Johan Gustaf Hjalmar Kinberg (13 May 1820 – 29 August 1908) was a Swedish zoologist, physician and veterinarian who was born in Grönby, near Trelleborg, Skåne County and who died in St. Matthew's Parish, Stockholm.

He subsequently worked as a doctor including a spell as an assistant physician at the Danish army in Schleswig in 1850[3] before he was posted to His Swedish Majesty's Frigate Eugenie as the ship's surgeon and zoologist on its circumnavigation of the world in 1851–1853.

[3] Kinberg submitted an award-winning zoological thesis to the University of Uppsala in 1863, Synopsis suturarum et epiphysium.

[6] He also published papers in Swedish on veterinary medicine in 1863 and 1872, the skeletal anatomy of mammals in 1869 and the dentition of pigs in 1875.

[2] He also worked on Svenska foglarna, a book on Swedish ornithology, with Peter Åkerlund and Carl Jacob Sundevall which was published between 1856 and 1886 and he was the author of the 1880 Eddas Naturhistoria.