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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

A

• 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)

B

• 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)

C

• 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)

D

• 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)

E

• 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)

F

• 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)

G

• 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)

H

• 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)

I

• Agnes Ibbetson (1757–1823)
• Jane Ingham (1897–1982)
• Keisuke Ito (1803–1901)

J

• 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)

K

• 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)

L

• 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)

M

• 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)

N

• 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)

O

• Carl Hansen Ostenfeld (1873–1931)
• Daniel Oliver (1830–1916)
• Garcia de Orta (1501–1568)
• Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795)
• William Oakes (botanist) (1799–1848)

P

• 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)

Q

• Agnes J. Quirk (1884–1974)

R

• 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)

S

• 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)

T

• 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)

U

• Bernardino da Ucria (1739–1796)
• Lucien Marcus Underwood (1853–1907)
• Ignatz Urban (1848–1931)

V

• 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)

W

• 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)

X

• Hu Xiansu (1894–1968)

Y

• Gennady Yakovlev (1938–2024)

Z

• 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)

See also

• 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