Biologists
500 people
Medieval 1
Renaissance 4
Enlightenment 77
Alexander Wilson
Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator (1766-1813)
Allan Cunningham
British botanist (1791-1839)
Anders Retzius
Swedish scientist (1796-1860)
Anders Sparrman
Swedish naturalist (1748-1820)
Antoine Lavoisier
French nobleman and chemist (1743–1794)
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first...
Athanasius Kircher
German Jesuit scholar (1601 or 1602-1680)
Blasius Merrem
German naturalist (1761-1824)
Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
Carl Linnaeus the Younger
Swedish naturalist (1741–1783)
Carl Ludwig Koch
German entomologist and arachnologist (1778–1857)
Carlo Allioni
Italian physician and professor of botany (1728-1804)
Caspar Friedrich Wolff
German psychologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist (1795–1876)
David Douglas
Scottish botanist (1799–1834)
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Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann
German scientist and zoologist
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Edward Donovan
Anglo-Irish writer, natural history illustrator, and amateur zoologist (1768-1837)
Edward Jenner
English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)
Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby
British politician (1775-1851)
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Elizabeth Fulhame
Scottish chemist
Engelbert Kaempfer
German botanist (1651–1716)
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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Scottish physician, traveller and naturalist (1762-1829)
Francis Willughby
English ornithologist and ichthyologist
Franz Karl Achard
German chemist
Georg Eberhard Rumphius
German-Dutch merchant, naturalist and botanist (1627-1702)
Georg Ernst Ludwig Hampe
German botanist (1795-1880)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
French natural historian (1707-1788)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
Heinrich Kuhl
German naturalist and zoologist (1797–1821)
Henri Dutrochet
French physician (1776-1847)
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
French zoologist and anatomist (1777-1850)
Henry Baker
English naturalist (1698–1774)
Ignaz Schiffermüller
Austrian entomologist
Ivan Lepyokhin
Russian scientist (1740-1802)
James Edward Smith
English botanist, founder of the Linnean Society of London (1759–1828)
Jan Evangelista Purkyně
Czech biologist, physiologist, doctor, inventor and politician (1787–1869)
Jan Swammerdam
Dutch entomologist and beekeeper
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
French naturalist (1744-1829)
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Jeanne Villepreux-Power
French biologist (1794-1871)
Johann Beckmann
German philosopher, economist and agronomist
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist (1752 – 1840)
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
German naturalist (1748–1804)
Johann Friedrich Meckel the younger
German anatomist (1781-1833)
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst
German naturalist and entomologist (1743-1807)
Johann Hedwig
German botanist and physician (1730–1799)
Johannes Baptista von Albertini
(1769-1831); Bishop of the Moravian Church, composer, botanist and mycologist
Johannes Browallius
Swedish theologian and scientist (1707-1755)
Johannes Burman
Dutch botanist
John Abbot
British born, American entomologist, ornithologist and scientific illustrator (1751-1840)
John Latham
English physician, naturalist and author (1740-1837)
Jędrzej Śniadecki
writer, physician, chemist and biologist (1768-1838)
Laura Bassi
Italian physicist (1711-1778)
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Louis Claude Richard
French botanist (1754-1821)
Louis de Jaucourt
French philosopher (1704-1779)
Marcus Elieser Bloch
German physician and zoologist (1723–1799)
Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville
French scientist
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Matthias Hedenstrom
Russian explorer of Northern Siberia of Swedish origin (1780-1845)
Michał Boym
Jesuit missionary into China
Olof Rudbeck the Younger
Swedish biologist (1660-1740)
Olof Swartz
Swedish botanist & taxonomist (1760 - 1818)
Otto Friedrich Müller
Danish zoologist (1730-1784)
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Paul Hermann
German botanist (1646-1695)
Peter Ascanius
Norwegian biologist; student of Linnaeus (1723—1803)
Philibert Commerson
French scientist (1727-1773)
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Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
French naturalist (1752–1804)
Pieter Boddaert
Dutch physician and naturalist (1730-1795)
Pietro Arduino
Italian botanist (1728-1805)
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French scientist
Robert Brown
Scottish botanist (1773-1858), discoverer of the cell nucleus and of Brownian Motion...
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (1635 — 1703)
Robert Kerr
Scottish scientific writer and translator (1757–1813)
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Robert Sweet
British botanist (1783-1835)
Willem Piso
Dutch physician and naturalist (1611–1678)
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William Elford Leach
English zoologist and marine biologist (1790/1–1836)
William MacGillivray
British naturalist and ornithologist (1796–1852)
William Sharp Macleay
British civil servant and entomologist, active in Cuba and New South Wales, Australia...
Étienne de Flacourt
French colonial governor and scholar (1607–1660)
19th Century 187
Agustín Stahl
Puerto Rican medical doctor, and scientist (1842–1917)
Aimo Cajander
Finnish forest scientist and politician (1879-1943)
Albert Bernhard Frank
German biologist and botanist (1839–1900)
Albert Claude
Belgian-American cell biologist (1899–1983)
Albert Howard
British botanist 1873-1947
Alexander Braun
German botanist and university teacher (1805–1877)
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
Swiss-American zoologist and engineer (1835-1910)
Alexander Kovalevsky
Russian zoologist (1840-1901)
Alexandre Yersin
Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon and biologist
Alfred Moquin-Tandon
French naturalist (1804-1863)
Alice Wilson
Canadian geologist and paleontologist (1881-1964)
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Alister Hardy
British marine biologist (1896–1985)
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist, paleontologist (1838-1902)
Amalie Dietrich
German naturalist, explorer and collector (1821-1891)
Ana Aslan
Romanian biologist and physician (1897–1988)
Anna Weber-van Bosse
Dutch phycologist (1852-1942)
Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau
French biologist (1810–1892)
Astrid Cleve
Swedish botanist, geologist, chemist (1875-1968)
August von Wassermann
German bacteriologist (1866-1925)
Auguste Lumière
French inventor (1862–1954)
Austin Roberts
South African zoologist and ornithologist (1883-1948)
Benedykt Dybowski
Polish physician and naturalist (1833-1930)
Bernardo Houssay
Argentine physician (1887–1971)
Bernhard Lauritz Frederik Bang
Danish veterinarian (1848–1932)
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C. B. van Niel
Dutch-American microbiologist (1897–1985)
Carl Akeley
American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, nature...
Carl Correns
German botanist and geneticist (1864–1933)
Carl Jakob Sundevall
Swedish zoologist (1801-1875)
Carl Nägeli
Swiss botanist (1817–1891)
Charles Benedict Davenport
American botanist, zoologist and eugenicist (1866 – 1944)
Charles Chamberland
French microbiologist (1851-1908)
Charles Horton Peck
American mycologist (1833–1917)
Charles Wyville Thomson
Scottish marine zoologist (1830-1882)
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Charlotte Auerbach
Geneticist, author (1899–1994)
Clarence Birdseye
American inventor (1886–1956)
Cyril Burt
discredited English educational psychologist (1883–1971)
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar (*1860 – †1948)
David Keilin
British entomologist (1887–1963)
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Edgar Anderson
American botanist (1897-1969)
Edmond Boissier
Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician (1810-1885)
Eduard Oscar Schmidt
German zoologist (1823–1886)
Edward Aveling
British biologist (1849-1898)
Edward Palmer
British botanist and archaeologist (1831-1911)
Embrik Strand
Norwegian botanist, entomologist, arachnologist, professor, conservator, and...
Emil Abderhalden
Swiss biochemist and physiologist (1877–1950)
Emil Christian Hansen
Danish biochemist and mycologist (1842–1909)
Emil Racoviță
Romanian polar explorer (1868–1947)
Emmanuel Drake del Castillo
French botanist (1855-1904)
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Erik Adolf von Willebrand
Finnish doctor (1870-1949)
Ernst Haeckel
German zoologist (1834-1919)
Erwin Stresemann
German ornithologist and naturalist (1889-1972)
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Eugen von Keyserling
Baltic German arachnologist (1832-1889)
Francis Maitland Balfour
British biologist (1851–1882)
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Frederic Clements
American ecologist (1874–1945)
Frederick W. True
American biologist, mammalogist and curator (1858-1914)
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Friedrich Alexander Buhse
Baltic German botanist (1821-1898)
Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch
German explorer and biologist (1839-1917)
Friedrich Welwitsch
Austrian botanist and explorer (1806-1872)
Fritz Müller
German-Brazilian biologist (1822–1897)
Fritz Schaudinn
German zoologist (1871–1906)
Félix Dujardin
French biologist (1801–1860)
Gaston Eugene Marie Bonnier
French botanist (1853-1922)
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George Ernest Shelley
English geologist and ornithologist (1840–1910)
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George Forrest
Scottish botanist (1873-1932)
George John Romanes
British evolutionary biologist (1848–1894)
George Latimer Bates
American naturalist (1863-1940)
George Washington Carver
African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
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Glover Morrill Allen
American zoologist (1879-1942)
Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst
German botanist and mycologist (1806–1881)
Gregor Mendel
Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar (1822–1884)
Gustav Lindau
German botanist (1866–1923)
Gustav Radde
German naturalist and explorer (1831–1903)
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German philosopher and biologist (1867 - 1941)
Harry C. Oberholser
American ornithologist (1870–1963)
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
British mycologist and botanist (1879-1967)
Helen Porter
British botanist (1899-1987)
Helmuth Plessner
German philosopher and sociologist (1892–1985)
Henry Gray
British anatomist (1827–1861)
Henry Walter Bates
English naturalist and explorer (1825–1892)
Hermann Joseph Muller
American biologist (1890–1967)
Hermann Karsten
German botanist (1817–1908)
Hermann Müller
German botanist (1829–1883)
Hermann Schlegel
German ornithologist and herpetologist (1804-1884)
Hermann von Meyer
German paleontologist
Hilde Mangold
German biologist (1898–1924)
Hippolyte Lucas
French entomologist (1814–1899)
Hubert von Luschka
German anatomist (1820–1875)
J.B.S. Haldane
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)
Jacques Loeb
German-American physiologist and biologist (1859-1924)
Jacques de Morgan
French mining engineer, geologist, and archaeologist (1857–1924)
Jakob von Uexküll
Baltic German biologist, zoologist, and philosopher (1864-1944)
James Chapin
American ornithologist and scientific collector (1889–1964)
Jean Piaget
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic (1896–1980)
Jean Rostand
French writer (1894–1977)
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
French botanist (1828-1911)
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Johann Friedrich Klotzsch
German botanist and pharmacist (1805-1860)
Johann Kremer
professor of anatomy (1883-1965)
Johannes Peter Müller
German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist (1801-1858)
Johannes Schmidt
Danish botanist and marine biologist (1877-1933)
John Boyd Orr
Scottish nutritionist, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
John Gould
English ornithologist (1804–1881)
John Murray
Scottish oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist (1841-1914)
Josef Hyrtl
Austrian anatomist (1810–1894)
Josias Braun-Blanquet
Swiss botanist (1884–1980)
Josif Pančić
botanist (1814-1888)
Jules Bordet
Belgian immunologist and microbiologist (1870-1961)
Julian Huxley
British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)
Julius Richard Petri
German microbiologist (1852–1921)
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Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre
Austrian biologist (1850–1928)
Karl von Frisch
German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982)
Kiyoshi Shiga
Japanese physician (1871-1957)
Konstantin Mereschkowski
Russian evolutionary biologist and botanist (1855–1921)
Kristine Bonnevie
Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor (1872–1948)
Louis Pasteur
French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895)
Lucien Quélet
French mycologist and naturalist (1832–1899)
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Ludwik Fleck
Polish physician (1896–1961)
Luther Burbank
American botanist and horticulturist (1849–1926)
Marcel Minnaert
Belgian-Dutch astronomer (1893–1970)
Maria Bakunin
Italian chemist and biologist
Maria Montessori
Italian physician and educator (1870-1952)
Marianne North
English philanthropist, painter, biologist and botanical artist (1830-1890)
Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck
Dutch microbiologist (1851–1931)
Max Fürbringer
German anatomist and ornithologist (1846-1920)
Merritt Lyndon Fernald
American botanist (1873-1950)
Michael Roger Oldfield Thomas
British mammalogist (1858–1929)
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
English botanist and mycologist (1825–1914)
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Russian explorer and scientist
Nikolai Koltsov
Russian scientist (1872–1940)
Nikolai Severtzov
Russian ornithologist (1827-1885)
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian (Soviet) agronomist, botanist and geneticist (1887-1943)
Nikolay Danilevsky
Russian academic (1822-1885)
Nikolay Gamaleya
Russian and Soviet physician and scientist who played a pioneering role in...
Olga Lepeshinskaya
Soviet biologist (1871-1963)
Osbert Salvin
English naturalist (1835–1898)
Oscar Hertwig
German zoologist (1849–1922)
Othenio Abel
Austrian botanist, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (1875–1946)
Otto Kuntze
German botanist (1843–1907)
Patrick Geddes
British biologist, botanist and town planner (1854-1932)
Paul Broca
French physician, anatomist and anthropologist (1824-1880)
Paul Henri Lecomte
French botanist (1856-1934)
Paul Kammerer
Austrian scientist (1880-1926)
Peter Lesgaft
Russian physician (1837-1909)
Ray Lankester
British zoologist (1847-1929)
Raymond Pearl
American biogerontologist (1879-1940)
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Richard Altmann
German pathologist (1852-1900)
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Richard Goldschmidt
German-American biologist (1878-1958)
Richard Owen
English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)
Richard Pfeiffer
German physician and bacteriologist (1858–1945)
Robert Chambers
Scottish publisher and writer (1802–1871)
Robert Koch
German physician, bacteriologist (1843–1910)
Roman Vishniac
American photographer (1897–1990)
Rudolf Leuckart
German zoologist (1822-1898)
Rudolf Virchow
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, pathologist, prehistorian,...
Rudolf Weigl
Polish biologist, physician, and inventor (1883-1957)
Sahachiro Hata
Japanese bacteriologist (1873-1938)
Salim Ali
Indian ornithologist (1896-1987)
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Sergei Chetverikov
Russian scientist (1880–1959)
Sewall Wright
American geneticist (1889-1988)
Stephan Endlicher
Austrian botanist, linguist and numismatist (1804–1849)
Tadas Ivanauskas
Lithuanian ornithologist (1882–1970)
Themistocles Zammit
Maltese archaeologist, historian, medical doctor, academic, and writer (1864-1935)
Theodor Bilharz
German physician (1825–1862)
Theodor Boveri
German geneticist (1862-1915)
Theodor Escherich
Austrian doctor (1857–1911)
Theodore Nicholas Gill
American biologist (1837–1914)
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist (1866–1945)
Trofim Lysenko
Soviet agronomist and biologist (1898-1976)
Victor Hensen
German zoologist (1835-1924)
Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov
Russian botanist (1869-1945)
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
British evolutionary biologist (1860-1906)
Walter Sutton
American geneticist (1877-1916)
Wilhelm Hofmeister
German botanist (1824-1877)
Wilhelm Pfeffer
German botanist (1845–1920)
Wilhelm Philippe Schimper
German-French botanist (1808-1880)
Wilhelm Roux
German biologist (1850-1924)
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William Astbury
British biochemist (1898-1961)
William Bateson
British geneticist and biologist (1861-1926)
William H. Harvey
Irish botanist (1811-1866)
William Healey Dall
American malacologist, palaeontologist and explorer (1845 – 1927)
William Henry Hudson
British-Argentinian ornithologist (1841-1922)
William Hillebrand
German physician and botanist (1821-1886)
Yasui Kono
Japanese biologist and cytologist (1880-1971)
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Édouard Chatton
French biologist (1883–1947)
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-French immunologist, embryologist, biologist
Émile Blanchard
French zoologist and entomologist (1819–1900)
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Ada Yonath
Israeli chemist
Adrian Peter Bird
Geneticist and Professor at the University of Edinburgh
Adriana Hoffmann
Chilean botanist (1940–2022)
Albert Pilát
Czech botanist and mycologist (1903-1974)
Ana Colovic Lesoska
Macedonian biologist and environmentalist
Ana María Cuervo
Spanish scientist and biochemist
Anatol Rapoport
Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (1911–2007)
Andrew Fire
American biologist
André Lwoff
French microbiologist
Anita Roberts
American biologist
Anne Fausto-Sterling
American sexologist
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Anne McLaren
British developmental biologist (1927–2007)
Anthony R. Hunter
American biologist
Antonio García-Bellido
Spanish biologist (1936–2025)
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Aristid Lindenmayer
Hungarian biologist (1925–1989)
Asha de Vos
marine biologist
Austin Stevens
South African photographer and filmmaker
Baruj Benacerraf
Venezuelan-American immunologist
Beatrice Mintz
American biologist (1921–2022)
Ben Barres
American neurobiologist (1954–2017)
Bernard Heuvelmans
French cryptozoologist (1916-2001)
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Bernhard Rensch
German zoologist (1900-1990)
Bill Mollison
Australian permaculturist (1928–2016)
Boris Balinsky
Ukrainian/South African biologist (1905–1997)
Brian Goodwin
Canadian mathematician and biologist (1931–2009)
Bruce Alberts
American biochemist
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Bruce Bagemihl
biologist
Carol Greider
American molecular biologist
Caroline Dean
British plant scientist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)
Cornelia Bargmann
American neurobiologist
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
American medical researcher
David A. Sinclair
Australian biologist and geneticist
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David Goodall
British-born Australian botanist and ecologist (1914-2018)
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David Lack
British ornithologist and biologist (1910-1973)
David Sloan Wilson
American biologist
David Suzuki
Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
Donald Kennedy
American biologist (1931-2020)
Donna Haraway
American philosopher, scholar in the field of science and technology studies
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E. B. Ford
British ecological geneticist (1901-1988)
Edward B. Lewis
American biologist (1918–2004)
Edward O. Wilson
American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)
Elaine Fuchs
American biologist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Australian-American biological researcher
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Emile Zuckerkandl
molecular biologist (1922-2013)
Eric F. Wieschaus
American geneticist
Eric Lander
director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President
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Ernest McCulloch
Canadian cellular biologist (1926-2011)
Ernst Mayr
German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)
Ernst Schäfer
German zoologist (1910-1992)
Ernst von Glasersfeld
German philosopher (1917–2010)
Eugene Sledge
United States Marine (1923-2001)
Eugenia Sacerdote de Lustig
Argentine physician (1910-2011)
Eugenie Scott
American anthropologist
Eva Klein
Hungarian-Swedish biologist
Eva Nogales
Biophysicist, professor
Evelyn Fox Keller
American physicist, author and feminist
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Fan Pengfei
Chinese musician and singer
Farley Mowat
Canadian writer and environmentalist (1921–2014)
Ferid Murad
American physician and pharmacologist (1936–2023)
Fernando Vallejo
Colombian writer
Francis Crick
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; co-discoverer of the...
Francisco J. Ayala
Spanish-American philosopher and biologist (1934–2023)
Franco Rasetti
Italian nuclear physicist, paleontologist, and university teacher (1901–2001)
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Franz-Ulrich Hartl
German chemist
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi.
French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV
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George Ledyard Stebbins
American botanist and geneticist (1906-2000)
George Schaller
American naturalist
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist (1903-1989)
Georges Beuchat
Schuba dive pioneer (1910–1991)
Georges J. F. Köhler
German immunologist (1946–1995)
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Georgy Gause
Russian biologist (1910–1986)
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka
Ugandan scientist
Greg Graffin
American singer
Gregory Bateson
English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (1904–1980)
Gregory Goodwin Pincus
American biochemist (1903–1967)
Gretchen C. Daily
American biologist
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Grethe Rytter Hasle
Norwegian scientist and planktologist (1920-2013)
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H. Robert Horvitz
American biologist
Haldan Keffer Hartline
American neuroscientist
Hamilton Smith
American microbiologist (1931–2025)
Hans Krebs
German-British biochemist (1900-1981)
Har Gobind Khorana
Indian-American molecular biologist (1922-2011)
Henri Laborit
French physician, writer and philosopher (1914-1995)
Howard Temin
American geneticist
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Hugh Huxley
English biologist (1924-2013)
Humberto Maturana
Chilean biologist and philosopher (1928–2021)
Isabella Abbott
Hawaiian-American professor of botany, ethnobotanist and specialist in algology (1919-2010)
Israel Gelfand
Soviet-American mathematician
Jack Szostak
American biologist
Jacob Bronowski
Polish-born British mathematician (1908–1974)
James Watson
American molecular biologist, geneticist, zoologist and Nobel Laureate (1928–2025)
Jan Davis
American engineer and astronaut
Jean-Pierre Changeux
French biologist and neuroscietist (born 1936)
Jeffrey C. Hall
American geneticist and chronobiologist
Jeremy Wade
British television presenter and author
Jerry Coyne
American biologist
Jerzy Vetulani
Polish pharmacologist and neuroscientist (1936–2017)
Jessica Vall Montero
Spanish swimmer
Jill Bolte Taylor
American neuroscientist
Joachim Frank
German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate
Joanne Chory
American plant biologist and geneticist (1955–2024)
Johanna Döbereiner
Brazilian agronomist (1924-2000)
John Gurdon
British developmental biologist (1933–2025)
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John H. Edwards
British geneticist (1928–2007)
John Maynard Smith
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)
John Sulston
British biologist and Nobel laureate (1942–2018)
Jon van Rood
Dutch biologist (1926–2017)
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Judah Folkman
American biologist (1933–2008)
Jules A. Hoffmann
French biologist
Julia Serano
American writer and activist
Juliane Koepcke
mammalogist and only survivor of LANSA Flight 508
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June Almeida
British virologist
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Kaisha Atakhanova
biologist, social activist of Kazakhstan
Kamal Ranadive
Indian biologist
Karl H. Pribram
Austrian neuroscientist (1919–2015)
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Karl Shuker
British zoologist
Katherine Oppenheimer
German-American biologist and botanist (1910–1972)
Kathleen Rubins
NASA astronaut selected in July 2009
Ken Alibek
former Soviet physician, microbiologist, and biological warfare expert
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Lee Hartwell
American biologist
Leigh Van Valen
American biologist (1935–2010)
Lewis Wolpert
British biologist (1929–2021)
Lubna Tahtamouni
Jordanian biologist and cancer researcher
Luc Montagnier
French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of Physiology or Medicine (2008)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Austrian biologist and philosopher (1901–1972)
Lynn Margulis
American evolutionary biologist (1938–2011)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
Russian writer
Maarten 't Hart
Dutch writer (1944)
Maclyn McCarty
American geneticist (1911-2005)
Magdalena Tulli
Polish writer and translator
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Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
American biochemist (1925-1983)
Maria Vorontsova
daughter and eldest child of Vladimir Putin
Marian Stamp Dawkins
British biologist
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
South African naturalist (1907–2004)
Marta Torrejón
Spanish footballer
Martin Andresen
Norwegian footballer
Martin Chalfie
American biochemist, cell biologist, and university teacher (born 1947)
Martin Evans
English developmental biologist
Mary F. Lyon
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Mary-Claire King
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María de los Ángeles Alvariño González
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biophysicist (1906–1981)
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Mia Couto
Mozambican writer
Michael Sela
Israeli immunologist (1924–2022)
Michael Smith
Canadian Nobel laureate in chemistry
Michael W. Young
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Neil Campbell
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Niccolò Ammaniti
Italian writer (1966)
Nicole Marthe Le Douarin
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Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky
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Osamu Shimomura
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PZ Myers
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Ralph Steinman
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Reiji Okazaki
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Renato Dulbecco
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Richard Evans Schultes
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Richard Henderson
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Richard Lerner
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Robert Edwards
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Robert L. Carroll
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Robert MacArthur
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Robert Sapolsky
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Robert Trivers
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Robert Weinberg
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Roberta Bondar
Canadian astronaut
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British anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist
Roger D. Kornberg
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Ronald M. Evans
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Rupert Sheldrake
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Sandra M. Díaz
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German poet (1935–2013)
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environmental activist and writer
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Simona Kossak
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Stuart Kauffman
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Sunetra Gupta
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Suzanne Eaton
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Sydney Brenner
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Sylvia A. Earle
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Talcott Parsons
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Terence McKenna
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900-1975)
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Thomas Huckle Weller
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Tikvah Alper
radiobiologist
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Willi Hennig
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