For other persons of the same name, see Harlan.
Richard Harlan (September 19, 1796 - September 30, 1843) was an American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist. Harlan was the author of Fauna Americana (1825) and American Herpetology. He was born at Philadelphia and graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1821 he was elected professor of comparative anatomy in the Philadelphia museum.
