Jan Willem Bowdewyn Gunning

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Jan Willem Bowdewyn Gunning (September 3, 1860 - June 23, 1913) was a South African zoologist and Director of the Transvaal Museum from 1896 to 1912. He founded the Pretoria National Zoo and was co-founder of the African Ornithologists' Union.

His commemorated in the binomial name of the East Coast Akalat Sheppardia gunningi.

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