People

Vanessa L. Knutson

malacologist

Vasiliy Stepanovich Khromchenko

Russian helmsman and explorer

1792-01-01 – 1849-01-01

Vernon Orlando Bailey

American mammalogist, zoologist and specimen collector (1864...

1864-06-21 – 1942-04-20

Victor Baumann

1870-12-28 – 1932-02-03

Victor Célestin Edouard Anthoine de Munck

Dutch geologist

1889-12-26 – 1980-03-13

Victor Hensen

German zoologist (1835-1924)

1835-02-10 – 1924-04-05

Victor Zotov

New Zealand botanist (1908-1977)

1908-09-16 – 1977-05-26

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Canadian-born explorer (1879–1962)

1879-11-03 – 1962-08-26

Vincent Zintzen

Belgian marine ecologist and photographer (1977— )

1977-12-06

Violette Cornelius

Dutch artist and photographer (1919–1998)

1919-03-17 – 1998-01-23

Virginia Correia

ornithologist (died 1987)

1900 – 1987

Vitus Bering

Danish-born Russian explorer (1681-1741)

1681-08-05 – 1741-12-08

Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons

South African herpetologist (1901–1975)

1901-02-07 – 1975-08-01

Vivian Fuchs

British explorer (1908–1999)

1908-02-11 – 1999-11-11

Vladimir Arsenyev

Russian and Soviet explorer, ethnographer and writer (1872-1...

1872-08-29 – 1930-09-04

Volodymyr Hrinchenko

Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist (1900-1948)

1900-07-15 – 1948-04-19

Vu Tien Chinh

botanist

Vu Tjnh Xuan Thanh

botanical collector

W. B. Devereux

American mining engineer and photographer

W. Brian Simison

zoologist

1961

Wai-Tak Tsang

Chinese plant collector (fl. 1922-1940)

Waldemar Bonsels

German writer (1880–1952)

1880-02-21 – 1952-07-31

Waldo L. Schmitt

American biologist (1887-1977)

1887-06-25 – 1977-08-05

Waldo Shumway

zoologist and university teacher (1891-1956)

1891 – 1956