List of ornithologists

This is a list of ornithologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also Category:Ornithologists.

A

 * John Abbot – US
 * Clinton Gilbert Abbott – US
 * William Louis Abbott – US
 * Joseph H. Acklen – US
 * Humayun Abdulali – India
 * Jon E. Ahlquist – US
 * Prince Akishino (皇嗣秋筱宮文仁親王) – Japan
 * Luigi d'Albertis – Italy
 * John Warren Aldrich – US
 * Boyd Alexander – England
 * Christopher James Alexander – England
 * Horace Alexander – England, US
 * Wilfred Backhouse Alexander – England
 * Salim Ali – India
 * Arthur Augustus Allen – US
 * Elsa Guerdrum Allen – US
 * Glover Morrill Allen – US
 * Joel Asaph Allen – US
 * Robert Porter Allen – US
 * György Almásy – Hungary/Austria
 * Bernard Altum – Germany
 * Dean Amadon – US
 * George W. Archibald – Canada/US
 * John Ash – England
 * Edwin Ashby – Australia
 * Henry Philemon Attwater – England/Canada/US
 * Yves Aubry – Canada
 * Jean Victoire Audouin – France
 * John James Audubon – France/US
 * Oliver L. Austin – US
 * Félix de Azara - Spain

B

 * Walther Bacmeister – Germany
 * Alfred Marshall Bailey – US
 * Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey – US
 * Jean-Baptiste Bailly – France
 * Spencer Fullerton Baird – US
 * E. C. Stuart Baker – England
 * Russell Balda – US
 * August Carl Eduard Baldamus – Germany
 * Jean-Christophe Balouet – France
 * Vladimir Balthasar – Czech Republic
 * Betsy Bang – US
 * Outram Bangs – US
 * V. B. Banjkovski – Russia
 * Richard C. Banks – US
 * David Armitage Bannerman – UK
 * Phyllis Barclay-Smith – UK
 * Pierre Barrère – France
 * Richard Mancliffe Barrington – Ireland
 * Walter B. Barrows – US
 * George A. Bartholomew – US
 * Edward Bartlett – UK
 * William Bartram – US
 * Charles Foster Batchelder – US
 * George Latimer Bates – US
 * E. V. Baxter – Scotland
 * Robert Cecil Beavan – England
 * Johann Matthäus Bechstein – Germany
 * Rollo Beck – US
 * Jean-Baptiste Bécœur – France
 * William Beebe – US
 * Bruce Beehler – US
 * William H. Behle – US
 * Lyman Belding – US
 * Brian Bell – New Zealand
 * John Graham Bell – US
 * Lev Osipovich Belopolsky – USSR
 * Charles Bendire – US
 * Constantine Walter Benson – England
 * Arthur Cleveland Bent – US
 * Andrew John Berger – US
 * E. Alexander Bergstrom – US
 * Hans von Berlepsch – Germany
 * Grace Berlin – US
 * Jacques Berlioz - France
 * Victor Besaucèle – France
 * Thomas Bewick – England
 * Valentin Bianchi – Russia
 * Eugene P. Bicknell – US
 * Biswamoy Biswas – India
 * Gladys Black – US
 * Emmet Reid Blake – US
 * William Thomas Blanford – England
 * August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius – Germany
 * Johann Heinrich Blasius – Germany
 * Rudolf Blasius – Germany
 * Edward Blyth – England
 * George Augustus Boardman – US/Canada
 * José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage – Portugal
 * Walter Joseph Bock (1933–2022) - US
 * Pieter Boddaert – Netherlands
 * Hans von Boetticher – Germany
 * Nikolay Boev – Bulgaria
 * Zlatozar Boev – Bulgaria
 * Friedrich Boie – Germany
 * Auguste Boissonneau – France
 * Charles Lucien Bonaparte – France
 * James Bond – US
 * Franco Andrea Bonelli – Italy
 * J. Lewis Bonhote – England (1875–1922)
 * Bernard Borggreve – Germany
 * José Ignacio Borrero – Cuba
 * Donald J. Borror – US
 * Adolphe Boucard – France
 * Jules Bourcier – France
 * Frank Swift Bourns – US
 * Louis Hippolyte Bouteille – France
 * Johann Friedrich von Brandt – Germany/Russia
 * Rex Brasher – US
 * Mark Brazil – England/Japan
 * Alfred Brehm – Germany
 * Christian Ludwig Brehm – Germany
 * Thomas Mayo Brewer – US
 * William Brewster – US
 * Mathurin Jacques Brisson – France
 * Pierce Brodkorb – US
 * Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke – England
 * Allan Brooks – Canada
 * William Edwin Brooks – Ireland/India
 * Herbert Brown – US
 * Nathan Clifford Brown – US
 * Thomas Browne – England
 * Carl Friedrich Bruch – Germany
 * Friedrich Brüggemann – Germany
 * Morten Thrane Brünnich – Denmark
 * William Alanson Bryan – US
 * Henry Bryant – US
 * Theodor Bühler-Lindenmeyer (1859–1899) – Switzerland
 * Walter Buller – New Zealand
 * William John Burchell – England
 * Hermann Burmeister – Germany
 * Edward H. Burtt Jr. – US
 * Arthur Lennox Butler – India/England
 * Edward Arthur Butler – England
 * Johann Büttikofer – Switzerland/Netherlands/Liberia
 * Sergei Buturlin – Russia

C

 * Jean Cabanis – Germany
 * Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo – Brazil
 * Archibald James Campbell – Australia
 * Melbourne Armstrong Carriker – US
 * John Cassin – US
 * Montague Chamberlain – Canada/US
 * James Chapin – US
 * Frank Chapman – US
 * Frederick Nutter Chasen – England/Singapore
 * Robert Ernest Cheesman – England
 * Tso-hsin Cheng (郑作新) – China
 * George Kruck Cherrie – US/Costa Rica
 * John Lewis Childs – US
 * Glen Chilton – Canada/Australia
 * Leslie Christidis – Australia
 * Tadeusz Chrostowski – Poland
 * Charles Chubb – England
 * Phillip Clancey – South Africa
 * Austin Hobart Clark – US
 * Nigel Cleere – England
 * James Clements – US
 * Stanley Cobb – US
 * Herbert L. Coggins – US
 * Leon Jacob Cole – US
 * Peter Colston – UK
 * Herbert Thomas Condon – Australia
 * Boardman Conover – US
 * William G. Conway – US
 * Wells Cooke – US
 * Emilio Cornalia – Italy
 * Charles B. Cory – US
 * Elliott Coues – US
 * John Courtney – Australia
 * Lee Crandall – US
 * Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar – Germany
 * Maunsell Crosby – US
 * Georges Cuvier – France
 * Ede Czynk – Hungary

D

 * Roberto Dabbene – Italy/Argentina
 * François Marie Daudin – France
 * Priya Davidar – India
 * William Leon Dawson – US
 * William Ryan Dawson – US
 * Charles Walter De Vis – England/Australia
 * C. Douglas Deane – UK
 * Ruthven Deane – US
 * Côme-Damien Degland – France
 * Dudley DeGroot – US
 * Herbert Girton Deignan – US
 * Jean Théodore Delacour – France/US
 * Jacques Delamain – France
 * Adolphe Delattre – France
 * Georgi Petrovich Dementiev – USSR
 * Louis Denise – France
 * Antoon Emeric Marcel De Roo – Belgium
 * Jean-Marie Derscheid – Belgium
 * René Louiche Desfontaines – France
 * Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet des Murs – France
 * Barbara DeWolfe – US
 * Douglas Dewar – England
 * Raol Shri Dharmakumarsinhji – India
 * Elio Augusto Di Carlo – Italy
 * Jared Diamond – US
 * Elizabeth Dickens – US
 * Donald Ryder Dickey – US
 * Charles-Eusèbe Dionne – Canada
 * John Disney – UK, Australia
 * Viktor Rafaelyevich Dolnik – USSR/Russia
 * Janusz Domaniewski – Poland
 * Caroline Dormon – US
 * Jean Dorst – France
 * Henry Eeles Dresser – England
 * Rudolf Drost – Germany
 * Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois – Belgium
 * Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Belgium
 * Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix – France
 * Andrzej Dunajewski – Poland
 * William Dutcher – US
 * Jonathan Dwight – US
 * Włodzimierz Dzieduszycki – Poland

E

 * George Edwards – England, "Father of British ornithology"
 * Elon Howard Eaton – US
 * Scott V. Edwards – US
 * Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg – Germany
 * Eugene Eisenmann – US
 * Walter Elmer Ekblaw – US
 * Carl R. Eklund – US
 * Daniel Giraud Elliot – US
 * Carlo von Erlanger – Germany
 * Arthur Humble Evans – England
 * Eduard Friedrich Eversmann – Germany
 * Thomas Campbell Eyton – England

F

 * Frederik Faber – Denmark
 * Robert Falla – New Zealand
 * Donald S. Farner – US
 * Norman Joseph Favaloro – Australia
 * Walter Faxon – US
 * Alan Feduccia – US
 * Christoph Feldegg – Austria
 * Frank Finn – England
 * Otto Finsch – Germany
 * Gustav Fischer – Germany
 * Albert Kenrick Fisher – US
 * James Maxwell McConnell Fisher – England
 * Kenneth Fisher – England
 * R. S. R. Fitter – England
 * John W. Fitzpatrick – US
 * Jim Flegg – England
 * James Henry Fleming – Canada
 * Edward Howe Forbush – US
 * Joseph Forshaw – Australia
 * Johann Reinhold Forster – Poland-Lithuania/England
 * James Franklin – England/India
 * Louis Fraser – England
 * Percy Evans Freke – Ireland
 * Herbert Friedmann – US
 * Johan Dalgas Frisch – Brazil
 * János Frivaldszky – Hungary
 * Louis Agassiz Fuertes – US
 * Max Fürbringer – Germany

G

 * Gaszton Gaál – Hungary
 * Hans Friedrich Gadow – Germany
 * Joseph Paul Gaimard – France
 * Tim Gallagher – US
 * William Gambel – US
 * Wulf Gatter – Germany
 * Heinrich Gaetke – Germany
 * Prosper Garnot – France
 * Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – France
 * Zéphirin Gerbe – France
 * Enrico Hillyer Giglioli – Italy
 * Frank Gill – US
 * Theodore Gill – US
 * Ernest Thomas Gilliard – US
 * Robert Gillmor – England
 * Bernard du Bus de Gisignies – Netherlands/Belgium
 * Nikolai Alekseievich Gladkov – USSR
 * Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger – Germany
 * Johann Friedrich Gmelin – Germany
 * Frederick DuCane Godman – England
 * Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen – England
 * Mauricio González-Gordon y Díez – Spain
 * Derek Goodwin – England
 * Philip Henry Gosse – England
 * John Gould – England
 * Rolf Grantsau – Germany/Brazil
 * George Robert Gray – England
 * John Edward Gray (brother of George Robert) – England
 * Andrew Jackson Grayson – US
 * James Greenway – US
 * Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon – England
 * Joseph Grinnell – US
 * Ludlow Griscom – US
 * Hermann Grote – Germany
 * Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard – France
 * Johan Ernst Gunnerus – Norway
 * Jan Willem Boudewijn Gunning – Netherlands/South Africa
 * John Henry Gurney Jr. – UK
 * John Henry Gurney Sr. – UK
 * Eberhard Gwinner – Germany
 * Nils Carl Gustaf Fersen Gyldenstolpe – Sweden

H

 * Masauji Hachisuka (蜂須賀正氏) – Japan
 * Jack Hailman - United States
 * Mihkel Härms – Estonia
 * Yngvar Hagen – Norway
 * Pat Hall – England
 * Bernhard Hantzsch – Germany
 * Edward Hargitt – Scotland
 * Herbert Hastings Harington – British India
 * Edward Harris – US
 * Colin Harrison – England
 * Tom Harrisson – Argentina/England
 * Ernst Hartert – Germany
 * Gustav Hartlaub – Germany
 * François Haverschmidt – Netherlands
 * Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (published as Viscount Walden) – Scotland
 * Helen Hays – US
 * Cornelis Hazevoet – Netherlands
 * Gerhard Heilmann – Denmark
 * Ferdinand Heine – Germany
 * Bernd Heinrich – US
 * Katharina Heinroth – Germany
 * Oskar Heinroth – Germany
 * Carl Eduard Hellmayr – Austria
 * Wilhelm Hemprich – Germany
 * George Morrison Reid Henry – British Ceylon/England
 * Henry Wetherbee Henshaw – US
 * James Hepburn – England/Canada
 * Ottó Herman – Hungary
 * Johann Hermann – France
 * Theodor von Heuglin – Germany
 * Joseph Hickey – US
 * Warren Billingsley Hitchcock – Australia
 * John Hobbs – UK/Australia
 * Brian Houghton Hodgson – England/India
 * Ralph Hoffmann – US
 * Carl Peter Holbøll – Denmark
 * Ajoy Home – India
 * Richard T. Holmes – US
 * Jacques Bernard Hombron – France
 * Alexander von Homeyer – Germany
 * Eugen Ferdinand von Homeyer – Germany
 * Andries Hoogerwerf – Netherlands
 * Milton N. Hopkins – US
 * Thomas Horsfield – US
 * Henry Eliot Howard – England
 * William Henry Hudson – Argentina/England
 * Allan Octavian Hume – England/India
 * Rob Hume – England
 * Syed Abdulla Hussain – India
 * Frederick Hutton – England/New Zealand

I

 * Hermann von Ihering – Germany/Brazil
 * Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger – Germany
 * Collingwood Ingram – England
 * Tom Iredale – UK/Australia
 * Hussein Adan Isack – Kenya
 * Yuri Andreyevich Isakov – Russia/USSR

J

 * Pierre Jabouille – France
 * Frederick John Jackson – England/Uganda
 * Honoré Jacquinot – France
 * Helen F. James – US
 * Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet – Scotland
 * Konstanty Jelski – Poland
 * Thomas C. Jerdon – England/India
 * Herbert K. Job – US
 * Hans Johansen – Russia/Denmark
 * Hermann Johansen – Russia
 * Richard F. Johnston – US
 * Lynds Jones – US
 * Christian Jouanin – France
 * Henri Jouard – France
 * George Junge – Netherlands

K

 * Peter Kaestner – US
 * Gisela Kaplan – Australia
 * Johann Jakob Kaup – Germany
 * Janet Kear – England
 * Charles Keeler – US
 * John Gerrard Keulemans – Netherlands
 * Charles Rollin Keyes – US
 * Alexander Keyserling – Germany
 * Lavkumar Khachar – India
 * Norman Boyd Kinnear – Scotland
 * Jared Kirtland – US
 * Heinrich von Kittlitz – Germany
 * Niels Kjærbølling – Denmark
 * Otto Kleinschmidt – Germany
 * C. Boden Kloss – England/Malaya
 * Karel Kněžourek - Czechoslovakia
 * Walter Koelz – US
 * Alexander Koenig – Germany
 * Maria Koepcke – Peru
 * Paul Robert Kollibay – Prussia
 * Elizabeth Kozlova – Russia
 * Niels Krabbe – Denmark
 * K. S. R. Krishna Raju – India
 * Heinrich Kuhl – Germany
 * Hans Kummerlöwe (or Kumerloeve after World War II) – Germany
 * Nagahisa Kuroda (黒田長久) – Japan
 * Nagamichi Kuroda (黒田長礼) – Japan
 * Sayako Kuroda (黒田清子) – Japan

L

 * David Lack – England
 * Elizabeth Lack – England
 * Frédéric de Lafresnaye – France
 * Christian Ludwig Landbeck – Germany
 * Bill Lane – Australia
 * Amelia Laskey – US
 * John Latham – England
 * Alfred Laubmann – Germany
 * Louis Lavauden – France
 * George Newbold Lawrence – US
 * Edgar Leopold Layard – England/Ceylon
 * Dudley Le Souef – Australia
 * Elsie P. Leach – England
 * William Elford Leach – England
 * John Legg – England
 * William Vincent Legge – Australia
 * Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler – Germany
 * Boonsong Lekagul – Thailand
 * Jean-Baptiste Leschenault de La Tour – France
 * René Lesson – France
 * François Levaillant – France
 * Graceanna Lewis – US
 * Félix Louis L'Herminier – France
 * Hinrich Lichtenstein – Germany
 * Karl Theodor Liebe – Germany
 * Carl Linnaeus – Swedish
 * Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford – England
 * Bradley C. Livezey – US
 * Victor Loche – France
 * Hans Löhrl – Germany
 * Einar Lönnberg - Sweden
 * Konrad Lorenz – Austria
 * Harald von Loudon – Germany
 * Michel Louette – Belgium
 * Herman L. Løvenskiold – Norway
 * Percy Lowe – England
 * George Lowery – US
 * Oskar Engelhard von Löwis of Menar – Latvia/Germany/Russia
 * Hubert Lynes – Wales/England

M

 * James Macdonald – Scotland/Australia
 * William MacGillivray – Scotland
 * Cyril Mackworth-Praed – England
 * Gyula Madarász – Austria-Hungary
 * Wolfgang Makatsch – Germany
 * Alexey Sergeevich Malchevsky – Russia
 * Alfred Malherbe – France
 * Louis Mandelli – Italy, India
 * Saverio Manetti – Italy
 * Stephen Marchant – Australia
 * Judy Kellogg Markowsky - United States
 * Charles Henry Tilson Marshall – England/India
 * Kathy Martin – Canada
 * Ian J. Mason – Australia
 * George Masters – Australia
 * Gregory Mathews – Australia
 * Ernst Mayr – US
 * George A. McCall – US
 * Elliott McClure – US/Southeast Asia
 * John Porter McCown – US
 * Allan Reginald McEvey – Australia
 * Edward Avery McIlhenny – US
 * Thomas McIlwraith – Canada
 * Charles McKay – US
 * Chris Mead – England
 * Edgar Alexander Mearns – US
 * Gerlof Mees – Netherlands
 * M.F.M. Meiklejohn – England
 * Annie Meinertzhagen – Scotland
 * Richard Meinertzhagen – England
 * Wilhelm Meise – Germany
 * Auguste Ménégaux - France
 * Mikhail Aleksandrovich Menzbier – Russia
 * Christopher Merret – England
 * C. Hart Merriam – US
 * Olivier Messiaen – France
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Meves - Germany, Sweden
 * Adolf Bernhard Meyer – Germany
 * Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee – US
 * Alden H. Miller – US
 * Alexander William Milligan – Australia
 * Alphonse Milne-Edwards – France
 * Clive Minton – Australia
 * Lacy Irvine Moffett – US
 * Juan Ignacio Molina – Chile
 * Edgardo Moltoni – Italy
 * Burt Monroe – US
 * George Montagu – England
 * John J. Montgomery – US
 * Frederic Moore – England
 * Robert Thomas Moore – US
 * Reginald Ernest Moreau – England
 * Hans Christian Cornelius Mortensen – Denmark
 * Guy Mountfort – England
 * Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller – Germany
 * Salomon Müller – Germany
 * Étienne Mulsant – France
 * Robert Cushman Murphy – US
 * Durno Murray – Australia

N

 * Johann Natterer – Austria
 * Johann Friedrich Naumann – Germany
 * René de Naurois – France
 * K. K. Neelakantan – India
 * Adolph Nehrkorn – Germany
 * Henry Nehrling – US
 * Edward William Nelson – US
 * Thomas Hudson Nelson – England
 * Oscar Neumann – Germany
 * Oliver Michael Griffiths Newman – Australia
 * Alfred Newton – England
 * Edward Newton – England
 * Ian Newton – England
 * Margaret Morse Nice – US
 * Michael John Nicoll – UK/Egypt
 * John Treadwell Nichols – US
 * Max Nicholson – England
 * Günther Niethammer – Germany
 * Alexander von Nordmann – Finland
 * Alfred John North – Australia
 * Cornelius Nozeman – Netherlands

O

 * Eugene W. Oates – England/Burma
 * Harry C. Oberholser – US
 * Bill Oddie – England
 * William Robert Ogilvie-Grant – Scotland
 * Claes Christian Olrog – Sweden/Argentina
 * Storrs L. Olson – US
 * Eduard Daniël van Oort – Netherlands
 * Alcide d'Orbigny – France
 * George Ord – US
 * Gordon Orians – US
 * Wilfred Hudson Osgood – US
 * Émile Oustalet – France

P

 * Peter Simon Pallas – Germany
 * Shane A. Parker – England/Australia
 * Theodore A. Parker III – US
 * Kenneth Carroll Parkes – US
 * Carl Parrot – Germany
 * Titian Peale – US
 * Thomas Gilbert Pearson – US
 * August von Pelzeln – Austria
 * Thomas Pennant – Wales
 * James Lee Peters – US
 * Wilhelm Peters – Germany
 * Roger Tory Peterson – US
 * Sewall Pettingill – US
 * William Henry Phelps – US/Venezuela
 * William H. Phelps Jr. – Venezuela
 * Rodolfo Amando Philippi – Germany/Chile
 * Allan Robert Phillips – US
 * John Charles Phillips – US
 * Olivério Pinto – Brazil
 * Frank Pitelka – US
 * Graham Pizzey – Australia
 * Sally Poncet – Australia
 * Pilai Poonswad – Thailand
 * John du Pont – US
 * Leonid Aleksandrovich Portenko – USSR(Ukraine)
 * Harold Douglas Pratt Jr. – US
 * Josef Prokop Pražák – Bohemia
 * Alexandre Prigogine – Belgium
 * Aleksandr Promptov – Russia/USSR
 * Nikolay Przhevalsky (or Przewalski) – Russia
 * Jacques Pucheran – France

Q

 * Jean René Constant Quoy – France
 * Vo Quy – Vietnam

R

 * Dioscoro S. Rabor – Philippines
 * Stamford Raffles – England/Singapore
 * Edward Pierson Ramsay – Australia
 * Austin L. Rand – Canada
 * Pamela C. Rasmussen – US
 * Sushma Reddy – India/US
 * Ludwig Reichenbach – Germany
 * Anton Reichenow – Germany
 * Pauline Reilly – Australia
 * Bernhard Rensch – Germany
 * John Richardson – Scotland/England
 * Charles Wallace Richmond – US
 * Robert S. Ridgely – US
 * John Livzey Ridgway – US
 * Robert Ridgway – US
 * Joseph Harvey Riley – US
 * Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul – Scotland
 * Sidney Dillon Ripley – US
 * Robert Ritter von Dombrowski – Bohemia/Romania
 * Chandler Robbins – US
 * Austin Roberts – South Africa
 * Thomas Sadler Roberts – US
 * Herbert C. Robinson – England/Malaya
 * Edward Hearle Rodd – England
 * Theodore Roosevelt – US
 * Hermann von Rosenberg – Germany
 * Adriaan Joseph van Rossem – US
 * Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild – England
 * Frank Rozendaal – Netherlands
 * Eduard Rüppell – Germany
 * Karl Russ – Germany(Prussia)
 * Erich Rutschke – Germany
 * Wladyslaw Rydzewski – Poland

S

 * Edward Sabine – Ireland
 * John Hall Sage – US
 * Finn Salomonsen – Denmark
 * Tommaso Salvadori – Italy
 * Osbert Salvin – England
 * Howard Saunders – England
 * William Edwin Saunders – Canada
 * William Savage – US
 * Paolo Savi – Italy
 * Hans Schaanning – Norway
 * Alfred Schifferli – Switzerland
 * Eiler Lehn Schiøler – Denmark
 * Hermann Schlegel – Germany/Netherlands
 * Richard Schodde – Australia
 * Ernst Schüz – Germany
 * Philip Sclater – England
 * William Lutley Sclater – England
 * Giovanni Antonio Scopoli – Austria/Tyrol
 * J. Michael Scott – US
 * Peter Scott – England
 * William Earl Dodge Scott - US
 * Jan Bogusław Szczepski – Poland
 * Henry Seebohm – England
 * Josef Seilern – Austria/Czech
 * Prideaux John Selby – England
 * George B. Sennett – US
 * Pavel Vladimirovich Serebrovsky – Russia/USSR
 * William Serle – Scotland
 * Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (or Severtsov) – Russia
 * Richard Bowdler Sharpe – England
 * George Shaw – England
 * Frederick H. Sheldon – US
 * George Ernest Shelley – England
 * Althea Sherman – US
 * Hadoram Shirihai – Israel
 * Lester L. Short – US
 * Charles Sibley – US
 * David Allen Sibley – US
 * Helmut Sick – Brazil
 * Hendrik Cornelis Siebers – Netherlands
 * Eugène Simon – French
 * Ken Simpson – Australia
 * Vasily Nikolaevich Skalon – Russia/USSR
 * Cuthbert John Skead – South Africa
 * Alexander Skutch – US
 * Tore Slagsvold – Norway
 * Andrew Smith – Scotland
 * Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby – England
 * Bertram E. Smythies – England
 * Emilie Snethlage – Germany/Brazil
 * David Snow – England
 * Barbara Snow – England
 * Jan Sokolowski – Poland
 * James Mortimer Southwick – US
 * Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg – USSR
 * Anders Erikson Sparrman – Sweden
 * Johann Baptist von Spix – Germany
 * Isaac Sprague – US
 * Don Stap – US
 * David Steadman – US
 * Joseph Beal Steere – US
 * Boris K. Stegmann – Russia/USSR
 * Joachim Steinbacher – Germany
 * Leonhard Stejneger – Norway – US
 * Georg Steller – Germany
 * Leo Stepanyan – USSR/Armenia
 * James Francis Stephens – England
 * Ferdinand Stoliczka – Czech Republic
 * Jean Stolzmann (also as Jan Sztolcman) - Poland
 * Witmer Stone – US
 * Robert W. Storer – US
 * Erwin Stresemann – Germany
 * Hugh Edwin Strickland – England
 * Robert Stroud – US
 * Noah Strycker – US
 * Jacob H. Studer – US
 * Johann Heinrich Christian Friedrich Sturm – Germany
 * Johann Wilhelm Sturm – Germany
 * J. Denis Summers-Smith – Scotland/England
 * Carl Jakob Sundevall – Sweden
 * Petr Sushkin – Russia
 * Ernst Sutter – Switzerland
 * George Miksch Sutton – US
 * William Swainson – England/New Zealand
 * Charles Swinhoe – England/India
 * Robert Swinhoe – England/Formosa
 * William Henry Sykes – England/India
 * Jan Sztolcman (also as Jean Stolzmann) – Poland

T

 * Władysław Taczanowski – Poland
 * Coenraad Jacob Temminck – Netherlands
 * John Kenneth Terres – US
 * John Eliot Thayer – US
 * Gerhard Thielcke – Germany
 * Johannes Thienemann – Germany
 * Ludwig Thienemann – Germany
 * William Lay Thompson – US
 * Arthur Landsborough Thomson – Scotland
 * Claud B. Ticehurst – England
 * Samuel Tickell – India
 * Luuk Tinbergen – Netherlands
 * Niko Tinbergen – Netherlands
 * Friedrich Tischler – Prussia/Germany
 * Walter Edmond Clyde Todd – US
 * John David Digues La Touche – England/Ireland
 * Charles Haskins Townsend – US
 * John Kirk Townsend – US
 * Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. – US
 * Alberto O. Treganza – US
 * Roland Trimen – England/South Africa
 * Henry Baker Tristram – England
 * Johann Jakob von Tschudi – Switzerland
 * Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen – Austria
 * Bernard Tucker – England
 * Marmaduke Tunstall – England
 * William Turner – England
 * Konstanty Tyzenhauz – Poland

U

 * Miklós Udvardy – Hungary/Canada
 * Tatsuo Utagawa (宇田川竜男) – Japan

V

 * Dirk Van den Abeele – Belgium
 * Jacques Van Impe – Belgium
 * Victor Van Someren – Australia/Kenya
 * Josselyn Van Tyne – US
 * Charles Vaurie – France/US
 * Édouard Verreaux – France
 * Jules Verreaux – France
 * Louis Pierre Vieillot – France
 * Nicholas Aylward Vigors – Ireland/England
 * Keith Vinicombe – England
 * William Vogt – US
 * Karel Voous – Netherlands

W

 * Johann Georg Wagler – Germany
 * Will Wagstaff – Wales/England
 * Veleslav Wahl – Czechoslovakia
 * Johan August Wahlberg – Sweden
 * Lawrence H. Walkinshaw – US
 * Alfred Russel Wallace – England
 * Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay – England
 * George Waterston – Scotland
 * Richard Weatherly – Australia
 * Hugo Weigold – Germany
 * Alexander Wetmore – US
 * Hugh Whistler – India
 * Joseph Whitaker – Italy/England
 * Gilbert White – England
 * Henry Luke White – Australia
 * Otto Widmann – US
 * Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied – Germany
 * John Wiens – US
 * George Willett – US
 * Lionel William Wiglesworth – England
 * Iolo Williams – Wales
 * Francis Willughby – UK
 * Alexander Wilson – Scotland/US
 * Kerry-Jayne Wilson – NZ
 * Scott Barchard Wilson – England
 * Marie Winn – US
 * Harry Witherby – England
 * Kazimierz Wodzicki – Poland/New Zealand
 * Hans Edmund Wolters – Germany
 * Won Hong-gu, 원홍구 – North Korea (father of Won Pyong-oh)
 * Won Pyong-oh, 원병오 – South Korea
 * Samuel Washington Woodhouse – US
 * John Woinarski – Australia
 * Dean Conant Worcester – US
 * Philogène Wytsman – Belgium

X

 * John Xantus – Hungary

Y

 * Yoshimaro Yamashina (山階芳麿) – Japan
 * William Yarrell – England
 * John Yealland – England

Z

 * Nikolai Alekseyvich Zarudny – Ukraine/Russia
 * John Todd Zimmer – US
 * Giuseppe Zinanni – Italy