Pearson
The taxon authority Pearson may refer to:
- Arthur Anselm Pearson (1874–1954; A.Pearson), English mycologist
- Barbara R. Pearson (B.R.Pearson), phycologist
- Henry Harold Welch Pearson (1870–1916; H.Pearson), British-born South African botanist
- Henry Richard Pearson, entomologist
- John C. Pearson Australian helminthologist
- John Thomas Pearson (1801–1851)
- Joseph Pearson (1881–1971), British zoologist
- Nathan E. Pearson (1895–1982, fl. 1920s–1930s), U.S. ichthyologist
- Oliver Payne Pearson (1915–2003), U.S. mammalogist
- Robert Hooper Pearson (1866–1918, R.H.Pearson), botanist
- Thomas Gilbert Pearson (1873–1943; T.G.Pearson), American botanist
- William Henry Pearson (1849–1923, Pearson), botanist