Derek William Yalden (4 November 1940 – 5 February 2013)[1] was an eminent British zoologist and academic.

University College London in 1962, he completed his PhD on carpal bones in mammals at Royal Holloway College, under P. M. Butler, in 1965.

[3] He then worked as an Assistant Lecturer, and eventually Senior Lecturer, at the University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences,[4] teaching vertebrate zoology.

An expert in the mammals of the UK and of Ethiopia, Yalden also took hundreds of students on field courses.

To honour his memory, a fund has been set up to provide undergraduates from limited income families with financial support to help fund their field trips whilst studying at Manchester.