Abstract: Environmental estrogens (EEs) is an important category of emerging organic pollutants that can seriously interfere with endocrine system of organisms by mimicking, enhancing, or inhibiting hormonal action, and have potential impacts on humans, animals and their offspring. Estrogens enter the environment from industrial and human activities, and finally flow into the ocean through transportation by rivers and atmospheric deposition, which may pose a great risk to marine ecological system and human health. This review presents discovery history and main types of environmental estrogens, as well as detection methods. The distribution and transformation characteristics of estrogenic pollutants in marine environment in recent years were introduced, and two emerging estrogenic pollutants, phenolic compounds (bisphenol A and nonylphenol) and organo phosphorus flame retardants were focused. Research on estrogen pollution in marine environment is increasing rapidly around the world, and related research in China is still limited in both regional research and types of host media. Therefore, it is essential to systematically understand the source, distribution, migration and transformation characteristics of EEs in the marine environment to help preventing and controlling against these substances, and maintaining sustainable and healthy development of the marine ecological environment.