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David William Mitchell

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David William Mitchell (1813 - 1859) was an English zoologist and illustrator.

Mitchell was secretary of the Zoological Society of London from 1847 to 1859, and then director of the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris, where he died. Previously he had been the illustrator of George Robert Gray's Genera of Birds, and had employed Joseph Wolf as his assistant on the project.