Jane Goodall – A Life in Pictures

A touching moment between Jane Goodall and a young chimpanzee at Gombe Stream reserve, Tanzania, 1964

Jane Goodall marries Dutch wildlife photographer Hugo van Lawick in 1964. They met in Tanzania where she was studying chimpanzees

Jane Goodall appears in the CBS television special Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees in 1965

A still from Miss Goodall and the World of Chimpanzees

Jane Goodall with one of her research subjects in the Gombe national park in northern Tanzania, 1972

Jane Goodall with her son, Hugo Eric Louis van Lawick, in the Gombe reserve, east central Africa, 1974

Jane Goodall observing a field of African baboons, 1974

Jane Goodall and her son, ‘Grub’, 1976

Jane Goodall with husband Hugo van Lawick behind a camera, 1974

Jane Goodall goes through slides before making a presentation in Chicago, 1982

Jane Goodall studies the behaviour of a chimpanzee in Tanzania, 1987

Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee in her arms, 1995

Jane Goodall plays with Bahati, a three-year-old female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters chimpanzee sanctuary near Nanyuki, Kenya, 1997

Jane Goodall gives a little kiss to Tess, a female chimpanzee, at the Sweetwaters sanctuary in 1997

Jane Goodall with Pola the chimp, 2004

Jane Goodall, after being made a dame at Buckingham Palace in London, 2004

Jane Goodall looks out through a window towards chimpanzees at Sydney’s Taronga zoo in 2011

Sir David Attenborough and Jane Goodall at Hope 4 Apes, an event held at the Lyceum Theatre in London, 2010

Jane Goodall in Paris at the premiere for Disney’s film, Chimpanzee, in 2013

Jane Goodall. London, 2017

Jane Goodall visits a chimp rescue centre in Entebbe, Uganda, 2018. During her visit, Goodall also held a naming ceremony for a baby chimp called Zakayo the Second

Jane Goodall carries her travelling companion, a soft toy named Mr H, as she arrives to speak at the 2025 Forbes sustainability leaders summit in New York city, 2025

Jane Goodall speaks at the Bloomberg Philanthropies global forum in September 2025