Olga Hartman

Olga Hartman
Aboard the Velero III c. 1940
Born	(1900-05-17)May 17, 1900 Waterloo, Illinois, U.S.
Died	January 5, 1974(1974-01-05) (aged 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education	University of Illinois (AB) University of California, Berkeley (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Invertebrate zoology Polychaetology
Institutions	University of Southern California
Thesis	Polychaetous annelids of the littoral zone of California (1936)
Doctoral advisor	S. F. Light

Olga Hartman (May 17, 1900 – January 5, 1974) was an American invertebrate zoologist and polychaetologist. She was a student of S. F. Light at the University of California, Berkeley, and later a staff researcher at the Allan Hancock Foundation and professor of biology at the University of Southern California. Active from the 1930s to the 1970s, Hartman specialized in Polychaeta, a class of marine annelid worms, and was known for her work as a cataloger and as a polychaete systematist. She is considered one of the top three most prolific authors in her field, having described 473 polychaete species during her lifetime.