Iris Cornelia Love (???-2020)

was an American classical archaeologist, best known for the rediscovery of the Temple of Aphrodite, Knidos. In 1933, Iris Love was born in New York to Cornelius Love and Audrey Josephthal, a maternal great great granddaughter of Meyer Guggenheim.

From an early age, she was interested in archaeology and art history, encouraged experts who frequented her parents' home, such as Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art James Rorimer and archaeologist Gisela Richter.

Love completed her Bachelor of Arts at Smith College, which included a year abroad at the University of Florence. During the pursuit of her bachelor's thesis in Italy, she compared Etruscan warrior figures at the National Archaeological Museum, Florence with those at the Met in New York and concluded the latter was housing fakes. Out of respect for her connections in New York, she initially hesitated to publish her substantiations, and decided to warn them when she was ready to release the findings in 1960. The museum retaliated by announcing the forgeries to The New York Times, without acknowledging her work.

Love never finished the beginnings of her doctorate at New York University, instead working on an excavation on the island of Samothrace in the Aegean Sea from 1957 to 1965. She later became assistant professor at C.W. Post Long Island University (LIU Post).