Outline of underwater divers

This list refers to people who are notable for their underwater diving activities and for whom a biographical article exists in Wikipedia. The following lists may also be relevant:

• Index of underwater divers – Alphabetical listing of articles about underwater divers

Jacques Cousteau

• Victor Berge – Swedish diving pioneer and author (1891–1974) helmet diving
• Alberto Gianni – Italian underwater diver and inventor (1891–1930) helmet diving
• James F. Cahill – American scuba diving pioneer (1926–2008)[2]
• Alphonse and Théodore Carmagnolle – French inventors of the first anthropomorphic armoured diving suit
• Charles Condert – Inventor of an unsuccessful early scuba system
• Jacques Cousteau – French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author
• Charles Anthony Deane – Pioneering diving engineer and inventor of a surface supplied diving helmet
• Guglielmo de Lorena – Italian inventor of a diving bell used for archaeological work on the Roman ships of lake Nemi
• Auguste Denayrouze – French inventor of a demand air supply regulator for underwater diving
• Philippe Diolé – French author and undersea explorer (1908–1977)
• Frédéric Dumas – French pioneer of scuba diving
• Ted Eldred – Australian inventor of the single hose diving regulator
• Maurice Fernez – French inventor and pioneer in underwater breathing apparatus
• Émile Gagnan – French engineer and co-inventor of the open circuit demand scuba regulator
• Gary Gentile – American author and pioneering technical diver (1946–) wreck diving
• Bret Gilliam – Pioneering technical diver and author (1951–2023)
• Edmond Halley – English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist
• Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer (1919–2013) underwater photography
• Stig Insulán – Inventor of an adjustable automatic exhaust valve for variable volume dry suits
• Jim Jarret – Type of atmospheric diving suit.Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets – Diver who test dived the first successful atmospheric diving suits
• Yves Le Prieur – French naval officer and inventor of a free-flow scuba system
• John Lethbridge – English wool merchant who invented a diving machine in 1715
• William Hogarth Main – Cave diver and scuba configuration experimentalist
• Tom Mount – Pioneering technical and cave diver (1939–2022)
• Bill Nagle – American wreck diving pioneer (1952–1993) wreck diving
• Phil Nuytten – Canadian deep-ocean explorer, scientist, and inventor of the Newtsuit
• Joseph Salim Peress – Pioneering British diving engineer
• Benoît Rouquayrol – French inventor of an early diving demand regulator
• Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving diving medicine, diver training
• Joe Savoie – Diver and inventor of a diving helmet – Inventor of the neck dam for lightweight helmets
• Augustus Siebe – German-born British engineer mostly known for his contributions to diving equipment
• Charles Spalding – Scottish confectioner and amateur diving bell designer
• E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist (1947–) underwater archaeology
• Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut.
• Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer (1905–2002) skin & scuba diving
• Teseo Tesei – Italian naval officer and pioneering military diver (1909–1941) inventor of human torpedo
• Arne Zetterström – Swedish diver and researcher (1917–1945)

• Craig Challen – Australian veterinary surgeon and technical diver
• Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker
• Martyn Farr – British cave diver
• Richard Harris – Irish actor and singer (1930–2002)
• Jill Heinerth – Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker
• William Hogarth Main – Cave diver and scuba configuration experimentalist
• Agnes Milowka – Australian cave diver
• Rick Stanton – British cave diver who specialises in rescues
• Bill Stone – American engineer, caver and explorer
• Krzysztof Starnawski – Polish technical and cave diver
• John Volanthen – British volunteer cave diver who specialises in rescues

Eugenie Clarke in 2011

Sylvia Earle prepares to dive in a JIM suit

Honor Frost

• Michael Arbuthnot – Underwater archaeologist and film-maker
• Carole Baldwin – Vertebrate Zoology department chair at the National Museum of Natural History
• Robert Ballard – Retired US Navy officer and professor of oceanography
• George Bass – American pioneer of underwater archaeology (1932–2021)
• Mensun Bound – British marine archaeologist
• Eugenie Clark – American ichthyologist, shark researcher and scientific scuba diver
• James P. Delgado – American maritime archaeologist, explorer and author
• Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist and lecturer
• John Christopher Fine – American marine biologist, wreck diver and author
• George R. Fischer – American underwater archaeologist
• Anders Franzén – Swedish marine technician and amateur naval archaeologist
• Honor Frost – Pioneer in underwater archaeology
• David Gibbins – Underwater archaeologist and novelist
• Graham Jessop – British commercial diver and marine archaeologist
• Robert F. Marx – American author and scuba diver (1936–2019)
• Charles T. Meide – American underwater archaeologist
• Simon Mitchell – New Zealand physician and author on diving medicine
• Mark M. Newell – British/American underwater and terrestrial archaeologist and anthropologist
• John Peter Oleson – Classical archaeologist and historian of ancient technology
• Margaret Rule – British archaeologist who led the Mary Rose project
• Dee Scarr – Environmentalist, marine naturalist, and scuba diver
• Gunter Schöbel – German archaeologist and director of the Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen
• Stephanie Schwabe – German geomicrobiologist, diver and underwater researcher
• E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist
• Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut.
• Peter Throckmorton – American photojournalist and a pioneer underwater archaeologist

Herbert Nitsch

Natalia Molchanova

• Deborah Andollo – Cuban free diver and diving instructor
• Peppo Biscarini – Italian and American swimmer, freediver, and actor
• Sara Campbell – British free diver and former world record holder
• Derya Can – Turkish world record holder female free-diver
• Goran Čolak – Croatian free-diver and world record holder
• Carlos Coste – Venezuelan freediver and world record holder
• Robert Croft – American freediver and US Navy diving instructor
• Mandy-Rae Cruickshank – Canadian world champion freediver and record holder
• Yasemin Dalkılıç – Turkish freediver and record holder
• Flavia Eberhard – Brazilian free-diver and presenter of TV series "APNEIA"
• Şahika Ercümen – Turkish dietician and world record holding freediver
• Emma Farrell – British freediving instructor and author
• Francisco Ferreras – Cuban freediver also known as "Pipin"
• Pierre Frolla – Monegasque free-diver and world record holder
• Elisabeth Kristoffersen – Norwegian freediver and president of AIDA Norway
• Loïc Leferme – French freediving record breaker
• Enzo Maiorca – Italian free diver
• Jacques Mayol – French free diver (1927–2001)
• Audrey Mestre – French world record-setting freediver
• Karol Meyer – Brazilian free-diver world record holder and professional cyclist for Avai Cycle Team
• Stéphane Mifsud – French free diver and five time world champion in static apnea
• Alexey Molchanov – Russian world record holder for freediving
• Natalia Molchanova – Russian multiple world record holding freediver (1962–2015)
• Dave Mullins – New Zealand freediver and world record-holder
• Patrick Musimu – Belgian freediver
• Guillaume Néry – French freediver
• Herbert Nitsch – Austrian freediver and world record holder
• Umberto Pelizzari – Italian freediver
• Annelie Pompe – Swedish freediver and mountaineer
• Ocean Ramsey – American freediver and model (born 1987)
• Michal Risian
• Stig Severinsen – Danish freediver, record holder and author
• Tom Sietas – German freediver and record holder
• Aharon Solomons – Anglo-Israeli former Army officer, holder of the Israeli national record for freediving.
• Martin Štěpánek – Czech freediver and record-holder
• Walter Steyn – Australian competitive freediver, freediving judge and freediving instructor
• Tanya Streeter – British-Caymanian-American freediver
• William Trubridge – New Zealand freediver and record holder
• Devrim Cenk Ulusoy – Turkish freediver and world record holder
• Danai Varveri – Greek freediver and record holder
• Alessia Zecchini – Italian freediver (born 1992)

• John Bennett (diver) – British technical diver and former record holder lost in commercial diving incident
• Pascal Bernabé – French claimant to scuba diving depth record
• Jim Bowden (diver) – Record breaking technical and cave diver
• Mark Ellyatt – British technical diver and previous depth record holder
• Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker
• Nuno Gomes – South African diver and holder of scuba depth record
• Simon Mitchell – New Zealand physician and author on diving medicine
• Claudia Serpieri – Italian technical diver and depth record holder
• Dave Shaw – Australian technical diver and former record holder killed in a diving incident
• Krzysztof Starnawski – Polish technical and cave diver

Hans Hass

• Eduard Admetlla i Lázaro – Catalan scuba diving pioneer and underwater filmmaker
• Samir Alhafith – Australian technical diver, cave explorer and adult underwater filmmaker
• Henri Bource – Dutch-Australian scuba diver, underwater filmmaker, musician and shark attack survivor
• Scott Cassell – American underwater film maker.
• Jacques Cousteau – French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author
• Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman
• Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
• Jill Heinerth – Canadian diver, writer and underwater filmmaker
• Kevin Juergensen – Filmmaker, diver, and CEO of Juergensen Marine
• Henry Kaiser (musician) – American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver
• Ron Taylor – Australian diver and shark cinematographer
• Valerie Taylor – Australian underwater photographer
• Stan Waterman – American cinematographer and underwater film producer (1923–2023)
• Andrew Wight – Australian screenwriter and producer (1959–2012)

Tamara Benitez

Peter Scoones

Brian Skerry

• Tamara Benitez – Filipina cinematographer
• Georges Beuchat – French inventor, diver and businessman
• Adrian Biddle – English cinematographer
• Jonathan Bird – American photographer, cinematographer, director and television host.
• Eric Cheng – Taiwanese American entrepreneur and professional photographer
• Neville Coleman – Australian naturalist, underwater photographer, writer, publisher and educator
• Jacques Cousteau – French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author
• John D. Craig – American businessman, writer, soldier, and diver
• Ben Cropp – Australian documentary filmmaker, conservationist and spearfisherman
• Bernard Delemotte – French diver and photographer (1939–2023)
• David Doubilet – Underwater photographer and author
• John Christopher Fine – American marine biologist, wreck diver and author
• Dermot FitzGerald
• Rodney Fox – Australian diver, film maker and conservationist
• Ric Frazier – American photographer
• Stephen Frink – Underwater photographer and publisher
• Peter Gimbel – American filmmaker and underwater photojournalist (1927–1987)
• Monty Halls – British TV broadcaster, diver and naturalist
• Hans Hass – Austrian biologist, film-maker, and underwater diving pioneer
• Henry Way Kendall – American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Rudie Hermann Kuiter – Dutch-born Australian underwater photographer, taxonomist, and marine biologist
• Joseph B. MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut
• Luis Marden – American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist
• Agnes Milowka – Australian cave diver
• Bruce Mozert – American photographer
• Noel Monkman – New Zealand born Australian filmmaker specialising in underwater photography
• Steve Parish – British born Australian photographer and publisher
• Zale Parry – American pioneer scuba diver, underwater photographer and actress
• Pierre Petit – French photographer (1831–1909)
• Leni Riefenstahl – German film director (1902–2003)
• Peter Scoones – Underwater cameraman
• Brian Skerry – American photojournalist
• Wesley C. Skiles – American cave diver and underwater cinematographer.
• E. Lee Spence – Underwater archaeologist
• Philippe Tailliez – French pioneer of scuba diving and underwater photographer
• Ron Taylor – Australian diver and shark cinematographer
• Valerie Taylor – Australian underwater photographer
• Albert Tillman – American educator and underwater diver
• John Veltri – American filmmaker and underwater photographer
• Stan Waterman – American cinematographer and underwater film producer (1923–2023)
• Michele Westmorland – American underwater photographer
• J. Lamar Worzel – American geophysicist and underwater photographer

Christ of the Abyss at San Fruttuoso, Liguria

• Jason deCaires Taylor – British sculptor and creator of the world's first underwater sculpture park

Lionel Crabb

• Lionel Crabb – Royal Navy frogman and MI6 diver
• Ian Edward Fraser – British military diver. Recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Sydney Knowles – British naval frogman during and after WWII
• John H. Lang – American soldier and sailor (1899–1970)
• Alain Mafart – French military officer convicted for his part in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
• Teseo Tesei – Italian naval officer and pioneering military diver

Scott Carpenter

Sylvia Earle displays samples to aquanaut inside TEKTITE

Albert Falco in 2011

Michael Gernhardt

Karen Kohanowich

Sunita Williams

Aquanaut – Diver who remains at depth underwater for longer than 24 hours

• Astronauts – Commander, pilot, or crew member of a spacecraft
  • Joseph M. Acaba – Puerto Rican educator, hydrogeologist, and NASA astronaut
  • Clayton Anderson – Retired NASA astronaut and member of the ISS Expedition 15 crew
  • Richard R. Arnold – American educator and NASA astronaut
  • Serena Auñón-Chancellor – American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
  • Michael Barratt (astronaut) – American aerospace medicine physician and a NASA astronaut with two flights
  • Bob Behnken – US Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and former Chief of the Astronaut Office
  • Randolph Bresnik – United States Marine Corps officer and a NASA astronaut on three expeditions
  • Scott Carpenter – American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut (1925–2013)
  • Gregory Chamitoff – Canadian born engineer and NASA astronaut (born 1962)
  • Catherine Coleman – American chemist and former United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut
  • Timothy Creamer – NASA flight director, astronaut and US Army officer
  • Jeanette Epps – American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut
  • Andrew J. Feustel – American-Canadian NASA astronaut and geophysicist
  • Michael Fincke – United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut
  • Satoshi Furukawa – Japanese surgeon and JAXA astronaut
  • Ronald J. Garan Jr. – American astronaut
  • Michael L. Gernhardt – NASA astronaut and manager of Environmental Physiology Laboratory
  • Chris Hadfield – Canadian astronaut
  • Jeremy Hansen – Canadian astronaut (born 1976)
  • José M. Hernández – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
  • John Herrington – Retired United States Naval Aviator and former NASA astronaut
  • Akihiko Hoshide – Japanese engineer and JAXA astronaut
  • Norishige Kanai – Japanese doctor and JAXA astronaut
  • Scott Kelly (astronaut) – American engineer and astronaut (born 1964)
  • Timothy Kopra – Engineer, colonel in the United States Army, and astronaut
  • Michael López-Alegría – American astronaut
  • Sandra Magnus – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
  • Thomas Marshburn – American physician and NASA astronaut
  • K. Megan McArthur – American oceanographer and NASA astronaut
  • Jessica Meir – American astronaut and marine biologist
  • Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger – Former American astronaut
  • Andreas Mogensen – Danish engineer and ESA astronaut
  • Soichi Noguchi – Japanese aeronautical engineer and JAXA astronaut
  • Karen Nyberg – American mechanical engineer and NASA astronaut
  • John D. Olivas – American engineer and a former NASA astronaut
  • Takuya Onishi – Japanese engineer, commercial pilot and astronaut from JAXA
  • Luca Parmitano – Italian engineer, pilot and ESA astronaut
  • Nicholas Patrick – British-American engineer and former NASA astronaut
  • Tim Peake – British Army Air Corps officer and astronaut
  • Thomas Pesquet – French aerospace engineer, pilot, and astronaut
  • Marc Reagan – American Station Training Lead in Mission Operations at NASA's Johnson Space Center
  • Garrett Reisman – American engineer and former NASA astronaut
  • Kathleen Rubins – American microbiologist and NASA astronaut
  • David Saint-Jacques – Canadian astronaut
  • Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – American Naval officer and former NASA astronaut
  • Hervé Stevenin – European aquanaut at the European Astronaut Centre (born 1962)
  • Nicole Stott – American engineer and a NASA astronaut
  • Daniel M. Tani – American engineer and NASA astronaut
  • Robert Thirsk – Canadian engineer and physician, and former CSA astronaut
  • Bill Todd – Project Manager for Exploration Analogs at NASA's Johnson Space Center
  • Mark T. Vande Hei – American engineer and NASA astronaut
  • Koichi Wakata – Japanese engineer and astronaut (born 1963)
  • Rex J. Walheim – United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut (born 1962)
  • Shannon Walker – American scientist and NASA astronaut
  • Douglas H. Wheelock – American engineer and astronaut (born 1960)
  • Peggy Whitson – American biochemistry researcher and NASA astronaut
  • Dafydd Williams – Canadian physician, public speaker and retired CSA astronaut
  • Jeffrey Williams (astronaut) – Retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut
  • Sunita Williams – American astronaut and United States Navy officer
  • Gregory R. Wiseman – American astronaut, engineer, and naval aviator (born 1975)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
  • Kimiya Yui – Japanese pilot and astronaut (born 1970)
• Andrew Abercromby – Biomedical engineer from Scotland working for NASA
• Timothy J. Broderick – Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati
• Berry L. Cannon – American aquanaut who died in a diving incident
• Justin Brown (aquanaut) – American professional aquanaut and habitat technician
• Steve Chappell – American aerospace engineer
• Robin Cook (American novelist) – American physician and novelist (born 1940)
• Craig B. Cooper – American aquanaut
• Fabien Cousteau – Aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker
• Philippe Cousteau – French diver and cinematographer (1940–1979)
• Jonathan Dory – Human Systems Integration Lead at NASA's Johnson Space Center
• Sylvia Earle – American marine biologist and lecturer
• Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker
• Albert Falco – French scuba diver, chief diver and captain of the Calypso
• Christopher E. Gerty – American aerospace engineer who worked on NASA's Constellation Program
• Paul Hill (flight director) – Former Director of Mission Operations at the NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
• Mark Hulsbeck – American professional aquanaut
• Emma Hwang – Scientist with Wyle Laboratories and aquanaut on NEEMO 5
• Les Kaufman – American evolutionary ecologist specializing in aquatic ecosystems
• Karen Kohanowich – American aquanaut and ex US Navy diver
• Dominic Landucci – American professional aquanaut and Network Analyst at the NOAA Aquarius Reef Base
• Jon Lindbergh – American underwater diver (1932–2021)
• Joseph B. MacInnis – Canadian physician, author, poet and aquanaut
• Craig McKinley (physician) – Canadian physician and aquanaut
• Simone Melchior – First woman scuba diver and aquanaut (1919–1990)
• Dick Rutkowski – American pioneer in hyperbaric and diving medicine and use of mixed breathing gases for diving
• Tara Ruttley – Associate Chief Scientist for Microgravity Research at NASA Headquarters
• Josef Schmid (flight surgeon) – NASA flight surgeon and Major General in the United States Air Force Reserves
• Robert Sheats – American Master Diver retired from the United States Navy
• Dewey Smith – American aquanaut. Died in diving accident.
• Steve Squyres – Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University
• Robert Sténuit – Belgian journalist, writer, underwater archeologist and the first aquanaut.
• James Talacek – American professional aquanaut
• Joachim Wendler – German aquanaut (1939–1975)

• Graham Balcombe – Pioneering British cave diver (1907–2000)
• Jon Lindbergh – Pioneering American cave diver and early aquanaut (1932-2021)
• Jim Bowden – Record breaking technical and cave diver
• Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker (1949–1994)
• Martyn Farr – British cave diver (1951–)
• Jarrod Jablonski – Pioneer American cave diver, author and previous cave diving record holder (1969–)
• Artur Kozłowski – Polish cave diver (1977–2011) (1977–2011)
• Jack Sheppard – British cave diver (1909–2001)
• Wesley C. Skiles – American cave diver and underwater cinematographer. (1958–2010)
• Krzysztof Starnawski – Polish technical and cave diver
• Rick Stanton – British cave diver who specialises in rescuesPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets (1961/2–)
• John Volanthen – British volunteer cave diver who specialises in rescues (1971–)

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• Michael C. Barnette – American underwater diver, author and founder of the Association of Underwater Explorers (born 1971)
• Leigh Bishop – Diver known for shipwreck exploration and photography (shipwreck discovery)
• John Chatterton – American wreck diver, co-host for History Channel's Deep Sea Detectives series(shipwreck discovery)
• Jean-Michel Cousteau – French oceanographic explorer
• Billy Deans (diver) – American pioneering wreck and technical diver
• Leonardo D'Imporzano – Italian free-diver and AIDA International Judge
• Deon Dreyer – South African diver (1974–1994)
• Oscar Gugen – Founder of the British Sub-Aqua Club
• Bob Halstead – Underwater photographer, author, journalist and commentator on the recreational diving industry.
• Mehgan Heaney-Grier – American free-diver, fashion model, actress, conservationist and television personality
• Paul Hosie – Australian cave diver
• Keith Jessop – British salvage diver and treasure hunter
• Richie Kohler – American technical diver and shipwreck historian
• Steve Lewis (diver) – Technical scuba diver and author
• John Mattera – American wreck diver and author (shipwreck discovery)
• Lesley Rochat – South African underwater photographer, filmmaker and environmental activist
• Willard Franklyn Searle – US Navy ocean engineer and developer of diving and salvage equipment and systems
• Bill Nagle – American wreck diving pioneer
• Aristotelis Zervoudis – Greek professional diver (born 1964)

• Glossary of underwater diving terminology – Definitions of technical terms, jargon, diver slang and acronyms used in underwater diving
• Outline of underwater diving – Hierarchical outline list of articles related to underwater diving
• Index of underwater divers – Alphabetical listing of articles about underwater divers
• Index of underwater diving – Alphabetical listing of underwater diving related articles
• Index of recreational dive sites – Alphabetical listing of articles on porular places for recreational diving