List of zoologists by author abbreviation

This is a "'list of zoologists by their surnames with abbreviated given names.

A

* Abe - Tokiharu Abe (1911–1996)
* Able - Kenneth W. Able (b. 1945)
* Abbott - Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919)
* Acerbi - Giuseppe Acerbi (1773–1846)
* Acero - Arturo Acero Pizarro (b. 1954)
* A. Adams - Arthur Adams (zoologist) (1820-1878)
* Agassiz - Louis Agassiz (1807–1873)
* A. Agassiz - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835–1910)
* Aguilera - Orangel Antonio Aguilera Socorro
* D. R. de Aguilera - Dione Rodrigues de Aguilera
* Ahl, E.Ahl - Ernst Ahl (1898–1943)
* J.N. Ahl, Ahl - Jonas Nicolaus Ahl
* Ahlstrom - Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom (1910–1979)
* Ahnelt - Harald Ahnelt
* Aizawa - Masahiro Aizawa
* Akama - Alberto Akama
* Akihito - Akihito (b. 1933)
* Albert - James S. Albert
* Albertis - Luigi Maria d'Albertis (1841–1901)
* Alcock - Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933)
* Alexander - Boyd Alexander (1873–1910) - Ornithologist
* Alexander - Charles Paul Alexander (1889-1981) - Entomologist
* Alencar - José Eduardo de Alencar Moreira (b. 1953)
* Alfaro - Anastasio Alfaro (1865–1951)
* Alifanov - Vladimir R. Alifanov
* Allain - Ronan Allain (b. 1974)
* Allen - Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921)
* G.M. Allen - Glover Morrill Allen (1879–1942)
* G.R. Allen - Gerald R. Allen (b. 1942)
* Allioni - Carlo Allioni (1728–1804)
* Almeida-Toledo - Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo
* Amadon - Dean Amadon (1912–2003)
* Ambrosio - Alfredo Ambrosio
* Ameghino - Florentino Ameghino (1854–1911)
* K. Andersen - Knut Andersen
* Anderson - John Anderson (zoologist) (1833–1900) - Asian mammals and reptiles
* André - Jacques Ernest Edmond André (1844–1891)
* Andri(y)ashev - Anatoly Petrovich Andriashev (b. 1910)
* Angas - George French Angas (1822–1886)
* Annandale - Nelson Annandale (1876–1924)
* Antunes - Miguel Telles Antunes
* Apesteguía - Sebastián Apesteguía
* Appellöf - Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921)
* Archbold - Richard Archbold (1907–1976)
* Arcucci - Andrea B. Arcucci
* Arrow - Gilbert John Arrow (1873–1948)
* Asano - Nagao Asano
* Ashmead - William Harris Ashmead (1855-1908)
* Atkinson - William Stephen Atkinson (1820-1876)
* Aubé - Charles Aubé (1802–1869)
* Audebert - Jean-Baptiste Audebert (1759–1800)
* Audubon - John James Audubon (1785–1851)
* Ausserer - Anton Ausserer (1907–1976)
* Ayling - Tony Ayling (b. 1947)
* Ayres - William Orville Ayres (1805–1887)
* Azuma - Yoichi Azuma

B

* Bachman - John Bachman (1790–1874)
* Bailey - Steven Bailey
* R. G. Bailey - Roland G. Bailey
* R. M. Bailey - Reeve Maclaren Bailey
* Baillon - Louis Antoine Francois Baillon (1778–1851)
* Baird - Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887)
* Baker - Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864–1944)
* Bakker - Robert T. Bakker (b. 1945)
* Balanov - Andrei A. Balanov
* C. C. Baldwin - Carole C. Baldwin
* W. J. Baldwin - Wayne J. Baldwin
* Z. H. Baldwin - Zachary Hayward Baldwin
* Ball - Valentine Ball (1843–1895)
* Balon - Eugene K. Balon
* Balouet - Jean Christophe Balouet ornithology, paleontology
* Balss - Heinrich Balss (1886–1957)
* Balushkin - Arkadii Vladimirovich Balushkin
* Bandyopadhyay - Saswati Bandyopadhyay
* Bangs - Outram Bangs (1863–1932)
* Banks - Nathan Banks (1868–1953)
* Banks - Richard C. Banks (b. 1940)
* Bannerman - David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979) ornithology
* Bannikov - Alexandre Fedorovich Bannikov
* Bansok - Ros Bansok
* Barbour - Thomas Barbour (1884–1946)
* F.K. Barker - Frederick Keith Barker ornithology
* M.J. Barker - Michael J. Barker
* Barrett - Paul M. Barrett
* Barrows - Walter Bradford Barrows (1855–1923)
* Barsbold - Rinchen Barsbold Theropod and other paleontology
* Bartenef - Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev
* Bartlett - Edward Bartlett (1836–1908)
* A. D. Bartlett - Abraham Dee Bartlett (1812–1897)
* Barton - Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815)
* Baskin - Jonathan N. Baskin
* Batchelder - Charles Foster Batchelder (1856–1954)
* Bate - Charles Spence Bate (1819–1889)
* Bates - George Latimer Bates (1863–1940)
* Bateson - William Bateson (1861–1926)
* Bean - Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1846-1916)
* Beavan - Reginald C. Beavan (1841–1870)
* Bechstein - Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822)
* Beddome - Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911)
* Bedriaga - Jacques von Bedriaga (1854-1906)
* Behr - Hans Hermann Behr (1818-1904)
* Bell - Thomas Bell (zoologist) (1792–1880)
* Bemmel - Adriaan Cornelis Valentin van Bemmel
* Bendire - Charles Emil Bendire (1863–1940)
* Benitez - Hesquio Benitez
* Bennett - Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836)
* Bennett - Frederick Debell Bennett (1836–1897)
* Benson - Constantine Walter Benson (1909–1982)
* Benson - Robert Bernard Benson (1904–1967)
* Bent - Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866–1954)
* Benton - Michael Benton (b. 1939)
* Beresford - Pamela Beresford
* Berg - Leo Semenovich Berg (1876-1950)
* Berkenhout - John Berkenhout (1726-1791)
* Berla - Herbert Franzioni Berla (1912–1985)
* Berland - Lucien Berland (1888–1962)
* Berlepsch - Hans von Berlepsch (1850–1915)
* Berlioz - Jacques Berlioz (1891–1975)
* Berry - Samuel Stillman Berry (1887-1984)
* Berthold - Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861)
* Bertkau - Philipp Bertkau (b. 1849)
* Bianco - Pier Giorgio Bianco
* Bibron - Gabriel Bibron (1806–1848)
* Bigot - Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot (1818–1893)
* Bilek - Alois Bilek (1909–1974)
* Billberg - Gustaf Johan Billberg (1772–1844)
* Billings - Elkanah Billings paleontology
* Bingham - Charles Thomas Bingham (1848-1908)
* Biswas - Biswamoy Biswas (1923–1994)
* Blache - Jacques Blache (1922-1994)
* Black - Davidson Black (1884–1934)
* Blackwall - John Blackwall (1790-1881)
* Blainville - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850)
* Blanchard – Charles Émile Blanchard (1819–1900)
* Blanford - William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905)
* Blasius - Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809–1870)
* W. Blasius - Wilhelm Blasius (1845–1912)
* Bleeker - Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878)
* Bloch - Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799)
* Blumenbach - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840)
* Blyth - Edward Blyth (1810–1873)
* Bocage - Jose Vicente Barboza du Bocage (1823–1907)
* Bocourt - Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819–1904)
* Boddaert - Pieter Boddaert (1730–1795/96)
* Boettger - Oskar Boettger (1833–1910)
* Boetticher - Hans von Boetticher (1886-1958)
* Bogert - Charles Mitchill Bogert (1908-1992) herpetology
* Boheman - Karl Henrik Boheman (1796–1868)
* F. Boie - Friedrich Boie (1789-1870)
* H. Boie - Heinrich Boie (1794–1827)
* Boisduval - Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879)
* Bolle - Carl Bolle (1821–1909)
* Bolotsky - Yuri L. Bolotsky
* Bolton - Barry Bolton
* Bonaparte - Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1794–1857) ornithology
* Bonaparte - José Bonaparte (b. 1928) South American dinosaurs
* Bond - James Bond (1900–1989) ornithology
* Bonelli - Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830)
* Bonhote - J. Lewis Bonhote (1875–1922)
* Bonnaterre - Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747–1804)
* Borkhausen - Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760–1806)
* Borodin - Nikolai Andreyevich Borodin (b. 1861)
* Borsuk-Bialynicka - Maria Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka
* Bosc - Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828)
* Boucard - Adolphe Boucard (1839-1905)
* Boulenger - George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937)
* Bourcier - Jules Bourcier (1797–1873)
* Bouvier - Eugène Louis Bouvier (1856–1944)
* Bowdich - Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824)
* Bowerbank - James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877)
* Brandt - Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802–1879)
* Brauer - Friedrich Moritz Brauer (1832–1904)
* A. E. Brehm - Alfred Brehm (1829–1884)
* C. L. Brehm - Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864)
* Bremer - Otto Vasilievich Bremer (d. 1873)
* Bremi-Wolf - Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf (1791–1857)
* Brett-Surman - Michael K. Brett-Surman (b. 1950)
* Brevoort - James Carson Brevoort (1818–1887)
* Brewster - William Brewster (ornithologist) (1851–1919) ornithology
* Briggs - John Carmon Briggs (b. 1920)
* Brischke - Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (1814–1897)
* Brisson - Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806)
* Brittinger - Christian Casimir Brittinger (1795–1869)
* Brodkorb - Pierce Brodkorb ornithology, paleontology
* Brongniart - Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847)
* C. Brongniart - Charles Jules Edmée Brongniart (1859–1899)
* Bronn - Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800–1862)
* Brooke - Victor Brooke (1843–1891)
* Brookes - Joshua Brookes (1761–1833)
* W. S. Brooks - Winthrop Sprague Brooks (1887-1965)
* Broom - Robert Broom (1866–1951)
* Brown - Barnum Brown (1873–1963)
* Bruch - Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789–1851)
* Bruguière - Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798)
* Brullé - Gaspard Auguste Brullé (1809–1873)
* Brünnich - Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827)
* Brusatte - Stephen L. Brusatte (b. 1984)
* H. Bryant - Henry Bryant (1820-1867)
* W. E. Bryant - Walter E. Bryant
* Bücherl - Wolfgang Bücherl
* Buckland - William Buckland (1784-1856)
* Buffetaut - Eric Buffetaut
* Buller - Walter Buller (1838–1906)
* Bunzel - Emanuel Bunzel (b. 1828)
* Burchell - William John Burchell (1782–1863)
* Burge - Donald L. Burge
* Burmeister - Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892)
* Burnett - Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800–1835)
* Burton - Frederic Burton
* Burns - John McLauren Burns
* Butler - Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844-1925)
* Buttikofer - Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929)
* Buturlin - Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin (1872–1938)

C

* Cabanis - Jean Cabanis (1816–1906)
* Cabrera - Angel Cabrera (naturalist) (1879–1960)
* Caldwell - David Keller Caldwell (b. 1928)
* Calman - William Thomas Calman (1871–1952)
* Calvert - Philip Powell Calvert (1871–1961)
* Calvo - Jorge Calvo
* Cambiaso - Andrea Cambiaso
* Camerano - Lorenzo Camerano (1856–1917)
* Camp - Charles Lewis Camp (1893-1975)
* Campos - Diógenes de Almeida Campos
* Canestrini – Giovanni Canestrini (1835–1900)
* Cantor - Theodore Edward Cantor (1809–1860)
* Carlson - Bruce A. Carlson
* Carpenter - Kenneth Carpenter (b. 1949)
* Carr - Archie Carr (1909-1987)
* Carriker - Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr. (1879-1965)
* Carvalho - Ismar de Souza Carvalho
* Cassin - John Cassin (1813–1869)
* Castelnau - François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte (1810-1880)
* Cervigón - Fernando Cervigón (b. 1930)
* Chabanaud - Paul Chabanaud (1876-1959)
* Chamberlin - Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967)
* Chapin - James Chapin (1889–1964)
* Chapman - Frank Chapman (1864-1945)
* Charig - Alan Jack Charig (1927-1997)
* Charpentier - Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847)
* Chasen - Frederick Nutter Chasen (1896–1942)
* Chatterjee - Sankar Chatterjee (b. 1947)
* Cherrie - George Kruck Cherrie (1865-1946)
* Chiaie - Stefano Delle Chiaje (1794–1860)
* Chiappe - Luis M. Chiappe
* Children - John George Children (1777–1852)
* Christ - Johann Ludwig Christ (1739–1813)
* Chun - Carl Chun (1852–1914)
* Chure - Daniel Joseph Chure
* E. Clark - Eugenie Clark (b. 1922) fishes
* H. L. Clark - Hubert Lyman Clark (1870-1947) echinoderms
* J. M. Clark - James Michael Clark
* Clements - Kendall D. Clements
* Clemmer - Glenn H. Clemmer
* Clerck - Carl Alexander Clerck (1709–1765)
* Cloward - Karen C. Cloward
* Cochran - Doris M. Cochran
* Cockerell - Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866-1948)
* Colbert - Edwin Harris Colbert (1905-2001)
* Colston - Peter R. Colston (b. 1935)
* Compagno - Leonard J. V. Compagno
* Conci - Cesare Conci (b. 1920)
* Conde - Otto Conde (1905–1944)
* Conover - Henry Boardman Conover (1892–1950)
* Conrad - Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803–1877)
* Coombs - Walter P. Coombs, Jr.
* Cooper - James Graham Cooper (1830–1902)
* Cooper - William Cooper (conchologist) (1798–1864)
* Cope - Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897)
* Coquerel - Charles Coquerel (1822–1867)
* Coria - Rodolfo Coria
* Cornalia - Emilio Cornalia (1824-1882)
* Cory - Charles B. Cory (1857–1921)
* Costa - Achille Costa (1823–1898)
* O.G. Costa - Oronzio Gabriele Costa (1787-1867) entomology
* W.J.E.M. Costa - Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa
* Coues - Elliott Coues (1842–1899)
* Cramer - Pieter Cramer (1721–c.1779) entomology
* F. Cramer - Frank Cramer
* Crampton - William G. R. Crampton
* Cresson - Ezra Townsend Cresson (Senior) Hymenoptera (1838-1926)
* Cresson - Ezra Townsend Cresson, Jr.Diptera (1876-1948)
* Cretzschmar - Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786–1845)
* Crewe - Henry Harpur Crewe (1828–1883)
* Crotch - George Robert Crotch (1842–1874)
* Crowson - Roy Crowson (1914–1999)
* Currie - Philip J. Currie (b. 1949)
* Curry Rogers - Kristina Curry Rogers (b. 1974)
* Curtis - John Curtis (entomologist) (1791–1862)
* Cuvier - Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) vertebrates, paleontology
* F. Cuvier - Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838)
* Czerkas - Stephen A. Czerkas

D

* da Costa - Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717–1791) - Conchologist
* da Silva - Maria Nazareth F. da Silva
* Dahl - Friedrich Dahl (1856-1929)
* Dahlbom - Anders Gustav Dahlbom (1808–1859)
* Dale - James Charles Dale (1792–1872)
* Dall - W.H. Dall (1845–1927)
* Dalla Torre - Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre (1850–1928)
* Dana - James Dwight Dana (1813–1895)
* Daudin - Francois-Marie Daudin (1774–1804)
* David - Armand David (1826–1900)
* Dawkins - Richard Dawkins (b. 1941)
* de Azevedo - Sérgio Alex Kugland de Azevedo
* de Beaufort - Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort (1879–1968)
* de Blainville - Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850)
* de Castelnau - François Louis de la Porte, comte de Castelnau (1810–1880)
* de Filippi - Filippo de Filippi (1814–1867)
* de Geer - Charles De Geer (1720–1778)
* de Hann - Wilhem de Haan (1801–1855)
* de Kay - James Ellsworth De Kay (1792–1851)
* de Man - Johannes Govertus de Man (1850–1930)
* de Naurois - Abbé René de Naurois (b. 1906)
* de Nicéville - Lionel de Nicéville (1852–1901)
* Bory de Saint-Vincent - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1780–1846)
* de Valai - Silvina de Valai
* de Vis - Charles Walter De Vis (1829-1915)
* de Winton - William Edward de Winton
* Delacour - Jean Theodore Delacour (1890–1985)
* Denis - Michael Denis (1729–1800)
* Depéret - Charles Depéret (1854–1929)
* Deppe - Ferdinand Deppe (1794–1861)
* Des Murs - Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des Murs (1804–1878)
* Desfontaines - René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833)
* Desmarest - Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838)
* Diard - Pierre-Médard Diard (1794–1863)
* Dieffenbach - Ernst Dieffenbach (1811–1855)
* Dingus - Lowell Dingus
* Distant - William Lucas Distant (1845-1922)
* Djakonov - Alexander Michailovitsch Djakonov (1886–1956)
* Dobson - George Edward Dobson (1844–1895)
* Döderlein - Petar Döderlein (1809–1895)
* Dodson - Peter Dodson
* Dollman - Guy Dollman (1886-1942)
* Dollo - Louis Dollo (1857–1931)
* Donis., Donisthorpe - Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951)
* Donovan - Edward Donovan (1768–1837)
* d'Orbigny - Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857)
* Dong - Zhiming Dong (b. 1937)
* Doria - Giacomo Doria (1840–1913)
* Doubleday - Henry Doubleday (1808–1875)
* Drury - Dru Drury (1725–1804)
* du Bus de Gisignies - Bernard du Bus de Gisignies (1808–1874)
* du Chaillu - Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1831–1903)
* C. F. Dubois - Charles Frédéric Dubois (1804–1867)
* Dufour - Léon Dufour (1780-1865)
* Duftschmid - Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid (1767–1821)
* Duméril - André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860)
* Dumont - Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix (1758–1830)
* Duncker - Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (1870–1953)
* Duponchel - Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel (1774–1846)
* Duvernoy - Georges Louis Duvernoy (1777–1855)
* Dwight - Jonathan Dwight (1858–1929)

E

* Earle - Sylvia A. Earle (b. 1935)
* Eaton - Jeffrey Glenn Eaton (b. 1948)
* Edwards - William Henry Edwards (1822–1909)
* Ehrenberg - Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876)
* Eichwald - Karl Eichwald (1795–1876)
* Eigenmann - Carl H. Eigenmann (1863–1927)
* R.S. Eigenmann, R. Smith - Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858–1947)
* Ellerman - John Ellerman (1910–1973)
* Elliot - Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915)
* Emery - Carlo Emery (1848–1925)
* A.R. Emery - Alan R. Emery
* Enslin - Eduard Enslin (1879–1970)
* Erdős - Jozsef Erdős
* Erichson - Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1809–1848)
* Erxleben - Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744–1777)
* Eschmeyer - William N. Eschmeyer
* Eschscholtz - Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831)
* Esper - Eugen Johann Christoph Esper (1742–1810)
* Evermann - Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932)
* Eversmann - Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (1794–1860)
* Evseenko - Sergei Afanasievich Evseenko
* Eyton - Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809–1880)

F

* Fabricius - Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808)
* Fahringer - Josef Fahringer (1876-1950)
* Fairmaire - Leon Fairmaire (1820–1906)
* Falla - Robert Alexander Falla (1901–1979)
* Fallén - Carl Frederick Fallén (1764–1830)
* Feinberg - M. Norma Feinberg
* C. Felder - Cajetan Freiherr von Felder (1814–1894) Lepidoptera
* R. Felder - Rudolf Felder (1842–1871) Lepidoptera
* Fernandes-Matioli - Flora Maria de Campos Fernandes-Matioli
* Ferrari-Perez - Fernando Ferrari-Perez (d. 1927)
* Ferraris - Carl J. Ferraris, Jr.
* Férussac - Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audebard Férussac (1745–1815)
* Filhol - Henri Filhol (1843–1902)
* Finsch - Otto Finsch (1839–1917)
* Fioroni - Pio Fioroni (1933–2003)
* G. Fischer, Fischer de Waldheim, Fischer von Waldheim - Johann Fischer von Waldheim (1771–1853)
* J. Fischer - Johann Baptist Fischer (d.1832)
* J. G. Fischer - Johann Gustav Fischer (1819-1889)
* M. Fischer - Maximilian Fischer (1929-)
* Fitzinger - Leopold Fitzinger (1802–1884)
* J. H. Fleming - James Henry Fleming (1872–1940)
* Fleming - John Fleming (naturalist) (1785–1857)
* Fonscolombe - Etienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe
* Forbes - Henry Ogg Forbes (1851-1932)
* Forel - Auguste-Henri Forel (1848–1931)
* Forsius - Runar Forsius (1884–1935)
* Forsskål - Peter Forsskål (1732–1763)
* Forsyth Major - Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843–1923)
* Forster - Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798}
* Forster - Raymond Robert Forster (1922-2000) [http://www.arachnology.org/ISA/obituaries/forster.html]
* C. A. Forster - Catherine A. Forster
* G. Forster - Georg Forster (1754–1794)
* Förster - Arnold Förster (1810–1884)
* Fourmanoir - Pierre Fourmanoir (b. 1924)
* Fowler - Henry Weed Fowler (1879–1965)
* Fox - Wade Fox (1920–1964)
* Fraas - Eberhard Fraas (1862–1915)
* Franganillo-Balboa - Pelegrin Franganillo-Balboa (1873–1955)
* Franklin - James Franklin (naturalist) (c.1783–1834)
* Fraser - Louis Fraser (1810–1866)
* F. C. Fraser - Frederick C. Fraser
* Freyer - Christian Friedrich Freyer (1794 - 1885) Entomologist mainly interested in Lepidoptera
* Friedmann - Herbert Friedmann (1900-1987)
* Frivaldszky - Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870)
* Frohawk - Frederick William Frohawk (1861–1946)
* Fruhstorfer - Hans Fruhstorfer (1866—1922)
* Fürbringer - Max Fürbringer (1846–1920)
* Fuessly, Füsslins - Johann Kaspar Füssli (1743–1786)

G

* Gadow - Hans Friedrich Gadow (1855-1928)
* Gahan - Charles Joseph Gahan (1862-1939)
* Gaimard - Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858)
* F. Galton, Galton - Francis Galton (1822–1911)
* P. M. Galton - Peter Galton
* Gambel - William Gambel (1823–1849)
* Gao - Keqin Gao (b. 1955)
* Garman - Samuel Garman (1846–1927)
* Garnot - Prosper Garnot (1794–1838)
* Garstang - Walter Garstang (1868-1949)
* Gaston - Robert Gaston (b. 1967)
* Gasparini - Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
* Gauthier - Jacques Gauthier (b. 1948)
* Gegenbaur - Carl Gegenbaur (1825–1903)
* Gené - Giuseppe Gené (1800–1847)
* É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)
* I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861)
* Georgi - Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729–1802)
* Germar - Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786-1853)
* Gerstäcker - Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstäcker (1828–1895)
* Gertsch - Willis J. Gertsch (1906–1998)
* Gervais - Paul Gervais (1816–1879)
* Géry - Jacques Géry ichthyology
* Geyer -Carl Geyer entomology
* Geyer - Charles Andreas Geyer (1809–1853)Botany U.S.A.
* Giglioli - Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (1845–1909)
* Gilbert - Charles Henry Gilbert (1859–1928)
* Gilchrist - John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1866–1926)
* Gill - Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837–1914)
* Gillette - David D. Gillette
* Gilmore - Charles W. Gilmore (1874–1945)
* Girard - Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895)
* Giraud - Joseph Etienne Giraud (1808–1877)
* Girault - Alec Arsène Girault entomology
* Gloger - Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger (1803–1863)
* Gmelin - Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804)
* Godart - Jean Baptiste Godart (1775–1825)
* Godefroit - Pascal Godefroit
* Godman - Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919)
* Goeze - Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731-1793)
* Göhlich - Ursula Bettina Göhlich
* Goldfuss - Georg August Goldfuss (1782–1848)
* Goode - George Brown Goode (1851–1896)
* Gosse - Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888)
* A. A. Gould - Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866) conchology
* Gould - John Gould (1804–1881) birds and mammals
* A. Grandidier - Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921)
* G. Grandidier - Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957)
* Granger - Walter W. Granger (1872–1941)
* Grant - Chapman Grant (1887–1983) herpetology
* Grant - Ulysses S. Grant IV (1893–1977) malacology, paleontology
* Gravenhorst - Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst (1777-1857)
* G. R. Gray - George Robert Gray (1808–1872) entomology, ornithology
* J. E. Gray - John Edward Gray (1800–1875)
* Gregory - William K. Gregory (1876–1970)
* Griffith - Edward Griffith (1790–1858)
* Grinnell - Joseph Grinnell (1877-1939)
* Griscom - Ludlow Griscom (1890–1959)
* Grobben - Karl Grobben (1854–1945)
* A. Grote, Grote - Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841–1903) entomology
* H. Grote - Hermann Grote ornithology
* Grumm-Grzhimailo - G. E. Grumm-Grshimailo (1860—1936) entomology
* Guenee, Guenée - Achille Guenée (1809–1880)
* Guerin, Guérin-Méneville - Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799–1874)
* Güldenstädt - Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781)
* Gunnerus - Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773)
* Gunter - Gordon P. Gunter (1909–1998)
* Günther - Albert C. L. G. Günther (1830–1914)
* Gurney - John Henry Gurney (1819–1890)
* J. H. Gurney Jr - John Henry Gurney Jr. (1848–1922)
* Gyllenhal - Leonard Gyllenhaal (1752–1840)

H

* Hablizl - Carl Ludwig Hablizl (1752–1821)
* Hadiaty - Renny Hadiaty
* Hadie - Wartono Hadie
* Haeckel - Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919)
* Hagen - Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893)
* Hahn - Carl Wilhelm Hahn (1786–1835)
* Haldeman - Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812–1880)
* Haliday - Alexander Henry Haliday (1807–1870)
* Hallowell - Edward Hallowell (1808–1860)
* Hamilton, Hamilton-Buchanan - Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829)
* Hammer - William R. Hammer
* Hampson - George Francis Hampson (1860–1936)
* Handlirsch - Anton Handlirsch (1865–1935)
* Hansemann - Johann Wilhelm Adolf Hansemann (1784–1862)
* Hansen - Hans Jacob Hansen (1855–1936) arthropods
* Harcourt - Edward William Vernon Harcourt (1825–1891)
* Hardwicke - Thomas Hardwicke (1755-1835)
* Harlan - Richard Harlan (1796–1843)
* Harper - Francis Harper (1886–1972)
* Harris, M. Harris - Moses Harris (1734–1785)
* T.W. Harris - Thaddeus Williams Harris (1795–1856)
* Harrison - Colin James Oliver Harrison (1926 - 2003)
* Hartert - Ernst Hartert (1859–1933)
* Hartig - Theodor Hartig (1805–1880)
* Hartlaub - Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900)
* Hatcher - John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904)
* Hatschek - Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941)
* Haubold - Hartmut Haubold
* Haworth - Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833)
* Hay - William Perry Hay (1872–1947)
* Head - Jason J. Head
* Heaney - Lawrence Richard Heaney
* Heckel - Johann Jakob Heckel (1790–1857)
* Heemstra - Phillip C. Heemstra
* Hellén - Wolter Edward Hellén (1890–1979)
* Hellmayr - Carl Edward Hellmayr (1878–1944)
* Hemprich - Wilhelm Hemprich (1796–1825)
* Henle - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885)
* Henshaw - Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (1850–1930)
* Hentz - Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797–1856)
* Herbst - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743–1807)
* Herdman - William Abbott Herdman (1858-1924)
* Hering - Erich Martin Hering (1893–1967)
* Hermann - Johann Hermann (1738–1800)
* Herre - Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (1869–1962)
* Herrich-Schäffer - Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer (1799–1874)
* Hertlein - Leo George Hertlein (1898–1972) malacology, paleontology
* Heude - Pierre Marie Heude (1836–1902)
* Heuglin - Theodor von Heuglin (1824–1876)
* Heuvelmans - Bernard Heuvelmans (1916-2001)
* Hewitson - William Chapman Hewitson (1806–1878)
* Heymons - Richard Heymons (1867–1943)
* Hildebrand - Samuel Frederick Hildebrand (1883–1949)
* Hilgendorf - Franz Martin Hilgendorf (1839–1904)
* Hilsenberg - Carl Theodor Hilsenberg (1802–1824)
* Hinton - Martin Hinton (1883-1961)
* Hirohito - Hirohito (1901–1989)
* Hiyama - Yoshio Hiyama (b. 1909)
* Hodgson - Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894)
* Hoese - Douglass F. Hoese
* Hoffmannsegg - Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849)
* Hoffstetter - Robert Hoffstetter
* Holbrook - John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871)
* Holland - William Jacob Holland (1848–1932)
* Holmberg - Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (1852–1937)
* Holmgren - August Emil Holmgren (1829–1888)
* Holthuis - Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (b.1921)
* Hombron - Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852)
* Horner - Jack Horner (paleontologist) (b. 1946)
* Horsfield - Thomas Horsfield (1773–1859)
* Hose - Charles Hose (1863–1929)
* Houttuyn - Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798)
* Howard - Hildegarde Howard (1901-1998)
* A. H. Howell - Arthur H. Howell (1872–1940)
* Hoyle - William Evans Hoyle (1855-1926)
* Hu - Yaoming Hu
* Hübner - Jacob Hübner (1761–1826)
* Hubbs - Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1894–1979)
* Huene, von Huene - Friedrich von Huene (1875–1969)
* Hulke - John Whitaker Hulke (1830–1895)
* Hume - Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912)
* Humphrey - Philip Strong Humphrey (b. 1926)
* Hunt - Adrian P. Hunt
* Hutt - Steve Hutt
* J.S. Huxley - Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975)
* T.H. Huxley - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
* Hwang - Sunny H. Hwang

I

* Ida - Hitoshi Ida (b. 1940)
* Iredale - Tom Iredale (1880–1972)
* Illiger - Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813)
* Ivantsoff - Walter Ivantsoff
* Ivie - Michael Aaron Ivie
* Ivie - Wilton Ivie
* Iwai - Tamotsu Iwai

J

* Jacobs - Jean-Charles Jacobs (1821–1907)
* Jacquin - Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817)
* Jacquinot - Honoré Jacquinot (1815–1887)
* Jain - Sohan Lal Jain
* Jakowlew - Alexander Iwanowitsch Jakowlew (1863–1909)
* Jameson - Robert Jameson (1774–1854)
* Janensch - Werner Janensch (1878–1969)
* Janson - Oliver Erichson Janson (1850–1926)
* Jardine - William Jardine (naturalist) (1800–1874)
* Jebb - Matthew H. P. Jebb
* Jenkins - James Travis Jenkins (1876–1959)
* A. P. Jenkins - Aaron Peter Jenkins
* Jensen - James A. Jensen
* Jerdon - Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872)
* Q. Ji - Qiang Ji
* S. Ji - Shu-an Ji
* Jiménez de la Espada - Marcos Jiménez de la Espada (1831-1898)
* Jocqué - Rudy Jocqué
* G. D. Johnson - G. David Johnson
* Jordan - David Starr Jordan (1851–1931)
* K. Jordan - Karl Jordan (1861 - 1959)
* Jouanin - Christian Jouanin

K

* Karsch - Friedrich Karsch
* Katayama - Masao Katayama (b. 1912)
* Kaup - Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873)
* Keferstein - Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein (1833–1870)
* Kelaart - Edward Frederick Kelaart (1819–1860)
* Kellner - Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner
* Kennedy - Clarence Hamilton Kennedy (1879–1952)
* Kennicott - Robert Kennicott (1835–1866)
* Kerr - Robert Kerr (1755–1813)
* Kessler - Karl Fedorovich Kessler (1815–1881)
* Keulemans - John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
* Keyserling - Eugen von Keyserling (1833–1889)
* Kieffer - Jean-Jacques Kieffer (1857-1925)
* Kielan-Jaworowska - Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (b. 1925)
* King - Phillip Parker King (1793–1856)
* Kinnear - Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957)
* Kirby - William Kirby (1759–1850)
* W. F. Kirby - William Forsell Kirby (1844–1912)
* Kirkaldy - George Willis Kirkaldy
* Kirkland - James Ian Kirkland (b. 1954)
* Kittlitz - Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874)
* O. Kleinschmidt - Otto Kleinschmidt (1870–1954)
* Kloss - Cecil Boden Kloss (1877–1949)
* Klotzsch - Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805–1860)
* Klug - Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (1775–1856)
* Kner - Rudolf Kner (1810–1868)
* Knoch - August Wilhelm Knoch (1742–1818)
* Kobayashi - Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
* C. L. Koch - Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857)
* L. Koch - Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825–1908)
* Koelz - Walter Norman Koelz (1895-1989)
* Kolbe - Hermann Julius Kolbe (1855–1939)
* Kollar - Vincenz Kollar (1797–1860)
* Konings -- Ad Konings
* Konow - Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842–1908)
* Kotlyar - Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kotlyar
* Kotthaus - Adolf Kotthaus
* Kraglievich - Lucas Kraglievich
* Kraatz - Ernst Gustav Kraatz (1831–1909)
* Krauss - Friedrich von Krauss (1812–1890)
* Krauss - Hermann August Krauss (1848-1939)
* Krabbe - Niels Krabbe (b. 1951)
* Krefft - Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft(1830–1881)
* Kriechbaumer - Joseph Kriechbaumer (1819–1902)
* Krohn - August David Krohn (1803 – 1891)
* Ksepka - Daniel T. Ksepka
* Kuhl - Heinrich Kuhl (1797–1821)
* Kuiter - Rudolf Herman Kuiter (b. 1943)
* Kulczynski - Wladislaus Kulczynski
* Kuroda - Nagamichi Kuroda (1889–1978)
* Kurzanov - Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov

L

* Labillardière - Jacques Labillardière (1755-1834)
* Lacépède - Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède (1756–1825)
* Lacordaire - Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801–1870)
* Lafresnaye - Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783–1861)
* Laicharting - Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting (1754–1797)
* Lamarck - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829)
* Lamanna - Matthew Carl Lamanna
* Lambe - Lawrence Morris Lambe (1863–1919)
* Lambrecht - Kálmán Lambrecht
* Lameere - Auguste Lameere (1864–1942)
* Landbeck - Christian Ludwig Landbeck (1807–1890)
* Langer - Max Cardoso Langer
* Langston - Wann Langston, Jr. (b. 1921)
* Laporte - François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte (1810–1880)
* Lapparent, de Lapparent - Albert-Félix de Lapparent (1905–1975)
* Larson - Helen K. Larson
* Latham - John Latham (1740–1837)
* Latreille - Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833)
* Laurenti - Joseph Nicolai Laurenti (1735–1805)
* Laurillard – Charles Léopold Laurillard (1783–1853)
* Lavocat - René Lavocat
* Lawrence - George Newbold Lawrence (1806–1895)
* Laxmann - Erich Laxmann (1737-1796)
* Layard - Edgar Leopold Layard (1824-1900)
* LeConte - John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883)
* Leach - William Elford Leach (1790–1836)
* Leach - Edwin S. Leach (1878–1971)
* Lee - Yuong-Nam Lee
* Leech - John Henry Leech (1862–1900)
* Lehtinen - Pekka T. Lehtinen
* Leidy - Joseph Leidy (1823–1891)
* Leisler - Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1771–1813)
* Le Leouff - Jean Le Leouff
* Lembeye - Juan Lembeye (1816–1889)
* Lepeletier - Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier (1770–1845)
* Lesson - René-Primevère Lesson (1794–1849)
* Le Souef - William Henry Dudley Le Souef (1856-1923)
* Lesueur - Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778–1846)
* Leuckart - Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898)
* Leussler - R. A. Leussler
* C.K. (also C.-K or C.) Li - Chuankui Li
* D.Q. (also D.-Q. or D.) Li - Daqing Li
* Lichtenstein - Martin Lichtenstein (1780–1867)
* Lilljeborg - Wilhelm Lilljeborg (1816–1908)
* Link - Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1850)
* Linnaeus - Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778)
* Linsley - Earle Gorton Linsley (1910–2000)
* Lintner - Joseph Albert Lintner (1822–1898)
* Loche - Victor Loche (1806-1863)
* Lönnberg - Einar Lönnberg (1864–1942)
* Lowe - Richard Thomas Lowe (1802-1874)
* Lowe - Percy Lowe (1870–1948)
* Lü - Junchang Lü
* Lubbock - John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913)
* Lucas - Hippolyte Lucas (1814–1899)
* F.A. Lucas - Frederic Augustus Lucas (1852–1929)
* S.G. Lucas - Spencer G. Lucas
* Lull - Richard Swann Lull (1867–1957)
* Lund - Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880)
* Lütken - Christian Frederik Lütken (1827–1901)
* Lydekker - Richard Lydekker (1849–1915)
* Lyon - Marcus Ward Lyon (1875-1942)

M

* Mabile - Jules François Mabille (1831-1904)
* Mackovicky - Peter J. Mackovicky
* Makela - Robert R. Makela (1940-1987)
* Malaise - René Malaise (1892–1978)
* Maleev - Evgenii Aleksandrovich Maleev (1915-1966)
* Mannerheim - Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (1797–1854) - beetles
* Mantell - Gideon Mantell (1790-1852)
* Marcus - Ernst Marcus (1856–1928)
* Marinescu - Florian Marinescu
* Marples - Brian J. Marples
* Marsh - Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899)
* Marhsall - Thomas Ansell Marshall (1827-1903)
* Martill - David Michael Martill
* Martin - William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798–1864) - mainly mammals
* C.Martin - Claro Martin
* L.Martin - Larry Martin (b.1943) - paleontology
* Martinez - Ruben D. Martinez
* Maryanska - Teresa Maryańska
* Massy - Anne Letitia Massy
* Mateus - Octávio Mateus (b. 1975)
* Mathews - Gregory Mathews (1876–1949)
* Matley - Charles Alfred Matley (b. 1866)
* Matschie - Paul Matschie (1861–1926)
* Matsubara - Kiyomatsu Matsubara (1907-1968)
* Matsumura - Shonen Matsumura (1872–1960)
* Matsuura - Keiichi Matsuura
* Mayr - Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) - vertebrates, mainly birds
* G. Mayr - Gerald Mayr - prehistoric vertebrates, mainly birds
* McCulloch - Alan Riverstone McCulloch (1885–1925)
* McLachlan - Robert Mac Lachlan (1837–1904)
* Meade-Waldo - Edmund Meade-Waldo (1855–1934)
* Mearns - Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916)
* Meek - Seth Eugene Meek (1859-1914)
* Meguro - Katsusuke Meguro
* Méhely - Lajos Méhely (1862–1946)
* Meigen - Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764–1845)
* Mello-Leitão - Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (1886-1948)
* Menezes - Naercio Aquino de Menezes (b. 1937)
* Ménétries - Édouard Ménétries (1802–1861)
* Merrem - Blasius Merrem (1761–1824)
* Merriam - Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942)
* Metschnikoff - Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916)
* Meyen - Franz Meyen (1804–1840)
* Meyer, von Meyer - Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801-1869) - paleontology
* A.B. Meyer - Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840–1911)
* F.A. Meyer, F.A.A. Meyer, Meyer - Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer (1768-1795) - birds, primates
* Meyer de Schauensee - Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901–1984) - birds
* Meyrick - Edward Meyrick (1854–1938)
* Michener - Charles Duncan Michener (b. 1918)
* Middendorf, Midd. - Alexander von Middendorff (1815-1894)
* Midgley - Steven Hamar Midgley
* Miles - Clifford Miles
* Miller - Gerrit Smith Miller (1869–1956) - mammals
* A.H. Miller - Alden H. Miller
* J.F. Miller - John Frederick Miller (1759–1796)
* L.H. Miller - Loye H. Miller - paleontology, mainly birds
* R.R. Miller - Robert Rush Miller (1916-2003) - fish
* Millet - Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783–1873)
* Milne-Edwards - Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) - mammals and crustaceans
* A. Milne-Edwards - Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900) - birds
* Milner - Angela C. Milner
* Miranda-Ribeiro - Alípio de Miranda Ribeiro (1874-1939)
* P. Miranda-Ribeiro - Paulo de Miranda Ribeiro (1901-1965)
* Mitchell - Thomas Mitchell (1792–1855)
* Mitchill - Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764–1831) - fish
* Mitra - Tridib Ranjan Mitra
* Mizuno - Nobuhiko Mizuno
* Mochizuki - Kenji Mochizuki
* Mocsáry - Alexander Mocsáry (1841–1915)
* Mohr - Erna Mohr (1894-1968)
* Molina - Juan Ignacio Molina (1740–1829)
* Molnar - Ralph E. Molnar
* Mondolfi - Edgardo Mondolfi (1918–1999)
* Montagu - George Montagu (1753–1815)
* Moore - Frederic Moore (1830–1907) - butterflies and moths
* J.C. Moore - Joseph Curtis Moore (1914–1995) - rodents
* Mori - Tamezo Mori (?-1940)
* Moreno - Perito Francisco Moreno (1852-1919)
* Morley - Claude Morley (1874-1951)
* Morrow - James Edwin Morrow, Jr. (b. 1918)
* Mortensen - Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen (1868–1952)
* Motschulsky - Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky (1810-1871)
* Mourer-Chauviré - Cécile Mourer-Chauviré
* Moyer - Jack T. Moyer (1929-2004)
* Muche - Werner Heinz Muche (1911–1987)
* Müller - Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858) - mainly fish
* O. F. Müller - Otto Friedrich Müller (1730–1784) - insects, fauna of Scandinavia
* S. Müller - Salomon Müller (1804–1864) - mainly fauna of Indonesia
* Mulsant - Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880)
* Munday - Philip L. Munday
* Murphy - Robert Cushman Murphy (1887–1973)
* Murray - James A. Murray - birds; animals and plants of Sindh and Karachi regions
* Muttkowski – Richard Anthony Muttkowski (b. 1887)

N

* Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
* Naef - Adolf Naef (1883-1949)
* Nagao - Takumi Nagao
* Naish - Darren Naish
* J. F. Naumann - Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857)
* Natterer - Johann Natterer (1787–1843)
* Navás - R. P. Longinos Navás (1858–1938)
* Nehring - Alfred Nehring (1845-1904)
* Nelson - Edward William Nelson (1855-1934)
* Nessov - Lev Alexandrovich Nessov (1947–1995)
* Neumoegen - Berthold Neumoegen (d. 1895)
* Newman - Edward Newman (1801–1876)
* A. Newton - Alfred Newton (1829-1907)
* E. Newton - Edward Newton (1832-1897)
* Nichols - Albert Russell Nichols(1859-1933)
* Nichols - John Treadwell Nichols (1883–1958)
* Nielsen - Cesare Nielsen (1898–1984)
* Nikolskii - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Nikolskii (1858–1942)
* Nilsson - Sven Nilsson (1787–1883)
* Nitsche - Heinrich Nitsche (1845–1902)
* Noble - Gladwyn Kingsley Noble (1894–1940)
* Nopcsa - Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877–1933)
* Norell - Mark A. Norell (b. 1957)
* Norman - John Richardson Norman (1899–1944)
* D. Norman - David B. Norman (b. 1952)
* North - Alfred John North (1855–1917)
* Novas - Fernando Emilio Novas
* Nowinski - Aleksander Nowiński
* Nuttall - Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859)
* Nylander - William Nylander (1822–1899)

O

* Oberholser - Harry Church Oberholser (1870–1963)
* Oberthür - Charles Oberthür (1845-1924)
* Ochiai - Akira Ochiai (b. 1923)
* Ogilby - William Ogilby (1808–1873)
* J.D. Ogilby - James Douglas Ogilby (1853-1925)
* Ogilvie-Grant - William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924)
* Ognev - Sergej Ognew (1886–1951)
* Oguma - Mamoru Oguma (1885-1971)
* Okamoto - Makoto Okamoto
* Oken - Lorenz Oken (1779–1851)
* Okumura - Teiichi Okumura
* Olfers - Ignaz von Olfers (1793–1872)
* Oliver - Walter Oliver (1883–1957)
* Olivi - Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795)
* Olivier - Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756–1814)
* Olson - Storrs Olson
* Oppel - Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782–1820)
* Ord - George Ord (1781–1866)
* Osbeck - Pehr Osbeck (1723–1805)
* Osborn - Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935)
* Osgood - Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875–1947)
* Osi - Attila Ősi
* Osmólska - Halszka Osmólska (died 2008)
* Ostrom - John Ostrom (1928-2005)
* Oudemans - Antoon Cornelis Oudemans (1858–1943)
* Oustalet - Emile Oustalet (1844–1905)
* Owen - Richard Owen (1804–1892)

P

* Packard - Alpheus Spring Packard (1839–1905)
* Palisot de Beauvois - Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, Baron de Beauvois (1752-1820)
* Pallas - Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811)
* Palmer - Theodore Sherman Palmer (1868-1955)
* Panzer - Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (1755–1829)
* Parenti - Lynne R. Parenti
* Parks - William Arthur Parks (1868-1939)
* Patzner - Robert A. Patzner
* Paul - Gregory S. Paul (b. 1954)
* Peale - Titian Peale (1799–1885)
* Pearson - Oliver Paynie Pearson (1915-2003)
* Pelzeln - August von Pelzeln (1825–1891)
* Pennant - Thomas Pennant (1726–1798)
* M. L. Penrith - Mary Louise Penrith (b. 1942)
* Perez-Moreno - Bernardino P. Pérez Moreno
* Perle - Altangerel Perle (b. 1945)
* Péron - François Péron (1775–1810)
* Perty - Joseph Anton Maximillian Perty (1804-1884)
* Peters - Wilhelm Peters (1815–1883)
* D.S. Peters - Dieter Stefan Peters paleontology, including birds
* J.L. Peters - James Lee Peters (1889–1952) ornithology
* Petrunkevitch - Alexander Petrunkevitch (1875–1964)
* Philippi - Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904)
* Pic - Maurice Pic (1866-1957)
* Pickard-Cambridge - Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917)
* Pilsbry - Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957)
* Platnick - Norman I. Platnick
* Pocock - Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947)
* Poda - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus (1723–1798)
* Poey - Felipe Poey (1799–1891)
* Poeppig - Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798–1868)
* Pol - Diego Pol
* Pomel - Auguste Pomel (1821–1898)
* Pompeckj - Josef Felix Pompeckj (1867–1930)
* Pontoppidan - Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764)
* Pope - Clifford Hillhouse Pope (1899–1974)
* Potts - Thomas Henry Potts (1824–1888)
* Pouyaud - Laurent Pouyaud
* Powell - Jaime Eduardo Powell
* Pruvot-Fol - Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873–1972)
* Przewalski - Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888)
* Pucheran - Jacques Pucheran (1817–1894)
* Purcell - William Frederick Purcell (1866–1919)

Q

* Quatrefages - Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810–1892)
* Quoy - Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869)

R

* Raath - Michael A. Raath
* Rachmatika - Ike Rachmatika
* Rackett - Thomas Rackett (1757–1841)
* Radcliffe - Lewis Radcliffe (1880–1950)
* Radde - Gustav Radde (1831–1903)
* Rafinesque - Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (1783–1840)
* Raffles - Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826)
* Rajasuriya - Arjan Rajasuriya
* Rambur - Jules Pièrre Rambur (1801–1870)
* Ramos - Robson Tamar da Costa Ramos
* E. P. Ramsay - Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842–1916)
* Rand - Austin L. Rand (1905–1982)
* Randall - John E. Randall (b. 1924)
* Rathbun - Mary Rathbun (1860–1943)
* Rathke - Martin Heinrich Rathke (1793–1860)
* Ratzeburg - Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg (1801–1871)
* Rauhut - Oliver W. M. Rauhut
* Razoumowsky - Grigory Razumovsky (1759–1837)
* Reakirt - Tryon Reakirt
* Regan - C. Tate Regan (1878–1943)
* Regel - Eduard August von Regel (1815–1892)
* Régimbart - M. Régimbart
* Reichenbach - Ludwig Reichenbach (1793–1879)
* Reichenow - Anton Reichenow (1847–1941)
* Reig - Osvaldo Alfredo Reig (1929–1992)
* Reinhardt - Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (1816–1882)
* Reinhart - Roy Herbert Reinhart (b. 1919)
* Renyaan - Samuel J. Renyaan
* Retzius - Anders Jahan Retzius (1742–1821)
* Riabinin - Anatoly Nikolaevich Riabinin
* Rich - Thomas Hewitt Rich
* P. Rich - "see" Vickers-Rich
* Richardson - John Richardson (1787–1865)
* Richmond - Charles Wallace Richmond (1868–1932)
* Ridgway - Robert Ridgway (1850–1929)
* Riggs - Elmer Samuel Riggs (1869–1963)
* Riley - Joseph Harvey Riley (1873-1941)
* Ripley - Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913–2001)
* Ris - Friedrich Ris (1867–1931)
* Risso - Antoine Risso (1777–1845)
* Rivero - Juan A. Rivero (active second half of 20th century)
* Roberts - Austin Roberts (1883–1948)
* Robertson - David Ross Robertson (b. 1946)
* Robinson - Herbert Christopher Robinson (1874–1929)
* Robison - Henry W. Robison
* Robson - Guy Coburn Robson (1888-1945)
* Röding - Peter Friedrich Röding (1767-1846)
* Roewer - Carl Friedrich Roewer (1881–1963)
* Rogenhofer - Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (1832–1890)
* Rohde - Klaus (b.1932)
* Rohwer - Sievert Allen Rohwer (1887–1951)
* Roniewicz - Ewa Roniewicz
* Ross - Landon T. Ross (b.1942)
* Rossi - Pietro Rossi
* Rossignol - Martial Rossignol
* Rossman - Douglas Athon Rossman (b. 1936)
* Rothschild - Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868–1937)
* Roxas - Hilario Atanacio Roxas (b. 1896)
* Rozhdestvensky - Anatole Rozhdestvensky
* Rudolphi - Karl Rudolphi (1771–1832)
* Rüppell - Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884)
* Russell - Dale Alan Russell (b. 1937)
* Ryder - John Adam Ryder (1852–1895)

S

* Sakamoto - Katsuichi Sakamoto
* Salgado - Leonardo J. Salgado
* Salter - John William Salter (1820–1869)
* Salvadori - Tommaso Salvadori (1835–1923)
* Salvin - Osbert Salvin (1835–1898)
* Samouelle - George Samouelle (1790–1846)
* Sampson - Scott D. Sampson
* Sanborn - Colin Campbell Sanborn (1897–1962)
* Santschi - Felix Santschi (1872–1940)
* G. O. Sars - Georg Sars (1837–1927)
* M. Sars - Michael Sars (1809–1869)
* Satunin - Konstantin Alexeevitsch Satunin (1863–1915)
* Saunders - Howard Saunders (1835–1907)
* Saussure - Henri Saussure (1829–1905)
* Savi - Paolo Savi (1798–1871)
* Savigny - Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851)
* Saville-Kent - William Saville-Kent (1845-1908)
* Savornin - Justin Savornin (b. 1876)
* Say - Thomas Say (1787–1843)
* Schaum - Hermann Rudolf Schaum (1819–1865)
* Schinz - Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1771–1861)
* Schiapelli - Rita Delia Schiapelli
* Schiffermüller - Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727–1806)
* Schiödte - Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte (1815–1884)
* Schlaikjer - Erich Maren Schlaikjer (b. 1905)
* Schlegel - Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884)
* Schmidt - Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890–1957)
* Schnabl - Johann Andreas Schnabl (1838–1912)
* Schneider - Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750–1822)
* Schoepf(f) - Johann David Schoepf (1752–1800)
* Schönherr - Carl Johan Schönherr (1772 – 1848)
* Schomburgk - Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865)
* Schrank - Franz Paula von Schrank (1747–1835)
* Schreber - Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810)
* Schren(c)k - Leopold von Schrenck (1824–1896)
* Schultz - Leonard Peter Schultz (1901–1986)
* P. L. Sclater - Philip Sclater (1829–1913)
* W. L. Sclater - William Lutley Sclater (1863–1944)
* Scopoli - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788)
* Scudder - Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837–1911)
* Seebohm - Henry Seebohm (1832–1895)
* Seeley - Harry Govier Seeley (1839–1909)
* Selby - Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867)
* Sélys - Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813–1900)
* Semenov-Tian-Shanskii - Andrei Semenov-Tian-Shanskii (1866–1942)
* Sereno - Paul Sereno (b. 1957)
* Serville - Jean Guillaume Audinet Serville (1775–1858)
* Sevastianov - Aleksandr Fiodorovich Sevastianov
* Severtzov - Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (1827–1885)
* Sharpe - Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909)
* Shaw - George Shaw (1751–1813)
* Shelley - George Ernest Shelley (1840–1910)
* Shen - Shen Kuo (1031-1095)
* Shuckard - William Edward Shuckard (1803–1868)
* Sichel - Frédéric Jules Sichel (1802–1868)
* Sick - Helmut Sick (1910–1991)
* Sideleva - Valentina Grigorievna Sideleva
* Siebold - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804-1885)
* Silvestri - Filippo Silvestri (1876–1949)
* Simon - Eugène Simon (1848–1924)
* Simpson - George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984)
* Simpson - Adrian Simpson (1988)
* Slipinski - Stanislaw Adam Ślipiński
* Smith - Andrew Smith (zoologist) (1797–1872) Zoology of southern Africa
* Hamilton Smith - Charles Hamilton Smith (1776–1859)
* E. Smith - Edgar Albert Smith (1847-1916) malacology
* F. Smith - Frederick Smith (entomologist) (1805–1879) entomology
* J.E. Smith - James Edward Smith (1759-1828) Lepidoptera
* J.L.B. Smith - James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897-1968) ichthyology
* M.A. Smith - Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875-1958) herpetology
* S.I. Smith - Sidney Irving Smith (1843–1926) Crustacea
* W.L. Smith - W. Leo Smith
* Snellen von Vollenhoven - Samuel Constantinus Snellen von Vollenhoven (1816–1880)
* Snethlage - Emilia Snethlage (1868-1929)
* Snodgrass - Robert Evans Snodgrass (1875-1962)
* Soeroto - Bambang Soeroto
* Sollas - William Johnson Sollas (1849-1936)
* Spallanzani - Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799)
* Sparrman - Anders Sparrman (1781–1826)
* Spencer - Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929)
* Spinola - Maximilian Spinola (1780–1857)
* Spix - Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826)
* Stahnke - Herbert Ludwig Stahnke (b. 1902)
* Stainton - Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822–1892)
* Starks - Edwin Chapin Starks (1867-1932)
* Statius Muller - Philipp Ludwig Statius Muller (1725–1776)
* Staudinger - Otto Staudinger (1830–1900)
* Stebbing - Thomas Stebbing (1835–1926)
* Steenstrup - Japetus Steenstrup (1813–1897)
* Steere - Joseph Beal Steere (1842–1940)
* Stein - Johann Philip Emil Friedrich Stein (1816–1882)
* Steindachner - Franz Steindachner (1834–1919)
* Stejneger - Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943)
* Stephens - James Francis Stephens (1792–1852)
* Sternberg - Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850-1943)
* Sternberg - Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885–1981)
* D. J. Stewart - Donald J. Stewart
* Stolzmann - Jean Stanislaus Stolzmann (1854–1928)
* Stoll - Caspar Stoll (d. 1791)
* Storr - Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr (1749–1821)
* Stovall - John Willis Stovall (1891–1953)
* Strand - Embrik Strand (1876–1953)
* Strauch - Alexander Strauch (1832-1893)
* Streets - Thomas Hale Streets (1847–1925)
* Stresemann - Erwin Stresemann (1889–1972)
* Strickland - Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811–1853)
* Stritt - Walter Stritt (1892–1975)
* Ström - Hans Ström (1726–1797)
* Stromer - Ernst Stromer (1870–1952)
* Struhsaker - Paul J. Struhsaker
* Su - Su Song (1020-1101)
* Such - George Such (1798–1879)
* Suckley - George Suckley (1830–1869)
* Sues - Hans-Dieter Sues (b. 1956)
* Sullivan - Robert M. Sullivan
* Sulzer - Johann Heinrich Sulzer (1735–1813)
* Sundevall - Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875)
* Swainson - William Swainson (1789–1855)
* Swann - Henry Kirke Swann (1871–1926)
* Swinhoe - Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877)
* Sykes - William Henry Sykes (1790–1872)

T

* Taczanowski - Wladyslaw Taczanowski (1819–1890)
* Talbot - Mignon Talbot (1869–1950)
* Taliev - Dmitrii Nikolaevich Taliev (1908–1952)
* Tang - Zhilu Tang
* Taquet - Philippe Taquet
* Taschenberg - Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg (1818–1898)
* Tate - George Henry Hamilton Tate (1894–1953)
* W. M. Tattersall - Walter Medley Tattersall (1882–1948)
* Taylor - Edward Harrison Taylor (1889–1978)
* L. R. Taylor - Leighton R. Taylor
* Temminck - Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1858)
* Templeton - Robert Templeton (1802-1892)
* Thayer - John Eliot Thayer (1862–1933)
* Theischinger - Günther Theischinger (b. 1940)
* Thiele - Johannes Thiele (1860–1935)
* Thomas - Oldfield Thomas (1858–1929)
* Thomson - Carl Gustaf Thomson (1824–1899)
* Thorell - Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (1830–1901)
* Thunberg - Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828)
* Tjakrawidjaja - Agus Tjakrawidjaja
* Ticehurst - Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881–1941)
* Tidwell - Virginia Tidwell
* Timberlake - Philip H. Timberlake (1883-1981)
* Tischbein - Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein (1813–1883)
* Todd - Walter Edmond Clyde Todd (1874-1969)
* Tokioka - Takasi Tokioka (1913-2001)
* Toledo-Piza - Mônica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo
* Tomes - Robert Fisher Tomes (1823-1904)
* Townsend - John Kirk Townsend (1809–1851)
* C. H. Townsend - Charles Haskins Townsend (1859–1944)
* Traill - Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862)
* Traylor - Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. (b.1915)
* Trewavas - Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900-1993)
* Tristram - Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906)
* Troschel - Franz Hermann Troschel (1810–1882)
* Trouessart - Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842–1927)
* True - Frederick W. True (1858–1914)
* Trybom - Filip Trybom (1850–1913)
* Tschudi - Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818–1889)
* Tsogtbaatar - Khishigjaw Tsogtbaatar
* Tumanova - Tat'yana Alekseyevna Tumanova
* Turton - William Turton (1762–1835)
* Tutt - J. W. Tutt (1858–1911)
* Tytler - Robert Christopher Tytler (1818-1872)

U

* Uhler - Philip Reese Uhler (1835–1913)

V

* Vaillant - Léon Vaillant (1834–1914)
* Valenciennes - Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865)
* Van Denburgh - John Van Denburgh (1872–1924)
* Van Duzee - Edward Payson Van Duzee (1861–1940)
* Vander Linden - Pierre Léonard Vander Linden (1797–1831)
* Varricchio - David J. Varricchio
* E. Verreaux - Edouard Verreaux (1810–1868)
* J. Verreaux - Jules Verreaux (1807–1873)
* Verrill - Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926)
* Vickaryous - Matthew P. Vickaryous
* Vickers-Rich, P. Rich - Patricia Vickers-Rich (b. 1944)
* Vieillot - Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748–1831)
* Vieweg - C. F. Vieweg
* Vigors - Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840)
* Villers - Charles Joseph de Villers (1726–1797)
* Vladykov - Vadim Dmitrij Vladykov (1898–1986)
* von Blomberg - Ernst Freiherr von Blomberg (1821-1903)

W

* Wagler - Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832)
* Wagner - Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861)
* Wahlberg - Johan August Wahlberg (1810–1859)
* Walbaum - Johann Julius Walbaum (1724–1799)
* Walch - Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch (1725–1778)
* Walckenaer - Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852)
* Walker - Edmund Murton Walker (1877–1969)
* A. Walker - Alick Donald Walker (1925-1999) paleontology
* C.A. Walker - Cyril Alexander Walker paleontology
* F. Walker - Francis Walker (entomologist) (1809–1874) entomology
* Wall - Frank Wall (1868-1950)
* Wallace - Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913)
* Wallengren - Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren (1823–1894)
* Walsh - Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808–1869)
* Waltl - Joseph Waltl (1805–1888)
* X.L. (also X.-L. or X.) Wang - Xiaolin Wang
* Y.Q. (also Y.-Q. or Y.) Wang - Yuanqing Wang
* Watabe - Mahito Watabe
* Waterhouse - George Robert Waterhouse (1801–1888)
* Watson - James D. WatsonVerify source|date=September 2007
* R.Watson - Ronald E. Watson
* Weber - Hermann Weber (1899-1956)
* Weber - Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852-1937)
* Wegrzynowicz - Piotr Węgrzynowicz
* Weigold - Hugo Weigold (1886–1973)
* Weishampel - David B. Weishampel (b. 1952)
* Welles - Samuel Paul Welles (1909-1997)
* West - Rick West arachnology
* Westwood - John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893)
* Wetmore - Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978)
* Weyenbergh - Hendrik Weyenbergh Jr. (1842-1885)
* Wheeler - William Morton Wheeler (1865-1937)
* Wiedemann - Christian Wiedemann (1770–1840)
* Wied-Neuwied - Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867)
* Wiegmann - Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802–1841)
* Williams - James David Williams (b. 1941)
* Williamson - Thomas Edward Williamson
* Wilson - Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) ornithology
* WIlson - E. O. Wilson (1929-)
* Wilson - Jeffrey A. Wilson paleontology
* Wiman - Carl Wiman (1867-1944)
* Wingate - David B. Wingate (b. 1935)
* Winge - Herluf Winge (1857-1923)
* Wirjoatmodjo - Soetikno Wirjoatmodjo
* Wolfe - Douglas Gerald Wolfe
* Wood - Charles Thorold Wood (1777-1852)
* Wood-Mason - James Wood-Mason (1846–1893)
* Woodhouse - Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1821–1904)
* Woodward - Arthur Smith Woodward (1864-1944)
* Wroughton - R. C. Wroughton (1849-1921)

X

*Xantus - John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894)
*Xu - Xing Xu

Y

* Yamaguchi, Yamaguti - Masao Yamaguchi
* Yamanoue - Yusuke Yamanoue
* Yang, Young - Zhongjian Yang (1897–1979)
* Yarrell - William Yarrell (1784–1856)
* Yoseda - Kenzo Yoseda
* You - Hailu You
* Young - David Allan Young (1915-1991) Hemiptera especially Cicadellidae

Z

* Zaddach - Ernst Gustav Zaddach (1817–1881)
* Zanno - Lindsay E. Zanno
* Zeledon - José Castulo Zeledón (1846-1923)
* Zeller - Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808–1883)
* Zetterstedt - Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785–1874)
* B.K. (also B.-K. or B.) Zhang - Bao-kun Zhang
* F.C. (also F.-C. or F.) Zhang - Fucheng Zhang
* Zhao - Xijin Zhao
* S. Zhou - Shiwu Zhou (b. 1940)
* Z.H. (also Z.-H. or Z.) Zhou - Zhonghe Zhou
* Zimmer - John Todd Zimmer (1889-1957)
* Zimmermann - Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815)
* Zincken - Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (1770–1856)
* Zirngiebl - Lothar Zirngiebl (1902–1973)
* Zittel - Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904)

ee also

*
* List of botanists by author abbreviation
* List of biologists

External links

* [http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/workers/alpha.htm Scarab Workers World Directory]
* [http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/dipterists/worlddipt.html World Diptera Systematists Home Page]
* [http://www.zoonomen.net/bio/bioa.html Zoonomen (Ornithologie)]
* [http://www.natuurcijfers.nl/namen/auteursnamen.htm www.natuurcijfers.nl/namen/auteursnamen.htm]
* [http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/index.htm Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names]