List of famous ornithologists

• Horace Alexander (UK, later USA)
• John James Audubon (USA)
• Jean Francois Emmanuel Baillon
• Thomas Bewick (UK)
• Charles Lucien Bonaparte (France)
• James Bond
• Elliott Coues (USA)
• John Gooders (UK)
• John Gould (UK)
• Janez Gregori
• George Robert Gray (UK)
• John Edward Gray (UK; brother of the above)
• Edward Grey (Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Baronet, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon; UK)
• Iztok Geister
• Theodor Von Heuglin (Germany)
• William Henry Hudson
• Konrad Lorenz (Austria)
• William MacGillivray (UK)
• Chris Mead (UK)
• Guy Mountfort (UK)
• Alfred Newton (UK)
• Max Nicholson (UK)
• Bill Oddie (UK)
• Roger Tory Peterson (USA)
• Sir Edward Sabine (UK)
• Paolo Savi (Italy)
• Peter Scott (UK)
• Tony Soper (UK)
• Georg Steller (Germany)
• Hugh Edwin Strickland (UK)
• William Swainson (UK)
• Colonel W. H. Sykes (UK)
• Arthur Landsborough Thomson (UK)
• Niko Tinbergen (Netherlands)
• Bernard Tucker (UK)
• William Turner (UK)
• Gilbert White (UK)
• Francis Willughby (UK)
• Alexander Wilson (USA)
• Harry Witherby (UK)