Here follows a list of notable researchers and writers in the field of cryptozoology:
- Dmitri Bayanov, Hominologist
- Erik Beckjord, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
- Matthew Bille, author of Rumors of Existence
- John Bindernagel, Bigfoot researcher; author of North America's Great Ape: the Sasquatch
- Tom Biscardi, Bigfoot researcher
- Peter Byrne, Bigfoot researcher
- Mark Chorvinsky, creator of Strange Magazine - deceased
- Jerome Clark, co-author of Cryptozoology A to Z
- Ronan Coghlan, author Dictionary of Cryptozoology and Cryptosup.
- Jerry D. Coleman, author of Strange Highways
- Loren Coleman, author of Bigfoot!: The True Story of Apes in America, Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology, Mysterious America, Mothman and Other Curious Encounters; coauthor of Cryptozoology A to Z, The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide, The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep, and other books
- William R. Corliss, general anomalist; has collected reports of unknown hominds and other cryptids
- Scott Corrales, Chupacabras researcher
- Cliff Crook, Bigfoot researcher
- Paul Cropper, Australia co-author of Out of the Shadows, The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot
- René Dahinden, Bigfoot researcher -deceased
- Tim Dinsdale, Loch Ness Monster researcher -deceased
- Jonathan Downes, founder of Centre for Fortean Zoology
- Richard Ellis, marine life artist; author of The Search For The Giant Squid
- Paul Freeman, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
- Richard Freeman, researcher affiliated with Centre for Fortean Zoology
- Bob Gimlin, with Roger Patterson, allegedly filmed Bigfoot in 1967
- Rex Gilroy, Australian cryptozoologist focused on the Megalania and the Yowie.
- Linda S. Godfrey, Beast of Bray Road researcher
- John Willison Green, Bigfoot researcher
- J. Richard Greenwell, secretary of the International Society for Cryptozoology - deceased
- Mark A. Hall, author of Thunderbirds: America's Living Legends of Giant Birds
- Tony Healy, Australia co-author of Out of the Shadows, The Yowie: In Search of Australia's Bigfoot
- Bernard Heuvelmans, author of On the Track of Unknown Animals; "father of cryptozoology" - deceased
- Fredrick William Holiday, Loch Ness Monster researcher - deceased
- Patrick Huyghe, co-author of The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti, and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide
- John Keel, Mothman researcher
- John Kirk (cryptozoologist), president of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club; author of In the Domain of Lake Monsters
- Erik Knatterud, Norwegian sea serpent researcher
- Marie-Jeanne Koffman, a Russian doctor, pioneer almasti researcher
- Alexandr Mikhailovych Kondratov, Russian scientist, author of books about lake monsters, living dinosaurs and many more - deceased
- Grover Krantz, mainstream physical anthropologist known for his interest in Bigfoot - deceased
- Ruby Lang, Australia big cat researcher
- Paul LeBlond, Cadborosaurus researcher
- Willy Ley, author of Exotic Zoology - deceased
- Tony Lucas, New Zealand cryptozoologist
- Roy Mackal, University of Chicago professor known for interest in Loch Ness Monster and Mokele mbembe
- Jordi Magraner, Barmanou researcher -deceased
- Scott Marlowe, Swamp Ape researcher and founder of Pangea Institute
- Jeff Meldrum, Idaho State University anatomy professor; Bigfoot researcher
- Reinhold Messner, mountaineer; author of My Quest for the Yeti - skeptic
- Marc Wolfgang Miller, explorer, author of Chasing Legends & The Legend Continues
- Robert W. Morgan, author & film producer, co-founded the American Anthropological Research Foundation, and produced the feature-length documentary film, "The Search for Bigfoot" in 1974.
- Darren Naish, University of Portsmouth, vertebrate palaeontologist, researcher on aquatic cryptids
- John Napier, primatologist and Bigfoot researcher - deceased
- Rick Noll, researcher
- Rory Nugent, Mokele mbembe researcher
- J.P. (June) O'Neill author of "The Great New England Sea Serpent - An Account of Unknown Creatures Sighted by Many Respectable Persons Between 1638 and the Present Day" Paraview Press
- Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, Sea serpent researcher - deceased
- Roger Patterson, with Bob Gimlin, allegedly filmed Bigfoot in 1967 - deceased
- Charles Paxton fisheries ecologist/statistician University of St. Andrews, Scotland
- Daniel Perez, Bigfoot researcher
- Boris Fyodorovich Porshnev, "father of Russian hominology" and yetti researcher - deceased
- Robert Michael Pyle, author of Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide
- Herman Regusters, Mokele mbembe researcher - deceased
- Ivan T. Sanderson, celebrity zoologist/anomalist; author of Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life - deceased
- Esteban Sarmiento, Bigfoot researcher
- Peter Scott, conservationist; coined a scientific name for the Loch Ness Monster - deceased
- Karl Shuker, author of Mystery Cats of the World, Dragons: A Natural History, In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, From Flying Toads To Snakes With Wings, Mysteries of Planet Earth, The New Zoo: New and Rediscovered Animals of the Twentieth Century, The Beasts That Hide From Man, Extraordinary Animals Revisited, and other books
- Tom Slick, adventurer who funded searches for Bigfoot and other cryptids - deceased
- Roderick Sprague, Bigfoot researcher
- Todd Standing, Canadian Bigfoot researcher
- Bob Titmus, Bigfoot researcher - deceased
- Autumn Williams, Bigfoot researcher in Oregon
- Mike Williams, Australia big cat researcher
- Joseph W. Zarzynski, Champ researcher
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