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Charles Davies Sherborn was an English bibliographer, palaeontologist and geologist. His magnum opus was the compilation of the Index Animalium, an 11-volume, 9,000-page work that catalogued the 444,000 names of every living and extinct animal discovered between 1758 and 1850. This work is considered the bibliographic foundation for zoological nomenclature. In addition, Sherborn authored almost 200 books, papers and catalogues on a wide variety of topics in natural history. He made important contributions to the study of microfossils and was a founding member and first president of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History

Field Marshall Jan Christian Smuts was a South African statesman, military leader and philosopher. In addition to holding various military and cabinet posts, he served as prime minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 to 1924 and 1939 to 1948

Sir Arthur Everett Shipley was an English zoologist and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Dr George Frederick Herbert Smith was a British mineralogist who worked for the British Museum of Natural History. He discovered the mineral paratacamite in 1906. He also developed the first efficient jeweller's refractometer. The mineral Herbertsmithite is named after him, as is Herbert's rock-wallaby