Rudolf Sturany (13 April 1867 – 28 February 1935) was an Austrian zoologist who specialized in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks.
[1] In September 1889 he began work as a volunteer at the Natural History Museum of Vienna, later serving as a curator, being entrusted with the collections of mollusks, bryozoans, brachiopods and tunicates.
During his career, he took frequent trips for scientific research in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania and Crete.
In 1924 he retired from museum work due to a deteriorating eye condition.
[1] Sturany was the taxonomic authority for numerous mollusk species, a few examples being: Spelaeoconcha paganettii, Pseudobithynia pentheri and Mitra gonatophora.