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
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

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
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
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
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 D. 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
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
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
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
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
Osborne Morton
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 

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

P 

William Hunt Painter
Palisot de Beauvois
Peter Simon Pallas
Edward Palmer
Josif Pancic
Filippo Parlatore
Charles Christopher Parry
William Paterson
Ruth Patrick
Flora Wambaugh Patterson
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
Henri François Pittier
Pliny the Elder
Leonard Plukenet
Charles Plumier
Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
Joel Roberts Poinsett
Jean Louis Marie Poiret
Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans
Ciro Pollini
Alf Erling Porsild
Morten Pedersen Porsild
Thomas Conrad Porter
Eduard Pospichal
George E. Post
Ghillean Prance 
Ludwig Preiss
Jan Svatopluk Presl
Carl Borivoj Presl
Isaac-Bénédict Prévost
Joseph Hubert Priestley
Cyrus Pringle
Nathanael Pringsheim
George R. Proctor
Michael Proctor
William Purdom
Frederick Traugott Pursh
Paul Émile de Puydt

Q 
Agnes J. Quirk

R 

Gabriele Rabel
Oliver Rackham
Giuseppe Raddi
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
Antoine Risso (alias: Antonio Giuseppe Risso)
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
Harold E. Robinson
Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns
Joseph Rock
Tony Rodd
Johann Jacob Roemer
Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge
Albrecht Wilhelm Roth
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
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 Paula von 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
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
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

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

See also

 List of women botanists
 List of botanists by author abbreviation 
 List of authors of South African botanical taxa 
 List of gardener-botanist explorers of the Enlightenment
 List of Hungarian botanists
 List of Russian biologists
 List of Slovenian botanists