List of biologists
This is a list of notable biologists. It includes zoologists, botanists, and other specialties.
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- Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), zoologist
- Alexander Agassiz, zoologist
- Wilfred Backhouse Alexander, (1885-1965), English ornithologist
- Salim Ali, (1896-1987), Indian ornithologist
- Joel Asaph Allen (1838-1921), birds, mammals
- Aristotle, (384 BC-322 BC), Greek philosopher
- Peter Artedi, (1705-1735), Swedish naturalist
- Jean Victoire Audouin (1797-1841), French zoologist
- John James Audubon, (1786-1851), American ornithologist
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- Churchill Babington (1831-1881), British archaeologist and conchologist?
- Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), embryology
- Spencer Fullerton Baird, (1823-1887), birds and mammals
- David Baltimore (1938- ), Nobel prize
- Joseph Banks, (1743-1820), biologist, botanist
- Philip Barker Webb, (1793-1854), English botanist
- John Bartram, (1699-1777), American botanist
- William Bartram, (1739-1823), American naturalist
- Anton de Bary, (1831-1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist
- Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892), English naturalist
- Patrick Bateson, biologist
- Nicolas Baudin, (1754-1803), French botanist
- Gaspard Bauhin, biologist
- Charles Emerson Beecher (1856-1904), US invertebrate paleontologist
- Charles William Beebe, (1877-1962), biologist
- George Bentham, (1800-1884), English botanist
- Thomas Blakiston, (1832-1891), English naturalist
- Günter Blobel, German Nobel Prize-winning biologist
- Edward Blyth, (1810-1873), English zoologist
- Pieter Boddaert, (1730-1795 or 1796), naturalist
- Charles Lucien Bonaparte, (1803-1857), French naturalist
- Franco Andrea Bonelli, (1784-1830), Italian ornithologist
- Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, (1759-1828), French zoologist
- Johann Friedrich von Brandt, (1802-1879), German naturalist
- Christian Ludwig Brehm, (1787-1864), German ornithologist
- Alfred Brehm, (1829-1884), German zoologist
- Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814-1880), American naturalist
- Robert Brown (botanist), (1773-1858)
- Morten Thrane Brunnich (1737-1827), Danish zoologist
- Stephen L. Buchmann, co-author of Forgotten Pollinators
- Buffon (1707-1788) French naturalist
- William Bullock (1773-1849), English naturalist
- Walter Buller (1838-1906), New Zealand naturalist
- James Bulwer (1794-1879), English naturalist and conchologist
- Luther Burbank, (1849-1926), American horticulturalist
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- Jean Cabanis, (1816-1906), German ornithologist
- Rachel Carson, (1907-1964), biologist, author of Silent Spring
- John Cassin, (1813-1869), American ornithologist
- Mark Catesby, (1683-1749), English naturalist
- Francesco Cetti, (1726-1778), Italian zoologist
- Min Chueh Chang, biologist
- Frank Michler Chapman (1864-1945), ornithologist
- Stanley Cohen, biologist
- William Cooper (1798-1864), American conchologist
- Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897), fish, reptiles, paleontology
- Charles B. Cory, (1857-1921), American ornithologist
- Jacques Cousteau, French marine biologist and explorer
- Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, (1786-1845), German zoologist
- Francis Crick, (born 1916), DNA scientist
- Georges Cuvier, (1769-1832), French naturalist.
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- Anders Dahl, (1751-1789), (namesake of the Dahlia)
- W.H. Dall (1845-1927), American naturalist and malacologist.
- Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), British co-discoverer of evolution
- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), doctor, naturalist, grandfather of Charles
- Richard Dawkins, (born 1941), British evolutionary biologist
- Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787-1823), French naturalist
- Max Delbrück, German biologist
- Richard Dell (1920-2002), New Zealand malacologist.
- Theodosius Dobzhansky, (1900-1975), biologist
- Jonas C. Dryander, (1748-1810), Swedish botanist
- Renato Dulbecco, biologist
- Robin Dunbar, biologist
- Leonardo Da Vinci, known as an artist but mostly a biologist. Dissected hundreds of specimens and drew exact copies of it.
E
- Sylvia Earle, biologist
- Gerald Edelman, (1929- ) Nobel Prize for immunology work, later work in neuroscience
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, (1795-1876), German biologist and microscopist
- Paul Ehrlich, (1854-1915), German Nobel Prize-winning immunologist
- Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Baltic German biologist and explorer, namesake of the California poppy
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- Leonardo Fea, (1852-1903), Italian zoologist
- Otto Finsch (1839-1917), German naturalist
- Johann Fischer von Waldheim (1771-1853), German entomologist
- Ronald Fisher, (1890-1962), British biologist and statistician, one of the founders of population genetics
- Alexander Fleming, (1881-1955), British medical scientist
- Howard Florey, co-inventor of penicillin
- E.B. Ford (1901-1988) British ecological geneticist
- Georg Forster (1754-1794), German naturalist
- Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798), German naturalist
- Dian Fossey, (1932-1985), zoologist
- Elias Magnus Fries, (1794-1878), (one of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy)
- Rosalind Franklin, (1920-1958), contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA
G
- William Gambel (1823-1849), American naturalist
- Prosper Garnot (1794-1838), French naturalist
- Charles Frédéric Girard, (1822-1895), French biologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist.
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin, (1748-1804), German naturalist
- Johann Georg Gmelin, (1709-1755), German naturalist
- Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, (1744-1774), German botanist
- Frederick DuCane Godman, (1834-1919), English ornithologist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749-1832), (part-time;)
- Jane Goodall, (born 1934), US zoologist
- Philip Henry Gosse, (1810-1888), English naturalist
- John Gould (1804-1881), English ornithologist
- Stephen Jay Gould, (1941-2002), US paleontologist
- John Graham
- Asa Gray, (1810-1888), US botanist
- George Robert Gray (1808-1872), English zoologist
- J.E. Gray, (1800-1875), British zoologist
- Pavel Groselj, (1883-1940), biologists and belletrist.
- Felix Edouard Guerin-Meneville (1799-1874), French entomologist
- Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745-1781), German naturalist
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- Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), German physician
- Hermann August Hagen (1817-1893), German entomologist
- J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964), biologist
- Christoher A. Hall
- William Donald Hamilton (1936-2000), British biologist
- Ernst Hartert (1859-1933), German ornithologist
- Gustav Hartlaub (1814-1900), German zoologist
- Frederik Hasselquist (1722-1752), Swedish naturalist
- Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (1824-1878), English ornithologist
- Willi Hennig (1913-1976) German biologist, founder of cladistics
- Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800-1894), English naturalist
- Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798-1852), French naturalist
- Robert Hooke (1635-1703), British scholar
- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), British botanist
- William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), British botanist
- Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859), American naturalist
- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy biologist
- Alexander von Humboldt, (1769-1859), German naturalist
- Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912), British ornithologist
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British scientist
- Alpheus Hyatt (1838-1902), US neo-Lamarckian
- Libbie Hyman (1888-1969), zoologist
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