List of Biologists

Frans de Waal (born 1948), Dutch ethologist, primatologist and psychologist
Coslett Herbert Waddell (1858–1919), Irish botanist
Jeremy Wade (1960 - ) Writer and TV presenter with a special interest in rivers and freshwater fish.
Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832), German herpetologist
Warren H. Wagner (1920–2000), American botanist
Göran Wahlenberg (1780–1851), Swedish naturalist
Selman Waksman (1888–1973), American biochemist, winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on antibiotics
Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852), French entomologist
George Wald (1906–1997), American biologist, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on visual perception
Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), British naturalist and biologist
Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854), Danish botanist
Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808–1869), American entomologist
William Grey Walter (1910–1977), American neurophysiologist and roboticist, made a number of important discoveries in the field of electroencephalography
Deepal Warakagoda (born 1965), Sri Lankan ornithologist
J. Robin Warren (born 1937), Australian pathologist, winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that most stomach ulcers are caused by a strain of bacteria
Charles Waterton (1782–1865), English naturalist
James D. Watson (born 1928), Nobel Prize-winning biologist, co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule
Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854), English botanist (abbr. in botany: Webb)
Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877), English botanist (abbr. in botany: Wedd.)
Robert Weinberg, cancer biologist
August Weismann (1834–1914), German biologist
Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–1872), Austrian botanist
Karl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician and neuroanatomist, discovered Wernicke's area
Victor Westhoff (1916–2001), Dutch botanist
Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978), American ornithologist
William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937), American entomologist and myrmecologist
Gilbert White (1720–1795), English naturalist
John White (c. 1756–1832), English botanist
Robert Wiedersheim (1848–1923), German anatomist.
Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867), German explorer and biologist.
Hans Wiehler (1930–2003), American botanist (abbr. in botany: Wiehler)
Torsten Wiesel (born 1924), Swedish-born American neurobiologist, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on information processing in the visual system
Charles Wilkes (1798–1877), American explorer and naturalist
Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), German botanist and pharmacist (abbr. in botany: Willd.)
George C. Williams (born 1926), American evolutionary biologist, credited with introducing the gene-centric view of evolution
Francis Willughby (1635–1672), English ornithologist and ichthyologist
Alexander Wilson (1766–1813), Scottish-American ornithologist
E. A. Wilson (1872–1912), English naturalist
Edward O. Wilson (born 1929), American entomologist and father of sociobiology, two time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Sergei Winogradsky (1856–1953), Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle of life concept and discovered the biological process of nitrification
Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), American anatomist and physician. The genus Wisteria is named after him
Henry Witherby (1873–1943), British ornithologist
William Withering (1741–1799), English botanist
Carl Woese (born 1928), American microbiologist, identified the Archaea, a major division of organisms
Felisa Wolfe-Simon, American biogeochemist and microbial geobiologist
Flossie Wong-Staal (born 1947), American virologist
Sewall Wright (1889–1988), American geneticist, co-founder of population genetics
V. C. Wynne-Edwards (1906–1997), Scottish zoologist, introduced the hypothesis of group selection in evolution
Charles Wyville Thompson (1832–1882), Scottish marine biologist