Ball
The taxon authority Ball may refer to:
- Alexander D. Ball, carcinologist
- Bernard Ball, U.S. biologist
- Carleton Roy Ball (1873–1958, C.R.Ball), U.S. botanist
- Elmer Darwin Ball (1870–1943), entomologist (Hemiptera)
- George E. Ball (1926–2019), Canadian entomologist
- Ian Raymond Ball (1941–2000), British helminthologist
- John Ball (1818–1889, Ball), botanist
- Jonathan B. Ball, South African lepidopterist
- Lawrence Ball, British zoologist
- Olivier Jean-Philippe Ball, New Zealand zoologist
- Peter William Ball (born 1932, P.W.Ball), botanist
- Robert Ball (1802–1857), Irish naturalist
- Valentine Ball (1843–1895), Irish geologist and ornithologist