John Ernest Randall

John Ernest "Jack" Randall (born May 22, 1924) is an American ichthyologist and a leading authority on coral reef fishes. Randall has described over 600 species and has authored 11 books and over 670 scientific papers and popular articles. He has spent most of his career working in Hawaii.

John Ernest Randall was born in Los Angeles, California. In high school he acquired a love of marine fish after a visit to the tide pools of Palos Verdes and, after serving stateside in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army during the post-D-Day years of WWII, received his BA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950. In 1955 he earned his Ph.D in ichthyology from the University of Hawaii. After spending two years as a research associate at the Bishop Museum, he moved to Miami, Florida and worked briefly at the University of Miami's Marine Laboratory. From 1961-1965 he worked as Professor of Zoology and also, from 1962-1965, as the director of the Institute of Marine Biology at the University of Puerto Rico. From 1965-1966 he served as the director of the Pacific Foundation of Marine Research's Oceanic Institute, Makapuu Point, Hawaii. From 1966 to 1984 he worked as an ichthyologist at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, gaining the title of Senior Ichthyologist in 1984, which he still holds. He also, concurrently, served as a marine biologist at the Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii. In 2005 he was awarded the first Bleeker Award in Systematic Ichthyology at the Seventh Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taipei, Taiwan.

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