Naturalist
Explore the profiles of acclaimed scientists, authors, conservationists, and environmentalists who have made significant contributions to the field of natural history. Learn about their groundbreaking discoveries, inspiring writings, and tireless efforts to protect our planet's natural wonders.

Thomas Huxley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish zoologist and educator

Clarke Abel
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physician, naturalist, botanist and zoologist, researcher of the flora and fauna of China, India, Indonesia

Luther Burbank
USA
USAAmerican breeder

Alfred Brehm
Germany
GermanyGerman zoologist and traveler, author of the famous popular science work “Animal Life”.

Vasiliy Dokuchaev
Russia
RussiaAn outstanding natural scientist. Dokuchaev's ideas influenced the development of physical geography, forestry, land reclamation and other sciences.

Carl Hagenbeck
Germany
GermanyCreator of zoos and animal circuses

Joseph Philippe Clairville
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss naturalist

Jean-Henri Fabre
France
FranceFrench entomologist, writer

Soren Abildgaard
Denmark
DenmarkDanish naturalist, writer and illustrator

Marcus Elieser Bloch
Germany
GermanyGerman physician and naturalist, ichthyologist.

Terri Irwin
USA
USAAmerican naturalist, author, widow of Australian naturalist Steve Irwin

Louis Daubenton
France
FranceFrench naturalist

Lazaro Spallanzani
Italy
ItalyItalian naturalist and physicist

Hans Sloane
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish physician and naturalist.

William Griffith
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physician, naturalist and botanist

Thomas Campbell Eyton
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish naturalist

John Bartram
USA
USAAmerican naturalist.

Henry Labonne
France
FranceFrench naturalist

Karl Hoffmann
Germany
GermanyGerman physician and naturalist.

John Burroughs
USA
USAAmerican writer, artist, naturalist and philosopher.

Antonio Vallisneri
Italy
ItalyItalian naturalist

Wangari Maathai
Kenya
KenyaKenyan ecologist, professor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 2004

William Bartram
USA
USAAmerican naturalist

Paul Rosolie
USA
USAAmerican naturalist

Jim Corbett
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish hunter, conservationist, naturalist, writer.

Alberto Angela
Italy
ItalyItalian paleontologist, naturalist, popularizer of science, writer, TV presenter.

Tom Brown. Jr.
USA
USAAmerican naturalist, author of numerous autobiographical books.

Rob Bredl
Australia
AustraliaFamous naturalist

Joy Adamson
Great Britain
Great BritainNaturalist, writer, animal activist

George Beals Schaller
USA
USAAmerican ethologist and writer

Thomas Barbour
USA
USANaturalist, herpetologist, professor and director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University

George Brettingham Sowerby I
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish naturalist, illustrator and conchologist

Engelbert Kampfer
Germany
GermanyGerman traveler and naturalist

Iosif Laurenti
Austria
AustriaAustrian naturalist of Italian origin.

Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
France
FranceAbbot from the French province of Rouergue, naturalist

Maximilian Wied-Neuwied
Germany
GermanyFamous traveler and naturalist

Stanislav Undzill
Lithuania
LithuaniaScientist, naturalist and teacher

John Berkenhout
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish physician, naturalist and writer.

George Gibbs
USA
USAAmerican ethnologist, naturalist and geologist

Pieter Boddaert
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch physician and naturalist

Cornelis Jansen
Netherlands
NetherlandsDutch theologian

Philip Henry Gosse
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish naturalist, inventor of the aquarium

Wilhelm Peters
Germany
GermanyGerman naturalist, zoologist, anatomist and discoverer.

Peter Artedi
Sweden
SwedenThe famous Swedish naturalist

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss naturalist and teacher, follower of J. Cuvier

Johann Julius Walbaum
Germany
GermanyGerman physician, naturalist, zoologist and taxonomist

Antoni van Levenguk
Netherlands
NetherlandsNaturalist

Konrad Lawrence
Austria
AustriaFamous biologist and ethologist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1973famous biologist and ethologist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1973

Hugh Cuming
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish naturalist, malacologist

James Hector
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish scientist, naturalist, physician.