List of Biologists

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
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 (born 1922), American biologist who won the 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, (born 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