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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 ...

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Julián Acuña Galé Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé (27 February 1900 – 24 July 1973) was a Cuban born botanist who served as director of the Agricultural Experimental Station in Santiago de Las Vegas. His research centered on phytopathology and on introduction of n ...

(1900–1973) * Johann Friedrich Adam (1780–1838) *

Carl Adolph Agardh Carl Adolph Agardh (23 January 1785 in Båstad, Sweden – 28 January 1859 in Karlstad) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae, who was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad. Biography In 1807 he was appointed teacher of mathematics ...

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Jacob Georg Agardh Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in Lund, Sweden – 17 January 1901 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist. Early life and career He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of ...

(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 ...

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Frédéric-Louis Allamand Frédéric-Louis Allamand (February 5, 1736, Payerne, Vaud – March 3, 1809, Valkenburg, South Holland) was a Swiss botanist. Born in Payerne, Switzerland, he moved to Leiden, Netherlands in 1749 to live with his uncle, Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Al ...

(1736–1809) * Ruth F. Allen (1879–1963) *

Carlo Allioni Carlo Allioni (23 September 1728 in Turin – 30 July 1804 in Turin) was an Italian physician and botanist, professor of botany at the University of Turin. His most important work was ''Flora Pedemontana, sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indi ...

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Lucile Allorge Lucile Allorge ( Boiteau; born 25 October 1937) is a Madagascar-born French botanist. Biography Lucile Boiteau was born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, 25 October 1937. Her father, Pierre Boiteau, was the founder and director of the Botanical and ...

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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 Adeline Sarah Ames (October 6, 1879 – February 11, 1976) was an American mycologist who specialized in the study of mycelium. Biography Born October 6, 1879, in Henderson, York County, Nebraska, Ames was the eldest of four children of Elwyn ...

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Janaki Ammal Edavalath Kakkat Janaki Ammal (formally known as Janaki Ammal) (4 November 1897 – 7 February 1984) was an Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and ...

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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 ...

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James Eustace Bagnall James Eustace Bagnall ALS (7 November 1830 – 3 September 1918) was an English naturalist with a particular interest in botany, especially bryology. He was the author of the first Flora of Warwickshire ( VC38) in 1891. A noted bryologist, h ...

(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 ...

(1858–1954) *

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 John Hutton Balfour (15 September 1808 – 11 February 1884) was a Scottish botanist. Balfour became a Professor of Botany, first at the University of Glasgow in 1841, moving to the Edinburgh University, University of Edinburgh and also becomin ...

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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 Bryan Alwyn Barlow (born 1933) is an Australian botanist. He was a member of Committee of the "Flora of Australia" 1982–1984, and 1986–1988. He is a former director of the Australian National Herbarium (1981-1988). He authored many Myrtacea ...

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Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (December 9, 1798 – November 20, 1875) was a German botanist who was a native of Hanover. He studied natural sciences at the University of Göttingen, and in 1818 took a botanical journey through Hungary and Croatia ...

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Benjamin Smith Barton Benjamin Smith Barton (February10, 1766December19, 1815) was an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. He was one of the first professors of natural history in the United States and built the largest collection of botanical specimens in the ...

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John Bartram John Bartram (June 3, 1699 – September 22, 1777) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and explorer, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for most of his career. Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus said he was the "greatest natu ...

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William Bartram William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist, writer and explorer. Bartram was the author of an acclaimed book, now known by the shortened title Bartram's ''Travels'', which chronicled his explorations of the S ...

(1739–1823) *

Johann Bauhin Johann (or Jean) Bauhin (12 December 1541 – 26 October 1613) was a Swiss botanist, born in Basel. He was the son of physician Jean Bauhin and the brother of physician and botanist Gaspard Bauhin. Biography Bauhin studied botany at the Univ ...

(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 ...

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Chauncey Beadle Chauncey Delos Beadle (August5, 18661950) was a Canadian-born botanist and horticulturist active in the southern United States. He was educated in horticulture at Ontario Agricultural College (1884) and Cornell University (1889). In 1890 the la ...

(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 ...

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Richard Henry Beddome Colonel Richard Henry Beddome (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and naturalist in India, who became chief conservator of the Madras Forest Department. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several ...

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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 Pierre Belon (1517–1564) was a French traveller, natural history, naturalist, writer and diplomat. Like many others of the Renaissance period, he studied and wrote on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anat ...

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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 Miles Joseph Berkeley (1 April 1803 – 30 July 1889) was an English cryptogamist and clergyman, and one of the founders of the science of plant pathology. Life Berkeley was born at Biggin Hall, Benefield, Northamptonshire, and educated at ...

(1803–1889) * Karl August von Bergen (1704–1759) *

Johann Jakob Bernhardi Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1 September 1774, in Erfurt – 13 May 1850, in Erfurt) was a German doctor and botanist. Biography Johann J. Bernhardi studied Medicine and Botany at the University of Erfurt, and after graduation practiced medicine for a ...

(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 ...

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Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (7 July 1784 – 11 October 1842), known in Russia as Vilibald Gotlibovich Besser () was an Austrian-born botanist active in former eastern territories of Poland occupied by the Russian Empire, who wor ...

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Clarence Bicknell Clarence Bicknell (27 August 1842 – 17 July 1918) was a British vicar, amateur archaeology, archaeologist, botanist, artist, Esperantist, author and philanthropist. He founded the Bicknell Museum in Bordighera, Italy. Also named after him is a ...

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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 ...

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Jacob Bigelow Jacob Bigelow (February 27, 1787January 10, 1879) was an American physician, botanist and botanical illustrator. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts (in which he is interred), husband to Mary Scollay, and the f ...

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John Milton Bigelow John Milton Bigelow (June 23, 1804 – July 18, 1878) was an American physician and botanist. He had a successful medical practice, and also, a keen interest in botany - especially native plants with medical applications. He participated as a bot ...

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Gustaf Johan Billberg Gustaf Johan Billberg (14 June 1772, Karlskrona – 26 November 1844, Stockholm) was a Sweden, Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist, although professionally and by training he was a lawyer and used science and biology as an avocation. The pl ...

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Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (21 May 1797 – 11 September 1854) was a German botanist and university professor. He was among the first to examine the reproduction of mosses and liverworts and is credited with coining the terms archegonia and anther ...

(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 ...

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John Bradby Blake John Bradby Blake (4 November 1745 – 16 November 1773) was an English botanist. Working in China as a resident supercargo for the British East India Company, he sent seeds of local plants to Britain and the American colonies for propagation wh ...

(1745–1773) *

William Faris Blakely William Faris Blakely (November 1875 – 1 September 1941) was an Australian botanist and collector. From 1913 to 1940 he worked in the National Herbarium of New South Wales, working with Joseph Maiden on ''Eucalyptus''. Maiden named a red gum ...

(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 ...

(1801–1878) *

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 Jane Haskett Bock is a professor emerita in biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Early life Bock was born Jane Haskett. She intended to follow her mother’s footsteps as a chemist, but once in college, she decided to switch to bota ...

Hieronymus Bock Hieronymus Bock ( Latinised Hieronymus Tragus; c. 1498 – 21 February 1554) was a German botanist, physician, and Lutheran minister who began the transition from medieval botany to the modern scientific worldview by arranging plants by their re ...

(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 ...

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Wenceslas Bojer Wenceslas Bojer (also Václav Bojer in Czech or Wenzel Bojer in German) (23 September 1795 in Řesanice, Bohemia, now the Czech Republic – 4 June 1856 in Port Louis, Mauritius) was a naturalist, botanist and botanical illustrator originally f ...

(1795–1856) *

Henry Nicholas Bolander Henry Nicholas Bolander (February 22, 1831 – August 28, 1897) was a German-American botanist and educator. Early life Bolander was born in Schlüchtern, Grand Duchy of Hesse and emigrated to the United States in 1846. He joined his uncle in C ...

(1831–1897) *

Harry Bolus Harry Bolus (28 April 1834 – 25 May 1911) was a South African botanist, botanical artist, businessman and philanthropist. He advanced botany in South Africa by establishing bursaries, founding the Bolus Herbarium and bequeathing his library an ...

(1834–1911) * August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786–1839) *

Charles Bonnet Charles Bonnet (; 13 March 1720 – 20 May 1793) was a Republic of Geneva, Genevan natural history, naturalist and philosophical methodology, philosophical writer. He is responsible for coining the term ''phyllotaxis'' to describe the arrangement ...

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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 Francis Boott (26 September 1792 – 25 December 1863) was an American physician and botanist who was resident in Great Britain from 1820. Biography Boott was born in Boston, Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts, the brother of Kirk Boott, ...

(1792–1863) * Evelyn Booth (1897–1988) *

Attila Borhidi Borhidi Attila (born 28 June 1932), is a Széchenyi Prize winning Hungarian botanist, ecologist, professor, politician and full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is most noted for his extensive work on plant taxonomy. 1989 to 1992, ...

(b. 1932) * Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970) *

Frederik Børgesen Fredrik Christian Emil Børgesen (1 January 1866 in Copenhagen – 22 March 1956 in Frederiksberg) was a Danish botanist and phycologist. He graduated in botany from the University of Copenhagen and was subsequently employed as an assistant at ...

(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 John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) was a British botanist who became director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Brenan was born on 19 June 1917 in Chislehurst and died on 26 September 1985 at Kew. A funeral requiem was held on 3 Oc ...

(1917–1985) * William Henry Brewer (1828–1910) *

Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (28 November 1761 in Crassier, Vaud – 7 January 1828) was a Swiss-German bryologist. He studied at the University of Lausanne, and at the age of 19 began work as a tutor to the princes of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ...

(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- ...

(1776–1854) *

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 ...

(1858–1934) *

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 ''Adolphe'' is a classic French novel by Benjamin Constant, first published in 1816. It tells the story of an alienated young man, Adolphe, who falls in love with an older woman, Ellénore, the Polish mistress of the Comte de P***. Their illicit ...

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Nicholas Edward Brown Nicholas Edward Brown (11 July 1849 in Redhill, Surrey – 25 November 1934 in Kew Gardens, London) was an English plant taxonomist and authority on succulents. He was also an authority on several families of plants, including Asclepiadaceae, ...

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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 ...

(1762–1829) *

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 ...

(1803–1890) *

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 Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with ...

(1849–1926) *

Frederick William Burbidge Frederick William Thomas Burbidge (1847–1905) was a British explorer who collected many rare tropical plants for the famous Veitch Nurseries. Biography Burbidge was born at Wymeswold, Leicestershire, on 21 March 1847, was son of Thomas Burbid ...

(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 Johannes Burman (26 April 1707 in Amsterdam – 20 February 1780), was a Dutch botanist and physician. Burman specialized in plants from Ceylon, Amboina and Cape Colony. The name ''Pelargonium'' was introduced by Johannes Burman. Johannes ...

(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 Maarten Buysman, also spelt Buijsman (1856 –1919), was a Dutch botanist, known for growing, cultivating, and selling plants from across Europe, the Americas, and Indonesia. He also introduced a significant number of plants from the Americas ...

(1856–1919)

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* Cleofé Caldéron (1929–2007) * Albert Callay (1822–1896) *

George Caley George Caley (10 June 1770 – 23 May 1829) was an English botanist and explorer, active in Australia for the majority of his career. Early life Caley was born in Craven District, Craven, Yorkshire, England, the son of a horse-dealer. He was ed ...

(1770–1829) *

Ella Orr Campbell Dame Ella Orr Campbell (28 October 1910 – 24 July 2003) was a New Zealand botanist. An expert on bryophytes, she published 130 scientific papers on liverworts, hornworts, orchids, and wetlands. She became the first woman faculty member of the ...

(1910–2003) *

Rudolf Jakob Camerarius Rudolf Jakob Camerarius or Camerer (12 February 1665 – 11 September 1721) was a German botanist and physician. Life Camerarius was born at Tübingen, and became professor of medicine and director of the botanical gardens at Tübingen in 1687 ...

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Aimée Antoinette Camus Aimée Antoinette Camus (1 May 1879 – 17 April 1965) was a French botanist. She was best known for her study of orchids and oaks. Camus also has the legacy of authoring the second highest number of land plant species among female scientist ...

(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 Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (27 October 18064 April 1893) was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle. Biography De Candolle, son of Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, first devot ...

(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 Cedric Errol Carr (16 November 1892 – 3 June 1936) was a New Zealand botanist, specialising in orchids. At the age of seven he went to England with his family but from January 1913 until 1931, apart from military service from 1916 to 1918, he wo ...

(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 ...

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Henri Cassini Viscount Alexandre Henri Gabriel (vicomte) de Cassini (9 May 1781 – 23 April 1832) was a French botanist and naturalist, who specialised in the sunflower family (Asteraceae) (then known as family Compositae). He was the youngest of five childre ...

(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 Andrea Cesalpino ( Latinized as Andreas Cæsalpinus) (1524/1525 – 23 February 1603) was a Florentine physician, philosopher and botanist. In his works he classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically or ...

(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 Daniel Chamovitz (Hebrew: דניאל חיימוביץ; born April 18, 1963) is an American-born Israeli plant geneticist and the 7th President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. On July 1, 2024, he assumed the position o ...

(b. 1963) *

Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Pierre Gaspard Anaxagore Chaumette (; 24 May 1763 – 13 April 1794) was a French politician of the Revolutionary period who served as the president of the Paris Commune and played a leading role in the establishment of the Reign of Terror. ...

(1763–1794) *

Wan Chun Cheng Wan Chun Cheng or Zheng Wanjun (, 24 June 1908–25 July 1987) was a Chinese botanist. Initially one of the Chinese plant collectors who followed in the wake of the Europeans after 1920, he became one of the world's leading authorities on the taxo ...

(1908–1987) * Henry Chesterton (1837–1883) * Carl Christensen (1872–1942) *

Joseph Philippe de Clairville Joseph Philippe de Clairville (1742 – 31 July 1830) was a notable French people, French botanist and entomologist, who was mainly active in Switzerland. De Clairville’s collection of Coleoptera, his chief interest, is in the Natural History Mu ...

(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 Adrienne Elizabeth Clarke (née Petty; born 6 January 1938) is professor emeritus of Botany at the University of Melbourne, where she ran the Plant Cell Biology Research Centre from 1982 to 1999. She is a former chairman of the Commonwealth Sc ...

(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 Jens Christen (Christian) Clausen (March 11, 1891 – November 22, 1969) was a Danish- American botanist, geneticist, and ecologist. He is considered a pioneer in the field of ecological and evolutionary genetics of plants. Biography Clausen w ...

(1891–1969) *

Jane Colden Jane Colden (March 27, 1724 – March 10, 1766) was an American botanist,Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 described as the "first botanist of her sex in her country" by ...

(1724–1766) * Runar Collander (1894–1973) * Peter Collinson (1694–1768) *

Charles Coltman-Rogers Charles Coltman Coltman-Rogers (born Charles Coltman Rogers; 185419 May 1929) was a British agriculturalist and Liberal Party politician. Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was prominent in local government and agricultural poli ...

(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 Joseph Whipple Congdon (April 13, 1834 – April 5, 1910) was a lawyer by trade who contributed significantly to early botanical exploration in California, particularly in the Yosemite region, where he resided in Mariposa from 1882 until 1905. C ...

(1834–1910) *

Valerius Cordus Valerius Cordus (18 February 1515 – 25 September 1544) was a German physician, botanist and pharmacologist who authored the first pharmacopoeia North of the Alps and one of the most celebrated herbals in history. He is also widely credited w ...

(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 Arthur John Cronquist (March 19, 1919 – March 22, 1992) was an American biologist, botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cr ...

(1919–1992) *

José Cuatrecasas José Cuatrecasas (1903–1996) was a Spanish botanist. He was born on March 19, 1903, in Camprodon, Catalonia, Spain. His research focused on the high-elevation páramo and sub-páramo regions of the Andes Mountains in South America, especiall ...

(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 ...

(1616–1654) *

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 Ed Currie (born August 18, 1963) is an American chili pepper breeder who is the founder and president of the PuckerButt Pepper Company. He is best known for breeding two of the hottest chili peppers in the world as recognized by ''Guinness World ...

(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 William Curtis (11 January 1746 – 7 July 1799) was an English botanist and entomologist, who was born at Alton, Hampshire, site of the Curtis Museum. Curtis began as an apothecary, before turning his attention to botany and other natural ...

(1746–1799) * Pierre Cusson (1727–1783)

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Anders Dahl Anders (or Andreas) Dahl (17 March 1751 – 25 May 1789) was a Swedes, Swedish botanist and student of Carl Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him. Early life and education Andreas (Anders) Dahl was the son of Christoffer Dahl, a preac ...

(1751–1789) * Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard (1663–1743) * John M. Darby (1804–1877) * Frederick Hamilton Davey (1868–1915) *

Armand David Armand David, CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist from the French Basque Country. Several species, such as Père David's deer ...

(1826–1900) * Walter Davis (1847–1930) *

Anton de Bary Heinrich Anton de Bary (26 January 183119 January 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology). He is considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the foun ...

(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 Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (14 February 1773 – 1 March 1847) was a French banker and naturalist. He was an honorary member of the Académie des Sciences and many species were named from his natural history collections. Biography He was bor ...

(1773–1847) *

Stefano delle Chiaje Stefano Delle Chiaje (25 April 1794 – 18 December 1860) was an Italian zoologist, botanist, anatomist and physician. Delle Chiaje studied medicine in Naples, where he was a pupil of Giuseppe Saverio Poli. Together they started compiling books ...

(1794–1860) *

Giuseppe De Notaris Giuseppe De Notaris (18 April 1805 – 22 January 1877) was an Italian botanist generally known for his work with cryptogams native to Italy. Biography Born 18 April 1805, in Milan, he studied medicine at the University of Pavia, obtaining his ...

(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 Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (27 July 1753 – 20 January 1838) was a French botanist and pteridologist. He was a contributor to the "Encyclopedia Botanique" of Lamarck, from 1783 to 1796. Desrousseaux produced many works on new plant spec ...

(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 Moritz Kurt Dinter (10 June 1868 – 16 December 1945) was a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa. Education and career Dinter was born in Bautzen, where he attended the Realschule. After completing his military service he joi ...

(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 George Don (29 April 1798 – 25 February 1856) was a Scottish botanist and plant collector. Life and career George Don was born at Doo Hillock, Forfar, Angus, Scotland on 29 April 1798 to Caroline Clementina Stuart and George Don (b.1756), pr ...

(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 Catharina Helena Dörrien (1 March 1717, in Hildesheim – 8 June 1795, in Dillenburg) was a German botanist and teacher, recognized as "the most celebrated German-speaking female naturalist of the period". She was a talented artist who painted o ...

(1717–1795) * David Douglas (1799–1834) *

John Dransfield John Dransfield (born 1945) is former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Dransfield has written or contributed to several books on palms, notably both the first and second editions of '' Genera Palmarum''. ...

(b. 1945) *

Robert Louis Dressler Robert (Louis) Dressler (born 1927, died October 15, 2019, in Paraíso, Costa Rica) was an American botanist specialist of the taxonomy of the Orchidaceae. He graduated from the University of Southern California and Harvard University. In 1977 ...

(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 Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...

(1789–1856) * Ursula Katherine Duncan (1910–1985) *

Stephen Troyte Dunn Stephen Troyte Dunn (26 August 1868, Bristol - 18 April, 1938, Sheen, Surrey, England) was a British botanist. He described and systematized a significant number of plants around the world, his input most noticeable in the Taxonomy (biology), ta ...

(1868–1938) *

Robert Allen Dyer Robert Allen Dyer (21 September 1900 in Pietermaritzburg – 26 October 1987 in Johannesburg) was a South African botanist and taxonomist, working particularly on Amaryllidaceae and succulent plants, contributing to and editing of ''Bothalia'' ...

(1900–1987)

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Michael Pakenham Edgeworth Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (24 May 1812 – 30 July 1881) was an Irish botanist who specialized in seed plants and ferns, and spent most of his life working in India. He was also a pioneer of photography. Early life and family relations Edg ...

(1812–1881) *

Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers Henrik einrichFranz Alexander Baron von Eggers (4 December 1844 – 1903), was a Danish professional soldier and botanist. Life After studies at the gymnasium in Odense he entered the Danish army as Subaltern (military), subaltern in 1864 and ...

(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 Eva Ekeblad (née De la Gardie; 10 July 1724 – 15 May 1786) was a Swedish agriculturist and salon hostess. She discovered a method to make alcohol and flour from potatoes, significantly reducing Sweden's incidence of famine. She became the fi ...

(1724–1786) *

Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher Stephan Friedrich Ladislaus Endlicher, also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804 – 28 March 1849), was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. Biography 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 Andrey Sergeevich Erst () is a Russian botanist, who is a senior researcher at the Central Siberian Botanic Garden in Novosibirsk. Career Andrey Erst studied at Altai State University from 2000 to 2005 before undertaking postgraduate study at t ...

Katherine Esau Katherine Esau (3 April 1898 – 4 June 1997) was a pioneering German-American botanist who studied plant anatomy and the effects of viruses. Her books ''Plant Anatomy'' (1953, 1965, 2006) and ''Anatomy of Seed Plants'' (1960, 1977) are key te ...

(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 Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen (or Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen) (16 June 1826 in Vienna – 1 February 1897 in Graz) was an Austrian botanist known for his paleobotanical studies of flora from the Tertiary era. He was the son o ...

(1826–1897) * Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929)

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David Fairchild David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United Stat ...

(1869–1954) *

Hugh Falconer Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam, Burma, and most of the Mediterranean island ...

(1808–1865) *

Reginald Farrer Reginald John Farrer (17 February 1880 – 17 October 1920), was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for ''My Rock Garden''. He travelled to Asia in search of a variety of plants, many of wh ...

(1880–1920) * Lewis J. Feldman (b. 1945) * Luigi Fenaroli (1899–1980) *

Merritt Lyndon Fernald Merritt Lyndon Fernald (October 5, 1873 – September 22, 1950) was an American botanist. He was a respected scholar of the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy and phytogeography of the vascular plant flora of temperate eastern North America. During his ...

(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 Heinrich Gustav Flörke (24 December 1764, in Altenkalden in Mecklenburg – 11 June 1835) was a German botanist and lichenologist known for his detailed studies of lichens, particularly within the genus ''Cladonia''. A professor of natural his ...

(1764–1835) *

Pius Font i Quer Pius Font i Quer (1888 – 1964) was a Catalan botanist, pharmacist and chemist. Biography Born in 1888, in Lleida, Font organized the Institut Botànic de Barcelona and founded Jardí Botànic in this city. In 1911 he joined the Health Mi ...

(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 (1834–1900) *William Douglas Francis (1889–1959) *John C. Frémont (1813–1890) *Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) *Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870) *Charles Christopher Frost (1805–1880) *Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) *Heinrich Christian Funck (1771–1839) *Catherine Furbish (1834–1931)

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* Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929) *Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791) *Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772–1850) *Betsy Harrison Gagne (1947–2020) *François Gagnepain (1866–1952) *Ernest Edward Galpin (1858–1941) *George Gammie, George Alexander Gammie (1864–1934) *James Alexander Gammie (1839–1924) *Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854) *Alwyn Howard Gentry (1945–1993) *Howard Scott Gentry (1903–1993) *John Gerard (1545–1612) *Conrad von Gesner (1516–1565) *Luca Ghini (1490–1556) *Ken Gillanders (b. 1930) *C.H. Gimingham, Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018) *Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804) *Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755) *Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774) *Hossein Gol-e-Golab (1895–1985) *George Gordon (botanist), George Gordon (1806–1879) *Antoine Gouan (1733–1821) *Asa Gray (1810–1888) *Netta Elizabeth Gray (1913–1970) *Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866) *Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) *William Griffith (botanist), 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 (1831–1899) *Guranda Gvaladze (1932–2020)

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*Ingebrigt Severin Hagen *Olaf Hagerup *Hiroshi Hara (botanist), Hiroshi Hara *Thora Hardy *Inez M. Haring *Robert Almer Harper *Cornelia Hermina van Harreveld-Lako *Karl Theodor Hartweg *William Henry Harvey *Adrian Hardy Haworth *John Stevens Henslow *Augustine Henry *Vernon Heywood *Mary MacLean Hindmarsh *Adriana Hoffmann *Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg *Henri Homblé *Henrietta Hooker *Joseph Dalton Hooker *William Jackson Hooker *Josiah Hoopes *Albert Howard *Gabrielle Howard *Armando Theodoro Hunziker *John Hutchinson (botanist), John Hutchinson

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

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*Vello Jaaska (b. 1936) *Vilve Jaaska (fl. 1990) *Victor Jacquemont (1801–1832) *Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (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 (1925–1997) *Ivan Murray Johnston (1898–1960) *Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853) *Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836) *Antoine de Jussieu (1686–1758) *Bernard de Jussieu (1699–1777)

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*Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1714) *Guillermo Kalbreyer (1847–1912) *Pehr Kalm (1716–1779) *Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817–1908) *Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983) *Frederick Keeble, 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 (botanist), Karl Koch (1809–1879)

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*Jacques Labillardière *Dorothy van Dyke Leake *Lars Levi Laestadius *Jean-Baptiste Lamarck *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 *Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link *Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach *Carl Linnaeus *Carolus Linnaeus the Younger *William Richardson Linton *Pablo de la Llave *David Lloyd (botanist), David Lloyd *Thomas Lobb *William Lobb *Loddiges, George Loddiges *Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps *Harri Lorenzi *A.S. Losina-Losinskaja *John Claudius Loudon *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 *Joseph Maiden *Marcello Malpighi *Gustav Mann *Charles Maries *Jesse Jarue Mark *Rudolf Marloth *Humphry Marshall *Austin Mast *Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius *John M. MacDougal *Terry Desmond Macfarlane *William Keble Martin *John Martyn (botanist), John Martyn *Genkei Masamune *Francis Masson *Carl Maximowicz *Rogers McVaugh *Gregor Mendel *Friedrich Kasimir Medikus *Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini *Archibald Menzies *Konstantin Merezhkovsky *Franz Meyen *Carl Anton von Meyer *André Michaux *Pier Antonio Micheli *John Miller (botanical illustrator), John Miller *Philip Miller *Charles Frederick Millspaugh *Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel *

*John Mitchell (geographer), John Mitchell *Conrad Moench *Hugo von Mohl *Charles Mohr (botanist), Charles Theodore Mohr *Paul Möhring *Camille Montagne *George Thomas Moore *Giuseppe Moretti (botanist), Giuseppe Moretti *Giuseppe Giacinto Moris *Robert Morison *Józef Motyka *Cornelius Herman Muller *Ferdinand von Mueller *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 (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 (1786–1859)

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*Carl Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931) *Daniel Oliver (botanist), 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 *Charles Christopher Parry *Charles Plumier *Christian Hendrik Persoon *Cyrus Pringle *Daniel Oliver (botanist), Daniel Oliver *Donald C. Peattie *Eduard Friedrich Poeppig *Eduard Pospichal *Edward Palmer (botanist), Edward Palmer *Filippo Parlatore *Flora Wambaugh Patterson *Frederick Traugott Pursh *George E. Post *George R. Proctor *Ghillean Prance *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-Marie Pelt *Joel Roberts Poinsett *Josif Pancic *Joseph Hubert Priestley *Karl Julius Perleb *Leonard Plukenet *Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré *Ludwig Preiss *Michael Proctor (botanist), Michael Proctor *Morten Pedersen Porsild *Nathanael Pringsheim *Ove Paulsen *Palisot de Beauvois *Paul Petard (botanist), Paul Petard *Paul Émile de Puydt *Peter Simon Pallas *Pliny the Elder *Richard Pearce (botanist), Richard Pearce *Rodolfo Amando Philippi *Ruth Patrick *Thomas Conrad Porter *William Hunt Painter *William Paterson (explorer), William Paterson *William Purdom *:it:Ciro Pollini, Ciro Pollini

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* Agnes J. Quirk (1884–1974)

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*Achille Richard *Albert Ernest Radford *Albrecht Wilhelm Roth *Antoine Risso (alias: Antonio Giuseppe Risso) *Augustus Quirinus Rivinus *Christen C. Raunkiær *Constantine Samuel Rafinesque *Elizabeth Seymour Rawlinson *Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns *Gabriele Rabel *Georg Eberhard Rumphius *Gustaf Otto Rosenberg *Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen *Harold E. Robinson *Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach *Henry Nicholas Ridley *Johann Jacob Roemer *John Ralfs *John Ray *Joseph Rock *José Manuel Restrepo Vélez *Joseph Rock *Julien Reverchon *Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge *Lincoln Ware Riddle *Louis Claude Richard *Ludwig Reichenbach *Oliver Rackham *Per Axel Rydberg *Peter H. Raven *Thekla Resvoll *Tony Rodd *Werner Rothmaler *William Roxburgh

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*Joseph Sabine *Julius von Sachs *József Sadler *Thiodolf Saelan *Augustin Saint-Hilaire *Edward James Salisbury *Richard Anthony Salisbury *Richard Sanders Rogers *Gaetano Savi *Charles Sprague Sargent *Henry Parker Sartwell *William Saunders (botanist), William Saunders *Horace-Bénédict de Saussure *Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper *Christian Schkuhr *Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal *Rudolf Schlechter *Matthias Jakob Schleiden *George Schoener *Selmar Schonland *Heinrich Wilhelm Schott *Heinrich Schrader (botanist), Heinrich Schrader *Franz von Paula Schrank *Josef August Schultes *Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen *Ian Schwartz *Georg August Schweinfurth *Giovanni Antonio Scopoli *Berthold Carl Seemann *Prideaux John Selby *Jean Senebier *Nicolas Charles Seringe *Martín Sessé y Lacasta *John Adolph Shafer *Carl Sharsmith *Helen Sharsmith *George Shaw (biologist), George Shaw *Shen Kuo *John Sibthorp *Franz Sieber *Philipp Franz von Siebold *Thomas Robertson Sim *Cuthbert John Skead *John Kunkel Small *Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov *Christo Albertyn Smith *Edith Philip Smith *James Edward Smith (botanist), James Edward Smith *Johannes Jacobus Smith *Winifred Smith *Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth *Daniel Solander *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 *G. Ledyard Stebbins *Berthold Stein *Georg Wilhelm Steller *Kaspar Maria von Sternberg *Julian Alfred Steyermark *Jonathan Stokes *Eduard Strasburger *George Bishop Sudworth *Su Song *Olof Swartz * *Simon Syrenius

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*Hisayoshi Takeda (Pseudonym, aka Takeda Hisayoshi) *

*Arthur Tansley *Ignaz Friedrich Tausch *John Templeton (botanist), John Templeton *Michele Tenore *Theophrastus *William Turner Thiselton-Dyer *Graham Stuart Thomas *William Thompson (naturalist), William Thompson *George Thomson (botanist), George Thomson *Robert Folger Thorne *Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars *Carl Peter Thunberg *Agostino Todaro *John Torrey *Joseph Pitton de Tournefort *John Tradescant the elder *John Tradescant the younger *Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter *Carl Bernhard von Trinius *Mikhail Tsvet *Edward Tuckerman *William Turner (naturalist), William Turner *Tom Tutin

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*Bernardino da Ucria (1739–1796) *Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853–1907) *Ignatz Urban (1848–1931)

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*Martin Vahl (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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*Warren H. Wagner *Göran Wahlenberg *Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein *George Arnott Walker-Arnott *Nathaniel Wallich *Gustav Wallis *Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth *E. F. Warburg *Harry Marshall Ward *Eugenius Warming *Sereno Watson *William Watson (scientist), William Watson *Wang Wencai *Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee *Randy Wayne (biologist) *Philip Barker Webb *Georg Heinrich Weber *Christian Ehrenfried Weigel *Friedrich Welwitsch *George Stephen West *William West (botanist), William West *William West Jr *Herbert Hice Whetzel *August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel *Lilly Wigg *Johan Emanuel Wikström *Carl Ludwig Willdenow *Ernest Henry Wilson *William Withering *Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod *Alphonso Wood *John Medley Wood *Charles Wright (botanist), Charles Wright *Franz Xavier von Wulfen *Heinrich Wullschlägel *Heinrich Wydler * Ben-Erik van Wyk

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* Hu Xiansu (1894–1968)

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*Gennady Yakovlev (1938–2024)

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*Milton Zaitlin (1927–2016) *Kadir Zakirovič Zakirov (1906–1992) *Giovanni Zanardini (1804–1878) *Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799–1858) *Daniel Zohary (1926–2016) *Michael Zohary (1898–1983) *Scott Zona (b. 1959) *Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797–1848) *Joy Zedler (b. 1943)

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