Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (/ˈmaɪ.ər də ˈʃaʊənzeɪ/; January 4, 1901 – April 24, 1984) was a Swiss-American ornithologist.

Meyer de Schauensee was born January 4, 1901 in Rome, Italy, one of two sons, to Baron Frederick Meyer de Schauensee and his American-born wife Matilda (née Toland; died 1932).

[1] His father was from a well-established Swiss aristocratic family originally from Lucerne that owned Schauensee Castle.

[3] He was the curator of ornithology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia for nearly fifty years.

They had two daughters; Meyer de Schauensee died April 24, 1984 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aged 83.