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Julius von Haast (1824–1887), New Zealand (born Germany), founded Canterbury Museum Sir James Hall, 4th Baronet (1761–1832), Scottish geologist, president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh James Hall (1811–1898), American geologist and paleontologist William Hamilton (1731–1803), Scottish, volcanologist, Copley Medal Alfred Harker (1859–1939), English, igneous petrologist and 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 (1810–1889), English fossil collector James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965), Canadian, studied mineralogy of ore deposits Erasmus Haworth (1855–1932), founder of the Kansas Geological Survey and the first state geologist of Kansas Frank Hawthorne (born 1946), Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer 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 rex ever found Harry Hammond Hess (1906–1969), American geologist and oceanographer Henry Hicks (1837–1899), FRS, President of the 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 Dorothy Hill (1907-1997), Australian geologist 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 (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

== I == Edward A. Irving (1927–2014), Canadian, used paleomagnetism to support continental drift theory

== J ==

Thomas Jaggar (1871–1953), American, volcanologist and founder of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory James A. Jensen (1911–1998), American, distinguished dinosaur paleontologist and sculptor Dougal Jerram (born 1969), British geologist/earth scientist, television and media presenter and author David A. Johnston (1949–1980), American, volcanologist, killed in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens Franc Joubin (1911–1997), Canadian (born United States), discovered Elliot Lake uranium district John Wesley Judd (1840–1916), British geologist, professor at the Royal School of Mines, London Wilhelmine Mimi Johnson (1890–1980), Norway's first female geologist

== K ==

Michael John Keen (1935–1991), Atlantic Canada, marine geoscientist Dennis V. Kent (born 1946), American geomagnetist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (1925–2015), Polish paleontologist, led several paleontological expeditions to the Gobi desert Clarence King (1842–1901), American, first director of the U.S. Geological Survey James Kitching (1922–2003), South African, Karoo vertebrate palaeontologist Sir Albert Ernest Kitson (1868–1937), Australian (born England), economic geologist, mineral exploration in Africa Maria Klenova (1898–1976), Russian marine geologist and one of the founders of Russian marine science Andrew H. Knoll (born 1951), American, Harvard geologist and paleontologist Danie G. Krige (1919–2013), South African mining engineer, inventor of kriging M. S. Krishnan (1898–1970), Indian geologist, author of Geology of India and Burma Thomas Edvard Krogh (1936–2008), Canadian, geochronologist, revolutionized uranium-lead radiometric dating William C. Krumbein (1902–1979), American, sedimentologist Nikolai Kudryavtsev (1893–1971), Russian petroleum geologist

== L ==

Alfred Lacroix (1863–1948), French geologist Charles Lapworth (1842–1920), English geologist, defined the Ordovician Period Andrew Lawson (1861–1952), American (born Scotland), named San Andreas Fault Richard Leakey (1944–2022), Kenyan paleontologist Joseph LeConte (1823–1901), United States, first professor of geology, University of California Robert Legget (1904–1994), Canadian non-fiction writer, civil engineer, pedologist Inge Lehmann (1888–1993), Danish seismologist, discovered Lehmann discontinuity. The asteroid 5632 Ingelehmann was named in her honour. Luna Leopold (1915–2006), eminent American hydrologist Xavier Le Pichon (1937–2025), French plate tectonics geophysicist Zofia Licharewa (1883–1980), Polish geologist and museum founder Waldemar Lindgren (1860–1939), distinguished Swedish-American economic geologist Li Shizhen (1518–1593), Ming Dynasty Chinese mineralogist, author of the Ben Cao Gang Mu (Compendium of Materia Medica) Martin Lister (c. 1638–1712), English, pioneer geologist William Edmond Logan (1798–1875), Canadian, founded Geological Survey of Canada Fred Longstaffe, Canadian, Provost of University of Western Ontario Rosaly Lopes (born 1957), Brazilian, planetary geology and volcanology Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), Scottish geologist, popularized principle of uniformitarianism

== M ==