Editing List of biologists (section)

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*[[Jean Cabanis]] (1816–1906), German ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cabanis</ref> founder of the ''Journal für Ornithologie''
*[[Ángel Cabrera (naturalist)|Ángel Cabrera]] (1879–1960), Spanish zoologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cabrera</ref> author of ''South American Mammals''
*[[George Caley]] (1770–1829), English explorer and botanist, discoverer of Mount Banks, Australia
*[[Rudolf Jakob Camerarius]] (1665–1721), German botanist, chiefly known for studies of the reproductive organs of plants
*[[Augustin Pyramus de Candolle]] (1778–1841), Swiss botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: DC.</ref> who documented many plant families and created a new plant classification system
*[[Charles Cantor]] (born 1942), American biophysicist, known for pulse field gel electrophoresis, and as Director of the Human Genome Project
*[[María Luz Cárdenas]] (born 1944). French biochemist of Chilean origin at the [[CNRS]], [[Marseille]], known for work on mammalian [[hexokinase]]s.
*[[Elizabeth P. Carpenter]] (21st century), British structural biologist, professor
*[[Philip Pearsall Carpenter]] (1819–1877), British conchologist,  author of ''Catalogue of the collection of Mazatlan shells, in the British Museum: collected by Frederick Reigen''
*[[Alexis Carrel]] (1873–1944), French biologist and surgeon, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on sutures and organ transplants, advocate of eugenics
*[[Elie-Abel Carrière]] (1818–1896), French botanist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Carrière</ref> an authority on conifers who described many new species
*[[Clodoveo Carrión Mora]] (1883–1957), Ecuadorian paleontologist and naturalist who discovered many species and one genus
*[[Sean B. Carroll]] (born 1960), American evolutionary development biologist, author of ''The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution'' and other books
*[[Rachel Carson]] (1907–1964), American marine biologist, author of ''Silent Spring''
*[[George Washington Carver]] (1860–1943), American agriculturist,<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Carver</ref> author of bulletins on crop production, including ''How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption''
*[[John Cassin]] (1813–1869), American ornithologist,<ref>Abbreviation in zoology: Cassin</ref> who named many birds not described in the works of his predecessors
*[[Alexandre de Cassini]] (1781–1832), French botanist<ref>Abbreviation in botany: Cass.</ref> who named many flowering plants and new genera in the sunflower family, many of them from North America
*[[Amy Castle (entomologist)|Amy Castle]] (1880–1971), New Zealand entomologist, who worked primarily on the [[Lepidoptera]]
*[[William E. Castle]] (1867–1962), American geneticist who contributed to the mathematical foundations of Mendelian genetics, and anticipated what is now known as the [[Hardy–Weinberg law]].
*[[Mark Catesby]] (1683–1749), English naturalist who studied flora and fauna in the New World. Author of ''Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands''