List of botanists
This is a list of botanists who have Wikipedia articles, 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.
Botany is one of the few sciences which can boast, since the Middle Ages, of a substantial participation by women.
A[]
- Erik Acharius
- Julián Acuña Galé
- Johann Friedrich Adam
- Carl Adolph Agardh
- 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
- William Guybon Atherstone
- Anna Atkins
- Daniel E. Atha
- Armen Takhtajan
B[]
- Ernest Brown Babcock
- Churchill Babington
- Curt Backeberg
- James Eustace Bagnall
- Jacob Whitman Bailey
- 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
- 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
- William Faris Blakely
- Andrew Bloxam
- Carl Ludwig Blume
- Tyge W. Böcher
- Hieronymus Bock
- Herman Boerhaave
- Wenceslas Bojer
- Henry Nicholas Bolander
- Harry Bolus
- August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard
- Charles Bonnet
- Aimé Bonpland
- Francis Boott
- Evelyn Booth (1897–1988)
- Attila Borhidi
- Antonina Georgievna Borissova
- Frederik Børgesen
- 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
- Nicholas Edward Brown
- Robert Brown
- Patrick Browne
- Jeremy James Bruhl
- Louis-Ovide Brunet
- Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
- Alexander von Bunge
- Elsa Beata Bunge
- Luther Burbank
- Frederick William Burbidge
- William John Burchell
- Alan Burges
- David Burke
- Joseph Burke II
- Johannes Burman
- Nicolaas Laurens Burman
- Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Busch
C[]
- Cleofé Caldéron
- Albert Callay
- George Caley
- Ella Orr Campbell
- Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
- Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
- 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
- Sherwin Carlquist
- Cedric Errol Carr
- Elie-Abel Carrière
- George Washington Carver
- William Casson
- Antonio José Cavanilles
- Andrea Cesalpino
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- Daniel Chamovitz
- Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
- Henry Chesterton
- Carl Christensen
- Arthur Roy Clapham
- Lynn G. Clark
- Adrienne Clarke
- Gertrude Clarke Nuttall
- Jens Clausen
- Jane Colden
- Runar Collander
- Peter Collinson
- Charles Coltman-Rogers
- Philibert Commerçon
- Joseph Whipple Congdon
- Valerius Cordus
- Giacomo Antonio Cortuso
- Arthur Disbrowe Cotton
- Arthur Cronquist
- José Cuatrecasas
- Nicholas Culpeper
- Francesco Cupani
- Charles Curtis
- William Curtis
D[]
- Anders Dahl
- John M. Darby
- Frederick Hamilton Davey
- Armand David
- Walter Davis
- Anton de Bary
- Ethel de Fraine (1879–1918)
- Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
- Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert
- René Louiche Desfontaines
- Johann Jacob Dillenius
- Kurt Dinter
- Pedanius Dioscorides
- Kingsley Dixon
- Rembert Dodoens
- David Don
- James Donn
- Catharina Helena Dörrien
- David Douglas
- John Dransfield
- Robert Louis Dressler
- Jonas C. Dryander
- Heber Drury
- Antoine Nicolas Duchesne
- William Russell Dudley
- Michel Felix Dunal
- Ursula Katherine Duncan
- Stephen Troyte Dunn
- Robert Allen Dyer
E[]
- Michael Pakenham Edgeworth
- Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers
- Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
- Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart
- Eva Ekeblad
- Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher
- George Engelmann
- Adolf Engler
- Katherine Esau
- Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
- Constantin von Ettingshausen
- Eleonora Gabrielian
F[]
- David Fairchild
- Hugh Falconer
- Reginald Farrer
- Lewis J. Feldman
- 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
G[]
- 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
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin
- Johann Georg Gmelin
- Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin
- Hossein Gol-e-Golab
- George Gordon
- Asa Gray
- Netta Elizabeth Gray
- Nehemiah Grew
- William Griffith
- Jan Frederik Gronovius
- Wilhelm Gueinzius
- Hugo Gunckel Lüer
- Johann Ernst Gunnerus
- Francis Guthrie
- Guranda Gvaladze
H[]
- Ingebrigt Severin Hagen
- Olaf Hagerup
- Hiroshi Hara
- Thora Hardy
- Inez M. Haring, (1875–1968) US
- Robert Almer Harper
- Karl Theodor Hartweg
- William Henry Harvey
- Adrian Hardy Haworth
- John Stevens Henslow
- Augustine Henry
- Vernon Heywood
- Mary MacLean Hindmarsh
- Adriana Hoffmann
- Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg
- Henrietta Hooker
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- William Jackson Hooker
- Albert Howard
- Gabrielle Howard
- Armando Theodoro Hunziker
- John Hutchinson
I[]
- Agnes Ibbetson
- Jane Ingham
- Keisuke Ito
J[]
- 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
- Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
- Antoine de Jussieu
- Bernard de Jussieu
K[]
- Kaibara Ekiken
- Guillermo Kalbreyer
- Pehr Kalm
- Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
- Kailas Nath Kaul
- Sir Frederick Keeble
- Albert Kellogg
- George Clayton Kennedy
- Alice L. Kibbe
- Franz Kiggelaer
- Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar
- Masao Kitagawa
- Karl Koch
L[]
- Jacques Labillardière
- Dorothy van Dyke Leake
- Lars Levi Laestadius
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Aylmer Bourke Lambert
- Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux
- Gerhard Lang (1924–2016)
- Kai Larsen
- Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac
- Charles de l'Écluse
- Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour
- Emmanuel Liais
- John Lindley
- Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
- Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach
- Carl Linnaeus
- Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
- William Richardson Linton
- Pablo de la Llave
- Thomas Lobb
- William Lobb
- George Loddiges
- Harri Lorenzi
- A.S. Losina-Losinskaja
- John Claudius Loudon
- Alice Lounsberry
- Elias Lönnrot
M[]
- Elizabeth McClintock
- William McCalla
- John Macoun
- Peter MacOwan
- Aime Mäemets
- Pierre Magnol
- Joseph Maiden
- Marcello Malpighi
- Gustav Mann
- Charles Maries
- Jesse Jarue Mark
- Rudolf Marloth
- Humphry Marshall
- Austin Mast
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
- John M. MacDougal
- Terry Desmond Macfarlane
- William Keble Martin
- John Martyn
- Genkei Masamune
- Francis Masson
- Carl Maximowicz
- Rogers McVaugh
- Gregor Mendel
- Friedrich Kasimir Medikus
- Archibald Menzies
- Konstantin Merezhkovsky
- Franz Meyen
- André Michaux
- Philip Miller
- Charles Frederick Millspaugh
- Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
- Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
- John Mitchell
- Hugo von Mohl
- Charles Theodore Mohr
- Paul Möhring
- George Thomas Moore
- Robert Morison
- Osborne Morton
- Józef Motyka
- Cornelius Herman Muller
- Ferdinand von Mueller
- Otto von Münchhausen
N[]
- Karl Wilhelm von Nageli
- George Valentine Nash
- Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
- Charles F. Newcombe
- Frank Newhook
- Louis Nicolas
- Daniel Lee Nickrent
- Emilia Frances Noel
- Thomas Nuttall
O[]
- William Oakes (botanist)
- Daniel Oliver
- Garcia de Orta
- Carl Hansen Ostenfeld
P[]
- William Hunt Painter
- Peter Simon Pallas
- Edward Palmer
- Josif Pancic
- Filippo Parlatore
- Charles Christopher Parry
- William Paterson
- Ruth Patrick
- Ove Paulsen
- Richard Pearce
- Donald C. Peattie
- Jean-Marie Pelt
- Herman Silas Pepoon
- Karl Julius Perleb
- Henri Perrier de la Bâthie
- Christian Hendrik Persoon
- Paul Petard
- James Petiver
- Hans Heinrich Pfeiffer
- Rodolfo Amando Philippi
- Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré
- Pliny the Elder
- 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
- George E. Post
- Ghillean Prance
- Ludwig Preiss
- Joseph Hubert Priestley
- Jan Svatopluk Presl
- Carl Borivoj Presl
- Cyrus Pringle
- Nathanael Pringsheim
- George R. Proctor
- Michael Proctor
- William Purdom
- Frederick Traugott Pursh
- Paul Émile de Puydt
- Henri François Pittier
Q[]
Agnes J. Quirk
R[]
- Gabriele Rabel
- Oliver Rackham
- Albert Ernest Radford
- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
- John Ralfs
- Christen C. Raunkiær
- Leonhard Rauwolf
- Peter H. Raven
- John Ray
- Anton Rehmann
- Gustaf Otto Rosenberg
- Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
- Ludwig Reichenbach
- Jose Restrepo
- Thekla Resvoll
- Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen
- 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
- Georg Eberhard Rumphius
- Per Axel Rydberg
S[]
- Joseph Sabine
- Julius von Sachs
- Thiodolf Saelan
- Augustin Saint-Hilaire
- Edward James Salisbury
- Richard Anthony Salisbury
- Richard Sanders Rogers
- Charles Sprague Sargent
- 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
- 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
- George Shaw
- Shen Kuo
- John Sibthorp
- Franz Sieber
- Philipp Franz von Siebold
- Thomas Robertson Sim
- Cuthbert John Skead
- John Kunkel Small
- Christo Albertyn Smith
- Edith Philip Smith
- James Edward Smith
- Johannes Jacobus Smith
- Winifred Smith
- Daniel Solander
- Otto Wilhelm Sonder
- Pierre Sonnerat
- Roger David Spencer
- Herman Spoering
- Kurt Sprengel
- Richard Spruce
- Herman Spöring
- Clive Stace
- Agustín Stahl
- Paul Carpenter Standley
- G. Ledyard Stebbins
- Berthold Stein
- Georg Wilhelm Steller
- Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
- Julian Alfred Steyermark
- Eduard Strasburger
- George Bishop Sudworth
- Su Song
- Olof Swartz
- Simon Syrenius
T[]
- Hisayoshi Takeda (aka Takeda Hisayoshi)
- Armen Takhtajan
- Arthur Tansley
- John Templeton
- Theophrastus
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- Graham Stuart Thomas
- William Thompson
- George Thomson
- Robert Folger Thorne
- Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
- Carl Peter Thunberg
- Agostino Todaro
- John Torrey
- Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
- John Tradescant the elder
- John Tradescant the younger
- Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter
- Mikhail Tsvet
- Edward Tuckerman
- William Turner
- Tom Tutin
U[]
- Bernardino da Ucria
- Lucien Marcus Underwood
- Ignatz Urban
V[]
- Martin Vahl
- Sébastien Vaillant
- David H. Valentine
- Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
- Domenico Vandelli
- Nikolai Vavilov
- Harry Veitch
- John Gould Veitch
- Peter Veitch
- Ina Vandebroek
- Romina Vidal-Russell
W[]
- Warren H. Wagner
- Göran Wahlenberg
- George Arnott Walker-Arnott
- Nathaniel Wallich
- Gustav Wallis
- E. F. Warburg
- Eugenius Warming
- Sereno Watson
- William Watson
- Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
- Randy Wayne (biologist)
- Philip Barker Webb
- Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
- Friedrich Welwitsch
- Lilly Wigg
- Carl Ludwig Willdenow
- Ernest Henry Wilson
- William Withering
- Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod
- Alphonso Wood
- John Medley Wood
- Charles Wright
- Franz Xavier von Wulfen
- Heinrich Wullschlägel
- Heinrich Wydler
Y[]
- Gennady Yakovlev
Z[]
- Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher
- Daniel Zohary
- Michael Zohary
- Scott Zona
- Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
- Joy Zedler
See also[]
- List of women botanists
- List of botanists by author abbreviation
- List of gardener-botanist explorers of the Enlightenment
- List of Hungarian botanists
- List of Russian biologists
- List of Slovenian botanists
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