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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
journalist, social critic, playwright, editor, botanist
Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
geologist, explorer, ethologist, naturalist, philosopher, botanist
- University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh Medical School
Gerald Durrell (1925-1995)
biologist, conservationist, presenter, naturalist, zoologist, traveler
Ferdinand Lindheimer (1801-1879)
botanist, journalist, publisher
- University of Jena, University of Bonn
Joy Adamson (1910-1980)
naturalist, painter, environmentalist, botanical illustrator, ecologist, autobiographer, botanical collector, scientific illustrator, cartoonist, drawer
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)
zoologist, explorer, filmmaker, innovator, photographer, conservationist, oceanographer, inventor, Officer of the French Navy, marine biologist, engineer, biologist, film director, world traveler, producer
- École Navale, Collège Stanislas de Paris
Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
explorer, diplomat, historian, military personnel, photographer, traveler, botanical collector
- University of Oxford, Eton College
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1878-1945)
physicist, chemist, biologist, explorer, anthropologist, linguist, cartographer, journalist, geologist, biochemist, mineralogist
- Imperial St. Petersburg University