List of paleontologists
This is a list of notable paleontologists who have made significant contributions to the field of paleontology. Only paleontologists with biographical articles in Wikipedia are listed here.
A
- Othenio Abel
- William Abler
- Karel Absolon
- Emiliano Aguirre
- Per E. Ahlberg
- Gustava Aigner
- Luis Alcalá
- Truman H. Aldrich
- Richard Aldridge
- Annie Montague Alexander
- John Alroy
- Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii
- Carlos Ameghino
- Florentino Ameghino
- Charles Anderson
- Elaine Anderson
- Johan Gunnar Andersson
- Gábor Andreánszky
- Charles William Andrews
- Henry Nathaniel Andrews
- Mahala Andrews
- Roy Chapman Andrews
- Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov
- Alberto Angela
- Ernesto Pérez d'Angelo
- Mary Anning
- Miguel Telles Antunes
- Esther Applin
- Camille Arambourg
- Edward Alexander Newell Arber
- Adolphe d'Archiac
- William Joscelyn Arkell
- Chester A. Arnold
- Juan Luis Arsuaga
- Berhane Asfaw
- Hermann Martin Asmuss
- Sava Athanasiu
- Walter Auffenberg
- Stanley Awramik
B
- William Hellier Baily
- Andrew Geddes Bain
- Robert T. Bakker
- Jean-Christophe Balouet
- Harlan Parker Banks
- Mário Costa Barberena
- Erwin Hinckly Barbour
- Joachim Barrande
- Charles Barrois
- Rinchen Barsbold
- Ray S. Bassler
- Dorothea Bate
- Francis Arthur Bather
- Georg Baur
- George Bax Holmes
- Allan Bé
- William Bean
- K. Christopher Beard
- William Beard
- Günter Bechly
- Samuel Beckles
- Charles Emerson Beecher
- Hermann Behmel
- Kay Behrensmeyer
- Walter A. Bell
- Romeu Beltrão
- Etheldred Benett
- Michael Benton
- Georg Karl Berendt
- Wolfgang H. Berger
- Charles Eugène Bertrand
- Paul Bertrand
- Heinrich Ernst Beyrich
- Peter von Bitter
- Alexander Bittner
- Hans C. Bjerring
- Philip R. Bjork
- Richard S. Boardman
- Birger Bohlin
- Johannes Böhm
- José Bonaparte
- Matthew Bonnan
- Lieuwe Dirk Boonstra
- Pramatha Nath Bose
- Marcellin Boule
- Michael Boulter
- James Scott Bowerbank
- Henry Bowman Brady
- Charles Kimberlin Brain
- Wilhelm von Branca
- Leonard R. Brand
- Martin Brasier
- Auguste Bravard
- William J. Breed
- Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski
- Derek Briggs
- Mitja Brodar
- Srečko Brodar
- Pierce Brodkorb
- Magnus Bromelius
- Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
- Heinrich Georg Bronn
- Robert Broom
- Barnum Brown
- Michel Brunet
- Stephen L. Brusatte
- Christian Leopold von Buch
- Walter Hermann Bucher
- Mary Buckland
- William Buckland
- Sydney Savory Buckman
- Graham Budd
- Oliver Bulman
- Emanuel Bunzel
- George Busk
- Charles Butts
- Alexey Bystrow
C
- Susan Cachel
- André Cailleux
- Jaci Antonio Louzada Tupi Caldas
- Mary Gordon Calder
- Jorge O. Calvo
- Adriaan Gilles Camper
- Gustave Campiche
- Ferdinand Canu
- Giovanni Capellini
- Eudald Carbonell
- Daniel Cargnin
- Kenneth Carpenter
- Robert L. Carroll
- Rodolfo Casamiquela
- Ermine Cowles Case
- Meemann Chang
- Frederick Chapman
- Wilfrid Chapman
- Edward Charlesworth
- Sankar Chatterjee
- James Chatters
- Alan Cheetham
- Feodosy Chernyshov
- Luis M. Chiappe
- Karen Chin
- Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan
- Henry Christy
- Jenny Clack
- T. H. Clark
- John Mason Clarke
- Preston Cloud
- Grigore Cobălcescu
- Alberto Cobos
- Edwin Harris Colbert
- Desmond H. Collins
- Fabio Colonna
- William Conybeare
- Isabel Clifton Cookson
- Edward Drinker Cope
- Rodolfo Coria
- Shirley Coryndon
- Maurice Cossmann
- Joseph Pitty Couthouy
- Carlos de Paula Couto
- Leslie Reginald Cox
- Henry Crampton
- Carl Hermann Credner
- Irene Crespin
- Walter Drawbridge Crick
- Margaret Crosfield
- Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha
- Ethel Currie
- Philip J. Currie
- Kristina Curry Rogers
- Georges Cuvier
- Jan Czerski
D
- Ted Daeschler
- Anne Dambricourt-Malassé
- Wilhelm Dames
- Robert Damon
- Thomas Davidson
- A. Morley Davies
- William Davies
- John William Dawson
- Mary R. Dawson
- Henry De la Beche
- Tao Deng
- Charles Depéret
- Peter Dodson
- Louis Dollo
- Dong Zhiming
- Philip Donoghue
- Stephen Donovan
- François Doumergue
- Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé
- Eugène Dubois
- Émilien Dumas
- William Sutherland Dun
- Carl Owen Dunbar
- Peter Martin Duncan
- Wilhelm Dunker
- Gareth J. Dyke
E
- Tilly Edinger
- Dianne Edwards
- Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet
- Niles Eldredge
- Andrzej Elżanowski
- Ashton F. Embry
- Cesare Emiliani
- Douglas Emlong
- Hermann Friedrich Emmrich
- Michael S. Engel
- Bruce Erickson
- Gregory M. Erickson
- Gundolf Ernst
- Douglas Erwin
- Kirill Eskov
- Robert Etheridge
- Robert Etheridge, Junior
- Constantin von Ettingshausen
- Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps
- Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps
- Susan E. Evans
F
- Hugh Falconer
- Paul Fallot
- Mikhail Fedonkin
- Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás
- Carroll Lane Fenton
- Mildred Adams Fenton
- Egidio Feruglio
- Harold John Finlay
- Clive Finlayson
- Geraldine Finlayson
- Anthony Fiorillo
- Paul Henri Fischer
- Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim
- Tim Flannery
- Rousseau H. Flower
- August Foerste
- Michael Foote
- Edward Forbes
- Carlo Fornasini
- Mikael Fortelius
- Catherine Forster
- Clive Forster-Cooper
- Richard Fortey
- William Parker Foulke
- William Fox
- Eberhard Fraas
- Georgii Frederiks
- Childs Frick
- Antonin Fritsch
- Karl von Fritsch
- Michael Frogley
G
- William More Gabb
- Eugene S. Gaffney
- Peter Galton
- Taiping Gao
- Kenneth Garrett
- Bartolomeo Gastaldi
- Charles-Théophile Gaudin
- Jean Albert Gaudry
- Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
- Jacques Gauthier
- Charles Lewis Gazin
- Henry Gee
- Ross Geller
- Paul Gervais
- James W. Gidley
- Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel
- Edmund Dwen Gill
- David Gillette
- Charles W. Gilmore
- Philip D. Gingerich
- George Herbert Girty
- Bernard du Bus de Gisignies
- Martin Glaessner
- Ludwig Glauert
- Ernst Friedrich Glocker
- Pascal Godefroit
- Georg August Goldfuss
- Heinrich Göppert
- Mackenzie Gordon, Jr.
- Maria Gordon
- Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger
- Stephen Jay Gould
- David J. Gower
- Amadeus William Grabau
- Walter W. Granger
- Bruno Granier
- Richard E. Grant
- Vadim Gratshev
- Joseph T. Gregory
- William King Gregory
- Amanz Gressly
- David Grimaldi
- Vera Gromova
- Walter R. Gross
- Józef Grzybowski
H
- George Haas
- Julius von Haast
- Jules Haime
- James Hall
- Valerie Hall
- Anthony Hallam
- Beverly Halstead
- David Harper
- Tom Harris England)
- John Bell Hatcher
- Sidney H. Haughton
- Oliver Perry Hay
- Angelo Heilprin
- Anatol Heintz
- Natascha Heintz
- Sam W. Heads
- Oswald Heer
- Gerhard Heilmann
- Sue Hendrickson
- Edwin Hennig
- Gunnar Henningsmoen
- Victoria Herridge
- Franz Martin Hilgendorf
- Edward Hitchcock
- Scott Hocknull
- Ove Arbo Høeg
- Johann Leonard Hoffmann
- Hans J. Hofmann
- William Jacob Holland
- J. Alan Holman
- Keith Holmes
- Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
- Dirk Albert Hooijer
- Reginald Hooley
- James Hopson
- Jack Horner
- Moritz Hornes
- Lukas Hottinger
- Nicholas Hotton III
- Hildegarde Howard
- Friedrich von Huene
- Alois Humbert
- Julian P. Hume
- Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot
- Pierre Hupé
- Jørn Hurum
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Alpheus Hyatt
I
- Nizar Ibrahim
- Thomas Image
- Wataru Ishijima
- Arturo Issel
J
- David Jablonski
- Auguste Jaccard
- Louis L. Jacobs
- Sohan Lal Jain
- Helen F. James
- Werner Janensch
- Philippe Janvier
- Erik Jarvik
- Dick Jefferies
- Farish Jenkins
- James A. Jensen
- Kirk Johnson
- Frederik Johnstrup
- Theobald Jones
- Thomas Rupert Jones
K
- Josephine Kablick
- Myra Keen
- Gerta Keller
- Alexander Kellner
- Remington Kellogg
- Doris Kermack
- Kenneth Kermack
- Andre Keyser
- Alexander Keyserling
- Johan Aschehoug Kiær
- Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska
- Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Kamoya Kimeu
- Gillian King
- William King
- James Kirkland
- James Kitching
- Andrew H. Knoll
- Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
- Anastas Kondo
- Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
- Andreas Kornhuber
- Vladimir Kovalevsky
- Roman Kozłowski
- Jaroslav Kraft
- Gezim Kapidani
- Miklós Kretzoi
- Afrikan Nikolaevich Krishtofovich
- Evgeny Kurochkin
- Sergei Kurzanov
- Björn Kurtén
- Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov
L
- Philippe de La Harpe
- Kenneth Lacovara
- Matt Lamanna
- Lawrence Lambe
- Charles Lamberton
- Kálmán Lambrecht
- Archibald Lamont
- Wann Langston, Jr.
- Jia Lanpo
- Albert-Félix de Lapparent
- Peter Larson
- Édouard Lartet
- Louis Lartet
- Gustav Karl Laube
- Charles Léopold Laurillard
- Michel Laurin
- René Lavocat
- Louise Leakey
- Richard Leakey
- Alfred Nicholson Leeds
- Serge Legendre
- Joseph Leidy
- André Leroi-Gourhan
- Don Lessem
- Riccardo Levi-Setti
- Giancarlo Ligabue
- Venceslau de Sousa Pereira de Lima
- Jere H. Lipps
- Martin Lockley
- Alfred R. Loeblich Jr
- Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich
- John A. Long
- Albert Heber Longman
- Jane Longstaff
- William Lonsdale
- Frederic Brewster Loomis
- Perceval de Loriol
- Lü Junchang
- Spencer G. Lucas
- R. S. Lull
- Peter Wilhelm Lund
M
- Evgeny Maleev
- Mirko Malez
- Francesco Mallegni
- Gideon Mantell
- Alexander V. Markov
- Brian John Marples
- Othniel Charles Marsh
- Anthony J. Martin
- Larry Martin
- Paul S. Martin
- William Martin
- Nieves López Martínez
- Andrey Vasilyevich Martynov
- John Marwick
- Teresa Maryańska
- Christian Mathis
- Octávio Mateus
- William Diller Matthew
- Vratislav Mazák
- J. C. McConnell
- Frederick McCoy
- Malcolm McKenna
- Mark McMenamin
- Fielding Bradford Meek
- Felipe Mendez
- Peter Merian
- John Campbell Merriam
- Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy
- John Samuel Miller
- Pierre-Aimé Millet
- Angela Milner
- Dick Mol
- Conrad Møller
- Neale Monks
- Raymond C. Moore
- John Morris
- Simon Conway Morris
- J.A. Moy-Thomas
- Salvador Moyà-Solà
- Benjamin Franklin Mudge
- Atílio Munari
- Francisco Javier Muñiz
- Dmitrii Mushketov
N
- Darren Naish
- Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
- Theodor Anton Neagu
- Sterling Nesbitt
- Edwin Tulley Newton
- Elizabeth Nicholls
- Henry Alleyne Nicholson
- Adolf Carl Noé
- Alexander von Nordmann
- Mark Norell
- David B. Norman
- Fernando Novas
- Nestor Ivanovich Novozhilov
O
- Vladimir Obruchev
- Klaus Oeggl
- Chonosuke Okamura
- Thomas Oldham
- Walter Oliver
- Paul E. Olsen
- Stanley John Olsen
- George Olshevsky
- Everett C. Olson
- Armin Öpik
- Alcide d'Orbigny
- Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov
- Tor Ørvig
- Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Halszka Osmólska
- John Ostrom
- Richard Owen
- Katsura Ōyama
P
- Kevin Padian
- Miquel Crusafont i Pairó
- Allison R. Palmer
- C. Phil Palmer
- Katherine Van Winkle Palmer
- Heinz Christian Pander
- James Parkinson
- William Parks
- Bryan Patterson
- Colin Patterson
- Gregory S. Paul
- Alexei Petrovich Pavlov
- Maria Pavlova
- Rajko Pavlovec
- Frank Peabody
- Pei Wenzhong
- David P. Penhallow
- Ernesto Pérez d'Angelo
- Altangerel Perle
- Jaroslav Perner
- Léon Pervinquière
- Luigi Piacenza
- Josef Ladislav Píč
- Martin Pickford
- Elizabeth Philpot
- Guy Ellcock Pilgrim
- Irajá Damiani Pinto
- Edna P. Plumstead
- Auguste Pomel
- Yuri Alexandrovich Popov
- Jean-François-Albert du Pouget
- Vicentino Prestes de Almeida
- Llewellyn Ivor Price
- Donald Prothero
- Mark Purnell
Q
- Heinrich Quiring
R
- Anton Ramovš
- Alexandr Rasnitsyn
- Guilherme Rau
- David M. Raup
- Emily Rayfield
- Manfred Reichel
- Osvaldo Reig
- Roy Herbert Reinhart
- Zeev Reiss
- Robert R. Reisz
- Bernard Renault
- Eugène Renevier
- Charles Repenning
- Charles E. Resser
- Gregory Retallack
- August Emanuel von Reuss
- Emma Richter
- Armand de Ricqlès
- Elmer S. Riggs
- François Jules Pictet de la Rive
- John T. Robinson
- Boris Rohdendorf
- Josef Victor Rohon
- Alfred Romer
- Marcus R. Ross
- Claudia Roth
- Santiago Roth
- Rafael Royo-Torres
- Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky
- John Ruben
- Rudolf Ruedemann
- Bruce Runnegar
- Dale Russell
- Marcello Ruta
- Vasiliy E. Ruzhentsev
- Natalia Rybczynski
S
- Karol Sabath
- John William Salter
- Scott D. Sampson
- William J. Sanders
- Ivan Sansom
- Gaston de Saporta
- Henri Émile Sauvage
- R. J. G. Savage
- Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh
- Steven Schafersman
- Viera Scheibner
- Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
- Judith Schiebout
- Erich Maren Schlaikjer
- Philippe-Charles Schmerling
- Robert M. Schoch
- J. William Schopf
- Frederick Schram
- Charles Schuchert
- Mary Higby Schweitzer
- William Berryman Scott
- Samuel Hubbard Scudder
- Harry Seeley
- Adolf Seilacher
- Jack Sepkoski
- Paul Sereno
- Ethel Shakespear
- Nathaniel Shaler
- Aleksandr Grigorevich Sharov
- Charles Davies Sherborn
- Neil Shubin
- Christian Sidor
- Gloria Jean Siebrecht
- Ion Th. Simionescu
- George Gaylord Simpson
- Martin I. Simpson
- Christopher P. Sloan
- M. Paul Smith
- Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov
- Leonard Frank Spath
- Zdeněk Špinar
- Robert Masterman Stainforth
- Herbert F. Standing
- Steven M. Stanley
- Hans Georg Stehlin
- Erik Stensiö
- Charles Hazelius Sternberg
- Charles Mortram Sternberg
- Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
- Charles Stokes
- Ferdinand Stoliczka
- Henry Stopes
- Marie Stopes
- Antonio Stoppani
- Leif Størmer
- J. Willis Stovall
- George William Stow
- Ernst Stromer
- Samuel Stutchbury
- Hans-Dieter Sues
- Robert M. Sullivan
- William Elgin Swinton
- Władysław Szajnocha
T
- Mignon Talbot
- Darren Tanke
- Philippe Taquet
- Paul Tasch
- Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov
- Ian Tattersall
- Juan Tavera
- Mike P. Taylor
- Richard H. Tedford
- Curt Teichert
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Geneviève Termier
- Henry Testot-Ferry
- Robert C. Thorne
- Raymond Thorsteinsson
- Richard A. Thulborn
- Bruce H. Tiffney
- Eduard Toll
- Zsófia Torma
- Ramsay Traquair
- Georges de Tribolet
- Ronald Pearson Tripp
- Gustaf Troedsson
- Joseph Tyrrell
U
- Viktor Uhlig
- Edward Oscar Ulrich
- Franz Unger
V
- Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
- Gerard Frederick van Tets
- Geerat J. Vermeij
- Édouard de Verneuil
- Patricia Vickers-Rich
- Emily H. Vokes
- Alexander von Volborth
- Giovanni Serafino Volta
- Elisabeth Vrba
- Vishnu-Mittre
W
- Charles Wachsmuth
- C. H. Waddington
- Mary Wade
- Peter J. Wagner
- Norman Arthur Wakefield
- Charles Doolittle Walcott
- Alick Walker
- Cyril Walker
- Arthur Bache Walkom
- Xiaoming Wang
- Wang Yuan
- Jindřich Wankel
- David Ward
- Peter Ward
- Matt J. Wedel
- Wesley Wehr
- David B. Weishampel
- Samuel Paul Welles
- John W. Wells
- Lars Werdelin
- Richard Gilbert West
- Charles M. Wheatley
- Charles Abiathar White
- Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
- Harry B. Whittington
- Christopher H. Whittle
- Joan Wiffen
- James Steele Williams
- Samuel Wendell Williston
- Alice Wilson
- Jeffrey A. Wilson
- Carl Wiman
- Tiberius Cornelis Winkler
- Henry Witham
- Lawrence Witmer
- Jack A. Wolfe
- Searles Valentine Wood
- Henry Woods
- Arthur Smith Woodward
- Henry Woodward
- Amos Henry Worthen
- Trevor H. Worthy
- Claud William Wright
- Thomas Wright
- Andre Wyss
X
- Xu Xing
Y
- Yang Zhongjian
- Lorenzo Gordin Yates
- Ivan Yefremov
- Xiaobo Yu
Z
- Mikhail Zalessky
- Lindsay Zanno
- Otto Zdansky
- Charles René Zeiller
- Zhao Xijin
- Vladimir Zherikhin
- Zhou Ming-Zhen
- Zhou Zhonghe
- Jiri Zidek
- Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker