List of neuroscientists

Many famous neuroscientists are from the 20th and 21st century, as neuroscience is a fairly new science. However many anatomists, physiologist, and physicians are considered to be neuroscientists as well. This lists compiles the names of all the neuroscientists with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a reflection of their relative importance in the field.

A

 * Jafri Malin Abdullah
 * Edgar Douglas Adrian
 * Patrick Aebischer
 * George Aghajanian
 * John Allman
 * Alois Alzheimer
 * David Amaral
 * Per Andersen
 * David J. Anderson
 * Julius Caesar Aranzi
 * Richard Axel
 * Julius Axelrod

B

 * Paul Bach-y-Rita
 * Seymour Benzer

C

 * Donald Calne
 * Matteo Carandini
 * Arvid Carlsson
 * Ugo Cerletti
 * Carlos Chagas Filho
 * Jean-Pierre Changeux
 * Jean-Martin Charcot
 * Jules Cotard
 * Stanley Cohen (biochemist)
 * Miguel Rolando Covian
 * Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt
 * Francis Crick
 * Harvey Cushing

D

 * Henry Hallett Dale
 * Antonio Damasio
 * Richard Davidson
 * Richard Deth
 * Adele Diamond
 * Merlin Donald
 * Yadin Dudai
 * Lillian Dyck

E

 * John Carew Eccles
 * Gerald Edelman
 * Erasistratus
 * Joseph Erlanger
 * Ulf von Euler
 * Edward Evarts

F

 * James Fallon
 * Eva Feldman
 * David Ferrier
 * Edward Flatau
 * Paul Flechsig
 * Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow
 * Jean Pierre Flourens
 * Otfrid Foerster
 * Auguste-Henri Forel
 * Allan H. Frey

G

 * Franz Joseph Gall
 * Luigi Galvani
 * Herbert Spencer Gasser
 * Henri Gastaut
 * Michael Gazzaniga
 * Anirvan Ghosh
 * Donald A. Glaser
 * Camillo Golgi
 * Elizabeth Gould
 * Ragnar Granit
 * Michael E. Greenberg
 * Paul Greengard
 * Susan Greenfield
 * Roger Guillemin
 * Fred "Rusty" Gage

H

 * Marshall Hall
 * Haldan Keffer Hartline
 * Demis Hassabis
 * Donald Olding Hebb
 * Walter Rudolf Hess
 * Martin Heisenberg
 * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
 * Victor Horsley
 * David H. Hubel
 * Robert Roland Hughes
 * Andrew Huxley

I

 * Laurent Itti

J

 * John Hughlings Jackson
 * Herbert Jasper
 * Ted Jones
 * Béla Julesz

K

 * Jon Kaas
 * Eric R. Kandel
 * Nancy Kanwisher
 * George Karpati
 * Bernard Katz
 * Lawrence C. Katz
 * J. A. Scott Kelso
 * Christof Koch
 * Albert von Kölliker
 * Jerzy Konorski
 * George Koob
 * Emil Kraepelin

L

 * Jan Lauwereyns
 * Aristides Leão
 * Joseph LeDoux
 * Lars Leksell
 * Jerome Lettvin
 * Simon LeVay
 * Rita Levi-Montalcini
 * Daniel Levitin
 * John C. Lilly
 * Rodolfo Llinás
 * Otto Loewi
 * Jules Bernard Luys

M

 * William Macewen
 * Roderick MacKinnon
 * Paolo Mantegazza
 * Eve Marder
 * Carlo Matteucci
 * James McClelland
 * James McGaugh
 * James V. McConnell
 * Warren McCulloch
 * H. Houston Merritt
 * Ladislas J. Meduna
 * Gero Miesenböck
 * Earl K. Miller
 * Brenda Milner
 * Egas Moniz
 * Read Montague
 * Vernon Mountcastle

N

 * Walle Nauta
 * Helen Neville
 * Miguel Nicolelis
 * Franz Nissl

P

 * James Papez
 * Ivan Pavlov
 * Wilder Penfield
 * Candace Pert
 * Karl Pribram
 * Jan Evangelista Purkyně

R

 * Pasko Rakic
 * Patricia Goldman Rakic
 * Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
 * Santiago Ramón y Cajal
 * Geraint Rees
 * Thomas Reh
 * Gustaf Retzius
 * Edmund Rolls
 * Steven Rose

S

 * Renato M. E. Sabbatini
 * Oliver Sacks
 * Manfred Sakel
 * Anders Sandberg
 * Robert Sapolsky
 * Erich Schröger
 * Theodor Schwann
 * Terrence J. Sejnowski
 * Raj Shankar
 * Carla J. Shatz
 * Gordon Shepherd
 * Charles Scott Sherrington
 * Aafia Siddiqui
 * Solomon H. Snyder
 * Roger Wolcott Sperry
 * Karel Svoboda

T

 * Ichiji Tasaki
 * Sally Temple
 * Johannes Thome
 * Susumu Tonegawa
 * Endel Tulving

V

 * Elliott Valenstein
 * Francisco Varela

W

 * Julius Wagner-Jauregg
 * Kevin Warwick
 * George Wald
 * Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz
 * William Grey Walter
 * Karl Wernicke
 * Torsten Wiesel
 * Samuel Williamson
 * Thomas Willis
 * Moshe Wolman

Z

 * E. Paul Zehr
 * Semir Zeki
 * George Zweig
 * Charles Zuker