Oliver Peebles Jenkins (November 3, 1850 in Bantam, Ohio – January 9, 1935 in Palo Alto, California) was an American physiologist and histologist, mainly associated with Stanford University.
Jenkins graduated from Moores Hill College (now the University of Evansville) in 1869 and served as a teacher, high school principal and superintendent in the public school systems of Indiana, Wisconsin and California, returning to Moores Hill College in 1876 to take up a post as a professor.
In that year he was appointed a founding faculty member at Stanford University and he remained there until he retired in 1916 when he was Professor Emeritus of Physiology.
[1] He collected specimens on expeditions with David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann and he wrote works on the fishes of the United States of America and of Hawaii, as well as on invertebrate nervous systems.
[2] The combtooth blenny Hypsoblennius jenkinsi was named in honour Jenkins by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann.