Philip Strong Humphrey (26 February 1926, Hibbing, Minnesota – 13 November 2009, Lawrence, Kansas) was an ornithologist, museum curator, and professor of zoology.
Philip S. Humphrey grew up in Litchfield, Connecticut and from an early age was interested in birds.
[4] In June 1962 Humphrey became the Curator of the Division of Birds at the National Museum of Natural History administered by the Smithsonian Institution.
[5] While working for the Smithsonian Institution, he was the principal investigator for the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, which lasted from 1962 to 1969.
[8] ... at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation, he did field work in the Amazon of Brazil in the vicinity of Belem at various times during 1962–1965 and conducted studies of avian ecology in conjunction with the epidemiology of arthropod-borne viruses.