This is a list of notable mammalogists, in alphabetical order by surname.

• Angel Cabrera Latorre (Spain/Argentina)
• Roy Chapman Andrews (USA)
• Vernon Bailey (USA)
• Isabel Behncke (Chile)
• Magdalena Bermejo (Republic of Congo/Spain)
• William Thomas Blanford (UK)
• Tim Clutton-Brock (UK)
• Juliane Diller (Koepcke) (Germany)
• Stephen D. Durrant (USA)

• Tim Flannery (Australia)
• Dian Fossey (USA)
• Birutė Galdikas (Lithuania/Canada)
• Bryan P. Glass (USA)
• Edward Alphonso Goldman (USA)
• Jane Goodall (UK)
• John Edward Gray (UK)
• Donald Griffin (USA)
• Joseph Grinnell (USA)
• Bernhard Grzimek (Germany)
• David Harrison (UK)
• Philip Hershkovitz (USA)
• Hopi Hoekstra (USA)

• Thomas C. Jerdon (UK)
• Karl Koopman (USA)
• Charles Krebs (Canada)
• John Alden Loring (USA)
• Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. (USA)
• Richard Lydekker (UK)

• David W. Macdonald (UK)
• Martha Maxwell (USA)
• C. Hart Merriam (USA)
• Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. (USA)
• João Moojen (Brazil)
• Cynthia Moss (USA)
• James L. Patton (USA)
• Oliver Payne Pearson (USA)
• Wilhelm Peters (Germany)
• Reginald Innes Pocock (UK)

• Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine)
• George Schaller (Germany)
• David J. Schmidly (USA)
• Guy C. Shortridge (South Africa)
• George Gaylord Simpson (USA)
• Henri Jacob Victor Sody (Netherlands)
• Ian Stirling (Canada)
• Oldfield Thomas (UK)

• Richard G. Van Gelder (USA)
• Carlos Octaviano da Cunha Vieira (Brazil)
• Don E. Wilson (USA)