- Jewel Isadora Plummer Cobb
- Jesse William Lazear
- Janet Rowley
- James Dewey Watson
- James Batcheller Sumner
- Jacques Loeb
- Jack Horner Horner
- J. Michael Bishop
- J. Craig Venter
- Howard Martin Temin
- Hewson Hoyt Swift
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Herbert Spencer, Gasser
- Harold Eliot Varmus
- Hamilton Othanel Smith
- Haldan Keffer Keffer Hartline
- Gunter Siegmund Stent
- Gertrude Belle Elion
- Gerald Maurice Edelman
- George Wells Beadle