Cortés
The taxon authority Cortés or Cortes may refer to:
- Alexander Cortés Diago, Colombian ornithologist
- Arturo Cortés, Chilean zoologist
- Carolina Cortés-Torres, Colombian entomologist
- Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés, Mexican ornithologist
- Federico Cortés, ichthyologist
- Gustavo Bellini Cortes, entomologist
- Jesús Cortés-Aguilar, entomologist
- Jorge Cortés, Costa Rican zoologist
- Oswaldo Cortés-Herrera, Colombian ornithologist
- Raúl Eduardo Cortés Peña (1915–2001), Chilean entomologist
- Rocío del Pilar Cortés-Ballén (born 1965; Cortés-Ballén), Colombian botanist and agronomist
- Santiago Cortés (1854–1924; Cortés), Columbian botanist