List of marine biologists

This is a list of marine biologists.

• Donald Putnam Abbott (1920–1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist
• Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919–2010), American 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), American marine zoologist
• Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), American marine biologist
• Jean Bouillon (1926–2009), Belgian marine zoologist
• Rachel Carson (1907–1964), American marine biologist and author
• María Elena Caso (1915-1991), Mexican marine biologist
• Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
• Eugenie Clark (1922–2015), American marine biologist
• Malcolm Clarke (1930–2013), British cephalopod expert
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker
• Charles Darwin (1809–1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard HMS Beagle
• Paul K. Dayton (born 1941), American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology
• Finn Devold (1902–1977), Norwegian marine biologist
• Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist
• Nicole Dubilier, American marine microbiologist, head of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
• Patricia Louise Dudley (1929–2004) American zoologist specializing in copepods
• Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer
• Austin Gallagher, marine biologist
• Ruth Gates (1962–2018), American marine biologist noted for work on coral reefs
• George Brown Goode (1851-1896), American ichthyologist
• Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), English marine zoologist
• J. Frederick Grassle (1939–2018), American marine biologist
• Judith Grassle, marine ecologist
• David Gruber Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.
• Gordon Gunter (1909–1998), American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico
• Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German physician, zoologist, marine biologist and evolutionist
• Benjamin Halpern, American marine conservationist
• Hans Hass (born 1919), Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer
• Gotthilf Hempel (born 1929), German marine biologist
• Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator (creator of SpongeBob SquarePants); previously worked as a marine biology teacher for several years
• Hirohito, the Shōwa Emperor (1901–1989), jellyfish taxonomist
• Johan Hjort (1869–1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
• Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist
• Martin W. Johnson (1893–1984), American marine biologist and biological oceanographer
• Benjamin Kahn (born 1955), Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist
• Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist
• Otto Kinne (1923-2015), 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
• Melissa Cristina Márquez, "Mother of Sharks," marine biologist and science communicator
• Flower Msuya (born 1959), Tanzanian phycologist
• Sir John Murray (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist
• Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816–1872), Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae
• Robert T. Paine (1933–2016), American marine zoologist known for developing the "keystone species" concept
• Joseph R. Pawlik (born 1960), American marine biologist
• 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 co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
• Jack Rudloe (born 1943), American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory and writer of several popular works on the sea including The Sea Brings Forth, and The Erotic Ocean.
• Frederick Stratten Russell (1897–1984), British marine biologist known for his work on zooplankton.
• Georg Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist
• Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist
• Oscar Elton Sette (1900–1972), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography
• Bell M. Shimada (1922–1958), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering studies of tuna stocks in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
• Ronald Shimek (born 1948), American marine biologist noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods
• Charles Wyville Thomson (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
• Anna Weber-van Bosse (1852–1942), marine phycologist