Giles W. Mead

Giles W. Mead Jr (b. 1928, d. 2003) was an American ichthyologist and museum curator who was the director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County in the 1970s. He gained his doctorate from Stanford University before going on to work at the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a fish taxonomist. He then worked at the Smithsonian Institution before moving to Harvard University, where he was the curator of fishes at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a professor of biology.