Reeve Maclaren Bailey (May 2, 1911, in Fairmont, West Virginia[1] – July 2, 2011, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American ichthyologist.
Born in West Virginia, Bailey was raised in Perrysburg and Toledo, Ohio.
In 1944, he returned to University of Michigan as a curator of fishes at the Museum of Zoology.
He conducted extensive field research in the U.S., Bermuda, Guatemala, Bolivia, Paraguay, Zambia, and Thailand.
Bailey was awarded Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Michigan in 1938.