August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (1775, Ernsbach near Öhringen - 1814, Wertheim am Main) was a German physician and botanist.
He was a student at the University of Jena, earning his medical doctorate in 1797.[1] Later, he worked as a physician in the city of Wertheim am Main.[2]
He described a number of plant species,[3] and is the taxonomic authority of the genus Sciophila (family Liliaceae).[4] The fern genus Wibelia (family Davalliaceae) was named in his honor by Johann Jakob Bernhardi.[5]