| A | B |
|---|
| Alphonse Bertillon | developer of the first attempt at personal identification using anthropometry |
| Sir William Hershel | In India required natives to sign contracts using an imprint of their hand. |
| Dr. Henry Fauld | First suggested that skin patterns could be important in identifying criminals |
| Francis Galton | Published “Finger Prints” and first to describe loops, arches, and whorls |
| Dr. Juan Vucetich | In 1891 developed the first workable fingerprint classification system. |
| Sir Edward Richard Henry | In 1986 developed the classification system used in most of the English-speaking work |
| FBI | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| AFIS | Automated Fingerprint Identifaction System |
