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Desmond Morris (born 1928)
ethnologist, painter, ethologist, primatologist, zoologist, television presenter, illustrator, sociobiologist
- University of Oxford, University of Birmingham
David Suzuki (born 1936)
environmentalist, biologist, zoologist, climate activist
- University of Chicago, Amherst College
Richard Ellis (1938-2024)
cetologist, painter, academic, marine biologist
- University of Pennsylvania
Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680)
linguist, mathematician, egyptologist, musicologist, music theorist, polymath, inventor, Catholic priest, astronomer, biologist, archaeologist, physicist, geologist, volcanologist, museologist, composer, historian, naturalist, orientalist, Catholic theologian, philosopher
- Pontifical Gregorian University, Gymnasium Theodorianum
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954)
botanist, pteridologist, horticulturist
- Michigan State University
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814)
geographical engineer (military cartographer), botanist
- University of Caen Normandy, École des Ponts ParisTech
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919)
biologist, physician, zoologist, philosopher, naturalist, ecologist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, botanist, explorer, photographer
- Frederick William University Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin