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.{{cn|date=May 2022}}

== A == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Erik Acharius (1757–1819) *Julián Acuña Galé (1900–1973) *Johann Friedrich Adam (1780–1838) *Carl Adolph Agardh (1785–1859) *Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901) *Nikolaus Ager (1568–1634) *William Aiton (1731–1793) *Frédéric-Louis Allamand (1736–1809) *Ruth F. Allen (1879–1963) *Carlo Allioni (1728–1804) *Lucile Allorge (b. 1937) *Prospero Alpini (1553–1617) *Benjamin Alvord (1813–1884) *Adeline Ames (1879–1976) *Janaki Ammal (1897–1984) *Eliza Frances Andrews (1840–1931) *Agnes Arber (1879–1960) *Giovanni Arcangeli (1840–1921) *David Ashton (1927–2005) *William Guybon Atherstone (1814–1898) *Anna Atkins (1799–1871) *Daniel E. Atha (b. 1962) *Armen Takhtajan (1910–2009) {{div col end}}

== B == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Ernest Brown Babcock (1877–1954) *Churchill Babington (1821–1889) *Curt Backeberg (1894–1966) *James Eustace Bagnall (1830–1918) *Jacob Whitman Bailey (1811–1857) *Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) *Ibn al-Baitar (1197–1248) *Giovanni Battista Balbis (1765–1831) *John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884) *Joseph Banks (1743–1820) *César Barbosa (b. 1954) *Bryan Alwyn Barlow (b. 1933) *Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798–1875) *Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815) *John Bartram (1699–1777) *William Bartram (1739–1823) *Johann Bauhin (1541–1613) *Gaspard Bauhin (1560–1624) *Chauncey Beadle (1866–1950) *William James Beal (1833–1924) *Janice C. Beatley (1919–1987) *Rolla Kent Beattie (1875–1960) *Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822) *Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911) *Martinus Beijerinck (1851–1931) *David Bellamy (1933–2019) *Pierre Belon (1517–1564) *George Bentham (1800–1884) *Robert Bentley (1821–1893) *Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803–1889) *Karl August von Bergen (1704–1759) *Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774–1850) *Edward W. Berry (1875–1945) *Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869) *Wilibald Swibert Joseph Gottlieb von Besser (1784–1842) *Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918) *Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768–1826) *Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879) *John Milton Bigelow (1804–1878) *Gustaf Johan Billberg (1772–1844) *Gottlieb Wilhelm Bischoff (1797–1854) *Johannes Bisse (1935–1984) *Francisco Manuel Blanco (1779–1845) *John Bradby Blake (1745–1773) *William Faris Blakely (1875–1941) *Andrew Bloxam (1801–1878) *Carl Ludwig Blume (1796–1862) *Tyge W. Böcher (1909–1983) *Jane Haskett Bock *Hieronymus Bock (1498–1554) *Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) *Wenceslas Bojer (1795–1856) *Henry Nicholas Bolander (1831–1897) *Harry Bolus (1834–1911) *August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard (1786–1839) *Charles Bonnet (1720–1793) *Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) *Francis Boott (1792–1863) *Evelyn Booth (1897–1988) *Attila Borhidi (b. 1932) *Antonina Georgievna Borissova (1903–1970) *Frederik Børgesen (1866–1956) *David Bowman (1838–1868) *Richard Bradley (1688–1732) *Alexander Braun (1805–1877) *John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) *William Henry Brewer (1828–1910) *Samuel Elisée Bridel-Brideri (1761–1828) *Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776–1854) *Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (1858–1934) *Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934) *Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772–1826) *Adolphe Theodore Brongniart (1801–1876) *Nicholas Edward Brown (1849–1934) *Robert Brown (1773–1858) *Patrick Browne (1720–1790) *Jeremy James Bruhl (b. 1956) *Louis-Ovide Brunet (1826–1876) *Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829) *Alexander von Bunge (1803–1890) *Elsa Beata Bunge (1734–1819) *Luther Burbank (1849–1926) *Frederick William Burbidge (1847–1905) *William John Burchell (1781–1863) *Alan Burges (1911–2002) *David Burke (1854–1897) *Joseph Burke II (1812–1873) *Johannes Burman (1707–1780) *Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734–1793) *Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Busch (1886–1960) *Maarten Buysman (1856–1919) {{div col end}}

==C== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Cleofé Caldéron (1929–2007) *Albert Callay (1822–1896) *George Caley (1770–1829) *Ella Orr Campbell (1910–2003) *Rudolf Jakob Camerarius (1665–1721) *Aimée Antoinette Camus (1879–1965) *Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (A. P. de Candolle) (1778–1841) *Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle (A. de Candolle) (1806–1893) *Richard Émile Augustin de Candolle (Aug. de Candolle) (1868–1920) *J. F. M. Cannon (1930–2008) *Sherwin Carlquist (1930–2021) *Cedric Errol Carr (1892–1936) *Elie-Abel Carrière (1818–1896) *George Washington Carver (1864–1943) *Henri Cassini (1781–1832) *William Casson (1796–1886) *Antonio José Cavanilles (1745–1804) *Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) *Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838) *Daniel Chamovitz (b. 1963) *Pierre Gaspard Chaumette (1763–1794) *Wan Chun Cheng (1908–1987) *Henry Chesterton (1837–1883) *Carl Christensen (1872–1942) *Joseph Philippe de Clairville (1742–1830) *Arthur Roy Clapham (1904–1990) *Lynn G. Clark (b. 1956) *Adrienne Clarke (b. 1938) *Gertrude Clarke Nuttall (1867–1929) *Jens Clausen (1891–1969) *Jane Colden (1724–1766) *Runar Collander (1894–1973) *Peter Collinson (1694–1768) *Charles Coltman-Rogers (1854–1929) *Philibert Commerçon (1727–1773) *Joseph Whipple Congdon (1834–1910) *Valerius Cordus (1515–1544) *Giacomo Antonio Cortuso (1513–1603) *Arthur Disbrowe Cotton (1879–1962) *Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz (1722–1799) *Arthur Cronquist (1919–1992) *José Cuatrecasas (1903–1996) *Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) *Francesco Cupani (1657–1710) *Ed Currie (b. 1963) *Charles Curtis (1853–1928) *William Curtis (1746–1799) *Pierre Cusson (1727–1783) {{div col end}}

==D== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Anders Dahl (1751–1789) *Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard (1663–1743) *John M. Darby (1804–1877) *Frederick Hamilton Davey (1868–1915) *Armand David (1826–1900) *Walter Davis (1847–1930) *Anton de Bary (1831–1888) *Joseph Decaisne (1807–1882) *Ethel de Fraine (1879–1918) *Pierre Jean Marie Delavay (1834–1895) *Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert (1773–1847) *Stefano delle Chiaje (1794–1860) *Giuseppe De Notaris (1805–1877) *René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833) *Narcisse Henri François Desportes (1776–1856) *Louis Auguste Joseph Desrousseaux (1753–1838) *Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784–1856) *Johann Jacob Dillenius (1684–1747) *Kurt Dinter (1868–1945) *Pedanius Dioscorides ({{c.}} 40–90) *Kingsley Dixon (b. 1954) *Rembert Dodoens (1517–1585) *David Don (1799–1841) *George Don (1798–1856) *James Donn (1758–1813) *Catharina Helena Dörrien (1717–1795) *David Douglas (1799–1834) *John Dransfield (b. 1945) *Robert Louis Dressler (1927–2019) *Jonas C. Dryander (1748–1810) *Heber Drury (1819–1905) *Jean Étienne Duby (1798–1885) *Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747–1827) *William Russell Dudley (1849–1911) *Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier (1797–1878) *Michel Felix Dunal (1789–1856) *Ursula Katherine Duncan (1910–1985) *Stephen Troyte Dunn (1868–1938) *Robert Allen Dyer (1900–1987) {{div col end}}

== E == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Michael Pakenham Edgeworth (1812–1881) *Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers (1844–1903) *Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876) *Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742–1795) *Eva Ekeblad (1724–1786) *Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher (1804–1849) *George Engelmann (1809–1884) *Adolf Engler (1844–1930) *Andrey Erst *Katherine Esau (1898–1997) *Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831) *Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897) *Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929) {{div col end}}

== F == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *David Fairchild (1869–1954) *Hugh Falconer (1808–1865) *Reginald Farrer (1880–1920) *Lewis J. Feldman (b. 1945) *Luigi Fenaroli (1899–1980) *Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1873–1950) *Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782–1854) *Heinrich Gustav Flörke (1764–1835) *Pius Font i Quer (1888–1964) *Peter Forsskål (1732–1763) *Georg Forster (1754–1794) *Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798) *Robert Fortune (1812–1880) *Henry Georges Fourcade (1865–1948) *Adrien René Franchet (1834–1900) *William Douglas Francis (1889–1959) *John C. Frémont (1813–1890) *Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) *Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870) *Charles Christopher Frost (1805–1880) *Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566) *Heinrich Christian Funck (1771–1839) *Catherine Furbish (1834–1931) {{div col end}}

== G == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Eleonora Gabrielian (b. 1929) *Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791) *Karl Friedrich von Gaertner (1772–1850) *Betsy Harrison Gagne (1947–2020) *François Gagnepain (1866–1952) *Ernest Edward Galpin (1858–1941) *George Alexander Gammie (1864–1934) *James Alexander Gammie (1839–1924) *Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789–1854) *Alwyn Howard Gentry (1945–1993) *Howard Scott Gentry (1903–1993) *John Gerard (1545–1612) *Conrad von Gesner (1516–1565) *Luca Ghini (1490–1556) *Ken Gillanders (b. 1930) *Charles Henry Gimingham (1923–2018) *Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804) *Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755) *Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744–1774) *Hossein Gol-e-Golab (1895–1985) *George Gordon (1806–1879) *Antoine Gouan (1733–1821) *Asa Gray (1810–1888) *Netta Elizabeth Gray (1913–1970) *Robert Kaye Greville (1794–1866) *Nehemiah Grew (1641–1712) *William Griffith (1810–1845) *Jan Frederik Gronovius (1690–1762) *Wilhelm Gueinzius (1813–1874) *Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901–1997) *Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773) *Giovanni Gussone (1787–1866) *Francis Guthrie (1831–1899) *Guranda Gvaladze (1932–2020) {{div col end}}

== H == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Ingebrigt Severin Hagen (1852–1917) *Olaf Hagerup (1889–1961) *Hiroshi Hara (1911–1986) *Thora Hardy (1902–1993) *Inez M. Haring (1875–1968) *Robert Almer Harper (1862–1946) *Cornelia Hermina van Harreveld-Lako (1883–1945) *Karl Theodor Hartweg (1812–1871) *William Henry Harvey (1811–1866) *Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833) *John Stevens Henslow (1796–1861) *Augustine Henry (1857–1930) *Vernon Heywood (1927–2022) *Mary MacLean Hindmarsh (1921–2000) *Adriana Hoffmann (1940–2022) *Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849) *Henri Homblé (1883–1921) *Henrietta Hooker (1851–1929) *Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) *William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865) *Josiah Hoopes (1832–1904) *Albert Howard (1873–1947) *Gabrielle Howard (1876–1930) *Armando Theodoro Hunziker (1919–2001) *John Hutchinson (1884–1972) {{div col end}}

== I == *Agnes Ibbetson (1757–1823) *Jane Ingham (1897–1982) *Keisuke Ito (1803–1901)

== J == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Vello Jaaska (b. 1936) *Vilve Jaaska (fl. 1990) *Victor Jacquemont (1801–1832) *Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817) *Joseph Franz von Jacquin (1766–1839) *Shri Mohan Jain (b. 1949) *Knud Jessen (1884–1971) *Wilhelm Johannsen (1857–1927) *Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson (1925–1997) *Ivan Murray Johnston (1898–1960) *Adrien-Henri de Jussieu (1797–1853) *Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748–1836) *Antoine de Jussieu (1686–1758) *Bernard de Jussieu (1699–1777) {{div col end}}

== K == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Kaibara Ekiken (1630–1714) *Guillermo Kalbreyer (1847–1912) *Pehr Kalm (1716–1779) *Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817–1908) *Kailas Nath Kaul (1905–1983) *Sir Frederick Keeble (1870–1952) *Albert Kellogg (1813–1887) *George Clayton Kennedy (1919–1980) *Alice L. Kibbe (1881–1969) *Franz Kiggelaer *Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar (1849–1917) *Masao Kitagawa (1910–1995) *Karl Koch (1809–1879) {{div col end}}

== L == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834) *Hans Lambers (1950–) *Dorothy van Dyke Leake (1893–1990) *Lars Levi Laestadius (1800–1861) *Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) *Aylmer Bourke Lambert (1761–1842) *Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux (1779–1825) *Gerhard Lang (1924–2016) *Kai Larsen (1926–2012) *Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac (1830–1911) *Charles de l'Écluse (1526–1609) *Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour (1773–1826) *Emmanuel Liais (1826–1900) *John Lindley (1799–1865) *Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1851) *Carlos Adolfo Lehnebach *Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) *Carolus Linnaeus the Younger (1741–1783) *William Richardson Linton (1850–1908) *Pablo de la Llave (1773–1833) *David Lloyd (1937–2006) *Thomas Lobb (1817–1894) *William Lobb (1809–1864) *George Loddiges (1784/1786–1846) *Jean-Louis-Auguste Loiseleur-Deslongchamps (1774–1849) *Harri Lorenzi (b. 1949) *A.S. Losina-Losinskaja (1903–1958) *John Claudius Loudon (1782–1843) *Alice Lounsberry (1868–1949) *Elias Lönnrot (1802–1884) *Hedvig Lovén (1867–1943) *Hans Christian Lyngbye (1782–1837) {{div col end}}

== M == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *William McCalla (1814–1849) *Elizabeth McClintock (1912–2004) *John M. MacDougal (b. 1954) *Terry Desmond Macfarlane (b. 1953) *Elke Mackenzie (1911–1990) *John Macoun (1831–1920) *Peter MacOwan (1830–1909) *Rogers McVaugh (1909–2009) *Aime Mäemets (1930–1996) *Pierre Magnol (1638–1715) *Joseph Maiden (1859–1925) *Marcello Malpighi (1628–1694) *Gustav Mann (1836–1916) *Charles Maries (1851–1902) *Jesse Jarue Mark (1906–1971) *Rudolf Marloth (1855–1931) *Humphry Marshall (1722–1801) *William Keble Martin (1877–1969) *Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868) *John Martyn (1699–1768) *Genkei Masamune (1899–1993) *Francis Masson (1741–1805) *Austin Mast (b. 1972) *Carl Maximowicz (1827–1891) *Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1738–1808) *Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) *Giuseppe Giovanni Antonio Meneghini (1811–1889) *Archibald Menzies (1754–1842) *Konstantin Merezhkovsky (1855–1921) *Franz Meyen (1804–1840) *Carl Anton von Meyer (1795–1855) *André Michaux (1746–1802) *Pier Antonio Micheli (1679–1737) *John Miller (1715–c.1792) *Philip Miller (1691–1771) *Charles Frederick Millspaugh (1854–1923) *Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811–1871) *Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel (1776–1854) *John Mitchell (1711–1768) *Conrad Moench (1744–1805) *Hugo von Mohl (1805–1872) *Charles Theodore Mohr (1824–1901) *Paul Möhring (1710–1792) *Camille Montagne (1784–1866) *George Thomas Moore (1871–1956) *Giuseppe Moretti (1782–1853) *Giuseppe Giacinto Moris (1796–1869) *Robert Morison (1620–1683) *Elizabeth Carrington Morris (1795-1865) *Józef Motyka (1900–1984) *Valiollah Mozaffarian (born 1953) *Ferdinand von Mueller (1825–1896) *Cornelius Herman Muller (1909–1997) *Otto von Münchhausen (1716–1774) {{div col end}}

== N == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Karl Wilhelm von Nageli (1817–1891) *P. K. K. Nair (1930–2017) *George Valentine Nash (1864–1921) *Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776–1858) *Charles F. Newcombe (1851–1924) *Frank Newhook (1918–1999) *Margaret Newton (1887–1971) *Louis Nicolas (1634–1682?) *Daniel Lee Nickrent (b. 1956) *Emilia Frances Noel (1868–1950) *Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859) {{div col end}}

== O == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Carl Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931) *Daniel Oliver (1830–1916) *Garcia de Orta (1501–1568) *Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795) *William Oakes (botanist) (1799–1848) {{div col end}}

== P == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Alf Erling Porsild (1901–1977) *Carl Borivoj Presl (1794–1852) *Charles Christopher Parry (1823–1890) *Charles Plumier (1646–1704) *Christian Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836) *Cyrus Pringle (1838–1911) *Donald C. Peattie (1898–1964) *Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798–1868) *Eduard Pospichal (1838–1905) *Edward Palmer (1829–1911) *Filippo Parlatore (1816–1877) *Flora Wambaugh Patterson (1847–1928) *Frederick Traugott Pursh (1774–1820) *George E. Post (1838–1909) *George R. Proctor (1920–2015) *Ghillean Prance (b. 1937) *Henri François Pittier (1857–1950) *Henri Perrier de la Bâthie (1873–1958) *Herman Silas Pepoon (1860–1941) *Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans (1879–1968) *Isaac-Bénédict Prévost (1755–1819) *James Petiver (c. 1665–c. 1718) *Jan Svatopluk Presl (1791–1849) *Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755–1834) *Jean-Marie Pelt (1933–2015) *Joel Roberts Poinsett (1779–1851) *Josif Pancic (1814–1888) *Joseph Hubert Priestley (1883–1944) *Karl Julius Perleb (1794–1845) *Leonard Plukenet (1641–1706) *Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph Piré (1827–1887) *Ludwig Preiss (1811–1883) *Michael Proctor (1929–2017) *Morten Pedersen Porsild (1872–1956) *Nathanael Pringsheim (1823–1894) *Ove Paulsen (1874–1947) *Palisot de Beauvois (1752–1820) *Paul Petard (1912–1980) *Paul Émile de Puydt (1810–1891) *Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811) *Pliny the Elder (23/24–79) *Richard Pearce (c. 1835–1868) *Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904) *Ruth Patrick (1907–2013) *Thomas Conrad Porter (1822–1901) *William Hunt Painter (1835–1910) *William Paterson (1755–1810) *William Purdom (1880–1921) *Ciro Pollini (1782–1833) {{div col end}}

== Q == * Agnes J. Quirk (1884–1974)

== R == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Achille Richard (1794–1852) *Albert Ernest Radford (1918–2006) *Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1757–1834) *Antoine Risso (alias: Antonio Giuseppe Risso) (1777–1845) *Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (1652–1723) *Christen C. Raunkiær (1860–1938) *Constantine Samuel Rafinesque (1738–1840) *Elizabeth Seymour Rawlinson (1901–1942) *Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur Walter Robyns (1901–1986) *Gabriele Rabel (1880–1963) *Georg Eberhard Rumphius (1627–1702) *Gustaf Otto Rosenberg (1872–1948) *Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen (1873–1943) *Harold E. Robinson (1932–2020) *Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823–1889) *Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855–1956) *Johann Jacob Roemer (1763–1819) *John Ralfs (1807–1890) *John Ray (1627–1705) *José Manuel Restrepo Vélez (1781–1863) *Joseph Rock (1884–1962) *Julien Reverchon (1837–1905) *Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge (1858–1939) *Lincoln Ware Riddle (1880–1921) *Louis Claude Richard (1754–1821) *Ludwig Reichenbach (1793–1879) *Oliver Rackham (1939–2015) *Per Axel Rydberg (1860–1931) *Peter H. Raven (1936–2026) *Thekla Resvoll (1871–1948) *Tony Rodd (b. 1940) *Werner Rothmaler (1908–1962) *William Roxburgh (1751–1815) {{div col end}}

== S == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Joseph Sabine (1770–1837) *Julius von Sachs (1832–1897) *József Sadler (1791–1849) *Thiodolf Saelan (1834–1921) *Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779–1853) *Edward James Salisbury (1886–1978) *Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761–1829) *Richard Sanders Rogers (1861–1942) *Gaetano Savi (1769–1844) *Charles Sprague Sargent (1841–1927) *Henry Parker Sartwell (1792–1867) *William Saunders (1822–1900) *Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799) *Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1856–1901) *Christian Schkuhr (1741–1811) *Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794–1866) *Rudolf Schlechter (1872–1925) *Matthias Jakob Schleiden (1804–1881) *George Schoener (1864–1941) *Selmar Schonland (1860–1940) *Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794–1865) *Heinrich Schrader (1767–1836) *Franz von Paula Schrank (1747–1835) *Josef August Schultes (1773–1831) *Christian Friedrich Schwägrichen (1775–1853) *Ian Schwartz *Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925) *Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788) *Berthold Carl Seemann (1825–1871) *Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867) *Jean Senebier (1742–1806) *Nicolas Charles Seringe (1776–1858) *Martín Sessé y Lacasta (1751–1808) *John Adolph Shafer (1863–1918) *Carl Sharsmith (1903–1994) *Helen Sharsmith (1905–1982) *George Shaw (1751–1813) *Alice Albertson Shurrocks (1880 - 1967) *Shen Kuo (1031–1095) *John Sibthorp (1758–1796) *Franz Sieber (1789–1844) *Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866) *Thomas Robertson Sim (1858–1938) *Cuthbert John Skead (1912–2006) *John Kunkel Small (1869–1938) *Mikhail Nikolaevich Smirnov (1847–1892) *Christo Albertyn Smith (1898–1956) *Edith Philip Smith (1897–1976) *James Edward Smith (1759–1828) *Johannes Jacobus Smith (1867–1947) *Winifred Smith (1858–1925) *Lumina Cotton Riddle Smyth (1871–1939) *Daniel Solander (1733–1782) *Otto Wilhelm Sonder (1812–1881) *Pierre Sonnerat (1748–1814) *Effie A. Southworth (1860–1947) *Roger David Spencer (b. 1945) *Kurt Sprengel (1766–1833) *Richard Spruce (1817–1893) *Herman Spöring (1733–1771) *Clive Stace (b. 1938) *Agustín Stahl (1842–1917) *Elvin C. Stakman (1885–1979) *Paul Carpenter Standley (1884–1963) *G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000) *Berthold Stein (1847–1899) *Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709–1746) *Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761–1838) *Julian Alfred Steyermark (1909–1988) *Jonathan Stokes (c. 1755–1831) *Eduard Strasburger (1844–1912) *George Bishop Sudworth (1864–1927) *Su Song (1020–1101) *Olof Swartz (1760–1818) *Simon Syrenius (1540–1611) {{div col end}}

== T == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Hisayoshi Takeda (aka Takeda Hisayoshi) (1883–1972) *Armen Takhtajan (1910–2009) *Arthur Tansley (1871–1955) *Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (1793–1848) *John Templeton (1766–1825) *Michele Tenore (1780–1861) *Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BC) *William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1843–1928) *Graham Stuart Thomas (1909–2003) *William Thompson (1805–1852) *George Thomson (1819–1878) *Robert Folger Thorne (1920–2015) *Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1758–1831) *Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828) *Agostino Todaro (1818–1892) *John Torrey (1796–1873) *Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) *John Tradescant the elder (c. 1570s–1638) *John Tradescant the younger (1608–1662) *Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809–1889) *Carl Bernhard von Trinius (1778–1844) *Mikhail Tsvet (1872–1919) *Edward Tuckerman (1817–1886) *William Turner (1509/10–1568) *Tom Tutin (1908–1987) {{div col end}}

== U == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Bernardino da Ucria (1739–1796) *Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853–1907) *Ignatz Urban (1848–1931) {{div col end}}

== V == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Martin Vahl (1749–1804) *Sébastien Vaillant (1669–1722) *David H. Valentine (1912–1987) *Ina Vandebroek *Domenico Vandelli (1735–1816) *Elizabeth Van Volkenburgh (b. 1952) *Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) *Harry Veitch (1840–1924) *John Gould Veitch (1839–1870) *Peter Veitch (1850–1929) *Romina Vidal-Russell *Dominique Villars (1745–1814) *Domenico Viviani (1772–1840) *Mikhail Stepanovich Voronin (1838–1903) {{div col end}}

== W == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Warren H. Wagner (1920–2000) *Göran Wahlenberg (1780–1851) *Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein (1759–1823) *George Arnott Walker-Arnott (1799–1868) *Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854) *Gustav Wallis (1830–1878) *Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wallroth (1792–1857) *E. F. Warburg (1908–1966) *Harry Marshall Ward (1854–1906) *Eugenius Warming (1841–1924) *Sereno Watson (1826–1892) *William Watson (1715–1787) *Wang Wencai (1926–2022) *Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee (1831–1887) *Randy Wayne (biologist) (b. 1955) *Philip Barker Webb (1793–1854) *Georg Heinrich Weber (1752–1828) *Christian Ehrenfried Weigel (1748–1831) *Friedrich Welwitsch (1806–1872) *George Stephen West (1876–1919) *William West (1848–1914) *William West Jr (1875–1901) *Herbert Hice Whetzel (1877–1944) *August Wilhelm Eberhard Christoph Wibel (1775–1814) *Lilly Wigg (1749–1828) *Johan Emanuel Wikström (1789–1856) *Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812) *Ernest Henry Wilson (1876–1930) *William Withering (1741–1799) *Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod (1861–1948) *Alphonso Wood (1810–1881) *John Medley Wood (1827–1915) *Charles Wright (1811–1885) *Franz Xavier von Wulfen (1728–1805) *Heinrich Wullschlägel (1805–1864) *Heinrich Wydler (1800–1883) *Ben-Erik van Wyk (b. 1956) {{div col end}}

== X ==

* Hu Xiansu (1894–1968)

== Y == *Gennady Yakovlev (1938–2024)

== Z == {{div col|colwidth=30em}} *Milton Zaitlin (1927–2016) *Kadir Zakirovič Zakirov (1906–1992) *Giovanni Zanardini (1804–1878) *Amparo de Zeledón (1870–1951) *Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799–1858) *Daniel Zohary (1926–2016) *Michael Zohary (1898–1983) *Scott Zona (b. 1959) *Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini (1797–1848) *Joy Zedler (b. 1943) {{div col end}}

==See also== {{Wikispecies|Category:Taxa by author}} * 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 {{clear}}

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