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.

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)

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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 ( 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)

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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)