Category
page 1Secretaries of the Smithsonian Institution
Joseph Henry
American scientist and the 1st Secretary of the Smithsonian (1797-1878)
Charles Greeley Abbot
American astrophysicist and the 5th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1872–1973)
Samuel Langley
American physicist, pioneer of aviation, and 3rd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1834-1906)
Spencer Fullerton Baird
American naturalist, ornithologist, ichthyologist, museum curator, and the 2nd Secretary of the Smithsonian (1823-1887)
Charles Doolittle Walcott
American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1850-1927)
Alexander Wetmore
American ornithologist and avian paleontologist (1886-1978)
Sidney Dillon Ripley
American ornithologist and 8th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1913–2001)
Leonard Carmichael
American psychologist and the 7th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1898–1973)
Robert McCormick Adams Jr.
American anthropologist and the 9th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1926–2018)
G. Wayne Clough
President Emeritus of the Georgia Institute of Technology and 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian (born 1941)
Cristián Samper
American biologist
Ira Michael Heyman
American lawyer and 10th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1930–2011)
David J. Skorton
13th Secretary of the Smithsonian, cardiologist and university professor (born 1949)
Lonnie Bunch
historian, 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution