Young
The taxon authority Young may refer to:
- Alexander Young, U.S. tardigradologist
- Alvin L. Young, A.L.Young, botanist
- Andrew Donovan Young, Canadian entomologist
- Andrew J. Young (fl. 2011; A.J.Young), botanist
- Andy Young, Australian entomologist
- Anthony M. Young (fl. 1973; A.M.Young), Australian mycologist
- Catherine J. Young, Australian entomologist
- Chen W. Young, U.S. entomologist
- Craig M. Young, zoologist
- Daniel K. Young, U.S. entomologist (Coleoptera)
- David Allan Young, entomologist (Cicadellidae)
- David N. Young (D.N.Young), phycologist
- Donald Peter Young (1917–1972, D.P.Young), botanist
- Emily Young, ichthyologist
- Euan C. Young, entomologist
- Chung Chien Young (1897–1979), Chinese paleontologist
- Forrest Young (fl. 2006), ichthyologist
- Frank Nelson Young (1915–1998), U.S. entomologist
- Gavin C. Young (fl. 1982), ichthyologist
- J.O. Young, malacologist
- James D. Young (fl. 2020), lepidopterist.
- James J. Young, entomologist
- Jeanne E. Young, herpetologist
- Jessica R. Young, ornithologist
- John Young - various
- John Zachary Young, English zoologist
- Mark Thomas Young (fl. 2011), palaeontologist
- Mary Sophie Young (1872-1919; M.S.Young), American botanist
- Monica R. Young, Canadian acarologist
- Paulo S. Young, Brazilian carcinologist
- Peter C. Young (born 1940), Australian parasitologist and ichthyologist
- Ralph George Norwood Young (1904–1979, R.G.N.Young), botanist
- Richard Edwin Young, malacologist
- Richard P. Young, British mammalogist
- Samantha L. Young (fl. 2016; S.L.Young), botanist
- Stephen M. Young (fl. 1992: S.M.Young), botanist
- Thomas W.K. Young (fl. 1969; T.W.K.Young), mycologist
- Thomas Young (1773-1829; Young), botanist
- V.T. Young (fl. 1980), palaeontologist