Clarence Hamilton Kennedy

Clarence Hamilton Kennedy (June 25, 1879 – June 6, 1952) was an American entomologist and ichthyologist. He described among others Aphyocharax anisitsi, Celaenura gemina, Hypostomus boulengeri, and Ischnura gemina.

Biography Kennedy was born in Rockport, Indiana.

In 1915, Kennedy obtained another master's degree at Stanford University, and in 1919 he completed his Ph.D. dissertation at Cornell University. He worked at several American universities, building an academic career and eventually becoming a professor. He served on an editorial board publishing monographs on the ecology of South America. In 1950, Indiana University awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Kennedy married in March 1927 and had a son and a daughter.