John Young FRSE (1835–1902) was a British Regius Professor of Natural History at Glasgow University and Keeper of the Hunterian Museum from 1866 to 1902.

[5] His background was a fortuitous as the retiring Regius Chair of Natural History in Glasgow was becoming vacant and the last person, Henry Darwin Rogers, who had died, was a geologist.

[6] From 1866 he served Glasgow University as its Professor of Natural History, unusually teaching both Zoology and Geology.

[4] He was concurrently the head Keeper of the Hunterian Museum which contained the eclectic gatherings of its founder.

(1823–1900), also of Glasgow and a geologist and Hunterian Museum curator, with whom he co-authored papers and named several taxa.