Editing List of geologists (section)

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[[Image:James Hutton.jpg|thumb|upright|[[James Hutton]] ]]
[[File:Jack Horner speaking.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Jack Horner (paleontologist)|Jack Horner]], 2012]]
* [[Julius von Haast]] (1824–1887), New Zealand (born Germany), founded [[Canterbury Museum, Christchurch|Canterbury Museum]]
* [[Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet]] (1761–1832), Scottish geologist, president of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]
* [[James Hall (paleontologist)|James Hall]] (1811–1898), American geologist and [[paleontologist]]
* [[William Hamilton (diplomat)|William Hamilton]] (1731–1803), Scottish, volcanologist, [[Copley Medal]]
* [[Alfred Harker]] (1859–1939), English, igneous petrologist and [[Petrography|petrographer]]
* [[W. Brian Harland]] (1917–2003), English, polar geologist
* [[Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith]] (1923–2012), English and Canadian, polar geologist
* [[Donald E. Hattin]] (1928–2016), American geologist and paleontologist
* [[Thomas Hawkins (geologist)|Thomas Hawkins]] (1810–1889), English fossil collector
* [[James Edwin Hawley]] (1897–1965), Canadian, studied [[mineralogy]] of [[ore deposit]]s
* [[Erasmus Haworth]] (1855–1932), founder of the [[Kansas Geological Survey]] and the first state geologist of Kansas
* [[Frank Hawthorne]] (born 1946), Canadian [[mineralogist]] and [[crystallography|crystallographer]]
* [[Richard L. Hay (geologist)|Richard L. Hay]] (1929–2006), American geologist
* [[Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden]] (1829–1887), American, pioneer Western geologist
* [[Robert Hazen]] (born 1948), American, mineralogist and astrobiologist
* [[Hollis Dow Hedberg]] (1903–1988), American geologist
* [[Bruce Heezen]] (1924–1977), American geologist who first mapped the [[Mid-Atlantic Ridge]]
* [[Sue Hendrickson]] (born 1949), American [[paleontologist]]; discoverer of "Sue", the largest ''[[Tyrannosaurus|Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' ever found
* [[Harry Hammond Hess]] (1906–1969), American geologist and [[oceanographer]]
* [[Henry Hicks (geologist)|Henry Hicks]] (1837–1899), [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], President of the [[Geological Society of London|Geological Society]]
* [[Pattillo Higgins]] (1863–1955), American, known as the "Prophet of [[Spindletop]]"
* [[Wes Hildreth]] (born 1938), American, volcanologist and petrologist
* [[Eugene W. Hilgard]] (1833–1916), American (born Germany), soil scientist
* [[Robert T. Hill]] (1858–1941), American geologist, Cretaceous deposits of Central Texas
* [[Claude Hillaire-Marcel]] (born 1944), Canadian (born France), Quaternary geologist
* [[Ferdinand von Hochstetter]] (1829–1884), German-Austrian, produced first regional New Zealand geological maps and surveys. 
* [[Paul F. Hoffman]] (born 1941), American and Canadian, [[Snowball Earth]] theorist
* [[Arthur Holmes]] (1890–1965), English, author of ''Principles of Physical Geology''
* [[Marjorie Hooker]] (1908–1976), American, acted as a mineral specialist for the [[United States Department of State]] from 1943 to 1947
* [[Jack Horner (paleontologist)|Jack Horner]] (born 1946), American dinosaur [[paleontologist]]
* [[Kenneth J. Hsu]] (born 1929), American (born China), author of ''The Mediterranean was a Desert''
* [[M. King Hubbert]] (1903–1989), American, originator of "[[Peak Oil]]" theory
* [[James Hutton]] (1726–1797), Scottish geologist, ''father of modern geology''