Claude William Hibbard, popularly known as Hibbie (March 21, 1905 in Toronto, Kansas[1] – October 9, 1973 in Ann Arbor, Michigan),[2] was an American paleontologist.

[1][3] Born on a farm in rural southeastern Kansas as the oldest of six children, Hibbard graduated from Fall River High School in 1923.

[5] He went to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology in 1936 to work on a dissertation, but returned to Lawrence, Kansas in 1938.

[6] Hibbard received his Ph.D in Ann Arbor in 1941 and became Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Assistant Professor of Zoology in Kansas.

[7] He moved to Ann Arbor definitively in 1946 and became Professor of Geology in 1953,[2] a position he held until his death in 1973.