- For the former professional American football coach see LeRoy Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews (January 26, 1884 – March 11, 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and
naturalist who became the director of the
American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through the fragmented China of the early 20th century into the
Gobi Desert and
Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known
fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum. His popular writings about his adventures made him famous.