List of bacterial genera named after personal names

Many bacterial species are named after people, either the discoverer or a famous person in the field of microbiology. For example, Salmonella is named after D.E. Salmon, who discovered it (albeit as "Bacillus typhi").

For the generic epithet, all names derived from people must be in the female nominative case, either by changing the ending to -a or to the diminutive -ella, depending on the name.

For the specific epithet, the names can be converted into either adjectival form (adding -nus (m.), -na (f.), -num (n.) according to the gender of the genus name) or the genitive of the Latinised name.

Adlercreutzia – H. Adlercreutz, a Finnish professor

Afifella – S. Afif, a British philosopher and painter

Agreia – Nina S. Agre, a Russian microbiologist

Ahrensia – Ahrens, a German microbiologist

Akkermansia – Antoon Akkermans (1940–2006), a Dutch microbiologist

Allisonella – M. J. Allison, an American microbiologist

Ameyamaea – Minoru Ameyama, a Japanese bacteriologist

Anderseniella – Valérie Andersen, a French bacteriologist

Andreprevotia – André Romain Prévot (1894–1982), a French bacteriologist

Asaia – Toshinobu Asai (1902–1975), a Japanese bacteriologist

Neoasaia – Toshinobu Asai (1902–1975), a Japanese bacteriologist

Asanoa – Koso Asano, a Japanese microbiologist

Austwickia – Peter K.C. Austwick, a New Zealand botanist

Barnesiella – Ella M. Barnes, British microbiologist

Bartonella – Alberto L. Barton, Peruvian physician

Bauldia – John Bauld, an Australian microbiologist

Beggiatoa – F. S. Beggiato, a physician of Vicenza

Beijerinckia – Martinus W. Beijerinck, a Dutch microbiologist

Belliella – Russell Bell, a Swedish aquatic microbiologist

Belnapia – Jayne Belnap, an American microbiologist

Beneckea – W. Benecke, a German bacteriologist

Bergeriella – U. Berger, a German bacteriologist

Bergeyella – David Hendricks Bergey, an American bacteriologist

Bermanella – Tom Berman, an Israeli aquatic microbial ecologist

Bhargavaea – Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, an Indian biologist

Bibersteinia – Ernst L. Biberstein, an American bacteriologist

Bizionia – Bartolomeo Bizio, an Italian naturalist

Blautia – Michael Blaut, a German microbiologist

Bordetella – Jules Bordet, a Belgian microbiologist

Borkar – Suresh Borkar, an Indian scientist

Borrelia – Amédée Borrel, a French scientist

Bosea – J. C. Bose, the founder of the Bose Institute

Bowmanella – John P. Bowman, an Australian microbiologist

Brackiella – Manfred Brack, a German pathologist

Branhamella – Sara Branham, an American microbiologist

Brenneria – Don J. Brenner, an American bacteriologist

Brucella – Sir David Bruce, a Scottish physician

Buchnera – Paul Buchner, a German biologist

Bulleidia – Arthur Bulleid, a British oral microbiologist

Burkholderia – W. H. Burkholder, an American bacteriologist

Buttiauxella – René Buttiaux, a French bacteriologist

Castellaniella – Sir Aldo Castellani, a British-Italian bacteriologist

Catonella – Elizabeth P. Cato, a United States microbiologist

Chainia – Ernst Boris Mikaelovich Chain, a German/British microbiologist

Clevelandina – L. R. Cleveland, an American biologist

Cobetia – Andre B. Cobet, an American bacteriologist

Cohnella – Ferdinand Cohn, a German microbiologist

Collinsella – Matthew D. Collins, a British microbiologist

Colwellia – Rita R. Colwell, an American bacteriologist

Costertonia – J. W. Costerton, an American bacteriologist

Couchioplanes – J. N. Couch, an American mycologist

Cowdria – E. V. Cowdry, an American rickettsiologist

Coxiella – Herald R. Cox, an American microbiologist

Crabtreella – K. Crabtree, an American microbiologist

Crossiella – Thomas Cross, a British microbiologist

Dasania – Dasan, a Korean scientist

Deleya – Jozef De Ley, a Belgian microbiologist

Derxia – H. G. Derx, a Dutch microbiologist

Devosia – Paul De Vos, a Belgian microbiologist

Devriesea – L. A. Devriese, a Belgian veterinary microbiologist

Dickeya – Robert S. Dickey, an American phytopathologist

Dietzia – Alma Dietz, an American microbiologist

Dongia – Xiu-Zhu Dong, a Chinese bacteriologist and bacterial taxonomist

Dorea – Joël Doré, a French microbiologist

Dubosiella – René Dubos, an American microbiologist

Duganella – P. R. Dugan, an American microbiologist