Adolf Pansch (2 March 1841, in Eutin – 14 August 1887) was a German anatomist and naturalist.

After graduation, he served as a prosector in the anatomical museum at the University of Kiel, where in 1866 he began work as a lecturer to the faculty of medicine.

[1] In 1869/70 he took part in the Second German North Polar Expedition, about which he published a few works involving the natural history of the Arctic.

He died at the age of 46 while on a sailboat excursion in Kieler Förde.

[1][2] His name is associated with "Pansch's flssure", being described as a cerebral fissure running from the lower extremity of the central fissure nearly to the end of the occipital lobe.