Editing Ichthyology (section)

== Notable ichthyologists ==
{{See also|Notable fisheries scientists|List of marine biologists}}

Members of this list meet one or more of the following criteria: 1) Author of 50 or more fish [[taxon]] names, 2) Author of major reference work in ichthyology, 3) Founder of major journal or museum, 4) Person most notable for other reasons who has also worked in ichthyology.
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* [[Alexander Emanuel Agassiz]]
* [[Louis Agassiz]]
* [[Emperor Akihito]] of [[Japan]]
* [[Gerald R. Allen]]
* [[Peter Artedi]]
* [[Herbert R. Axelrod]]
* [[William O. Ayres]], [[California]]
* [[Spencer Fullerton Baird]]
* [[Tarleton Hoffman Bean]]
* [[Lev Berg]], Russia
* [[Henry Bryant Bigelow]]
* [[Pieter Bleeker]], [[East Indies]]
* [[Marcus Elieser Bloch]]
* [[George Albert Boulenger]]
* [[Francis Buchanan-Hamilton]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]]
* [[Jean Cadenat]]
* [[Pierre Carbonnier]]
* [[Eugenie Clark]]
* [[Leonard Compagno]]
* [[Edward Drinker Cope]]
* [[Georges Cuvier]]
* [[Francis Day]], India
* [[Carl H. Eigenmann]]
* [[Rosa Smith Eigenmann]]
* [[William N. Eschmeyer]]
* [[Barton Warren Evermann]]
* [[Henry Weed Fowler]]
* [[Joseph Paul Gaimard]]
* [[Samuel Garman]]
* [[Charles Henry Gilbert]]
* [[Theodore Nicholas Gill]]
* [[Charles Frédéric Girard]]
* [[George Brown Goode]]
* [[Albert C. L. G. Günther|Albert Günther]]
* [[Albert William Herre]]
* [[Carl L. Hubbs]]
* [[David Starr Jordan]]
* [[Maurice Kottelat]], [[Swiss people|Swiss]]
* [[Bernard Germain de Lacépède]]
* [[Carl Linnaeus]]
* [[Seth Eugene Meek]]
* [[George S. Myers]]
* [[Joseph S. Nelson]], ''[[Fishes of the World]]''
* [[John Treadwell Nichols]], [[China]], founder of ''Copeia''
* [[John Roxborough Norman]]
* [[Peter Simon Pallas]]
* [[Wilhelm Peters]]
* [[Felipe Poey]]
* [[Jean René Constant Quoy]]
* [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque]]
* [[John Ernest Randall]]
* [[Charles Tate Regan]]
* [[John Richardson (naturalist)|John Richardson]]
* [[Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet]]
* [[Eduard Rüppell]]
* [[Johann Gottlob Schneider]]
* [[Hugh McCormick Smith|H.M. Smith]]
* [[James Leonard Brierley Smith|J.L.B. Smith]]
* [[Edwin Chapin Starks]]
* [[Franz Steindachner]]
* [[Royal D. Suttkus]]
* [[Frank Talbot]] 
* [[Shigeho Tanaka]]
* [[Ethelwynn Trewavas]], [[English people|English]]
* [[Achille Valenciennes]]
* [[Johann Julius Walbaum]]
* [[Gilbert Percy Whitley]]
* [[Francis Willughby]]
* [[Stan Wood (fossil hunter)|Stan Wood]]
* [[William Yarrell]]
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===Paleoichthyologists===
* [[Hans C. Bjerring]]
* [[Erik Jarvik]]
* [[Erik Stensiö]]

===Non-academic ichthyologists===
* [[Sakana-kun]]