Nelson
The taxon authority Nelson may refer to:
- Andrea Nelson, U.S. entomologist
- Aven Nelson (1859–1952, A.Nelson), botanist
- Cirilo Nelson (born 1938, C.Nelson), Honduran botanist
- Craig Eugene Nelson (born 1940), U.S. herpetologist
- C. Riley Nelson (C.R.Nelson), U.S. entomologist
- David Nelson (?–1789, Nelson), English botanist
- Diane R. Nelson, U.S. biologist
- Edward William Nelson (1855–1934), naturalist
- Elias Emanuel Nelson (1876–1949, E.E.Nelson), botanist
- Erich Nelson (1897–1980, E.Nelson), Austrian botanist and orchid specialist
- Ernest Charles Nelson (born 1951, E.C.Nelson), botanist
- Gareth Jon Nelson (born 1937), U.S. ichthyologist
- Gary Nelson, Australian ichthyologist
- Gayle H. Nelson (1926–2005), U.S. entomologist, specialist on Buprestidae
- Ira Schreiber Nelson (1911–1965, I.S.Nelson), botanist
- James Carlton Nelson (1867–1944, J.C.Nelson), botanist
- Jane P. Nelson, J.P.Nelson), botanist
- John Emilie Nelson (fl. 1860, J.Nelson), British botanist
- John B. Nelson (born 1951, J.B.Nelson), botanist
- Joseph Schieser Nelson (1937–2011), ichthyologist
- Julie Kierstead Nelson (fl. 2015, J.K.Nelson), botanist
- Michael W. Nelson, U.S. entomologist
- R. John Nelson, ichthyologist
- Thomas W. Nelson (1928–2006), T.W.Nelson), botanist
- Wendy Alison Nelson (born 1954, W.A.Nelson), phycologist
- Whitney A. Nelson, U.S. acarologist.