Alan Bridson Cribb Jr. (born 5 October 1925) is an Australian botanist and mycologist and an expert in marine and freshwater algae and seaweeds.
He took up a position as a demonstrator in the Department of Botany and worked with visiting academic Dr Tore Levring of Sweden studying marine algae on Heron Island.
He escorted Professor Lily Newton, a British expert in seaweeds, when she came to Australia at the invitation of CSIR (now CSIRO) in 1950.
He also presented evidence to the 1973 Royal Commission into exploratory and production drilling for petroleum of the Great Barrier Reef.
[2] He and his wife, researcher Dr Joan Cribb completed two volumes on bush and wild foods, with material from Desmond Herbert and notes from Raymond Specht's Arnhem Land Expedition of 1948.