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- Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791), German botanist
- François Gagnepain (1866–1952), French botanist
- Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858), French
- Biruté Galdikas (born 1946), Canadian primatologist, conducted pioneering studies on orangutans
- Robert Gallo (born 1937), American virologist and co-discoverer of HIV
- William Gambel (1823–1849), American naturalist
- Prosper Garnot (1794–1838), French naturalist
- Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854), French botanist
- Michael Gazzaniga, American cognitive neuroscientist, best known for his research on split-brain patients
- Howard Scott Gentry (1903–1993), American botanist
- John Gerard (1545–1611/12), English botanist
- Conrad von Gesner (1516–1565), Swiss naturalist (abbr. in botany: Gesner)
- Luca Ghini (1490–1566), Italian botanist
- Clelia Giacobini (1931–2010), Italian microbiologist, a pioneer of microbiology applied to conservation-restoration
- John H. Gillespie, American molecular evolutionist and population geneticist
- Charles Henry Gimingham (born 1923), British botanist
- Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895), French biologist, ichthyologist, herpetologist
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804), German naturalist (abbr. in botany: J.F.Gmel.)
- Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755), German naturalist (abbr. in botany: J.G.Gmel.)
- Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774), German botanist (abbr. in botany: S.G.Gmel.)
- Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919), English naturalist and ornithologist
- Émil Goeldi (1859–1917), Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), known for his literary works but also a scientist. In biology: his theory of plant metamorphosis stipulated that all plant formation stems from a modification of the Leaf.
- Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian physician and Nobel prize winner, pioneer in neurobiology
- Jane Goodall (born 1934), British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, best known for conducting a forty-year study of chimpanzee social and family life.
- George Gordon (1806–1879), British botanist
- Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888), English naturalist
- Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866), American conchologist.
- John Gould (1804–1881), English ornithologist
- Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002), American paleontologist
- Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921), French naturalist and explorer
- Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957), French naturalist and explorer son of Alfred Grandidier
- Temple Grandin (born 1947), American animal scientist; world-renowned as a designer of humane livestock facilities and for her writings on her experience with autism
- Chapman Grant (1887–1983), American herpetologist
- Pierre-Paul Grassé (1895–1985), French zoologist
- Asa Gray (1810–1888), American botanist
- George Robert Gray (1808–1872), English zoologist
- J.E. Gray (1800–1875), British zoologist
- Andrew Jackson Grayson (1819–1869), American ornithologist
- William King Gregory (1876–1970), American zoologist
- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), British ornithologist
- Frederick Griffith (1879-1941), British bacteriologist
- Jan Frederik Gronovius (1690–1762), Dutch botanist
- Pavel Grošelj (1883–1940), biologist and belletrist
- Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799–1874), French entomologist
- Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781), German naturalist
- Allvar Gullstrand (1862–1930), Swedish ophthalmologist, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for research on the image formation by the lens of the eye"
- Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773), Norwegian botanist
- Albert C. L. G. Günther (1830–1914), British/German zoologist
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