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Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveller, zoologist and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European to confirm the existence of gorillas

Paul Chabanaud was a French ichthyologist and herpetologist. Beginning in 1915, he worked as a volunteer under zoologist Louis Roule at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. In 1919-1920, he undertook a scientific expedition to French West Africa (Senegal, Guinea) on behalf of the museum, during which he collected thousands of zoological specimens. Following his return to Paris, he served as a preparator in the laboratory of biologist Jean Abel Gruvel at the museum. He specialised in the anatomy and systematics of the flatfish and was the taxonomic authority of many herpetological and ichthyological species

Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, known as the Marquess of Hartington from 1908 to 1938, was a British politician. He was head of the Devonshire branch of the House of Cavendish. He was President of the Zoological Society of London 1948-1950