Edgardo Baldi (1899-1951)
Jürgen Benndorf (1941-2011)
Tom Berman (1934-2013)
Peter Cullen (1946-2008)
André Delebecque (1861-1947)
Stanley I. Dodson (1944-2009)
W. Thomas Edmondson (1916-2000)
Bela Entz (1919-2012)
Brian Robert Allason (1928-2022)
François-Alphonse Forel (1841-1912)
Arthur Hasler (1908-2001)
Jaroslav Hrbácek (1921-2012)
H. B. Noel Hynes (1917-2009)
George Evelyn Hutchinson (1903-1991)
Peter Kilham (1943-1989)
John Walter Guerrier Lund (1912-2015)
Ramón Margalef (1919-2004)
Clifford H. Mortimer (1911-2010)
Brian Moss (1943-2016)
Einar Christian Leonard Naumann (1891-1934)
W. John O’Brien (1942-2009)
Ruth Patrick (1907-2013)
Charles W. Reimer (1923-2008)
Colin S. Reynolds (1942-2018)
Wilhelm Rodhe (1914-1998)
Fr. Angelo Secchi, S.J. (1818-1878)*
Harald Sioli (1910-2004)
Vladimír Sládecek (1924-2005)
Milan Straškraba (1931-2000)
August Friedrich Thienemann (1882-1960)
Vittorio Tonolli (1913-1967)
Dietrich Uhlmann (1930-2018)
John Reuben Way Vallentyne (1926-2007)
Richard A. Vollenweider (1922-2007)
Robert G. Wetzel (1936-2005)
Vale William (Bill) Williams (1936-2002)
* Scientists that were not specifically limnologists but made notable contribution to the science of limnology