List of botanists

This is a list of botanists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. See also the list of botanists by author abbreviation and .

A

*Erik Acharius
*Julián Acuña Galé
*Johann Friedrich Adam
*Carl Adolph Agardh
*Jacob Georg Agardh
*Nikolaus Ager
*William Aiton
*Frédéric-Louis Allamand
*Carlo Allioni
*Prospero Alpini
*Benjamin Alvord
*David Ashton
*William Guybon Atherstone

B

*Churchill Babington
*Curt Backeberg
*Liberty Hyde Bailey
*John Hutton Balfour
*Joseph Banks
*Benjamin Smith Barton
*John Bartram
*William Bartram
*Johann Bauhin
*Gaspard Bauhin
*Chauncey Beadle
*Richard Henry Beddome
*Martinus Beijerinck
*David Bellamy
*George Bentham
*Robert Bentley
*Miles Joseph Berkeley
*Edward W. Berry
*Gustaf Johan Billberg
*Carl Ludwig Blume
*Tyge W. Böcher
*Hieronymus Bock
*Herman Boerhaave
*Wenceslas Bojer
*Henry Nicholas Bolander
*‎Harry Bolus
*August Gustav Heinrich von Bongard
*Charles Bonnet
*Aimé Bonpland
*Antonina Georgievna Borissova
*Frederik Børgesen
*Alexander Braun
*John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan
*William Henry Brewer
*Charles-François Brisseau-Mirbel
*Nathaniel Lord Britton
*Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
*‎Nicholas Edward Brown
*Robert Brown
*Patrick Browne
*Louis-Ovide Brunet
*Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
*Aleksandr Andreevich von Bunge
*Elsa Beata Bunge
*Luther Burbank
*‎William John Burchell
*‎Joseph Burke II

C

*George Caley
*Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
*Frederick Campion Steward
*A. P. de Candolle
*Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle
*Elie-Abel Carrière
*George Washington Carver
*William Casson
*Antonio José Cavanilles
*Andrea Cesalpino
*Adelbert von Chamisso
*Pierre Gaspard Chaumette
*Carl Christensen
*Peter Collinson FRS
*Philibert Commerçon
*Joseph Whipple Congdon
*Valerius Cordus
*Nicholas Culpeper
*Allan Cunningham
*William Curtis

D

*Anders Dahl (namesake of the Dahlia)
*John M. Darby
*Armand David
*Anton de Bary
*Pierre Jean Marie Delavay
*Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert
*René Louiche Desfontaines
*Johann Jacob Dillenius
*Kurt Dinter
*Pedanius Dioscorides
*Rembert Dodoens
*David Don
*James Donn
*David Douglas
*Jonas C. Dryander
*Michel Felix Dunal
*Robert Allen Dyer
*Dzubenko Nikolai Ivanovich

E

*Henrik Franz Alexander von Eggers
*Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
*Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart
*Eva Ekeblad
*Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher
*George Engelmann
*Adolf Engler
*Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (namesake of the California Poppy)
*Constantin von Ettingshausen

F

*David Fairchild
*Hugh Falconer
*Robert (Poggy) Fisher (Head gardner Sir Thomas Pilkington)
*Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer
*Peter Forsskål
*Georg Forster
*Johann Reinhold Forster
*Robert Fortune
*Henry Georges Fourcade
*Adrien René Franchet
*William D. Francis
*John C. Frémont
*Elias Magnus Fries (one of the founders of modern mushroom taxonomy)
*Imre Frivaldszky
*Leonhart Fuchs

G

*Joseph Gaertner
*François Gagnepain
*‎Ernest Edward Galpin
*Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré
*Howard Scott Gentry
*John Gerard
*Conrad von Gesner
*Luca Ghini
*Charles Henry Gimingham
*Johann Friedrich Gmelin
*Johann Georg Gmelin
*Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin
*Hossein Gol-e-Golab
*George Gordon
*Asa Gray
*Nehemiah Grew
*William Griffith
*Jan Frederik Gronovius
*Alexander Alfonsovich Grossheim (Александр Альфонсович Гроссгейм)
*Wilhelm Gueinzius
*Hugo Gunckel Lüer
*Johann Ernst Gunnerus
*‎Francis Guthrie
*Guranda Gvaladze

H

*Olaf Hagerup
*Karl Theodor Hartweg
*William Henry Harvey
*Adrian Hardy Haworth
*John Stevens Henslow
*Augustine Henry
*Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg
*Joseph Dalton Hooker
*William Jackson Hooker
*Albert Howard
*Armando Theodoro Hunziker
*John Hutchinson

I

*Keisuke Ito

J

*Victor Jacquemont
*Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin
*Joseph Franz von Jacquin
*Knud Jessen
*Wilhelm Johannsen (coined the term gene)
*Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
*I. M. Johnston
*Adrien-Henri de Jussieu
*Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
*Antoine de Jussieu
*Bernard de Jussieu

K

*Kaibara Ekiken
*Pehr Kalm
*Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
*Alice L. Kibbe
*Franz Kiggelaer
*Karl Koch

L

*Jacques Labillardière
*Lars Levi Laestadius
*Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
*Aylmer Bourke Lambert
*Kai Larsen
*Charles de l'Écluse
*Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour
*Juan José Martínez de Lexarza
*Emmanuel Liais
*John Lindley
*Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link
*Carolus Linnaeus (founder of systematics)
*Carolus Linnaeus the Younger
*Pablo de la Llave
*George Loddiges
*Harri Lorenzi
*John Claudius Loudon
*Alice Lounsberry
*Elias Lönnrot

M

*William McCalla
*John Macoun
*‎Peter MacOwan
*Pierre Magnol (founded the concept of plant families)
*Joseph Maiden
*Marcello Malpighi (discovered movement of sap in plants)
*Gustav Mann
*‎Rudolf Marloth
*Humphry Marshall, father of American dendrology.
*Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
*John M. MacDougal
*John Martyn
*Genkei Masamune
*Francis Masson
*Carl Maximowicz
*Gregor Mendel ('discovered' genetics while studying sweet peas)
*Archibald Menzies
*Konstantin Merezhkovsky
*Franz Meyen
*André Michaux
*Philip Miller
*Charles Frederick Millspaugh
*Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel
*Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel
*John Mitchell
*Hugo von Mohl
*Charles Theodore Mohr
*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
*Louis Nicolas
*Thomas Nuttall

O

*Daniel Oliver
*Garcia de Orta
*Carl Hansen Ostenfeld

P

*Peter Simon Pallas
*Edward Palmer
*Josif Pancic
*Filippo Parlatore
*Charles Christopher Parry
*William Paterson
*Ruth Patrick
*Ove Paulsen
*Donald C. Peattie
*Jean-Marie Pelt
*Karl Julius Perleb
*Henri Perrier de la Bâthie
*Christian Hendrik Persoon
*Paul Petard
*James Petiver
*Rodolfo Amando Philippi
*Pliny the Elder Roman natural historian
*Leonard Plukenet
*Eduard Friedrich Poeppig
*Joel Roberts Poinsett
*Alf Erling Porsild
*Morten Pedersen Porsild
*Jan Svatopluk Presl
*Karel Presl
*Cyrus Pringle
*Nathanael Pringsheim
*Frederick Traugott Pursh
*Paul Émile de Puydt

Q

R

*Oliver Rackham
*Albert Ernest Radford
*Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
*Christen C. Raunkiær
*Leonhard Rauwolf
*John Ray
*Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach
*Ludwig Reichenbach
*Jose Restrepo
*Hanna Resvoll-Holmsen
*Thekla Resvoll
*Louis Claude Richard
*Henry Nicholas Ridley
*Augustus Quirinus Rivinus
*Harold E. Robinson
*Joseph Rock
*Lauritz Kolderup Rosenvinge
*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
*Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper
*Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal
*Rudolf Schlechter
*Matthias Jakob Schleiden (co-founder of cell theory)
*George Schoener
*‎Selmar Schonland
*Heinrich Wilhelm Schott
*Franz Paula von Schrank
*Georg August Schweinfurth
*Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
*Berthold Carl Seemann
*Prideaux John Selby
*Jean Senebier
*Martín Sessé y Lacasta
*John Adolph Shafer
*George Shaw
*Shen Kuo
*John Sibthorp
*Franz Sieber
*Philipp Franz von Siebold
*‎Thomas Robertson Sim
*John Kunkel Small
*Christo Albertyn Smith
*James Edward Smith
*Johannes Jacobus Smith
*Daniel Solander
*Otto Wilhelm Sonder
*Pierre Sonnerat
*Herman Spoering
*Kurt Sprengel
*Richard Spruce
*Herman Spöring
*Agustín Stahl
*G. Ledyard Stebbins
*Georg Wilhelm Steller
*Kaspar Maria von Sternberg
*Azariah Stephen
*Eduard Strasburger
*George Bishop Sudworth
*Su Song
*Olof Swartz
*Simon Syrenius

T

*Armen Takhtajan
*John Templeton (Botanist)
*Theophrastus pupil of Aristotle
*Michael Thirlwell
*Graham Stuart Thomas
*William Thompson
*Louis-Marie Aubert du Petit-Thouars
*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

Usha Mukundan

V

*Martin Vahl
*Sébastien Vaillant
*Domenico Vandelli
*Nikolai Vavilov

W

*Warren H. Wagner
*Göran Wahlenberg
*George Arnott Walker-Arnott
*Nathaniel Wallich
*Eugenius Warming
*Sereno Watson
*William Watson (scientist) (1715 - 1787)
*Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee
*Philip Barker Webb
*Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
*Friedrich Welwitsch
*Carl Ludwig Willdenow
*William Withering
*Anthony Hurt Wolley-Dod
*‎John Medley Wood
*Charles Wright
*Heinrich Wullschlägel
*Heinrich Wydler

X

Y

*Gennady Yakovlev Яковлев, Геннадий Павлович

Z

*Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher
*Peter Zizka
*Michael Zohary
*Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini