- Francis Crick chemist and molecular biologist, discovered structure of DNA molecule
- Charles Darwin the father of the science of evolutionary biology
- Richard Dawkins zoologist
- Stephen Jay Gould paleontologist
- J.B.Haldane geneticist and evolutionary biologist, founded population genetics and the modern synthesis
- Bill Hamilton formulated theory of inclusive fitness and kin selection
- Thomas Huxley "Darwin's Bulldog", early evolutionary biologist
- Lynn Margulis introduced the theory of eukaryotic cell origin through endosymbiosis
- Barbara McClintock geneticist and molecular biologist, discovered transposons
- Gregor Mendel discovered the basic rules of heredity
- Life Story of Gregor Mendel
- Ernst Mayr evolutionary biologist
- Fred Sanger founder of DNA and protein sequencing techniques
- John Maynard Smith evolutionary biologist
- Alfred Russel Wallace evolutionary biologist
- James Watson molecular biologist, discovered structure of DNA molecule
- Edward Wilson founded "sociobiology"
