Steven M. Holland (born November 22, 1962) is an American paleontologist and geologist at the University of Georgia.

He completed his graduate work in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in 1990, under the advisement of Susan Kidwell.

He conducted postdoctoral research at the Ohio State University with Dork Sahagian.

Steven Holland's research interests combine sequence stratigraphy and paleobiology.

He uses a mixture of computer simulation, field work, and multivariate data analysis to understand how the processes of sediment accumulation control the expression of the fossil record,[2] and how to use this understanding to interpret the fossil record.