| Jorge Eduardo Wright | |
| Birth Date: | 20 April 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Buenos Aires |
| Nationality: | Argentine |
| Fields: | Mycology |
| Alma Mater: | University of Buenos Aires University of Michigan |
| Academic Advisors: | Alexander H. Smith |
| Known For: | Contributions to the knowledge of Gasteromycetes of South America |
| Author Abbrev Bot: | J.E.Wright |
Jorge Eduardo Wright (20 April 1922 – 2005) was an Argentine mycologist. Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires in 1949. He was awarded a Latin American Guggenheim Fellowship and studied under Alexander H. Smith at the University of Michigan, under whom he received his Master of Science degree in botany in 1955. A year later he was awarded his doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires based on his research on the gasteromycetes and other basidiomycetes. Wright became a full professor in systematic botany at this university in 1960, a position he held until his retirement in 1988. During his career, he published over 120 scientific articles and several books.
In 1966, botanist Zdeněk Pouzar published a genus of fungi in the family Bondarzewiaceae, as Wrightoporia in Wright's honour.[1] [2]