LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Joy Adamson	Naturalist	20-Jan-1910	3-Jan-1980	Born Free
Ulisse Aldrovandi	Naturalist	11-Sep-1522	10-Mar-1605	Pioneering entomologist and naturalist
David Attenborough	Naturalist	8-May-1926		Life on Earth
John James Audubon	Naturalist	26-Apr-1785	27-Jan-1851	Illustrated Birds of America
Spencer Fullerton Baird	Naturalist	3-Feb-1823	19-Aug-1887	History of North American Birds
John Ball	Naturalist	20-Aug-1818	21-Oct-1889	Irish Alpinist
John Bartram	Naturalist	23-Mar-1699	22-Sep-1777	Colonial botanist to King George III
William Bartram	Naturalist	9-Feb-1739	22-Jul-1823	18th Century American travelling naturalist
Pierre Belon	Naturalist	1517	Apr-1564	L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux
Charles Bonnet	Naturalist	13-Mar-1720	20-May-1793	Discovered parthenogenesis
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	Naturalist	7-Sep-1707	16-Apr-1788	Histoire Naturelle
John Burroughs	Naturalist	3-Apr-1837	29-Mar-1921	Birds and Poets
Charles Darwin	Naturalist	12-Feb-1809	19-Apr-1882	Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection
Erasmus Darwin	Naturalist	12-Dec-1731	18-Apr-1802	English naturalist, very bad poet
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton	Naturalist	29-May-1716	1-Jan-1800	French comparative anatomist
Daniel C. Dennett	Philosopher	28-Mar-1942		Leading Darwinist and philosopher
Lynn G. Dolnick	Naturalist	c. 1951		National Zoological Park
Gerald Durrell	Naturalist	7-Jan-1925	30-Jan-1995	My Family and Other Animals
Edward Forbes	Naturalist	12-Feb-1815	18-Nov-1854	History of British Mollusca
Jim Fowler	Naturalist	9-Apr-1932		Did all the work on Wild Kingdom
Jane Goodall	Naturalist	3-Apr-1934		Primate researcher
Stephen Hillenburg	Cartoonist	21-Aug-1961		Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants
William Temple Hornaday	Activist	1-Dec-1854	6-Mar-1937	Defender of the American bison
Steve Irwin	Naturalist	22-Feb-1962	4-Sep-2006	The Crocodile Hunter
Joseph Wood Krutch	Naturalist	25-Nov-1893	22-May-1970	The Modern Temper
Aldo Leopold	Naturalist	11-Jan-1887	21-Apr-1948	A Sand County Almanac
George Perkins Marsh	Author	15-Mar-1801	23-Jul-1882	Ecologist and camel enthusiast
Peter Matthiessen	Novelist	22-May-1927		At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Ernst Mayr	Biologist	5-Jul-1904	3-Feb-2005	Evolutionary biologist
Sir Richard Owen	Naturalist	20-Jul-1804	18-Dec-1892	A History of British Fossil Reptiles
Emin Pasha	Explorer	28-Mar-1840	23-Oct-1892	German colonial traveller in Africa
Michael Shermer	Journalist	8-Sep-1954		Skeptic Magazine
Sir Hans Sloane	Curator	16-Apr-1660	11-Jan-1753	Milk chocolate and the British Museum
David Suzuki	Naturalist	24-Mar-1936		Television nature host
Jan Swammerdam	Naturalist	12-Feb-1637	15-Feb-1680	Biblia Naturae
Emanuel Swedenborg	Philosopher	29-Jan-1688	29-Mar-1772	Swedish scientist turned Christian mystic
Timothy Treadwell	Naturalist	29-Apr-1957	5-Oct-2003	Consumed by bears
Alfred Russel Wallace	Naturalist	8-Jan-1823	7-Nov-1913	Co-Discovered Theory of Evolution
Gilbert White	Naturalist	18-Jul-1720	26-Jun-1793	Natural History of Selborne
Herbert S. Zim	Author	12-Jul-1909	5-Dec-1994	Golden Guides

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