Biyologlar listesi

Bu bir kayda değer biyologlar listesidir. Zoologlar, botanikçiler, ornitologlar, malakologlar, doğa bilimciler ve diğer uzmanlıkları da içermektedir.

A
  • Humayun Abdulali (1914–2001), Hint ornitolog
  • Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012), Brezilyalı coğrafyacı, jeolog ve çevre bilimci
  • Erik Acharius (1757–1819), İsveçli botanikçi
  • Johann Friedrich Adam (18. yy–1806), Rus botanikçi
  • Arthur Adams (1820–1878), İngiliz hekim ve doğa bilimci
  • Henry Adams (1813–1877), İngiliz doğa bilimci ve konkolog
  • William Adamson (1731–1793), İskoç botanikçi (botanikteki kısaltma: Aiton)
  • Michel Adanson (1727–1806), Fransız doğa bilimci (botanikteki kısaltma: Adans.)
  • Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889–1977), Britanyalı elektrofizyolog, nöron araştırmaları için 1932 Nobel Fizyoloji ve Tıp Ödülü ile ödüllendirilmiştir
  • Adam Afzelius (1750–1837), İsveçli botanikçi
  • Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859), İsveçli botanikçi
  • Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901), İsveçli botanikçi
  • Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), İsviçreli zoolog
  • Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910), Amerikalı zoolog, Louis Agassiz'in oğlu
  • Nikolaus Ager (1568–1634), Fransız botanikçi
  • Pedro Alberch i Vié (1954–1998), İspanyol doğa bilimci
  • Bruce Alberts (1938), Amerikalı biyokimyager, ABD Bilimler Akademisi'nin eski başkanı
  • Boyd Alexander (1873–1910), İngiliz ornitolog
  • Horace Alexander (1889–1989), İngiliz ornitolog
  • Richard D. Alexander (1930), Amerikalı evrimsel biyolog
  • Wilfred Backhouse Alexander (1885–1965), İngiliz ornitolog
  • Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933), Britanyalı doğa bilimci
  • Salim Ali (1896–1987), Hint ornitolog
  • Frédéric-Louis Allamand (1736– after1803), İsviçreli botanikçi (botanikteki kısaltma: F.Allam.)
  • Warder Clyde Allee (1885–1955), Amerikalı zoolog ve çevre bilimci, Allee etkisini tanımlamıştır
  • Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921), Amerikalı; kuşlar, memeliler
  • George James Allman (1812–1898), Britanyalı doğa bilimci
  • Prospero Alpini (1553–1617), İtalyan botanikçi
  • Sidney Altman (1939), Kanadalı doğumlu moleküler biyolog, RNA üzerine çalışması için 1989 Nobel Kimya Ödülü ile ödüllendirilmiştir
  • Bruce Ames (1928), Amerikalı biyokimyager, Ames testini icat etmiştir
  • José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (1832–1897), Portekizli doğa bilimci
  • George French Angas (1822–1886), İngiliz kâşif, doğa bilimci, konkolog ve ressam
  • Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921), İsveçli deniz zoologu
  • Aristoteles (MÖ 384–MÖ 322), Yunan filozof
  • Peter Artedi (1705–1735), İsveçli doğa bilimci
  • Gilbert Ashwell (1916–2014), Amerikalı biyokimyager, hücre reseptörü çalışmalarında öncü
  • Jean Baptiste Audebert (1759–1800), Fransız doğa bilimci
  • Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841), Fransız zoolog
  • John James Audubon (1786–1851), Amerikalı ornitolog
  • Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), Alman genetikçi, mutagenez disiplininin kurucusu
  • Richard Axel (1946), Nobel ödüllü fizyolog
  • Julius Axelrod (1912–2004), Amerikalı biyokimyager, katekolamin nörotransmitter araştırmaları için 1970 Nobel Fizyoloji ve Tıp Ödülü ile ödüllendirilmiştir
  • William Orville Ayres (1817–1887), Amerikalı hekim ve balık bilimci
  • Félix de Azara (1746–1811), İspanyol doğa bilimci

B

Ba-Bi
  • Churchill Babington (1831–1881), Britanyalı arkeolog ve konçolojist (yumuşakçaların kabuklarını araştıran bilim dalı)
  • John Bachman (1790–1874), Amerikalı naturalist
  • Curt Backeberg (1894–1966), Alman botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: Backeb.)
  • Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), embriyolog
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954), Amerikalı botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: L.H.Bailey)
  • Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887), Kuşlar ve memeliler
  • John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), İskoçyalı botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: Balf.)
  • David Baltimore (1938), Fizyoloji ve Tıp Alanında 1975 Nobel Ödülü
  • Joseph Banks (1743–1820), biyolog, botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: Banks)
  • Robert Bárány (1876–1936), Avusturyalı fizisyen, vestibüler sistem (kulak ve duyma sistemi) üzerine yaptığı araştırmalarla Fizyoloji ve Tıp Alanında 1914 Nobel Ödülü almıştır.
  • Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815), Amerikalı botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: Barton)
  • John Bartram (1699–1777), Amerikalı botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: Bartram)
  • William Bartram (1739–1823), Amerikalı doğa bilimci (Botanik kısaltması: W.Bartram)
  • Anton de Bary (1831–1888), cerrah, botanikçi, mikrobiyolog
  • Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892), İngiliz doğa bilimci
  • Patrick Bateson (1938), İngiliz biyolog ve yazar, Londra Zooloji Topluluğu başkanı
  • August Johann Georg Karl Batsch (1762–1802), Alman botanikçi, mikolog
  • Nicolas Baudin (1754–1803), Fransız botanikçi
  • Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624), İsviçreli botanikçi, Linnaeus tarafından kullanılan ikili isimlendirmeyi taksonomiye tanıtmıştır, (Botanik kısaltması: C.Bauhin)
  • Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822), Alman doğa bilimci (Botanik kısaltması: Bechst.)
  • Rollo Beck (1870–1950), Amerikalı ornitolog
  • Charles William Beebe (1877–1962), Biyolog
  • Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931), Hollandalı mikrobiyolog ve botanikçi, virüsleri keşfetmiştir
  • Thomas Bell (1792–1880), İngiliz doğa bilimci
  • David Bellamy (1933), İngiliz botanikçi
  • Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836), İngiliz zoolog
  • George Bentham (1800–1884), İngiliz botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: Benth.)
  • Robert Bentley (1821–1893), İngiliz botanikçi (Botanik kısaltması: Bentley)
  • Jacques Benveniste (1935–2004), Fransız immunolog
  • Wilson Teixeira Beraldo (1917–1998), Brezilyalı hekim ve fizyolog, bradikinini keşfeden iki kişiden birisidir
  • Hans Berger (1873–1941), Alman nörobilimci, Elektroensefalografiyi bulan kişilerden birisidir
  • Carl Bergmann (1814–1865), Alman anatomici, fizyolog ve biyolog, Bergmann kuralını geliştirmiştir
  • Rudolph Bergh (1824–1909), Danimarkalı hekim ve zoolog
  • Claude Bernard (1813–1878), Fransız fizyolog ve homeostasis konseptinin babası
  • Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984), Amerikalı deniz zooloğu
  • Thomas Bewick (1753–1828), İngiliz ornitolog
  • Colin Bibby (1948–2004), İngiliz ornitolog
  • Gabriel Bibron (1806–1848), Fransız zoolog
  • Johannes Abraham Bierens de Haan (1883–1953), Hollandalı biyolog ve etolog
  • Ann Bishop (1899–1990), İngiliz biyolog
  • Biswamoy Biswas (1923–1994), Hint ornitolog

Bl-Bu
  • Liz Blackburn (1948), Australian/US Nobel Prize–winning researcher in the field of telomeres and the "telomerase" enzyme
  • John Blackwall (1790–1881), British entomologist
  • Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850), French zoologist
  • Albert Francis Blakeslee (1874–1954), American botanist, best known for research on Jimsonweed and the sexuality of fungi
  • Thomas Blakiston (1832–1891), English naturalist
  • William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), English naturalist
  • Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878), Dutch ichthyologist
  • Günter Blobel (1936), German Nobel Prize-winning biologist who discovered that newly synthesized proteins contain "address tags" which direct them to the proper location within the cell.
  • Steven Block (1952), American biophysicist who measured the mechanical properties of single bio-molecules
  • Carl Ludwig Blume (1789–1862), German-Dutch botanist (abbr. in botany: Blume)
  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), German physiologist and anthropologist
  • Edward Blyth (1810–1873), English zoologist
  • José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823–1907), Portuguese zoologist
  • Pieter Boddaert (1730–1795 or 1796), naturalist
  • Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857), French naturalist
  • James Bond (1900–1989), American ornithologist
  • Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830), Italian ornithologist
  • August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786–1839), German botanist
  • Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), Swiss naturalist
  • Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858), French botanist (abbr. in botany: Bonpl.)
  • Jules Bordet (1870–1961), Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the complement system in the immune system
  • Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970), Russian botanist
  • Norman Borlaug (1914), American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and the father of the Green Revolution
  • Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828), French zoologist
  • George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937), Belgian zoologist
  • Jules Bourcier (1797–1873), French naturalist
  • Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802–1879), German naturalist (abbr. in botany: Brandt)
  • Sara Branham Matthews (1888–1962), American microbiologist
  • Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864), German ornithologist
  • Alfred Brehm (1829–1884), German zoologist
  • Sydney Brenner (1927), British molecular biologist, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814–1880), American naturalist
  • William Brewster (1851–1919), American ornithologist
  • Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806), French zoologist
  • Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934), American botanist (abbr. in botany: Britton)
  • Thomas D. Brock (1926), American biologist, discoverer of hyperthermophiles
  • Adolphe Theodore Brongniart (1801–1876), French botanist (abbr. in botany: Brongn.)
  • Robert Broom (1866–1951), South African paleontologist
  • James H. Brown, American ecologist
  • Robert Brown (1773–1858), botanist (abbr. in botany: R.Br.)
  • David Bruce (1855–1931), Scottish pathologist and microbiologist
  • Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1750–1798), French naturalist
  • Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827), Danish zoologist
  • Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829), Scottish zoologist and botanist
  • Stephen L. Buchmann, co-author of The Forgotten Pollinators
  • Linda B. Buck (1947), American physiologist and Nobel prize winner
  • Samuel Botsford Buckley (1809–1884), American naturalist (abbr. in botany: Buckley)
  • Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist (abbr. in botany: Buffon)
  • William Bullock (1773–1849), English naturalist
  • Walter Buller (1838–1906), New Zealand naturalist
  • James Bulwer (1794–1879), English naturalist and conchologist
  • Alexander G. von Bunge (1803–1890), German-Russian zoologist
  • Luther Burbank (1849–1926), American horticulturalist
  • Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892), German zoologist
  • Carlos Bustamante (1951), American biophysicist, discovered "molecular tweezers" to manipulate DNA
  • Ernesto Bustamante (1950), Peruvian biochemist, specialist in mitochondria. Currently works on DNA paternity testing

C
  • Jean Cabanis (1816–1906), German ornithologist
  • George Caley (1770–1829), English botanist
  • Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721), German botanist
  • Frederick Campion Steward (1904–1993), British botanist
  • A. P. de Candolle (1778–1841), Swiss botanist
  • Philip Pearsall Carpenter (1819–1877), conchologist
  • Alexis Carrel (1873–1944), French biologist and surgeon, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on sutures and organ transplants, advocate of eugenics
  • Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896), French botanist
  • Clodoveo Carrión Mora (1883–1957), Ecuadorian paleontologist and naturalist
  • Sean B. Carroll, American evolutionary development biologist
  • Rachel Carson (1907–1964), biologist, author of Silent Spring
  • George Washington Carver (1860–1943), American botanist
  • John Cassin (1813–1869), American ornithologist
  • Alexandre de Cassini (1781–1832), French botanist (abbr. in botany: Cass.)
  • William E. Castle (1867–1962), American geneticist
  • Mark Catesby (1683–1749), English naturalist
  • Andrea Cesalpino (1519–1603), Italian botanist
  • Francesco Cetti (1726–1778), Italian zoologist
  • Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), Brazilian physician
  • Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838), German botanist
  • [(Simon Chan)] (1974–2012), New Zealand plant biologist
  • Min Chueh Chang (1908–1991), biologist
  • Frank Michler Chapman (1864–1945), ornithologist
  • Martha Chase (1927–2003), American biologist, conducted the Hershey-Chase experiment which linked DNA to heredity
  • Thomas Frederic Cheeseman (1846–1923), New Zealand botanist and naturalist.
  • Sergei Chetverikov (1880–1959), Russian population geneticist
  • Charles Chilton (1860–1929), New Zealand zoologist
  • Carl Chun (1852–1914), German marine biologist
  • Nathan Cobb (1859–1932), American biologist, considered the founder of the discipline of nematology
  • Alfred Cogniaux (1841–1916), Belgian botanist (abbr. in botany: Cogn.)
  • Stanley Cohen (1922), American biologist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine (1986) for his discovery of growth factors.
  • James J. Collins, American biologist, synthetic biology and systems biology pioneer
  • Henry Boardman Conover (1892–1950), American ornithologist
  • Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803–1877), American malacologist
  • James Graham Cooper (1830–1902), American naturalist
  • William Cooper (1798–1864), American conchologist
  • Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897), fish, reptiles, paleontology
  • Charles Coquerel (1822–1867), French navy surgeon and entomologist
  • Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896–1984), American biochemist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the Cori cycle
  • Gerty Cori (1886–1957), American biochemist, first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in science, the prize was awarded to her and her husband Carl for their work on the Cori cycle
  • Charles B. Cory (1857–1921), American ornithologist
  • Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717–1791), English botanist, naturalist, philosopher
  • Elliott Coues (1842–1899), American ornithologist
  • Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907–2004), South African zoologist
  • Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997), French marine biologist and explorer
  • Miguel Rolando Covian (1913–1992), Argentine-Brazilian neurophysiologist, father of Brazilian neurophysiology
  • Frederick Vernon Coville (1867–1937), American botanist
  • Robert K. Crane, (1919), American biochemist, discovered sodium-glucose cotransport.
  • Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786–1845), German zoologist
  • Francis Crick (1916–2004), one of the discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule and a neurobiologist
  • Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1826–1898), French conchologist
  • Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654), English botanist
  • Allan Cunningham (1791–1839), English botanist
  • William Curtis (1746–1799), English botanist
  • Georges Cuvier (1769–1832), French naturalist

D
  • Valerie Daggett, American bioengineer
  • Anders Dahl (1751–1789), namesake of the Dahlia
  • W.H. Dall (1845–1927), American naturalist and malacologist.
  • Charles Darwin (1809–1882), British naturalist, author and biologist
  • Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), doctor, naturalist, grandfather of Charles
  • Charles Davenport (1866–1944), American biologist and eugenicist, founded the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • Armand David (1826–1900), French zoologist and botanist
  • Bernard Davis (1916–1994), American biologist
  • Richard Dawkins (1941), British evolutionary biologist
  • Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787–1823), French naturalist
  • Max Delbrück (1906–1981), German physicist and biologist known for work on the replication mechanism of viruses
  • Richard Dell (1920–2002), New Zealand malacologist
  • Stefano Delle Chiaje (1794–1860), Italian
  • Paul Émile de Puydt (1810–1888), Belgian botanist
  • René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833), French botanist
  • Gérard Paul Deshayes (1795–1875), French geologist and conchologist.
  • Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838), French zoologist
  • Ernst Dieffenbach (1811–1855), German naturalist
  • Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747), German botanist
  • Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778–1855), British botanist and conchologist
  • Walter Dobrogosz (1933), American microbiologist, discoverer of Lactobacillus reuteri
  • Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975), American geneticist and evolutionary biologist
  • Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585), Flemish botanist
  • Anton Dohrn (1840–1909), German marine biologist
  • David Don (1799–1841), British botanist
  • James Donn (1758–1813), English botanist
  • Jean Dorst (1924–2001), French ornithologist
  • Henry Doubleday (1808–1875), British entomologist
  • David Douglas (1799–1834), Scottish botanist
  • Jonas C. Dryander (1748–1810), Swedish botanist
  • Félix Dujardin (1802–1860), biologist
  • Renato Dulbecco (1914–2012), biologist
  • Ronald Duman, Biological psychiatry
  • André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860), French zoologist
  • Michel Felix Dunal (1789–1856), French botanist
  • Robin Dunbar (1947), Italian virologist
  • Gerald Durrell (1925–1995), British naturalist

E
  • Sylvia Earle (1935), American oceanographer
  • John Carew Eccles (1903–1997), Australian neurophysiologist and winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse
  • Christian Friedrich Ecklon (1795–1868), Danish botanist (abbr. in botany: Eckl.)
  • Gerald Edelman (1929), Nobel Prize for immunology work, later work in neuroscience
  • George Edwards (1693–1773), British naturalist
  • Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876), German biologist and microscopist
  • Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
  • Karl Eichwald (1795–1876), Russian geologist and physician
  • Theodor Eimer (1843–1898), German zoologist
  • George Eliava (1892–1937), Georgian microbiologist
  • Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915), American zoologist
  • Günther Enderlein (1872–1968), German zoologist and entomologist
  • Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849), Austrian botanist (abbr. in botany: Endl.)
  • Michael S. Engel (1971), American paleontologist and entomologist
  • George Engelmann (1809–1884), German-American botanist
  • Adolf Engler (1844–1930), German botanist (abbr. in botany: Engl.)
  • Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744–1777), German naturalist.
  • Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831), Baltic German biologist and explorer, namesake of the California poppy
  • Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897), Austrian botanist
  • Warren Ewens, American mathematical population geneticist
  • Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809–1880), English naturalist

F
  • Jean Henri Fabre (1823–1915), French entomologist
  • Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808), Danish entomologist
  • David Fairchild (1869–1954), American botanist
  • Hugh Falconer (1808–1865), Scottish paleontologist
  • Leonardo Fea (1852–1903), Italian zoologist
  • Christoph Feldegg (1780–1845), Austrian naturalist
  • Lewis J. Feldman (1945), American botanist
  • Howard Barraclough (Barry) Fell (1917–1994), English zoologist and pre-Columbian contact theorist
  • Sérgio Ferreira (1934), Brazilian pharmacologist
  • Harold John Finlay (1901–1951), New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist
  • Otto Finsch (1839–1917), German naturalist
  • Johann Fischer von Waldheim (1771–1853), German entomologist
  • James Fisher (1922–1970), English ornithologist
  • Paul Henri Fischer (1835–1893): French physician, zoologist, malacologist and paleontologist
  • Ronald Fisher (1890–1962), British biologist and statistician, one of the founders of population genetics
  • Leopold Fitzinger (1802–1884), Austrian zoologist
  • Tim Flannery (1956-), Australian biologist
  • Jim Flegg, British ornithologist
  • Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), British medical scientist
  • Walther Flemming (1843–1905), German physician and anatomist, discoverer of mitosis and chromosomes
  • Thomas Bainbrigge Fletcher (1878–1950), English entomologist
  • Howard Walter Florey (1898–1968), pharmacologist who was the co-inventor of penicillin
  • Brian J. Ford (1939), British biologist and writer
  • E. B. Ford (1901–1988), British ecological geneticist
  • Peter Forsskål (1732–1763), Swedish naturalist
  • Georg Forster (1754–1794), German naturalist (abbr. in botany: G.Forst.)
  • Peter Forster (geneticist) (1967), German geneticist
  • Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798), German naturalist
  • Robert Fortune (1813–1880), Scottish botanist
  • Dian Fossey (1932–1985), American zoologist
  • Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA
  • Francisco Freire Allemão e Cysneiro (1797–1874), Brazilian botanist
  • Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), one of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy
  • Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate, best known for pioneering studies of bees
  • Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870), Hungarian botanist
  • Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566), German botanist
  • José María de la Fuente Morales (1855–1932), Spanish biologist
  • Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927), American ornithologist

G
  • Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791), German botanist
  • François Gagnepain (1866–1952), French botanist
  • Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858), French
  • Biruté Galdikas (1946), Canadian primatologist, conducted pioneering studies on orangutans
  • Robert Gallo (1937), American virologist and co-discoverer of HIV
  • William Gambel (1823–1849), American naturalist
  • Prosper Garnot (1794–1838), French naturalist
  • Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854), French botanist
  • Michael Gazzaniga, American cognitive neuroscientist, best known for his research on split-brain patients
  • Howard Scott Gentry (1903–1993), American botanist
  • John Gerard (1545–1611/12), English botanist
  • Conrad von Gesner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist (abbr. in botany: Gesner)
  • Luca Ghini (1490–1566), Italian botanist
  • Clelia Giacobini (1931–2010), Italian microbiologist, a pioneer of microbiology applied to conservation-restoration
  • John H. Gillespie, American molecular evolutionist and population geneticist
  • Charles Henry Gimingham (1923), British botanist
  • Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895), French biologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist
  • Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804), German naturalist (abbr. in botany: J.F.Gmel.)
  • Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), German naturalist (abbr. in botany: J.G.Gmel.)
  • Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774), German botanist (abbr. in botany: S.G.Gmel.)
  • Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), English naturalist and ornithologist
  • Émil Goeldi (1859–1917), Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), known for his literary works but also a scientist. In biology: his theory of plant metamorphosis stipulated that all plant formation stems from a modification of the Leaf.
  • Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian physician and Nobel prize winner, pioneer in neurobiology
  • Jane Goodall (1934), British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, best known for conducting a forty-year study of chimpanzee social and family life.
  • George Gordon (1806–1879), British botanist
  • Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), English naturalist
  • Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), American conchologist.
  • John Gould (1804–1881), English ornithologist
  • Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist
  • Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921), French naturalist and explorer
  • Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957), French naturalist and explorer son of Alfred Grandidier
  • Temple Grandin (1947), American animal scientist; world-renowned as a designer of humane livestock facilities and for her writings on her experience with autism
  • Chapman Grant (1887–1983), American herpetologist
  • Pierre-Paul Grassé (1895–1985), French zoologist
  • Asa Gray (1810–1888), American botanist
  • George Robert Gray (1808–1872), English zoologist
  • J.E. Gray (1800–1875), British zoologist
  • Andrew Jackson Grayson (1819–1869), American ornithologist
  • William King Gregory (1876–1970), American zoologist
  • Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), British ornithologist
  • Frederick Griffith (1879–1941), British bacteriologist
  • Jeremy Griffith (1945), Australian zoologist
  • Jan Frederik Gronovius (1690–1762), Dutch botanist
  • Pavel Grošelj (1883–1940), biologist and belletrist
  • Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799–1874), French entomologist
  • Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781), German naturalist
  • Allvar Gullstrand (1862–1930), Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for research on the image formation by the lens of the eye"
  • Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773), Norwegian botanist
  • Albert C. L. G. Günther (1830–1914), British/German zoologist

H
  • Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German physician, zoologist and evolutionist
  • Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893), German entomologist
  • J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964), British evolutionary biologist and co-founder of population genetics
  • William Donald Hamilton (1936–2000), British evolutionary biologist
  • Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899), British conchologist and malacologist
  • Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), English naturalist
  • Alister Clavering Hardy (1896–1985), English marine biologist and pioneer student of the biological basis of religion
  • Richard Harlan (1796–1843), American naturalist, zoologist, physicist and paleontologist
  • Denham Harman (1916), American biogerontologist, father of the free radical theory of aging
  • Maarten 't Hart (1944), Dutch biologist and writer
  • Ernst Hartert (1859–1933), German ornithologist
  • Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900), German zoologist
  • Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812–1871), German botanist
  • William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), Irish phycologist
  • Hans Hass (1919), Austrian biologist
  • Frederik Hasselquist (1722–1752), Swedish naturalist
  • Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (1824–1878), English ornithologist
  • James Hector (1834–1907), Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon
  • Charles Hedley (1862–1926), naturalist, active in Australia
  • Oskar Heinroth (1871–1945), German biologist, a founder of ethology
  • Wilhelm Hemprich (1796–1825), German naturalist
  • Willi Hennig (1913–1976) German biologist, founder of cladistics
  • John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861), English mineralogist, botanist and clergyman
  • Johann Hermann (1738–1800), French physician and naturalist
  • Albert William Herre (1868–1962), American ichthyologist and lichenologist
  • Alfred Hershey (1908–1997), American bacteriologist, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the genetics of viruses
  • Philip Hershkovitz (1909–1997), American mammalogist noted especially as a primatologist
  • Leo George Hertlein (1898–1972), American paleontologist and malacologist
  • Archibald Vivian Hill (1886–1977), British physiologist, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidation of mechanical work in muscles
  • Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894), English naturalist
  • Jan van der Hoeven (1802–1868), Dutch zoologist
  • Bruno Hofer (1861–1916), German fisheries scientist
  • Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849), German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist
  • Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852), French naturalist
  • Leroy Hood (1939), American biochemist, developed high speed automated DNA sequencer
  • Robert Hooke (1635–1703), British natural philosopher and Secretary to the Royal Society
  • Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911), British botanist, explorer and Director of Kew Botanic Gardens
  • William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), British botanist, Director of Kew Botanic Gardens
  • John "Jack" Horner (1946), American paleontologist, specialized in dinosaurs
  • Thomas Horsfield (1773–1859), American naturalist
  • Bernardo Houssay (1887–1971), Argentine physiologist, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the function of the pituitary hormones in regulating blood sugar (glucose) in animals.
  • Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798), Dutch naturalist
  • Albert Howard (1873–1947), British botanist
  • Eliot Howard (1873–1940), English ornithologist
  • Sarah Blaffer Hrdy (1946), U.S. anthropologist who made contributions to evolutionary psychology and sociobiology
  • David H. Hubel (1926), Canadian-d. American neurobiologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the visual system
  • François Huber (1750–1831), Swiss naturalist
  • Ambrosius Hubrecht (1853–1915), Dutch zoologist
  • William Henry Hudson (1841–1922), Argentinian-British ornithologist
  • Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), German naturalist and explorer
  • Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912), British ornithologist
  • Rob Hume, British ornithologist
  • George Evelyn Hutchinson (1903–1991), American ecologist and limnologist
  • Frederick Wollaston Hutton (1835–1905), English biologist and geologist, later worked in New Zealand
  • Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975), English zoologist and contributor to the modern evolutionary synthesis; first D-G of UNESCO
  • Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), English zoologist and advocate of evolution, agnosticism and scientific education
  • Alpheus Hyatt (1838–1902), American neo-Lamarckian
  • Libbie Hyman (1888–1969), invertebrate zoologist
  • Josef Hyrtl (1810–1894), Austrian anatomist

I
  • Hermann von Ihering (1850–1930), German naturalist
  • Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813), German entomologist
  • Jan Ingenhousz (1730–1799), Dutch-born British botanist
  • Tom Iredale (1880–1972), English conchologist and ornithologist
  • Paul Erdmann Isert (1756–1789), German botanist

J
  • François Jacob (born 1920), French Biologist, Nobel Prize
  • Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), Dutch-born Austrian botanist
  • Honoré Jacquinot (1815–1887), French surgeon and zoologist
  • Daniel H. Janzen (born 1939), American entomologist and ecologist
  • William Jardine (1800–1874), Scottish naturalist
  • Feliks Pawel Jarocki (1790–1865), Polish zoologist
  • Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872), British zoologist and botanist
  • Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927), (coined the term gene)
  • David Starr Jordan (1851–1931), ichthyologist, 1st president of Stanford
  • Félix Pierre Jousseaume (1835–1921), French zoologist and malacologist
  • Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), French botanist
  • Antoine de Jussieu (1686–1758), French naturalist
  • Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836), botanist, biologist (abbr. in botany: Juss.)
  • Bernard de Jussieu (1699–1777), French naturalist
  • Ernest Everett Just (1883–1941), American biologist

K
  • Zbigniew Kabata (born 1924), Polish parasitologist
  • Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), Swedish botanist
  • Eric R. Kandel (born 1929), Austrian-born American neuroscientist. Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the neural correlates of memory
  • Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817–1908), German botanist
  • Rudolf Kaufmann (1909–c1941), trilobitologist known for his contributions to allopatric speciation and punctuated equilibrium.
  • Stuart Kauffman (born 1939), biologist widely known for his promotion of self-organization as a factor in producing the complexity of biological systems and organisms
  • Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873), German naturalist
  • Janet Kear (1933–2004), English ornithologist
  • Gerald A. Kerkut (1927–2004), British zoologist and physiologist
  • Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1831–1898), Austrian botanist
  • Robert Kerr (1755–1813), published The Animal Kingdom in 1792
  • Warwick Estevam Kerr (born 1922), Brazilian geneticist, specialist in bee genetics, introducer of African bees in Brazil
  • Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (born 1925), Polish paleontologist, led several paleontological expeditions to the Gobi desert
  • Motoo Kimura (1924–1994), Japanese mathematical biologist, working in the field of theoretical population genetics
  • Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957), Scottish zoologist
  • William Kirby (1759–1850), English entomologist
  • Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874), German naturalist
  • Wilhelm Kobelt (1840–1916), German zoologist and malacologist
  • Fritz Köberle (1910–1983), Austrian-Brazilian physician and pathologist, student of Chagas disease
  • Karl Koch (1809–1879), German botanist
  • Robert Koch (1843–1910), German Nobel Prize-winning physician and bacteriologist
  • Emil Theodor Kocher (1841–1917), German physician, winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "his work on the physiology, pathology and surgery of the thyroid gland"
  • Alexander Koenig (1858–1940), German naturalist
  • Albert von Kölliker (1817–1905), Swiss physiologist
  • Charles Konig (1774–1851), German naturalist
  • Arthur Kornberg (born 1918), discovered DNA polymerase
  • Adriaan Kortlandt, (born 1918), Dutch ethologist
  • Albrecht Kossel (1853–1927), German physician and winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research in cell biology
  • Hans Adolf Krebs (1900–1981), German biochemist and winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the citric acid cycle in cellular respiration
  • Gerard Krefft (1830–1881), German-born Australian zoologist and palaeontologist
  • Eduardo Krieger (born 1930), Brazilian physician and physiologist
  • Kewal Krishan (born 1973), Biological Anthropologist, specialized in Forensic Anthropology, serving at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
  • Schack August Steenberg Krogh (1874–1949), Danish physiologist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the mechanism of regulation of the capillaries in skeletal muscle
  • Heinrich Kuhl (1797–1821), German zoologist

L
  • Henri Laborit (1914–1995), French surgeon and physiologist
  • Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède (1756–1825), French naturalist
  • David Lack (1910–1973), British ornithologist
  • Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783–1861), French ornithologist
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French evolutionist, coined many terms like biology and fossils
  • Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842), British botanist
  • Charles Lamberton (fl. 1912–1956), French paleontologist
  • Hugh Lamprey (1928–1996), British ecologist
  • Kai Larsen (1926–2012), Danish botanist
  • Charles Francis Laseron (1887–1959), American-born Australian naturalist and malacologist
  • John Latham (1740–1837), English naturalist
  • Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833), French entomologist
  • Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), French physician, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that the cause of malaria is a protozoon
  • George Newbold Lawrence (1806–1855), American ornithologist
  • William Elford Leach (1790–1836), English zoologist and marine biologist
  • Colin Leakey (born 1933), British tropical botanist and specialist in bean science
  • Joseph LeConte (1823–1901), physiologist
  • Tim Lee (born 1977), comedian
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), Dutch biologist, developer of the microscope
  • François Leguat (c. 1637 – 1735), French naturalist
  • Joseph Leidy (1823–1891), American paleontologist
  • Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1771–1813), Dutch naturalist
  • Juan Lembeye (1816–1889), Spanish naturalist
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), known as an artist but also an anatomist. Dissected hundreds of specimens and drew exact copies of them
  • Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour (1773–1826), French botanist
  • Rene Primevere Lesson (1794–1849), French naturalist
  • Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778–1846), French naturalist
  • François Le Vaillant (1753–1824), French ornithologist
  • Edward B. Lewis (1918–2004), American geneticist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner
  • Richard Lewontin (born 1929), biologist
  • Wen-Hsiung Li, molecular evolutionary biologist
  • Emmanuel Liais (1826–1900), French botanist
  • Martin Lichtenstein (1780–1867), German zoologist
  • John Lightfoot (1735–1788), English conchologist and botanist
  • David R. Lindberg, American malacologist and biologist
  • Aristid Lindenmayer (1925–1989), Hungarian biologist
  • John Lindley (1799–1865), English botanist
  • Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1850), German botanist (abbr. in botany: Link)
  • Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), Swedish botanist; father of the binomial nomenclature system (abbr L. or Linn.)
  • Jacques Loeb (1859–1924), German-American biologist
  • Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915), German biologist
  • Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), Austrian founder of ethology
  • Harri Lorenzi (born 1949), Brazilian botanist
  • John Claudius Loudon (1783–1843), English botanist
  • James Lovelock (born 1919), English chemist and father of the Gaia hypothesis
  • Percy Lowe (1870–1948), English ornithologist
  • Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880), Danish zoologist and paleontologist
  • Salvador Luria (1912–1991), microbiologist, Nobel prize winner
  • Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940), Brazilian infectologist, pathologist and public health researcher
  • André Lwoff (1902–1994), French microbiologist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Richard Lydekker (1849–1915), English naturalist
  • Trofim Lysenko (1898–1976), Soviet biologist and agronomist. His denouncement of genetics became known as Lysenkoism.

M

Ma-Mi
  • Jules François Mabille (1831–1904), French malacologist
  • John Macadam (1827–1865), Scottish-born Australian botanist
  • John M. MacDougal (1954), American botanist
  • William MacGillivray (1796–1852), Scottish naturalist
  • Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694), Italian anatomist and biologist
  • Ramon Margalef (1919–2004), Spanish-Catalan biologist and ecologist
  • Leo Margolis (1927–1997), Canadian fisheries parasitologist
  • Lynn Margulis (1938), American microbiologist
  • Alberto della Marmora (1789–1863), Italian naturalist
  • Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899), paleontology
  • Barry Marshall (1951), Australian physician and microbiologist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that most stomach ulcers are caused by a strain of bacteria
  • Fermín Martín Piera (1954–2001), Spanish botanist
  • Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), German botanist
  • John Martyn (1699–1768), English botanist
  • Thomas Martyn (1735–1825), English botanist, entomologist and conchologist
  • John Marwick (1891–1978), New Zealand palaeontologist and geologist
  • Teresa Maryańska, Poland, paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs
  • Francis Masson (1741 – c. 1805), Scottish botanist
  • Gregory Mathews (1876–1949), Australian ornithologist
  • Paul Matschie (1861–1926), German zoologist
  • William Diller Matthew (1871–1930), American paleontologist
  • Polly Matzinger, American immunologist
  • Carl Maximowicz (1827–1891), Russian botanist
  • Harold Maxwell-Lefroy (1877–1925), English entomologist
  • Robert May (1936), biologist, physicist, mathematician, President of Royal Society of London 2000–2005
  • Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), evolutionary biologist
  • Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), American biologist, winner of a Nobel Prize for her work on the transposon, or "jumping gene"
  • James V. McConnell (1925–1990), American biological psychologist
  • Mark McMenamin (1958), American paleontologist
  • Bruce McEwen, neuroendocrinologist and stress hormone expert
  • Edmund Meade-Waldo (1855–1934), English ornithologist
  • Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916), Russian microbiologist, best known for his work on the immune system and phagocytosis, received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908
  • Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764–1845), German entomologist
  • Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), Czech-Austrian monk who is often called the "father of genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants
  • Edouard Menetries (1802–1861), French entomologist
  • Maud Leonora Menten, biologist
  • Archibald Menzies (1754–1852), Scottish naturalist
  • Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942), American zoologist and ornithologist
  • John C. Merriam (1869–1945), American biologist
  • Franz Meyen (1804–1840), German botanist
  • Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901–1984), American ornithologist
  • Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884–1951), German/American physician and biochemist, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on muscles
  • Leonor Michaelis (1875–1949), German biologist
  • André Michaux (1746–1802), French botanist
  • Aleksandr Fyodorovich Middendorf (1815–1894), Russian zoologist
  • Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai (1846–1888), Russian marine biologist and anthropologist
  • Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. (1869–1956), American zoologist.
  • Jacques Miller (1931), Australian immunologist.
  • John Frederick Miller (1759–1796), English illustrator (primarily of botany)
  • Kenneth R. Miller (1948), American evolutionary biologist.
  • Philip Miller (1691–1771), Scottish botanist (abbr. in botany: Mill.)
  • Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), French zoologist
  • Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885), French zoologist
  • George Jackson Mivart (1827–1900), English biologist

Mo-Mu
  • Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872), German botanist
  • Paul Möhring (1710–1792), German naturalist
  • Juan Ignacio Molina (1740–1829), Chilean naturalist
  • Jacques Monod (1910–1976), geneticist
  • George Montagu (1753–1815), English naturalist
  • Luc Montagnier (1932), French discoverer of HIV
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909), Italian-American neurologist who received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her co-discovery of growth factors
  • Tommaso di Maria Allery Monterosato (1841–1927), Italian malacologist
  • Pierre Dénys de Montfort (1766–1820), French naturalist
  • George Thomas Moore (1871–1956), American botanist
  • Alfred Moquin-Tandon (1804–1863), French naturalist
  • Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch (1828–1878), malacologist
  • Thomas Hunt Morgan (1868–1945), American geneticist. He worked on the natural history, zoology, and macromutation in the fruit fly Drosophila
  • Desmond Morris (1928), British zoologist and biologist
  • Roger Morse (1927–2000), professor, researcher, author, on bees/beekeeping
  • Guy Mountfort (1905–2003), English ornithologist
  • Ladislav Mucina (1956), Slovakian botanist
  • Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896), German-Australian botanist
  • John Muir (1838–1914), American naturalist
  • Otto Friedrich Müller (1730–1784), Danish naturalist (abbr. in botany: O.F.Müll.)
  • Fritz Müller (1821–1897), German-Brazilian naturalist (abbr. in botany: F.J.Müll.)
  • Hermann Müller (Thurgau) (1850–1927), Swiss botanist and oenologist
  • Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725–1776), German zoologist
  • Salomon Muller (1804–1864), Dutch naturalist
  • Kary Mullis (1944), biologist
  • Otto von Münchhausen (1716–1774), German botanist
  • John Murray (1841–1914), Scots-Canadian Marine Biologist

N
  • Gary Paul Nabhan (born 1952), co-author of Forgotten Pollinators
  • Karl Wilhelm von Nageli (1817–1891), Swiss botanist
  • Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857), German founder of scientific ornithology
  • John Needham (1713–1781), English naturalist
  • Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776–1858), German botanist and zoologist
  • Masatoshi Nei, American evolutionary biologist and molecular Population Geneticist
  • Randolph M. Nesse (born 1945), American evolutionary biologist and psychiatrist
  • Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924), British botanist
  • Alfred Newton (1829–1907), English zoologist
  • Margaret Morse Nice (1883–1974), American ornithologist
  • Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1844–1899), British zoologist
  • Elmer Noble (1909–2001), American parasitologist
  • Alfred Merle Norman (1831–1918), English clergyman and naturalist
  • Alfred John North (1855–1917), Australian ornithologist
  • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (born 1942), German biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner
  • Thomas Nuttall (1786–1858), English botanist and zoologist

O
  • Nils Hjalmar Odhner (1884–1973), Swedish zoologist
  • Eugene P. Odum (1913–2002), American ecologist
  • Howard T. Odum (1924–2002), American ecologist
  • Anders Sandoe Oersted (1816–1872), Danish botanist (abbr. in botany: Oerst.)
  • William Ogilby (1808–1873), Irish naturalist
  • William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), Scottish ornithologist
  • Tomoko Ohta (born 1933), Japanese molecular evolutionary biologist
  • Lorenz Oken (1779–1851), German naturalist
  • Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795), Italian naturalist
  • Mark A. O'Neill, British biologist and computer scientist
  • Aleksandr Oparin (1894–1980), Russian biologist and biochemist, best known for his work on the origin of life
  • Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857), French naturalist
  • George Ord (1781–1866), American ornithologist
  • Eleanor Anne Ormerod (1828–1901), English entomologist
  • Edward Latham Ormerod (1819–1873), FRS, English physician and entomologist
  • Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935), eugenicist, AMNH curator
  • William Charles Osman Hill (1901–1975), British anatomist, primatologist, and a leading authority on primate anatomy during the 20th century
  • Halszka Osmólska (1930–2008), Polish paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs
  • Emile Oustalet (1844–1905), French zoologist
  • Richard Owen (1804–1892), biologist of nebres(triztan) organisms

P
  • George Emil Palade (born 1912), Romanian-American biologist, discoverer of ribosomes, Nobel Prize
  • Paul Maurice Pallary (1869–1942), French-Algerian malacologist
  • Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811), Russian zoologist
  • Edward Palmer (1829–1911), British botanist
  • Josif Pancic (1814–1888), Serbian botanist
  • Paracelsus (1493–1541), German alchemist
  • Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), French biochemist
  • William Paterson (1755–1810), British botanist and explorer
  • Robert Patterson (1802–1872), Irish naturalist
  • Daniel Pauly (born 1946), French marine biologist
  • Ivan Pavlov (1849–1936), Russian physiologist, psychologist and physician, discovered conditioning, won the Nobel Prize for his research on the digestive system
  • Titian Peale (1799–1885), American naturalist
  • Donald C. Peattie (1898–1964), American botanist
  • Eva J. Pell (born 1948), American plant pathologist
  • Paul Pelseneer (1863–1945), Belgian malacologist
  • Jean-Marie Pelt (born 1933), French botanist
  • Thomas Pennant (1726–1798), Welsh naturalist and antiquary
  • Henri Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958), French botanist
  • George Perry (naturalist), 19th century English naturalist
  • Christian Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836), biologist
  • Paul Petard (1912–1980), French botanist
  • Wilhelm Peters (1815–1883), German naturalist
  • Ludwig Karl Georg Pfeiffer, German physician, botanist and conchologist
  • Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904), German-Chilean zoologist
  • Constantine John Phipps (1744–1792), English explorer
  • David Andrew Phoenix, (born 1966), Biochemist
  • Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1860–?), English entomologist
  • Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), English entomologist, uncle of above
  • Charles Pickering (1805–1878), American naturalist
  • Cándido Bolívar Pieltain (1897–1976), Spanish naturalist
  • Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957), American zoologist, malacologist
  • Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903–1967), American biologist and co-inventor of the contraceptive pill
  • Ronald Plasterk, (born 1957), Dutch molecular biologist, columnist and politician
  • Pliny the Elder (23–79), Roman natural philosopher
  • Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947), British taxonomist (mammals and arachnids)
  • Felipe Poey (1799–1891), Cuban zoologist
  • Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851), American botanist
  • Henry de Puyjalon (1841–1905), Canadian ecologist and biologist
  • Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746–1825), Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian
  • Winston Ponder, Australian malacologist
  • Arthur William Baden Powell (1901–1987), New Zealand malacologist and paleontologist
  • Thomas Littleton Powys, 4th Baron Lilford (1833–1896), English ornithologist
  • Karel Presl (1794–1852), Bohemian botanist
  • Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873–1972), French malacologist
  • Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869), Czech anatomist and physiologist
  • Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774–1820), German-American botanist
  • Paul Émile de Puydt (1810–1888), Belgian botanist
  • Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888), Russian explorer

Q
  • Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810–1892), Fransız doğabilimci
  • Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869), Fransız hayvanbilimci

R
  • Gustav Radde (1831–1903), German naturalist
  • Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826), Londra Zooloji Topluluğunun kurucusu ve ilk başkanı
  • Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1783–1840), French naturalist who described many North American species
  • Émile Louis Ragonot (1843–1895), French entomologist
  • Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish histologist and Nobel laureate. Considered the father of neuroscience.
  • Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842–1916), Australian ornithologist
  • Austin L. Rand (1905–1982), Canadian zoologist
  • Suresh Rattan (born 1955), Indian biogerontologist
  • John Ray (1627–1705), English naturalist
  • Francesco Redi (1626–1697), Italian physician known for his experiment in 1668 which is regarded as one of the first steps in refuting abiogenesis
  • Lovell Augustus Reeve (1814–1865), English conchologist
  • Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823–1889), German orchidologist (abbr. in botany: Rchb. f.)
  • Ludwig Reichenbach (1793–1879), German botanist and ornithologist (abbr. in botany: Rchb.)
  • Anton Reichenow (1847–1941), German ornithologist
  • Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773–1854), Dutch botanist
  • Bernhard Rensch (1900–1990), German biologist
  • Ralf Reski (born 1958), German botanist and biotechnologist, developed Physcomitrella as model organism
  • Achille Richard (1794–1852), French botanist (abbr. in botany: A. Rich)
  • Jean Michel Claude Richard (1787–1868), noted French botanist and plant collector (abbr. in botany: J.M.C.Rich.)
  • Louis Claude Richard (1754–1821), French botanist (abbr. in botany: Rich.)
  • Olivier Jules Richard (1836–1896), French lichenologist (abbr. in botany: O.J.Rich.)
  • John Richardson (1787–1865), Scottish naturalist (abbr. in botany: Richardson)
  • Charles Richet (1850–1935), French physiologist, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of anaphylaxis
  • Charles Wallace Richmond (1868–1932), American ornithologist
  • Robert Ridgway (1850–1929), American ornithologist
  • Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956), British botanist (abbr. in botany: Ridl.)
  • Austin Roberts (1883–1948), South African zoologist
  • Harold E. Robinson (born 1932), American botanist and entomologist
  • Maurício Rocha e Silva (1910–1983), Brazilian physician and pharmacologist, codiscoverer of bradykinin
  • Martin Rodbell (1925–1998), biologist
  • Peter Friedrich Röding (1767–1846), German malacologist
  • George Romanes (1848–1894), Canadian naturalist, founded the discipline of comparative psychology
  • Alfred Romer (1894–1973), specialist in vertebrate paleontology
  • Robert Rosen (1934–1998), theoretical biologist
  • Joel Rosenbaum (born 1933), cell biologist at Yale University
  • Harald Rosenthal (born 1937), German hydrobiologist known for his work in fish farming and ecology
  • Miriam Louisa Rothschild (1908–2005), British entomologist
  • Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868–1937), British zoologist
  • William Roxburgh (1759–1815), Scottish botanist
  • Adriaan van Royen (1704–1779), Dutch botanist (abbr. in botany: Royen)
  • Karl Rudolphi (1771–1832), German physiologist
  • Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884), German naturalist

S

Sa-So
  • Joseph Sabine (1770–1837), English naturalist
  • Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), German botanist
  • Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French naturalist
  • Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), French zoologist
  • Carl Ulisses von Salis-Marschlins (1762–1818), Swiss naturalist interested in botany, entomology, and conchology
  • Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978), British botanist
  • Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829), British botanist
  • Jonas Salk (1914–1995), American biologist, inventor of polio vaccine
  • Robert Sapolsky (1957), American neuroscientist
  • Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist
  • Michael Sars (1809–1869), Norwegian taxonomist
  • William Saunders (1822–1900), American botanist
  • Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799), Swiss naturalist
  • Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851), French zoologist
  • Thomas Say (1787–1843), American naturalist
  • George Schaller (1933), American zoologist, widely considered the preeminent field biologist of the 20th century
  • Friedrich Schlechter (1872–1925), German botanist
  • Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884), German ornithologist
  • Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804–1881), German co-founder of the cell theory
  • George Schoener (1864–1941), German-American botanist
  • Johann David Schoepf (1752–1800), German botanist and zoologist
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794–1865), German botanist
  • Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810), German naturalist
  • Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), Russo-German zoologist
  • Charles Schuchert (1858–1942), paleontologist
  • Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), German physiologist
  • Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925), German botanist
  • Philip Sclater (1829–1913), English zoologist
  • Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788), Italian-Austrian naturalist
  • Henry Seebohm (1832–1895), English ornithologist
  • Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867), English botanist and ornithologist
  • Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (1827–1885), Russian naturalist
  • Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909), English zoologist
  • George Shaw (1751–1813), English botanist and zoologist
  • George Ernest Shelley (1840–1910), English ornithologist
  • Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1922), British physiologist and neuroscientist, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on neurons
  • Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866), German botanist
  • George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984), American paleontologist
  • Rolf Singer (1906–1994), German d. mycologist
  • John Kunkel Small (1869–1938), American botanist (abbr. in botany: Small)
  • Andrew Smith (1797–1872), Scottish zoologist
  • Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916), British zoologist and conchologist
  • Frederick Smith (1805–1879), British entomologist
  • James Edward Smith (1759–1828), English botanist (abbr. in botany: Sm.)
  • Johannes Jacobus Smith (1867–1947), Dutch botanist (abbr. in botany: J.J.Sm.)
  • James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897–1968), South African ichthyologist
  • John Maynard Smith (1920–2004), biologist
  • John Otterbein Snyder (1867–1943), American zoologist
  • Solomon H. Snyder (1938), American neuroscientist, co-discovered endorphins
  • Daniel Solander (1733–1782), Swedish botanist
  • Louis François Auguste Souleyet (1811–1852), French zoologist

Sp-Sy
  • Douglas Spalding (c1840–1877), English biologist, discovered imprinting and conducted some of the earliest research on animal behavior
  • Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799), Italian biologist
  • Anders Sparrman (1748–1820), Swedish naturalist
  • Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929), English biologist and anthropologist
  • Roger W. Sperry (1913–1994), American neuropsychologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his split-brain research
  • Maximilian Spinola (1780–1857), entomologist
  • Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826), German naturalist
  • Herman Spoering (1733–1771), Finnish botanist
  • Kurt Sprengel (1766–1833), German botanist
  • Stewart Springer (1906–1991), American ichthyologist noted for expertise in shark classification, behavior, and distribution of species
  • Richard Spruce (1817–1893), English botanist
  • Agustin Stahl (1842–1917), Puerto Rican zoologist and botanist
  • Edward Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775–1851), English naturalist
  • Japetus Steenstrup (1813–1897), Danish zoologist
  • Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), Austrian zoologist
  • Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943), Norwegian zoologist
  • Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709–1746), Russian ornithologist
  • James Francis Stephens (1792–1853), English zoologist
  • Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761–1838), Bohemian botanist
  • Karl Stetter (1941), German microbiologist
  • Nettie Maria Stevens (1861–1912), American biologist
  • Edward Charles Stirling (1848–1919), Australian anthropologist
  • Gerald Stokell (1890–1972), New Zealand horticulturist and ichthyologist
  • Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr (1749–1821), German naturalist
  • Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912), German botanist (abbr. in botany: Strasb.)
  • Erwin Stresemann (1889–1972), German ornithologist
  • John Struthers (1823–1899), Scottish anatomist
  • Samuel Stutchbury (1798–1859), English naturalist and geologist
  • Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875), Swedish zoologist
  • Mriganka Sur (1953), Indian cognitive neuroscientist specializing in neuroplasticity
  • Henry Suter (1841–1918), New Zealand zoologist, naturalist and palaeontologist
  • William John Swainson (1789–1855), English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist
  • Jan Swammerdam (1637–1680), Dutch biologist and microscopist
  • Olof Swartz (1760–1816), Swedish botanist (abbr. in botany: Sw.)
  • Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877), English naturalist
  • Colonel W. H. Sykes (1790–1872), English ornithologist

T
  • Wladyslaw Taczanowski (1819–1890), Polish zoologist
  • Armen Takhtajan (born 1910), Russian botanist
  • Peter Gustaf Tengmalm (1754–1803), Swedish naturalist
  • Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1858), Dutch zoologist
  • Theophrastus (372 BC – 287 BC), biologist and the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school, popularizer of science
  • Johannes Thiele (1860–1935), German zoologist and malacologist
  • Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (1858–1929), British zoologist
  • William Thompson (1805–1852), Irish ornithologist and naturalist
  • Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1758–1831), French botanist
  • Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish naturalist
  • Samuel Tickell (1811–1875), British ornithologist
  • Niko Tinbergen (1907–1988), Dutch ethologist
  • Agostino Todaro (1818–1892), Italian botanist
  • Susumu Tonegawa (born 1939), Japanese biologist, winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"
  • John Torrey (1796–1873), American botanist, first professional in New World
  • Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708), French botanist
  • John Kirk Townsend (1809–1851), American ornithologist
  • Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862), Scottish doctor and naturalist
  • Abraham Trembley (1710–1784), Swiss naturalist
  • Melchior Treub (1851–1910), Dutch botanist
  • Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906), English ornithologist
  • Robert Trivers (born 1943), evolutionary biologist
  • Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842–1927), French naturalist
  • Frederick W. True (1858–1914), American naturalist
  • George Washington Tryon Jr. (1838–1888), American malacologist
  • Bernard Tucker (1901–1950), English ornithologist
  • Edward Tuckerman (1817–1886), American botanist
  • Endel Tulving (born 1927), Estonian-born Canadian neuroscientist, specializes in episodic memory
  • Marmaduke Tunstall (1743–1790), English ornithologist
  • Ruth Turner (1915–2000), marine biologist
  • William Turton (1762–1835), British naturalist

U
  • Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), Estonian biologist, founder of biosemiotics

V
  • Martin Vahl (1749–1804), Norwegian botanist
  • Sebastien Vaillant (1669–1722), French botanist
  • Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865), French zoologist
  • Francisco Varela (1946–2001), Chilean biologist
  • Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943), Soviet botanist and geneticist, died in prison as a defender of "bourgeois pseudoscience" genetics against Lysenkoism
  • Damodaran M. Vasudevan (born 1942), Indian physician, immunologist and educationist
  • Craig Venter (born 1946), American biologist and businessman
  • Edouard Verreaux (1810–1868), French naturalist
  • Jules Verreaux (1807–1873), French botanist and ornithologist
  • Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926), American zoologist
  • Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748–1831), French ornithologist
  • Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840), Irish zoologist
  • Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German biologist and pathologist, founder of cell theory
  • Oswaldo Vital Brazil (1865–1950), Brazilian physician and immunobiologist, discoverer of several antivenoms against snake, scorpion and spider bites
  • Bert Vogelstein (born 1949), American geneticist
  • Karel Voous (1920–2002), Dutch ornithologist
  • Mary Voytek, American biogeochemist and microbial ecologist
  • Hugo de Vries (1848–1935), Dutch botanist

W
  • Frans de Waal (born 1948), Hollandalı-Amerikalı etolog ve primatolog
  • Coslett Herbert Waddell (1858–1919), Irish botanist
  • Jeremy Wade (born 1960) Writer and TV presenter with a special interest in rivers and freshwater fish.
  • Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832), German herpetologist
  • Warren H. Wagner (1920–2000), American botanist
  • Göran Wahlenberg (1780–1851), Swedish naturalist
  • Selman Waksman (1888–1973), American biochemist, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on antibiotics
  • Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852), French entomologist
  • George Wald (1906–1997), American biologist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on visual perception
  • Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist and biologist
  • Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), Danish botanist
  • Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808–1869), American entomologist
  • William Grey Walter (1910–1977), American neurophysiologist and roboticist, made a number of important discoveries in the field of electroencephalography
  • Deepal Warakagoda (born 1965), Sri Lankan ornithologist
  • J. Robin Warren (born 1937), Australian pathologist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that most stomach ulcers are caused by a strain of bacteria
  • Charles Waterton (1782–1865), English naturalist
  • James D. Watson (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
  • Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), English botanist (abbr. in botany: Webb)
  • Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), English botanist (abbr. in botany: Wedd.)
  • Robert Weinberg (born 1942), American cancer biologist
  • August Weismann (1834–1914), German biologist
  • Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–1872), Austrian botanist
  • Karl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician and neuroanatomist, discovered Wernicke's area
  • Victor Westhoff (1916–2001), Dutch botanist
  • Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978), American ornithologist
  • William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937), American entomologist and myrmecologist
  • Gilbert White (1720–1795), English naturalist
  • John White (c. 1756–1832), English botanist
  • Robert Wiedersheim (1848–1923), German anatomist.
  • Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867), German explorer and biologist.
  • Hans Wiehler (1930–2003), American botanist (abbr. in botany: Wiehler)
  • Eric F. Wieschaus (born 1947), American developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner
  • Torsten Wiesel (born 1924), Swedish-born American neurobiologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on information processing in the visual system
  • Charles Wilkes (1798–1877), American explorer and naturalist
  • Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), German botanist and pharmacist (abbr. in botany: Willd.)
  • George C. Williams (born 1926), American evolutionary biologist, credited with introducing the gene-centric view of evolution
  • Francis Willughby (1635–1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist
  • Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), Scottish-American ornithologist
  • David Sloan Wilson (born 1949), American evolutionary biologist
  • E. A. Wilson (1872–1912), English naturalist
  • Edward O. Wilson (born 1929), American entomologist and father of sociobiology, two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
  • Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953), Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle of life concept and discovered the biological process of nitrification
  • Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), American anatomist and physician. The genus Wisteria is named after him
  • Henry Witherby (1873–1943), British ornithologist
  • William Withering (1741–1799), English botanist
  • Carl Woese (born 1928), American microbiologist, identified the Archaea, a major division of organisms
  • Felisa Wolfe-Simon, American biogeochemist and microbial geobiologist
  • Wong Siew Te (born 1969), Malaysian zoologist and Sun Bear expert
  • Flossie Wong-Staal (1947-2020), American virologist
  • Sewall Wright (1889–1988), American geneticist, co-founder of population genetics
  • V. C. Wynne-Edwards (1906–1997), Scottish zoologist, introduced the hypothesis of group selection in evolution
  • Charles Wyville Thompson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist

X
  • John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894), Amerikalı hayvanbilimci

Y
  • William Yarrell (1784–1856), İngiliz doğabilimci

Z
  • Floyd Zaiger (1926), meyve genetikçi
  • Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815), Alman zoolog
  • Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904), Alman paleontolog
  • Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797–1848), Alman botanikçi
  • Margarete Zuelzer (1877–1944), Alman biyolog ve zoolog
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