–1984) American marine biologist and biological oceanographer
• Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist
• Otto Kinne (born 1923), German marine biologist
• Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea (2010).
• August David Krohn (1803–1891), Russian/German zoologist
• Paul L. Kramp (1887–1975), Danish zoologist working on jellyfish
• William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
• Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846–1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
• Sir John Murray (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist
• Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816–1872), Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae
• Ronald C. Phillips (1932–2005), American marine botanist, co-author of Seagrasses (1980); worldwide development of seagrass science told in autobiographical Travels with Seagrass (2013)
• Syed Zahoor Qasim (born 1926), Indian marine biologist
• Ed Ricketts (1897–1948), American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology
• Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
• Anne Rudloe (1947-2012), American, cofounder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
• Jack Rudloe (born 1943), American, cofounder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory and writer of several popular works on the sea including The Sea Brings Forth, and The Erotic Ocean.
• Georg Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist
• Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist
• Charles Wyville Thompson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist
• Gunnar Thorson (1906–1971), Danish marine biologist
• Anne Thynne (1800–1866), British marine zoologist
• Takasi Tokioka (1913–2001), Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates
• Ruth Turner (1915–2000), marine biologist
• Ronald Shimek (born 1948), American marine biologist noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods