List of marine biologists

• Donald Putnam Abbott, American marine invertebrate zoologist
• Isabella Aiona Abbott, American marine botanist
• Ali Abdelghany, Egyptian marine biologist
• Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf, Swedish marine zoologist
• Leanne Armand, Australian marine scientist
• Samuel Stillman Berry, American marine zoologist
• Henry Bryant Bigelow, American marine biologist
• Jean Bouillon, Belgian marine zoologist
• Rachel Carson, American marine biologist and author
• Carl Chun, German marine biologist
• Eugenie Clark, American marine biologist
• Malcolm Clarke, British cephalopod expert
• Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French marine explorer, conservationist, and filmmaker
• Charles Darwin, wrote Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs while aboard
• Paul K. Dayton, American benthic marine ecologist noted for work in kelp forest ecology
• Finn Devold, Norwegian marine biologist
• Anton Dohrn, German marine biologist
• Nicole Dubilier, American marine microbiologist, head of Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
• Patricia Louise Dudley American zoologist specializing in copepods
• Sylvia Earle, American oceanographer
• Austin Gallagher, marine biologist
• Ruth Gates, American marine biologist noted for work on coral reefs
• J. Frederick Grassle, American marine biologist
• Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist notable for pioneering fisheries research in the northern Gulf of Mexico
• Ernst Haeckel, German physician, zoologist, marine biologist and evolutionist
• Benjamin Halpern, American marine conservationist
• Hans Hass, Austrian marine biologist and diving pioneer
• Gotthilf Hempel, German marine biologist
• Stephen Hillenburg, American animator ; previously worked as a marine biology teacher for several years
• Hirohito, the Shōwa Emperor, jellyfish taxonomist
• Johan Hjort, Norwegian marine zoologist and one of the founders of ICES
• Bruno Hofer, German fisheries scientist
• Martin W. Johnson, American marine biologist and biological oceanographer
• Benjamin Kahn, Israeli marine biologist and environmental activist
• Uwe Kils, German marine biologist
• Otto Kinne, German marine biologist
• Nancy Knowlton, coral reef biologist and author of Citizens of the Sea
• August David Krohn, Russian/German zoologist
• Paul L. Kramp, Danish zoologist working on jellyfish
• William Elford Leach, English zoologist and marine biologist
• Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
• Sir John Murray, Scots-Canadian marine biologist
• Anders Sandøe Ørsted, Danish marine botanist studied arctic nematodes and marine algae
• Robert T. Paine, American marine zoologist known for developing the "keystone species" concept
• Joseph R. Pawlik, American marine biologist
• Ronald C. Phillips, American marine botanist, co-author of Seagrasses ; worldwide development of seagrass science told in autobiographical Travels with Seagrass
• Syed Zahoor Qasim, Indian marine biologist
• Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist noted for a pioneering study of intertidal ecology
• Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
• Anne Rudloe, American co-founder of Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory
• Jack Rudloe, 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.
• Frederick Stratten Russell, British marine biologist known for his work on zooplankton.
• Georg Sars, Norwegian marine biologist
• Michael Sars, Norwegian theologian and biologist
• Oscar Elton Sette, American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering modern fisheries science and fisheries oceanography
• Bell M. Shimada, American fisheries scientist notable for pioneering studies of tuna stocks in the equatorial Pacific Ocean
• Ronald Shimek, American marine biologist noted mainly for his work on scaphopods and turrid gastropods
• Charles Wyville Thompson, Scottish marine biologist
• Gunnar Thorson, Danish marine biologist
• Anne Thynne, British marine zoologist
• Takasi Tokioka, Japanese marine biologist known for his work on soft bodied zooplankton and tunicates
• Ruth Turner, marine biologist
• Anna Weber-van Bosse, marine phycologist