Howard Wilbur Jones, Jr. (December 30, 1910 – July 31, 2015) was an American gynecological surgeon and in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialist.

In 1967, when sexual identity specialist John Money recommended sex reassignment for a child named David Reimer, Jones performed the surgery.

Reimer, who had suffered a severe penile injury during a circumcision, was 22 months old when Jones removed his testicles, shaped his scrotal tissue to look like labia and repositioned his urethral opening.

[5] The case became controversial when Milton Diamond published a 1997 follow-up study[6] revealing Reimer experienced gender identity problems and lived as a man in adulthood.

[7] In the 1960s, he was able to participate in experiments involving sperm and oocytes with Robert Edwards, the doctor whose work later created the world's first test tube baby.

They created an in vitro fertilization (IVF) program at EVMS, which resulted in the 1981 birth of Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first test tube baby in the country.

[9] After his wife developed Alzheimer's disease in the late 1990s, Jones officially retired from his institute so that he could care for her.

[10] In February 2012, Jones successfully appealed to Virginia legislators to stop a bill that would have declared life to begin at conception.

[13] In 2011, Jones wrote an article for The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine on his keys to a long life.

[15] A son, Howard Jones, III, became the chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2009.