3 Apr 1934 - 1 Oct 2025 (91 years)

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, was an English primatologist and anthropologist. She was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, having studied the social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees for over 60 years. Goodall first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to observe its chimpanzees in 1960.

Goodall was the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme and had worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She was on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project from 2022 until her death in 2025. In April 2002, she was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Goodall was an honorary member of the World Future Council.

Goodall was married twice. On 28 March 1964, she married a Dutch nobleman, wildlife photographer Baron Hugo van Lawick, at Chelsea Old Church, London, and became known during their marriage as Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall. The couple had a son; they divorced in 1974. The following year, she married Derek Bryceson, a member of Tanzania's parliament and the director of that country's national parks. Bryceson died of cancer in October 1980. Owing to his position in the Tanzanian government as head of the country's national park system, Bryceson could protect Goodall's research project and implement an embargo on tourism at Gombe.

Goodall stated that dogs were her favourite animal. She had prosopagnosia, which made it difficult to recognise familiar faces. She lived in Bournemouth.

Goodall died of natural causes in Los Angeles, California, on 1 October 2025 at the age of 91, while on a speaking tour in the United States.