Dorete Bloch, married name Dorete Bloch Danielsen, (14 June 1943 in Rungsted – 28 February 2015 in Tórshavn) was a Danish zoologist, former director of Náttúrugripasavnið (the Faroes Natural History Museum), editor of Fróðskaparrit and author of numerous books on the animals and plants of the Faroe Islands.

Dorete Bloch was born in Rungsted and attended Viborg Katedralskole until 1962 and then Aarhus University.

Age, Growth and Social Structure in Faroese Grinds of the Long-Finned Pilot Whale, Globicephala melas.

[4] Bloch's research has involved various Faroese animals, including bottlenose whales and mountain hares.

[7][8] Between 2000 and 2004, she was part of a project using tagged long-finned pilot whales to track their movements via satellite.