This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia

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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

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. 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 *

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

* Jacob Georg Agardh * Nikolaus Ager * William Aiton * Frédéric-Louis Allamand * Carlo Allioni * Prospero Alpini * Benjamin Alvord * Adeline Ames * Eliza Frances Andrews * Agnes Arber * Giovanni Arcangeli *

David Ashton David Ashton may refer to: * David Ashton (botanist) (1927–2005), Australian botanist and ecologist * David Ashton (actor) (born 1941), Scottish actor and writer {{hndis, Ashton, David ...

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 Settle ...

Anna Atkins Anna Atkins (née Children; 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 wom ...

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

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* Ernest Brown Babcock *

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 Le ...

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 publ ...

* James Eustace Bagnall *

Jacob Whitman Bailey Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857) was an American naturalist, known as the pioneer in microscopic research in America.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey, Ronald Press Company, Library of Congress Card Number 61-18435 Biography ...

* Liberty Hyde Bailey * Ibn al-Baitar * Giovanni Battista Balbis * John Hutton Balfour * Joseph Banks * César Barbosa * Bryan Alwyn Barlow * Benjamin Smith Barton * John Bartram * William Bartram * Johann Bauhin * Gaspard Bauhin * Chauncey Beadle * William James Beal * Janice C. Beatley *

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 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 studi ...

* Robert Bentley * Miles Joseph Berkeley * Karl August von Bergen * Edward W. Berry * Clarence Bicknell * Jacob Bigelow * John Milton Bigelow * Gustaf Johan Billberg *

Johannes Bisse Johannes Bisse (1935–1984) was a Cuban botanist, born in Germany in 1935 and arrived in Cuba in 1966. He received his doctorate from the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. He was the founder and first director of the Cuban National Bot ...

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 i ...

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 Charles Ludwig de Blume or Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796, Braunschweig – 3 February 1862, Leiden) was a Germany, German-Netherlands, Dutch botanist. He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but studied at Leiden University and spent his ...

* 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 * 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 Evelyn Mary Booth (1897–1988) was an Irish botanist, designer of the gardens at Lucy's Wood, and writer of ''The Flora of County Carlow''. She was described as "one of Ireland's most loved and respected botanists". Life Evelyn Mary Booth wa ...

(1897–1988) * Attila Borhidi *

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 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 O ...

* William Henry Brewer *

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 cytology. A native Parisian, at the age of twenty, he became an assistant-naturalist wit ...

* Elizabeth Gertrude Britton * Nathaniel Lord Britton * Adolphe Theodore Brongniart * Nicholas Edward Brown * Robert Brown * Patrick Browne * Jeremy James Bruhl *

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 *

Alexander von Bunge Alexander Georg von Bunge (russian: Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Бу́нге; – ) was a Russian botanist. He is best remembered for scientific expeditions into Asia and especially Siberia. Early life and education Bunge was b ...

* 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 (Aug. de Candolle) *

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 * Cedric Errol Carr * Elie-Abel Carrière * George Washington Carver *

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 * 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 * 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 * 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 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 bo ...

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 *

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 * 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 Pedanius Dioscorides ( grc-gre, Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ; 40–90 AD), “the father of pharmacognosy”, was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of '' De materia medica'' (, On Medical Material) —a 5-vo ...

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 * Jonas C. Dryander * 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 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), ...

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

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* Michael Pakenham Edgeworth * Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers *

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Ehrenberg was an evangelist and was considered to be of the most famous and productive sci ...

* Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart * Eva Ekeblad * Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher * George Engelmann * Adolf Engler * Katherine Esau *

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 collect ...

* 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 * Pius Font i Quer * Peter Forsskål * Georg Forster * Johann Reinhold Forster * Robert Fortune * Henry Georges Fourcade * Adrien René Franchet * William D. Francis * John C. Frémont * Elias Magnus Fries * Imre Frivaldszky * Charles Christopher Frost * Leonhart Fuchs

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* Joseph Gaertner * François Gagnepain * Ernest Edward Galpin * George Alexander Gammie * James Alexander Gammie * Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré * Alwyn Howard Gentry * 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 * 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 ex ...

* Netta Elizabeth Gray * Nehemiah Grew * William Griffith * Jan Frederik Gronovius * Wilhelm Gueinzius * Hugo Gunckel Lüer * Johann Ernst Gunnerus *

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

* 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 * Hiroshi Hara * Thora Hardy * Inez M. Haring *

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 * Adriana Hoffmann *

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

* Henrietta Hooker * Joseph Dalton Hooker * William Jackson Hooker *

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 * Jane Ingham * Keisuke Ito

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* Vello Jaaska (born 1936) * Vilve Jaaska (fl. 1990) * Victor Jacquemont * Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin * Joseph Franz von Jacquin * Knud Jessen * Wilhelm Johannsen * Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson * Ivan Murray Johnston *

Adrien-Henri de Jussieu Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (23 December 1797 – 29 June 1853) was a French botanist. Born in Paris as the son of botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1824 with a treatise of the plant family Eupho ...

* Antoine Laurent de Jussieu * Antoine de Jussieu * Bernard de Jussieu

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* Kaibara Ekiken * Guillermo Kalbreyer * Pehr Kalm * Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten * Kailas Nath Kaul * 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 *

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

* Aylmer Bourke Lambert * Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux * Gerhard Lang (1924–2016) * Kai Larsen *

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 Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (19 February 1526 – 4 April 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists. Life ...

* Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour * Emmanuel Liais *

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 ...

* Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link * Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach *

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, ...

* 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 William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conq ...

* 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 ...

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 Alice Lounsberry (6 November 1868 – 21 November 1949, both in New York City) was an American botanist and author active in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Some sources give her birth year as 1872.) She work ...

* Elias Lönnrot

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* Elizabeth McClintock *

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 * Rudolf Marloth *

Humphry Marshall Humphry Marshall (October 10, 1722 – November 5, 1801) was an American botanist and plant dealer. Biography Humphry Marshall was born at Derbydown Homestead in the village of Marshallton, Pennsylvania (within West Bradford Township) on Octob ...

* 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 * William Keble Martin * John Martyn * Genkei Masamune * 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 Gregor Johann Mendel, OSA (; cs, Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was a biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brünn (''Brno''), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel wa ...

* 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 André Michaux, also styled Andrew Michaud, (8 March 174611 October 1802) was a French botanist and explorer. He is most noted for his study of North American flora. In addition Michaux collected specimens in England, Spain, France, and even Pe ...

* 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 ...

* 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 *

Otto von Münchhausen Otto II. Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 June 1716 – 13 July 1774) was a German botanist. He was Chancellor of University of Göttingen and a correspondent of Linnaeus. He named several species of oaks by the Linnean system, as well as other ...

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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 *

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 Daniel Lee Nickrent is an American botanist, working in plant evolutionary biology, including the subdisciplines of genomics, phylogenetics, systematics, population genetics, and taxonomy. A major focus has been parasitic flowering plants, p ...

* Emilia Frances Noel * Thomas Nuttall

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* William Oakes (botanist) * Daniel Oliver *

Garcia de Orta Garcia de Orta (or Garcia d'Orta) (1501 – 1568) was a Sephardic Jewish physician, herbalist and naturalist of the Portuguese Renaissance, who worked primarily in the former Portuguese capital of Goa and the Bombay territory (Chaul, Bassein ...

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 Peter Simon Pallas Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist and botanist who worked in Russia between 1767 and 1810. Life and work Peter Simon Pallas was born in Berlin, the son ...

* Edward Palmer * Josif Pancic * Filippo Parlatore * Charles Christopher Parry * William Paterson * Ruth Patrick * Ove Paulsen * Richard Pearce * Donald C. Peattie *

Jean-Marie Pelt Jean-Marie Pelt (24 October 1933 – 23 December 2015) was a French biologist, botanist and pharmacist with degrees in both biology and pharmacy. He was professor at the University of Lorraine, specializing in medicinal plants and traditional ph ...

* Herman Silas Pepoon *

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 Mo ...

* 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 * 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 Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ...

* Leonard Plukenet * Charles Plumier * Eduard Friedrich Poeppig * Joel Roberts Poinsett * Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans * Alf Erling Porsild * Morten Pedersen Porsild * Thomas Conrad Porter *

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

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 Johann August Ludwig Preiss (21 November 1811 – 21 May 1883) was a German-born British botanist and zoologist. Early life Preiss was born in Herzberg am Harz. He obtained a doctorate, probably at Hamburg, then emigrated to Western Australia. ...

* Jan Svatopluk Presl * Carl Borivoj Presl * 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 Frederick Traugott Pursh (or Friedrich Traugott Pursch) (February 4, 1774 – July 11, 1820) was a German– American botanist. Born in Großenhain, Saxony, under the name Friedrich Traugott Pursh, he was educated at Dresden Botanical Gardens, ...

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 *

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 *

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, ultima ...

* John Ralfs * Christen C. Raunkiær * Leonhard Rauwolf *

Peter H. Raven Peter Hamilton Raven (born June 13, 1936) is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Early life On June 13, 1936, Raven was born in Shanghai, China ...

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 *

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 * 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 * Louis Claude Richard * Henry Nicholas Ridley * Augustus Quirinus Rivinus * Harold E. Robinson * Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns * Joseph Rock * Tony Rodd * Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge * Werner Rothmaler *

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

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

* 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 ...

* Augustin Saint-Hilaire * Edward James Salisbury * Richard Anthony Salisbury * Richard Sanders Rogers *

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

* Henry Parker Sartwell * 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 Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest, botanist and entomologist. He was ordained as a priest in Vienna in 1784, gaining his doctorate in theology two years later. In 1786 he was named ...

* Georg August Schweinfurth * Giovanni Antonio Scopoli *

Berthold Carl Seemann Berthold Carl Seemann (25 February 1825, in Hanover, Germany – 10 October 1871, in Nicaragua, Central America), was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America. In 1844 he tra ...

* 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 *

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). She ...

* 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 *

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 Roger David Spencer (born 6 October 1945) is an Australia horticultural botanist who was born at Alfreton, Derbyshire. He has an honours degree in botany from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, a master's degree and doctorate from t ...

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 the ...

* 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 * 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 ...

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 * Olof Swartz * Simon Syrenius

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Hisayoshi Takeda Hisayoshi Takeda was a Japanese botanist whose father was the British diplomat Sir Ernest Satow. He was a founder of the Japanese Natural History Society, and is known for his campaign to preserve the environment at Oze, which is now Oze Nati ...

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Takeda Hisayoshi) * Armen Takhtajan * Arthur Tansley * John Templeton *

Theophrastus Theophrastus (; grc-gre, Θεόφραστος ; c. 371c. 287 BC), a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He was a native of Eresos in Lesbos.Gavin Hardy and Laurence Totelin, ''Ancient Botany'', Routle ...

* 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 * 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 *

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

* John Tradescant the elder * John Tradescant the younger * Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter *

Mikhail Tsvet Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (Михаил Семёнович Цвет, also spelled Tsvett, Tswett, Tswet, Zwet, and Cvet; 14 May 1872 – 26 June 1919) was a Russian-Italian botanist who invented chromatography. His last name is Russian for "col ...

* Edward Tuckerman * William Turner * Tom Tutin

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* Bernardino da Ucria * Lucien Marcus Underwood *

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

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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 *

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 *

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 * 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 stud ...

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

Christian Ehrenfried Weigel Christian Ehrenfried von Weigel (24 May 1748 – 8 August 1831) was a Swedish-born German scientist and, beginning in 1774, a professor of chemistry, pharmacy, botany, and mineralogy at the University of Greifswald. Biography Born in Stralsun ...

Friedrich Welwitsch Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (25 February 1806 – 20 October 1872) was an Austrian explorer and botanist who in Angola was the first European to describe the plant '' Welwitschia mirabilis''. His report received wide attention among th ...

* George Stephen West * William West * William West Jr *

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

* 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 ...

* Charles Wright * Franz Xavier von Wulfen * 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 Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an botanic garden with extensive collections of rare tropical plants includi ...

* 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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