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List of famous ornithologists
- Horace Alexander (UK, later USA)
- John James Audubon (USA)
- Jean Francois Emmanuel Baillon
- Spencer Fullerton Baird (USA)
- Thomas Bewick (UK)
- Edward Blyth (UK)
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte (France)
- James Bond
- Franco Andrea Bonelli (Italy)
- Thomas Mayo Brewer (USA)
- John Cassin (USA)
- Charles B. Cory (USA)
- Elliott Coues (USA)
- George Edwards (UK), the "Father of British ornithology"
- Frederick DuCane Godman (UK)
- John Gooders (UK)
- John Gould (UK)
- Janez Gregori (Slovenia)
- 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 (Slovenia)
- Theodor Von Heuglin (Germany)
- William Henry Hudson
- John Latham (UK)
- Thomas Littleton Powys the Fourth Baron Lilford (UK)
- Konrad Lorenz (Austria)
- William MacGillivray (UK)
- Chris Mead (UK)
- George Montagu (UK)
- Guy Mountfort (UK)
- Alfred Newton (UK)
- Margaret Morse Nice (USA)
- Max Nicholson (UK)
- Bill Oddie (UK)
- Peter Simon Pallas (Germany)
- Roger Tory Peterson (USA)
- Lionel Walter Rothschild (UK)
- Sir Edward Sabine (UK)
- Paolo Savi (Italy)
- Peter Scott (UK)
- Charles Sibley (USA)
- Tony Soper (UK)
- Georg Steller (Germany)
- Hugh Edwin Strickland (UK)
- William Swainson (UK)
- Robert Swinhoe (UK)
- Colonel W. H. Sykes (UK)
- Coenraad Jacob Temminck (Netherlands)
- Arthur Landsborough Thomson (UK)
- Niko Tinbergen (Netherlands)
- Bernard Tucker (UK)
- William Turner (UK)
- Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (France)
- Gilbert White (UK)
- Francis Willughby (UK)
- Alexander Wilson (USA)
- Harry Witherby (UK)
