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This is a list of botanists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also the list of botanists by author abbreviation and Category:Botanists. Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...
This is a list of botanists by their author abbreviation, designed for citation in the botanical names they have published. ...
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[edit] Erik Acharius (10 October 1757–14 August 1819) was a Swedish botanist who pioneered the taxonomy of Lichens and is known as the father of lichenology. Acarius was born in Gävle, matriculated at Uppsala University in 1773 and was one of the last of the students of Linnaeus. ...
Johann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams was a late 18th century botanist from St. ...
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Adam Afzelius (1750-1837) was a Swedish botanist. ...
Carl Adolph Agardh Carl Adolph Agardh (1785 - 1859) was a Swedish botanist specializing in algae and was eventually appointed bishop of Karlstad. ...
Jacob Georg Agardh (1813 - 1901) was a Swedish botanist. ...
Nikolaus Ager (1568 - 1634) was a French botanist born in Alsace, most well known for his treatise De Anima Vegetiva (1629). ...
William Aiton (1731 - February 2, 1793) was a Scottish botanist. ...
Frédéric-Louis Allamand (~ February 5, 1736 - after 1803) was a Swiss botanist. ...
Prospero Alpini, or Prosper Alpinus (November 23, 1553 - February 6, 1617), was an Italian physician and botanist. ...
Dr David Hungerford Ashton OAM (1930–2005) was an Australian botanist and ecologist. ...
B [edit] Churchill Babington ( 11th March, 1821- 1889) was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Roecliffe, in Leicestershire. ...
Curt Backeberg (1894-1966) was a German horticulturist especially known for the collection and classification of cacti. ...
Liberty Hyde Bailey. ...
John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884) was a Scottish botanist. ...
Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (February 13, 1743 – June 19, 1820) was an English naturalist and botanist. ...
Benjamin Smith Barton Benjamin Smith Barton (February 10, 1766 - December 19, 1815) was an American botanist. ...
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William Bartram (April 20, 1739 -July 22, 1823) was an American naturalist, the son of John Bartram. ...
Jean Bauhin. ...
Gaspard Bauhin Gaspard Bauhin, or Caspar Bauhin (January 17, 1560 – December 5, 1624), was a Swiss-French botanist. ...
Beadle was known for his horticultural work with azaleas. ...
David J. Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933 in London, England) is an English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner. ...
George Bentham George Bentham (September 22, 1800 – September 10, 1884) was an English botanist, perhaps the greatest systematic botanist of the 19th century. ...
Robert Bentley (1821-1893) was an English botanist. ...
Miles Joseph Berkeley (April 1, 1803 - July 30, 1889) was an English botanist. ...
Edward Wilber Berry (1875 - 1945) was an American paleontologist and botanist, the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. ...
Carl Ludwig Blume (29 June 1789 - 3 February 1862) was a German-Dutch botanist. ...
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August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786-1839) was a German botanist, who worked at Saint Petersburg, Russia. ...
Bonnet Charles Bonnet (March 13, 1720 – May 20, 1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer, was born at Geneva, of a French family driven into Switzerland by the religious persecution in the 16th century. ...
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (August 22, 1773 - May 4, 1858) was a French explorer and botanist. ...
Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903-1970) was a Russian botanist, specialising in the flora of the deserts and semi-deserts of central Asia. ...
William Henry Brewer William Henry Brewer (September 14, 1828 -- November 2, 1910) was an American botanist. ...
Charles-François Brisseau-Mirbel (28 March 1776 – 1854) was a French botanist. ...
Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859 - 1934) was a US botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx, New York. ...
Adolphe Théodore Brongniart (January 14, 1801 _ February 18, 1876) was a French botanist. ...
Robert Brown (1773–1858) Robert Brown (December 21, 1773–June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. ...
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. ...
Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (February 15, 1762 - June 15, 1829) was a Scottish physician, zoologist and botanist living in India. ...
Luther Burbank - c1902 Luther Burbank - The Wizard of Horticulture Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849–April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer of agricultural science. ...
C [edit] George Caley (June 10, 1770 - May 23, 1829) was an English botanist and explorer in Australia. ...
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (February 12, 1665 - September 11, 1721) was a German botanist and physician. ...
Frederick Camp Campion Steward (1904 - 1993) was a British botanist and plant physiologist. ...
A. P. de Candolle A. P. de Candolle (February 4, 1778 - September 9, 1841) was one of the great botanists of all time. ...
Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle (Paris October 28, 1806 – Geneva April 4, 1893), was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyrame de Candolle. ...
Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896) was a French botanist, based in Paris. ...
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Antonio José Cavanilles (January 16, 1745 - May 4, 1804) was the leading Spanish taxonomic botanist of the 18th century. ...
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Adelbert von Chamisso (January 30, 1781 – August 21, 1838), was a German poet and botanist. ...
Pierre Gaspard Chaumette Pierre Gaspard Chamette (1763 - April 13, 1794) was a French revolutionary. ...
Peter Collinson (1694–1768) was a Fellow of the Royal Society best known for his friendship with Benjamin Franklin and their correspondence about electricity. ...
Philibert Commerçon Dr. Philibert Commerçon (also sometimes spelled Commerson) (November 18, 1727–March 13, 1773) was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769. ...
Valerius Cordus (18 February 1515 – 25 September 1544) was a German physician and botanist who authored one of the greatest pharmacopoeias and one of the most celebrated herbals in history. ...
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Portait of Allan Cunningham Demi roxs Allan Cunningham (July 13, 1791 – June 27, 1839) was an English botanist and explorer. ...
William Curtis (January 11, 1746 - 1799) was an English botanist who was born at Alton. ...
D [edit] Anders (Andreas) Dahl (March 17, 1751 _ May 25, 1789) was a Swedish botanist and student of Linnaeus. ...
Species 30 species, 20,000 cultivars Dahlia is a genus of bushy, summer- and autumn-flowering, tuberous perennials that are originally from Mexico, where they are the national flower. ...
Father Armand David (September 27, 1826 near Bayonne –November 10, 1900 in Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist. ...
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Pierre Jean Marie Delavay (1834-1895) was a French missionary, explorer and botanist. ...
Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (14 February 1773 - 1847) was a French banker and naturalist. ...
René Louiche Desfontaines (February 14, 1750 – November 16, 1833) was a French botanist. ...
Johann Jakob Dillen (Dillenius) (1687-April 2, 1747) was a German botanist. ...
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Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen June 29, 1517 - Leyden March 10, 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. ...
David Don (21 December 1799 - 15 December 1841) was an English botanist, Professor of Botany at Kings College, London from 1836–1841, and librarian at the Linnean Society of London from 1822–1841. ...
James Donn (1758–1813) was an English botanist. ...
Coast Douglas-fir cone, from a tree grown from seed collected by David Douglas in 1826 This article is about the botanist. ...
Jonas Carlsson Dryander (March 5, 1748 - October 19, 1810) was a Swedish botanist. ...
Michel Felix Dunal (1789-1856) was a French botanist. ...
E [edit] Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (April 19, 1795 – June 27, 1876), German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. ...
Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742-1795) was a German botanist, a pupil of Carolus Linnaeus, and later Director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780-1793. ...
Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (24 June 1804 - 28 March 1849; botanical abbreviation Endl. ...
George Engelmann George Engelmann (also known as Georg Engelmann) was a German-American botanist. ...
Adolf Engler (1844 – 1930) was a German botanist, perhaps The German Botanist. He is very important, among other complishments, for his works on Plant Taxonomy and Phytogeography, like Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (The natural plant families), edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl. ...
F [edit] David Fairchild in 1889, while employed at the United States Department of Agriculture David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. ...
Hugh Falconer (February 29, 1808 - January 31, 1865) was a Scottish palaeontologist and botanist, and the younger brother of the notable merchant Alexander Falconer. ...
Friedrich Ernst Ludwig Fischer (1782 – 1854) was a Russian botanist, born in Germany. ...
Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 - 19 May 1831) was an Estonian physician, botanist, zoologist and entomologist. ...
Binomial name Eschscholzia californica Cham The California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica) is a popular garden flower of the family Papaveraceae. ...
Constantin Freiherr von Ettingshausen (or Baron Constantin von Ettingshausen) (June 16, 1826 – February 1, 1897) was an Austrian geologist and botanist. ...
Peter Forsskål (sometimes also Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl) (born in Helsinki, 11 January 1732, died in Yemen, 11 July 1763), Swedish explorer, orientalist and naturalist. ...
Portrait of Georg Forster at age 26, by J. H. W. Tischbein, 1781. ...
Johann Reinhold Forster Johann Reinhold Forster (October 22, 1729 - December 9, 1798) was a German naturalist of Scottish descent. ...
Robert Fortune (September 16, 1813 - April 13, 1880), was a Scottish botanist and traveller. ...
Adrien René Franchet (1834-1900) was a French botanist, based at the Paris Muséum national dHistoire naturelle. ...
John C. Frémont John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890), born John Charles Fremon, was an American military officer, explorer, the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States, and the first Presidential candidate of a major party to...
Drawn image of Elias Magnus Fries Elias Magnus Fries (August 15, 1794 – February 8, 1878) was a Swedish botanist born at Femsjö in Smalandia. ...
Dr Emerich (Imré) Frivaldszky von Frivald (February 6, 1799 - October 19, 1870) was a Hungarian botanist and entomologist. ...
Leonhart Fuchs (17 January 1501 – 10 May 1566) was a medic and a botanist. ...
Henry George Fourcade (July 8, 1865, Bordeaux, France - January 19, 1948, Witte Els Bosch, South Africa) also known as George Henri Fourcade, was a surveyor, forester, pioneer of photogrammetry and as botanist, a major early collector of the Southern Cape Flora taxon. ...
G [edit] Joseph Gaertner (1732-1791; in German Joseph Gärtner) was a German botanist. ...
François Gagnepain (1866–1952) was a French botanist. ...
Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (September 4, 1789 - January 16, 1854) was a French botanist. ...
Howard Scott Gentry (1903-1993) was an American botanist recognized as the worlds leading authority on the agaves. ...
John Gerard John Gerard (1545 in Nantwich – 1611/12 in London) was an English botanist famous for his herbal garden. ...
Conrad von Gesner (Konrad von Gesner, Conrad Gessner, Conradus Gesnerus) ( 26 March 1516- 13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist. ...
Luca Ghini (1490 - May 4, 1566) was an Italian physician and botanist. ...
Johann Friedrich Gmelin (August 8, 1748 - November 1, 1804) was a German naturalist and botanist. ...
Johann Georg Gmelin (August 8, 1709 - May 20, 1755) was a German naturalist, botanist and geographer. ...
Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (July 4, 1743? - June 27, 1774) was a German physician, botanist and explorer. ...
Hossein Gol-e-Golab (Persian حسین کولی کولاب also given as Hosayn Golgolab, 1896-) was a polymath Iranian scholar and musician who wrote the nationalist anthem Ey Iran. ...
George Gordon (1801-1893) was a British botanist, also partaking in the study of Geology and Naturalism. ...
Asa Gray, Botanist Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 - January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century. ...
Nehemiah Grew. ...
Jan Frederik Gronovius (also seen as Johann Frederik and Johannes Fredericus) (1690-1762) was a Dutch botanist notable as a patron of Linnaeus. ...
Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718 - September 23, 1773) was a Norwegian bishop and botanist. ...
Guranda Gvaladze (born June 23, 1932) is a distinguished Georgian botanist, one of the founders of the Georgian scientific school of Plant Embryology, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor. ...
H [edit] Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812-1871) was a German botanist. ...
William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) was an Irish botanist. ...
Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767 _ 1833) was an English entomologist and botanist. ...
John Stevens Henslow (February 6, 1796 - May 16, 1861) was an English botanist and geologist. ...
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Johann Centurius von Hoffmannsegg (August 23, 1766 - December 13, 1849) was a German botanist, entomologist and ornithologist. ...
Joseph Dalton Hooker Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, GCSI, OM, FRS, MD (June 30, 1817 – December 10, 1911) was an English botanist and traveller. ...
Sir William Jackson Hooker (July 6, 1785 - August 12, 1865) was an English botanist. ...
Sir Albert Howard (1873-1947) was a British botanist, an organic farming pioneer, and a principal figure in the early organic movement. ...
I [edit] Jan Ingenhousz or Ingen-Housz (December 8, 1730 - September 7, 1799) was a Dutch-born British physiologist, botanist and physicist. ...
J [edit] Victor Jacquemont (1801-1832) was a French botanist and geologist. ...
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (February 16, 1727 - October 26, 1817) was an Austrian scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany. ...
Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen (February 3, 1857 - November 11, 1927) was a Danish botanist. ...
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Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. ...
Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (December 23, 1797 _ June 29, 1853) was a French botanist. ...
Portrait of Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (April 12, 1748 - September 17, 1836) was a French botanist. ...
Antoine de Jussieu (July 6, 1686 - April 22, 1758) was a French naturalist. ...
Bernard de Jussieu. ...
K [edit] Kaibara Ekiken (è²åŽŸ 益軒, also known as Atsunobu (篤信)(1630 - October 5, 1714) was a Japanese Neo-Confucian philosopher and botanist. ...
Pehr Kalm (March 6, 1716–November 16, 1779) (He is referred to in the Finnish language as Pietari Kalm) was an explorer, a botanist, a naturalist, and an agricultural economist from what is now Finland. ...
Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817 – 1908) was a German botanist and geologist. ...
Dr. Alice L. Kibbe ( - 1968) was Professor of Botany at Carthage College in Carthage, Illinois from 1920 to 1956, and served as chair of that department. ...
Karl Heinrich Emil Koch (1809 - 1879) was a German botanist. ...
L [edit] Jacques Labillardière Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (1755–1834) was a French botanist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. ...
Lars Levi Laestadius (1800-1861) Lars Levi Læstadius (October 1, 1800 - February 21, 1861) was a Swedish Lutheran pastor of Sami ancestry. ...
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829) was a French naturalist and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. ...
Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761-1842) was a British botanist, one of the first fellows of the Linnaean Society. ...
Professor of botany (Emeritus from 1. ...
Nymphaea from Rariorum plantarum historia Charles de lÉcluse, LEscluse, or Carolus Clusius (Arras, February 19, 1526 - Leiden April 4, 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was the Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists. ...
Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Theodore Leschenault de la Tour (November 13, 1773 - March 14, 1826) was a French botanist and ornithologist. ...
Emmanuel Liais (1826–1900) was a French astronomer, botanist and explorer who spent many years in Brazil. ...
John Lindley (February 8, 1799 - November 1, 1865) was an English botanist. ...
Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (February 2, 1767 - January 1, 1850) was a German naturalist and botanist. ...
Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
In biology, systematics is the study of the diversity of organism characteristics, and especially how they relate evolutionarily. ...
Portrait by Jonas Forslund Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus the Younger (20 January 1741 – 1 November 1783) was a Swedish naturalist. ...
Dr. Pablo de la Llave (1773–1833) was a Mexican Catholic priest, politician, and naturalist. ...
Bamboo foliage with black stems (probably Phyllostachys nigra; a bamboo introduced into western cultivation by Loddiges Nursery) The Loddiges family (not uncommonly mis-spelt Loddige) managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, plams...
Harri Lorenzi was 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. ...
John Claudius Loudon (April 8, 1783 - 1843) was a Scottish botanist. ...
Alice Lounsberry and Ellis Rowan explore Caesars Head, South Carolina. ...
Elias Lönnrot Elias Lönnrot (April 9, 1802 - March 19, 1884) was a Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. ...
M [edit] William McCalla (1814 - 1849) An Irish Botanist. ...
John Macoun John Macoun (17 April 1831 – 18 June 1920) was an Irish-born Canadian naturalist. ...
Pierre Magnol (1638 - 1715) was a doctor and botanist who was one of the innovators of the current botanical scheme of classification. ...
Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859–16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the Eucalyptus genus. ...
Marcello Malpighi (March 10, 1628 - November 29, 1694) was an Italian doctor, who gave his name to several physiological features. ...
Humphry Marshall ( October 10, 1722 - November 5, 1801 ) was an American botanist and plant dealer. ...
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (April 17, 1794–December 13, German botanist and explorer. ...
John Mochrie MacDougal (born 1954) is a taxonomist, noted for his work on the taxonomy of passion flowers, having discovered several varities. ...
John Martyn (September 12, 1699 - January 29, 1768) was an English botanist. ...
Francis Masson (1741 – 1805?) was a Scottish botanist and gardener, and Kew Gardens’ first plant hunter. ...
Carl Johann Maximowicz (1827 Tula - 1891 St Petersburg) was a Russian botanist. ...
Gregor Johann Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20[1], 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Augustinian abbot who is often called the father of modern genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. ...
Archibald Menzies (March 15, 1754 - February 15, 1852) was a Scottish physician and naturalist. ...
Konstantin Sergivich Merezhkovsky (1855-1921) (also transliterated Konstantin Sergeevich Merezhkovsky, Constantin SergeeviÄ Mérejkovski, Constantin Sergejewicz Mereschcowsky, Konstantin Sergejewicz Mereschkovsky and Konstantin Sergejewicz Mereschkowsky) was a prominent Russian biologist and botanist active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis - that larger, more...
Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen (June 28, 1804 - September 2, 1840) was a German physician and botanist. ...
André Michaux (8 March 1746 – probably 11 October 1803) was a French botanist and explorer. ...
Philip Miller (1691 - 1771) was a botanist of Scottish descent. ...
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (24 October 1811 – 23 January 1871) was a Dutch botanist. ...
John Mitchell (1711-1768) was a colonial American cartographer and botanist. ...
Hugo von Mohl (April 8, 1805 - 1872), German botanist, was born at Stuttgart. ...
Charles Theodore Mohr, baptized Karl Theodor (1824-1901), was a German botanist who emigrated to the United States in 1848. ...
Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring ( July 21, 1710 - October 28, 1792) was a German physician, botanist and zoologist. ...
George Thomas Moore (1871 - 1956) was a U.S. botanist. ...
Robert Morison (1620 - 1683) was a Scottish botanist. ...
Baron Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller (German: Müller) (June 30, 1825 - October 10, 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably botanist. ...
Otto von Münchhausen (1716-1774) was a German botanist. ...
N [edit] Karl Wilhelm von Nageli (March 27, 1817 - May 11, 1891) was a Swiss botanist. ...
George Valentine Nash (1864-1921) was an American botanist. ...
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck in 1855 Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (February 14, 1776 - March 16, German botanist, physician, zoologist, and natural philosopher. ...
Charles Frederick Newcombe (September 15, 1851 - October 19, 1924) was a British botanist and ethnographic researcher. ...
Professor Frank Newhook was the head of the School of Plant Pathology at the University of Auckland, the first plant pathologist at that University, and a scientist at the DSIR prior to that. ...
Thomas Nuttall (January 5, 1786 - September 10, 1859) was an English botanist and zoologist, who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1842. ...
O [edit] Daniel Oliver (6 February 1830 - 21 December 1916) was a British botanist. ...
Garcia de Orta was a Renaissance Portuguese medical doctor and naturalist. ...
P [edit] Peter Simon Pallas (September 22, 1741 - September 8, 1811) was a German-born Russian zoologist. ...
For the Premier of Prince Edward Island from 1859 to 1863, see Edward Palmer. ...
Josif Pančić (Јосиф Панчић) (1814-1888) was a world-renown Serbian botanist. ...
Filippo Parlatore (8 August 1816-9 September 1877) was a Italian botanist. ...
Charles Christopher Parry (28 August 1823 - 20 February 1890) was a British-American botanist and mountaineer. ...
Colonel William Paterson (17 August 1755 - 21 June 1810) was a Scottish soldier, explorer, and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania. ...
Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick (born 1907 in Topeka, Kansas) is a botanist and limnologist specialsing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, she developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilites. ...
Donald Culrose Peattie (June 21, 1898 - November 16, 1964) was a US botanist, naturalist and author. ...
Jean-Marie Pelt (born October 24, 1933) is a French botanist. ...
Karl Julius Perleb (1794-1845) (also known as Carl Julius Perleb) was a German botanist and natural scientist. ...
Henri Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958) was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar. ...
Christian Hendrik Persoon (February 1, 1761 - November 16, 1836) was a mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus mushroom taxonomy. ...
Paul Petard (1912-1980) was a French botanist who specialized in the study of native plants of French Polynesia. ...
Rodolfo Amando (or Rudolph Amandus) Philippi (14 September 1808–23 July 1904) was a German-Chilean paleontologist and zoologist. ...
Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ...
Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (July 16, 1798 - September 4, 1868) was a German botanist, zoologist and explorer. ...
Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779-1851) Official Department of Defense portrait, artist unknown. ...
Karel Bořivoj Presl (1794-1852) was a Bohemian botanist He lived all his life in Prague, and was a professor at the University of Prague. ...
Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (1838-1911) was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America, especially Mexico. ...
Nathanael Pringsheim (30 November 1823 - 6 October 1894) was a German botanist. ...
Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774 - 11 July 1820) was a German-American botanist. ...
Paul Émile de Puydt (Born in Mons, March 6, 1810 - Died in Mons, May 28, 1888) was a many-talented character. ...
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R [edit] Oliver Rackham is a botanist and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. ...
Albert Ernest Radford ( 25 January 1918 - 12 April 2006) was an American botanist active in the Southeastern United States. ...
C. S. Rafinesque Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (October 22, 1783-September 18, 1840) was a nineteenth-century polymath who led a chaotic life. ...
Leonhard Rauwolf (Augsburg, June 21, 1535 – September 15, 1596, Waitzen, Hungary) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. ...
John Ray. ...
Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Leipzig 1823-1889) was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. ...
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (January 8, 1793 - March 17, 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. ...
The Orchid genus Restrepia was named in honor of Don Jose Manuel Restrepo, an investigator of Colombian flora. ...
Louis Claude Marie Richard (September 19, 1754 - June 6, 1821) was a French botanist. ...
Henry Nicholas Ridley (December 10, 1855 - October 24, 1956) was an English botanist. ...
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus also known as August Bachmann (December 9, 1652 (Leipzig, Germany) – December 20, 1723 (Leipzig, Germany)) A German physician and botanist. ...
Harold Ernest Robinson (born 1932, Syracuse, New York) is an eminent botanist and an entomologist. ...
Joseph Francis Charles Rock, (1884 – 1962) was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. ...
William Roxburgh (June 29, 1759 - April 10, 1815) was a Scottish physician and botanist. ...
Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1628-1702) was a Dutch company director and botanist, best known for his authorship of Herbarium Amboinense, a catalogue of the plants of the island of Ambon (then in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia), published posthumously in 1741. ...
S [edit] Joseph Sabine (1770 - 1837) was an English lawyer and naturalist. ...
Julius von Sachs (October 2, 1832 - May 29, 1897), German botanist, was born at Breslau. ...
Augustin François César Prouvençal de Saint-Hilaire (1799-1853), French botanist and traveller, was born at Orleans on October 4, 1799. ...
Sir Edward James Salisbury, (1886-1978), was a British botanist in the early part of the Twentieth Century. ...
Richard Anthony Salisbury (May 2, 1761 - 1829) was a British botanist. ...
Charles Sprague Sargent Charles Sprague Sargent (April 21, 1841-March 22, 1927) was an American botanist. ...
William Saunders Serving as the first Master (President) of the National Grange, William Saunders (1822 – 1900) also became the first Secretary of Agriculture, a seat on the Presidents Cabinet fought for by the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. ...
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (February 17, 1740 - January 22, 1799) was a Swiss physicist and Alpine traveller. ...
Franz Paula von Schrank (1747 - 1835) was a German botanist and entomologist. ...
Diederich von Schlechtendal (27 November 1794 - 12 October 1866) was a German botanist. ...
Friedrich Richard Rudolf Schlechter (1872-1925) was a German taxonomist, botanist, and author of several works on orchids. ...
Die Entwickelung der Meduse (The Development of the Medusas), in Schleidens Das Meer Matthias Jakob Schleiden (April 5, 1804 - June 23, 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of the cell theory. ...
Cell theory is a scientific theory that is one of the foundations of biology. ...
George Schoener, or Georg Schöner (March 21, 1864 - October 2, 1941) was a German-born Catholic priest who became known in the United States as the Padre of the Roses for his experiments in rose breeding, especially in the use of wild species. ...
Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (January 7, 1794 - March 5, 1865) was a botanist well-known for his extensive work on the aroids (Family Araceae). ...
Franz Paula von Schrank (1747 - 1835) was a German botanist and entomologist. ...
Georg August Schweinfurth Georg August Schweinfurth (December 29, 1836 – September 19, 1925), German botanist, traveller in East Central Africa and ethnologist, was born at Riga, Latvia, Russian Empire. ...
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (June 3, 1723 - May 8, 1788) was an Italian-Austrian physician and naturalist. ...
Berthold Carl Seemann (1825–1871) was a German botanist. ...
Prideaux John Selby (1788 - 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist. ...
Jean Senebier (May 6, 1742 - July 22, 1809) was a Swiss pastor who wrote many works on vegetable physiology. ...
George Kearsley Shaw. ...
John Sibthorp (October 28, 1758 - February 8, 1796), English botanist, was born at Oxford, and was the youngest son of Dr Humphrey Sibthorp (1713-1797), who from 1747 to 1784 was Sherardian professor of botany at Oxford. ...
statue in Akashicho (near Tsukiji), chuo-ku,Tokyo Japan Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold (February 17, 1796 in Würzburg - October 18, 1866 in Munich) was a German physician. ...
John Kunkel Small (1869-1938) was an American botanist. ...
Christo Albertyn Smith (1898-1956) was a South African botanist. ...
For the mayor of Toronto by this name please see James Edward Smith (Toronto). ...
Johannes Jacobus Smith (Antwerp 1867 - Oegstgeest 1947) (sometimes written as Joannes Jacobus Smith) was a Dutch botanist who, between years 1905 to 1924, crossed the islands of the Dutch East Indies (mainly Java), collecting specimens of plants and describing and cataloguing the flora of these islands. ...
Daniel Carlsson Solander (February 19, 1733 – May 16, 1782) was a Swedish botanist. ...
Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812-1881) was a botanist. ...
Pierre Sonnerat (August 18, 1748 – March 31, 1814) was a French naturalist and explorer. ...
Dr Herman Diedrich Spöring Jr (or Spoering) (1733 - 1771) was a Finnish explorer and botanist, one of three scientists who accompanied James Cook on the 1769 Endeavour expedition to Australia; Cook named Spöring Island on the coast of New Zealand in his honor. ...
Kurt Sprengel (August 3, 1766 - March 15, 1833) was a German botanist and physician. ...
Richard Spruce (September 10, 1817 - December 28, 1893) was an English botanist and explorer. ...
Dr. Herman Diedrich Spöring Jr. ...
Dr. AgustÃn Stahl (January 21, 1842 – July 12, 1917), born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico - scientist. ...
G. Ledyard Stebbins George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. ...
Georg Wilhelm Steller (March 10, 1709 - November 14, 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia. ...
K.M. Count Sternberg Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (also: Caspar Maria, Count Sternberg, German: Kaspar Maria Graf Sternberg, Czech: hrabě Kašpar Maria Šternberk), 1761–1838, was a Bohemian theologian, mineralogist, geognost and botanist. ...
Eduard Adolf Strasburger (February 1, 1844, Warsaw - May 19, 1912, Bonn) was one of the most famous German botanists of the 19th century. ...
George Bishop Sudworth (1864-1927) was an American botanist. ...
T [edit] Armen Takhtajan (born 1910), aka Armen Leonovich Takhtadjan or Takhtadzhian, is a Soviet-Armenian botanist, one of the most important figures in 20th Century plant evolution and systematics and biogeography. ...
John Templeton was an early Irish naturalist and botanist. ...
Statue of Theophrastus Theophrastus, a native of Eressos in Lesbos born c. ...
Graham Stuart Thomas (1909 - April 16, 2003) was a horticultural artist, author and garden designer. ...
There have been a number of people named William Thompson: William Thompson (leveller) lead the Banbury mutineers of the New Model Army in 1649 William Thompson, a North Carolina politician from the late eighteenth century William Hepworth Thompson, was an English classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. ...
Angraecum crassum, a drawing of this orchid by Thouars in his book Orch. ...
Carl Peter Thunberg (November 11, 1743 _ August 8, 1828) was a Swedish naturalist. ...
Agostino Todaro (1818 - 1892) was an Italian botanist. ...
John Torrey (August 15, 1796 - March 10, 1873) was an American botanist. ...
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (June 5, 1656 – December 28, 1708) was a French botanist. ...
John Tradescant the younger Ester, his second wife John Tradescant the Younger (1608–1662), son of John Tradescant the elder, was a botanist and gardener, born in Meopham, Kent. ...
Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809-1889) was a Russian botanist, specialising in the flora of the Caucasus and central Asia. ...
Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (Михаил Семенович Цвет, also spelt Tsvett, Tswett, Tswet, Zwet, and Cvet) (1872-1919) was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography. ...
Edward Tuckerman (December 7, 1817 - March 15, 1886) was a botanist and professor from Boston, Massachusetts who made significant contributions to the study of lichens and other alpine plants. ...
William Turner (c. ...
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V [edit] Martin Vahl Martin Vahl (October 10, 1749 - December 24, 1804) was a Norwegian botanist. ...
Sébastien Vaillant (May 26, 1669 - May 20, 1722) was a French botanist. ...
Domenico Agostino Vandelli (c1735 - June 27, 1816) was an Italian naturalist. ...
Nikolai Vavilov Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (Ðиколай Иванович Вавилов, November 25/(November 13), 1887— January 26, 1943) was a prominent Russian botanist and geneticist. ...
W [edit] Warren H. Wagner (August 29, 1920 - January 8, 2000) was an eminent American botanist who lived in Michigan. ...
Georg (Göran) Wahlenberg (Kroppa, Värmland County 1 October 1780 – Uppsala 22 March 1851) was a Swedish naturalist. ...
George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799-1868) was a Scottish botanist. ...
Nathaniel Wallich (28 January 1786 - 28 April 1854) was a botanist. ...
Philip Barker Webb (1793 - 1854) was an English botanist. ...
Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (24 May 1748 in Stralsund - 8 August 1831 in Greifswald) was a German scientist and -- beginning in 1774 -- a professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany, and Mineralogy at the Universität von Greifswald. ...
Dr. Friedrich Welwitsch (1806 – October 20, 1872) was an Austrian explorer and botanist. ...
Carl Ludwig von Willdenow (August 22, 1765 - July 10, 1812) was a German botanist and pharmacist. ...
William Withering (March 17, 1741 - October 6, 1799) was a British botanist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis. ...
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