Samuel Wendell Williston 1851 - 1918
- occupation:
- Educator, Palaeontologist
- Nationality:
- American
- born in:
- Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States
A paleontologist, educator and entomologist. He was the first person to propose that birds developed flight by running (cursorially) rather than by leaping from a tree (arboreally).
Remembered for Williston's law.