List of Geologists - H

H

• 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), USA, geologist and paleontologist
• W. Brian Harland (1917–2003), England, polar geologist
• Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith (born 1923), England and Canada, polar geologist
• Thomas Hawkins (1810–1889), English fossil collector
• James Edwin Hawley (1897–1965), Canada, studied mineralogy of ore deposits
• Frank Hawthorne (born 1946), Canadian mineralogist and crystallographer
• Richard L. Hay (1929–2006), American geologist.
• Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829–1887), USA, pioneer Western geologist
• Hollis Dow Hedberg (1903–1988), American geologist
• Bruce Heezen (1924–1977), American geologist who first mapped the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
• Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt (1920–1998), Belgian geologist, discoverer of the Ishango bone in 1960
• 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), USA, known as the "Prophet of Spindletop"
• Eugene W. Hilgard (1833–1916), USA (born Germany), soil scientist
• Robert T. Hill (1858-1941), American geologist, Cretaceous deposits of Central Texas
• Claude Hillaire-Marcel (born 1944), Canada (born France), Quaternary geologist
• Paul F. Hoffman (born 1941), USA and Canada, Snowball Earth theorist
• Arthur Holmes (1890–1965), England, author of Principles of Physical Geology
• Jack Horner (born 1946), American dinosaur paleontologist
• Kenneth J. Hsu (born 1929), USA (born China), author of The Mediterranean was a Desert
• M. King Hubbert (1903–1989), USA, originator of "Peak Oil" theory
• James Hutton (1726–1797), Scottish geologist, father of modern geology