George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, writer, and explorer. A graduate of Yale College ( and ), Grinnell became a prominent early conservationist and student of Native American life. He accompanied several expeditions of the American West, including ones led by paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh, General George Custer, and Colonel William Ludlow. Mount Grinnell in Glacier National Park is named after Grinnell.

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