# 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 has had, since the Middle Ages, substantial participation by women.
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## A

* Erik Acharius
* Julián Acuña Galé
* Johann Friedrich Adam
* Carl Adolph Agardh
* Jacob Georg Agardh
* Nikolaus Ager
* William Aiton
* Frédéric-Louis Allamand
* Ruth F. Allen
* Carlo Allioni
* Lucile Allorge
* Prospero Alpini
* Benjamin Alvord
* Adeline Ames
* Janaki Ammal
* 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
* Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling
* Benjamin Smith Barton
* John Bartram
* William Bartram
* Johann Bauhin
* Gaspard Bauhin
* Chauncey Beadle
* William James Beal
* Janice C. Beatley
* Rolla Kent Beattie
* Johann Matthäus Bechstein
* Richard Henry Beddome
* Martinus Beijerinck
* David Bellamy
* Pierre Belon
* George Bentham
* Robert Bentley
* Miles Joseph Berkeley
* Karl August von Bergen
* Johann Jakob Bernhardi
* Edward W. Berry
* Antonio Bertoloni
* Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser
* Clarence Bicknell
* Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein
* Jacob Bigelow
* John Milton Bigelow
* Gustaf Johan Billberg
* Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff
* Johannes Bisse
* Francisco Manuel Blanco
* John Bradby Blake
* William Faris Blakely
* Andrew Bloxam
* Carl Ludwig Blume
* Tyge W. Böcher
* Jane Haskett Bock
* 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
* Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri
* Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
* Elizabeth Gertrude Britton
* Nathaniel Lord Britton
* Giovanni Battista Brocchi
* 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
* Maarten Buysman (1856–1919)

## 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
* Henri Cassini
* William Casson
* Antonio José Cavanilles
* Andrea Cesalpino
* Adelbert von Chamisso
* Daniel Chamovitz
* Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
* Wan Chun Cheng
* Henry Chesterton
* Carl Christensen
* Joseph Philippe de Clairville
* 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
* Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz
* Arthur Cronquist
* José Cuatrecasas
* Nicholas Culpeper
* Francesco Cupani
* Ed Currie
* Charles Curtis
* William Curtis
* Pierre Cusson

## D

* Anders Dahl
* Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard
* John M. Darby
* Frederick Hamilton Davey
* Armand David
* Walter Davis
* Anton de Bary
* Joseph Decaisne
* Ethel de Fraine (1879–1918)
* Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
* Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert
* Stefano delle Chiaje
* Giuseppe De Notaris
* René Louiche Desfontaines
* Narcisse Henri François Desportes
* Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux
* Nicaise Auguste Desvaux
* Johann Jacob Dillenius
* Kurt Dinter
* Pedanius Dioscorides
* Kingsley Dixon
* Rembert Dodoens
* David Don
* George Don
* James Donn
* Catharina Helena Dörrien
* David Douglas
* John Dransfield
* Robert Louis Dressler
* Jonas C. Dryander
* Heber Drury
* Jean Étienne Duby
* Antoine Nicolas Duchesne
* William Russell Dudley
* Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier
* 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
* Andrey Erst
* 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
* Heinrich Gustav Flörke
* Pius Font i Quer
* Peter Forsskål
* Georg Forster
* Johann Reinhold Forster
* Robert Fortune
* Henry Georges Fourcade
* Adrien René Franchet
* William Douglas Francis
* John C. Frémont
* Elias Magnus Fries
* Imre Frivaldszky
* Charles Christopher Frost
* Leonhart Fuchs
* Heinrich Christian Funck
* Catherine Furbish

## G

* Eleonora Gabrielian
* Joseph Gaertner
* Karl Friedrich von Gaertner
* Betsy Harrison Gagne
* 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
* Antoine Gouan
* Asa Gray
* Netta Elizabeth Gray
* Robert Kaye Greville
* Nehemiah Grew
* William Griffith
* Jan Frederik Gronovius
* Wilhelm Gueinzius
* Hugo Gunckel Lüer
* Johann Ernst Gunnerus
* Giovanni Gussone
* Francis Guthrie
* Guranda Gvaladze

## H

* Ingebrigt Severin Hagen
* Olaf Hagerup
* Hiroshi Hara
* Thora Hardy
* Inez M. Haring
* 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
* Henri Homblé
* Henrietta Hooker
* Joseph Dalton Hooker
* William Jackson Hooker
* Josiah Hoopes
* 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
* Shri Mohan Jain
* 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
* David Lloyd
* Thomas Lobb
* William Lobb
* George Loddiges
* Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps
* Harri Lorenzi
* A.S. Losina-Losinskaja
* John Claudius Loudon
* Alice Lounsberry
* Elias Lönnrot
* Hedvig Lovén
* Hans Christian Lyngbye

## M

* Elizabeth McClintock
* William McCalla
* John Macoun
* Peter MacOwan
* Elke Mackenzie
* Aime Mäemets
* Pierre Magnol
* Joseph Maiden
* Marcello Malpighi
* Gustav Mann
* Charles Maries
* Jesse Jarue Mark
* Rudolf Marloth
* Humphry Marshall
* Austin Mast
* Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
* John M. MacDougal
* Terry Desmond Macfarlane
* William Keble Martin
* John Martyn
* Genkei Masamune
* Francis Masson
* Carl Maximowicz
* Rogers McVaugh
* Gregor Mendel
* Friedrich Kasimir Medikus
* Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini
* Archibald Menzies
* Konstantin Merezhkovsky
* Franz Meyen
* Carl Anton von Meyer
* André Michaux
* Pier Antonio Micheli
* John Miller
* Philip Miller
* Charles Frederick Millspaugh
* Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
* Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
* John Mitchell
* Conrad Moench
* Hugo von Mohl
* Charles Theodore Mohr
* Paul Möhring
* Camille Montagne
* George Thomas Moore
* Giuseppe Moretti
* Giuseppe Giacinto Moris
* Robert Morison
* Józef Motyka
* Cornelius Herman Muller
* Ferdinand von Mueller
* Otto von Münchhausen

## N

* Karl Wilhelm von Nageli
* P. K. K. Nair
* George Valentine Nash
* Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
* Charles F. Newcombe
* Frank Newhook
* Margaret Newton
* Louis Nicolas
* Daniel Lee Nickrent
* Emilia Frances Noel
* Thomas Nuttall

## O

* Carl Hansen Ostenfeld
* Daniel Oliver
* Garcia de Orta
* Giuseppe Olivi
* William Oakes (botanist)

## P

* Alf Erling Porsild
* Carl Borivoj Presl
* Charles Christopher Parry
* Charles Plumier
* Christian Hendrik Persoon
* Cyrus Pringle
* Daniel Oliver
* Donald C. Peattie
* Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
* Eduard Pospichal
* Edward Palmer
* Filippo Parlatore
* Flora Wambaugh Patterson
* Frederick Traugott Pursh
* George E. Post
* George R. Proctor
* Ghillean Prance
* Henri François Pittier
* Henri Perrier de la Bâthie
* Herman Silas Pepoon
* Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans
* Isaac-Bénédict Prévost
* James Petiver
* Jan Svatopluk Presl
* Jean Louis Marie Poiret
* Jean-Marie Pelt
* Joel Roberts Poinsett
* Josif Pancic
* Joseph Hubert Priestley
* Karl Julius Perleb
* Leonard Plukenet
* Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré
* Ludwig Preiss
* Michael Proctor
* Morten Pedersen Porsild
* Nathanael Pringsheim
* Ove Paulsen
* Palisot de Beauvois
* Paul Petard
* Paul Émile de Puydt
* Peter Simon Pallas
* Pliny the Elder
* Richard Pearce
* Rodolfo Amando Philippi
* Ruth Patrick
* Thomas Conrad Porter
* William Hunt Painter
* William Paterson
* William Purdom
* Ciro Pollini

## Q

* Agnes J. Quirk

## R

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

## S

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

## T

* Hisayoshi Takeda (aka Takeda Hisayoshi)
* Armen Takhtajan
* Arthur Tansley
* Ignaz Friedrich Tausch
* John Templeton
* Michele Tenore
* 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
* Carl Bernhard von Trinius
* 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
* Ina Vandebroek
* Domenico Vandelli
* Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh
* Nikolai Vavilov
* Harry Veitch
* John Gould Veitch
* Peter Veitch
* Romina Vidal-Russell
* Dominique Villars
* Domenico Viviani
* Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin

## W

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

## X

* Hu Xiansu

## Y

* Gennady Yakovlev

## Z

* Milton Zaitlin
* Kadir Zakirovič Zakirov
* Giovanni Zanardini
* Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher
* Daniel Zohary
* Michael Zohary
* Scott Zona
* Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini
* Joy Zedler