Humayun Abdulali (19142001), Indian ornithologist Aziz Ab'Saber (1924-2012), Brazilian geographer, geologist and ecologist Erik Acharius

(17571819), Swedish botanist Johann Friedrich Adam (18th century 1806), Russian botanist Arthur Adams (18201878), English physician and naturalist Henry Adams (18131877), English naturalist and conchologist William Adamson (17311793), Scottish botanist (abbr. in botany: Aiton) Michel Adanson (17271806), French naturalist (abbr. in botany: Adans.) Edgar Douglas Adrian (18891977), British electrophysiologist, winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on neurons Adam Afzelius (17501837), Swedish botanist Carl Adolph Agardh (17851859), Swedish botanist Jacob Georg Agardh (18131901), Swedish botanist Louis Agassiz (18071873), Swiss zoologist Alexander Agassiz (18351910), American zoologist, son of Louis Agassiz Nikolaus Ager (15681634), French botanist Pedro Alberch i Vi (19541998), Spanish naturalist Bruce Alberts (born 1938), American biochemist, former President of the United States National Academy of Sciences Boyd Alexander (18731910), English ornithologist Horace Alexander (18891989), English ornithologist Richard D. Alexander (born 1930), American evolutionary biologist Wilfred Backhouse Alexander (18851965), English ornithologist Alfred William Alcock (18591933), British naturalist Salim Ali (18961987), Indian ornithologist Frdric-Louis Allamand (1736 after 1803), Swiss botanist (abbr. in botany: F.Allam.) Warder Clyde Allee (18851955), American zoologist and ecologist, identified the Allee effect Joel Asaph Allen (18381921), birds, mammals George James Allman (18121898), British naturalist Prospero Alpini (15531617), Italian botanist Sidney Altman (born 1939), Canadian-born molecular biologist, winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on RNA Bruce Ames (born 1928), American biochemist, inventor of the Ames test Jos Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta (18321897), Portuguese naturalist George French Angas (18221886), English explorer, naturalist, conchologist and painter Jakob Johan Adolf Appellf (18571921), Swedish marine zoologist Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC), Greek philosopher Peter Artedi (17051735), Swedish naturalist Gilbert Ashwell (born 1916), American biochemist, pioneer in the study of cell receptor Jean Baptiste Audebert (17591800), French naturalist Jean Victoire Audouin (17971841), French zoologist John James Audubon (17861851), American ornithologist Charlotte Auerbach (18991994), German geneticist, founded the discipline of mutagenesis Richard Axel (born 1946), Nobel prize winning physiologist

Julius Axelrod (19122004), American biochemist, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on catecholamine neurotransmitters William Orville Ayres (18171887), American physician and ichthyologist Flix de Azara (17461811), Spanish naturalist