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This is an evolving collection of significant people in dinosaur science, past and present. Amateurs have made some major contributions to our understanding of dinosaurs but we owe most to the highly qualified paleontologists who conduct field work, teach in universities, supervise and curate museum collections or work in private enterprise.

It is our goal that this directory include a short biography (particularly any dinosaurs named) and useful Internet links related to the person and their work.

A work-in-progress
This work-in-progress is shared in its current form for two reasons:

1. It contains useful information.

2. Users may be encouraged to contribute names, information and links.

Additions and comments:

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Louis Agassiz
Paleontologist, glaciologist and geologist, and prominent innovator in the study of the earth's natural history.

Luis Alvarez
American physicist and inventor. Together with his son, Walter, amassed proof that dinosaurs were wiped out as the result of an asteroid collision.

Walter Alvarez
Professor of Geology, Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley

Florentino Ameghino
Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist. Named Clasmodosaurus (1898) and Loncosaurus (1898)

Roy Chapman Andrews
American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. Profile by the Roy Chapman Andrews Society.

Mary Anning
An early British fossil collector and paleontologist.

John Attridge
U.K. paleontologist who showed that Massospondylus ground food via a gastric mill.

K. Ayyasami
Indian paleontologist; Named Dravidosaurus (1979)

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Donald Baird
U.S. ichnologist; Director, Museum of Natural History, Princeton University.

Robert T. Bakker
Visiting Curator of Paleontology, Houston Museum of Natural Science.

David Baldwin
American amateur fossil hunter for E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh; Discovered Coelophysis.

Rinchen Barsbold
Mongolian paleontologist and geologist at The Institute of Geology, at Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Alan Bartholomai
Queensland Museum (retired, now a volunteer)

Samuel Beckles
U.K. amateur fossil collector.

Juan Luis Benedetto (Profile in Spanish)
Argentinean paleontologist; Described the Herrerasauridae.

Michael Benton
Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Roland T. Bird
American paleontologist; In the 1940s he first noted trackways along the Paluxy riverbed in central Texas.

Anders Birger Bohlin
Swedish palaeontologist; Named Chiayuesaurus, Microceratops (Microceratus), Peishanosaurus, Stegosaurides and Heishansaurus.

Jose F. Bonaparte
Argentinean paleontologist at National Museum of Natural Sciences in Buenos Aires.

Maria Magdalena Borsuk-Bialynicka
Head of Department Vertebrate Paleontology Department, Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Matthew Bonnan
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University; Associate, Department of Zoology Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Michael Brett-Surman
Collections Management, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Robert Broom
Scottish paleontologists; Named Algoasaurus (1904) and Geranosaurus (1911).

Barnum Brown
Perhaps the most famous fossil hunter of the early twentieth century.

Steve Brusatte
Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University

William Buckland
English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, he wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur.

Eric Buffetaut (in French)
Director of research at the National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris.

Emanuel Bunzel
Austrian paleontologist; Named Danubiosaurus (1871) and Struthiosaurus (1870).

Angela D. Buscalioni
Unit of Paleontology, Department of Biology B-101, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

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Angel Cabrera
Argentinean paleontologist: Named Amygdalodon.

Charles L. Camp
American paleontologist who advanced understanding of early Mesozoic evolution. Coined the named Segisaurus and Segisauridae.

George Cannon (PDF)
Discoverer of the horn cores of Triceratops alticornus and the first remains of an ornithomimid.

William E. Carlin
Discovered, with W. H. Reed of Wyoming's Como Bluff dinosaur graveyard.

Kenneth Carpenter
Chief Preparator and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Matthew T. Carrano
Curator of Dinosauria, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Rodolfo M. Casamiquela (Spanish)
Argentinean paleontologist.

Dhirendra K. Chakravarti
Indian paleontologist: Named Brachypodosaurus.

Alan J. Charig
U.K. paleontologist.

Sankar Chatterjee
Sankar Chatterjee, Curator of Paleontology and Paul Whitfield Horn Professor in Geosciences and Museum Science, Texas Tech University

Daniel Chure
Paleontologist, Dinosaur National Monument.

Emily A. Cobabe
U.S. paleontologist; Named Ugrosaurus.

Edwin Harris Colbert
Distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author.

Walter P. Coombs Jr.
U.S. paleontologist; Divided the armoured dinosaurs into the nodosaurs and ankylosaurs.

Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Detail profile at Wikipedia.

Guilliermo del Corro
Argentinean paleontologist.

Alfred W. Crompton
Fisher Professor of Natural History, Emeritus; Member of the Faculty of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; Curator of Mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology

Steve Cumbaa
Research Scientist, Earth Sciences, Canadian Museum of Nature

Philip Currie
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

Baron Georges Cuvier
French zoologist; Founder of comparative anatomy and paleontology.

Peter Dodson
Professor of Anatomy and Professor of Paleontology, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania.

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Louis Dollo
French-born Belgium paleontologist.

Dong Zhiming
Professor of research, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Earl Douglass
U.S. Dinosaur hunter; Discovered the fossil-rich rock now forming the Dinosaur National Monument and unearthed many iconic dinosaurs.

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Theodore H. Eaton Jr.
U.S. paleontologist; Described Silvisaurus.

Ivan Antonovich Efremov
Russian paleontologist and novelist; Developed a new field of science called taphonomy.

Paul Ellenberger

Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps

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James O. Farlow
professor in the Department of Geosciences at Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Texas
Interview by Steve Brusatte.

David E. Fastovsky
Professor of Geosciences, University of Rhode Island

J. Alan Feduccia
Avian Evolution, Paleobiology and Systematics, Department of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Catherine A. Forster
Associate Professor, Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University

William P. Foulke
William Parker Foulke (1816-1865) discovered the first full dinosaur skeleton in North America (Hadrosaurus foulkii, which means "Foulke's big lizard") in Haddonfield, New Jersey in 1858.

Rev. William Fox
English clergyman and palaeontologist; Discovered Polacanthus (1865) and several skeletons of Hypsilophodon.

Eberhard Fraas (German)
German fossil reptile authority; His report on an East African dinosaur graveyard sparked off the Tendaguru excavations; Named Procompsognathus (1913).

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Peter M. Galton
Professor Emeritus, University of Bridgeport.

Jacques A. Gauthier
Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University

David D. Gillette
Research Professor, Vertebrate Paleontology , Northern Arizona University

Charles. W. Gilmore
American paleontologist at the United States National Museum and specializing in North American and Asian dinosaurs.

Leonard Ginsburg
Professor of Paleontology, French Natural History Museum, Paris

Walter Granger (PDF)
U.S. geologist.

William K. Gregory
U.S. Paleontologist.

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William Hammer
Currently the Fritiof Fryxell Professor of Geology at Augustana College.

Yoshikazu Hasegawa
Gunma Museum of Natural History, Gunma, Japan

John Bell Hatcher
An American paleontologist and fossil hunter best known for discovering Torosaurus.

Sydney H. Haughton
English-born South African paleontologist and geologist.

Oliver Perry Hay
American professor and paleontologist and a research associate at the Carnegie Institute.

Ferdinand V. Hayden
American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century.

He Xinlu
Professor at Chengdu University of Technology.

Julie Heathcote
Postgraduate student at Birkbeck, University of London.
A graduate palaeontologist specializing in geometric morphometrics of sauropod dinosaurs.

Jacques van Heerden

Susan Hendrickson
Freelance fossil hunter
Interview by Steve Brusatte.

Edwin Hennig

Edward B. Hitchcock
American geologist and the third President of Amherst College.

Robert Hoffstetter
A French paleontologist.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Senior Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Maryland

James A. Hopson
American paleontologist and professor (now retired) at the University of Chicago.

John "Jack" Horner
Ameya Preseve Curator of Paleontology, Museum of the Rockies and Regents Professor, Montana State University

Nicholas Hotton III
American paleontologist at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lianhai Hou
Paleontologist at the Academia Sinica in China.

Michael Howgate
English palaeontologist.

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Friedrich von Huene
A German paleontologist who named more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe.

John Whittaker Hulke
English surgeon, ophthalmologist, geologist and fossil collector.

Adrian P. Hunt
Paleontologist at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History.

Thomas H. Huxley
An English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

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Rucha Ingavat

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Otto Jaekel
German paleontologist and geologist.

Sohan L. Jain
Indian palaeontologist and dinosaur expert.

Werner Janensch
German paleontologist and geologist.

James A. Jensen
An internationally famous paleontologist, "Dinosaur Jim" conducted extensive collecting programs in the Utah-Colorado region spanning 23 years and which was comparable in terms of the number of specimens collected to that of Barnum Brown during the early twentieth century.

Christopher Johnson
Professor at the Baltimore Dental College and a collaborator with Dr. Joseph Leidy of the University of Pennsylvania in the 1850's.

Kirk Johnson
Vice President of Research and Collections and Chief Curator, Yale University.

Daniel E. "Eddie" Jones

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Kenneth Kermack
Emeritus Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology in the University of London.

Haang Mook Kim
Korean paleontologist.

James I. Kirkland
Adjunct Professor of Geology at Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado

Vorträgen R. Kräusel

Oskar Kuhn
German palaeontologist.

Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov
Russian paleontologist.

T. S. Kutty
Indian paleontologist.

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Arthur Lakes
Notable geologist, artist, writer, teacher and minister.

Lawrence M. Lambe
Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.

Wann Langston, Jr.
Professor emeritus in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas

Albert F. de Lapparent
French palaeontologist.

Rene Lavocat
French paleontologist.

Pete Larson
American paleontologist, Black Hills Institute of Geological Research

Joseph Leidy
Father of American Vertebrate Paleontology.

Guiseppe Leonardi
Italian vertebrate ichnology expert.

Don Lessem
Founder of the Dinosaur Society and the Jurassic Foundation

Xinxian Li
Chinese palaeontologist.

Martin Lockley
Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver
Interview by Steve Brusatte.

Robert A. Long
American vertebrate paleontologist, specializing in the American Southwest.

Heber A. Longman
English-born Australian newspaper publisher and museum director.

Frederic A. Lucas
American museum director.

O. W. Lucas
Dinosaur hunter and Bone Wars participant.

Richard Lydekker
English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.

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John Mcintosh
World-renowned sauropod expert.

James H. Marsden Jr.

Robert "Bob" Makela
American paleontologist.

E. A. Maleev
A Russian paleontologist.

Gideon A. Mantell
An English obstetrician, geologist and paleontologist.

Othniel Charles Marsh
One of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West.

Rubén D. Martínez

Teresa Maryanska
Polish paleontologist who has specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs.

Mateus, O.
Researcher of the dinosaurs of Portugal (Museu da Lourinhã).

Pierre P. E. Matheron

William D. Matthew

Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer
A German palaeontologist.

Angela Milner
Associate Keeper of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum

Ralph E. Molnar
American palaeontologist.

Benjamin Franklin Mudge
An American lawyer, geologist and teacher

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T. Nagao
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University

Darren Naish
Vertebrate palaeontologist and science writer.

Barney A. Newman
British paleontologist.

Franz Nopcsa von Felso-Szilvás
Hungarian-born aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, and paleontologist.

David B. Norman
English paleontologist and the Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University.

Fernando E. Novas
An Argentine paleontologist working at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural History Argentine Museum in Buenos Aires.

Aleksander Nowinski
Polish paleontologist.

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Joseph Oberndorfer
Physician and fossil collector.

George Olson
Paleontologist at The American Museum of Natural History and colleague of Walter Granger.

Paul E. Olsen
American paleontologist currently at Columbia University.

George Olshevsky
Freelance editor, writer, publisher, paleontologist, and mathematician.

Henry Fairfield Osborn
American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist.

Halszka Osmólska
Polish paleontologist who had specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs.

John H. Ostrom
An American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs.

Richard Owen
English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.

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Kevin Padian
Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley; Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology; President of the National Center for Science Education

William Arthur Parks
Canadian geologist and paleontologist and successor of Lawrence Lamb.

Anne Pasch
Curator Emeritus, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

Gregory S. Paul
Freelance paleontologist, author and illustrator

Altangerel Perle
Mongolian professor of palaeontology.

Neville S. Pledge
Australian paleontologist.

Jaime E. Powell

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Michael A. Raath
A vertebrate palaeontologist and a former director of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

David Raup
University of Chicago paleontologist.

William Harlow Reed
Fossil hunter and discoverer of Como Bluff.

Osvaldo A. Reig
Argentine biologist and paleontologist.

Anatoly N. Riabinin
Russian paleontologist.

Thomas H. Rich
Senior Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontology & Palaeobotany, Museum Victoria.

Armand J. de Ricqules
French comparative anatomist.

Elmer S. Riggs
Curator of Paleontology at the now Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Henry Riley
Co-namer of the fourth dinosaur species, Thecodontosaurus.

Luis A. Rodrigues
Research Associate, Museu Mineralógico e Geológico, University of Lisbon

Jorge Rodrequez
Argentinean paleontologist.

Kristi Curry Rogers
Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Macalester College

Alfred Sherwood Romer
American paleontologist and comparative anatomist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.

Ewa Roniewicz
Paleontologist at Institute of Palaeobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences.

D. E. Rosner
American paleontologist.

Marcus R. Ross
American vertebrate paleontologist and young Earth creationist.

Tim Rowe
Professor and J. Nalle Gregory Regents Professor in Geological Sciences; Director, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, The University of Texas

Tappan K. Roy-Chowdhury
Indian paleontologist.

Anatoly K. Rozhdestvensky
Russian paleontologist.

John A. Ruben
Professor, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University

Dale Russell
Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.

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Spanish scientist who co-named Aragosaurus.

Erich Maren Schlaikjer
American geologist and dinosaur hunter.

Harry G. Seeley
A British paleontologist.

Paul Sereno
Paleontologist, University of Chicago; President and co-founder, Project Exploration

Peter Sheehan
Robert and Sally Manegold Distinguished Curatorial Chair; Head of Geology Department at the Milwaukee Public Museum Adjunct Professor, Department of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

D. J. Simmons
Named Tatisaurus.

James Spotila
US biologist.

Charles Mortram Sternberg
American-Canadian fossil collector and paleontologist.

Charles Hazelius Sternberg
American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist.

George Miller Sternberg
U.S. Army physician, first bacteriologist in the United States and amateur paleontologist.

R. M. Sternberg
American paleontologist and who named Caenagnathus.

R. Sernfeld
German scientist.

Kent A. Stevens
Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Oregon

J. Willis Stovall (PDF)
Paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma who co-named Acrocanthosaurus

Willis J. Stovall
A paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma who co-named Acrocanthosaurus.

Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach
German paleontologist.

Samuel Stutchbury
British naturalist and geologist.

Hans-Dieter Sues
Associate Director for Research and Collections, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

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Mignon Talbot
American paleontologist.

Tang Zilu
Chinese paleontologist and colleague of Dong Zhiming.

Augusto Tapia
Argentinean paleontologist who named Notoceratops.

Philippe Taquet
French paleontologist and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

Mike Taylor
English paleontologist at the University College London.

Richard A. Thulborn
Australian paleontologist.

Tatiana A. Tumanova
Russian paleontologist who named Amtosaurus (1978, with S. M. Kurzanov), Maleevus (1987) and Shamosaurus (1983).

Joseph Tyrell
Canadian geologist, cartographer, and mining consultant.

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Leigh Van Valen
American evolutionary biologist.

David Varrichio
Assistant Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University.

Patricia Vickers-Rich
U.S.-born Australian palaeontologist and geologist.

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Johann Andreas Wagner
German palaeontologist, zoologist and archaeologist.

Alick B. Walker
British palaeontologist.

Cyril A. Walker
British palaeontologist.

William Walker
British fossil hunter who found Baryonyx.

David B. Weishampel
Dinosaur paleobiology, plant-herbivore interactions, functional morphology, and paleontology (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine).

Matt Wedel
Paleontologist at Western University of Health Sciences.

Samuel Paul Welles
American palaeontologist at the Museum of Palaeontology, University of California, Berkeley.

Joan Wiffen
New Zealand paleontologist.

Rupert Wild
A German paleontologist at the Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany.

Michael Williams
Late Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Samuel W. Williston
Vertebrate paleontologist and dipterologist.

Jeffrey A. Wilson
professor of geological sciences and assistant curator at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of Michigan.

Carl Wiman
Swedish paleontologist and the first professor of paleontology at Uppsala University.

William Winkley
Discovered Pachycephalosaurus.

Lawrence Witmer
Professor of Anatomy at Ohio University and head of the WitmerLab.

Sir Arthur Smith Woodward
An English paleontologist and archaeologist at the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum.

Nelda E. Wright
Harvard paleontologist.

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Indian paleontologist.

Yang Zhong-jian
Known as C.C. (Chung Chien) Young, was one of China's foremost paleontologists.

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Count A. Zborzewski
Polish scientist.

Otto Zdansky
Austrian paleontologist.

Zhang Yihong
Chinese paleontologist and college of Dong.

Zhao Xijin
Chinese paleontologist at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

Zhou Shiwu
Chinese palaeontologist.