James Hamilton McLean

James Hamilton McLean (born 1936) is an American malacologist, a biologist who studies mollusks. He specializes in marine gastropods. He has studied many families of Eastern Pacific gastropods including the Fissurellidae, Trochidae, Turbinidae and Liotiidae, and also has investigated deep sea gastropods from hydrothermal vents.

McLean worked as a curator of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County from 1964 to 2001 and currently (2010) he is a Curator Emeritus there.

McLean has described about 400 new species.

He has named numerous taxa of marine gastropods including: