Wesley Kingston Whitten (1 August 1918 – 24 May 2010) was a professor of reproductive biology at the Australian National University and later director of the Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States.

He was educated at the University of Sydney receiving a BVSc with honors in 1939; a BSc in 1941; and DSc in 1962.

He was director of animal breeding and fellow in the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University from 1950 to 1961.

He was assistant director of the National Biological Standards Laboratory, Canberra, Australia from 1961 to 1966.

In 1982, he became a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and he was awarded the Marshall Medal from the Society for the Study of Fertility in 1993.