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