This is a list of marine biologists.
- Donald Putnam Abbott (1920âÂÂ1986), American marine invertebrate zoologist
- Isabella Aiona Abbott (1919âÂÂ2010), American marine botanist
- Ali Abdelghany (born 1944), Egyptian marine biologist
- Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857âÂÂ1921), Swedish marine zoologist
- Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist
- Samuel Stillman Berry (1887âÂÂ1984), American marine zoologist
- Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879âÂÂ1967), American marine biologist
- Jean Bouillon (1926âÂÂ2009), Belgian marine zoologist
- Rachel Carson (1907âÂÂ1964), American marine biologist and author
- MarÃÂa Elena Caso (1915âÂÂ1991), Mexican marine biologist
- Carl Chun (1852âÂÂ1914), German marine biologist
- Eugenie Clark (1922âÂÂ2015), American marine biologist
- Malcolm Clarke (1930âÂÂ2013), British cephalopod expert
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910âÂÂ1997), French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker
- Charles Darwin (1809âÂÂ1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard
- Paul K. Dayton (born 1941), American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology
- Finn Devold (1902âÂÂ1977), Norwegian marine biologist
- Anton Dohrn (1840âÂÂ1909), German marine biologist
- Nicole Dubilier, American marine microbiologist, head of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- Patricia Louise Dudley (1929âÂÂ2004) American zoologist specializing in copepods
- Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer
- Austin Gallagher, marine biologist
- Ruth Gates (1962âÂÂ2018), American marine biologist noted for work on coral reefs
- George Brown Goode (1851âÂÂ1896), American ichthyologist
- Philip Henry Gosse (1810âÂÂ1888), English marine zoologist
- J. Frederick Grassle (1939âÂÂ2018), American marine biologist
- Judith Grassle, marine ecologist
- David Gruber Professor of Biology and Environmental Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.
- Gordon Gunter (1909âÂÂ1998), American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- Ernst Haeckel (1834âÂÂ1919), 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 (1961âÂÂ2018), American animator (creator of SpongeBob SquarePants); previously worked as a marine biology teacher for several years
- Hirohito, the ShÃ
Âwa Emperor (1901âÂÂ1989), jellyfish taxonomist
- Johan Hjort (1869âÂÂ1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
- Bruno Hofer (1861âÂÂ1916), German fisheries scientist
- Martin W. Johnson (1893âÂÂ1984), 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 (1923âÂÂ2015), German marine biologist
- Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea (2010)
- August David Krohn (1803âÂÂ1891), Russian/German zoologist
- Paul L. Kramp (1887âÂÂ1975), Danish zoologist working on jellyfish
- William Elford Leach (1790âÂÂ1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
- Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846âÂÂ1888), 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 (1841âÂÂ1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist
- Anders Sandøe ÃÂrsted (1816âÂÂ1872), Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae
- Robert T. Paine (1933âÂÂ2016), American marine zoologist known for developing the "keystone species" concept
- Joseph R. Pawlik (born 1960), American marine biologist
- Ronald C. Phillips (1932âÂÂ2005), 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 (1897âÂÂ1948), 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 (1947âÂÂ2012), 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 (1897âÂÂ1984), British marine biologist known for his work on zooplankton.
- Georg Sars (1837âÂÂ1927), Norwegian marine biologist
- Michael Sars (1809âÂÂ1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist
- Helen Scales ( 2026), British marine biologist and writer
- Oscar Elton Sette (1900âÂÂ1972), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography
- Bell M. Shimada (1922âÂÂ1958), 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 (1832âÂÂ1882), Scottish marine biologist
- Gunnar Thorson (1906âÂÂ1971), Danish marine biologist
- Anne Thynne (1800âÂÂ1866), British marine zoologist
- Takasi Tokioka (1913âÂÂ2001), Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates
- Ruth Turner (1915âÂÂ2000), marine biologist
- Anna Weber-van Bosse (1852âÂÂ1942), marine phycologist
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