Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados

Rodulfo Amando Philippi Bañados (25 May 1905 – 31 July 1969) was a Chilean ornithologist. The great-grandson of German naturalist Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904), he worked at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile as a curator of birds and wrote extensively on Chilean ornithology. By profession, he was a pediatrician.

Philippi was born in Santiago, Chile to physician Otto Philippi and trained in medicine like his father and became a paediatrician. He however took a keen interest in ornithology and was a curator of birds at the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural in Santiago from 1938 to 1966 and published some of the major works on the birds of the region.^[1][2]