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.

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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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