Brief history of modern microbiology
- Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek (Delft, the Netherlands, 1632 – 1723)
- Robert Hooke (Freshwater, United Kingdom, 1635 – London, United Kingdom, 1703)
- Lazzaro Spallanzani (Scandiano, Italy, 1729 – Pavia, Italy, 1799)
- Edward Anthony Jenner (Berkeley, United Kingdom, 1749 – 1823)
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (Delitzsch, Germany, 1795 – Berlin, Germany, 1876)
- Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (Budapest, Hungary, 1818 – Vienna, Austria, 1865)
- John Tyndall (Leighlinbridge, Ireland, 1820 – Hindhead, United Kingdom, 1893)
- Louis Pasteur (Dole, France, 1822 – Marnes la Coquette, France, 1895) +info ++info +++info
- Sir Joseph Lister, Bt (Upton, United Kingdom, 1827 – Walmer, United Kingdom, 1912)
- Ferdinand Julius Cohn (Wroclaw, Poland, 1828 – 1898)
- Karl Joseph Eberth (Würzburg, Germany, 1835 – Berlin, Germany, 1926)
- Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (Bergen, Norway, 1841 – Florø, Norway, 1912)
- Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, 1843 – Baden-Baden, Germany, 1910) +info
- Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1845 – Paris, France, 1916)
- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (Paris, France, 1845 – 1922)
- Walther Hesse (Bischofswerda, Germany, 1846 – Dresden, Germany, 1911)
- Angelina Fanny Hesse (New York, New York, USA, 1850 – Dresden, Germany, 1934) +info
- Major Walter Reed (Belroi, Virginia, USA, 1851 – Washington, D. C., USA, 1902)
- Jaume Ferran Clua (Corbera d’Ebre, Spain, 1851 – Barcelona, Spain, 1929)
- Martinus Willem Beijerinck (Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1851 – Gorssel, the Netherlands, 1931) +info
- Friedrich August Johannes Loeffler (Frankfurt, Germany, 1852 – Berlin, Germany, 1915)
- Julius Richard Petri (Barmen, Germany, 1852 – Zeitz, Germany, 1921)
- Baron Shibasaburō Kitasato (Oguni, Japan, 1852 – Nakanocho, Japan, 1931)
- Hans Christian Joachim Gram (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1853 – 1938)
- Pierre Paul Émile Roux (Confolens, France, 1853 – Paris, France, 1933)
- Emil Adolf von Behring (Hansdorf, Germany, 1854 – Marburg, Germany, 1917)
- Paul Ehrlich (Strehlen, Germany, 1854 – Hamburg, Germany, 1915)
- Giovanni Battista Grassi (Rovellasca, Italy, 1854 – Roma, Italy, 1925)
- Major-General Sir David Bruce (Melbourne, Australia, 1855 – London, United Kingdom, 1931)
- Theodor Escherich (Ansbach, Kingdom of Bavaria, 1857 – Vienna, Austria-Hungary, 1911)
- Sir Ronald Ross (Almora, India, 1857 – London, United Kingdom, 1932)
- Theobald Smith (Albany, New York, USA, 1859 – New York, New York, USA, 1934)
- Arthur Nicolaier (Cosel, Germany, 1862 – Berlin, Germany, 1942)
- Léon Charles Albert Calmette (Nice, France, 1863 – Paris, France, 1933)
- Alexandre Emile John Yersin (Aubonne, Switzerland, 1863 – Nha Trang, Vietnam, 1943)
- Dmitri Iosifovich Ivanovsky (Nizy, Russia, 1864 – Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 1920)
- Howard Taylor Ricketts (Findlay, Ohio, USA, 1871 – Mexico City, Mexico, 1910)
- Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner (Kaunas, Lithuania, 1871 – Berlin, Germany, 1935) +info
- Kiyoshi Shiga (Sendai, Japan, 1871 – 1957)
- Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (Poitiers, France, 1872 – Paris, France, 1961)
- Sir Alexander Fleming (Darvel, United Kingdom, 1881 – London, United Kingdom, 1955) +info
- Alice Catherine Evans (Neath, Pennsylvania, USA, 1881 – Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 1975)
- Rudolf Stefan Weigl (Přerov, Czech Republic, 1883 – Zakopane, Poland, 1957)
- Emmy Klieneberger-Nobel (Frankfurt, Germany, 1892 – London, United Kingdom, 1985) +info
- Rebecca Craighill Lancefield (New York, New York, USA, 1895 – Douglaston, Long Island, USA, 1981) +info
- Salvador Edward Luria (Turin, Italia, 1912 – Lexington, Massachusetts, USA, 1991)
- Jonas Edward Salk (New York, New York, USA, 1914 – La Jolla, California, USA, 1995)
- Millicent “Mimi” Cohen Goldschmidt (Erie, Pennsylvania, USA, 1926)
- Carl Richard Woese (Syracuse, New York, USA, 1928 – Urbana, Illinois, USA, 2012)
- Lynn Margulis (Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1938 – Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, 2011) +info
- Daniel Yee Chak Fung (Hong Kong, China, 1942 – Manhattan, Kansas, USA, 2019)