Michael Francis "Mike" Land FRS[1] (12 April 1942 – 14 December 2020)[2] was a British neurobiologist.

His interests were in the optics of the eyes of marine animals, including scallops, shrimps and deep-water crustaceans.

Land's group was mainly concerned with the role of eye movement in human activities such as driving, music reading and ball games.

[3] In 2000, Land and a colleague reported their finding that within 200 milliseconds after a ball leaves a cricket bowler's hand, the best batsmen will take their eyes off the ball and look ahead to the point where they have calculated it will bounce[4] (see also Land & McLeod (2000) in bibliography).

In 1994 he received the Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London, and in 1996 the Alcon Prize for vision research.