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, in alphabetical order by surname. The List of botanists by author abbreviation is mostly a list of plant taxonomists because an author receives a standard abbreviation only when that author originates a new

plant name A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the ''International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants'' (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the '' Inte ...

. Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women.

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* Erik Acharius * Julián Acuña Galé *

Johann Friedrich Adam Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams (1780 in Moscow – 1 March 1838, in Vereya) was a botanist from Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia. He studied from 1795–1796 in the medical school of Saint Petersburg, S ...

* Carl Adolph Agardh * Jacob Georg Agardh * Nikolaus Ager * William Aiton * Frédéric-Louis Allamand *

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

* Prospero Alpini * Benjamin Alvord * Adeline Ames * Eliza Frances Andrews * Agnes Arber *

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 professor ...

David Ashton David Ashton may refer to: * David Ashton (botanist) (1927–2005), Australian botanist and ecologist * David Ashton (actor) David Ashton (born David Scott on 10 November 1941, in Greenock, Scotland) is a Scottish actor and writer. Trained a ...

* William Guybon Atherstone * Anna Atkins *

Daniel E. Atha Daniel Atha (born 1962) is a botanist. In his work as a botanist he has collected plants in all 50 states of the United States, as well as several additional countries. Atha's work was focused on three areas: "floristics—what plants grow in a ...

Armen Takhtajan Armen Leonovich Takhtajan or Takhtajian ( hy, Արմեն Լևոնի Թախտաջյան; russian: Армен Леонович Тахтаджян; surname also transliterated Takhtadjan, Takhtadzhi︠a︡n or Takhtadzhian, pronounced takh-tuh-JA ...

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* Ernest Brown Babcock * Churchill Babington * Curt Backeberg * James Eustace Bagnall * Jacob Whitman Bailey *

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

* Ibn al-Baitar * Giovanni Battista Balbis * John Hutton Balfour *

Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1820) was an English naturalist, botanist, and patron of the natural sciences. Banks made his name on the 1766 natural-history expedition to Newfoundland and Labrador. He took part in Captain James ...

César Barbosa César Barbosa (born 1954) is a Colombian biologist, ornithologist and botanist, specialising in the study of Fabaceae. In 1976 received his BA in Biology from the National University of Colombia. He is a researcher at the Herbarium of the Nation ...

* Bryan Alwyn Barlow * Benjamin Smith Barton *

John Bartram John Bartram (March 23, 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 na ...

William Bartram William Bartram (April 20, 1739 – July 22, 1823) was an American botanist, ornithologist, natural historian and explorer. Bartram was the author of an acclaimed book, now known by the shortened title ''Bartram's Travels'', which chronicled ...

* Johann Bauhin * Gaspard Bauhin * Chauncey Beadle * William James Beal *

Janice C. Beatley Janice Carson Beatley (March 18, 1919 – November 14, 1987) was an American botanist, known for her fieldwork on the forests of Ohio and the flora of the Nevada Atomic Test Site. Beatley was Professor of Biological Sciences at the Universit ...

Rolla Kent Beattie Rolla Kent Beattie (1875–1960) was an American botanist and plant pathologist.Rolla Kent Be ...

* Richard Henry Beddome * Martinus Beijerinck * David Bellamy * George Bentham * Robert Bentley * Miles Joseph Berkeley * Karl August von Bergen * Edward W. Berry * Clarence Bicknell * Jacob Bigelow * John Milton Bigelow * Gustaf Johan Billberg * Johannes Bisse * Francisco Manuel Blanco *

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 ...

* William Faris Blakely * Andrew Bloxam * Carl Ludwig Blume * Tyge W. Böcher *

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 ...

* Herman Boerhaave * Wenceslas Bojer * Henry Nicholas Bolander * Harry Bolus *

August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (12 September 1786 – 1839) was a German botanist who worked in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Born in Bonn, he was among the first botanists to describe the new plants then being discovered in Alaska (under Russia ...

* Charles Bonnet * Aimé Bonpland *

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, the brother of Kirk Boott, one of the founders of L ...

* Evelyn Booth (1897–1988) *

Attila Borhidi Borhidi Attila (born 28 June 1932), is a Széchenyi Prize The Széchenyi Prize ( hu, Széchenyi-díj), named after István Széchenyi, is a prize given in Hungary by the state, replacing the former State Prize in 1990 in recognition of those who ...

Antonina Georgievna Borissova Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970) was a Soviet Botany, botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and Semi-arid climate, semi-desert of central Asia. Borissova authored 195 land plant species names, the ninth-highest number of ...

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 th ...

* David Bowman * Richard Bradley * Alexander Braun * John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan * William Henry Brewer * Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel * Elizabeth Gertrude Britton * Nathaniel Lord Britton *

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 ...

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 Asclepiadacea ...

* Robert Brown * Patrick Browne *

Jeremy James Bruhl Jeremy James Bruhl (born 1956) is an Australian botanist. He is an emeritus professor in the School of Environmental and Rural Science at the University of New England and director of the N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium which holds c.110,000 plant sp ...

Louis-Ovide Brunet Louis-Ovide Brunet (10 March 1826 – 2 October 1876) was a French-Canadian botanist and Roman Catholic priest, and is considered one of the founding fathers of Canadian botany. Brunet was born in Quebec City on 10 March 1826, the son of Jean-Oliv ...

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 physician who made significant contributions as a geographer, zoologist, and botanist whil ...

* Alexander von Bunge * Elsa Beata Bunge * Luther Burbank * Frederick William Burbidge * William John Burchell *

Alan Burges Norman Alan Burges CBE (5 August 1911 – 4 October 2002), was an Australian botanist who became the first Vice-Chancellor of the New University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Life He was born 5 August 1911, in East Maitland, New Sout ...

* David Burke *

Joseph Burke II Joseph Burke (12 June 1812 in Bristol, England – 23 January 1873 in Harrisonville, USA) was a collector of plants and animals for Lord Derby. 1839–1840 Burke was employed as a gardener for Lord Derby, an enthusiastic natural history collector w ...

* Johannes Burman * Nicolaas Laurens Burman *

Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Busch Elizaveta Aleksandrovna (Endaurova) Busch (1886–1960) was a botanist in the Soviet Union known for studying the flora of the North Caucasus and Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an ...

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* Cleofé Caldéron *

Albert Callay Eugène Albert Athanase Callay (born February 21, 1822 in Montcornet, Aisne and died in LeChesne, Ardennes March 24, 1896) was a French pharmacist and amateur botanist who worked on classifying the flora of the department of the Ardennes.''L'herb ...

* George Caley *

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

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 ...

* Aimée Antoinette Camus * Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (A. P. de Candolle) * Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (A. de Candolle) *

Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle (8 December 1868, Walton-on-Thames – 4 May 1920, Vallon) was a Swiss botanist and was British consul to the Canton of Geneva between 1912 and 1918. Early life and education Richard Émile Augustin de Ca ...

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J. F. M. Cannon John Francis Michael Cannon (22 April 1930 – 31 March 2008) was a British botanist who held the role of Keeper of Botany at the Natural History Museum between 1978 and 1990. Cannon joined the Department of Botany at the British Museum (Natural H ...

Sherwin Carlquist Sherwin John Carlquist FMLS (July 7, 1930 - December 1, 2021) was an American botanist and photographer. Education He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 and a Ph.D. in botany in 1956, also at ...

* Cedric Errol Carr * Elie-Abel Carrière *

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

William Casson William Casson (23 October 1796 – 22 January 1886) was an English botanist, seed merchant, and local historian. He discovered the Fen or Crested Buckler-fern ''Dryopteris cristata'' in Yorkshire and wrote a local history of Thorne, ''The Hi ...

* Antonio José Cavanilles * Andrea Cesalpino * Adelbert von Chamisso * Daniel Chamovitz *

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. H ...

Henry Chesterton Joseph Henry Chesterton (1837 – 26 January 1883) was a British plant collector who was sent by James Veitch & Sons to search for orchids in South America with much success. James Veitch & Sons Chesterton was born in Sandy, Bedfordshire ...

* Carl Christensen * Arthur Roy Clapham *

Lynn G. Clark Lynn G. Clark is an American professor of botany at Iowa State University who is an expert in tropical woody bamboos. As a high school student, Clark worked summers with grass expert Thomas Soderstrom at the National Museum of Natural History. S ...

* Adrienne Clarke *

Gertrude Clarke Nuttall Gertrude Clarke Nuttall (1868, Leicester – 4 May 1929, St. Albans, Hertfordshire) 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 Flower ...

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 wa ...

* Jane Colden * Runar Collander * Peter Collinson *

Charles Coltman-Rogers Charles Coltman Coltman-Rogers (born Charles Coltman Rogers; 1854 – 19 May 1929), was a British agriculturalist and Liberal Party politician. Educated at Eton and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was prominent in local government and agricultura ...

* Philibert Commerçon *

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 County, California, Marip ...

* Valerius Cordus *

Giacomo Antonio Cortuso Giacomo Antonio Cortuso (1513–1603) was an Italian botanist. 1513 births 1603 deaths 16th-century Italian botanists {{Italy-botanist-stub ...

* Arthur Disbrowe Cotton * Arthur Cronquist * José Cuatrecasas * Nicholas Culpeper *

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

* Charles Curtis * William Curtis

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* Anders Dahl *

Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard (12 May 1663, London - 12 May 1743, Paris) was a French botanist. His father was called on by King Charles II of England (1630-1685) to fight a plague epidemic in 1661. The Danty d'Isnard family returned to France ...

John M. Darby John M. Darby (September 3 or September 27, 1804 – September 18, 1877) was an American botanist, chemist, and academic. He created the first systematic catalogue of flora in the southeastern United States. Biography Darby was born in North A ...

* Frederick Hamilton Davey *

Armand David Father Armand David (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist. Several species, such as Père David's deer, are named after him — be ...

* Walter Davis * Anton de Bary *

Ethel de Fraine Ethel de Fraine (2 November 1879 – 25 March 1918) was a British botanist. Life and work Ethel Louise de Fraine was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England on 2 November 1879 and received her D.Sc. from the University of London. She was a ...

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Pierre Jean Marie Delavay Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

* Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert * René Louiche Desfontaines * Johann Jacob Dillenius * Kurt Dinter * Pedanius Dioscorides *

Kingsley Dixon Kingsley Wayne Dixon (Ph.D.) is an Australian botanist currently working as a professor at Curtin University. He was the founding Director of Science at Kings Park and Botanic Gardens, and helped to establish the laboratories there as among t ...

* Rembert Dodoens * David Don * James Donn *

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 ...

* David Douglas * John Dransfield *

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, ...

Jonas C. Dryander Jonas Carlsson Dryander (5 March 1748 – 19 October 1810) was a Swedish botanist. Biography Dryander was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was the son of Carl Leonard Dryander and Brita Maria Montin. He was a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsa ...

* Heber Drury * Antoine Nicolas Duchesne *

William Russell Dudley William Russel Dudley (March 1, 1849 – June 4, 1911) was an American botanist.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 He headed the botany department at Stanford University ...

* Michel Felix Dunal *

Ursula Katherine Duncan Ursula Katherine Duncan (17 September 1910 – 27 January 1985) was a botanist with a special interest in mosses and lichens, and a lifelong love and knowledge of flowers. She was entirely self-educated in botany, and corresponded with numerous p ...

* Stephen Troyte Dunn *

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

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* Michael Pakenham Edgeworth * Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers * Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg * Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart * Eva Ekeblad *

Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804, Bratislava (Pozsony) – 28 March 1849, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist. He was a director of the Botanical Garden of Vienna. B ...

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 of the west of North America, then very poorly known to Europeans; he was particu ...

* Adolf Engler * Katherine Esau * Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz * Constantin von Ettingshausen *

Eleonora Gabrielian Eleonora (Nora) Tsolakovna Gabrielian (Gabrielyan) (Armenian: Էլեոնորա Ցոլակի Գաբրիելյան; Russian: Элеонора Цолаковна Габриэлян) (born 22 February 1929) is a Soviet, Armenian born botanist, doct ...

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* David Fairchild * Hugh Falconer * Reginald Farrer *

Lewis J. Feldman Lewis Jeffrey Feldman (born October 10, 1945) is a professor of plant biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Director of the University of California Botanical Garden and previously Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College o ...

* Luigi Fenaroli * Merritt Lyndon Fernald *

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

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

* Peter Forsskål * Georg Forster * Johann Reinhold Forster * Robert Fortune *

Henry Georges Fourcade Henry Georges Fourcade, also known as Henri Georges Fourcade and sometimes Georges Henri Fourcade, was a surveyor, forester, pioneer of photogrammetry and as botanist, a major early collector of the Southern Cape flora. Early life Henry ...

* Adrien René Franchet *

William D. Francis William Douglas Francis (6 March 1889 – 2 January 1959) was an Australian botany, botanist. Born in Bega, New South Wales, at the age of 17 he moved with his father Alfred, and brother Frederick, from Wollongong, New South Wales, where he ...

John C. Frémont John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a U.S. Senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the United States in 1856 ...

Elias Magnus Fries Elias Magnus Fries (15 August 1794 – 8 February 1878) was a Swedish mycologist and botanist. Career Fries was born at Femsjö (Hylte Municipality), Småland, the son of the pastor there. He attended school in Växjö. He acquired ...

* Imre Frivaldszky *

Charles Christopher Frost Charles Christopher Frost (November 11, 1805 – March 16, 1880) was an American mycologist. He described several species of fungi from the New England area of the United States. In one paper, Frost described 22 new species of boletes, and he wa ...

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 th ...

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* Joseph Gaertner * François Gagnepain *

Ernest Edward Galpin Ernest Edward Galpin (1858–1941), was a South African botanist and banker. He left some 16,000 sheets to the National Herbarium in Pretoria and was dubbed "the Prince of Collectors" by General Smuts. Galpin discovered half a dozen genera and m ...

* George Alexander Gammie * James Alexander Gammie * Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré *

Alwyn Howard Gentry Alwyn Howard Gentry (January 6, 1945 – August 3, 1993) was an American botanist and plant collector, who made major contributions to the understanding of the vegetation of tropical forests. Education Gentry was born on January 6, 1945, in Cl ...

* Howard Scott Gentry * John Gerard * Conrad von Gesner * Luca Ghini * Ken Gillanders *

Charles Henry Gimingham Charles Henry Gimingham (28 April 1923 – 19 June 2018) was a British botanist at the University of Aberdeen, patron of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, former president of the British Ecological Society, and one of t ...

Johann Friedrich Gmelin , fields = , workplaces = University of GöttingenUniversity of Tübingen , alma_mater = University of Tübingen , doctoral_advisor = Philipp Friedrich GmelinFerdinand Christoph Oetinger , academic_advisors = , doctora ...

* Johann Georg Gmelin * Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin * Hossein Gol-e-Golab * George Gordon *

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

Netta Elizabeth Gray Netta Elizabeth Gray (1913–1970) was an American botanist. She was a specialist in the conifer genus ''Podocarpus'' and much of her research material, including anatomical microscope slides, are now housed at the U.S. National Arboretum in Was ...

* Nehemiah Grew * William Griffith * Jan Frederik Gronovius *

Wilhelm Gueinzius Wilhelm Gueinzius (15 March 1813 – 24 January 1874) was a German naturalist, collector and apothecary. Life Gueinzius was born in Trotha, a suburb of Halle. In his youth he attended the grammar school "Franckesche Stiftung" in Halle, but ...

* Hugo Gunckel Lüer * Johann Ernst Gunnerus * Francis Guthrie * Guranda Gvaladze

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Ingebrigt Severin Hagen Ingebrigt Severin Hagen (1852- 8 June 1917) was a Norwegian physician and botanist who specialized in the taxonomy of the bryophytes. Born in Trondheim to shoemaker father Ingebrigt Hagen and Caroline Elizabeth née Helle, Hagen was academically g ...

Olaf Hagerup Olaf Hagerup (29 September 1889 – 2 March 1961) was a Denmark, Danish botanist. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen from 1911 under the professors Eugenius Warming, Christen C. Raunkiær, Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge, L. Kolderup ...

* Hiroshi Hara *

Thora Hardy Thora Margraff Plitt Hardy (31 July 1902 – 1 January 1993) was a US chemist born in Switzerland. She was educated at Barnard College, Columbia University, from where she graduated in 1925. Afterwards she worked as a New York City high school tea ...

Inez M. Haring Inez Maria Haring (née Inez Maria Eccleston) (October 12, 1875 - June 5, 1968) was an American botanist and plant collector, best known for her work in bryology as the Assistant Honorary Curator of Mosses at the New York Botanical Garden beginnin ...

Robert Almer Harper Robert Almer Harper (January 21, 1862 – May 12, 1946) was an American botanist. The younger brother of Edward Thompson Harper, Robert was born in Le Claire, Iowa to Congressional Minister Almer Harper and Eunice Thompson. The family moved to Po ...

* Karl Theodor Hartweg * William Henry Harvey * Adrian Hardy Haworth * John Stevens Henslow * Augustine Henry *

Vernon Heywood Vernon Hilton Heywood (born 24 December 1927 - died 2022) was a British biologist. He specialised in medicinal and aromatic plants, and the conservation of wild relatives of plants. Heywood was appointed as lecturer at University of Liverpool, ...

Mary MacLean Hindmarsh Mary MacLean Hindmarsh (21 July 1921 – 10 April 2000) was an Australian botanist who worked at the New South Wales University of Technology in Ultimo as a professor of biology. A graduate of the University of New England in Armidale and the ...

Adriana Hoffmann Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby (29 January 1940 – 20 March 2022) was a Chilean botanist, environmentalist and author. She was executive secretary of Chile's National Environment Commission (, CONAMA) from 2000 to 2001. She advocated for th ...

* Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg * Henrietta Hooker * Joseph Dalton Hooker *

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

Josiah Hoopes Josiah Hoopes (November 9, 1832 – January 16, 1904) was an American botanist specializing in arboriculture. He founded one of the largest commercial plant nurseries in the United States in his hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Life an ...

* Albert Howard * Gabrielle Howard * Armando Theodoro Hunziker * John Hutchinson

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Agnes Ibbetson Agnes (née Thomson) Ibbetson (1757–1823), was an English plant physiologist. Life She was the daughter of Andrew Thomson Esq., of Roehampton, a London merchant, and was born in London in 1757 and educated at home. In 1783 she married James Ib ...

* Jane Ingham * Keisuke Ito

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* Vello Jaaska (born 1936) * Vilve Jaaska (fl. 1990) * Victor Jacquemont *

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 P ...

* Joseph Franz von Jacquin * Knud Jessen * Wilhelm Johannsen * Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson * Ivan Murray Johnston * Adrien-Henri de Jussieu *

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 ...

* Antoine de Jussieu * Bernard de Jussieu

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* Kaibara Ekiken * Guillermo Kalbreyer * Pehr Kalm *

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. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 the northern part of ...

Kailas Nath Kaul Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983) was an Indian botanist, naturalist, agricultural scientist, horticulturist, herbalist, plant collector and herpetologist, and a world authority on Arecaceae. He founded India's National Botanical Research Institut ...

* Sir Frederick Keeble * Albert Kellogg *

George Clayton Kennedy George Clayton Kennedy (1919–1980) was a professor of geochemistry at UCLA and a botanist with an interest in orchids. In Memoriam. University of Californi/ref> Names published (incomplete list) * '' Coryanthes bergoldii'' G.C. Kenn. ex Dod ...

Alice L. Kibbe Dr. Alice Lovina Kibbe (27 June 1881 – 21 January 1969) was an American botanist, and Professor and Chair of Biology at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois from 1920 to 1956. She was noted in the region as a natural historian, philanthropis ...

Franz Kiggelaer François, Franciscus, or Frans Kiggelaer (baptized 4 December 1648, in Haarlem – buried 22 December 1722, in The Hague)D. O. WijnandsThe Botany of the Commelins A.A. Balekma, Rotterdam, 1983, pp210-11 was a Dutch botanist, apothecary and curato ...

Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar Lieutenant-Colonel Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar FLS IMS (24 May 1849 – 9 May 1917) was an army surgeon in British India and an amateur botanist. An early Indian member of the Bombay Natural History Society he had a special interest in medicin ...

* Masao Kitagawa * Karl Koch

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* Jacques Labillardière *

Dorothy van Dyke Leake Dorothy Van Dyke Leake (September 6, 1893 – July 23, 1990) was an American botanist, botanical illustrator, educator, writer and conservationist. In retirement, she became known for her efforts to preserve the Crane Creek area in northwest ...

Lars Levi Laestadius Lars Levi Laestadius (; 10 January 1800 – 21 February 1861) was a Swedish Sami pastor and administrator of the Swedish state Lutheran church in Lapland who founded the Laestadian pietist revival movement to help his largely Sami congregations ...

* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck *

Aylmer Bourke Lambert Aylmer Bourke Lambert (2 February 1761 – 10 January 1842) was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnean Society. Early life Aylmer Bourke Lambert was born at Bath, England on 2 February 1761, the son of Edmund Lambert ...

* Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux *

Gerhard Lang Gerhard Lang (* October 21, 1924, in Ravensburg; † June 19, 2016, in Biberach an der Riß) was a German botanist with a research focus on vegetation ecology, geobotany and vegetation history of the Quaternary. Personal life and academic caree ...

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Kai Larsen Kai Larsen (15 November 1926 in Hillerød – 23 August 2012) was a Danish botanist. Kai Larsen was professor of botany (Emeritus from 1-12-1996) at Århus University, Denmark. He was the Danish editor of Flora Nordica, editor of Flora of T ...

Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac (6 March 1830 in Granges-sur-Lot, Lot-et-Garonne - 26 January 1911, botanical author abbreviation: Lat.-Marl.) was a French lawyer and horticulturalist noted for breeding water lily hybrids. Latour-Marliac founded a wate ...

* Charles de l'Écluse * Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour *

Emmanuel Liais Emmanuel Liais (15 February 1826–5 March 1900) was a French astronomer, botanist and explorer who spent many years in Brazil. He was born in Cherbourg, the son of a wealthy family in the shipbuilding industry. He was an amateur scienti ...

John Lindley John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist. Early years Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley w ...

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

Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach is a New Zealand botanist. He is employed as a botany curator at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Lehnebach studies New Zealand orchids. As of January 2018, he has described seven new species of orchid and two s ...

* Carl Linnaeus * Carolus Linnaeus the Younger *

William Richardson Linton Rev. William Richardson Linton (2 April 1850 in Diddington, Huntingdonshire – 7 April 1908 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire), Corpus Christi College, M.A., was an English botanist and vicar of the parish of Shirley, Derbyshire. He was regarded as o ...

* Pablo de la Llave * Thomas Lobb * William Lobb * George Loddiges *

Harri Lorenzi Harri Lorenzi (born 1949) is a Brazilian agronomic engineer, author on trees of the Atlantic Mata and a collaborating agronomist of the garden of Fazenda Cresciumal, Ruy De Souza Queiroz. Between his workmanships, he published four books in the e ...

A.S. Losina-Losinskaja Agnia Sergeyevna Losina-Losinskaja () (1903–1958) was a Soviet botanist. Her family name is also transcribed as Lozina-Lozinscaia, and Lozina-Lozinskaja. She is the author or co-author of the botanical names of at least 216 taxa, including spe ...

* John Claudius Loudon * Alice Lounsberry * Elias Lönnrot

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Elizabeth McClintock Elizabeth May McClintock (7 July 1912 – 19 October 2004) was a botany, botanist who was born in San Jacinto, California, United States, and grew up near the San Jacinto Mountains. She earned a Bachelor's degree in 1937 and a Master's degree in 19 ...

William McCalla William McCalla (1814–1849) was an Irish naturalist. McCalla lived in Roundstone, Co.Galway where he was a schoolmaster. He is associated with many areas of natural history and had a private museum. His bird records are frequently mentione ...

* John Macoun * Peter MacOwan *

Aime Mäemets Aime Mäemets (29 September 1930 – 17 July 1996) was an Estonian botanist and hydrobiologist. She conducted considerable research into Lake Peipsi and was known for her study of Macrophytes. She finished University of Tartu in 1954. From 196 ...

* Pierre Magnol * Joseph Maiden * Marcello Malpighi * Gustav Mann * Charles Maries *

Jesse Jarue Mark Jesse Jarue Mark (1906-1971) was one of the first African-Americans to gain a PhD in botany, and likely to be the first at Iowa State University, where he joined the faculty. He was also a Rockefeller Agriculture Fellow. Early life Jesse Jarue ...

* Rudolf Marloth * Humphry Marshall * Austin Mast * Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius *

John M. MacDougal John Mochrie MacDougal (born 1954) is an American botanist, noted for his work on the taxonomy of passion flowers, having discovered several new species. He earned his Bachelor of Science in 1975 at College of Charleston. In 1984 he earned his d ...

Terry Desmond Macfarlane Terry Desmond Macfarlane (born 1953) is a botanist and taxonomist, who has worked in Australia. A senior research scientist at the Western Australian Herbarium, Macfarlane is associate editor of its journal ''Nuytsia'' and currently collaborat ...

* William Keble Martin * John Martyn *

Genkei Masamune was a Japanese botanist. Biography Masamune Genkei worked in Formosa and then, after World War II, Taiwan. He was noted for his comprehensive botanical indexes of Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the wo ...

* Francis Masson * Carl Maximowicz *

Rogers McVaugh Rogers McVaugh (May 30, 1909 – September 24, 2009) was a research professor of botany and the UNC Herbarium's curator of Mexican plants. He was also Adjunct Research Scientist of the Hunt Institute in Carnegie Mellon University and a Profe ...

* Gregor Mendel * Friedrich Kasimir Medikus * Archibald Menzies *

Konstantin Merezhkovsky Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski ( rus, Константи́н Серге́евич Мережко́вский, p=mʲɪrʲɪˈʂkofskʲɪj; – 9 January 1921) was a prominent Russian biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, Tata ...

* Franz Meyen * André Michaux * Philip Miller * 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 Groni ...

* Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel * John Mitchell * Hugo von Mohl * Charles Theodore Mohr * Paul Möhring * George Thomas Moore * Robert Morison *

Osborne Morton Osborne Morton (born 1945 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former phycologist in the Ulster Museum. Morton resigned in 2007. Morton was educated in Belfast and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied Botany under Professor D.A. Webb. His ...

* Józef Motyka * Cornelius Herman Muller *

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 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 Vict ...

* Otto von Münchhausen

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Karl Wilhelm von Nageli Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austrian ...

P. K. K. Nair Parameswaran Krishnan Kutty Nair (February 6, 1930, in Perunna – January 21, 2017, in Bangalore) was an Indian palynologist, best remembered for his work in plant reproductive biology, and on the triphyletic theory of origin and evolution of ang ...

George Valentine Nash George Valentine Nash (May 6, 1864 – July 15, 1921) was an American botanist. He was the Head Gardener and Curator of the Plantations at the New York Botanical Garden, for whom he did field work in the Bahamas, South Florida and Haiti. Life ...

* Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck *

Charles F. Newcombe Charles Frederick Newcombe (15 September 1851 – 19 October 1924) was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher. He is known for his studies of the First Nations or native people of Canada. Biography Newcombe was born in Newcastle-upon- ...

Frank Newhook Francis John Newhook (16 November 1918 – 1 December 1999) was the head of the School of Plant Pathology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was the first plant pathologist at the university, from 1966 (sponsored by New Zealand F ...

Louis Nicolas Louis Nicolas (August 15, 1634 – 1682?) was a French missionary in Canada in the late 17th and early 18th century. At the age of about 30, this Jesuit priest arrived in New France in 1664 and stayed for eleven years. He was fascinated by the wild ...

* Daniel Lee Nickrent * Emilia Frances Noel * Thomas Nuttall

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William Oakes (botanist) William Oakes (July 1, 1799-July 31, 1848) was an American botanist. William Oakes was born on July 1, 1799. He attended Harvard from 1816 and developed an interest in natural history under the guidance of his tutor, William Dandridge Peck. ...

* Daniel Oliver * Garcia de Orta *

Carl Hansen Ostenfeld Carl Emil Hansen Ostenfeld (born Carl Emil Ostenfeld-Hansen) (3 August 1873 – 16 January 1931) was a Danish systematic botanist. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen under professor Eugenius Warming. He was a keeper at the Botan ...

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William Hunt Painter William Hunt Painter (16 July 1835 – 12 October 1910) was an English botanist who made a significant contribution to the science of Derbyshire vascular plant flora. He was a keen and wide-ranging collector of plant specimens, and was a membe ...

* Peter Simon Pallas * Edward Palmer *

Josif Pancic Josif ( sr, Јосиф) is a masculine given name, a cognate of Joseph. It may refer to: *Josif Chirila (born 1983), Romanian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2004 *Josif Dorfman (born 1952), Ukrainian-French chess Grandmaster, coach, and che ...

* Filippo Parlatore * Charles Christopher Parry * William Paterson * Ruth Patrick * Ove Paulsen * Richard Pearce *

Donald C. Peattie Donald Culross Peattie (June 21, 1898 – November 16, 1964) was an American botanist, natural history, naturalist and author. He was described by Joseph Wood Krutch as "perhaps the most widely read of all contemporary American nature writers" du ...

* Jean-Marie Pelt *

Herman Silas Pepoon Herman Silas Pepoon (1860–1941), often known simply as H.S. Pepoon, was a prominent early botanist in the Chicago region. His 1927 ''Annotated Flora of the Chicago Region'' remains a classic of Chicago botany. Early life and education Born ...

Karl Julius Perleb Karl Julius Perleb (20 June 1794, Konstanz – 8 June 1845, Freiburg im Breisgau) (also known as Carl Julius Perleb) was a German botanist and natural scientist. Life From 1809 to 1811, Karl Julius Perleb studied at the Albert Ludwigs Unive ...

Henri Perrier de la Bâthie Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry. People with this given name ; French noblemen :'' See the 'List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.'' * Henri I de Montm ...

* Christian Hendrik Persoon *

Paul Petard Paul Pétard (1912–1980) was a French botanist who specialized in the study of native plants of French Polynesia. His book ''Petard Botanical Plant Encyclopedia'' is still widely used as a reference, and contains much information about tradition ...

* James Petiver *

Hans Heinrich Pfeiffer Hans Heinrich Pfeiffer, (born 1896) was a German botanist and physiologist, with a particular interest in spermatophytes. (Discussion on JSTOR gives 1896 as his birth year and 1970 as his death year, as does the Russian Wikipedia article. This co ...

* Rodolfo Amando Philippi *

Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré (1827–1887) was a Belgian botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist wh ...

* Pliny the Elder * Leonard Plukenet *

Charles Plumier Charles Plumier (; 20 April 1646 – 20 November 1704) was a French botanist after whom the frangipani genus ''Plumeria'' is named. Plumier is considered one of the most important of the botanical explorers of his time. He made three botanizing ...

* Eduard Friedrich Poeppig * Joel Roberts Poinsett *

Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans CMG (3 September 1879 – 16 October 1968) was a Welsh-born South African botanist. Sometimes his first name is spelled Iltyd. Biography Pole-Evans was born in Llanmaes in the Vale of Glamorgan, the son of an Anglican ...

Alf Erling Porsild Alf Erling Porsild (1901–1977) was a Danish people, Danish-Canadians, Canadian botanist. Biography He was born in Copenhagen as a son of the botanist Morten Pedersen Porsild, M.P. Porsild. He grew up on the University of Copenhagen Arctic Stat ...

* Morten Pedersen Porsild * Thomas Conrad Porter *

Eduard Pospichal Eduard Ludvik Pospichal (13 June 1838 – 24 April 1905) was an Austrians, Austrian botanist of Czechs, Czech parentage born in Litomyšl in Bohemia (today in the Czech Republic). Pospichal was a teacher at a secondary school in Trieste. He wa ...

George E. Post George Edward Post (1838–1909) was an American surgeon, academic and botanist. Biography George Edward Post was born in New York City on December 17, 1838, the son of Alfred Charles Post. He was a Professor of Surgery at the Syrian Prot ...

* Ghillean Prance * Ludwig Preiss * Jan Svatopluk Presl *

Carl Borivoj Presl Carl Borivoj Presl ( cs, Karel Bořivoj 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).

* Joseph Hubert Priestley *

Cyrus Pringle Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (May 6, 1838 – May 25, 1911) was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America. He was a prolific collector and accomplished botanical explorer. Early life He was born on May ...

Nathanael Pringsheim Nathanael Pringsheim (30 November 1823 – 6 October 1894) was a German botanist. Biography Nathanael Pringsheim was born at Landsberg, Prussian Silesia, and studied at the universities of Breslau, Leipzig, and Berlin successively. He graduated ...

* George R. Proctor * Michael Proctor * William Purdom * Frederick Traugott Pursh *

Paul Émile de Puydt Paul Émile de Puydt (6 March 1810 – 20 May 1891), a writer whose contributions included work in botany and economics, was born and died in Mons, Belgium. His father was Jean Ambroise de Puydt (1758–1836), who was governor of the province Hai ...

* Henri François Pittier

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Agnes J. Quirk Agnes J. Quirk (1884–1974) was an American bacteriologist, plant pathologist, and inventor. She oversaw the culturing of bacteria in the Laboratory of Plant Pathology at the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry.Pad ...

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Gabriele Rabel Gabriele Rabel (1880 – 27 August 1963) was an Austrian physicist and botanist. Biography Gabriele Rabel was born the youngest of three to a prosperous Viennese lawyer in 1880. Rabel studied under Richard Wettstein at the University of Vienn ...

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 incl ...

Albert Ernest Radford Albert Ernest Radford (January 25, 1918 – April 12, 2006) was an American botanist active in the Southeastern United States. He was best known for his work as senior author of ''Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas'', the definitive f ...

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (; October 22, 1783September 18, 1840) was a French 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, ultimat ...

* John Ralfs * Christen C. Raunkiær * Leonhard Rauwolf * Peter H. Raven *

John Ray John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after ...

Anton Rehmann Antoni Rehman aka Anton Rehman (13 May 1840 Kraków – 13 January 1917 Lwow, Galicia) was a Polish geographer, geomorphologist, botanist and explorer. He published mostly in German journals in Austria and is regarded as an Austrian botanist, as ...

Gustaf Otto Rosenberg Gustaf Otto Rosenberg, termed Otto Rosenberg in publications, born June 9, 1872 in Gothenburg, Sweden, died November 30, 1948, was a Swedish botanist; son of Johan Olof Rosenberg. Rosenberg studied in Uppsala, Stockholm and Bonn, he gained a bache ...

* Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach *

Ludwig Reichenbach Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museu ...

* Jose Restrepo *

Thekla Resvoll Thekla Susanne Ragnhild Resvoll (22 May 1871 – 14 June 1948) was a Norwegian botanist and educator. She was a pioneer in Norwegian natural history education and nature conservation together with her sister, Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen. Biography ...

Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen Hanna Marie Resvoll-Holmsen (''née'' Resvoll) (11 September 1873 in Vågå, Oppland – 13 March 1943 in Oslo) was a Norwegian botanist – a female pioneer in Norwegian natural history education and nature conservation together with her sister, ...

Achille Richard Achille Richard was a French botanist, botanical illustrator and physician (27 April 1794 in Paris – 5 October 1852). Biography Achille was the son of the botanist Louis-Claude Marie Richard (1754–1821). He was a pharmacist in the Frenc ...

* Louis Claude Richard * Henry Nicholas Ridley * Augustus Quirinus Rivinus *

Harold E. Robinson Harold Ernest Robinson (May 22, 1932 – December 17, 2020) was an American botanist and entomologist. Career Robinson's specialty was the sunflower family (Asteraceae) and the bryophytes. He has named or described over 2,800 new species and ...

* Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns * Joseph Rock * Tony Rodd *

Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge Janus Lauritz Andreas Kolderup Rosenvinge, generally cited as Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge (7 November 1858 – 1939) was a Danish botanist and phycologist. Kolderup Rosenvinge received his Ph.D. in 1888 from the University of Copenhagen. He was ...

* Werner Rothmaler * William Roxburgh * Georg Eberhard Rumphius * Per Axel Rydberg

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* Joseph Sabine * Julius von Sachs *

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 *

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 Sanders Rogers * Charles Sprague Sargent *

Henry Parker Sartwell Henry Parker Sartwell (April 18, 1792 – November 15, 1867) was an American botanist. Biography Sartwell was a physician-botanist for whom was named the plant-genus Sartwellia, was born at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, April 18, 1792, and died Nov ...

* William Saunders * Horace-Bénédict de Saussure * Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper * Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal * Rudolf Schlechter * Matthias Jakob Schleiden *

George Schoener George Schoener, or Georg Schöner (March 21, 1864 – October 2, 1941) was a Germany, German-born Roman Catholic priest who became known in the United States as the "Padre of the Roses" for his experiments in Santa Barbara Independent, rose breedi ...

* Selmar Schonland * Heinrich Wilhelm Schott * Franz Paula von Schrank * Georg August Schweinfurth * Giovanni Antonio Scopoli * Berthold Carl Seemann * Prideaux John Selby * Jean Senebier * Martín Sessé y Lacasta *

John Adolph Shafer John Adolph Shafer (February 23, 1863 – February 1, 1918) was an American botanist. Life Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Shafer graduated from the Pittsburgh School, of Pharmacy in 1881 and worked as a pharmacist until after his marri ...

George Shaw George Shaw may refer to: * George Shaw (biologist) (1751–1813), English botanist and zoologist * George B. Shaw (1854–1894), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin * George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright * George C. Shaw (1866–196 ...

Shen Kuo Shen Kuo (; 1031–1095) or Shen Gua, courtesy name Cunzhong (存中) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (夢溪翁),Yao (2003), 544. was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Shen wa ...

* John Sibthorp * Franz Sieber * Philipp Franz von Siebold *

Thomas Robertson Sim Thomas Robertson Sim (25 June 1858 in Northfield, Aberdeenshire, Scotland – 23 July 1938 in Durban, Natal) was a botanist, bryologist, botanical artist and Conservator of Forests in Natal, best known for his monumental work '' The Forests ...

Cuthbert John Skead Cuthbert John Skead, also known as "C. J. Skead", "Jack Skead" or "Skeado" (30 April 1912 – 28 May 2006), was a South African ornithologist, historian and botanist. Early life Born in Port Elizabeth, 30 April 1912, Skead initially attended Grey ...

* John Kunkel Small * Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov *

Christo Albertyn Smith Christo Albertyn Smith (1898–1956) was a South African botanist. He co-wrote a definitive dictionary of common names of South African plants, although it was only published after his death. Education and career Smith was born in Boksburg, So ...

Edith Philip Smith Edith Philip Smith Linnean Society of London, FLS FRSE (9 March 1897 – 17 May 1976) was a botanist and teacher who became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Head of the Botany Department at Queen's College, Dundee (now the Univer ...

* James Edward Smith * Johannes Jacobus Smith *

Winifred Smith Winifred Smith (5 November 1858 – 1925) was an English botanist and educationist. She became a lecturer in the botany department at University College, London and took a leading role in supporting women students. First forty years She was b ...

* Daniel Solander * Otto Wilhelm Sonder * Pierre Sonnerat * Roger David Spencer *

Herman Spoering Herman may refer to: People * Herman (name), list of people with this name * Saint Herman (disambiguation) * Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman Places in the United States * Herman, Arkansas * Herman, Michigan * Herman, Minnes ...

* Kurt Sprengel *

Richard Spruce Richard Spruce (10 September 1817 – 28 December 1893) was an English botanist specializing in bryology. One of the great Victorian botanical explorers, Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, and was one of t ...

* Herman Spöring * Clive Stace * Agustín Stahl *

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

G. Ledyard Stebbins George Ledyard Stebbins Jr. (January 6, 1906 – January 19, 2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Har ...

* Berthold Stein * Georg Wilhelm Steller * Kaspar Maria von Sternberg * Julian Alfred Steyermark *

Eduard Strasburger Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1 February 1844 – 18 May 1912) was a Polish-German professor and one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century. He discovered mitosis in plants. Life Eduard Strasburger was born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, the ...

George Bishop Sudworth George Bishop Sudworth (August 31, 1864 – May 10, 1927) was an American botanist. At the time of his death, he was the Chief Dendrologist of the United States Forest Service. Biography Born in Kingston, Wisconsin, Sudworth graduated from the ...

Su Song Su Song (, 1020–1101), courtesy name Zirong (), was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman. Excelling in a variety of fields, he was accomplished in mathematics, Chinese astronomy, astronomy, History of cartography#China, cartography, ...

* Olof Swartz * Simon Syrenius

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* Arthur Tansley * John Templeton * Theophrastus * William Turner Thiselton-Dyer * Graham Stuart Thomas * William Thompson *

George Thomson George Thomson may refer to: Government and politics * George Thomson (MP for Southwark) (c. 1607–1691), English merchant and Parliamentarian soldier, official and politician * George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth (1921–2008), Scottish p ...

Robert Folger Thorne Robert F. Thorne (July 13, 1920 – March 24, 2015) was an American botanist. He was taxonomist and curator emeritus at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and professor emeritus at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. His resea ...

* Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars *

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 Swedish naturalist and an "apostle" of Carl Linnaeus. After studying under Linnaeus at Uppsala Un ...

* Agostino Todaro *

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 * John Tradescant the elder * John Tradescant the younger * Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter * Mikhail Tsvet * Edward Tuckerman * William Turner *

Tom Tutin Thomas Gaskell Tutin, FRS (21 April 1908 – 7 October 1987) was Professor of Botany at the University of Leicester and co-author of ''Flora of the British Isles'' and ''Flora Europaea''. Earlier life Tutin was born on 21 April 1908 in Kew, Surre ...

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Bernardino da Ucria Placido Michele Aurifici, better known as Bernardino da Ucria (9 April 1739, in Ucria, Sicily – 29 January 1796, in Palermo) was a Sicily, Sicilian friar and botanist. In 1766 he entered the Franciscan monastery of St Antony in Palermo, taking t ...

Lucien Marcus Underwood Lucien Marcus Underwood (October 26, 1853 – November 16, 1907) was an American botanist and mycologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life and career He was born in New Woodstock, New York. He enrolled at Syracuse University in 1 ...

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* Martin Vahl * Sébastien Vaillant *

David H. Valentine David Henriques Valentine (16 February 1912 in Salford, Greater Manchester, Salford – 10 April 1987 in Manchester) was a British botanist and plant taxonomist. Early career Valentine was born in Higher Broughton, City of Salford, Salford, 16 ...

Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh (born July 2, 1952) is a Professor of Plant Science at the University of Washington. She has served as the President of the society for ''Plant Signaling and Behavior''. Early life and education Van Volkenburgh was b ...

* Domenico Vandelli * Nikolai Vavilov *

Harry Veitch Sir Harry James Veitch (24 June 1840 – 6 July 1924) was an eminent English horticulturist in the nineteenth century, who was the head of the family nursery business, James Veitch & Sons, based in Chelsea, London. He was instrumental in esta ...

John Gould Veitch John Gould Veitch (April 1839 – 13 August 1870) was a British horticulturist and traveller, one of the first Victorian plant hunters to visit Japan. A great-grandson of John Veitch, the founder of the Veitch horticulture dynasty, he also ...

* Peter Veitch *

Ina Vandebroek Ina Vandebroek is an ethnobotanist working in the areas of floristics, ethnobotany and community health. Since 2005, she has worked at The New York Botanical Garden in the Institute of Economic Botany. She has worked on ethnobotanical projects ...

Romina Vidal-Russell Romina Vidal-Russell is an Argentinean botanist who works in the areas of phytogeography, phylogeny, and parasitic plants, and on which she has written extensively. Her papers on the phylogeny of parasitic plants are cited on thAPG websiteSteve ...

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Warren H. Wagner Warren Herbert Wagner Jr. (August 29, 1920 – January 8, 2000) was an eminent American botanist who was trained at Berkeley with E.B. Copeland and lived most of his professional career in Michigan. History Wagner was instructed in the ways o ...

* Göran Wahlenberg * George Arnott Walker-Arnott *

Nathaniel Wallich Nathaniel Wolff Wallich FRS FRSE (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 ...

Gustav Wallis Gustav Wallis (1 May 1830 – 20 June 1878) was a German plant collector who introduced over 1,000 plant species to Europe, many of which were named after him. He was particularly focused on orchid hunting during the Victorian orchid craze, but ...

E. F. Warburg Edmund Frederic "Heff" Warburg (22 March 1908 – 9 June 1966) was an English botanist, known as the co-author of two important British floras. Early life and education Warburg was born in London on 22 March 1908, son of Sir Oscar Emanuel Warburg ...

* Eugenius Warming * Sereno Watson * William Watson *

Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee Heinrich Wawra Ritter von Fernsee, born Jindřich Blažej Vávra, (February 2, 1831 in Brno, Moravia – May 1887 in Baden bei Wien) was a Czech-Austrian ship surgeon, botanist and explorer. The youngest of five sons of a miller, he stu ...

Randy Wayne (biologist) Randy O. Wayne is an associate professor of plant biology at Cornell University. Along with his former colleague Peter K. Hepler, Wayne established the role of calcium in regulating plant growth. Their 1985 article ''Calcium and Plant Developmen ...

* Philip Barker Webb * Christian Ehrenfried Weigel * Friedrich Welwitsch * George Stephen West * William West *

William West Jr William West Jr, Royal College of Science, ARCS, (11 February 1875 – 14 September 1901) was an English botany, botanist. He was the elder son of the botanist William West (botanist), William West, and the brother of George Stephen West. West ...

Lilly Wigg Lilly Wigg (25 December 1749 – 28 March 1828) was an English botanist. Life Wigg was born in Smallburgh, Norfolk, on 25 December 1749, the son of a shoemaker. He received a good village education, and was brought up to his father's trade, but m ...

* Carl Ludwig Willdenow * Ernest Henry Wilson * William Withering *

Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod (17 November 1861 in Eton College, Buckinghamshire – 21 June 1948 in Mayfield Sussex) was a British soldier and botanist. The fourth son of the Rev. Charles Wolley-Dod, of Edge Hall, Cheshire, an assistant master at ...

Alphonso Wood Alphonso Wood (1810 – January 4, 1881) was an American botanist and theology instructor. He was the author of several works on botany that were popularly used as instructional texts in the 19th century. Career Wood studied at both Dartmouth ...

John Medley Wood John Medley Wood (1 December 1827 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England – 26 August 1915 Durban) was a South African botanist who contributed greatly to the knowledge of Natal ferns, is generally credited with the establishment of sugarcane mosa ...

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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 Heinrich Wydler was a Swiss botanist (24 April 1800, in Zurich – 6 December 1883, in Gernsbach.) He spent the years 1826-27 on a collecting expedition to the West Indies; worked at the St. Petersburg botanical garden in 1828-30; was cura ...

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Gennady Yakovlev Gennady Pavlovich Yakovlev (russian: Геннадий Павлович Яковлев) (born 7 June 1938) Russian botanist, pharmacognosist, phytochemist. Former director of Saint-Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy (1992–2004). E ...

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Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (2 August 1799 Dillenburg, Hessen, Germany – 13 December 1858 Cape Town), was a botanical and insect collector who collected extensively in South Africa. He was the author, with Christian Friedrich Ecklon, of ''En ...

* Daniel Zohary * Michael Zohary *

Scott Zona Scott Zona (born 1959) is an American botanist. From 1993 to 2008, he was the Palm Biologist at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. From 2008 to 2017, he served as the curator for the Florida International University Wertheim Conservatory. He is ...

* Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini *

Joy Zedler Joy Buswell Zedler (born 1943) is an American ecologist and professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW), holding the title of Aldo Leopold Chair of Restoration Ecology. In addition to restoration ecology, she specializes in ...

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