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 (1857â€"1921), Swedish marine zoologist
- Leanne Armand (born 1968), Australian marine scientist
- Samuel Stillman Berry (1887â€"1984), American marine zoologist
- Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879â€"1967), American marine biologist
- Jean Bouillon (1926-2009), Belgian marine zoologist
- Rachel Carson (1907â€"1964), American marine biologist and author
- Carl Chun (1852â€"1914), German marine biologist
- Eugenie Clark (1922â€"2015), American marine biologist
- Malcolm Clarke (1930â€"2013), British cephalopod expert
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910â€"1997), French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker
- Charles Darwin (1809â€"1882), wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs (1842) while aboard the HMS Beagle
- Paul K. Dayton (born 1941), American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology
- Anton Dohrn (1840â€"1909), German marine biologist
- Sylvia Earle (born 1935), American oceanographer
- Gordon Gunter (1909â€"1998), American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico
- Ernst Haeckel (1834â€"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 (born 1961), American animator (creator of SpongeBob SquarePants); previously worked as a marine biologist for several years
- Hirohito, the ShÅwa Emperor (1901â€"1989), jellyfish taxonomist
- Johan Hjort (1869â€"1948), Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
- Bruno Hofer (1861â€"1916), German fisheries scientist
- Martin W. Johnson (1893â€"1984), American marine biologist and biological oceanographer
- Uwe Kils (born 1951), German marine biologist
- Otto Kinne (born 1923), German marine biologist
- Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea (2010)
- August David Krohn (1803â€"1891), Russian/German zoologist
- Paul L. Kramp (1887â€"1975), Danish zoologist working on jellyfish
- William Elford Leach (1790â€"1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
- Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846â€"1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
- Sir John Murray (1841â€"1914), Scots-Canadian marine biologist
- Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1816â€"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
- Ronald C. Phillips (1932â€"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 (1897â€"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.
- Georg Sars (1837â€"1927), Norwegian marine biologist
- Michael Sars (1809â€"1869), Norwegian theologian and biologist
- Oscar Elton Sette (1900â€"1972), American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography
- Bell M. Shimada (1922â€"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 Thompson (1832â€"1882), Scottish marine biologist
- Gunnar Thorson (1906â€"1971), Danish marine biologist
- Anne Thynne (1800â€"1866), British marine zoologist
- Takasi Tokioka (1913â€"2001), Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates
- Ruth Turner (1915â€"2000), marine biologist
See also
- Notable fisheries scientists
- Notable ichthyologists
