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 of, since the Middle Ages, a substantial participation by women.[citation needed]
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
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
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
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
O
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
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
V
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