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List of botanists by author abbreviation __NOTOC__ A * Aa – Hubertus Antonius van der Aa (1935–2017) * A.A.Burb. – Andrew A. Burbidge (floruit, fl. 2016) * A.A.Cocucci – (born 1959) * A.A.Eaton – Alvah Augustus Eaton (1865–1908) * A.A.Fisch.Waldh. – Alexandr Alexandro ...

is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new plant name. Botany is one of the few sciences which has had, since the Middle Ages, substantial participation by women.

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Erik Acharius Erik Acharius (10 October 1757 – 14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of lichens and is known as the "father of lichenology". Acharius was famously the last pupil of Carl Linnaeus. Life Ac ...

(1757–1819) * Julián Acuña Galé (1900–1973) * Johann Friedrich Adam (1780–1838) * Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859) * Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901) * Nikolaus Ager (1568–1634) *

William Aiton William Aiton (17312 February 1793) was a Scotland, Scottish botanist. Aiton was born near Hamilton, Scotland, Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Phi ...

(1731–1793) * Frédéric-Louis Allamand (1736–1809) * Ruth F. Allen (1879–1963) * Carlo Allioni (1728–1804) * Lucile Allorge (b. 1937) *

Prospero Alpini Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Latinized as Prosperus Alpinus) (23 November 15536 February 1617) was a Venetian physician and botanist. He travelled around Egypt and served as the fourth prefect in charge of ...

(1553–1617) * Benjamin Alvord (1813–1884) * Adeline Ames (1879–1976) * Janaki Ammal (1897–1984) *

Eliza Frances Andrews Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 - January 21, 1931) was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age. Her shorter works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the ''New York World'' and ''Godey's Lady's Book''. Her longer ...

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Agnes Arber Agnes Arber Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS ( Robertson; 23 February 1879 – 22 March 1960) was a British people, British plant morphology, plant morphologist and plant anatomy, anatomist, History of botany, historian of botany and philosophe ...

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Giovanni Arcangeli Giovanni Arcangeli (18 July 1840 – 16 July 1921) was an Italian botanist from Florence. In 1862 he earned his degree in natural sciences from the University of Pisa, where he later became an instructor and professor. In 1880 he was a professo ...

(1840–1921) * David Ashton (1927–2005) *

William Guybon Atherstone William Guybon Atherstone (; 1814–1898) was a medical practitioner, naturalist and geologist, one of the pioneers of South African geology and a member of the Cape Parliament. Life He arrived in South Africa with his parents as 1820 Sett ...

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Anna Atkins Anna Atkins (; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a ...

(1799–1871) * Daniel E. Atha (b. 1962) *

Armen Takhtajan Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian (; surname also transliterated Takhtadjan, Takhtadzhi︠a︡n or Takhtadzhian, pronounced takh-tuh-JAHN; 10 June 1910 – 13 November 2009), was a Soviet- Armenian botanist, one of the most important fi ...

(1910–2009)

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* Ernest Brown Babcock (1877–1954) *

Churchill Babington Churchill Babington (; 11 March 182112 January 1889) was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist. He served as Rector of Cockfield, Suffolk. He was a cousin of Cardale Babington. Life He was born at Rothley Temple, in ...

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Curt Backeberg Curt Backeberg (2 August 1894 in Lüneburg, Germany – 14 January 1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti. Biography He travelled extensively through Central and South America, and pu ...

(1894–1966) * James Eustace Bagnall (1830–1918) * Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857) *

Liberty Hyde Bailey Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American Horticulture, horticulturist and reformer of rural life. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey ...

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Ibn al-Baitar Diyāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad al-Mālaqī, commonly known as Ibn al-Bayṭār () (1197–1248 AD) was an Al-Andalus, Andalusian Arabs, Arab physician, botanist, pharmacist and scientist. His main contribution was to sys ...

(1197–1248) * Giovanni Battista Balbis (1765–1831) * John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884) *

Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English Natural history, naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the European and American voyages of scientific exploration, 1766 natural-history ...

(1743–1820) * César Barbosa (b. 1954) * Bryan Alwyn Barlow (b. 1933) * Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798–1875) * Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815) * John Bartram (1699–1777) * William Bartram (1739–1823) * Johann Bauhin (1541–1613) *

Gaspard Bauhin Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Switzerland, Swiss botanist whose ''Pinax theatri botanici'' (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later ...

(1560–1624) * Chauncey Beadle (1866–1950) * William James Beal (1833–1924) * Janice C. Beatley (1919–1987) * Rolla Kent Beattie (1875–1960) *

Johann Matthäus Bechstein Johann Matthäus Bechstein (11 July 1757 – 23 February 1822) was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and Herpetology, herpetologist. In Great Britain, he was known for his treatise on singing birds (''Naturgeschichte der ...

(1757–1822) * Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911) *

Martinus Beijerinck Martinus Willem Beijerinck (, 16 March 1851 – 1 January 1931) was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist who was one of the founders of virology and environmental microbiology. He is credited with the co-discovery of viruses A virus i ...

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David Bellamy David James Bellamy (18 January 1933 – 11 December 2019) was an English academic, botanist, television presenter, author and prominent environmental campaigner in the UK and globally. His distinctive, energetic style of presenting became wel ...

(1933–2019) * Pierre Belon (1517–1564) *

George Bentham George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studie ...

(1800–1884) * Robert Bentley (1821–1893) * Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) * Karl August von Bergen (1704–1759) * Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774–1850) * Edward W. Berry (1875–1945) *

Antonio Bertoloni Antonio Bertoloni (February 8, 1775 in Sarzana – April 17, 1869 in Bologna) was an Italian physician and botanist who made extensive studies of Italian plants. He also collected notable samples of Central American flora. Biography He studied m ...

(1775–1869) * Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842) * Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918) *

Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein Baron Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (30 July 1768 – 28 June 1826) was an early explorer of the flora and archeology of the southern portion of Imperial Russia, including the Caucasus and Novorossiya. He compiled the first comprehen ...

(1768–1826) * Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879) * John Milton Bigelow (1804–1878) * Gustaf Johan Billberg (1772–1844) * Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (1797–1854) * Johannes Bisse (1935–1984) *

Francisco Manuel Blanco Manuel María Blanco Ramos known as Manuel Blanco (1779 – 1845) was a Spanish friar and botanist. Biography Born in Navianos de Alba, Castilla y León, Spain, Blanco was a member of the Augustinian order of friars. His first assignment was ...

(1779–1845) * John Bradby Blake (1745–1773) * William Faris Blakely (1875–1941) *

Andrew Bloxam Andrew Bloxam (22 September 1801 – 2 February 1878) was an English clergyman and naturalist; in his later life he had a particular interest in botany. He was the naturalist on board during its voyage around South America and the Pacific in 18 ...

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Carl Ludwig Blume Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796 – 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist and entomologist who spent most of his professional life in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. As deputy director of agricul ...

(1796–1862) * Tyge W. Böcher (1909–1983) * Jane Haskett Bock * Hieronymus Bock (1498–1554) *

Herman Boerhaave Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." ''The British Medical Journal'' 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25. .) was a Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist, and ph ...

(1668–1738) * Wenceslas Bojer (1795–1856) * Henry Nicholas Bolander (1831–1897) * Harry Bolus (1834–1911) * August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786–1839) * Charles Bonnet (1720–1793) *

Aimé Bonpland Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (; 22 August 1773 – 11 May 1858) was a French List of explorers, explorer and botany, botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scie ...

(1773–1858) * Francis Boott (1792–1863) * Evelyn Booth (1897–1988) * Attila Borhidi (b. 1932) * Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970) * Frederik Børgesen (1866–1956) * David Bowman (1838–1868) * Richard Bradley (1688–1732) *

Alexander Braun Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun (10 May 1805 – 29 March 1877) was a German botanist from Regensburg, Bavaria. His research centered on the morphology of plants and was a very influential teacher who worked as a professor of botany at the univers ...

(1805–1877) * John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) * William Henry Brewer (1828–1910) * Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (1761–1828) *

Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (27 March 1776 – 12 September 1854) was a French botanist and politician. He was a founder of the science of plant cell biology, cytology. A native Parisian, at the age of twenty, he became an assistant- ...

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Elizabeth Gertrude Britton Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (née Knight) (January 9, 1858 – February 25, 1934) was an American botanist, bryologist, and educator. She and her husband, Nathaniel Lord Britton, played a significant role in the fundraising and creation of the New ...

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Nathaniel Lord Britton Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 – 1934) was an American botanist and taxonomist who co-founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York (state), New York. Early life Britton was born on the 15 of January 1859 at New Dorp, Staten Island ...

(1859–1934) * Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772–1826) * Adolphe Theodore Brongniart (1801–1876) * Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934) *

Robert Brown Robert Brown may refer to: Robert Brown (born 1965), British Director, Animator and author Entertainers and artists * Washboard Sam or Robert Brown (1910–1966), American musician and singer * Robert W. Brown (1917–2009), American printmaker ...

(1773–1858) * Patrick Browne (1720–1790) * Jeremy James Bruhl (b. 1956) * Louis-Ovide Brunet (1826–1876) *

Francis Buchanan-Hamilton Francis Buchanan (15 February 1762 – 15 June 1829), later known as Francis Hamilton but often referred to as Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, was a Scottish surgeon, surveyor and botanist who made significant contributions as a geographer and zoolo ...

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Alexander von Bunge Alexander Georg von Bunge (; – ) was a Russian botanist. He is best remembered for scientific expeditions into Asia and especially Siberia. Early life and education Bunge was born under the name Alexander Andreevič von Bunge on in Kyiv as ...

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Elsa Beata Bunge Elsa Beata Bunge, née Wrede (18 April 1734 – 19 January 1819), was a Swedish botanist, writer and nobility, noble. Biography Elsa Beata was born 18 April 1734. She was the daughter of statesman and noble, baron Fabian Wrede, and Katarina Char ...

(1734–1819) * Luther Burbank (1849–1926) * Frederick William Burbidge (1847–1905) *

William John Burchell __NOTOC__ William John Burchell (23 July 1781 – 23 March 1863) was an English explorer, naturalist, traveller, artist, and author. His thousands of plant specimens, as well as field journals from his South African expedition, are held by Kew ...

(1781–1863) * Alan Burges (1911–2002) * David Burke (1854–1897) * Joseph Burke II (1812–1873) * Johannes Burman (1707–1780) *

Nicolaas Laurens Burman Nicolaas Laurens Burman (27 December 1734 – 11 September 1793) was a Dutch botanist. He was the son of Johannes Burman (1707–1780). He succeeded his father to the chair of botany at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam., and at the Hortus Bot ...

(1734–1793) * Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Busch (1886–1960) * Maarten Buysman (1856–1919)

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* Cleofé Caldéron (1929–2007) * Albert Callay (1822–1896) * George Caley (1770–1829) * Ella Orr Campbell (1910–2003) * Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721) * Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879–1965) *

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss people, Swiss botany, botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple ...

(A. P. de Candolle) (1778–1841) * Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (A. de Candolle) (1806–1893) * Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle (Aug. de Candolle) (1868–1920) * J. F. M. Cannon (1930–2008) * Sherwin Carlquist (1930–2021) * Cedric Errol Carr (1892–1936) * Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896) *

George Washington Carver George Washington Carver ( 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American Agricultural science, agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent bla ...

(1864–1943) * Henri Cassini (1781–1832) * William Casson (1796–1886) *

Antonio José Cavanilles Antonio José Cavanilles (16 January 1745 – 5 May 1804) was a leading Spanish taxonomic botanist, artist and one of the most important figures in the 18th century period of Enlightenment in Spain. Cavanilles is most famous for his 2-vol ...

(1745–1804) * Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) *

Adelbert von Chamisso Adelbert von Chamisso (; 30 January 1781 – 21 August 1838) was a German poet, writer and botanist. He was commonly known in French as Adelbert de Chamisso (or Chamissot) de Boncourt, a name referring to the family estate at Boncourt. Life ...

(1781–1838) * Daniel Chamovitz (b. 1963) * Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763–1794) * Wan Chun Cheng (1908–1987) * Henry Chesterton (1837–1883) * Carl Christensen (1872–1942) * Joseph Philippe de Clairville (1742–1830) *

Arthur Roy Clapham Arthur Roy Clapham (24 May 1904 – 18 December 1990), was a British botanist. Born in Norwich and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, Clapham worked at Rothamsted Experimental Station as a crop physiologist (1928–30), and then took a tea ...

(1904–1990) * Lynn G. Clark (b. 1956) * Adrienne Clarke (b. 1938) *

Gertrude Clarke Nuttall Gertrude Clarke Nuttall (15 August 18674 May 1929) was a British botanist and science writer. She was one of the first women to take a degree in botany. She is best known as the author of the text for ''Wild Flowers as they Grow'' (1911), a book w ...

(1867–1929) * Jens Clausen (1891–1969) * Jane Colden (1724–1766) * Runar Collander (1894–1973) * Peter Collinson (1694–1768) * Charles Coltman-Rogers (1854–1929) *

Philibert Commerçon Philibert Commerson (; 18 November 1727 – 14 March 1773), sometimes spelled Commerçon by contemporaries, was a French natural history, naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1 ...

(1727–1773) * Joseph Whipple Congdon (1834–1910) * Valerius Cordus (1515–1544) * Giacomo Antonio Cortuso (1513–1603) * Arthur Disbrowe Cotton (1879–1962) *

Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz ( Roodt-sur-Eisch, Luxembourg, 25 November 1722 – 18 January 1799, Judenburg, Austria) was a botanist and a physician. In 1750 he obtained his doctorate of medicine in Vienna, where he was a pupil of Gerard ...

(1722–1799) * Arthur Cronquist (1919–1992) * José Cuatrecasas (1903–1996) *

Nicholas Culpeper Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician and astrologer.Patrick Curry: "Culpeper, Nicholas (1616–1654)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) His boo ...

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Francesco Cupani Francesco Cupani ( 21 January 1657, Mirto, Sicily, Mirto – 19 January 1710, Palermo ) was an Italians, Italian naturalist mainly interested in botany. In 1692 he became the first Director of the botanic garden at Misilmeri. Here the plants w ...

(1657–1710) * Ed Currie (b. 1963) *

Charles Curtis Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under President Herbert Hoover. He was the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. An enrolled member of the Kaw Natio ...

(1853–1928) * William Curtis (1746–1799) * Pierre Cusson (1727–1783)

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* Anders Dahl (1751–1789) * Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard (1663–1743) * John M. Darby (1804–1877) * Frederick Hamilton Davey (1868–1915) * Armand David (1826–1900) * Walter Davis (1847–1930) * Anton de Bary (1831–1888) *

Joseph Decaisne Joseph Decaisne (7 March 1807 – 8 January 1882) was a French botanist and agronomist. He became an ''aide-naturaliste'' to Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853), who served as the chair of rural botany. It was during this time that he began to ...

(1807–1882) * Ethel de Fraine (1879–1918) * Pierre Jean Marie Delavay (1834–1895) * Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847) * Stefano delle Chiaje (1794–1860) * Giuseppe De Notaris (1805–1877) *

René Louiche Desfontaines René Louiche Desfontaines (14 February 1750 – 16 November 1833) was a French botanist. Desfontaines was born near Tremblay, Ille-et-Vilaine, Tremblay in Brittany. He attended the Collège de Rennes and in 1773 went to Paris to study medici ...

(1750–1833) * Narcisse Henri François Desportes (1776–1856) * Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (1753–1838) *

Nicaise Auguste Desvaux Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (28 August 1784 – 12 July 1856) was a French botanist. From 1816 he taught classes in Angers, where from 1817 to 1838 he served as director of its botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''bo ...

(1784–1856) *

Johann Jacob Dillenius Johann Jacob Dillen Dillenius (1684 – 2 April 1747) was a German botanist. He is known for his ''Hortus Elthamensis'' ("Eltham Garden") on the rare plants around Eltham, London, and for his ''Historia muscorum'' ("History of Mosses"), a natu ...

(1684–1747) * Kurt Dinter (1868–1945) *

Pedanius Dioscorides Pedanius Dioscorides (, ; 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of (in the original , , both meaning "On Medical Material") , a 5-volume Greek encyclopedic pharmacopeia on he ...

( 40–90) * Kingsley Dixon (b. 1954) *

Rembert Dodoens Rembert Dodoens (born Rembert van Joenckema, 29 June 1517 – 10 March 1585) was a Flemish people, Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinization (literature), Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father o ...

(1517–1585) *

David Don David Don (21 December 1799 – 15 December 1841) was a Scottish botanist. Biography David Don was born on 21 December 1799 at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland to Caroline Clementina Stuart, and her husband George Don of Forfar. His olde ...

(1799–1841) * George Don (1798–1856) *

James Donn James Donn (1758–1813) was an English botanist and gardener. He was trained by William Aiton, a Mentorship, protege of Sir Joseph Banks and was Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, Cambridge, from 1790 until his death. His most i ...

(1758–1813) * Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717–1795) * David Douglas (1799–1834) * John Dransfield (b. 1945) * Robert Louis Dressler (1927–2019) * Jonas C. Dryander (1748–1810) * Heber Drury (1819–1905) *

Jean Étienne Duby Jean Étienne Duby (15 February 1798 in Geneva – 24 November 1885) was a Swiss clergyman and botanist. He studied theology in Geneva, obtaining his consecration in 1820, and having an avid interest in natural history, he earned his degree in ...

(1798–1885) *

Antoine Nicolas Duchesne Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (born 7 October 1747 Versailles (city), Versailles; died 18 February 1827 Paris) was a French botanist known for his keen observation of variation within species, and for demonstrating that species are not immutable, becaus ...

(1747–1827) * William Russell Dudley (1849–1911) *

Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (; 3 April 1797 – 9 July 1878) was a Belgians, Belgian who conducted a parallel career of botanist and Member of Parliament and is the first discoverer of biological cell division. Over the course of his lif ...

(1797–1878) * Michel Felix Dunal (1789–1856) * Ursula Katherine Duncan (1910–1985) * Stephen Troyte Dunn (1868–1938) * Robert Allen Dyer (1900–1987)

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* Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812–1881) * Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers (1844–1903) *

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...

(1795–1876) *

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (4 November 1742, Holderbank, Aargau – 26 June 1795) was a German botanist, a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical ...

(1742–1795) * Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786) * Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849) *

George Engelmann George Engelmann, also known as Georg Engelmann, (2 February 1809 – 4 February 1884) was a German-American botanist. He was instrumental in describing the flora (plants), flora of the west of North America, then very poorly known to Europeans; ...

(1809–1884) *

Adolf Engler Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler (25 March 1844 – 10 October 1930) was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as ''Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' (''The Natural Plant Families''), edited with K ...

(1844–1930) * Andrey Erst * Katherine Esau (1898–1997) *

Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 – 7 May 1831)Sterling (1997) was a Baltic German physician, naturalist, and entomologist. He was one of the earliest scientific explorers of the Pacific region, making significant collec ...

(1793–1831) * Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897) * Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929)

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* David Fairchild (1869–1954) * Hugh Falconer (1808–1865) * Reginald Farrer (1880–1920) * Lewis J. Feldman (b. 1945) * Luigi Fenaroli (1899–1980) * Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873–1950) *

Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer (20 February 1782, Halberstadt – 17 June 1854) was a Russian botanist, born in the Holy Roman Empire. He was director of the St Petersburg botanical garden from 1823 to 1850. In 1804 he obtained his medical docto ...

(1782–1854) * Heinrich Gustav Flörke (1764–1835) * Pius Font i Quer (1888–1964) *

Peter Forsskål Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Sweden, Swedish exploration, explorer, oriental studies, orientalist, natural history, naturalist, and ...

(1732–1763) *

Georg Forster Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (; 27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German geography, geographer, natural history, naturalist, ethnology, ethnologist, travel literature, travel writer, journalist and revol ...

(1754–1794) *

Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Reinhold Forster (; 22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Reformed pastor and naturalist. Born in Tczew, Dirschau, Pomeranian Voivodeship (1466–1772), Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now Tczew, Po ...

(1729–1798) * Robert Fortune (1812–1880) * Henry Georges Fourcade (1865–1948) *

Adrien René Franchet Adrien René Franchet (21 April 1834 in Pezou – 15 February 1900 in Paris) was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. He is noted for his extensive work describing the flora of China and Japan, base ...

(1834–1900) * William Douglas Francis (1889–1959) * John C. Frémont (1813–1890) *

Elias Magnus Fries Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. He is sometimes called the Mycology, "Linnaeus of Mycology". In his works he described and assigned botanical names to hundreds of fungus and li ...

(1794–1878) *

Imre Frivaldszky Emerich Frivaldszky von Frivald (6 February 1799 – 19 October 1870), known as Imre Frivaldszky, was a Hungarian botanist and entomologist. Biography Born into a family of landed gentry, Frivaldszky studied at the gymnasiums in Sátoraljaú ...

(1799–1870) * Charles Christopher Frost (1805–1880) *

Leonhart Fuchs Leonhart Fuchs (; 17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566), sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as ''Leonhartus Fuchsius'', was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and thei ...

(1501–1566) * Heinrich Christian Funck (1771–1839) * Catherine Furbish (1834–1931)

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* Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929) *

Joseph Gaertner Joseph Gaertner (12 March 1732 – 14 July 1791) was a German botanist, best known for his work on seeds, ''De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum'' (1788-1792). Biography He was born in Calw, and studied in Göttingen under Albrecht von Haller. H ...

(1732–1791) * Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772–1850) * Betsy Harrison Gagne (1947–2020) *

François Gagnepain François Gagnepain (23 September 1866 – 25 January 1952) was a French botanist. The standard botanical author abbreviation Gagnep. is applied to plants described by Gagnepain. With Achille Eugène Finet, he named a number of species with ...

(1866–1952) * Ernest Edward Galpin (1858–1941) * George Alexander Gammie (1864–1934) * James Alexander Gammie (1839–1924) *

Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (September 4, 1789 – January 16, 1854) was a French botanist. Biography Gaudichaud was born in Angoulême, to J-J. Gaudichaud and Rose (Mallat) Gaudichaud. He studied pharmacology informally at Cognac and Angoulême, ...

(1789–1854) * Alwyn Howard Gentry (1945–1993) * Howard Scott Gentry (1903–1993) *

John Gerard John Gerard (also John Gerarde, 1545–1612) was an English herbalist with a large garden in Holborn, now part of London. His 1,484-page illustrated ''Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes'', first published in 1597, became a popular garde ...

(1545–1612) * Conrad von Gesner (1516–1565) * Luca Ghini (1490–1556) * Ken Gillanders (b. 1930) * Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018) *

Johann Friedrich Gmelin Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German natural history, naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist. Education Johann Friedrich Gmelin was born as the eldest son of Philipp F ...

(1748–1804) * Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755) * Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774) * Hossein Gol-e-Golab (1895–1985) * George Gordon (1806–1879) * Antoine Gouan (1733–1821) *

Asa Gray Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botany, botanist of the 19th century. His ''Darwiniana'' (1876) was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessaril ...

(1810–1888) * Netta Elizabeth Gray (1913–1970) *

Robert Kaye Greville Dr. Robert Kaye Greville FRSE FLS LLD (13 December 1794 – 4 June 1866) was an England, English mycologist, bryology, bryologist, and botanist. He was an accomplished artist and illustrator of natural history. In addition to art and scien ...

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Nehemiah Grew Nehemiah Grew (26 September 164125 March 1712) was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy". Biography Grew was the only son of Obadiah Grew (1607–1688), Nonconformist divine and vicar of St Mi ...

(1641–1712) * William Griffith (1810–1845) * Jan Frederik Gronovius (1690–1762) * Wilhelm Gueinzius (1813–1874) * Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901–1997) * Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773) * Giovanni Gussone (1787–1866) *

Francis Guthrie Francis Guthrie (born 22 January 1831 in London; d. 19 October 1899 in Claremont, Cape Town) was a Cape Colony mathematician and botanist who first posed the Four Colour Problem in 1852. He studied mathematics under Augustus De Morgan, and bo ...

(1831–1899) * Guranda Gvaladze (1932–2020)

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* Ingebrigt Severin Hagen * Olaf Hagerup * Hiroshi Hara * Thora Hardy * Inez M. Haring * Robert Almer Harper * Cornelia Hermina van Harreveld-Lako * Karl Theodor Hartweg * William Henry Harvey *

Adrian Hardy Haworth Adrian Hardy Haworth (19 April 1767, in Kingston upon Hull, Hull – 24 August 1833, in Chelsea, London, Chelsea) was an England, English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist. Family The younger son of Benjamin Haworth, of Haworth Hall and ...

* John Stevens Henslow * Augustine Henry * Vernon Heywood * Mary MacLean Hindmarsh * Adriana Hoffmann *

Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg Johann Centurius Hoffmann Graf von Hoffmannsegg (23 August 1766 – 13 December 1849) was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist. Hoffmannsegg was born at Rammenau and studied at Leipzig and Göttingen. He travelled through Europe a ...

* Henri Homblé *

Henrietta Hooker Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker (December 12, 1851 – May 13, 1929) was an American botanist and professor at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College). She was the second female doctoral graduate in botany at Syracuse University, whic ...

Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For 20 years he served as director of the Ro ...

William Jackson Hooker Sir William Jackson Hooker (6 July 178512 August 1865) was an English botany, botanist and botanical illustrator, who became the first director of Kew Gardens, Kew when in 1841 it was recommended to be placed under state ownership as a botan ...

* Josiah Hoopes * Albert Howard * Gabrielle Howard *

Armando Theodoro Hunziker Armando Theodoro Hunziker (29 August 1919 – 12 December 2001) was an Argentine botanist. He specialized in the study of systems biology of the family Solanaceae, and contributed with a large number of investigations and publications. Bi ...

* John Hutchinson

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* Agnes Ibbetson (1757–1823) * Jane Ingham (1897–1982) * Keisuke Ito (1803–1901)

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* Vello Jaaska (b. 1936) * Vilve Jaaska (fl. 1990) * Victor Jacquemont (1801–1832) *

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin (16 February 172726 October 1817) was a scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. Biography Born in Leiden in the Netherlands, he studied medicine at Leiden University, then moved first to Par ...

(1727–1817) * Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766–1839) * Shri Mohan Jain (b. 1949) * Knud Jessen (1884–1971) * Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927) *

Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic botany, botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional car ...

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Ivan Murray Johnston I. M. (Ivan Murray) Johnston (February 28, 1898 – May 31, 1960) was a United States botanist. He studied at Pomona College in Claremont, California and at Harvard University. His plant collections are housed in the '' Rancho Santa Ana Botan ...

(1898–1960) * Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853) *

Antoine Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (; 12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today. His classification was based on an e ...

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Antoine de Jussieu Antoine de Jussieu (6 July 168622 April 1758) was a French Natural history, naturalist, botanist, and physician. Jussieu was born in Lyon. He was the son of Christophe de Jussieu (or Dejussieu), an apothecary of some repute, who published a ' ...

(1686–1758) * Bernard de Jussieu (1699–1777)

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* Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1714) * Guillermo Kalbreyer (1847–1912) *

Pehr Kalm Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish-Finnish List of explorers, explorer, botany, botanist, natural history, naturalist, and Agricultural economics, agricultural economist. He was one of the most ...

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Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (6 November 1817, in Stralsund – 10 July 1908, in Zoppot) was a German botanist and geologist. Biography Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the norther ...

(1817–1908) * Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983) * Sir Frederick Keeble (1870–1952) * Albert Kellogg (1813–1887) * George Clayton Kennedy (1919–1980) * Alice L. Kibbe (1881–1969) * Franz Kiggelaer * Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar (1849–1917) * Masao Kitagawa (1910–1995) * Karl Koch (1809–1879)

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Jacques Labillardière Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (28 October 1755 – 8 January 1834) was a French biologist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the Jean-François de Galaup, comte ...

* Dorothy van Dyke Leake *

Lars Levi Laestadius Lars Levi Laestadius (; 10 January 1800 – 21 February 1861) was a Swedish Sami writer, ecologist, mythologist, and ethnographer as well as a pastor and administrator of the Swedish state Lutheran church in Lapland who founded the Laestadi ...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biologi ...

* Aylmer Bourke Lambert * Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux * Gerhard Lang (1924–2016) * Kai Larsen * Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac * Charles de l'Écluse * Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour * Emmanuel Liais *

John Lindley John Lindley Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidology, orchidologist. Early years Born in Old Catton, Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four c ...

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (2 February 1767 – 1 January 1851) was a German natural history, naturalist and botanist. Biography Link was born at Hildesheim as a son of the minister August Heinrich Link (1738–1783), who taught him love ...

* Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach *

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

Carolus Linnaeus the Younger Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Carolus Linnaeus the Younger, Carl von Linné den yngre (Swedish language, Swedish; abbreviated Carl von Linné d. y.), or ''Linnaeus filius'' (Latin for ''Linnaeus the son''; abbreviated L.fil. (outdated) or L.f. (mo ...

* William Richardson Linton * Pablo de la Llave * David Lloyd *

Thomas Lobb Thomas Lobb (1817–1894) was a British botanist and, along with his older brother, William Lobb, collected plants for the plant nursery Veitch Nurseries, Veitch. Lobb worked in India, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. In 1845 he discov ...

* William Lobb * George Loddiges * Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps * Harri Lorenzi * A.S. Losina-Losinskaja *

John Claudius Loudon John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1782 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author, born in Cambuslang in 1782. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, co ...

* Alice Lounsberry * Elias Lönnrot * Hedvig Lovén * Hans Christian Lyngbye

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* Elizabeth McClintock * William McCalla * John Macoun * Peter MacOwan * Elke Mackenzie * Aime Mäemets *

Pierre Magnol Pierre Magnol (8 June 1638 – 21 May 1715) was a French botanist. He was born in the city of Montpellier, where he lived and worked for most of his life. He became Professor of Botany and Director of the Royal Botanic Garden of Montpellier and h ...

Joseph Maiden Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...

Marcello Malpighi Marcello Malpighi (10 March 1628 – 30 November 1694) was an Italians, Italian biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "founder of microscopical anatomy, histology and father of physiology and embryology". Malpighi's name is borne by ...

* Gustav Mann * Charles Maries * Jesse Jarue Mark *

Rudolf Marloth Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth (28 December 1855 Lübben, Germany – 15 May 1931 Caledon, Cape Province) was a German-born South African botanist, pharmacist and analytical chemist, best known for his ''Flora of South Africa'' which appeared i ...

* Humphry Marshall * Austin Mast *

Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botany, botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His m ...

* John M. MacDougal * Terry Desmond Macfarlane * William Keble Martin * John Martyn * Genkei Masamune *

Francis Masson Francis Masson (August 1741 – 23 December 1805) was a Scotland, Scottish botanist and gardener, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kew Gardens’ first Botanical expedition, plant hunter. Life Masson was born in Aberdeen. In the 1760s, he w ...

Carl Maximowicz Carl Johann Maximovich, also Karl Ivanovich Maximovich (Russian language, Russian: Карл Иванович Максимович; 23 November 1827 – 16 February 1891) was a Russian botanist. Maximovich spent most of his life studying the flor ...

* Rogers McVaugh *

Gregor Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel Order of Saint Augustine, OSA (; ; ; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinians, Augustinian friar and abbot of St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, St. Thom ...

* Friedrich Kasimir Medikus * Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini *

Archibald Menzies Archibald Menzies ( ; 15 March 1754 – 15 February 1842) was a Scottish surgeon, botanist and naturalist. He spent many years at sea, serving with the Royal Navy, private merchants, and the Vancouver Expedition. During his naval expeditions, h ...

* Konstantin Merezhkovsky * Franz Meyen * Carl Anton von Meyer *

André Michaux André Michaux (' → ahn- mee-; sometimes Anglicisation, anglicised as Andrew Michaud; 8 March 174611 October 1802) was a French botanist and explorer. He is most noted for his study of North American flora. In addition Michaux collected specime ...

Pier Antonio Micheli Pier Antonio Micheli (11 December 1679 – 1 January 1737) was a noted Italian botanist, professor of botany in Pisa, curator of the Orto Botanico di Firenze, author of ''Nova plantarum genera iuxta Tournefortii methodum disposita''. He discover ...

* John Miller *

Philip Miller Philip Miller Royal Society, FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botany, botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular ...

* Charles Frederick Millspaugh *

Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October 1811 – 23 January 1871) was a Dutch botanist whose main focus of study was on the flora of the Dutch East Indies. Early life Miquel was born in Neuenhaus and studied medicine at the University of Gr ...

* John Mitchell *

Conrad Moench Conrad Moench (sometimes written Konrad Mönch; 15 August 1744 – 6 January 1805) was a German botanist, professor of botany at Marburg University from 1786 until his death. He wrote ''Methodus Plantas horti botanici et agri Marburgensis''; in ...

* Hugo von Mohl * Charles Theodore Mohr * Paul Möhring *

Camille Montagne Jean Pierre François Camille Montagne (15 February 1784 – 5 December 1866) was a French people, French military physician and botanist who specialized in the fields of bryology and mycology. Life Montague was born in the commune of Vaudoy i ...

* George Thomas Moore * Giuseppe Moretti * Giuseppe Giacinto Moris *

Robert Morison Robert Morison (162010 November 1683) was a Scottish botanist and Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist. A forerunner of John Ray, he elucidated and developed the first systematic classification of plants.Vines Biography Born in Aberdeen, Morison w ...

* Józef Motyka * Cornelius Herman Muller *

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia ...

* Otto von Münchhausen

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* Karl Wilhelm von Nageli (1817–1891) * P. K. K. Nair (1930–2017) * George Valentine Nash (1864–1921) *

Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (14 February 1776 – 16 March 1858) was a prolific Germany, German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. He was a contemporary of Goethe and was born within the lifetime of Carl Li ...

(1776–1858) * Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924) * Frank Newhook (1918–1999) * Margaret Newton (1887–1971) * Louis Nicolas (1634–1682?) * Daniel Lee Nickrent (b. 1956) * Emilia Frances Noel (1868–1950) *

Thomas Nuttall Thomas Nuttall (5 January 1786 – 10 September 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841. Nuttall was born in the village of Long Preston, near Settle in the West Riding of Yorkshire a ...

(1786–1859)

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* Carl Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931) * Daniel Oliver (1830–1916) * Garcia de Orta (1501–1568) * Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795) * William Oakes (botanist) (1799–1848)

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* Alf Erling Porsild *

Carl Borivoj Presl Carl Borivoj Presl (; 17 February 1794 – 2 October 1852) was a Czech botanist. Biography Presl lived his entire life in Prague, and was a professor of botany at the University of Prague (1833–52).Charles Christopher Parry image:Charles Christopher Parry.jpg, Parry circa 1875 Charles Christopher Parry (August 28, 1823 – February 20, 1890) was a British-American botanist and Mountaineering, mountaineer. Biography Parry was born in Gloucestershire, England, but mo ...

* Charles Plumier *

Christian Hendrik Persoon Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (31 December 1761 – 16 November 1836) was a Cape Colony mycologist who is recognized as one of the founders of mycology, mycological Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy. Early life Persoon was born in Cape Colony at ...

* Cyrus Pringle * Daniel Oliver * Donald C. Peattie * Eduard Friedrich Poeppig * Eduard Pospichal * Edward Palmer * Filippo Parlatore * Flora Wambaugh Patterson * Frederick Traugott Pursh * George E. Post * George R. Proctor *

Ghillean Prance Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting th ...

* Henri François Pittier * Henri Perrier de la Bâthie * Herman Silas Pepoon * Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans * Isaac-Bénédict Prévost * James Petiver * Jan Svatopluk Presl *

Jean Louis Marie Poiret Jean Louis Marie Poiret (11 June 1755 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne, Saint-Quentin7 April 1834 in Paris) was a French clergyman, Botany, botanist, and Exploration, explorer. From 1785 to 1786, he was sent by Louis XVI of France, Louis XVI to Algeri ...

* Jean-Marie Pelt * Joel Roberts Poinsett * Josif Pancic * Joseph Hubert Priestley * Karl Julius Perleb * Leonard Plukenet * Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré * Ludwig Preiss * Michael Proctor *

Morten Pedersen Porsild Morten Pedersen Porsild (1 September 1872, Glibstrup near Store Andst – 30 April 1956, Copenhagen) was a Danish botanist who lived and worked most of his adult life in Greenland. He participated in expeditions to Greenland in 1898 and 1902, ...

* Nathanael Pringsheim * Ove Paulsen * Palisot de Beauvois * Paul Petard * Paul Émile de Puydt *

Peter Simon Pallas Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussia, Prussian zoologist, botanist, Ethnography, ethnographer, Exploration, explorer, Geography, geographer, Geology, geologist, Natura ...

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( ), was a Roman Empire, Roman author, Natural history, naturalist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the Roman emperor, emperor Vesp ...

* Richard Pearce *

Rodolfo Amando Philippi Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808 – 23 July 1904) was a German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist. Philippi contributed primarily to malacology and paleontology, but also published a major work on Diptera of C ...

* Ruth Patrick * Thomas Conrad Porter * William Hunt Painter * William Paterson * William Purdom * Ciro Pollini

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* Agnes J. Quirk (1884–1974)

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* Achille Richard * Albert Ernest Radford *

Albrecht Wilhelm Roth Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (6 January 1757 – 16 October 1834) was a physician and botanist born in Dötlingen, Germany. He studied medicine at the Universities of University of Halle, Halle and University of Erlangen, Erlangen, where he received his ...

* Antoine Risso (alias: Antonio Giuseppe Risso) * Augustus Quirinus Rivinus * Christen C. Raunkiær *

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; 22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France. He traveled as a young man in the United States, ult ...

* Elizabeth Seymour Rawlinson * Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns * Gabriele Rabel *

Georg Eberhard Rumphius Georg Eberhard Rumphius (originally: Rumpf; baptized c. 1 November 1627 – 15 June 1702) was a German-born botanist employed by the Dutch East India Company in what is now eastern Indonesia, and is best known for his work ''Herbarium Amboinense ...

* Gustaf Otto Rosenberg * Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen * Harold E. Robinson *

Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889) was a botanist and the foremost Germany, German orchidologist of the 19th century. His father Ludwig Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (author of ''Ico ...

* Henry Nicholas Ridley *

Johann Jacob Roemer Johann Jacob Roemer (8 January 1763, Zürich – 15 January 1819) was a Swiss physician and professor of botany in Zürich, Switzerland. He was also an entomologist. With Austrian botanist Joseph August Schultes, he published the 16th edition of ...

* John Ralfs *

John Ray John Ray Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (November 29, 1627 – January 17, 1705) was a Christian England, English Natural history, naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his ...

* Joseph Rock * José Manuel Restrepo Vélez * Joseph Rock * Julien Reverchon * Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge * Lincoln Ware Riddle *

Louis Claude Richard Louis Claude Marie Richard (19 September 1754 – 6 June 1821) was a French botanist and botanical illustration, botanical illustrator. Biography Richard was born at Versailles (city), Versailles. Between 1781 and 1789 he collected botanical s ...

Ludwig Reichenbach Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist, ornithologist and illustrator. It was he who first requested Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate m ...

Oliver Rackham Oliver Rackham (17 October 1939 – 12 February 2015) was an academic at the University of Cambridge who studied the ecology, management and development of the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture. His books inc ...

Per Axel Rydberg Per Axel Rydberg (July 6, 1860 – July 25, 1931) was a Swedish-born, American botanist who was the first curator of the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium. Biography Per Axel Rydberg was born in Odh, Västergötland, Sweden and emigrated to ...

* Peter H. Raven * Thekla Resvoll * Tony Rodd * Werner Rothmaler *

William Roxburgh William Roxburgh FRSE FRCPE Linnean Society of London, FLS (3/29 June 1751 – 18 February 1815) was a Scottish people, Scottish surgeon and botanist who worked extensively in India, describing species and working on economic botany. He is known ...

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* Joseph Sabine * Julius von Sachs * József Sadler *

Thiodolf Saelan Anders Thiodolf Saelan (Sælan) (born 20 November 1834 in Lappeenranta; died 24 June 1921 in Helsinki) was a Finnish physician and botanist. He reformed Finnish mental health care during his decades as chief physician of Lapinlahti Psychiatric Ho ...

Augustin Saint-Hilaire Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire (4 October 17793 September 1853) was a French botanist and traveller who was born and died in Orléans, France. A keen observer, he is credited with important discoveries in botany, notably th ...

Edward James Salisbury Sir Edward James Salisbury CBE FRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist and ecologist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.S ...

Richard Anthony Salisbury Richard Anthony Salisbury (born Richard Anthony Markham; 2 May 1761 – 23 March 1829) was a British botanist. While he carried out valuable work in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes caused him to be ostracised by hi ...

* Richard Sanders Rogers * Gaetano Savi *

Charles Sprague Sargent Charles Sprague Sargent (April 24, 1841March 22, 1927) was an American botanist. He was appointed in 1872 as the first director of Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, and held the post until his death. He published se ...

* Henry Parker Sartwell * William Saunders * Horace-Bénédict de Saussure * Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper * Christian Schkuhr *

Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794, Xanten – 12 October 1866, Halle an der Saale, Halle) was a German botanist. Life and work Von Schlechtendal was born in Xanten, Xanten am Rhein and when his father Diederich Fried ...

* Rudolf Schlechter * Matthias Jakob Schleiden * George Schoener * Selmar Schonland *

Heinrich Wilhelm Schott Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (7 January 1794 – 5 March 1865) was an Austrian botanist. He is known for his extensive work on aroids ( Araceae). Biography Schott was born on 7 January 1794 in Brno, Moravia. He studied botany, agriculture and chemi ...

* Heinrich Schrader *

Franz von Paula Schrank Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Neuhaus am Inn, Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest, botanist and entomologist. Biography He was ordained as a priest in Vienna in 1784, gaining his doctorate in theology two years lat ...

* Josef August Schultes * Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen * Ian Schwartz *

Georg August Schweinfurth Georg August Schweinfurth (29 December 1836 – 19 September 1925) was a Baltic Germans, Baltic German botanist and ethnologist who explored East Central Africa. Life and explorations He was born at Riga, Latvia, then part of the Russian Emp ...

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italians, Italian physician and natural history, naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first ...

* Berthold Carl Seemann *

Prideaux John Selby Prideaux John Selby FRSE Linnean Society, FLS (23 July 1788 – 27 March 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and natural history artist. Life Selby was born in Bondgate Street in Alnwick in Northumberland, the eldest son of George ...

Jean Senebier Jean Senebier (25 May 1742 – 22 July 1809) was a Republic and Canton of Geneva#History, Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist. He was chief librarian of the Republic of Geneva. A pioneer in the field of photosynthesis research, he provided ...

* Nicolas Charles Seringe *

Martín Sessé y Lacasta Martín Sessé y Lacasta (December 11, 1751 – October 4, 1808) was a Spanish botanist, who relocated to New Spain (now Mexico) during the 18th century to study and classify the flora of the territory. Background Sessé studied medicine in ...

* John Adolph Shafer * Carl Sharsmith * Helen Sharsmith * George Shaw *

Shen Kuo Shen Kuo (; 1031–1095) or Shen Gua, courtesy name Cunzhong (存中) and Art name#China, pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (夢溪翁),Yao (2003), 544. was a Chinese polymath, scientist, and statesman of the Song dynasty (960� ...

* John Sibthorp * Franz Sieber *

Philipp Franz von Siebold Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (17 February 1796 – 18 October 1866) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He achieved prominence by his studies of Japanese flora (plants), flora and fauna (animals), fauna and the introduction of ...

* Thomas Robertson Sim * Cuthbert John Skead * John Kunkel Small * Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov * Christo Albertyn Smith * Edith Philip Smith * James Edward Smith * Johannes Jacobus Smith * Winifred Smith * Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth *

Daniel Solander Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Sweden, Swedish naturalist and an Apostles of Linnaeus, apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot o ...

* Otto Wilhelm Sonder * Pierre Sonnerat * Effie A. Southworth * Roger David Spencer * Herman Spoering * Kurt Sprengel * Richard Spruce * Herman Spöring * Clive Stace * Agustín Stahl * Elvin C. Stakman *

Paul Carpenter Standley Paul Carpenter Standley (March 21, 1884 – June 2, 1963) was an American botanist known for his work on neotropical plants. Biography Standley was born on March 21, 1884, in Avalon, Missouri. He attended Drury College in Springfield, Missouri, ...

* G. Ledyard Stebbins * Berthold Stein * Georg Wilhelm Steller * Kaspar Maria von Sternberg *

Julian Alfred Steyermark Julian Alfred Steyermark (January 27, 1909 – October 15, 1988) was a Venezuelan American botanist. His focus was on New World vegetation, and he specialized in the family Rubiaceae. Life and work Julian Alfred Steyermark was born in St. Loui ...

Jonathan Stokes Jonathan Stokes (c. 1755 – 30 April 1831) was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis. Life and work Stokes was probably born in Chesterfield, Derb ...

* Eduard Strasburger * George Bishop Sudworth * Su Song *

Olof Swartz Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes, but also studied orchids, mosses and lichens. Biography Olof Swartz a ...

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* Hisayoshi Takeda ( aka Takeda Hisayoshi) *

Arthur Tansley Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist and a pioneer in the science of ecology. Educated at Highgate School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, Tansley taught ...

Ignaz Friedrich Tausch Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (29 January 1793, in Theusing – 8 September 1848) was a Bohemian botanist. He studied philosophy, medicine and natural sciences at the University of Prague, becoming an associate professor of economic and technical bota ...

John Templeton Sir John Marks Templeton (29 November 1912 – 8 July 2008) was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. In 1954, he entered the mutual fund market and created the Templeton Growth Fund, which averaged gro ...

* Michele Tenore *

Theophrastus Theophrastus (; ; c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek Philosophy, philosopher and Natural history, naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum (classical), Lyceum, the ...

* William Turner Thiselton-Dyer * Graham Stuart Thomas * William Thompson * George Thomson * Robert Folger Thorne *

Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (5 November 1758, Saint-Martin-de-la-Place, Bournois – 12 May 1831, Paris) was a French botanist known for his work collecting and describing orchids from the three islands of Madagascar, Mauritius and R� ...

Carl Peter Thunberg Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Sweden, Swedish Natural history, naturalist and an Apostles of Linnaeus, "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus ...

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John Torrey John Torrey (August 15, 1796 – March 10, 1873) was an American botany, botanist, chemist, and physician. Throughout much of his career, he was a teacher of chemistry, often at multiple universities, while he also pursued botanical work, focus ...

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 165628 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages. Li ...

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John Tradescant the younger John Tradescant the Younger (; 4 August 1608 – 22 April 1662), son of John Tradescant the Elder, was a botanist and gardener. The standard List of botanists by author abbreviation, author abbreviation Trad. is applied to species he describe ...

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Carl Bernhard von Trinius Carl Bernhard von Trinius (6 March 1778, Eisleben – 12 March 1844, St. Petersburg) was a German-born botanist and physician. He studied medicine at several universities, earning his medical doctorate at the University of Göttingen in 180 ...

* Mikhail Tsvet * Edward Tuckerman * William Turner * Tom Tutin

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Ignatz Urban Ignatz Urban (7 January 1848 – 7 January 1931) was a German botany, botanist. He is known for his contributions to the flora of the Caribbean and Brazil, and for his work as curator of the Botanical Garden in Berlin, Berlin Botanical Garden. B ...

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Martin Vahl Martin Henrichsen Vahl (10 October 1749 – 24 December 1804) was a Denmark-Norway, Danish-Norwegian botanist, herbalist and zoologist. Biography Martin Vahl was born in Bergen, Norway and attended Bergen Cathedral School. He studied botany at ...

(1749–1804) * Sébastien Vaillant (1669–1722) * David H. Valentine (1912–1987) * Ina Vandebroek * Domenico Vandelli (1735–1816) * Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh (b. 1952) * Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) * Harry Veitch (1840–1924) * John Gould Veitch (1839–1870) * Peter Veitch (1850–1929) * Romina Vidal-Russell * Dominique Villars (1745–1814) * Domenico Viviani (1772–1840) * Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin (1838–1903)

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Göran Wahlenberg Georg (Göran) Wahlenberg (1 October 1780 – 22 March 1851) was a Swedish naturalist. He was born in Kroppa, Värmland County. Wahlenberg matriculated at Uppsala University in 1792, received his doctorate in Medicine in 1806, was appoi ...

* Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein *

George Arnott Walker-Arnott George Arnott Walker Arnott of Arlary (6 February 1799 – 17 April 1868) was a Scottish botanist. He collaborated with botanists from around the world and served as a Regius Professor of Botany (Glasgow), regius professor of botany at the Uni ...

Nathaniel Wallich Nathaniel Wolff Wallich (28 January 1786 – 28 April 1854) was a surgeon and botanist of Danish origin who worked in India, initially in the Danish settlement near Calcutta and later for the Danish East India Company and the British East Indi ...

* Gustav Wallis * Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth * E. F. Warburg * Harry Marshall Ward *

Eugenius Warming Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming (3 November 1841 – 2 April 1924), known as Eugen Warming, was a Danish botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology. Warming wrote the first textbook (1895) on plant ecology, ta ...

Sereno Watson Sereno Watson (December 1, 1826 – March 9, 1892) was an American botanist. Life Watson was born on December 1, 1826, in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut. Graduating from Yale in 1847 in biology, he drifted through various occupations unt ...

* William Watson * Wang Wencai *

Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee (born Jindřich Blažej Vávra; 2 February 1831 – 24 May 1887) was a Czechs, Czech-Austrians, Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer. Biography Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee was born on 2 February 1831 in ...

* Randy Wayne (biologist) *

Philip Barker Webb Philip Barker Webb (10 July 1793 – 31 August 1854) was an English botanist. Life Webb was born to a wealthy, aristocratic family; his father was the lord of the manors of Witley and Milford, Surrey, Milford, in Surrey, England. Webb was ...

* Georg Heinrich Weber * Christian Ehrenfried Weigel * Friedrich Welwitsch * George Stephen West * William West * William West Jr * Herbert Hice Whetzel * August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel * Lilly Wigg * Johan Emanuel Wikström *

Carl Ludwig Willdenow Carl Ludwig Willdenow (22 August 1765 – 10 July 1812) was a German botanist, pharmacist, and plant Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist. He is considered one of the founders of phytogeography, the study of the geographic distribution of plants. ...

Ernest Henry Wilson Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson (15 February 1876 – 15 October 1930), better known as E. H. Wilson, was a British plant collector and explorer who introduced a large range of about 2,000 Asian plant species to the Western culture, West; some si ...

* William Withering * Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod * Alphonso Wood * John Medley Wood * Charles Wright *

Franz Xavier von Wulfen Franz Xaver Freiherr von Wulfen (5 November 1728 – 17 March 1805) was an Austrian botanist, zoologist, mineralogist, alpinist, and Jesuit priest. He is credited with discovering the flowering plants ''Wulfenia carinthiaca'', ''Saxifraga mo ...

* Heinrich Wullschlägel * Heinrich Wydler * Ben-Erik van Wyk

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* Milton Zaitlin (1927–2016) * Kadir Zakirovič Zakirov (1906–1992) *

Giovanni Zanardini Giovanni Antonio Maria Zanardini (12 June 1804, Venice – 24 April 1878) was an Italian physician and botanist who specialized in the field of phycology. In 1831 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Padua, followed by a degre ...

(1804–1878) * Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799–1858) *

Daniel Zohary Daniel (Dani) Zohary (; 24 April 1926 - 16 December 2016) was an Israeli plant geneticist, agronomist, and professor at the Hebrew University. He was the co-author of a comprehensive review of the origin and spread of domesticated plants in southw ...

(1926–2016) * Michael Zohary (1898–1983) * Scott Zona (b. 1959) *

Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (10 August 1797 – 18 February 1848) was a German botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of Munich. He worked extensively with Philipp Franz von Siebold, assisting in describing his collections from Japan, and ...

(1797–1848) * Joy Zedler (b. 1943)

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