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The list South African naturalists includes John Muir, Eugene Marais, Sydney Skaife, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and Thomas Chalmers Robertson. The list consists of 19 members and 1 sublist.

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  • 1.

    Eugene Marais
    South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer
    Eugene Marais
    Overview: Eugène Nielen Marais (9 January 1871 – 29 March 1936) was a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer. He has been hailed as an intellectual genius and an Afrikaner hero.
    Date of birth: 9 January 1871
    Date of death: 29 March 1936
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Writer
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    1936 suicides 28T
    Afrikaans-language poets 40T
    South African male writers who committed suicide 3T
  • 2.

    John Muir
    Aerospace engineer
    John Muir
    Overview: John Muir (1918–1977) was a structural engineer who worked for National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), who "dropped out," 1960s-style, to become a writer and long-haired car mechanic with a ...
    Date of birth: 1918
    Date of death: 1977
    Age: 58 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Self-published authors 151T
    South African medical doctors 44T
    South African cultural historians 2T
  • 3.

    Brian Huntley
    South African conservation scientist (born 1944)
    Brian Huntley
    Overview: Brian John Huntley (born 1944) is a retired professor and conservation scientist from South Africa who helped to develop and transform African national parks. He played a big role in expanding the National ...
    Date of birth: 1944
    Age: 81
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Naturalist
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    James Henry Bowker
    South African naturalist
    James Henry Bowker
    Overview: Colonel James Henry Bowker (23 August 1825 – 27 October 1900), was a South African naturalist, archaeologist and soldier. He was co-author with Roland Trimen of South African Butterflies (1887–89; 3 vols.) ...
    Date of birth: 1822
    Date of death: 27 October 1900
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Military
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    Fellows of the Linnean Society of London 521T
    South African military personnel 70T
    Members of the Linnean Society of London 234T
  • 5.

    Sydney Skaife
    South African entomologist
    Sydney Skaife
    Overview: Sydney Harold Skaife ('Stacey') D.Sc FRSSAf. (12 December 1889 – 6 November 1976) was an eminent South African entomologist and naturalist. His career and educational publications covered a wide field ...
    Date of birth: 12 December 1889
    Date of death: 6 November 1976
    Age: 86 (age at death)
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Scientist
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    Entomologists from London 26T
    20th-century naturalists 229T
    20th-century zoologists 1,850T
  • 6.

    Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
    South African naturalist
    Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
    Overview: Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a ...
    Date of birth: 24 February 1907
    Date of death: 17 May 2004
    Age: 97 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century naturalists 229T
    South African women scientists 68T
    20th-century women scientists 1,930T
  • 7.

    Jacques Rousseau
    Secular activist
    Jacques Rousseau
    Overview: Jacques André Rousseau (born 3 December 1971) is a South African academic, secular activist and social commentator.
    Date of birth: 3 December 1971
    Age: 53
    Nationality: French
    Occupation: Artist
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    20th-century atheists 281T
    21st-century atheists 208T
    Secular humanists 82T
  • 8.

    Henri-Alexandre Junod
    Swiss theologian, ethnographer, anthropologist and naturalist (1863–1934)
    Henri-Alexandre Junod
    Overview: Henri-Alexandre Junod (17 May 1863 Saint-Martin, Val-de-Ruz - 22 April 1934 Geneva) was a Swiss-born South African missionary, ethnographer, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist, stationed for much ...
    Date of birth: 17 June 1863
    Date of death: 22 April 1934
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Anthropologist
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  • 9.

    Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons
    South African scientist
    Overview: Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons, born in Pietermaritzburg, was a notable herpetologist in South Africa. Also, he contributed to the collection of spermatophyte samples for the National Herbarium which ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1901
    Date of death: 1 August 1975
    Age: 74 (age at death)
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  • 10.

    Thomas Chalmers Robertson
    South African journalist
    Overview: Dr. Thomas Chalmers Robertson (15 September 1907 – 11 January 1989) was an author, ecologist and conservationist from South Africa. He was also a war correspondent, and Jan Smuts’s anti-Nazi propagandist ...
    Date of birth: 15 September 1907
    Date of death: 11 January 1989
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Journalist
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    South African ecologists 5T
    20th-century journalists 2,834T
    20th-century naturalists 229T
  • 11.

    Edward Stuart Cardinal Dyke
    South African naturalist
    Overview: Edward Stuart Cardinal Dyke (24 August 1872 – 21 January 1915) was a prominent naturalist, photographer, and botanical explorer in South Africa during the late 19th to early 20th century. He associated ...
    Date of birth: 24 August 1872
    Date of death: 21 January 1915
    Age: 42 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Naturalist
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  • 12.

    Herman Gottfried Breijer
    South African naturalist
    Herman Gottfried Breijer
    Overview: Herman Gottfried Breijer or Breyer (12 July 1864, in Arnhem – 10 October 1923, in Morgenzon, Louis Trichardt dist.) was a Dutch-born South African naturalist and museologist, the son of Carl Arnold ...
    Date of birth: 12 July 1864
    Date of death: 10 October 1923
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Naturalist
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    Dutch emigrants to South Africa 45T
    South African museologists 11T
    Dutch naturalists 30T
  • 13.

    John Muir (naturalist)
    South African scientist
    John Muir (naturalist)
    Overview: John Muir (18 June 1874, Castle Douglas, Scotland – 3 August 1947, Riversdale, Cape Province) was a medical doctor, naturalist and cultural historian.
    Date of birth: 18 June 1874
    Date of death: 3 August 1947
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Nationality: Scottish
    Occupation: Doctor
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    20th-century South African scientists 11T
    20th-century naturalists 229T
    Scottish emigrants to South Africa 50T
  • 14.
    Overview: Ronald Campbell Gunn, FRS, (4 April 1808 – 13 March 1881) was a South African-born Australian botanist and politician.
    Date of birth: 4 April 1898
    Date of death: 14 March 1881
    Age: -18
    Nationality: British
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    Frederick William FitzSimons
    South AFrican zoologist
    Frederick William FitzSimons
    Overview: Frederick William FitzSimons (6 August 1870 Garvagh, Ireland – 25 March 1951 Grahamstown), was an Irish-born South African naturalist, noted as a herpetologist for his research on snakes and their venom ...
    Date of birth: 6 August 1870
    Date of death: 25 March 1951
    Age: 80 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Naturalist
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    People from Garvagh 2T
    South African museologists 11T
    South African herpetologists 6T
  • 16.

    Reinhold Rau
    South African historian
    Reinhold Rau
    Overview: Reinhold Eugen Rau (February 7, 1932 – February 11, 2006) was a German natural historian who initiated the Quagga Project in South Africa, which aims to re-breed the extinct quagga, a sub-species of zebra ...
    Date of birth: 7 February 1932
    Date of death: 11 February 2006
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Historian
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    Scientists from Hesse 11T
    20th-century naturalists 229T
    German emigrants to South Africa 47T
  • 17.

    R. D. Bradfield
    South African farmer and naturalist
    R. D. Bradfield
    Overview: R D Bradfield (1882-1949) was farmer and naturalist from South Africa. He sent several specimens of birds and plants (mainly spermatophytes) from Waterburg Plateau and Namib desert to museums in United ...
    Date of birth: 1882
    Date of death: 1949
    Age: 66 (age at death)
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    1882 births 4,773T
    1949 deaths 3,633T
  • 18.

    Ethel Doidge
    South African botanist
    Ethel Doidge
    Overview: Ethel Mary Doidge (1887–1965) was a British born, South African mycologist and bacteriologist.
    Date of birth: 31 May 1887
    Date of death: 22 September 1965
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Scientist
    Gender: Female
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    Tony Pooley
    Conservationist
    Tony Pooley
    Overview: Tony Charles (Mashesha) Pooley (1938–2004) was a South African naturalist, award-winning conservationist and one of the world's foremost authorities on the Nile crocodile.
    Date of death: 2004
    Nationality: South African
    Occupation: Naturalist
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