The taxon authority Wood may refer to:

• Adrian Wood, ostracodologist
• Albert Elmer Wood (1910–2002), U.S. paleomammalogist
• Alec E. Wood (A.E. Wood), Australian mycologist
• Alphonso Wood (1810–1881, Alph.Wood), U.S. botanist
• Ann P. Wood, British bacteriologist
• Bertha Wood (B.Wood), botanist
• Camila T. Wood, carcinologist
• Carroll E. Wood (born 1921, C.E.Wood), botanist
• Charles Thorold Wood (1777–1852), English ornithologist
• D. Monty Wood - entomologist
• Dustin A. Wood, entomologist
• Geoffrey H.S. Wood (1927–1927, G.H.S.Wood), British botanist
• Gilbert Congdon Wood (1915–2000), U.S. herpetologist and entomologist
• Hannah M. Wood, Danish arachnologist
• Horatio C. Wood (1841–1920, H.C.Wood), U.S. physician and biologist
• Jeffrey James Wood (born 1952, J.J.Wood), English botanist
• John George Wood (1827–1889), English naturalist
• John H. Wood, English entomologist
• John Bland Wood (1813-1890), J.B.Wood), botanist
• John Medley Wood (1827–1915, J.M.Wood), botanist
• John Richard Ironside Wood (born 1944, J.R.I.Wood), botanist
• Kenneth Richard Wood (born 1953, K.R.Wood), botanist
• Mark W. Wood (M.W.Wood), botanist
• Perry L. Wood Jr, herpetologist
• Raymond A. Wood, U.S. helminthologist
• Robert M. Wood, U.S. ichthyologist
• Roger C. Wood, U.S. herpetologist and paleontologist
• Stephen Lane Wood, entomologist
• T. G. Wood, acarologist
• Thomas J. Wood, entomologist
• Thomas Waterman Wood (1823–1903), U.S. painter and ornithological illustrator
• Timothy S. Wood, U.S. bryozoologist
• Wallace F. Wood, U.S. herpetologist
• William Wood (1745–1808, Wood), English botanist
• William Wood (1774–1857), English zoologist
• William Wood, U.S. ichthyologist
• William W. Wood, U.S. naturalist

See also

• Woods