List of botanists
Appearance
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.
A
- Erik Acharius
- Johann Friedrich Adam
- Michel Adanson
- Adam Afzelius
- Carl Adolph Agardh
- Jacob Georg Agardh
- Nikolaus Ager
- William Aiton
- Frédéric-Louis Allamand
- Prospero Alpini
B
- Churchill Babington
- Curt Backeberg
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
- John Hutton Balfour
- Joseph Banks
- Benjamin Smith Barton
- John Bartram
- William Bartram
- Johann Bauhin
- Gaspard Bauhin
- David Bellamy
- George Bentham
- Robert Bentley
- Miles Joseph Berkeley
- Edward W. Berry
- Carl Ludwig Blume
- August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard
- Charles Bonnet
- Aimé Bonpland
- Antonina Georgievna Borissova
- William Henry Brewer
- Charles-François Brisseau-Mirbel
- Nathaniel Lord Britton
- Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
- Robert Brown
- Louis-Ovide Brunet
- Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
- Luther Burbank
C
- George Caley
- Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
- Frederick Campion Steward
- Augustin Pyrame de Candolle
- Elie-Abel Carrière
- George Washington Carver
- Antonio José Cavanilles
- Andrea Cesalpino
- Adelbert von Chamisso
- Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
- Peter Collinson FRS
- Philibert Commerçon
- Nicholas Culpeper
- Allan Cunningham
- William Curtis
D
- Anders Dahl (namesake of the Dahlia)
- Armand David
- Anton de Bary
- Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
- Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert
- René Louiche Desfontaines
- Johann Jacob Dillenius
- Pedanius Dioscorides
- Rembert Dodoens
- David Don
- James Donn
- David Douglas
- Jonas C. Dryander
- Michel Felix Dunal
E
F
- David Fairchild
- Hugh Falconer
- Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer
- Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (namesake of the California Poppy)
- Constantin von Ettingshausen
- Peter Forsskål
- Georg Forster
- Johann Reinhold Forster
- Robert Fortune
- Adrien René Franchet
- John C. Frémont
- Elias Magnus Fries (one of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy)
- Imre Frivaldszky
- Leonhart Fuchs
G
- Joseph Gaertner
- François Gagnepain
- Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré
- Howard Scott Gentry
- John Gerard
- Conrad von Gesner
- Luca Ghini
- Johann Friedrich Gmelin
- Johann Georg Gmelin
- Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin
- Hossein Gol-e-Golab
- George Gordon
- Asa Gray
- Nehemiah Grew
- Jan Frederik Gronovius
- Johann Ernst Gunnerus
- Guranda Gvaladze
H
- Karl Theodor Hartweg
- Adrian Hardy Haworth
- John Stevens Henslow
- Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg
- Joseph Dalton Hooker
- William Jackson Hooker
- Albert Howard
I
J
- Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
- Wilhelm Johannsen (coined the term gene)
- Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
- Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
- Antoine de Jussieu
- Bernard de Jussieu
K
L
- Jacques Labillardière
- Lars Levi Laestadius
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Aylmer Bourke Lambert
- Charles de L'Ecluse
- Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour
- Emmanuel Liais
- John Lindley
- Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
- Carolus Linnaeus (founder of systematics)
- Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
- Harri Lorenzi
- John Claudius Loudon
- Elias Lönnrot
M
- John Macadam
- John Macoun
- Marcello Malpighi (discovered movement of sap in plants)
- Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
- John Martyn
- Francis Masson
- Carl Maximowicz
- Gregor Mendel ('discovered' genetics while studying sweet peas)
- Archibald Menzies
- Konstantin Merezhkovsky
- Franz Meyen
- André Michaux
- Philip Miller
- Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
- Hugo von Mohl
- Paul Möhring
- George Thomas Moore
- Robert Morison
- Ferdinand von Mueller
- Otto von Münchhausen
N
- Karl Wilhelm von Nageli
- George Valentine Nash
- Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck
- Charles F. Newcombe
- Frank Newhook
- Thomas Nuttall
O
P
- Peter Simon Pallas
- Edward Palmer
- Josif Pancic
- Filippo Parlatore
- Charles Christopher Parry
- William Paterson
- Ruth Patrick
- Donald C. Peattie
- Jean-Marie Pelt
- Henri Perrier de la Bâthie
- Christian Hendrik Persoon
- Paul Petard
- Rodolfo Amando Philippi
- Pliny the Elder Roman natural historian
- Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
- Joel Roberts Poinsett
- Karel Presl
- Nathanael Pringsheim
- Frederick Traugott Pursh
- Paul Émile de Puydt
Q
R
- Oliver Rackham
- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz
- Leonhard Rauwolf
- John Ray
- Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
- Ludwig Reichenbach
- Jose Restrepo
- Louis Claude Richard
- Henry Nicholas Ridley
- Harold E. Robinson
- Joseph Rock
- William Roxburgh
- Georg Eberhard Rumphius
S
- Joseph Sabine
- Julius von Sachs
- Augustin Saint-Hilaire
- Edward James Salisbury
- Richard Anthony Salisbury
- Charles Sprague Sargent
- William Saunders
- Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
- Franz Paula von Schrank
- Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
- Rudolf Schlechter
- Matthias Jakob Schleiden (co-founder of cell theory)
- George Schoener
- Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
- Franz Paula von Schrank
- Georg August Schweinfurth
- Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
- Berthold Carl Seemann
- Prideaux John Selby
- Jean Senebier
- George Shaw
- John Sibthorp
- Philipp Franz von Siebold
- John Kunkel Small
- James Edward Smith
- Daniel Solander
- Pierre Sonnerat
- Herman Spoering
- Kurt Sprengel
- Richard Spruce
- Herman Spöring
- Agustín Stahl
- G. Ledyard Stebbins
- Georg Wilhelm Steller
- Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
- Eduard Strasburger
- George Bishop Sudworth
T
- Armen Takhtajan
- Theophrastus pupil of Aristotle
- Graham Stuart Thomas
- Carl Peter Thunberg
- Agostino Todaro
- John Torrey
- Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
- John Tradescant the Elder and his son the Younger
- Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter
- Mikhail Tsvet
- Edward Tuckerman
- William Turner
U
V
W
- Warren H. Wagner
- Göran Wahlenberg
- Nathaniel Wallich
- Philip Barker Webb
- Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
- Friedrich Welwitsch
- Carl Ludwig Willdenow
- William Withering