Aegidius (or Giles) Tschudi (5 February 1505 – 28 February 1572) was an eminent member of the Tschudi family, of Glarus, Switzerland.
(The Judy surname was an anglicization of the German Tschudi.) John attended high school in Attica and afterwards taught school for several years.
Tschudi's Slender Opossum, Marmosops impavidus, is an opossum species from South America, named after Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi.
The Tschudi family origins of the line from Johannes “von Glarus” (1280-1350) and Anna “von Landenberg“.
In 1931, Marie-France Ranson handed over the management of the Academy to Harriet Von Tschudi Cérésole, a student and sculptor, originally from the Canton of Glarus in Switzerland.
Tschudi would produce over 300 linocuts in her career, exhibiting in London with Claude Flight and other printmakers.
Tschudi-Madsen was member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1965) and Honorary Member of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments (1983) and Honorary Member of ICOMOS (1992).
Writing in 1946, H. Travassos considered Tschudi's punctata to be identical to the Noronha skink (then known as Mabuya punctata), a species otherwise known only from Fernando de Noronha, a small archipelago off northeastern Brazil.