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Arthur Augustus Allen was born on December 28, 1885, in Buffalo, New York.

He was an American professor of ornithology at Cornell University. He earned his B.A. in 1907, his M.A. in 1908, and his Ph.D. in zoology in 1911, all from Cornell University. From 1911 to 1912, he participated in an expedition to Colombia. Following this, he served as an instructor in zoology at Cornell University from 1912 to 1916. In 1916, he was promoted to assistant professor and later became a full professor in 1926, a position he held until his retirement in 1953. He gained extensive knowledge of arctic birds through three separate trips to Hudson Bay in 1934, 1944, and 1954, and renewed his acquaintance with tropical birds in Panama while working with the Office of Scientific Research and Development in 1944-1945. After retiring, he lectured for the National Audubon Society from 1953 to 1959. He was known for his unique style of writing and speaking, which allowed him to effectively share his knowledge and discoveries. Additionally, he served as the President of the Eastern Bird Banding Association from 1923 to 1925 and received the Outdoor Life Medal in 1924 for his research on diseases of the Ruffed Grouse. He authored “The Book of Bird Life” (1930, rev. ed. 1961) and "Stalking Birds with Color Camera" (1951), a remarkable collection of 331 bird photographs in color and stories detailing the making of the photographs, published by the National Geographic Society. Allen was honored as a Fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union and was a member of several ornithological and naturalist organizations, including the International Ornithological Congress, the Wilson Ornithological Club, the Cooper Ornithological Club, the American Society of Naturalists, American Wildlife Society (president, 1939), the Society of Mammalogists, Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha, the Explorers’ Club, and the Savage Club, among others.

In 1913, he married Elsa Guerdrum (1888-1969). He died on January 17, 1964, in Ithaca, New York.

Charles Edwin Allen was born on November 28, 1838, in Burlington, Vermont.

In 1859, he graduated from the University of Vermont and then studied law at the Albany Law School. After practicing for a few years in New York City, he moved back to Burlington, where he worked as a city clerk from 1886 to 1903, a school Commissioner from 1883 to 1906, and an alderman from 1878 to 1882. He was an authority on the city’s history.

In 1868, he married Ellen Cordelia Lyman. He died on May 23, 1915, in Burlington, Vermont.

Reginald Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood, was born on May 9, 1889, in Newport, Wales.

He was a British politician, peace campaigner, and author. He was educated at University College, Bristol, and Cambridge University (1908-1911). He served as Secretary and then General Manager of the Daily Citizen from 1911 to 1915. He was Chairman of the No-Conscription Fellowship during World War I and was imprisoned as a conscientious objector three times. After the war, he was Treasurer and Chairman of the Independent Labour Party (1922-1926), Chairman of the New Leader (1922-1926), and director of the Daily Herald (1925-1930). In 1934, he co-founded the Next Five Years Group seeking a progressive centre-left re-alignment in British politics. He published numerous essays, articles, and speeches on pacifism, socialism, and the Labour government.

In 1921, he married Baroness Marjory Gill (1897–1976). He suffered from tuberculosis because of his imprisonment. He died on March 3, 1939, recovering in a sanatorium in Switzerland.

Joel Asaph Allen was born on July 19, 1838, in Springfield, Massachusetts.

He was an American zoologist, mammalogist, and ornithologist. He began studying and collecting specimens of natural history early in life. However, he had to sell his large collection to attend the Wilbraham & Monson Academy in 1861. The next year, he transferred to Harvard University, where he studied under Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and became a staff member in 1871. Allen participated in the 1865-1866 Thayer Expedition to Brazil where he collected bird and mammal skins, geological specimens, fishes, reptiles, and other vertebrates. He also took part in several U.S. expeditions, collecting, surveying, and making scientific observations. At The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), Allen increasingly focused on acquiring, researching, and writing, as well as editorial work. He cataloged thousands of specimens of birds and mammals in the museum's collections and provided editorial supervision for the Bulletin of the AMNH and the Memoirs of the AMNH. He was the first president of the American Ornithologists' Union for seven years from its formation in 1883 and was editor of the journal The Auk for 27 years. In 1871, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1885, he was appointed as the first curator of birds and mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, later becoming the first head of the museum's Department of Ornithology. He was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Philosophical Society.

In 1874, he married Mary Manning Cleveland (1846–1879) and, in 1886, he remarried Susan A. Taft (1843–). He died on August 29, 1921, in Cornwall, New York.

Oscar Dana Allen was born on February 24 or 25, 1836, in Hebron, Maine.

In 1871, he received a PhD. in chemistry from Yale University and became a professor of analytical chemistry and metallurgy at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University from 1871 to 1887. His professional research was done chiefly on cesium and rubidium with the results published in the American Journal of Science. He also edited and revised the American edition of Fresenius' “Quantitative Analysis” in 1881. He was an amateur botanist interested in the study of bryology and corresponding with prominent bryologists and botanists of North America. He collected many species of mosses and hepatics and two of them were named in his honour, Thuidium allenii and Fontinalis allenii. In 1884, he moved to California and later to Washington, where he collected many western flowering plants for the Gray Herbarium of the Harvard University. With his son John A. Allen, he assembled the moss herbarium that was later purchased by the New York Botanical Garden. He was also a linguist interested in the study of obscure languages.

In 1861, he married Fidelia Totman. He died on February 19, 1913, in Ashford, Washington.